We’re Going to Be Rich
A perpetual dreamer talks his wife into moving with him from their home in Australia to South Africa, where he hopes to discover gold and finally become wealthy.
Let George Do It!
Shortly after the start of World War II, a ukelele player (George) takes the wrong boat and finds himself in (still uninvaded) Norway. He is mistaken for a fellow British…
Tamahine
The headmaster of a stuffy British boys’ school receives a surprise visit from the now-grown, and very voluptuous, daughter he fathered years earlier in the Pacific islands.
The Legend of Lylah Clare
A dictatorial film director hires an unknown actress to play the lead role in a planned movie biography of a late, great Hollywood star.
The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone
Critics and the public say Karen Stone is too old — as she approaches 50 — for her role in a play she is about to take to Broadway. Her…
The Courtneys of Curzon Street
On New Years Eve, 1899, baronet’s son Edward Courtney becomes engaged to Kate, his mother’s maid, much to the scandal of London society. The film then follows their family through…
Auntie Mame
Ten-year-old orphan Patrick Dennis has come to live with his marvelously madcap Auntie Mame, who lives life to the hilt. “Life is a banquet,” Mame says, “and most poor suckers…
The Ruling Class
When the Earl of Gurney dies in a cross-dressing accident, his schizophrenic son, Jack, inherits the Gurney estate. Jack is not the average nobleman; he sings and dances across the…
Theatre of Blood
A Shakespearean actor takes poetic revenge on the critics who denied him recognition.
Dreamchild
Exploring the somewhat darker and more mysterious side of the Lewis Carroll’s classic book, the movie follows Alice Liddell (the book’s inspiration) as an old woman who is haunted by…
Dr. Crippen
A British physician stands trial for murdering his wife after he and his mistress are captured while fleeing to Canada.
Piccadilly Incident
A newly married WREN, presumed drowned when her ship is torpedoed, spends three years on a tropical island before returning to England to find her husband remarried with a baby…
The Killing of Sister George
When June Buckridge arrives at her London flat and announces ‘They are going to murder me’, her long-time lover and doll-cuddling flat mate Alice ‘Childie’ McNaught realizes that things are…
Beautiful Stranger
An ex-chorus girl lives on the Riviera, supported by a married man she doesn’t know is a crook.