Tring Classics programme guide

Two FBI agents investigating the murder of civil rights workers during the 60s seek to breach the conspiracy of silence in a small Southern town where segregation divides black and white. The younger agent trained in FBI school runs up against the small town ways of his former Sheriff partner.

Year

1988

Rated 15+

15+

• Movie
• drama
• crime
• thriller

It’s a hot summer on Amity Island, a small community whose main business is its beaches. When new Sheriff Martin Brody discovers the remains of a shark attack victim, his first inclination is to close the beaches to swimmers. This doesn’t sit well with Mayor Larry Vaughn and several of the local businessmen. Brody backs down to his regret as that weekend a young boy is killed by the predator. The dead boy’s mother puts out a bounty on the shark and Amity is soon swamped with amateur hunters and fisherman hoping to cash in on the reward. A local fisherman with much experience hunting sharks, Quint, offers to hunt down the creature down for a hefty fee. Soon Quint, Brodie and Matt Hooper from the Oceanographic Institute are at sea hunting the Great White shark. As Brodie succinctly surmises after their first encounter with the creature, they’re going to need a bigger boat.

Year

1975

Rated 12+

12+

• Movie
• action
• horror
• thriller

The biographical story of Michelangelo’s troubles while painting the Sistine Chapel at the urging of Pope Julius II.

Year

1965

Rated 12+

12+

• Movie
• drama
• history
• biography

Lily works for a bookie, placing bets to change the odds at the track. When her son is hospitalized after an unsuccessful con job and resultant beating, she finds that even an absentee parent has feelings for her child. This causes her own job to go wrong as well. Each of them faces the down side of the grift.

Year

1990

Rated 15+

15+

• Movie
• drama
• crime
• thriller

Jane Osgood runs a lobster business, which supports her two young children. Railroad staff inattention ruins her shipment, so with her lawyer George, Jane sues Harry Foster Malone, director of the line and the ”meanest man in the world”.

Year

1959

Rated 10+

10+

• Movie
• comedy
• romance

Professor David Pollock is an expert in ancient Arabic hieroglyphics. A Middle Eastern Prime Minister convinces Pollock to infiltrate the organization of a man named Beshraavi, who is involved in a plot against the Prime Minister. The nature of the plot is believed to be found in a hieroglyphic code. Beshraavi’s mistress, Yasmin Azir is a mystery intertwined in the plot. Pollock needs her help, but when she repeatedly seems to double cross him in one escapade after another, he can’t decide on whose side she is working. Ultimately working together, Pollock and Yasmin decipher the plot and set out to stop an assassination of the Prime Minister.

Year

1966

Rated 12+

12+

• Movie
• action
• adventure
• crime

A young poor girl receives a marriage proposal from a mafia novice. She’s going to refuse, but he’s going to insist - at all cost.

Original title

La moglie più bella

Year

1970

Rated 12+

12+

• Movie
• drama
• crime

The fifth Tennessee Williams play to reach the screen, wealthy Mississippi plantation owner Big Daddy Pollitt, unaware that he’s dying of cancer and disturbed by the strained and childless marriage of his favored alcoholic son Brick and his other son, Gooper, whose wife is about to bring forth another in the endless line of little ”no-neck monsters,” celebrates his sixty-fifth birthday with his family. Brick’s wife, Maggie, beautiful and desirable, tries unsuccessfully to coax her husband away from the bottle, while alternately enticing him and taunting him about his obsession with his deceased best friend and the guilt about their relationship. The seamy tensions reach a climax when the truth of Big Daddy’s health is revealed, and he and Brick manage to resolve their differences.

Year

1958

Rated 12+

12+

• Movie
• drama

Steven Spielberg’s lengthy historical courtroom drama has its moments of pure visual poetry, but it fails to ignite the same moral outrage that Schindler’s List so poignantly evoked. In 1839, a shipload of men from Sierra Leone who are destined to become slaves overpower their captors, killing all but two crew members needed to navigate them back to Africa. Betrayed, intercepted in American waters and charged with murder, the men’s only hope for justice lies with the Abolitionist movement and an inexperienced lawyer. Anthony Hopkins and Matthew McConaughey lead the all-star cast, and there’s an amazing debut by Djimon Hounsou as the leader of the captives. Although flawed, this chilling portrayal of outright racism further reveals Spielberg’s skill as an expert film-maker unafraid of tackling heavy political issues.

Year

1997

Rated 15+

15+

• Movie
• thriller
• drama
• history

An impromptu fashion shoot at a book store brings about a new fashion model discovery in the shop clerk.

Year

1957

Rated 12+

12+

• Movie
• romance
• comedy
• music