Notes on a Scandal
2006A veteran high school teacher befriends a younger art teacher, who is having an affair with one of her 15-year-old students. However, her intentions with this new “friend” also go well beyond platonic friendship.
Archives: Movies
Cheeky (2000) aka Trasgredire
2000While scouting out apartments in London for her Venetian boyfriend, Carla rents an apartment that overlooks the Thames. There she meet the lesbian hyper-horny real estate agent Moira.
The Last King of Scotland
2006Young Scottish doctor, Nicholas Garrigan decides it’s time for an adventure after he finishes his formal education, so he decides to try his luck in Uganda, and arrives during the downfall of President Obote. General Idi Amin comes to power and asks Garrigan to become his personal doctor.
The English Patient
1996Beginning in the 1930s, “The English Patient” tells the story of Count Almásy who is a Hungarian map maker employed by the Royal Geographical Society to chart the vast expanses of the Sahara Desert along with several other prominent explorers. As World War II unfolds, Almásy enters into a world of love, betrayal, and politics that is later revealed in a series of flashbacks while Almásy is on his death bed after being horribly burned […]
Effie Gray
2014A look at the mysterious relationship between Victorian art critic John Ruskin and his teenage bride Effie Gray.
Transsiberian (2008)
2008An American couple travels from China to Moscow on a Trans-Siberian train and becomes involved in a thrilling chase of deception and murder when they encounter a mysterious pair of fellow travelers.
In My Country
2004An American reporter and an Afrikaans poet meet and fall in love while covering South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission hearings.
Downhill
1927After public school student Roddy Berwick takes the blame for a friend’s transgression and is expelled, his life goes downhill.
I Know Where I’m Going!
1945Joan Webster is an ambitious and stubborn middle-class English woman determined to move forward since her childhood. She meets her father in a fancy restaurant to tell him that she will marry the wealthy middle-aged industrial Robert Bellinger in Kiloran island, in Hebricles, Scotland. She travels from Manchester to the island of Mull, where she stays trapped due to the windy weather. While in the island, she meets Torquil McNeil and along the days they […]
Not Tonight, Darling (1971)
1971A bored housewife gets into an affair with a sleazy stocktaker. She gets into trouble with her husband when the stocktaker blackmails her into doing kinkier stuff and a film is made from it.