The Lady Vanishes 1979  PG, 98 min.
Genre: Mystery
Director: Anthony Page
Cast: Elliott Gould, Cybill Shepherd, Angela Lansbury, Herbert Lom, Arthur Lowe, Ian Carmichael, Gerald Harper, Jenny Runacre, Jean Anderson, Rosalind Knight, Vladek Sheybal, Wolf Kahler, Dan van Husen
While riding an express train through pre-World War II Germany, Amanda (Cybill Shepherd) meets and makes friends with Miss Froy (Angela Lansbury). But, Miss Froy disappears, and, when Amanda can't find her, she gets help from an American photographer (Elliott Gould). Their efforts lead to the discovery that there is more to Miss Froy than meets the eye.
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Prick Up Your Ears 1987  R, 111 min.
Genre: Drama / Comedy
Director: Stephen Frears
Cast: Gary Oldman, Alfred Molina, Vanessa Redgrave, Wallace Shawn, Lindsay Duncan, Julie Walters, Frances Barber, Janet Dale, Bert Parnaby, Margaret Tyzack, Stephen Bill, Rosalind Knight, James Grant, Roger Lloyd-Pack, Helena Michell
This film is based on the biography of British playwright Joe Orton (Gary Oldman) who, despite financial success, lived for years in a small London room with Kenneth Halliwell (Alfred Molina). One night, Halliwell killed Orton and then committed suicide. This film relates the story behind the grisly crime. Interesting look at (illegal) homosexuality in England in the 1950s and 1960s.
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Tess of the D'Urbervilles 1998 TV, 210 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Ian Sharp
Cast: Justine Waddell, Jason Flemyng, Oliver Milburn, John McEnery, Lesley Dunlop, Rosalind Knight, Anthony O'Donnell, Christine Moore, Bryan Pringle, Debbie Chazen, Linda Armstrong, Hannah Waterman, Candida Rundle, Amanda Brewster, Charlotte Bellamy
Country girl Tess (Justine Waddell) is sent to the home of her aristocratic relatives, the D'Urbervilles, where her innocence is turned into bitterness after cousin Alec D'Urberville (Jason Flemyng) seduces her, and she becomes pregnant. She loses the baby, leaves the mansion, and finds work as a farmhand. She falls in love with Angel Clare (Oliver Milburn), and he returns her love. But, happiness is not fated to be in the future for Tess, and tragedy follows in this good made-for-TV retelling of the classic Thomas Hardy story.
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| 1. The Lady Vanishes (1979)
2. Prick Up Your Ears (1987)
3. Tess of the D'Urbervilles (1998)
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