In the Western Desert of 1942, a battle-weary army officer is driving an ambulance to the safety of Alexandria. One of his passengers, a stray South African, saves the group from enemy capture, but an uneasy feeling begins to grow that he may in fact be a German spy. Superb war movie with a Stella cast - sorry couldn't help the pun!
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THE ENGLISH PATIENT (1996)
Certification15 Our Rating
Sweeping romantic drama of epic proportions. Fiennes's WWII pilot lays badly burned and in the care of an army nurse. As the unnamed, stiff-upper-lipped "English Patient" begins to recover, memories emerge of a past life as an archaeologist/cartographer in the Sahara, and a passionate affair with a married woman, Katharine. Though Anthony Minghella's adaptation of Michael Ondaatje's novel simplifies, jettisons and changes certain elements of the original story, it remains a rich, complex, entran
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THE WAY BACK (2010)
Certification12 Our Rating
Seven prisoners hatch a plan to escape from a Siberian gulag in Stalin-era Russia, but the break out is only the very beginning, for those that survive there is a 4,000 mile journey across some of the most unforgiving terrain in the world until their hoped for destination of India.
‘The Way Back’ is an epic adaption from the supposedly true story 'The Long Walk' by Slawomir Rawicz.
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