Schau mir in die Augen, Kleiner (2007)

Actors: Gilbert Melki (actor), Stephen Frears (actor), Heath Ledger (actor), Jake Gyllenhaal (actor), Thom Hoffman (actor), Jeroen Krabbé (actor), Derek Jarman (actor), Steve Buscemi (actor), Jean-Marc Barr (actor), Daniel Day-Lewis (actor), Q. Allan Brocka (actor), Rupert Everett (actor), Rainer Werner Fassbinder (actor), Kurt Raab (actor), Jürgen Prochnow (actor),

Genres: Documentary, History,

The Bruce (1996)

Actors: Brian Blessed (actor), Bob Carruthers (director), Oliver Reed (actor), Paul Farrer (composer), Dave Flitton (producer), David McWhinnie (director), Hildegard Neil (actress), Pavel Douglas (actor), John Hoye (actor), Sandy Welch (actor), Michael Leighton (actor), Richard Brimblecombe (actor), Owen Parker (editor), Michael Van Wijk (actor), Kern Falconer (actor),

Plot: Robert the Bruce unites the Scots in a rebellion against the hated English, led by Edward I. He is supported by various loyal followers, notably the bishop who agrees to recognize his claim and crown him as King of the Scots.

Keywords: character-name-in-title, independent-film
Genres: ,
Taglines: Courage never dies...

Edward II (1991)

Actors: Derek Jarman (writer), Tilda Swinton (actress), Annie Lennox (actress), Sandy Powell (costume designer), Sandy Powell (actress), Derek Jarman (director), Dudley Sutton (actor), Allan Corduner (actor), Andrew Tiernan (actor), Simon Fisher-Turner (composer), John Lynch (actor), Roger Hammond (actor), Rachel James (miscellaneous crew), Christopher Adamson (actor), Sarah Radclyffe (producer),

Plot: In this Derek Jarman version of Christopher Marlowe's Elisabethan drama, in modern costumes and settings, Plantagenet king Edward II hands the power-craving nobility the perfect excuse by taking as lover besides his diplomatic wife, the French princess Isabel, not an acceptable lady at court but the ambitious Piers Gaveston, who uses his favor in bed even to wield political influence - the stage is set for a palace revolt which sends the gay pair from the throne to a terminal torture dungeon.

Keywords: 14th-century, 1590s, adultery, anachronism, anal-rape, anvil, bandage, banishment, based-on-play, bashing-head-into-wall
Genres: Drama, History,
Taglines: A classic tale of sex, revenge, and love.

Quotes:

[first lines]::Edward II: My father is deceased. Come Gaveston, and share the kingdom with thy dearest friend.

Edward II: I here create thee Lord High Chamberlain, Chief Secretary to the State and me, Earl of Cornwall, King and Lord of Man.::Piers Gaveston: My Lord, these titles far exceed my worth.::Edward II: Thy worth sweet friend is far above my gifts. And therefore to equal it, receive my heart.

Mortimer: Madam, how fares your grace?::Isabella: Ah, Mortimer, now breaks the king's hate forth, and he confesseth that he loves me not.::Mortimer: Cry quittance, madam, then, and love not him.

Bishop: Why should you love him whom the world hates so?::Edward II: Because he loves me more than all the world.

Mortimer: Monster of men. Look for no other fortune, wretch, than death.::Piers Gaveston: I thank you all my lords. Here I perceive that heading is one, and hanging is the other, and death is all. [Gaveston is killed]::Mortimer: Come, let thy shadow parley with King Edward

Prince Edward: Why should you love him whom the world hates so?

Mortimer: This tattered ensign of my ancestors, which swept the desert shore of that dead sea whereof we got the name of Mortimer, I will advance and ring aloud the knell of Gaveston

Mortimer: Base Fortune, now I see that in thy wheel there is a point to which when men aspire; they tumble headlong down. That point I touch'd, and seeing there was no place to mount up higher why should I grieve at my declining fall?

Piers Gaveston: Farewell, base stooping to the lordly peers: my knee shall bow to none but to the king. As for the multitude, that are but sparks raked up in embers of their poverty... fuck 'em.

Edward II (1982)

Actors: Philippe Nahon (actor), Hélène Vincent (actress), Philippe Clévenot (actor), Jean Badin (actor), Jean Badin (actor), Hervé Pierre (actor), Hervé Pierre (actor), Roger Jacquet (actor), Jean-Pierre Hutinet (actor), Jean-Pierre Hutinet (actor), Jean-Pierre Hutinet (actor), Daniel Briquet (actor), Patrice Bornand (actor), Patrice Bornand (actor), Patrice Bornand (actor),

Genres: ,

The Deadly Affair (1966)

Actors: Lynn Redgrave (actress), Frank Williams (actor), Harriet Andersson (actress), Roy Kinnear (actor), David Warner (actor), Corin Redgrave (actor), Maximilian Schell (actor), Denis Shaw (actor), Timothy West (actor), Harry Andrews (actor), Michael Brennan (actor), Gertan Klauber (actor), James Mason (actor), Sidney Lumet (producer), Simone Signoret (actress),

Plot: After Charles Dobbs, a security officer, has a friendly chat with Samuel Fennan from the Foreign Office, the man commits suicide. An anonymous typed letter had been received accusing Fennan of being a Communist during his days at Oxford and their chat while walking in the park was quite amiable. Senior officials want the whole thing swept under the rug and are pleased to leave it as a suicide. Dobbs isn't at all sure as there are a number of anomalies that simply can't be explained away. Dobbs is also having trouble at home with his errant wife, whom he very much loves, having frequent affairs. He's also pleased to see an old friend, Dieter Frey, who he recruited after the war. With the assistance of a colleague and a retired policeman, Dobbs tries to piece together just who is the spy and who in fact assassinated Fennan.

Keywords: alley, animal-hoarding, austrian, based-on-novel, bird's-eye-shot, bossa-nova, bureaucrat, civil-servant, cold-war, communist
Genres: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller,

Quotes:

Charles Dobbs: [to Ann about her nymphomania] I've never held your appetites against you. The unaddicted shouldn't blame the addicted.

Charles Dobbs: How long are you staying?::Dieter Frey: A few days. Business kunches, business dinners... I even have a business breakfast. Who knows? I might actually do some business too.

Ann Dobbs: [shouting] How can you be so aggressive about your job and so gentle about me? [Sobs]::Charles Dobbs: I've always thought that... being aggressive was the way to... keep my job and being gentle was the way to keep you, [after a reflective pause] Well, I've lost my job, haven't I?

Bill Appleby: I want to live to see the advisor eating his own vomit.

Bill Appleby: Are you suggesting that Elsa might have connived in her husband's murder? That's rather a ghoulish thought, Charley.::Charles Dobbs: She's had a rather ghoulish life.

Charles Dobbs: [to Elsa] What kind of daydreams did you dream, Mrs. fennan, that had so little of the world in them?