The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby is a nine-hour adaptation of the novel by Charles Dickens. It was filmed as a stage play at The Old Vic in London by The Royal Shakespeare Company.
Synopsis
For a detailed plot see The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby
, 2h53 Réalisé parRobert Lieberman OrigineCanada GenresDrame, Action, Romance ThèmesLa mer, Transport, Le Titanic, Film catastrophe, Film catastrophe américain, Catastrophe navale ActeursPeter Gallagher, George C. Scott, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Eva Marie Saint, Tim Curry, Roger Rees Note58% Titanic follows three main story threads.
Isabella Paradine is traveling on the Titanic to join her husband after attending her aunt's funeral in England. On the Titanic, she meets Wynn Park, her former lover. She falls in love with him again, and after a brief affair, she sends her husband a wireless saying they cannot be together anymore (despite their daughter). When the ship starts sinking, Isabella reluctantly leaves Wynn when he forces her to board a lifeboat. As the boat is lowered, Isabella confesses a long kept secret that her daughter Claire is actually Wynn's. Later on board the RMS Carpathia she is grief-stricken when she finds Wynn's lifeless body on deck amongst other victims who have died of hypothermia, but luckily, when the Carpathia reaches New York she is reunited with her family who are blissfully unaware of Isabella's tryst because the telegram was never sent out due to the sinking.
, 1h48 Réalisé parHenry Jaglom OrigineEtats-Unis GenresDrame ActeursMelissa Leo, Henry Jaglom, Suzanne Bertish, Daphna Kastner, Nelly Alard, David Duchovny Note61% Dean is an American film director whose most recent film has been chosen for the Venice Film Festival. A beautiful French journalist arrives at the festival with the intention of interviewing the eccentric filmmaker and in the midst of the festival madness, she is forced to confront the wide divergence between things as they really are and things as they seem to be, both on screen and off. Shot in Venice, Italy and Venice, California, Venice/Venice looks at the effect movies have on our lives, loves and dreams.
, 1h45 Réalisé parPeter Kosminsky OrigineRoyaume-uni GenresDrame, Romance ActeursJuliette Binoche, Ralph Fiennes, Janet McTeer, Jeremy Northam, John Woodvine, Sophie Ward Note65% Si lorsque tu ouvres les yeux la journée est claire et ensoleillée, le futur le sera également. Mais si le ciel est orageux, ta vie s'annonce ainsi... La plus turbulente des histoires d'amour entre Cathy Earnshaw et son amant déchu, dans l'Angleterre du XVIIIème siècle...Mr Earnshaw, propriétaire du domaine des Hauts de Hurlevent, élève ses deux enfants, Hindley et Cathy. Un jour, il recueille un jeune bohémien, Heathcliff qu'il décide de prendre sous sa protection et d'élever comme son fils. Quelques années plus tard, Heathcliff, devenu un homme, est amoureux de Cathy mais ne peut l'épouser.
, 1h38 Réalisé parRajko Grlić GenresDrame ActeursTom Conti, Rod Steiger, Susan George, Alun Armstrong, Vanja Drach, John Sharp Note59% Yougoslavie, le dernier été de la guerre. Andrija, maître-nageur sauveteur, n'a encore jamais sorti quelqu'un des profondeurs de la "Fairy Waters". Il ne va pas tarder à découvrir à sa première intervention qu'il a sauvé un commandant allemand. Comment un innocent comme lui pourra-t-il prouver ce hasard, et surtout qu'il n'est pas un traître ?
, 1h35 Réalisé parAlan Clarke OrigineRoyaume-uni GenresComédie, Horreur, Musical, Western ThèmesSport, Musique ActeursPhil Daniels, Bruce Payne, Alun Armstrong, Don Henderson, Richard Ridings, Caroline Quentin Note55% Billy the Kid is a young, up-and-coming snooker player. His manager, T.O. (The One), a compulsive gambler, falls into debt with psychopathic loanshark the Wednesday Man, who offers to cancel T.O's debt if he can arrange a 17-frame grudge snooker match between Billy, and the reigning world champion Maxwell Randall (popularly known as the Green Baize Vampire).