Drama
London, 1953. Mr. Williams, a veteran civil servant, is an important cog within the city's bureaucracy as it struggles to rebuild in the aftermath of World War II. Buried under paperwork at the office and lonely at home, his life has long felt empty and meaningless. Then a devastating medical diagnosis forces him to take stock, and to try and grasp some fulfilment before it passes permanently beyond reach.
MOVIE COMMENTS
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IMDB 7 | Oct , 1985
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IMDB 6.9 | May , 2002
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IMDB 7 | Dec , 2000
A mother and daughter move to a small French town where they open a chocolate shop. The town, religious and morally strict, is against them, as they represent free-thinking and indulgence. When a group of gypsies arrive by riverboat, the Mayor's prejudices lead to a crisis.Capote
IMDB 7 | Sep , 2005
A biopic of writer Truman Capote and his assignment for The New Yorker to write the non-fiction book "In Cold Blood".Running Out of Time
IMDB 7.3 | Sep , 1999
Police inspector and excellent hostage negotiator Ho Sheung-Sang finds himself in over his head when he is pulled into a 72 hour game by a cancer suffering criminal out for vengeance on Hong Kong's organized crime syndicates.Our Mother's House
IMDB 7.1 | Sep , 1967
Seven British children bury their mother and hide her death, until their long-lost father returns.Born on the Fourth of July
IMDB 7 | Dec , 1989
Paralyzed in the Vietnam war, Ron Kovic becomes an anti-war and pro-human rights political activist after feeling betrayed by the country he fought for.Pleasantville
IMDB 7.3 | Sep , 1998
Geeky teenager David and his popular twin sister, Jennifer, get sucked into the black-and-white world of a 1950s TV sitcom called "Pleasantville," and find a world where everything is peachy keen all the time. But when Jennifer's modern attitude disrupts Pleasantville's peaceful but boring routine, she literally brings color into its life.Indochine
IMDB 7 | Apr , 1992
Set in colonial French Indochina during the 1930s to 1950s, this is the story of Éliane Devries, a French plantation owner, and of her adopted Vietnamese daughter, Camille, set against the backdrop of the rising Vietnamese nationalist movement.Matcha & Vanilla
IMDB 5.5 | Sep , 2021
A lesbian couple in conservative Japan must fight to stay together when one of them is diagnosed with terminal cancer.Jen o rodinných záležitostech
IMDB 0 | Apr , 1991
Life in communist Czechoslovakia in the early 1950s and the punishments for going against the state.Nightwatch
IMDB 6 | Jan , 1997
A law student takes a job as a night watchman at a morgue and begins to discover clues that implicate him as the suspect in a series of murders.Teheran '43
IMDB 6.2 | Jul , 1981
This story starts in 1980 in Paris as the memories of Andrei Borodin, a Soviet agent, take the action back to 1943 during the Teheran meetings of Stalin, Roosevelt and Churchill. A high-ranking Nazi officer developed a plan to assassinate the three world leaders in order to undermine the Allied forces. He commissioned the German agent Max Richard to carry out his plan, but it failed miserably due to the quick action and thinking of Andrei. While in Teheran, Andrei met a French woman, Marie Louni, living in the city and they had a brief but intense affair. Nearly four decades later, the Nazi officer has been captured - but not for long. Freed by terrorists, the officer is hunting down the German agent who failed to carry out the planned assassinations. Max lives at Françoise, a young French woman, who hides him.Ababooned
IMDB 8 | Aug , 2024
Set in the Faubourg à mélasse district of Montreal, Quebec, in the 1950s, the film centres on a conflict between the Roman Catholic Church and a young team of baseball players.Lampang Kerubin
IMDB 0 | Dec , 1991
An aired tv movie about the relationship between a handicapped child and his parents.The After
IMDB 5.7 | Feb , 2024
After losing a family member to a violent crime, a shattered rideshare driver picks up a passenger that forces him to confront his grief.Lahore 1947
IMDB 0 | Jul , 2025
The film is based on the cult play Jis Lahore Nai Dekhya O Jamyai Nai.Veronika Voss
IMDB 7.2 | May , 1982
In Munich 1955, German film star Veronika Voss becomes a drug addict at the mercy of corrupt Dr. Marianne Katz, who keeps her supplied with morphine. After meeting sports writer Robert Krohn, Veronika begins to dream of a return to stardom. As the couple's relationship escalates in intensity, Veronika begins seriously planning her return to the screen -- only to realize how debilitated she has become through her drug habit.Country Gold
IMDB 6 | Nov , 1982
An aging country singer becomes irritated with the success of a popular young country singer. However, she is not yet ready to become yesterday's news.Coolie No. 1
IMDB 5.4 | Dec , 2020
Insulted by Rosario, a rich businessman, Jai Kishen a Matchmaker teaches him a lesson by getting his daughter married to Raju, a Coolie, who poses to be a millionaire. They sense something fishy and Raju's deceptions are discovered. In an attempt to cover it up, he cooks up a story of having a filthy rich twin. One lie leads to another and things start to go awry culminating in a comedy of errors.