Felix Aylmer
1) Hamlet
Series
Criterion collection volume 82
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
The classic version of Shakespeare's Hamlet, the towering tragedy of the Danish prince who feigns madness to trap his father's murderer.
Series
Criterion collection volume 523
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A twisting, turning, cloak-and-dagger delight, combining comedy, romance and thrills with the greatest of ease. [A] World War II journey from Prague to England to the Swiss Alps as Nazis pursue a Czech scientist and his daughter who are being aided by a debonair British undercover agent"--Container.
4) Exodus
Series
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
This film dramatizes part of the Israeli independence moment, dealing with various factions involved in the internecine struggle between the moderate Haganah and the radical terrorist Irgun Zvai Leumi. Interspersed throughout are segments showing the migration of European Jews to the new land, paying special attention to the ragged survivors of Nazi death camps on board the vessel Exodus, blockaded in a Cyprus harbor by British warships. The film...
Series
Criterion collection volume 41
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
1999.
Language
English
Description
Adaptation of Shakespeare's patriotic historical drama that celebrates the English nation and the greatness of its King. Includes medieval battle sequences with a recreation of the Battle of Agincourt.
6) Anastasia
Series
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
"For years, rumors abound that only Anastasia Romanov, the youngest daughter of Czar Nicholas II, survived a Bolshevik attack on her family in 1918. Because a huge fortune awaits Anastasia, greedy expatriate Russian General Bounine attempts to groom a beautiful, destitute woman to pass for the empress. The woman becomes so convinced that even the General suspects she really is Anastasia. But in order to escape poverty, she must prove her identity...
Series
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Cesare Borgia and his treacherous sister Lucrezia have plans to conquer central Italy. They sends Andrea Zoppo, an accomplished commoner and Lucrezia's lover on a mission to take over Citta del Monte, ruled by Count Marc Antonio Verano. But he meets Camilla, the young wife of the count, and things change.
Publisher
Columbia Pictures
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
[Stop me before I kill!]: A man's wife comes up missing after the man confesses to having homicidal thoughts about her.
[Cash on demand]: A scheming crook kidnaps the wife and child of a bank manager.
[The snorkel]: A young girl can't convince anyone her stepfather's a killer.
[Maniac]: A man finds himself in the middle of a strange mother/daughter threesome.
[Never take candy from a stranger]: A small town is terrorized by an elderly child molester.
[These...
9) Saint Joan
Series
Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Graham Green's adaptation of Bernard Shaw's play about the life of Joan of Arc.
10) British noir
Publisher
Kino Classics
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
They met in the dark: During WW2, a Royal Navy Commander stumbles upon a murdered woman and discovers a network of Nazi spies and Fifth-Columnists.
The October man: Jim Ackland, who suffers from a head injury sustained in a bus crash, is the chief suspect in a murder hunt after a young woman that he has just recently met is found dead on the local common, and he has no alibi for the time she was killed.
Snowbound: A British Army vet exposes a plot...