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Drama

teacher

teachers and students

Tony Richardson Director

Umberto Orsini as Antonio

Keith Skinner as Bruno

Jeanne Moreau as Mademoiselle

René Hell as Peasant

A sexually repressed school teacher releases her pent up passions in a series of shocking crimes.

A Delicate Balance

1973

6.5

♡ 11

67%

62%

alcoholic drink

Tony Richardson Director

Katharine Hepburn as Agnes

Betsy Blair as Edna

Joseph Cotten as Harry

Paul Scofield as Tobias

In their finely appointed Connecticut home, Agnes and Tobias have grown used to the imperfection and fragility of their marriage. Quietly nursing their grief over the death of their son, they get by well enough together. Agnes' boozy sister wanders in and out, and they allow anxiety-stricken friends to move into an upstairs room. But, when their daughter, Julia, shows up announcing her fourth divorce, long-repressed emotions come to the surface.

The Loved One

1965

6.9

♡ 6

47%

76%

based on novel or book

Tony Richardson Director

Bernie Kopell as Assistant to the Guru Brahmin

Warren J. Kemmerling as Colonel

Noel Drayton as Luncheon Guest

Pamela Curran as Whispering Glades Hostess

Newly arrived in Hollywood from England, Dennis Barlow finds he has to arrange his uncle's interment at the highly-organised and very profitable Whispering Glades funeral parlour. His fancy is caught by one of their cosmeticians, Aimee Thanatogenos. But he has three problems - the strict rules of owner Blessed Reverand Glenworthy, the rivalry of embalmer Mr Joyboy, and the shame of now working himself at The Happy Hunting Ground pets' memorial home.

The Border

1982

6.4

♡ 19

65%

Tony Richardson Director

Harvey Keitel as Cat

William Russ as Jimbo

Lupe Ontiveros as Madam in Whorehouse

Warren Oates as Red

A corrupted border agent decides to clean up his act when an impoverished woman's baby is put up for sale on the black market.

The Charge of the Light Brigade

1968

6.6

♡ 3

60%

Tony Richardson Director

Corin Redgrave as Capt. Featherstonhaugh

Trevor Howard as Lord Cardigan

Howard Marion-Crawford as Lt. Gen. Sir George Brown

John Hallam as Officer

During the Crimean War between Britain and Russia in the 1850s, a British cavalry division, led by the overbearing Lord Cardigan, engages in an infamously reckless strategic debacle against a Russian artillery battery.

The Hotel New Hampshire

1984

5.8

♡ 5

71%

50%

based on novel or book

Tony Richardson Director

Seth Green as Egg

Jodie Foster as Frannie

Wallace Shawn as Freud

Timothy Webber as Wrench

Over the course of several years beginning in the 1950s, a man and his oddball family run hotels in New England and Vienna, as unexpected events change their lives forever.

Ned Kelly

1970

5.1

♡ 10

27%

Tony Richardson Director

Martyn Sanderson as Fitzpatrick

Frank Thring as Judge Barry

Bill Hunter as Officer

Tim Van Rellim as Sportsman

Unable to support his family in the Australian outback, a man turns to stealing horses in order to make money. He gets more deeply drawn into the outlaw life, and eventually becomes involved in murders. Based on the life of famed 19th-century Australian outlaw Ned Kelly.

Blue Sky

1994

husband wife relationship

6.4

♡ 29

80%

military base

nuclear missile

Romance

Tony Richardson Director

Jessica Lange as Carly Marshall

Dale Dye as Col. Mike Anwalt

Tommy Lee Jones as Hank Marshall

Timothy Bottoms as Owens Ranch Cowboy

Hank Marshall is a tough, square-jawed, straitlaced Army engineer and nuclear science expert, assigned to help conduct weapons testing in 1950s America. Hank has become a thorn in the side of the Army, though, for a couple of very different reasons. He is an outspoken opponent of atmospheric testing, though his superiors hold contrary views and want to squelch his concerns...and his reports. The other problem is his wife, Carly. She is voluptuous and volatile, wreaking havoc in his personal life and stirring up intrigue at each new Army base.

Look Back in Anger

1959

7.0

♡ 4

Tony Richardson Director

Abner Biberman as Attacked Cultist, in movie

Gary Raymond as Cliff Lewis

Richard Burton as Jimmy Porter

Philip Locke as Priest

A disillusioned, angry university graduate comes to terms with his grudge against middle-class life and values.

Tom Jones

1963

6.4

♡ 13

83%

58%

Adventure

based on novel or book

breaking the fourth wall

Tony Richardson Director

David Warner as Blifil

Michael Brennan as Jailer at Newgate

Julian Glover as Northernton

Susannah York as Sophie Western

Tom loves Sophie and Sophie loves Tom. But Tom and Sophie are of differering classes. Can they find a way through the mayhem to be true to love?

A Taste of Honey

1961

7.4

♡ 21

86%

parent child relationship

single parent

Tony Richardson Director

Moira Kaye as Doris

Murray Melvin as Geoffrey Ingham

Rita Tushingham as Jo [Josephine]

Robert Stephens as Peter Smith

While out to avoid spending time with her narcissistic and promiscuous mother, sixteen-year-old Jo has a brief affair that leaves her pregnant and abandoned. When her mother remarries, Jo's only support becomes her friend Geoffrey, a homosexual.

The Entertainer

1960

7.1

♡ 7

71%

74%

bankruptcy

Tony Richardson Director

Charles Gray as Columnist

Alan Bates as Frank Rice

Daniel Massey as Graham

Jimmy Charters as Man in Pub Listening to Billy Sing

Archie Rice, an old-time British vaudeville performer sinking into final defeat, schemes to stay in show business.

Hamlet

1969