Absolution 1978  R, 95 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Anthony Page
Cast: Richard Burton, Dominic Guard, David Bradley, Billy Connolly, Andrew Keir, Willoughby Gray, Preston Lockwood, James Ottaway, Brook Williams, Jon Plowman
Two students (Dominic Guard and Billy Connolly) in a posh British boy's school are driven insane by deadly secrets. A dictatorial priest (Richard Burton) becomes the casualty of his own misdeeds when confronted with these secrets. It took 10 years for this movie to be released in the U.S., well after Burton's death.
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The Go-Between 1971  PG, 118 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Joseph Losey
Cast: Julie Christie, Alan Bates, Margaret Leighton, Michael Redgrave, Dominic Guard, Michael Gough, Edward Fox
Set in late 19th-century England, this drama centers on letters between an aristocrat, Marian Maudsley (Julie Christie), and a farmer, Ted Burgess (Alan Bates). The letters relate their love story in this very good film.
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 Picnic at Hanging Rock 1975  PG, 110 min.
Genre: Drama / Mystery
Director: Peter Weir
Cast: Rachel Roberts, Vivean Gray, Helen Morse, Kirsty Child, Tony Llewellyn-Jones, Jacki Weaver, Dominic Guard, Frank Gunnell, Anne-Louise Lambert, Karen Robson, Jane Vallis, Christine Schuler, Margaret Nelson, Ingrid Mason, Jenny Lovell
Set in 1900 during an outing to Hanging Rock, Victoria, three Austrailian college students–Miranda, Marion, and Irma (Anne-Louise Lambert, Jane Vallis, and Karen Robson)–and their head mistress Mrs. Appleyard (Rachel Roberts) run into problems. Irma is the only one who returns, and she cannot remember what happened to her cohorts.
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| 1. Absolution (1978)
2. The Go-Between (1971)
3. Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975)
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