Valley of the Dolls
1967Film version of Jacqueline Susann’s best-selling novel chronicling the rise and fall of three young ladies in show business.
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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 […]
Casino (1995)
1995The life of the gambling paradise – Las Vegas – and its dark mafia underbelly.
The Painted Veil
2006A British medical doctor fights a cholera outbreak in a small Chinese village, while also being trapped at home in a loveless marriage to an unfaithful wife.
The World According to Garp
1982Based on the John Irving novel, this film chronicles the life of T S Garp, and his mother, Jenny. Whilst Garp sees himself as a “serious” writer, Jenny writes a feminist manifesto at an opportune time, and finds herself as a magnet for all manner of distressed women.
The Mermaid Chair
2006A married woman (Basinger) falls in love with a Benedictine monk.
The Sleeping Dictionary
2003A young Englishman is dispatched to Sarawak to become part of the British colonial government. He encounters some unorthodox local traditions, and finds himself faced with tough decisions of the heart involving the beautiful Selima, the unwitting object of his affections.
The Bridges of Madison County
1995Photographer Robert Kincaid wanders into the life of housewife Francesca Johnson for four days in the 1960s.
Spanking the Monkey
1994Bright young student Raymond Aibelli is fo...d to sidetrack an important medical internship because his mother, Susan, is recovering from a broken leg. When he isn’t tasked with the most mundane aspects of Susan’s recuperation, Raymond finds distraction in a neighborhood girl, Toni Peck. But, as Susan begins relying on her son for both physical and emotional needs, Raymond starts developing disturbing and unwanted new yearnings.
Moonlighting Wives
1966An ambitious suburban housewife, tired of forever being in debt, sets up an independent stenography business. Finding that her clients are more interested in the women than the dictation, she revamps it into a discreet and highly profitable prostitution ring made up of neighbourhood wives.