Oppenheimer

Late in the 1500s, an aging tea master teaches the way of tea to a headstrong Shogun. Through force of will and courageous fighting, Hideyoshi becomes Japan’s most powerful warlord, unifying the country.

Runtime

2h 15m

Director

Hiroshi Teshigahara

Cast

Rentarô Mikuni, Yoshiko Mita, Tsutomu Yamazaki

Ken Russell's rather loose adaptation of the last part of D.H. Lawrence's "The Rainbow" sees impulsive young Ursula coming of age in pastoral England around the time of the Boer War. At school, she is introduced to lovemaking by a bisexual physical education instructress. While experiencing disillusionment in her first career attempt (...

Runtime

1h 53m

Director

Ken Russell

Cast

Sammi Davis, Paul McGann, Amanda Donohoe

France, World War II. In order to somehow make ends meet, the mother of two children, Marie Latour, does underground abortions and rents a room to a familiar prostitute. She doesn't pay any attention to her husband, who returned from the war because of his injury and lives her own life. Abortions gradually begin to bring a good income,...

Runtime

1h 48m

Director

Claude Chabrol

Cast

Isabelle Huppert, François Cluzet, Nils Tavernier

Defiant's crew is part of a fleet-wide movement to present a petition of grievances to the Admiralty. Violence must be no part of it. The continual sadism of Defiant's first officer makes this difficult, and when the captain is disabled, the chance for violence increases.

Runtime

1h 41m

Director

Lewis Gilbert

Cast

Alec Guinness, Dirk Bogarde, Anthony Quayle

The tragic story of a young orphan girl who is befriended by an innocent but emotionally disabled veteran of the French Indochina War.

Runtime

1h 50m

Director

Serge Bourguignon

Cast

Hardy Krüger, Nicole Courcel, Patricia Gozzi