Downhill
1927After public school student Roddy Berwick takes the blame for a friend’s transgression and is expelled, his life goes downhill.
Archives: Movies
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.
Eyes Wide Shut
1999After Dr. Bill Hartford’s wife, Alice, admits to having sexual fantasies about a man she met, Bill becomes obsessed with having a sexual encounter. He discovers an underground sexual group and attends one of their meetings — and quickly discovers that he is in over his head.
Young Adam (2003)
2003A young drifter working on a river barge disrupts his employers’ lives while hiding the fact that he knows more about a dead woman found in the river than he admits.
Accident (1967)
1967A foxy foreign student shags a professor. And right after a fatal accident that kills her fiance, she shags another professor.
Betrayal
1983Pinter’s semi-autobiographical play examining the surprise attraction, shy first steps, gradual flowering, and treasonous deception of a woman’s extramarital affair with her husband’s best friend; the entire story is told from the husband’s point of view, with the scenes in precise reverse chronological order. Written by Dan Hartung
Ryan’s Daughter
1970World War I seems far away from Ireland’s Dingle peninsula when Rosy Ryan Shaughnessy goes horseback riding on the beach with the young English officer. There was a magnetic attraction between them the day he was the only customer in her father’s pub and Rosy was tending bar for the first time since her marriage to the village schoolmaster. Then one stormy night some Irish revolutionaries expecting a shipment of guns arrive at Ryan’s pub. […]