Peter Yates' Oscar-winner is a heart-warming coming-of-age story that has also taken its place as the greatest sports movie about cycling ever made. Four friends graduate from high-school and find themselves looking at an uncertain future in small-town America. Dave's passion is cycling and his dream is to be a world-class champion like the Italians he idolises. His passion for cycling takes on new meaning when he and his friends face a team from the local college in the town's annual bike ra find out more...
In Edwardian England where upper lips are always stiff and men from the Colonies are not entirely to be trusted, Fisk Senior has little time or affection for his frustrated duty bound son. But after the pair attend a lecture by a visiting swami about the transmigration of souls, Fisk Junior finds himself drawn to Dean Spanley's fantastical dinner party stories, and convincing Fisk Senior to entertain the experience may provide the two men with redemption from their loveless existence. 'Dean S find out more...
Rita wants to be educated. She's a young working class girl who becomes involved with a cynical and alcoholic university tutor. A brilliant comedy of social attitudes and class differences, with more than a hint of romance. The film drew best ever performances from the two lead actors.
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It's the off-season at the lonely Beauregard Hotel in Bournemoth, and only the long-term tenants are still in residence. Life is stirred up, however, when the beautiful Ann Shankland arrives to see her alcoholic ex-husband, John Malcolm, who is secretly engaged to Pat Cooper, the woman who runs the hotel. Meanwhile, snobbish Mrs Railton-Bell discovers that the kindly if rather doddering Major Pollock, played by David Niven, who won an Oscar for his performance, a retired officer who likes to find out more...
Based on a novel by Somerset Maugham, this adaptation stays faithful to the book's questing spirit. Larry Darrell (Tyrone Power) returns home from military service in World War I, and after much soul-searching decides he needs to find something in life deeper than money and conformity. The search takes him away from fiancée (Gene Tierney) and her skeptical uncle into Parisian streets and Himalayan mountain ranges. Herbert Marshall deftly plays the role of Somerset Maugham, the find out more...
Newman is in Oscar winning form as a drinking, failing lawyer who insists on taking a no-hope malpractice case to trial rather than accepting a handsome out of court settlement. Castigated by those around him he seems on the road to failure, but, against all good sense, he keeps on trying and goes for broke. Convincing rather than realistic, emotive rather than analytical, this is a devastating judgement on the US judical system.
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