In the 17th century, an order of monks in Italy capture and entomb a demon that has possessed a member of their group. 400 years later, school teacher Elizabeth Magrino visits the monastery in order to do some research. What she and the current monks do not realize is that the evil hiding within the catacombs has unwittingly been released.

Mata Hari

1985

English

4.1

♡ 24

17%

Curtis Harrington Director

Anthony Newlands as Baron Joubert

Derek de Lint as Handsome Traveller

Vernon Dobtcheff as Prosecutor

Malcolm Terris as Von Krohn

Based loosely on the real-life story of the World War I spy. The exotic dancer uses her contacts in European high society, along with her seductive charm, to collect military secrets during the war. She successfully plays both sides against each other until at last her deceptions catch up with her.

Hamlet

1990

English

6.7

♡ 43

76%

59%

Action

based on play or musical

Franco Zeffirelli Director

Glenn Close as Gertrude

Mel Gibson as Hamlet

Helena Bonham Carter as Ophelia

Vernon Dobtcheff as Reynaldo

Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, finds out that his uncle Claudius killed his father to obtain the throne, and plans revenge.

Return from the Ashes

1965

English

7.0

♡ 1

75%

J. Lee Thompson Director

André Maranne as 2nd Detective

Vernon Dobtcheff as Man breaking up nightclub fight

Vladek Sheybal as Paul, Chess Club Manager

Maximilian Schell as Stanislaus Pilgrin

A Jewish woman, Dr. Michele Wolf, interred in a Nazi concentration camp during WWII returns to her Paris home after the war's end. She's unaware that her husband, the handsome gigolo and chess master Stanislaw Pilgrin, has been having an affair with her stepdaughter Fabi in her absence.

Galileo

1975

English

6.5

♡ 3

Joseph Losey Director

Judy Parfitt as Angelica Sarti

Margaret Leighton as Elderly Court Lady

Vernon Dobtcheff as First Secretary

Aileen Lewis as Woman

Challenged by a new student, tutor and theorist Galileo co-opts emerging telescope technology and discovers irrefutable proof of the heretical notion that the earth is not the center of the universe. But in a rigid society ruled by an uneasy alliance of aristocracy and clergy already undermined by the Plague and the Reformation, science is a threat and enlightenment is a luxury. Faced with either death at the hands of the Inquisition or recantation to a hypocritical but all-powerful Papacy, Galileo must choose between his own life and the restless scientific curiosity that he has spurned family, friends, and wealth to pursue.

The Taming of The Shrew

1967

English

7.1

♡ 8

82%

73%

16th century

Action

based on play or musical

Comedy

Drama

father daughter relationship

Romance

shakespearean play

sister sister relationship

suitor

Franco Zeffirelli Director

Elizabeth Taylor as Katharina

Giuseppe Castellano as Man watching argument

Vernon Dobtcheff as Pedant

Carlo Pisacane as Petruchio's servant

Italy, 16th century. Petruchio, a choleric, lying and poor rural landowner from Verona, arrives in Padua in search of fortune and a wife, while Baptista, a wealthy merchant, announces that he will not allow Bianca, his youngest daughter, to marry until the temperamental and unruly Katherina, his eldest daughter, does.

The Body

2001

English

♡ 14

13%

Jonas McCord Director

Ian McNeice as Dr. Sproul

Antonio Banderas as Father Matt Gutierrez

Vernon Dobtcheff as Monsignor

Olivia Williams as Sharon Golban

An ancient skeleton has been discovered in Jerusalem in a rich man's tomb. Colouration of the wrist and leg bones indicates the cause of death was crucifiction. other signs, include a gold coin bearing the marks of Pontius Pilate and faint markings around the skull, lead authorities to suspect that these could be the bones of Jesus Christ. Politicians, clerics, religious extremists and those using terror as a means to an end, find their beliefs and identities tested while risking their lives to unearth the truth.....

The 15:17 to Paris

2018

English

5.3

♡ 67

24%

37%

Action

based on novel or book

Clint Eastwood Director

Judy Greer as Joyce

Robert Pralgo as Mr. Skarlatos

Vernon Dobtcheff as Older Man

Camille Razat as Train Attendant #1

On Aug. 21, 2015, the world watches in stunned silence as the media reports a thwarted terrorist attack on a train that's bound for Paris -- an attempt prevented by three young Americans traveling together through Europe. The heroic and courageous actions of Anthony Sadler, Alek Skarlatos and Spencer Stone help to save the lives of more than 500 passengers on board.

Evilenko

2003

English

6.1

♡ 5

David Grieco Director

Malcolm McDowell as Andrej Romanovic Evilenko

Ronald Pickup as Aron Richter

Vernon Dobtcheff as Bagdasarov

Marton Csokas as Vadim Timurouvic Lesiev

For years, Andrei Evilenko eluded the obsessive Detective Lesiev and the psychiatric profiler Aron Richter. Spurred on by his rabid fury at the gradual crumbling of his precious Soviet Union, Evilenko is a man who will live, die and kill as a communist.

The Sweet House of Horrors

1989

Italian

3.9

♡ 8

41%

Drama

Fantasy

Horror

Lucio Fulci Director

Lubka Lenzi as Mary Valdi

Franco Diogene as Mr. Coby

Pascal Persiano as Roberto Valdi

Vernon Dobtcheff as The Exorcist

A murdered couple return from the beyond to care for their two young children, as well as seek revenge against their killer, accept their children's step parents, and try to prevent their house from being sold.

Asterix at the Olympic Games

2008

French

5.2

♡ 11

18%

Thomas Langmann Director

Franck Dubosc as Assurancetourix

Nathan Jones as Humungus

Alain Delon as Jules Cesar

Vernon Dobtcheff as Un druide

Astérix and Obélix have to win the Olympic Games in order to help their friend Alafolix marry Princess Irina. Brutus uses every trick in the book to have his own team win the game, and get rid of his father Julius Caesar in the process.

Let Him Have It

1991

English

7.1

♡ 7

84%

Peter Medak Director

James Villiers as Cassels

Vernon Dobtcheff as Clerk of Court

Karl Johnson as Parris

Michael Elphick as Prison Officer Jack

In 1950s England, slow-witted Derek Bentley falls in with a group of petty criminals led by Chris Craig, a teenager with a fondness for American gangster films. Chris and Derek's friendship leads to their involvement in the true case which would forever shake England's belief in capital punishment.

The Destructors

1974

English

5.9

♡ 11

47%

Robert Parrish Director

James Mason as Jacques Brizard

Michael Caine as John Deray

Vernon Dobtcheff as Lazar

Anthony Quinn as Steve Ventura

An important drug lord settled in Marseille is suspected of having ordered the killing of an American agent, but it is impossible to impute him due to his political influences, so the dead agent's boss decides to hire the services of a hitman to kill him.

Meridian

1990

English

5.0

♡ 11

Charles Band Director

Sherilyn Fenn as Catherine

Phil Fondacaro as Dwarf

Hilary Mason as Martha

Vernon Dobtcheff as Priest

After her father’s death, Catherine returns to her family’s gothic castle in Italy and gets caught in the web of a mysterious love triangle.

The War Games in Colour

2024

English

6.7

♡ 4

Sci-Fi

tardis

time travel

David Maloney Director

Charles Pemberton as Alien Technician

Bernard Horsfall as First Time Lord

Leslie Schofield as Leroy

Vernon Dobtcheff as The Scientist

The Doctor, Jamie and Zoe arrive on an unnamed planet. At first believing themselves in the midst of World War I, they realise it to be one of many War Zones overseen by the War Lords, who have kidnapped large numbers of human soldiers to form the greatest army the universe has ever seen. At the helm of this plot is the War Chief, another renegade Time Lord like the Doctor. The creeping realisation sets in that the Doctor cannot solve this problem alone, and that his days of wandering may be at an end...

The Great Beauty

2013

Italian

7.7

♡ 36

91%

81%

Action

alcohol

based on novel or book

Paolo Sorrentino Director

Vernon Dobtcheff as Arturo

Sonia Gessner as Contessa Colonna

Serena Grandi as Lorena

Galatea Ranzi as Stefania

Jep Gambardella has seduced his way through the lavish nightlife of Rome for decades, but after his 65th birthday and a shock from the past, Jep looks past the nightclubs and parties to find a timeless landscape of absurd, exquisite beauty.

Dreaming of Joseph Lees

1999

English

6.3

♡ 4

36%

Eric Styles Director

Margaret John as Aunt Margaret

Vernon Dobtcheff as Italian Doctor

Holly Aird as Maria

Nicholas Woodeson as Mr. Dian

Set in rural England in the 1950s Eva (Samantha Morton) fantasises about her handsome, worldly cousin Joseph Lees (Rupert Graves), with whom she fell in love as a girl. However, stuck in a closed community she becomes the object of someone else's fantasy, Harry (Lee Ross). When Harry learns that Eva is planning to leave the village in order to live with and look after the injured Lees, he devises a gruesome scheme in order to force her to stay and look after him.