The sole directorial credit by the German-born founder of distributor Artificial Eye, Andi Engel, is a cerebral thriller about an art critic drawn into an assassination plot. Jeroen Krabbe plays the German ex-pat who reconnects with his radical past when he's asked to assist with the hit of a Chilean murderer.
The first unquestionably outstanding movie of American director Joseph Losey's exile in the UK brings together a remarkable team for an incisive Marxist portrait of the criminal justice system, prison life and the London underworld, starring Stanley Baker as a doomed gangster.
While attempting a robbery, Edge (Adrian Lester), a burglar, is held at gunpoint by an elderly woman and forced to hear a story. The story involves two brothers at the turn of the 20th Century, as they feud over a young woman. Ingeniously switching between two entwining stories from the past and ...
Set on the Isle of Man (but very evocatively shot in Cornwall), this Hitchcock melodrama charts the crisis that arises when a lawyer, best friend of a fisherman believed dead, acts on his love for the latter's girlfriend, unaware that reports of his demise were erroneous. In a sly study of secrec...
