David de Keyser
notum enim: Acting
dies natalis: 1927-01-01
Locus Natus: London, England, UK
Et ut:
Professional Foul
Three philosophy professors travel to Prague for a conference. One of them, Anderson, is forced to rethink his ideas on ethics when a former student...
release : 1977.09.21popularis : 1.403
God on Trial
In the Jewish tradition of arguing with God, Jewish prisoners in Auschwitz decide to put God on Trial.
release : 2008.09.03popularis : 9.098
The Nine Lives of Tomas Katz
The last day of creation. A stranger arrives in London. No one knows who he is or where he has come from. By the time he leaves, the entire universe...
release : 2000.03.01popularis : 5.878
Zardoz
In the far future, a savage trained only to kill finds a way into the community of bored immortals that alone preserves humanity's achievements.
release : 1974.02.06popularis : 12.924
The Hiding Place
The Hiding Place is an account of a Dutch family who risk their lives by offering a safe haven for Jews during World War II
release : 1975.05.04popularis : 11.084
Leon The Pig Farmer
An irreverent comedy is set in motion when Leon Geller, a sensitive Jewish boy from London, accidentally learns that his is the product of artificial...
release : 1993.02.26popularis : 1.996
Something Nice to Eat
Cooking is a kind of loving, features Jean Shrimpton
release : 1967.01.01popularis : 3.387
Caprice
A girl finds herself inside a fashion magazine – Joanna Hogg's graduation piece at the National Film and Television School starring a then...
release : 1986.01.01popularis : 2.789
A Woman Called Golda
The story of the Russian-born, Wisconsin-raised woman who rose to become Israel's prime minister in the late 1960s and early 1970s.
release : 1982.04.26popularis : 5.691
Separation
Separation concerns the inner life of a woman during a period of breakdown – marital, and possibly mental. Her past and (possible?) future are...
release : 1968.10.19popularis : 2.615
Diamonds Are Forever
Diamonds are stolen only to be sold again in the international market. James Bond infiltrates a smuggling mission to find out who's guilty. The...
release : 1971.12.14popularis : 27.243
The Trial of Klaus Barbie
Decades after the end of World War II, escaped war criminal Klaus Barbie is brought to justice.
release : 1987.07.15popularis : 1.247
The Horsemen
In Afghanistan, the ruthless sport of buzkashi is a game of great pride. When Uraz breaks his leg and loses a spirited match, he brings shame to his...
release : 1971.08.16popularis : 4.614
Murder on the Orient Express
In 1935, when his train is stopped by deep snow, detective Hercule Poirot is called on to solve a murder that occurred in his car the night before.
release : 1974.11.22popularis : 18.752
Out of the Shadows
A U.S. Embassy worker is helped by an Interpol agent to prove herself innocent of a murder in the Greek isles.
release : 1988.09.02popularis : 3.132
Song of London
A look at 60s London with Tommy Trinder and a host of other stars.
release : 1964.02.14popularis : 0.855
Ike
Eisenhower the military man is the focus of this mini-series, his relationships with the other wartime leaders, and, very discreetly, his personal...
release : 1979.05.03popularis : 2.782
Red King, White Knight
The CIA hears of a KGB scheme to assassinate the Soviet General Secretary and enlists Stoner, an agent retired for 10 years, to go to Russia to...
release : 1989.11.25popularis : 1.624
Yentl
Rebbe Mendel is a single father who teaches the Talmud, a sacred text of Judaism, to the boys of his small Polish town. Behind closed doors, he also...
release : 1983.11.18popularis : 16.209
The Blood of Fu Manchu
Fu Manchu inoculates ten women with poison, to kill ten world leaders.
release : 1968.08.23popularis : 6.544
Superman
Mild-mannered Clark Kent works as a reporter at the Daily Planet alongside his crush, Lois Lane. Clark must summon his superhero alter-ego when the...
release : 1978.12.14popularis : 54.864
samuel-613
The story of Shmilu, a Hasidic Jew in crisis, torn between his community and the romantic possibilities of trendy East London.
release : 2015.04.27popularis : 0.883
All Quiet on the Western Front
At the start of World War I, Paul Baumer is a young German patriot, eager to fight. Indoctrinated with propaganda at school, he and his friends...
release : 1979.11.14popularis : 15.893
The Ploughman's Lunch
As England begins its military engagement in the Falklands, a BBC news journalist attempts to climb up from his working-class roots, at any cost,...
release : 1983.05.30popularis : 7.392
Valentino
In 1926 the tragic and untimely death of a silent screen actor caused female moviegoers to riot in the streets and in some cases to commit suicide...
release : 1977.09.07popularis : 5.049
The Romantic Englishwoman
A marriage crisis between a writer and his wife leads her to flee to Germany and eventually return with another man, through whom the writer is going...
release : 1975.06.11popularis : 7.121
The Plain Man's Guide to Advertising
A surreal mix of advertising tropes from the 1960s is very funny but has a neat anti-capitalist undertow.
release : 1962.11.01popularis : 1.498
Leo the Last
Prince Leo, last in the line of rulers of a long-deposed monarchy on continental Europe and jaded with the frenetic search for kicks with the...
release : 1970.09.04popularis : 2.334
A Dry White Season
During the 1976 Soweto uprising, a white school teacher's life and values are threatened when he asks questions about the death of a young black boy...
release : 1989.09.20popularis : 8.182
Simon Magus
Simon is an outcast from his Jewish community because he claims that the devil talks to him and he has the ability to put curses on crops. When Dovid...
release : 1999.02.17popularis : 3.461
Night Call
A dramatised road safety film. Following a fatal motorway crash, a doctor talks to a journalist about what makes a good driver. But the journalist...
release : 1977.01.01popularis : 0.521
The Death of Adolf Hitler
The final days in the Bunker, with Hitler becoming more and more paranoid, plumbing the depths of his madness and reaching his well deserved fate.
release : 1973.01.07popularis : 8.923
The Designated Mourner
Jack and Judy are husband and wife, and Howard is Judy's father. They live in some fictional undemocratic and repressive country, and tell us a story...
release : 1997.05.23popularis : 1.602
Voyage of the Damned
A luxury liner carries Jewish refugees from Hitler's Germany in a desperate fight for survival.
release : 1976.12.22popularis : 8.698
In Camera
A 1964 BBC adaptation of Sartre's "No Exit."
release : 1964.11.04popularis : 1.243
Catch Us If You Can
Dinah is a famous model and actress who is getting tired of life in the limelight and wants to take a break. While shooting a commercial spot for...
release : 1965.07.15popularis : 3.675
Sunshine
The story of a Jewish family living in Hungary—through three generations—rising from humble beginnings to positions of wealth and power...
release : 1999.09.13popularis : 18.493
The Secret Place
British Melodrama and crime thriller that follows a group of jewel robbers after a major heist. The film makes extensive use of bombed out areas of...
release : 1957.02.06popularis : 4.723
Bequest to the Nation
Set before the Battle of Trafalgar, this is the story of relationship between Admiral Lord Nelson and Lady Hamilton during the Napoleonic Wars.
release : 1973.04.18popularis : 1.816
Someone at the Top of the Stairs
A young woman and her friend rent a room in a boarding house. Soon they become aware of the fact that the other "renters" are a very strange lot, and...
release : 1973.04.28popularis : 1.275
Dr. Fischer of Geneva
Dr. Fischer has an unusual hobby — to expose human greed. How much humiliation will his fellow man endure enticed by valuable presents? Dignity...
release : 1984.10.08popularis : 0.885
King David
This is a movie about the life of Israel's king David.
release : 1985.03.29popularis : 10.031
A Touch of Class
Steve, a happily married American man living in London meets Vicki, an English divorcée and run off to Marbella for a rollicking week of sex....
release : 1973.05.25popularis : 5.547
The Statement
The film is set in France in the 1990s, the French were defeated by the Germans early in World War II, an armistice was signed in 1940 which...
release : 2003.12.12popularis : 6.279
Closer to the Moon
A Romanian police officer teams up with a small crew of bank robbers to pull off a heist by convincing everyone at the scene of the crime that they...
release : 2014.03.07popularis : 5.073
You Can't Win 'Em All
During the 1922 Turkish Civil War, two Americans and a group of foreign mercenaries offer their services to a local Turkish governor who hires them...
release : 1970.07.23popularis : 8.311
Hijack
The fictional trial of two aeroplane hijackers, exploring their political motivation and whether hijacking a passenger plane can be justified.
release : 1971.03.11popularis : 0.495
Martin Luther, Heretic
Martin Luther inspires a breakaway from the Roman Catholic church and is the founder of Protestantism.
release : 1983.11.08popularis : 1.213