Before the Silence

Humbert Humbert is a middle-aged British novelist who is both appalled by and attracted to the vulgarity of American culture. When he comes to stay at the boarding house run by Charlotte Haze, he soon becomes obsessed with Lolita, the woman's teenaged daughter.

Runtime

2h 34m

Director

Stanley Kubrick

Cast

James Mason, Shelley Winters, Sue Lyon

A young couple, Rosemary and Guy, moves into an infamous New York apartment building, known by frightening legends and mysterious events, with the purpose of starting a family.

Runtime

2h 18m

Director

Roman Polanski

Cast

Mia Farrow, John Cassavetes, Ruth Gordon

Animals on a farm lead a revolution against the farmers to put their destiny in their own hands. However this revolution eats their own children and they cannot avoid corruption.

Runtime

1h 31m

Director

John Stephenson

Cast

Patrick Stewart, Kelsey Grammer, Julia Ormond

The classic story of English POWs in Burma forced to build a bridge to aid the war effort of their Japanese captors. British and American intelligence officers conspire to blow up the structure, but Col. Nicholson, the commander who supervised the bridge's construction, has acquired a sense of pride in his creation and tries to foil th...

Runtime

2h 42m

Director

David Lean

Cast

William Holden, Alec Guinness, Jack Hawkins

Women enter and exit a science fiction author's life over the course of a few years after the author loses the woman he considers his one true love.

Runtime

2h 8m

Director

Wong Kar-wai

Cast

Tony Leung Chiu-wai, Gong Li, Faye Wong