The Garden

1990

English

6.3

♡ 10

100%

Derek Jarman Director

Vernon Dobtcheff as

Dawn Archibald as

Tilda Swinton as Madonna

Jack Birkett as Pontius

A nearly wordless visual narrative intercuts two main stories and a couple of minor ones. A woman, perhaps the Madonna, brings forth her baby to a crowd of intrusive paparazzi; she tries to flee them. Two men who are lovers marry and are arrested by the powers that be. The men are mocked and pilloried, tarred, feathered, and beaten. Loose in this contemporary world of electrical-power transmission lines is also Jesus. The elements, particularly fire and water, content with political power, which is intolerant and murderous.

Scent of a Woman

1974

Italian

7.5

♡ 11

Dino Risi Director

Lorenzo Piani as

Stefania Spugnini as Candida

Vernon Dobtcheff as Don Carlo

Alvaro Vitali as Vittorio

An army cadet accompanies an irascible, blind captain on a week-long trip from Turin to Naples.

The Perils of Gwendoline in the Land of the Yik Yak

1984

French

5.2

♡ 12

35%

Just Jaeckin Director

Vernon Dobtcheff as

Tawny Kitaen as Gwendoline

Bernadette Lafont as The Queen

Brent Huff as Willard

A beautiful woman hires an intrepid adventurer to help find her father, who has disappeared in the jungle while searching for a rare and priceless butterfly. Along the way they run into cannibals, a race of Amazon warriors and all the usual attractions one would expect to find in a lost jungle.

Enigma

1982

English

5.9

♡ 9

27%

central intelligence agency (cia)

Jeannot Szwarc Director

George Bruce as

Martin Sheen as Alex Holbeck

Sam Neill as Dimitri Vasilikov

Vernon Dobtcheff as Minister

Five highly-trained KGB agents are sent to the west to assassinate several Soviet dissidents. In order to stop the diabolical plot, an American agent must infiltrate Soviet intelligence and obtain information from a Russian computer.