Mark Burns
notum enim: Acting
dies natalis: 1936-03-30
Locus Natus: Worcestershire, England, UK
Et ut:
Ludwig
Historical evocation of Ludwig, king of Bavaria, from his crowning in 1864 until his death in 1886, as a romantic hero. Fan of Richard Wagner,...
release : 1973.03.07popularis : 9.708
Death in Venice
Composer Gustav von Aschenbach travels to Venice for health reasons. There, he becomes obsessed with the stunning beauty of an adolescent Polish boy...
release : 1971.03.05popularis : 11.604
Juggernaut
A terrorist demands a huge ransom in exchange for information on how to disarm the seven bombs he has planted aboard a trans-Atlantic cruise ship.
release : 1974.09.25popularis : 9.698
Bullseye!
Spies force two British con men to pose as look-alike scientists peddling cheap-energy fusion.
release : 1990.11.02popularis : 3.326
Giordano Bruno
Fleeing from his enemies in the Catholic Church, the free thinking philosopher, poet and scientist Giordano Bruno has found some protection in...
release : 1973.11.29popularis : 3.763
Passport to Murder
After her divorce is final, socialite Helen Hollander heads to Paris and finds herself caught up in an international terrorist plot in this thriller....
release : 1993.03.07popularis : 2.603
A Time for Loving
The story of an apartment in Paris and the various people that occupy it over the years.
release : 1972.04.01popularis : 2.385
Dirty Weekend
Shortly after she moves into her own flat in Brighton, Bella finds she is being spied on and generally harassed by a man living across from her....
release : 1993.10.29popularis : 3.614
House of the Living Dead
On a South African plantation, a maniac is on the loose, first killing the estate's animals, then starting on the human members.
release : 1974.08.12popularis : 3.488
The Jokers
Brothers Michael and David Tremayne decide to steal the Crown Jewels from the Tower of London, not for criminal purposes, but to make themselves...
release : 1967.05.15popularis : 7.238
A Day at the Beach
Bernie is a silver tongued wanderer with a fondness for drink and no clear goal in life. What was supposed to be a day of fun at the seaside turns to...
release : 1970.05.01popularis : 2.419
Home Before Midnight
A successful rock lyricist becomes romantically involved with a girl he picks up hitchhiking only to learn that she is only fourteen. Her parents...
release : 1979.10.18popularis : 7.842
I'll Never Forget What's'isname
Advertising golden boy Andrew Quint is fed up with his fabulously successful life. In very dramatic fashion, he quits his job to return to writing...
release : 1967.12.18popularis : 5.43
The Maids
A film version of Genet's play. Two maids, Solange and Claire, hate their employers and, while they are out, take turns at dressing up as Madame and...
release : 1975.04.21popularis : 2.651
The Adventures of Gerard
Based on satirical short stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle about a vain, egotistical Etienne Gerard, a French brigadier serving during the Napoleonic...
release : 1970.07.03popularis : 2.682
The Surrogate
Frank and Lee have marital problems: he's been impotent for 18 months, she alternates between sympathy and criticism. His temper gets the best of...
release : 1984.10.15popularis : 3.736
Death Is a Woman
Narcotics agent Dennis goes undercover in the Mediterranean Islands to investigate a smuggling operation, and gains the confidence of a woman who...
release : 1966.02.01popularis : 1.567
Count Dracula
For those familiar with Bram Stoker's novel, this adaptation follows the book quite closely in most respects. Jonathan Harker visits the Count in...
release : 1977.12.22popularis : 4.75
Take Me Over
Campbell Carter, in the process of building a luxury hotel, is aggravated by the fact that he cannot acquire a coffee bar and adjoining antique shop...
release : 1963.07.07popularis : 0.616
Brannigan
A hard-nosed Chicago cop is sent to London to bring back an American mobster being held for extradition. Brannigan in his Irish-American way brings...
release : 1975.03.21popularis : 7.983
Champions
The true story of jockey Bob Champion who overcame cancer to win the 1981 Grand National
release : 1984.04.20popularis : 3.623
The Virgin and the Gypsy
Film adaptation from the novel by D.H. Lawrence, discovered after the celebrated author's death in 1930, a romantic love story tells of a prim young...
release : 1970.06.01popularis : 2.949
Stardust
In a countryside town bordering on a magical land, a young man makes a promise to his beloved that he'll retrieve a fallen star by venturing into the...
release : 2007.08.09popularis : 32.064
The Clandestine Marriage
A period film, set around an English country house whose owners want to arrange a marriage of convenience between their elder daughter and an...
release : 1999.11.12popularis : 2.409
Savage Hearts
When a beautiful mob hitwoman learns she only has six months to live, she decides to rob her employers, and go out in style, but the syndicate's head...
release : 1995.05.20popularis : 1.279
Sharpe: The Legend
Several years after the battle of Waterloo, a former soldier from Shoreditch sits in a London inn reminiscing about the brave and determined officer...
release : 1997.10.13popularis : 3.769
The Stud
Fontaine Khaled is the wife of a wealthy but boring businessman. She spends his money on her nightclub, The Hobo, and partying. She hires a manager,...
release : 1978.08.17popularis : 5.113
The Wicked Lady
Caroline is to be wed to Sir Ralph and invites her sister Barbara to be her bridesmaid. Barbara seduces Ralph, however, and she becomes the new Lady,...
release : 1983.04.21popularis : 7.466
The System
In a seaside village, a group of local young men mingle among the seasonal tourists in search of sexual conquests. Near the end of one summer, the...
release : 1964.04.12popularis : 8.254
The Bitch
The owner of a trendy disco starts having problems with the men in her life and the Mafia, which is trying to move in on her place.
release : 1979.09.19popularis : 4.955
The Charge of the Light Brigade
During the Crimean War between Britain and Russia in the 1850s, a British cavalry division, led by the overbearing Lord Cardigan, engages in an...
release : 1968.04.10popularis : 7.522
Destroying Angel
A feuding but very wealthy married couple are planning their divorce while relaxing at luxury hotels in Yugoslavia. The husband decides he wants to...
release : 1987.01.01popularis : 5.243
Exodus
Ari Ben Canaan, a passionate member of the Jewish paramilitary group Haganah, attempts to transport 600 Jewish refugees on a dangerous voyage from...
release : 1960.12.15popularis : 15.992
Sink the Bismarck!
The story of the breakout of the German battleship Bismarck—accompanied by the heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen—during the early days of World...
release : 1960.02.11popularis : 14.605
Degree of Uncertainty
Mature student, divorcee and mother of three Josie finds the social pressures in and out of university more demanding than her academic studies.
release : 1979.03.06popularis : 1.354
A Prize of Arms
A criminal gang sets out to pull off the heist of a large army payroll.
release : 1962.12.11popularis : 3.629
The Day and the Hour
It's the spring of 1944 and Therese is in a hurry to get back to Paris. The trains aren't running from the village where she has gone to visit her...
release : 1963.04.05popularis : 5.331