Silke's list

The story of Sir Thomas More, who stood up to King Henry VIII when the King rejected the Roman Catholic Church to obtain a divorce and remarry.

The life of a Russian physician and poet who, although married to another, falls in love with a political activist's wife and experiences hardship during World War I and then the October Revolution.

A young novice is sent by her convent in 1930s Austria to become a governess to the seven children of a widowed naval officer.

In Victorian England, a fortune now depends on which of two brothers outlives the other, or can be made to have seemed to do so.

In a boarding school, a student observes in passive disgust as his two friends manipulate, humiliate and torture a fellow student, justifying their every act.

An unhappy middle-aged banker agrees to a procedure that will fake his death and give him a completely new look and identity - one that comes with its own price.

A coffin-dragging gunslinger and a prostitute become embroiled in a bitter feud between a Klan of Southern racists and a band of Mexican Revolutionaries.

A middle-aged New England associate professor and his wife, with the help of alcohol, use their young guests to fuel anguish and emotional pain towards each other over the course of a distressing night.

A crooked lawyer persuades his brother-in-law to feign a serious injury.

After his gang disbands, a yakuza enforcer looks forward to life outside of organized crime but soon must become a drifter after his old rivals attempt to assassinate him.

A play about a British woman's descent into poverty and homelessness because of her country's rigid and problem-ridden welfare system.

Totò and his son Ninetto are drifting on a road in Italy when they meet a speaking crow.

Unrepentant ladies' man Alfie Elkins gradually begins to understand the consequences of his lifestyle in 1960s London.

A young schoolteacher turns into an outlaw to avenge her murdered father.

A varied group of passengers boarding a ship bound for pre-WWII Germany represents a microcosm of early-1930s society.

Cool private investigator Lew Harper is hired by a wealthy California matron to locate her kidnapped husband.

An anthology of 12 short films, 'Sixty Six' is filled with lush yet sinister imagery and music, heavy with melancholy and desire, memory and forgetting.

An American scientist publicly defects to East Germany as part of a cloak and dagger mission to steal a formula before planning an escape back to the West.

In Hungary, the national movement led by Kossuth has been crushed and the Austrian hegemony re-established, but partisans carry on with violent actions. In order to root out the guerilla, the army rounds up suspects and jails them in an isolated fort. The authorities do not have the identity of the guerilla leaders, who are supposed to be present among the prisoners. However, they know enough about some of the suspects to apply perfidious forms of coercion effectively.

An English woman and her daughter enlist the aid of a cowboy to try and get their hardy hornless bull to mate with the longhorns of Texas, but have to overcome greedy criminals and the natural elements.

In an oppressive future, a fireman whose duty is to destroy all books begins to question his task.

The story of George and Joy Adamson and the orphaned lion cub, Elsa, they adopt.

In Apache territory, a supply Army column heads for the next fort, an ex-scout searches for the killer of his Indian wife, and a housewife abandons her husband in order to rejoin her Apache lover's tribe.

In search of help, two wounded gangsters on the run find refuge in the secluded castle of a feeble man and his wife; however, under the point of a gun, nothing is what it seems.

The citizens of a small Texas town become worried and panicked when a local bad boy escapes prison and heads for his hometown.