Anna Karenina 1997  PG-13, 108 min.
Genre: Drama / Romance
aka: Leo Tolstoy's Anna Karenina
Director: Bernard Rose
Cast: Sophie Marceau, Sean Bean, Alfred Molina, Mia Kirshner, James Fox, Fiona Shaw, Danny Huston, Phyllida Law, David Schofield, Saskia Wickham, Anna Calder-Marshall, Niall Buggy, Petr Shelokhonov, Jennifer Hall, Valerie Braddell
This version of Leo Tolstoy's 1878 novel was filmed entirely in Russia and stars Sophie Marceau as the beautiful wife and mother Anna Karenina who leaves her passionless marriage to Karenin (James Fox) when she falls in love with Count Vronsky (Sean Bean). Karenin will not grant her a divorce–even when Anna becomes pregnant with Vronsky's child–and depression and suicidal thoughts set in when Anna finds that happiness is elusive.
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 Candyman 1992  R, 99 min.
Genre: Drama / Fantasy / Horror / Thriller / Mystery
Director: Bernard Rose
Cast: Virginia Madsen, Tony Todd, Xander Berkeley, Kasi Lemmons, Vanessa Williams, DeJuan Guy, Marianna Eliott, Ted Raimi, Ria Pavia, Mark Daniels, Stanley DeSantis, Kenneth A. Brown, Michael Culkin, Rusty Schwimmer, Eric Edwards
Graduate student Helen Lyle (Virginia Madsen) is researching the legend of a Chicago ghostly killer called "Candyman" (Tony Todd). She goes to the housing project where a woman was killed, presumably by Candyman's evil spirit, and finds more than she bargained for. A well-produced and acted psychological thriller.
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Chicago Joe and the Showgirl 1990  R, 103 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Bernard Rose
Cast: Emily Lloyd, Kiefer Sutherland, Patsy Kensit, Keith Allen, Liz Fraser, Alexandra Pigg, Ralph Nossek, Colin Bruce, Roger Ashton-Griffiths, Harry Fowler, John Lahr, Angela Morant
Based on an actual murder case in 1944 Great Britain called "The Cleft Chin Murder Case," this is the tale of U.S. Army deserter Karl (Kiefer Sutherland) and stripper Betty (Emily Lloyd) who meet and embark on a crime spree, which eventually escalates to murder.
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Immortal Beloved 1994  R, 123 min.
Genre: Drama / Musical / Romance
Director: Bernard Rose
Cast: Gary Oldman, Jeroen Krabbe, Isabella Rossellini, Johanna ter Steege, Miriam Margolyes, Barry Humphries, Valeria Golino, Marco Hofschneider, Gerard Horan, Christopher Fulford, Alexandra Pigg, Luigi Diberti, Michael Culkin, Donal Gibson, Matthew North
This is a love story about musical genius Ludwig von Beethoven (Gary Oldman) who, when he died in 1827, left behind papers hinting at the identity of a great love of his life. His secretary Anton Felix Schindler (Jeroen Krabbe) tries to uncover the identity of the mystery woman, and his investigation reveals Beethoven's relationships with countesses–one of whom may have played a special role in his life.
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Ivansxtc 2002 N/R, 93 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Bernard Rose
Cast: Danny Huston, Peter Weller, Lisa Enos, James Merendino, Adam Krentzman, Joanne Duckman, Angela Featherstone, Caroleen Feeney, Valeria Golino, Tiffani Thiessen
Leo Tolstoy's "The Death of Ivan Ilyich" is reset in modern-day Hollywood with Danny Huston in the role of a very successful talent agent, Ivan Bechman, who lives in the fast lane–until he turns up dead after an apparent suicide.
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| 1. Anna Karenina (1997)
aka: Leo Tolstoy's Anna Karenina
2. Candyman (1992)
3. Chicago Joe and the Showgirl (1990)
4. Immortal Beloved (1994)
5. Ivansxtc (2002)
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