Madeleine
The titular Madeleine (Ann Todd) is torn between her father’s (Leslie Banks) wish for her to find an eligible suitor, and secret love Emile (Ivan Desny), the economically inferior and […]
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The Passionate Friends
Mary (Ann Todd) is in a loveless marriage to wealthy banker Howard (Claude Rains), but on holiday in Switzerland she finds herself in the next room to her former love, […]
Brief Encounter
A bored housewife (Celia Johnson) encounters a handsome doctor (Trevor Howard) at the train station in the appropriately named Milford. But these acquaintances on a train have a profound effect […]
All I Desire
The premise of 1953 romantic drama All I Desire is almost Showgirls in reverse; Naomi Murdoch (not quite Nomi Malone but close enough) is a faded actress who travels from […]
Call Me By Your Name
Elio (Timothée Chalamet) is spending the summer in a villa in Italy with his liberal, intellectual parents. His father, a historian, has a student visiting to study with him, the […]
I’ve never seen…Breakfast at Tiffany’s
To give you an idea of how far my prior ignorance of this film went, before watching I thought it was about Audrey Hepburn playing a character called Tiffany who […]
Gone With the Wind
The US Civil War era epic follows a young girl called Scarlett (Vivien Leigh), the daughter of wealthy plantation owners in the Old South. It opens with her pining after […]
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