Helen Mirren
The Madness of King George
King George III’s erratic behaviour leads to a plot in Parliament to have him declared insane and removed from the throne.
Pascali’s Island
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 seems.
- 1988
- Drama
Teaching Mrs. Tingle
Leanne is salutatorian when she needs to be valedictorian to get her scholarship to Harvard. The only class she is worse than the leader in is history, taught by Mrs. Tingle, and the teacher hates her. When an attempt to…
White Nights
An expatriate Russian dancer is on a plane forced to land on Soviet territory. He is taken to an apartment in which a black American who has married a Russian woman lives with her. He is to become a dancer…
The Tempest
An adaptation of the play by William Shakespeare. Prospera (a female version of Shakespeare’s Prospero) is the usurped ruler of Milan who has been banished to a mysterious island with her daughter. Using her magical powers, she draws her enemies…
Calendar Girls
Members of a Yorkshire branch of the Women’s Institute cause controversy when they pose nude for a charity calendar.
Woman in Gold
Maria Altmann, an octogenarian Jewish refugee, takes on the Austrian government to recover a world famous painting of her aunt plundered by the Nazis during World War II, she believes rightfully belongs to her family. She did so not just…
- 2015
- Drama
Winchester
San Jose, California, 1906. Isolated in her labyrinthine mansion, eccentric firearm heiress Sarah Winchester believes that she is being haunted by the souls of those killed by the guns manufactured by her company.