Writing
Gavin Lambert
Born 1924-07-23
Gavin Lambert (23 July 1924 – 17 July 2005) was a British screenwriter, novelist, and biographer.
Acting credits
5.4Two literary women compete for 20 years: one writes for the critics; the other one, to get rich.
Rich and Famous
1981
7.1A documentary about the era of classic monster movies that were made at Universal Studios during the 1930s and 1940s.
Universal Horror
1998
Biographical documentary on director Lindsay Anderson, featuring interviews with friends, family, and colleages.
Lindsay Anderson: Lucky Man?
2004
5.9A portrait of the brilliant American writer Truman Capote (1924-84) and the New York high society of his time.
The Capote Tapes
2021
7.0Widely thought of as “a woman’s director,” legendary film director George Cukor is profiled with the use of film clips and interviews with his friends and colleagues to provide a picture of the director’s unique accomplishments and to trace the arc of his career.
On Cukor
2000
Documentary about Hollywood during the silent film era.
Silent Hollywood: Cult, Stars, Scandals
2005
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Glanz und Elend in Hollywood: Natalie Wood
2009
Behind the camera
6.9An aging actress travels to Rome with her husband; after he suddenly dies during the flight, she begins a passionate affair with a young gigolo.
The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone
1961
5.9A disturbed and institutionalized 16-year-old girl struggles between fantasy and reality.
I Never Promised You a Rose Garden
1977
5.6A girl on the road to stardom fights the dehumanizing effects of Hollywood life.
Inside Daisy Clover
1966
6.4During the second world war, two British officers, Brand and Leith, who have never seen combat, are assigned a vital mission. Their relationship and the operation are complicated by the arrival of Brand's wife, who had a tryst with Leith years earlier.
Bitter Victory
1957
5.3Fact-based story about tennis pro Renee Richards, whose player status was challenged in 1976 when it was revealed that she was a trans woman. Flashback to 1964 before she was out as trans, a successful New York doctor with a great lifestyle, a flashy girl friend, and a secret life. Her psychiatrist mother refuses to deal with her and sends her to a colleague who diagnoses with a psychotic gender confusion, which he says can be unlearned. After a failed marriage and parenthood, she comes out as trans, with a new life in California.
Second Serve
1986
6.5The son of a working-class British mining family has dreams of pursuing an art career, but when he strikes up an affair with an older, married woman from the town it enrages his kind but possessive mother.
Sons and Lovers
1960
NRFeisty reporter Joan insists on driving to her next assignment in Edinburgh solo. Along the way she has a flat tire and a passerby lends a hand, she in kind offers him a lift. As she finds out more information about him she starts making assumptions and her fears rise.
The Road to Edinburgh
1954
NRRuth and her lover David are caught having an affair by her husband John. When John refuses to give Ruth a divorce, David shoots him. Before Ruth and David can make plans to cover up the murder, John's blind friend Chris shows up.
Strange Witness
1958
4.8After a puritan youth, a young English woman discovers her sensuality in North-Africa.
Another Sky
1954
4.8After a puritan youth, a young English woman discovers her sensuality in North-Africa.
Another Sky
1954
4.3Roy leaves his abusive father's house and starts life anew as a woman, named Wendy. Through trial and error, she learns the skills and consequences of being a woman.
I Want What I Want
1972
4.8A gifted classical pianist, fueled by poverty, Wladiziu Valentino Liberace was already playing with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra at the age of 17. Through a variety of his highs and lows, chaptered in TV-style format, Liberace's life from his early years through his death are chronicled.
Liberace: Behind the Music
1988
6.0An emotionally fragile older woman embarks on an ill-fated love affair with a handsome young artist while traveling through Mexico's Yucatan peninsula...
Interval
1973