The Summer I Turned Pretty: The Movie

Based on Michel Houellebecq's controversial novel, Atomised (aka The Elementary Particles) focuses on Michael and Bruno, two very different half-brothers and their disturbed sexuality. After a chaotic childhood with a hippie mother only caring for her affairs, Michael, a molecular biologist, is more interested in genes than women, whi...

Runtime

1h 45m

Director

Oskar Roehler

Cast

Christian Ulmen, Moritz Bleibtreu, Martina Gedeck

Young lovers Sailor and Lula hit the road to start a new life together away from the wrath of Lula’s deranged, disapproving mother, who has hired a team of hitmen to cut the lovers’ surreal honeymoon short.

Runtime

2h 5m

Director

David Lynch

Cast

Nicolas Cage, Laura Dern, Willem Dafoe

Slaking a thirst for dangerous games, Kathryn challenges her stepbrother, Sebastian, to deflower their headmaster's daughter before the summer ends. If he succeeds, the prize is the chance to bed Kathryn. But if he loses, Kathryn will claim his most prized possession.

Runtime

1h 37m

Director

Roger Kumble

Cast

Sarah Michelle Gellar, Ryan Phillippe, Reese Witherspoon

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

The life of a Russian physician and poet who, although married to another, falls in love with a political activist's wife and experiences hardship during World War I and then the October Revolution.

Runtime

3h 20m

Director

David Lean

Cast

Omar Sharif, Julie Christie, Geraldine Chaplin