The Aryan Couple 2004   PG-13, 118 min.
Genre: Drama / Thriller
Director: John Daly
Cast: Martin Landau, Judy Parfitt, Kenny Doughty, Caroline Carver, Danny Webb, Christopher Fulford, Steven Mackintosh, Jake Wood, Nolan Hemmings, Austen Palmer, Tyler Bizzell, Gretchen Becker, Richard Bremmer
In 1944, German/Jewish industrialist Joseph Krauzenberg (Martin Landau) opts for "The Europe Plan," which offers wealthy Jewish families the opportunity to emigrate. His emigration is to be exchanged for the family's fortune. His wealth is such that Nazi leaders Adolf Eichmann (Steven Mackintosh) and Heinrich Himmler (Danny Webb) come to his home to deal with the paperwork. During a security check, Krauzenberg's valet and maid, Hans and Ingrid Vassman (Kenny Doughty and Caroline Carver), come under scrutiny and are identified as resistance fighters who now have the opportunity to murder Eichmann and Himmler. Hans and Ingrid wonder if they should ignore the consequences and proceed with the execution that would change the course of history. 2 User Reviews
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| | 1944 Germania | r torrestein 06/26/2009 | | Tears and anguish are [present through out the great performance of this great cast of actors. It is important that the movie present the fact that not all Germans were in agreement with the extermination of the jews during WWII. |
| | Ed 02/22/2007 | | Tense, intensifying and very well made. The kind of thriller I enjoy. |
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Asylum 2005 R, 92 min.
Genre: Drama / Thriller / Romance
Director: David Mackenzie
Cast: Natasha Richardson, Ian McKellen, Hugh Bonneville, Marton Csokas, Gus Lewis, Joss Ackland, Judy Parfitt, Rhydian Jones, Wanda Ventham, Robert Willox, Maria Aitken, Sarah Thurston, Alwyne Taylor, Hazel Douglas, Anna Keaveney
While her husband, Max (Hugh Bonneville), is assigned to serve as deputy director of a psychiatric hospital, Stella (Natasha Richardson) crosses the path of inmate Edgar (Marton Csokas), becomes attracted to him, and enters into an affair. She helps Edgar escape and follows him despite the fact that she knows he murdered and disfigured his wife. It does not take Stella long to learn that Edgar's brutality does not lie only in his past.
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The Blackheath Poisonings 1992 TV, 200 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Stuart Orme
Cast: Christine Kavanagh, Ian McNeice, Zoe Wanamaker, Judy Parfitt, Patrick Malahide, James Faulkner, Christien Anholt, Julia St. John, Ian Bartholomew, George Anton, Nicholas Woodeson, Donald Sumpter
Set in 19th century Britain, this made-for-TV miniseries chronicles the events surrounding a series of mysterious deaths following a poisoning in an upper-class family. Many suspects exist in this adequate tale.
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Dark Obsession 1989  NC-17, 85 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Nick Broomfield
Cast: Gabriel Byrne, Amanda Donohoe, Struan Rodger, Douglas Hodge, Peter Sands, David Delve, Michael Hordern, Ian Carmichael, Judy Parfitt, Ralph Brown
Following a night of revelry, a drunken Sir Hugo (Gabriel Byrne) is responsible for a hit-and-run car accident. The four witnesses take a vow of secrecy to protect Hugo from the law in this story depicting the British "upper-crust" as those who do all the proper things in public but sink into lives of deceit in private.
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 Ever After: A Cinderella Story 1998  PG-13, 121 min.
Genre: Drama / Comedy / Romance / Fantasy
aka: Ever After
Director: Andy Tennant
Cast: Drew Barrymore, Anjelica Huston, Dougray Scott, Patrick Godfrey, Megan Dodds, Melanie Lynskey, Timothy West, Judy Parfitt, Jeroen Krabbe, Jeanne Moreau, Lee Ingleby, Kate Lansbury, Matyelok Gibbs, Walter Sparrow, Anna Maguire
This Cinderella story is set in 16th-century France where 18-year-old Danielle (Drew Barrymore) loses her father (Jeroen Krabbe) when he suffers a heart attack and finds herself serving her widowed stepmother Baroness Rodmilla (Anjelica Huston) and new siblings Jacqueline (Melanie Lynskey) and Marguerite (Megan Dodds). Danielle's life is miserable–until she meets Prince Henry (Dougray Scott), the future King of France, who whisks her away.
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Galileo 1975  PG, 145 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Joseph Losey
Cast: Topol, Edward Fox, Colin Blakely, Georgia Brown, Clive Revill, Margaret Leighton, John Gielgud, Michael Gough, Michael Lonsdale, Richard O'Callaghan, Tim Woodward, Judy Parfitt
When his findings about planetary movement contradict teachings of the Church, 17th-century scientist Galileo (Topol) renounces his theory but privately continues to believe in it and hopes that time will prove him right.
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 Girl with a Pearl Earring 2003 PG-13, 95 min.
Genre: Drama / Romance
Director: Peter Webber
Cast: Colin Firth, Scarlett Johansson, Tom Wilkinson, Judy Parfitt, Cillian Murphy, Essie Davis, Joanna Scanlan, Alakina Mann, Anna Popplewell, Anais Nepper, Nathan Nepper, Melanie Meyfroid, Chris McHallem, Gabrielle Reidy, Rollo Weeks
Based on Tracy Chevalier's best-selling novel, this is the story of 17-year-old Griet (Scarlett Johansson) who, while working as a maid at the Vermeer family estate, modeled for the portrait that would become one of 17th-century Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer's (Colin Firth) greatest works of art. Griet modeled for Vermeer, but she entered a deal that required her modeling without letting Vermeer's wife (Essie Davis) know that she would be part of the picture.
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 Hamlet 1969 G, 119 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Tony Richardson
Cast: Nicol Williamson, Gordon Jackson, Anthony Hopkins, Judy Parfitt, Mark Dignam, Marianne Faithfull, Roger Livesey, Anjelica Huston, Michael Elphick, Ben Aris, Michael Pennington, Gordon Jackson, Clive Graham, Peter Gale, John J. Carney
Filmed as a play, this is another version of Shakespeare's play about the Danish prince, Hamlet (Nicol Williamson), whose father was killed. Soon after the king's murder, his widow Gertrude (Judy Parfitt) marries Claudius (Anthony Hopkins) who was the king's brother. The ghost of the king talks to Hamlet and tells him to be kind to Gertrude but to murder Claudius. To accomplish the goal and avoid suspicion, Hamlet fakes madness. His "madness" sets off a string of deaths–including those of Claudius, Gertrude, Hamlet's chief counsel Polonius (Mark Dignam), and Polonius' daughter Ophelia (Marianne Faithfull) who had loved Hamlet, and Hamlet as well.
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Maurice 1987 R, 140 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: James Ivory
Cast: James Wilby, Hugh Grant, Rupert Graves, Denholm Elliott, Simon Callow, Billie Whitelaw, Ben Kingsley, Barry Foster, Judy Parfitt, Phoebe Nicholls, Patrick Godfrey, Mark Tandy
Two Cambridge underclassmen (James Wilby and Hugh Grant) fall in love with each other and then find diverse ways of dealing with homosexuality in the class society of Edwardian England.
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Wilde 1997 R, 117 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Brian Gilbert
Cast: Stephen Fry, Jude Law, Vanessa Redgrave, Jennifer Ehle, Gemma Jones, Judy Parfitt, Michael Sheen, Zoe Wanamaker, Tom Wilkinson, Ioan Gruffudd, Matthew Mills, Jason Morell, Peter Barkworth, Robert Lang, Philip Locke
Victorian playwright Oscar Wilde (Stephen Fry)–poet, genius, and homosexual–was willing to stand his ground and not flee England when he was sentenced to two years of hard labor as a result of his love affair with Lord Alfred "Bosie" Douglas (Jude Law). This film covers that aspect of his life.
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| 1. The Aryan Couple (2004)
2. Asylum (2005)
3. The Blackheath Poisonings (1992)
4. Dark Obsession (1989)
5. Dolores Claiborne (1995)
6. Ever After: A Cinderella Story (1998)
aka: Ever After
7. Galileo (1975)
8. Girl with a Pearl Earring (2003)
9. Hamlet (1969)
10. Maurice (1987)
11. Wilde (1997)
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