The Professor and the Madman

The movie begins with the volcano's awakening on March 20 and ends with its eruption on May 18, 1980.

Runtime

1h 32m

Director

Ernest Pintoff

Cast

David Huffman, Cassie Yates, Albert Salmi

When the residents of a neighborhood are offered huge sums of money to sell their homes to a developer, the only ones to refuse are an elderly lesbian couple. Soon after, the couple's home is besieged by anti-gay vandalism, but Don suspects that the attack is motivated by big-business rather than homophobia.

Runtime

1h 26m

Director

Ron Oliver

Cast

Chad Allen, Sebastian Spence, Margot Kidder

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

Pin, a plastic medical dummy, has been the fixation of Leon since youth. Now grown up and orphaned in an accident, Leon brings Pin home to live with him and his sister Ursula, much to her reluctance. Soon, however, Leon's fixation on Pin spirals out of control, and Ursula must face the devastating consequences.

Runtime

1h 43m

Director

Sandor Stern

Cast

David Hewlett, Cynthia Preston, Terry O'Quinn