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Directed by Peter BrookOrigin United-kingdomGenres DramaThemes Théâtre,
Political films,
Films based on plays,
Films based on works by William Shakespeare,
Films about royaltyActors Paul Scofield,
Irene Worth,
Cyril Cusack,
Susan Engel,
Alan Webb,
Søren Elung JensenRating71%
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Directed by Peter BrookOrigin United-kingdomGenres Drama,
Historical,
MusicalThemes Films about writers,
Political films,
Films based on plays,
French Revolution filmsActors Patrick Magee,
Ian William Richardson,
Michael Williams,
Clifford Rose,
Glenda Jackson,
Freddie JonesRating74%
À l'asile de Charenton, le marquis de Sade met en scène une pièce sur la mort de Jean Paul Marat, en utilisant les patients comme acteurs.Directed by Peter BrookGenres Drama,
Musical theatre,
DocumentaryThemes Politique,
Political filmsActors Mark Jones,
Henry Woolf,
Glenda Jackson,
Ian Hogg,
Patrick Wymark,
Eric AllanRating67%
A young couple, Bob Lloyd and Pauline Munro see a photo in a magazine of a baby mutilated by napalm and it changes their lives. They ask is London aware, is London concerned? , 1h34
Directed by Peter BrookOrigin United-kingdomGenres Historical,
Musical,
CrimeThemes Films about music and musicians,
Théâtre,
Musical films,
Films about capital punishment,
Films based on plays,
Films based on operasActors Laurence Olivier,
Dorothy Tutin,
Hugh Griffith,
George Rose,
Stuart Burge,
Stanley HollowayRating60%
In the 1700s, a beggar is tossed into London's Newgate jail, along with a pile of papers upon which his unfinished opera is scribbled. The beggar boasts to the other prisoners that his opera, unlike others of the day, is about a real person, the dashing highwayman Captain Macheath, who, dressed in a red coat, holds off the world with a pistol in each hand, seduces women with five notes of a tune, and generally leaps from misfortune. To the beggar's disappointment, the other prisoners point out that his hero Macheath is among them, in irons and behind bars, and Macheath, who is scheduled to be executed the next morning, admits that there is "no arguing with reality." Taking the first page of the opera, Macheath begins singing, and the beggar, encouraged by Macheath's good voice, urges him to continue, until the following story, the beggar's opera, is sung for the prison inmates: While riding to London, feeling merry and free, Macheath robs a carriage, and steals a kiss and a locket from a maiden. Later, in London, Macheath's wife, Polly Peachum, pines for him. Polly's parents, shopkeepers Mr. Peachum and his wife, are scandalized to learn from their employee Filch that Polly has secretly married the highwayman. To make the best of the situation, as they are always eager to make money, they urge her to lure Macheath into a trap and collect the reward for his capture. Meanwhile, outside of town, Macheath encounters a carriage ridden by Newgate's jailor Mr. Lockit, Lockit's daughter Lucy and Mrs. Trapes, whom Lockit is wooing. Lucy, who met Macheath when he was once imprisoned, scolds him for taking her virtue without making good on his promise to wed. When Macheath rides off, Mrs. Trapes suggests that Lucy betray him for the reward and give the money to her father. Later, during a tryst in a hayloft, Polly warns Macheath that her parents are mounting an ambush. Macheath escapes with Polly's help after a swashbuckling fight, then hides in a back room of a tavern, where he is unable to resist socializing with the prostitutes, whom he considers friends. However, prostitute Jenny Diver has been bribed by Peachum and Lockit to betray him, and with the help of her colleagues, Macheath is soon captured. From his jail cell, Macheath urges Lucy to steal the jail keys and set him free, promising to marry her in return, but then Polly shows up and he is forced to introduce the women to each other. During the night, Lucy steals the keys and releases him, but later Polly sneaks back and, finding Macheath gone from the cell, screams in anguish without thinking, thus drawing attention to his escape. Meanwhile, Macheath disguises himself in the stolen cape and gloves of a lord and slips into a gaming house to avoid making good his promise to unite with Lucy. However, the proprietor recognizes the cape and alerts Lockit and Peachum about the impostor wearing it. Back at the jail, Polly is accused of freeing Macheath and is locked in Lucy's room, where Lucy, after losing track of Macheath, attempts to drug her. When they hear the recaptured Macheath being returned to prison, Lucy and Polly proceed to Macheath's cell and demand that he choose between them. He refuses, as he will soon be hanged and sees no reason to disappoint either of them. The next morning, riding atop his coffin as it is carted through the streets to the gallows, Macheath waves farewell to the friendly crowd that has gathered to see him off. At the gallows, after kissing both Lucy and Polly goodbye, Macheath is blindfolded and awaits his fate, and the opera comes to its incomplete end. The real Macheath, who is still in the jail, protests that he should not have to hang twice. After pondering the complaint, the beggar agrees and yells for Macheath's reprieve. The rest of the prisoners join in the chant and mob the turnkey, who comes to investigate the ruckus, allowing Macheath to escape. The highwayman steals a horse from the cart containing his coffin and when safely out of London, sings that his freedom has been returned because of a beggar's opera., 1h32
Directed by Peter BrookOrigin United-kingdomGenres Drama,
Science fiction,
Thriller,
Social science fiction,
AdventureThemes L'adolescence,
Films about education,
Films about children,
Seafaring films,
Transport films,
Films based on Robinson Crusoe,
L'enfance marginalisée,
Political films,
Dystopian films,
Films about school violenceActors James Aubrey,
Nicholas Hammond,
Hugh EdwardsRating68%
A group of British schoolboys, living in the midst of a war, are evacuated from England. Their airliner is shot down by briefly glimpsed fighter planes and ditches near a remote island. , 1h55
Directed by Orson WellesOrigin EspagneGenres Drama,
War,
Comedy,
Comedy-drama,
HistoricalThemes Political films,
Films based on plays,
Films based on works by William Shakespeare,
Films about royaltyActors Orson Welles,
Keith Baxter,
John Gielgud,
Jeanne Moreau,
Margaret Rutherford,
Marina VladyRating75%
The film opens with Sir John Falstaff and Justice Shallow walking through the snow, then to a warm fire inside the Boar's Head Tavern as the two reminisce. After a main credit sequence, the narrator explains that King Henry IV of England has succeeded Richard II, whom he had killed. Richard II's true heir, Edmund Mortimer, is a prisoner in Wales, and Mortimer's cousins Northumberland, Worcester and Northumberland's son Hotspur demand that Henry rescue Mortimer. Henry refuses and Northumberland, Worcester and Hotspur begin to plot his overthrow., 2h
Directed by Fred ZinnemannOrigin United-kingdomGenres Drama,
Biography,
HistoricalThemes Politique,
Films about religion,
Political films,
Films about capital punishment,
Films based on plays,
Films about royaltyActors Paul Scofield,
Wendy Hiller,
Leo McKern,
Orson Welles,
Robert Shaw,
Susannah YorkRating76%
Cardinal Wolsey, the Lord Chancellor of England, summons Sir Thomas More to Hampton Court. King Henry VIII of England wishes to divorce his wife and marry Anne Boleyn. Saying that England needs a male heir to prevent another civil war, Wolsey chastises More for being the only member of the Privy Council to argue against him. When More states that the Pope will never grant a divorce, he is appalled by Wolsey's suggestion that they apply "pressure" on Church lands to force the issue. To Wolsey's fury, More responds, "No, Your Grace. I am not going to help you., 1h48
Directed by Peter BrookOrigin USAGenres Drama,
BiographyThemes Films about music and musicians,
Philosophie,
Musiques du monde,
Musical filmsActors Dragan Maksimović,
Terence Stamp,
Martin Benson,
Athol Fugard,
Colin Blakely,
Warren MitchellRating71%
La vie de Georges Gurdjieff, de sa jeunesse jusqu'à ses voyages initiatiques à la recherche de la Sagesse. On suit sa quête spirituelle en Asie centrale, notamment à Boukhara, et dans le désert de Gobi, où il découvre différentes disciplines comme la musique et la danse lui permettant encore de progresser., 1h47
Directed by Orson WellesOrigin USAGenres DramaThemes Théâtre,
Political films,
Films based on plays,
Films based on works by William Shakespeare,
Films about royaltyActors Jeanette Nolan,
Dan O'Herlihy,
Roddy McDowall,
Edgar Barrier,
Orson Welles,
Alan NapierRating73%
La prise du pouvoir par Macbeth, roi d'Écosse, et son destin fatal..., 1h8
Directed by Norman Foster,
Orson WellesOrigin USAGenres Drama,
War,
Thriller,
Spy,
Historical,
NoirThemes Spy films,
Political filmsActors Joseph Cotten,
Dolores del Río,
Ruth Warrick,
Orson Welles,
Agnes Moorehead,
Everett SloaneRating64%
In an opening scene before the credits an assassin, Banat, is seen preparing a gun while a gramophone skips as it plays. The story that follows is the narrative of a letter from Howard Graham, an American armaments engineer, to his wife Stephanie. While journeying to the Soviet port of Batumi to return to the United States to complete his business with the Turkish Navy, Graham and his wife stop in Istanbul and are met by Kopeikin, a Turkish employee of Graham's company, who under the pretense of discussing business, takes Graham to a nightclub to introduce him to dancer Josette Maretl and her partner Gogo. When Banat tries to kill Graham during a magic act, he shoots the magician instead, and Graham is brought to the headquarters of the Turkish secret police for questioning. Colonel Haki of the secret police warns Graham that German agents are trying to kill him to delay the re-arming of Turkish ships. He shows Graham a photograph of Banat, whom he says was hired by a Nazi agent named Muller, and orders Graham to travel secretly to Batumi aboard a tramp steamer instead of by train. Haki assures him that he will personally see that Stephanie gets to their hotel in Batumi ahead of him.