Captain Jack 1999  N/R, 90 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Robert(2) Young
Cast: Bob Hoskins, Peter McDonald, Gemma Jones, Maureen Lipman, Sadie Frost, Anna Massey, David Troughton, Michele Dotrice, Patrick Malahide, Kathryn Pogson
Sea Captain Jack Armistead (Bob Hoskins) doesn't think that his hero, Captain Scoresby, has been adequately honored for his trip from northern England to the Arctic waters in 1791. So he decides to retrace the route in his un-seaworthy (and condemned) ship. He gathers a motley crew consisting of two elderly sisters and an Australian hitchhiker–as well as a stowaway–and sets out on the voyage. Meanwhile, authorities and journalists are hot on his tail.
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Educating Rita 1983  PG-13, 110 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Lewis Gilbert
Cast: Michael Caine, Julie Walters, Michael Williams, Maureen Lipman, Jeananne Crowley, Malcolm Douglas, Godfrey Quigley, Dearbhla Molloy, Patrick Daly, Kim Fortune, Philip Hurd-Wood, Hilary Reynolds, Jack Walsh, Christopher Casson, Rosamund Burton
A simple cockney girl Susan/Rita (Julie Walters) goes to an alcoholic English professor, Dr. Frank Bryant (Michael Caine) for literature lessons and ends up changing her life for the better. Meanwhile, his life seems to get worse. Caine and Walters were both nominated for Academy Awards.
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Gumshoe 1971 PG, 88 min.
Genre: Comedy / Drama / Mystery
Director: Stephen Frears
Cast: Albert Finney, Billie Whitelaw, Frank Finlay, Janice Rule, Carolyn Seymour, Fulton Mackay, George Innes, George Silver, Bill Dean, Wendy Richard, Maureen Lipman, Neville Smith, Oscar James, Joe Kenyon, Bert King
Comedian and nightclub bingo caller Eddie Ginley (Albert Finney) dreams of becoming a detective. Despite warnings from his brother and sister-in-law William and Ellen (Frank Finlay and Billie Whitelaw), Eddie uses a newspaper to advertise his services as a private-eye. He is hired by Jacob De Fries (George Silver) and soon finds himself involved in drug and gun smuggling as well as dealing with members of the South African liberation movement.
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 A Little Princess 1987  N/R, 163 min.
Genre: Family / Drama
Director: Carol Wiseman
Cast: Amelia Shankley, Nigel Havers, Maureen Lipman, David Yelland, Miriam Margolyes, Annette Badland, John Grillo, Andre Maranne, Meera Syal, Marianne Borgo, Natalie Abbott, Johanna Hargreaves, Alison Reynolds, Jessica Simpson, Katrina Heath
Returning from India, young Sara (Amelia Shankley) is placed in a Victorian London boarding school when her father (David Yelland) must return to the war. Sara adapts to life at school, becomes very popular, and all goes well–until her father dies. Now, as Sara works off her debts, her friends dwindle, but she does have Ermengarde (Alison Reynolds) and Lottie (Jessica Simpson) as well as the maid Becky (Natalie Abbott) for companions. However, as Sara perseveres, she becomes an inspiration for her classmates.
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The Pianist 2002  R, 148 min.
Genre: Drama / Musical
Director: Roman Polanski
Cast: Adrien Brody, Thomas Kretschmann, Frank Finlay, Maureen Lipman, Emilia Fox, Ed Stoppard, Julia Rayner, Jessica Kate Meyer, Ruth Platt, Michal Zebrowski, Wanja Mues, Richard Ridings, Nomi Sharron, Anthony Milner, Lucy Skeaping
After conquering Poland, Nazis place celebrated Jewish pianist Wladyslaw Szpilman (Adrien Brody) and his family in a Warsaw ghetto from which he escapes the planned deportation to a concentration camp. But there is no relief for Szpilman who is forced to endure not only Nazi brutality but disease and starvation as well on Warsaw's streets. A good film depicting the power inherent in man's inhumanity to man. The film won three Oscars, including Best Director and Best Actor (Brody), and received four other nominations, including Best Picture.
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Rogue Male 1976 TV, 102 min.
Genre: Adventure / Drama
Director: Clive Donner
Cast: Peter O'Toole, John Standing, Alastair Sim, Harold Pinter, Michael Byrne, Mark McManus, Ray Smith, Hugh Manning, Robert Lang, Cyd Hayman, Philip Jackson, Nicholas Ball, Ian East, Maureen Lipman, Ray Mort
This made-for-TV remake of Fritz Lang's 1941 film, "Man Hunt," is set in 1939 before the British went to war against Germany. Big-game hunter Sir Robert Thorndyke (Peter O'Toole) fails in an attempt to shoot Hitler. Thorndyke is captured, tortured, and left for dead. He survives and heads back to England, but the Gestapo is on his trail, so he must go underground to do battle with his enemies.
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Solomon and Gaenor 1999 N/R, 102 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
Director: Paul Morrison
Cast: Ioan Gruffudd, Nia Roberts, Sue Jones-Davies, William Thomas, Mark Lewis Jones, Maureen Lipman, David Horovitch, Bethan Ellis Own, Adam Jenkins, Cyril Shaps
Set in Wales during 1911, this is the story of an illicit romance involving a young Jew, Solomon (Ioan Gruffudd), and a Protestant, Gaenor (Nia Roberts), whose affair leads to pregnancy. At a time when anti-Jewish riots were commonplace, this mixed-ethnic pairing leads to nothing but problems. This film was nominated for an Oscar for Best Foreign Film.
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Water 1985   PG-13, 97 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Dick Clement
Cast: Michael Caine, Valerie Perrine, Brenda Vaccaro, Leonard Rossiter, Billy Connolly, Maureen Lipman, Dennis Dugan, Fulton Mackay, Jimmie Walker, Dick Shawn
When mineral water is discovered and becomes the object of investment possibilities on a tiny Caribbean island, Governor Baxter Thwaites (Michael Caine) must deal with outside forces struggling for control of his once-peaceful island.
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| 1. Captain Jack (1999)
2. Educating Rita (1983)
3. Gumshoe (1971)
4. A Little Princess (1987)
5. The Pianist (2002)
6. Rogue Male (1976)
7. Solomon and Gaenor (1999)
8. Water (1985)
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