Bullied at school and ignored and abused at home by his indifferent mother and older brother, Billy Casper, a 15-year-old working-class Yorkshire boy, tames and trains his pet kestrel falcon whom he names Kes. Helped and encouraged by his English teacher and his fellow students, Billy finally finds a positive purpose to his unhappy existence.
Rome, Italy. After committing a heinous crime, a senior police officer exposes evidence incriminatin...
A young man, convinced he's a vampire, goes to live with his elderly and hostile cousin in a small P...
A young Englishman dreams of escaping from his working class family and dead-end job as an undertake...
A writer returns home to his estate after service in World War I. He has developed a very bad case o...
When married British women Rose Arbuthnot and Lottie Wilkins decide to take a break from their respe...
As he sits on a present situation where his childhood's expiration date gives way to an uncertain ad...
Five unrelated tales: (1) "The Ravishing Queen" / "La Reina Bella", in which the queen choses a king...
The true story of a disillusioned military contractor employee and his drug pusher childhood friend ...
Lady Caroline Faye meets Lord Vane Brecon and is attracted to him. When she finds out that he is bei...
Cashier Maurice Legrand is married to Adele, a terror. By chance, he meets Lucienne, "Lulu", and mak...
Clay is a young man in a small town who witnesses his friend, Earl, kill himself because of the ongo...
In an industrializing Italian town, a married woman, rendered mentally unstable after a traffic acci...
Photographer Charles Castle is numbed with grief following the death of his beautiful bride. He goes...
During a hot and hazy summertime in northern Ontario, 13-year-old Bea wants a best friend more than ...
A woman prisoner is harshly incarcerated and suddenly released.
The Grand Hotel formula that was so overworked in the 1930s made an encore appearance in 1940's Esca...
A man hires a P.I. to find a sexy woman he fell in love with. The woman lives with her underage teen...
A widower and his daughter witness the retirement of a colleague of his and the closing of her depar...
Pépé le Moko, one of France's most wanted criminals, hides out in the Casbah section of Algiers. He ...