Movie List for "old english"

Peanut butter is the secret ingredient for magic potions made by two friendly ghosts. Eleven-year-old Michael loses all of his hair when he gets a fright and uses the potion to get his hair back. Year 1985.

Bertrand Morane’s burial is attended by all the women the forty-year-old engineer loved. We then flash back to Bertrand’s life and love affairs, told by himself while writing an autobiographical novel. A film about romantic relati… Year 1977.

Mary-Jane, a lonely mother in her forties, gets absorbed in a sentimental affair with a 14-year-old boy. Year 1988.

A simple story about simple people. A 38 year old divorced woman (Marie), who now has a lover (Serge) but decides to leave him, abort his baby, and then returns with her ex-husband (Georges). Their daily life and of their friends,… Year 1978.

When a bishop comes to a prison to hear the confession of an old friend he is forced to watch a play, performed by the inmates, about their youth together, love and betrayal. Year 1996.

Two old friends meet for dinner; as one tells anecdotes detailing his experiences, the other notices their differing worldviews. Year 1981.

Into the solitary life of middle-aged hitman Victor Meynard come two people: Antoine, a youth who becomes Victor’s apprentice; and Renée, a bold thief Victor’s been hired to kill because she cheated a mobster. When circumstances p… Year 1993.

A struggling female soprano finds work playing a male female impersonator, but it complicates her personal life. Year 1982.

In mid-1800s England, Oscar is a young Anglican priest, a misfit and an outcast, but with the soul of an angel. As a boy, even though from a strict Pentecostal family, he felt God told him through a sign to leave his father and hi… Year 1997.

Camille Claude impresses already-famous sculptor Auguste Rodin. He hires her as an assistant, but soon Camille begins to sculpt for herself and she also becomes his mistress. But after a while, she would like to get out of his sha… Year 1988.

Julien Morin, who is in his early teens, goes on a study trip with his classmates and is overwhelmed by the joys and pains of first love when he meets the charming, slightly older Jean-Pierre. Year 1977.

Xavier Lombard is a world-weary private eye in London, in exile from his native Paris; his best friend is Nathalie, a high-class call girl. He gets a call from an old friend from the Paris police department, now a businessman whos… Year 1999.

A Jewish refugee marries a soldier to escape deportation to Germany. Meanwhile a wealthy art student loses her first husband to a stray Resistance bullet; at the Liberation she meets an actor, gets pregnant, and marries him. Year 1983.

While casing a bank he intends to rob, tough gangster Leo L’Americano (Robert Beatty) discovers that Antonio Pellegrini (Robert Beatty), a meek and mild clerk in the bank, is his exact double. Leo kidnaps Antonio and robs the bank… Year 1950.

In World War I, the high casualty rate amongst the rookie pilots of the Royal Flying Corps puts an enormous strain on the survivors. Year 1976.

-Part of the ‘Daughters of the Country’ series, this film, set in the 1850s, unfolds against the backdrop of the Hudson’s Bay Company’s monopoly of the fur trade. In protest, some Métis engage in trade with the Americans. Madelein… Year 1986.