Vernon Dobtcheff Movies

Cannes, 1999. Alice, an actress, wants to direct an indie picture. Kaz, a talkative (and maybe bogus) deal maker, promises $3 million if she'll use...

Rossellini takes numerous liberties with the original source material, rearranging and omitting events at will, presenting everything in a highly...

A solitary teenager embarks on a fantastic adventure.

The story of one of Britain's most celebrated actors of the 20th century, told by those who knew and admired him.

In Frankie Howerd's third Up... film it's World War I and he plays Lurk, an absolute cowerd, er coward. He's evading the call-up for all he's worth....

Walter Klozett is a spy arrested and imprisoned by the French Police who know him in possession of stolen booty which the French secret services...

A woman on a train becomes the center of attention when she is mistaken for a spy by opposing factions who are traveling on the same line.

The story of the great Soviet composer Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975) and his life and career during the rule of Stalin.

A young man journeys from a difficult childhood to maturity, exploring social injustice, personal development, and the complexities of human...

In a futuristic society, an old man tells the legend of a strange medal to two children. In flashback, we learn that after a nuclear catastrophe, two...

It was perhaps the most spectacular flourishing of imagination and achievement in recorded history. In the Fourth and Fifth Centuries BC, the Greeks...

Based on the life of a classic french cineast Jean Vigo, the story follows his daily struggle with sanity, normal life and uncompromising filmmaking....

Architect Dumas dies from a bullet of his own gun in front of his house. The police suspect his young Swedish wife Catherine and her English lover...

BBC version of Brecht's epic account of Galileo's persecution for his 'heretical' idea that the earth moved around the sun.

This is another variation of the Cinderella story: the bright and beautiful Ella lives in the household of a lord since her mother died. She's...

Sredni Vashtar is a 1981 short film, written, produced and directed by Andrew Birkin, based on the short story of the same name written by Hector...

In 1813, Capitaine Jacques St. Ives, a Hussar in the Napoleonic wars, is captured and sent to a Scottish prison camp. He's a swashbuckler, so the...

1889: young Bernard Shaw falls under the spell of actress Janet Achurch. An important and highly charged relationship develops.

A newly hired security expert on the American Embassy in Paris questions who to trust, as he investigates an elaborate passport faking scheme.

In hellish Casablanca, a car-crash sets ablaze a burning, passionate love story between has-been rocker Larsen and the streetwise amazon Rajae. An...