Movies: Peter Taylor

French writer recalls her start as the country wife of a Paris publisher who called her erotic work his own....

This “Traviata” became one of the most succesful of all opera films, especially in France, where 800,000 Parisian cinemagoers flocked to it in the first six week. It was nominated for two Oscars (for production and costume design) and won BAFTAs in t...

Norman is a file clerk who accidentally becomes a British delegate to a diplomatic conference, befriends the queen of a remote island, and winds up a knight. Norman leaves rooms in shambles, tailors in shreds, and diplomats in bandages. Chased by gun...

Henry Hobson owns and tyrannically runs a successful Victorian boot maker’s shop in Salford, England. A stingy widower with a weakness for overindulging in the local Moonraker Public House, he exploits his three daughters as cheap labour. When he dec...

A man who served prison time for intent to molest a child tries to build a new life with the help of a sympathetic psychiatrist....

A drama unfolding in the business world where shrewd methods are adopted by a boss to select a suitable yes-man for the Board....

A Jewish woman is recruited to help track down a German commander who was her former husband....

American troops land unopposed on Italian beaches during World War II, but instead of pushing on to Rome, they dig in and the Germans fight back ferociously....

In Northern England in the early 1960s, Frank Machin is mean, tough and ambitious enough to become an immediate star in the rugby league team run by local employer Weaver....

Army psychiatrist Colonel Kane is posted to a secluded gothic castle housing a military asylum. With a reserved calm, he indulges the inmates' delusions, allowing them free rein to express their fantasies....

Gen. Douglas MacArthur leads a Korean War campaign, and the war tests a married couple's relationship....

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A study of absurdity in a suburban family: father recreates the Old Bailey in the living room while the son teaches speak-your-weight machines to sing in the attic....

The making of the film that introduced Timothy Dalton as James Bond, who gave Bond a darker edge for a new generation....