The Deep Blue Sea (2011)
The Deep Blue Sea (2011) The wife of a British Judge is caught in a self-destructive love affair with a Royal Air Force pilot.
Benediction (2021)
Benediction 2021 Legendary 20th Century war poet Siegfried Sassoons life long quest for personal salvation through his experiences with family, war, his writing, and destructive relationships goes unresolved, never realizing it can only come from
Distant Voices, Still Lives (1988)
Distant Voices, Still Lives 1988 The second film in Terence Daviess autobiographical series Trilogy, The Long Day Closes is an impressionistic view of a working class family in 1940s and 1950s Liverpool, based on Daviess own family The first part, Distant Voices, opens with grown siblings Eileen Ang
The House of Mirth (2000)
The House of Mirth 2000 Terence Davies The House of Mirth is a tragic love story set against a background of wealth and social hypocrisy in turn of the century New York Lily Bart is a ravishing socialite at the height of her success who quickly discovers the precariousness of her position when her b
A Quiet Passion (2016)
A Quiet Passion (2016) The story of American poet Emily Dickinson from her early days as a young schoolgirl to her later years as a reclusive, unrecognized artist.
Sunset Song (2015)
The daughter of a Scottish farmer comes of age in the early 1900s.
The Long Day Closes (1992)
The Long Day Closes (1992) The Long Day Closes is the story of eleven-year-old "Bud." A sad and lonely boy, Bud struggles through his days. With cinema as his main source of solace, he haunts the local movie-house. All the while, his family looms large in our peripheral vision as do the me
The Neon Bible (1995)
The Neon Bible (1995) While on a train, a teenage boy thinks about his life and the flamboyant aunt whose friendship acted as an emotional shield from his troubled family. This film evokes the haunting quality of memory while creating a heartfelt portrait of a boy's life in a rural 1940s Southern to
Of Time and the City (2008)
Of Time and the City (2008) Terence Davies (1945- ), filmmaker and writer, takes us, sometimes obliquely, to his childhood and youth in Liverpool. He's born Catholic and poor; later he rejects religion. He discovers homo-eroticism, and it's tinged with Catholic guilt. Enjoying pop music gives way to
Madonna and Child (1980)
Madonna and Child 1980 Robert Tucker, a sorrowful, solitary man, given to bouts of weeping, tries to balance his life caring for his aging mother, his Catholicism, his homosexuality, and his dull job One night, after his mother has gone to bed, he dons leather and heads for a private club He telepho
Children (1976)
Children 1976 Robert Tucker, a young gay man who is almost without affect, sits in various waiting rooms As he sits, he recalls events from the year of his childhood when his father dies Hes ten or eleven that year, picked on by bullies at the Catholic school he attends He seems friendless At home,
Death and Transfiguration (1983)
Death and Transfiguration 1983 In sepia tones, the film moves back and forth among three periods in Robert Tuckers life hes an old man, near death, in a nursing home at Christmas time hes in middle age caring for his cheerful but dying mother hes a lad at Catholic school, practicing his catechism, g