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6.8

♡ 53

68%

Will Sharpe Director

Sophia Di Martino as Judith

Benedict Cumberbatch as Louis Wain

Taika Waititi as Max Kase

Olivia Colman as Narrator

The extraordinary true story of eccentric British artist Louis Wain, whose playful, sometimes even psychedelic pictures helped to transform the public's perception of cats forever.

February 15, 1839

2001

French

7.2

♡ 2

87%

Pierre Falardeau Director

Jack Langedijk as Lieutenant Elliott

Robin Wilcock as Prisonnier

Ted Whittall as Soldat #3 / Deuxième Sentinelle

Matt Hill as Soldat McDonald

In 1839, months after the British army has repressed the insurrection of the Patriots, hundreds of rebels are still in prison. The morning of February 14, Marie-Thomas Chevalier De Lorimier and Charles Hindelang learn that they will be hung in 24 hours, with three others. While they await their death the condemned spend time and consult with companions and loved ones as well as entrust to those their last wills. At dawn, the five Patriots will walk to the scaffold, knowing will they die.

Tom Sawyer

1973

6.4

♡ 11

Adventure

Don Taylor Director

Celeste Holm as Aunt Polly

Jodie Foster as Becky Thatcher

Warren Oates as Muff Potter

Johnny Whitaker as Tom Sawyer

Tom Sawyer and his pal Huckleberry Finn have great adventures on the Mississippi River, pretending to be pirates, attending their own funeral, and witnessing a murder.

Huckleberry Finn

1974

5.6

♡ 5

28%

Adventure

J. Lee Thompson Director

Arthur O'Connell as Col. Grangerford

Ritchie Montgomery as Man on Horse

Linda Watkins as Mrs. Grangerford

Lucille Benson as Widder Douglas

Huckleberry Finn is a 15-year-old boy who has had a difficult relationship with his often violent father for a long time. When Dad tried to kidnap him, Huck decides to run away from home, and heads out of town on a raft. Huck is soon joined by Jim, a runaway slave who is no more eager to see his master than Huck is to see his father. As the two friends make their way down the Mississippi, they're faced with a variety of challenges and adventures.

Rise of the Legend

2014

Chinese

6.4

♡ 29

63%

Roy Hin Yeung Chow Director

Byron Mann as Black Crow

Mike Leeder as Jonathan, Slaveboss

Sammo Kam-Bo Hung as Master Lui

Angelababy as Orchid

In 1868 during the late Qing Dynasty, rampant corruption on the Imperial Court inflicts much suffering in people's lives. For years, the Black Tiger’s fearsome boss Lei Gong has been trying to get rid of the leader of the Northern Sea. One of his latest recruits is Fei, a fearless fighter who takes the Northern Sea leader’s head after a fierce fight. Just as Lei Gong believes he has total control of the port, a new gang called the Orphans rises in power. Led by Fei’s childhood friend Huo, the Orphans are out to eliminate all the criminal power from the port…

Hondo

1953

7.0

♡ 9

90%

John Farrow Director

Ward Bond as Buffalo Baker

Leo Gordon as Ed Lowe

Frank McGrath as Lowe's Partner

Michael Pate as Vittorio

Army despatch rider Hondo Lane discovers a woman and her son living in the midst of warring Apaches, and he becomes their protector.

The Adventures of Greyfriars Bobby

2005

6.3

♡ 4

John Henderson Director

Ronald Pickup as Cecil Johnson

Sean Pertwee as Duncan Smithie

Ron Donachie as Laurie

Gina McKee as Maureen Gray

This is the true story of a little dog that refused to leave his master's graveside in Edinburgh. The dog visited the grave for years.

War and Peace, Part III: The Year 1812

1967

Russian

8.3

♡ 9

Sergey Bondarchuk Director

Vladislav Strzhelchik as Napoleon

Vyacheslav Tikhonov as Prince Andrei Bolkonsky

Sergey Nikonenko as Russian Officer

Ivan Zhevago as Russian Soldier

In 1812, Napoleon's Army invades Russia. Kutuzov asks Bolkonsky to join him as a staff officer, yet the prince requests a command in the field. Pierre sets out to watch the upcoming confrontation between the armies. During the Battle of Borodino, he volunteers to assist in an artillery battery. Bolkonsky's unit waits in the reserve, but he is hit by a shell. Both Anatol and Bolkosnky suffer severe wounds. The French Army is victorious and advances on Moscow.

War and Peace, Part II: Natasha Rostova

1965

Russian

7.9

♡ 15

Sergey Bondarchuk Director

Vladislav Strzhelchik as Napoleon

Oleg Tabakov as Nikolai Rostov

Sergey Bondarchuk as Pierre Bezukhov

Vyacheslav Tikhonov as Prince Andrei Bolkonsky

In the end of 1809, Natasha attends her first ball. Andrei falls in love with her and intends to marry her, but her father demands they wait. The prince travels abroad, and Natasha desperately longs for him. But she then meets Anatol Kuragin and forgets of Andrei. At the last minute, she regrets and abandons her plans to elope with Anatol. Bolkonsky hears of this and declares their betrothal is over. Pierre, trying to calm her down, suddenly announces he loves her.

Jane Eyre

1996

6.8

♡ 23

67%

aunt

Drama

gentleman

Romance

Franco Zeffirelli Director

Judith Parker as Leah

Geraldine Chaplin as Miss Scatcherd

Amanda Root as Miss Temple

Samuel West as St. John Rivers

After a bleak childhood, Jane Eyre goes out into the world to become a governess. As she lives happily in her new position at Thornfield Hall, she meet the dark, cold, and abrupt master of the house, Mr. Rochester. Jane and her employer grow close in friendship and she soon finds herself falling in love with him. Happiness seems to have found Jane at last, but could Mr. Rochester's terrible secret be about to destroy it forever?

American Friends

1991

6.4

♡ 1

44%

Tristram Powell Director

Roger Lloyd Pack as Dr. Butler

Connie Booth as Miss Caroline Hartley

Alfred Molina as Oliver Syme

Michael Palin as Reverend Francis Ashby

Francis Ashby, a senior Oxford don on holiday alone in the Alps, meets holidaying American Caroline and her companion Elinor, the blossoming Irish-American girl she adopted many years before. Ashby finds he enjoys their company, particularly that of Elinor, and both the women are drawn to him. Back at Oxford he is nevertheless taken aback when they arrive unannounced. Women are not allowed in the College grounds, let alone the rooms. Indeed any liaison, however innocent, is frowned on by the upstanding Fellows.

The Strawberry Blonde

1941

7.2

♡ 5

100%

Raoul Walsh Director

Jack Carson as Hugo Barnstead

Addison Richards as Official

Alan Hale as Old Man Grimes

Ben Welden as Reluctant Convict Dental Patient

Biff Grimes is desperately in love with Virginia, but his best friend Hugo marries her and manipulates Biff into becoming involved in his somewhat nefarious businesses. Hugo appears to have stolen Biff's dreams, and Biff has to deal with the realisation that having what he wants and wanting what another has can be very different things.

Queen of Destiny

1938

6.0

♡ 4

Herbert Wilcox Director

Edward Lexy as Dorset Soldier in Crimea

Robert Eddison as Lanternist Professor

Ian Fleming as Member of Parliament

Jack Watling as Minor Role

Continuing the story of 'Victoria the Great'.

The One and Only, Genuine, Original Family Band

1968

6.2

♡ 4

60%

based on memoir or autobiography

presidential election

south dakota

Western

Michael O'Herlihy Director

John Davidson as Joe Carder

Wally Cox as Mr. Wampler

Kurt Russell as Sidney Bower

John Roy as Townsman

The eleven members of the Bower family move to Dakota Territory.

Mansfield Park

2007

6.2

♡ 9

53%

Drama

period drama

Romance

Iain B. MacDonald Director

Dexter Fletcher as Doctor

Jemma Redgrave as Lady Bertram

Hayley Atwell as Mary Crawford

Douglas Hodge as Sir Thomas Bertram

Fanny Price is sent to live with her wealthy relatives, the Bertrams, where she is treated poorly by most except her cousin Edmund. Her life is complicated by the arrival of the worldly Mary and Henry Crawford

Cheers for Miss Bishop

1941

6.4

35%

Tay Garnett Director

Ethelreda Leopold as Dinner Guest

William Bakewell as Jim Forbes

Rosemary DeCamp as Minna Fields

Irene Tedrow as Teacher Waving from Window

Ella Bishop is an inhibited girl whose frustrations grow as she approaches womanhood. As a women, her ambitions to teach cause her to lose her only opportunity for true love. Ella's life becomes one of missed chances and wrong choices. As she reaches old age, she reflects back and realizes she allowed the years to go by without achieving what she believes to be her true fulfillment. However, her years have not been without glory, and her moment of triumph arrives when her numerous now-famous students from over the years, return to honor their beloved Miss Bishop.

From Time to Time

2009

6.7

♡ 9

43%

based on children's book

Julian Fellowes Director

Timothy Spall as Boggis

Dominic West as Caxton

Lynn Farleigh as Gypsy

Maggie Smith as Mrs Oldknow

A haunting ghost story spanning two worlds, two centuries apart. When 13 year old Tolly finds he can mysteriously travel between the two, he begins an adventure that unlocks family secrets laid buried for generations.

Abe Lincoln in Illinois

1940

7.3

♡ 2

86%

John Cromwell Director

Ian Wolfe as Horace Greeley

Trevor Bardette as John Hanks

Louis Jean Heydt as Mentor Graham

George Chandler as Minor Role

Abe Lincoln in Illinois is a 1940 biographical film which tells the story of the life of Abraham Lincoln from his departure from Kentucky until his election as President of the United States.

Dreamchild

1985