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Feature film. B-movie thriller in which a modernised Hamlet is set in Florida and to rock music. Hamlet is a young man who returns home to discover that his father was murdered nine months previously. Based...
Feature film comedy. The local squire insists on staging a production of Macbeth. A visiting film star halts the play’s progress and falls in love with the squire’s daughter.
Swedish feature film about relationships in a retirement home starring well-known Bergman actors Jan Malmsjo, Ghita Norby and Erland Josephson. Retired theatre director Walter tries to get erstwhile stage...
Feature film adapted from H.G. Wells’ short novel The Island of Dr Moreau (1896). The hubristic scientist, Dr Moreau, is banished from his home to a remote island where he proclaims himself the absolute...
High school comedy loosely based on Jane Austen’s Emma. In one brief scene the smart and nonchalent heroine, Cher (Silverstone), in an attempt to assert her sophistication and intellectual superiority...
Hindi feature film. The story of Violet Stoneham, an ageing Anglo-Indian schoolteacher who lives in a dingy apartment in Calcutta and teaches Shakespeare. Two young lovers walk into her life one Christmas...
Feature film. Musical comedy with music and lyrics by Frank Loesser. An aspiring chorus girl finds herself in a jam when a gangster, who is backing the show she is appearing in, is found dead in her...
Feature film farce. Gracie is the daughter of a wealthy business magnate. To prevent a gigolo (who is attempting to seduce his other daughter) from getting his fortune, the father gives all his money,...
Action adventure film, starring Gary Cooper, about the slave trade on the high seas in 1842. In The Great Hamlets, an educational video of interviews with famous actors and directors of Hamlet, made in 1985...
Romantic comedy feature film. Michael Brandon (Cooper) is a millionaire who enjoys getting married but has difficulty staying married: he’s had seven wives and is looking for number eight. He thinks he may...
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