Filth

Release Date and Country: 2013, United Kingdom, Germany, Sweden,...

Director: Jon S. Baird

Cast: James McAvoy, Jamie Bell, Eddie Marsan...

Movie or TV Series Plot: Bruce (James McAvoy) used to be a good cop, but then something broke, probably the fact that his wife left him with his beloved daughter, and he became a cocaine-addled, venal, sleazy, promotion-hungr...

The Railway Man

Drama/War

Release Date and Country: 2013, Australia, United Kingdom

Director: Jonathan Teplitzky

Cast: Colin Firth, Nicole Kidman, Jeremy Irvine...

Movie or TV Series Plot: Colin Firth, a favourite of the uptight Englishmen from many romantic comedies, masterfully played a truly dramatic role this time. British officer Eric Lomax fell into Japanese captivity during World...

Brooklyn

Romance

Release Date and Country: 2015, Ireland, United Kingdom, Canada

Director: John Crowley

Cast: Saoirse Ronan, Brid Brennan, Fiona Glascott...

Movie or TV Series Plot: When a young girl moves from the middle of nowhere to one of the biggest cities in the world, she gets quite a shock. And that's exactly what happens to Eilis (Saoirse Ronan) in the 1950s, who is prom...

Basic Instinct

Drama/Crime/Thriller

Release Date and Country: 1992, United States, France

Director: Paul Verhoeven

Cast: Sharon Stone, Michael Douglas, George Dzundza...

Movie or TV Series Plot: The blood spurting from the body of a murdered partner ends the lovemaking of a couple. Detective Nick Curran and his partner Gus are about to interrogate the victim's lover, successful author Catheri...

Stealing Beauty

Release Date and Country: 1996, Italy, United Kingdom, France

Director: Bernardo Bertolucci

Cast: Liv Tyler, Jeremy Irons, Sinéad Cusack...

Movie or TV Series Plot: After her mother passed away Lucy, a young and pretty American girl, travels to Italy to a village where her mother's friend are living. She has already been to this place as a teenager before and had...

The Good Shepherd

Drama/Action/Thriller

Release Date and Country: 2006, United States

Director: Robert De Niro

Cast: Matt Damon, Robert De Niro, Angelina Jolie...

Movie or TV Series Plot: In 1939, the life of young Edward Wilson (Matt Damon) is profoundly changed when he joins the powerful secret society Skull & Bones at Yale University. An aspiring student, he denounces his favour...

Ace of Aces

Comedy

Release Date and Country: 1982, France, Germany

Director: Gérard Oury

Cast: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Marie-France Pisier, Rachid Ferrache...

Movie or TV Series Plot: Jo Chevalier is a former pilot of the French Air Force during WWI who became the trainer of the French national boxing team, qualified for the Olympic games of 1936. But Jo is reluctant to go as he ha...

Easy Virtue

Comedy

Release Date and Country: 2008, United Kingdom, Canada

Director: Stephan Elliott

Cast: Jessica Biel, Ben Barnes, Colin Firth...

Movie or TV Series Plot: Beautiful car racer Larita (Jessica Biel) meets young Englishman John (Ben Barnes) in France and a wedding quickly follows. However, the arrival at John's mansion in England changes the passionate rel...

Valmont

Historical

Release Date and Country: 1989, France, United Kingdom

Director: Miloš Bílek, Miloš Forman

Cast: Colin Firth, Annette Bening, Meg Tilly...

Movie or TV Series Plot: This movie has been inspired by the French novel "Les Liaisons dangereuses" of Pierre Laclos. When the Marquise of Merteuil, beautiful and wealthy widow, learns that her former lover, Gercourt is to ...

Baby Driver

Drama/Action/Comedy

Release Date and Country: 2017, United States, United Kingdom

Director: Edgar Wright

Cast: Ansel Elgort, Kevin Spacey, Lily James...

Movie or TV Series Plot: After being coerced into working for a crime boss, a young getaway driver finds himself taking part in a heist doomed to fail. ...

The Wing or The Thigh?

Comedy

Release Date and Country: 1976, France

Director: Claude Zidi

Cast: Louis de Funes, Coluche, Ann Zacharias...

Movie or TV Series Plot: Charles Duchemin is the chief editor of France's most prestigious restaurant guide. He insists in teaching his son, Gérard, how to become a fine food critic, as he hopes the latter will take over the ...

Delusions of Grandeur

Comedy

Release Date and Country: 1971, France, Italy, Spain

Director: Gérard Oury

Cast: Louis de Funes, Yves Montand, Karin Schubert...

Movie or TV Series Plot: Don Salluste is minister of finance for the Spanish crown. Greedy and vain, he uses his function to increase his fortune. Naturally he is despised by the whole population. However, as the Queen accuse...

The Exchange Student

Comedy

Release Date and Country: 1967, France

Director: Jean Girault

Cast: Louis de Funes, Ferdy Mayne, François Leccia...

Movie or TV Series Plot: Charles Bosquier is the director of a prestigious boarding school for children of wealthy family. As his oldest son, Philippe fails his graduation exam due to his poor level of English, Mr Bosquier de...

Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow

Comedy

Release Date and Country: 1963, Italy, France

Director: Vittorio De Sica

Cast: Sophia Loren, Marcello Mastroianni, Aldo Giuffré...

Movie or TV Series Plot: The movie is made of three episodes, telling the story of tree couples, in three different cities: In Naples, Adelina Sbaratti is living by selling smuggled cigarette in the street. But because she...

The Troubles of Alfred

Comedy

Release Date and Country: 1972, France

Director: Pierre Richard

Cast: Pierre Richard, Anny Duperey, Jean Carmet...

Movie or TV Series Plot: Alfred Dhumonttye is young and extremely unlucky architect whose building have the tendency to collapse. One day fed up by his failure he decides to kill himself by jumping in a canal in Paris. By a m...

Erin Brockovich

Drama/Drama

Release Date and Country: 2000, United States

Director: Steven Soderbergh

Cast: Julia Roberts, David Brisbin, Dawn Didawick...

Movie or TV Series Plot: An unemployed single mother becomes a legal assistant and almost single-handedly brings down a California power company accused of polluting a city's water supply. ...