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Icelandic director Baltasar Kormákur’s film is for those who love a star-crossed lover’s story. Interestingly enough, it unfolds not in the director’s native Iceland but in London and Hiroshima. We follow this story in two time levels across the decades, starting with a present day old man and flashing back to the end of the …
A humble London cleaning woman’s dream of buying a Christian Dior dress inspires her to go to Paris and struggle to make it come true.
A mild mannered taciturn ex-London cutter proves smarter than the mob boss who uses his Chicago tailored suit shop as a drop-off for money & messages.
Anne tries to cope with her rebellious father Anthony who is slipping into dementia. Finding a care person proves difficult.
Drawing on his own experience Steve McQueen tells the story of a Black boy victimized by the British racist educational system designed to weed out minority students.
The true story of London Bobbie Leroy Logan who as the first Black recruit fought against the racism of the London Metropolitan Police establishment.
Shut out of white clubs, West Indians stage their own house party where Martha, sneaking out of her house, meets Franklyn for a night of dancing.
The racism of the London police trigger an uprising of London’s West Indian Community when the cops continually raid their beloved Mangrove Cafe.
French Canadian filmmaker writer-director François Girard, who gave us the exquisite The Red Violin in 1998, gives us another film in which a violin is important. Instead of transpiring over several centuries, this film spans the years from Hitler’s invasion of Poland to the night of a concert in 1951 to the 80s when a …
In this account of the 1862 balloon flight that set a world altitude record for many decades, one of the areonauts is depicted as a woman.