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A Man Escaped
(1956) [G]

Based on a true story, 'A Man Escaped' is set in a Nazi prison in France in 1943. Fontaine is a Resistance fighter sentenced to death, and the film reconstructs his escape plan. Director Bresson won the Best Director award at the 1957 Cannes Film Festival. French dialogue  More

Heavenly Creatures
(1994) [M]

Based on the true story that shocked a nation, HEAVENLY CREATURES paints a vivid and disturbing portrait of two teenage schoolgirls whose obsessive friendship leads to an unspeakable crime. This critically acclaimed, hypnotic thriller chronicles the story of Juliet Hulme and Pauline Parker from...  More

Another Country
(1984) [M]

Rupert Everett turns in an electric performance playing Guy Burgess, a key figure in the Cambridge spy ring of the 1940's who eventually defected to Russia in 1951.*MR  More

Lady Caroline Lamb
(1972) [PG]

A noblewoman doomed to a loveless marriage falls into a scandalous affair with the dashing Lord Byron.  More

Mrs. Parker And The Vicious Circle
(1994) [M]

An evocative portrait of renowned writer and wit Dorothy Parker which chronicles her boozy adventures both in Manhattan as a writer for The New Yorker and member of the celebrated Algonquin roundtable and later in Hollywood as a screenwriter. Jennifer Jason Leigh delivers a stunning performance...  More

Frances
(1982) [M]

A retrospective of Frances Farmer's meteoric rise to fame in Hollywood and her later downfall and ill-health which were the result of black-listing. An inspirational account of the life and career of a woman of courage. Based on a true story. The violent, tragic, but true story of a rebellious...  More

Ed Wood
(1994) [M]

You are interested in the unknown. The mysterious. The unexplainable. That is why you are here. And now, for the first time, we are bringing to you the full story of what happened, on that fateful day. We are giving you all the evidence, based only on a secret testimony, of the miserable souls,...  More

The Agony And The Ecstasy
(1965) [G]

An historical drama based on the painting of the Sistine Chapel by the artist Michelangelo.  More

Carrington
(1995) [M]

Written and directed by Christopher Hampton and starring Emma Thompson and Jonathan Pryce, Carrington is a provocative, hypnotic film. She was a gifted artist, he was an eminent writer and together they created a controversy that sent shock waves through polite society. This is the true story of...  More

Queen Margot (La Reine Margot)
(1993) [MA]

She was the daughter of a King, the sister of a King, the wife of a King...and the lover of an enemy. August 1572 - France is torn apart in bitter religious wars. Marguerite know as Margot, is proud and beautiful; the Catholic sister of King Charles IX, she is forced to marry the Protestant Henri...  More