Search results for "Vernon Dobtcheff"
Natalia

Natalia

Natalia
IMDb: 5.6
115

WW2: in an occupied France, a young Jewish girl wants to become a movie star.

Genre: Drama
Dreaming of Joseph Lees

Dreaming of Joseph Lees

Dreaming of Joseph Lees
IMDb: 6.3
92

Set in rural England in the 1950s Eva (Samantha Morton) fantasises about her handsome, worldly cousin Joseph Lees (Rupert Graves), with whom she fell in love as a girl. However,…

Genre: Drama, Romance
Catacombs

Catacombs

Catacombs
IMDb: 4.6
84

In the 17th century, an order of monks in Italy capture and entomb a demon that has possessed a member of their group. 400 years later, school teacher Elizabeth Magrino…

Genre: Horror
The Horsemen

The Horsemen

The Horsemen
IMDb: 6.2
109

In the poor, desolate northern provinces of the mountainous feudal Sunni kingdom of Afghanistan (before the Soviet-engineered republican revolutions), the status of the proud men and their clans is determined…

Testimony

Testimony

Testimony
IMDb: 7
157

The story of the great Soviet composer Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975) and his life and career during the rule of Stalin.

Genre: Drama, History
India Song

India Song

India Song
IMDb: 6.1
120

India, 1937. Anne-Marie Stretter is the wife of the French ambassador and leads a solitary yet privileged life in Calcutta. The tedium of her existence is relieved by numerous illicit…

Genre: Drama, Romance
The Haunting of Margam Castle

The Haunting of Margam Castle

The Haunting of Margam Castle
IMDb: 2.7
81

A team of American parapsychologists travel to Wales to conduct a study of Margam Castle, one of the UK’s most haunted buildings.

Genre: Horror
An American Haunting

An American Haunting

An American Haunting
IMDb: 5
83

Based on the true events of the only case in US History where a spirit caused the death of a man.

Seven Lucky Gods

Seven Lucky Gods

Seven Lucky Gods
IMDb: 4.8
102

An illegal immigrant from Albania infiltrates the lives of a group of Londoners with devastating consequences.

Genre: Drama, Thriller
Horsehead

Horsehead

Horsehead
IMDb: 4.8
89

Since her childhood, Jessica has been haunted by recurrent nightmares whose meaning escapes her. This peculiarity has led her to study the psychophysiology of dreams and to follow a therapy…

Genre: Fantasy, Horror
Zarafa

Zarafa

Zarafa
IMDb: 6.9
78

Inspired by the true story of the first giraffe to visit France, Zarafa is a sumptuously animated and stirring adventure, and a throwback to a bygone era of hand-drawn animation…

Genre: Animation, Family
M. Butterfly

M. Butterfly

M. Butterfly
IMDb: 6.7
101

In 1960s China, French diplomat Rene Gallimard falls in love with an opera singer, Song Liling – but Song is not at all who Gallimard thinks.

Genre: Drama, Romance
Mata Hari

Mata Hari

Mata Hari
IMDb: 3.9
108

Based loosely on the real-life story of the World War I spy. The exotic dancer uses her contacts in European high society, along with her seductive charm, to collect military…

The Day of the Jackal

The Day of the Jackal

The Day of the Jackal
IMDb: 7.8
143

An international assassin known as ‘The Jackal’ is employed by disgruntled French generals to kill President Charles de Gaulle, with a dedicated gendarme on the assassin’s trail.

Genre: Action, Thriller
The Canterbury Tales

The Canterbury Tales

The Canterbury Tales
IMDb: 6.4
111

Glimpses of Chaucer penning his famous work are sprinkled through this re-enactment of several of his stories.

Genre: Comedy, Drama
The Assassination Bureau

The Assassination Bureau

The Assassination Bureau
IMDb: 6.4
110

The Assassination Bureau has existed for decades (perhaps centuries) until Diana Rigg begins to investigate it. The high moral standing of the Bureau (only killing those who deserve it) is…

Before Sunset

Before Sunset

Before Sunset
IMDb: 8.1
80

Nine years later, Jesse travels across Europe giving readings from a book he wrote about the night he spent in Vienna with Celine. After his reading in Paris, Celine finds…

Genre: Drama, Romance
Condorman

Condorman

Condorman
IMDb: 5.6
90

Comic artist and writer Woody performs a simple courier operation for his friend Harry who works for the CIA. But when he successfully fends off hostile agents, he earns the…

The Beast in the Cellar

The Beast in the Cellar

The Beast in the Cellar
IMDb: 4.9
101

Two spinsters have kept their mad brother locked up in their cellar for 30 years. Then he escapes …

Genre: Horror, Thriller
Soft Beds, Hard Battles

Soft Beds, Hard Battles

Soft Beds, Hard Battles
IMDb: 5.2
107

In this comedy, set during the Nazi occupation of France, Peter Sellers plays most major male parts, so he stars in nearly every scene, always bumbling in inspector Clouseau-style. As…

Genre: Comedy
The Order

The Order

The Order
IMDb: 4.6
89

When Rudy, an artifacts smuggler, goes to Jerusalem to rescue his kidnapped archeologist father, he faces deportation by a scheming police chief. Now, to find his dad and recover a…

Meridian

Meridian

Meridian
IMDb: 4.9
85

Catherine Bomarzini returns to the family castle in Italy after her father’s death and gets caught in the web of a mysterious love triangle: a man who is at times…

Priceless

Priceless

Priceless
IMDb: 7
104

A beautiful young gold-digger mistakes a lowly hotel clerk as a rich and therefore worthwhile catch.

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
The Body

The Body

The Body
IMDb: 5.3
109

An ancient skeleton has been discovered in Jerusalem in a rich man’s tomb. Colouration of the wrist and leg bones indicates the cause of death was crucifiction. other signs, include…

Lovers Like Us

Lovers Like Us

Lovers Like Us
IMDb: 6.6
107

A young Frenchwoman fleeing her Italian fiancé in Caracas thrusts herself and those around her into madcap events.

Venice/Venice

Venice/Venice

Venice/Venice
IMDb: 6.2
108

Dean is a maverick American film director surprised that his most recent film has been chosen as the Official U.S. Entry at the Venice Film Festival. A beautiful French journalist…

Genre: Drama
Pascali’s Island

Pascali’s Island

Pascali’s Island
IMDb: 6.8
104

1908: Pascali, a spy for the Sultan, sends reports to Istanbul that nobody reads. His suspicions are roused when a British archaeologist appears, who may not be quite what he…

Genre: Drama
Nijinsky

Nijinsky

Nijinsky
IMDb: 6.5
129

The film suggests Nijinsky was driven into madness by both his consuming ambition and self-enforced heterosexuality, the latter prompted by his romantic involvement with Romola de Pulszky, a society girl…

Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Playing with Fire

Playing with Fire

Playing with Fire
IMDb: 5.9
112

Philippe Noiret plays a rich, Parisian banker whose daughter, Carolina, is kidnapped by a ruthless organization. They threaten to have her abused by the sadistic clients of a brothel they…

Genre: Drama