8.3

The King's Speech

2010, UK, Australia

• Actors: Colin Firth, Helena Bonham Carter, Derek Jacobi, Robert Portal, Richard Dixon, Paul Trussell, Adrian Scarborough, Andrew Havill, Charles Armstrong, Roger Hammond, Geoffrey Rush, Calum Gittins, Jennifer Ehle, Dominic Applewhite, Ben Wimsett, Freya Wilson, Ramona Marquez, David Bamber, Jake Hathaway, Michael Gambon, Guy Pearce, Patrick Ryecart, Teresa Gallagher, Simon Chandler, Claire Bloom, Orlando Wells, Tim Downie, Dick Ward, Eve Best, John Albasiny
• Genre: Drama, History
• Director(s): Tom Hooper
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Tells the story of the man who became King George VI, the father of Queen Elizabeth II. After his brother abdicates, George ('Bertie') reluctantly assumes the throne. Plagued by a dreaded stammer and considered unfit to be king, Bertie engages the help of an unorthodox speech therapist named Lionel Logue. Through a set of unexpected techniques, and as a result of an unlikely friendship, Bertie is able to find his voice and boldly lead the country through war.

  7.5

The Chatterley Affair

2006, UK

• Actors: Rafe Spall, Louise Delamere, Mary Healey, Gerard Horan, David Fairweather, Antony Carrick, Paul Antony-Barber, Kenneth Hadley, Donald Sumpter, Ron Donachie, Karl Johnson, David Annen, Kenneth Cranham, Claire Bloom, Pip Torrens, Alyson Coote, Shaughan Seymour, Selina Cadell, Anna Barry, Graham Seed, David Tennant, Nicholas Pritchard, Montserrat Lombard
• Genre: Drama, Romance
• Director(s): James Hawes
• Available languages:
  • English English.

The trial, under The Obscene Publications Act, of the publishers of D.H. Lawrence's 'Lady Chatterley's Lover'in 1960 was a sensation that consumed the nation. The movie follows two fictional jurors, Helena and Keith, who become passionate lovers during the course of the trial and whose affair mirrors the themes of the novel.

  4.9

The Ten Commandments

2005, USA

• Actors: Naveen Andrews, Ashley Artus, Claire Bloom, Silas Carson, Paschal Friel, Peter Gevisser, Patrick Gordon, Ben Hammersley, Greg Hicks, Louis Hilyer, Lisa Jacobs, Tom Keller, Padma Lakshmi, Susan Lynch, Mía Maestro, Marina Morgan, Richard O'Brien, Paul Rhys, Linus Roache, Rudy Ruggiero, Karim Saleh, Adrian Schiller, David Schneider, Dougray Scott, Omar Sharif, Matthew Sim, Hannah Taylor-Gordon, John Wark
• Genre: Action, Adventure, Biography, Drama, History, War
• Director(s): Robert Dornhelm
• Available languages:
  • English English.

When an oracle prophesizes that a child will become Prince of Egypt, a time of danger approaches the kingdom. The Egyptian Pharaoh orders the massacre of all newborn males. But one child, Moses-the son of a Hebrew slave-escapes certain death when he is set adrift on the Nile. As years pass, he is raised in a royal Egyptian household and, with no memory of his family, rises to the stature of prince. Upon discovery of his true heritage, and inspired by a fiery message from God, Moses embarks upon a noble and desperate fight to reclaim his destiny as the leader and liberator of the Hebrew people.

  5.5

Daylight

1995, USA

• Actors: Sylvester Stallone, Amy Brenneman, Viggo Mortensen, Dan Hedaya, Jay O. Sanders, Karen Young, Claire Bloom, Vanessa Bell Calloway, Renoly Santiago, Colin Fox, Danielle Harris, Trina McGee, Marcello Thedford, Sage Stallone, Jo Anderson, Mark Rolston, Rosemary Forsyth, Luoyong Wang, Barry Newman, Stan Shaw, Mark Chadwick, Candace Miller, Lee Oakes, Sakina Jaffrey, Albert Macklin, Tony Munafo, Joseph Ragno, Nestor Serrano, Harold Bradley, Stephen Nalewicki
• Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
• Director(s): Rob Cohen
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Trouble strikes when runaway robbers in a getaway car hit truck full of explosives in the tunnel connecting Manhatten and New Jersey. Survivors are left in a weakened tunnel blocked at both exits. As Kit Latura approaches the tunnel, he see the impact and knows he gotta take action. With time running out, he enters the tunnel through a system of maintenance walkways. Can he get the survivors out before the tunnel fills up?

  7.2

The Age of Innocence

1993, USA

• Actors: Daniel Day-Lewis, Michelle Pfeiffer, Winona Ryder, Alexis Smith, Geraldine Chaplin, Mary Beth Hurt, Alec McCowen, Richard E. Grant, Miriam Margolyes, Robert Sean Leonard, Siân Phillips, Jonathan Pryce, Michael Gough, Joanne Woodward, Stuart Wilson, Carolyn Farina, Tracey Ellis, Norman Lloyd, Domenica Cameron-Scorsese, Thomas Gibson, Linda Faye Farkas, Michael Rees Davis, Terry Cook, Jon Garrison, Howard Erskine, John McLoughlin, Christopher Nilsson, Kevin Sanders, W.B. Brydon, Cristina Pronzati
• Genre: Drama, Romance
• Director(s): Martin Scorsese
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Society scion Newland Archer is engaged to May Welland, but his well-ordered life is upset when he meets May's unconventional cousin, the Countess Olenska. At first, Newland becomes a defender of the Countess, whose separation from her abusive husband makes her a social outcast in the restrictive high society of late-19th Century New York, but he finds in her a companion spirit and they fall in love.

  8.0

Crimes and Misdemeanors

1989, USA

• Actors: Bill Bernstein, Martin Landau, Claire Bloom, Stephanie Roth Haberle, Gregg Edelman, George J. Manos, Anjelica Huston, Woody Allen, Jenny Nichols, Joanna Gleason, Alan Alda, Sam Waterston, Zina Jasper, Dolores Sutton, Joel Fogel, Donna Castellano, Thomas Crowe, Mia Farrow, Martin S. Bergmann, Caroline Aaron, Kenny Vance, Jerry Orbach, Jerry Zaks, Barry Finkel, Steve Maidment, Nadia Sanford, Chester Malinowski, Stanley Reichman, Rebecca Schull, David S. Howard
• Genre: Comedy, Drama
• Director(s): Woody Allen
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Opthalmologist Judah Rosenthal has had an affair with Dolores for several years, and now she threatens to ruin his life if he doesn't marry her. When his brother Jack suggests to have Dolores murdered, Judah is faced with a big moral dilemma: destruction of his life or murder. Meanwhile, documentary filmmaker Clifford Stern is trying to make a film of a philosophy professor, but instead he's commissioned to make a portrait of succesful TV producer and brother-in-law Lester, who to Clifford represents everything that he despises.

  6.7

Clash of the Titans

1980, USA

• Actors: Laurence Olivier, Claire Bloom, Maggie Smith, Ursula Andress, Jack Gwillim, Susan Fleetwood, Pat Roach, Harry Hamlin, Judi Bowker, Burgess Meredith, Siân Phillips, Flora Robson, Anna Manahan, Freda Jackson, Tim Pigott-Smith, Neil McCarthy, Donald Houston, Vida Taylor, Harry Jones, Ferdinando Poggi
• Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Family, Romance
• Director(s): Desmond Davis
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Perseus is the favored son of the god Zeus, but he has unwittingly ticked off the sea goddess Thetis. Just to make things worse, Perseus falls in love with the lovely Princess Andromeda, who used to be engaged to Thetis's son. Soon Perseus is off on one quest after another, with Zeus helping, Thetis hindering, and lots of innocent bystanders getting stabbed, drowned, and squished.

  7.6

The Spy Who Came in from the Cold

1965, UK

• Actors: Richard Burton, Claire Bloom, Oskar Werner, Sam Wanamaker, George Voskovec, Rupert Davies, Cyril Cusack, Peter van Eyck, Michael Hordern, Robert Hardy, Bernard Lee, Beatrix Lehmann, Esmond Knight, Tom Stern, Niall MacGinnis, Scott Finch, Anne Blake, George Mikell, Richard Marner, Warren Mitchell, Steve Plytas, Richard Caldicot, Michael Ripper, Graham Armitage, David Bauer, Marianne Deeming, Walter Gotell, Edward Harvey, Katherine Keeton, Philip Madoc
• Genre: Drama, Thriller
• Director(s): Martin Ritt
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Alec Leamas, a British spy is sent to East Germany supposedly to defect, but in fact to sow disinformation. As more plot turns appear, Leamas becomes more convinced that his own people see him as just a cog. His struggle back from dehumanization becomes the final focus of the story.