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Writer Charles Condomine invites a fortune teller to his home to study for a planned book and learn her particular jargon. A married couple, Mr. and Mrs. Bradman, are also invited to the planned séance. The result of the necromancy is unexpected: Con...

Adaptation of Noël Coward's ghost story....

If you were a famous English novelist doing a whistle stop tour of the United States to promote your books, wouldn't you welcome with open arms the chance of a quiet weekend away from it all in a remote corner of Long Island? Of course you would. Wel...

Set in 1936 during the dying days of music hall, "The Red Peppers' is the poignant story of George and Lily Pepper, a husband and wife comedy double act whose failing marriage is all but over. When a backstage row develops one night it unearths painf...

In The Vortex, Coward explores the darker side of the cocktail party set. Emotional blackmail, drug abuse and shattered relationships are minutely observed in this disturbing, early piece from a playwright whose sharp eye was usually more turned towa...

Laura remembers an affair that just ended: for a few weeks, she and a married doctor, Alec, met every Thursday for lunch in a train station and a movie. They fell in love in this short period together. Based on the story by Noel Coward, and shot for ...

A young man is shocked to discover that his fiancé is the mistress of his mother's lover....

Often regarded as semi-autobiographical, Present Laughter follows a few days in the life of successful and self-obsessed actor Garry Essendine as he prepares to travel for a touring commitment. Amid a series of events bordering on farce, Garry must d...

Private Lives, a play by Noël Coward, starring Vivien Leigh and Laurence Olivier...

An English novelist is besieged by his hosts on an American tour in this comedy of ill manners....

A day in the life of Mrs Radcliffe , who believes that the advice she so freely gives is done only out of kindness....

A captain pays one of his sailors to marry a woman who works in a nightclub....

Rikard Wolff performs his show "I'm a Gigolo" from Cirkus in Stockholm....

An aging and self-obsessed actor finds himself in a situation bordering on farce when he is besieged by the demands of his estranged wife, women who want to seduce him, and a crazed playwright....

It is Mrs Capper's 50th birthday and for years she has quietly gone about doing her best to help others. Her kind gestures have not gone unnoticed with her employers and friends joining together to give her night to remember....

Shot primarily by twelve French cameramen (led by filmmakers Jean Painlevé and Jean Grémillon), in August 1944, this film captures the final French insurrection in German-occupied Paris, the surrender of the Germans, and the mass celebration in the s...

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Nicky Lancaster must deal with the problem of his youth-obsessed aging socialite mother....