The last time a guy felt like a tool had nothing to do with his inability to tie the perfect Windsor, select the correct fork for the second course, or fight off a bear (because that guy's dead). This title collects all the trivia & everyday knowledge any guy should know
- & tests him to make sure he's up to speed on what really matters.
...

A member of the French Resistance (Francois Leterrier), imprisoned & condemned to death by the Nazis, plots his escape from his cell at Montluc with the help of his teenage cellmate. Andre Devigny, whose own experiences form the basis of the film, acted as technical adviser to the film's director, Robert Bresson, & all the cast were non-professional. ...

Oscar-winning adaptation of Robert Bolt's historical play. Sir Thomas More (Paul Scofield) has to wrestle with his conscience when he is appointed High Chancellor to King Henry VIII (Robert Shaw). The King wishes More's support in his decision to divorce his wife, Catherine of Aragon, in favour of Anne Boleyn. When More refuses & resigns from his office, he falls foul of a plot by Thomas Cromwell (Leo Mc Kern) to remove him permanently. ...

This series presents a wide choice of 20th-century drama. The books offer scene-by-scene analysis, structured questions & assignment suggestions for GCSE. This play portrays Sir Thomas More as a hero of "selfhood", contrasting this with the assertion that every man has his price. ...

Western featuring two of Hollywood's greatest leading men. Glenn Ford stars as Owen Devereaux, a sadistic Civil War veteran who continues to kill for the joy of it, even after he becomes a judge. William Holden plays Del Stewart, Devereaux's marshal & ex-army pal who tries to restrain the judge's violent nature. When Devereaux's psychotic behavior forces the townspeople to take up arms against him, the former friends are pitted against each other in a brutal conflict with fatal consequences. ...

An impromptu goodbye party for a professor turns into an interrogation when he reveals he's actually an immortal who has walked the planet for 14, 000 years. When professor John Oldman (David Lee Smith) suddenly resigns his post & announces he's moving away, his colleagues turn up for a farewell party. Pressing him for an explanation for his departure, he finally reveals to his astonished guests that he is in fact a 'man' from the Upper Paleolithic era who has survived to the present day. As his colleagues, a biologist, a Christian literalist, an anthropologist & a historian, attempt to shoot holes in his proposal, professor Oldman relates his remarkable story & the famous encounters he has had with the likes of Van Gogh, Buddha & Christ. ...

Byron Tiller (Andy Garcia) is a struggling writer. Although he has had some limited success
- which prompted his wife Dena (Juliana
...

James Stewart plays a vengeful cow-herder who arrives in New Mexico determined to find the man who was responsible for the killing of his brother. His brother was shot down by Apaches armed with automatic rifles, & Stewart is looking for the man who sold them to the Indians. Following ' Winchester 73', ' Bend in the River', ' The Naked Spur' & ' The Far Country', this was the last of the five classic westerns Stewart made with director Anthony Mann. ...

Hungarian director Bela Tarr helms this brooding mystery drama, which is loosely based on a lesser-known novel by Belgian crime novelist Georges Simenon. Maloin (Miroslav Krobot) is a middle-aged dockland worker whose life changes forever after he witnesses a violent altercation between two men on the harbourside that results in one of them drowning, taking a suitcase full of British sterling down with him. ...