Screenplay: Ronald Harwood

Direction Roman Polanski

Cast Adrien Brody · Thomas Kretschmann · Maureen Lipman · Ed Stoppard

Synopsis The film is adapted from the autobiography of Wladyslaw Szpilman, a Polish Jew who detailed his survival during World War II. A composer and a pianist, he played the last live music heard over Polish radio airwaves before Nazi artillery...

Direction Julian Schnabel

Cast Mathieu Amalric · Emmanuelle Seigner · Marie-Josée Croze · Anne Consigny

Synopsis At 43, Jean-Dominique Bauby, the rakishly successful and charismatic editor in chief of French Elle was a man defined by his passion for life. On December 1995, he suffered a massive stroke and his brain stem was rendered inactive. In...

Direction Alexander Mackendrick

Cast Anthony Quinn · James Coburn · Deborah Baxter · Isabel Dean

Synopsis The parents of children living in Jamaica, afraid that the kids are growing up uncivilized, decide to send them to England. But during the voyage, the childrens' ship is boarded by pirates and in the confusion the children wind up...

Direction Peter Yates

Cast Albert Finney · Tom Courtenay · Edward Fox · Eileen Atkins

Synopsis In a touring Shakespearean theater group, a backstage hand - the dresser, is devoted to the brilliant but tyrannical head of the company. He struggles to support the deteriorating star as the company struggles to carry on during the London...

Direction István Szabó

Cast Harvey Keitel · Stellan Skarsgard · Moritz Bleibtreu · Birgit Minichmayr

Synopsis A tale based on the life of Wilhelm Furtwangler, the controversial conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic whose tenure coincided with the controversial Nazi era. One of the most spectacular and renowned conductors of the 30s, Furtwangler's reputation rivaled that of...

Direction Graham Evans · John Gorrie · Alan Gibson · Herbert Wise

Cast Roald Dahl · John Houseman · Andrew Ray · Joan Collins

Synopsis TV Series (1979-1988). 9 seasons. 112 episodes. A British anthology of mystery, suspense, horror and black comedy, highlighted by plot twists and surprise endings (in the early seasons, all by Roald Dahl), with lots of prestigious guest stars starring in...

Direction István Szabó

Cast Annette Bening · Jeremy Irons · Shaun Evans · Michael Gambon

Synopsis London, year 1938. Concerned that her fading youth and beauty will being to affect her career, estranged from her only son and pretending to be ignorant of her husband's philandering, Julia is adrift in the world, searching for some way...

Direction Mike Figgis

Cast Albert Finney · Greta Scacchi · Matthew Modine · Julian Sands

Synopsis Andrew Crocker-Harris (Albert Finney), a teacher of Greek and Latin at a traditional English prep school, is called the "Hitler of the Lower Sixth" by his students. His rigidity and cruelty are the sad remnants of an extinguished passion for...

Direction Roman Polanski

Cast Barney Clark · Ben Kingsley · Harry Eden · Jamie Foreman

Synopsis Charles Dickens' classic story of a young orphan boy who gets involved with a gang of boy pickpockets in 19th-century London seems, on the surface, a long way from being children's entertainment. But this can be deceiving.

Direction Lewis Gilbert

Cast Timothy Bottoms · Martin Shaw · Joss Ackland · Nicola Pagett

Synopsis In 1942 Czechoslovakia, SS-General Reinhard Heydrich is appointed to become the Reich Protector of Bohemia and Moravia. The terror and oppression that follow cause Allied authorities in London to authorize a secret mission to kill the man who has come...

Direction Richard Eyre

Cast Anthony Hopkins · Ian McKellen · Emily Watson · Sarah Lancashire

Synopsis In a touring Shakespearean theatre company, backstage hand Norman is devoted to the brilliant but tyrannical head of the company, Sir. He struggles to support the deteriorating star as the company works to carry on during the London blitz during...

Direction Dustin Hoffman

Cast Maggie Smith · Tom Courtenay · Billy Connolly · Pauline Collins

Synopsis Cecily, Reggie and Wilfred are in a home for retired opera singers. Every year, on October 10, there is a concert to celebrate Verdi's birthday and they take part. Jean, who used to be married to Reggie, arrives at the...

Direction Freddie Francis

Cast Timothy Dalton · Jonathan Pryce · Stephen Rea · Twiggy

Synopsis Grave robbers supply a doctor with bodies to test on.

Direction Darrell James Roodt

Cast James Earl Jones · Richard Harris · Charles S. Dutton · Ian Roberts

Direction Baz Luhrmann

Cast Nicole Kidman · Hugh Jackman · David Wenham · Bryan Brown

Synopsis Australia is the story of Lady Sarah Ashley (Nicole Kidman), an English, aristocratic woman who leaves England to follow her husband to Australia. He is in Australia with the intention of selling his cattle station the size of Belgium. However,...

Direction Norman Jewison

Cast Michael Caine · Tilda Swinton · Jeremy Northam · Charlotte Rampling

Synopsis Set in modern-day France, The Statement is the story of Pierre Brossard (Michael Caine) who, as a young man during World War II, committed a heinous crime. Brossard has never been brought to trial and has lived a peaceful and...

Direction Mike Newell

Cast Giovanna Mezzogiorno · Javier Bardem · John Leguizamo · Laura Elena Harring

Synopsis "Love in the Time of Cholera," based on the novel by Nobel Prize-winning author Gabriel Garcia Marquez, follows a romantic man named Florentino who loses Fermina, the girl of his dreams, to a wealthier suitor and spends the next 50...

Direction Gene Saks

Cast Marcello Mastroianni · Julie Andrews · Jean-Michel Cannone · Jean-Pierre Castaldi

Synopsis An Italian gentleman and a doctor's wife plot to break up their spouses' tryst in Paris.

Direction John Hough

Cast Mark Lester · Peter Bowles · Susan George · Peter Vaughan

Direction Roman Polanski

Cast Ben Kingsley · Helena Bonham Carter

Synopsis A therapist becomes obsessed with his patient's Prada coat. A short film by Roman Polanski in collaboration with Prada, premiered at the 2012 Cannes International Film Festival.