Cast: John Wood

Direction Woody Allen

Cast Mia Farrow · Jeff Daniels · Danny Aiello · Dianne Wiest

Synopsis It’s the Depression and Cecilia works herself into the ground as a waitress in New Jersey while her husband does nothing. Her only outlet is the cinema, to which she returns time and again to escape from reality and dream...

Direction Richard Attenborough

Cast Anthony Hopkins · Debra Winger · Joseph Mazzello · Edward Hardwicke

Synopsis Shadowlands (1993) tells the poignant true story of C.S. Lewis, a renowned Oxford professor and writer, whose life of quiet routine is transformed when he meets Joy Gresham, a spirited American poet. Initially a friendship of intellect and mutual respect,...

Direction Chris Gerolmo

Cast Stephen Rea · Donald Sutherland · Max von Sydow · Jeffrey DeMunn

Synopsis Based on a true story and the book "The Killer Department" by Robert Cullen, CITIZEN X is the tale of the Soviet Union's eight year pursuit of a bloodthirsty serial killer who claimed the lives of 52 people (mostly teenage...

Direction Franklin J. Schaffner

Cast Michael Jayston · Janet Suzman · Tom Baker · Laurence Olivier

Synopsis The tragic story of Nicholas II (1868-1918), the last Czar of Russia, set against the backdrop of the Russian Revolution. It is an inside look into the private lives of Nicholas and his wife Alexandra, their daughters, and the painful...

Direction Charles Sturridge

Cast Michael Gambon · Jeremy Irons · Bill Nighy · Brian Cox

Synopsis In the 18th century, the only way to navigate accurately at sea was to follow a coastline all the way, which would not get you from Europe to the West Indies or the Americas. Observing the sun or stars would...

Direction Richard Donner

Cast Michelle Pfeiffer · Matthew Broderick · Rutger Hauer · Leo McKern

Synopsis A haunting adventure fantasy about a pair of cursed lovers who are transformed into animal shapes during alternate periods of the day. It all begins when the thief Philippe Gaston (Matthew Broderick) makes a remarkable escape from the dungeons of...

Direction Lasse Hallström

Cast Juliette Binoche · Judi Dench · Alfred Molina · Lena Olin

Synopsis In Chocolat (2000), a mysterious woman named Vianne and her daughter arrive in a conservative French village during Lent. Opening a charming chocolaterie, Vianne's decadent treats begin to stir the quiet town, challenging its rigid traditions and sparking both delight...

Direction George Adams · Tony Wright · Ian Barry · Andrew Prowse

Cast Craig McLachlan · Nadine Garner · Cate Wolfe · Joel Tobeck

Synopsis The Doctor Blake Mysteries is an original 10-part murder mystery series starring one of Australia’s favourite and most versatile actors, Craig McLachlan, as the maverick country town doctor Lucien Blake. A risk-taker, he’s impulsive and not afraid to upset the...

Direction Sally Potter

Cast Tilda Swinton · Billy Zane · Lothaire Bluteau · Quentin Crisp

Synopsis Based on the novel by Virginia Woolf, ORLANDO follows the witty, engaging story of the incredibly long-lived aristocratic poet, Orlando (Tilda Swinton), whose gender changes in the 18th Century as he/she lives through the Elizabethan era and into the Twentieth...

Direction Nicholas Hytner

Cast Nigel Hawthorne · Helen Mirren · Ian Holm · Rupert Everett

Synopsis A meditation on power and the metaphor of the body of state, based on the real episode of dementia experienced by George III [now suspected a victim of porphyria, a blood disorder]. As he loses his senses, he becomes both...

Direction John Badham

Cast Matthew Broderick · Dabney Coleman · John Wood · Ally Sheedy

Synopsis WarGames (1983) follows a young computer whiz named David who accidentally hacks into a military supercomputer while searching for new video games. Unknowingly, he initiates a simulation of global thermonuclear war, believing it to be a game. As tensions rise,...

Direction Trevor Nunn

Cast Helena Bonham Carter · Cary Elwes · John Wood · Michael Hordern

Synopsis After the death of King Henry and his young son and heir Edward VI, Henry's 15-year-old great-niece, Lady Jane Grey (Helena Bonham Carter), is chosen to rule by a group of palace conspirators who vow to keep the country Protestant...

Direction Franco Zeffirelli

Cast William Hurt · Charlotte Gainsbourg · Anna Paquin · Joan Plowright

Synopsis Jane Eyre (portrayed as the orphan child by Anna Paquin and as an adult by Charlotte Gainsbourg) is the plain, impoverished young woman who is hired by Mr. Rochester (William Hurt) through Mrs. Fairfax (Joan Plowright) to work as a...

Direction Ernest B. Schoedsack

Cast Preston Foster · Alan Hale · Basil Rathbone · John Wood

Synopsis Mt. Vesuvius erupts and kills the inhabitants of the wanton town in this early disaster movie featuring impressive volcanic effects.

Direction Oliver Parker

Cast Rupert Everett · Cate Blanchett · Julianne Moore · Minnie Driver

Synopsis Sir Robert Chiltern Chiltern (Jeremy Northam) is a successful Government minister, well-off and with a loving wife. All this is threatened when Mrs Cheveley appears in London with damning evidence of a past misdeed. Sir Robert turns for help to...

Direction Stephen Whittaker

Cast Gary Lewis · Eddie Marsan · Kevin McKidd · Clive Russell

Synopsis Based on a true story , one of the many "small" stories prior to WW II , that lend an understanding to the mindsets of the majority of common man cultures, impacted by others perceived as former enemies and perhaps...

Direction Terence Fisher

Cast Paul Henreid · Lizabeth Scott · André Morell · Susan Stephen

Synopsis A plastic surgeon has a brief fling with a concert pianist, then she leaves him to go back to her previous boyfriend. In order to "keep" her, he operates on a patient--a female criminal on the run--and changes her face...

Direction Philip Saville

Cast Christian Bale · Emily Watson · Lee Ross · Elsa Zylberstein

Synopsis Metroland, based on Julian Barnes's first novel, is a tale of midlife, middle-class malaise reminiscent of Ang Lee's The Ice Storm. It's 1977, and shaggy-haired thirtysomething Chris (Christian Bale) has a lovely wife (Emily Watson) and baby, a solid office...

Direction Uli Edel

Cast Alan Rickman · Greta Scacchi · Ian McKellen · David Warner

Direction James Ivory

Cast Ralph Fiennes · Natasha Richardson · Vanessa Redgrave · Lynn Redgrave

Synopsis Set in Shanghai in the late 1930s, this is the story of the relationship between a disillusioned former US diplomat and a refugee White Russian countess reduced to a sordid life in the city's bars. Todd Jackson (mid-40s), once an...