Janet Suzman Movies

The Draughtsman's Contract

73/100

A young artist is commissioned by the wife of a wealthy landowner to make a series of drawings of the estate while her husband is away.

Nuns on the Run

59/100

Brian and Charlie work for a gangster. When their boss learns they want to "leave", he sets them up to be killed, after they help rob the local Triads of their drug dealing profits. They ... See full summary »

A Dry White Season

70/100

Ben du Toit is a schoolteacher who always has considered himself a man of caring and justice, at least on the individual level. When his gardener's son is brutally beaten up by the police ... See full summary »

Nicholas and Alexandra

73/100

Tsar Nicholas II, the inept monarch of Russia, insensitive to the needs of his people, is overthrown and exiled to Siberia with his family.

Leon the Pig Farmer

57/100

An irreverent comedy is set in motion when Leon Geller, a sensitive Jewish man from London, accidentally learns that his is the product of artificial insemination.

A Day in the Death of Joe Egg

68/100

A couple uses extremely black comedy to survive taking care of a daughter who is nearly completely brain dead. They take turns doing the daughter's voice and stare into the eyes of death ... See full summary »

The House on Garibaldi Street

71/100

Nazi's, in places not seen, almost invisible to the naked eye, travel to Bologna Italy starting a concentration kamfp there and discover a secret underground group thru payoffs to Interpol ... See full summary »

Priest of Love

66/100

Following the banning and burning of his novel, "The Rainbow", D.H. Lawrence and his wife, Frieda, move to the United States, and then to Mexico. When Lawrence contracts tuberculosis, they ... See full summary »

Antony and Cleopatra

69/100

After the murder of her lover Julius Caesar, Egypt's Queen Cleopatra needs a new ally. She seduces his probable successor Mark Antony. This develops into real love and slowly leads to a war with the other possible successor, Octavius.

Miss Nightingale

Theatrical-style interpretation of the life of history's most well-known nurse.

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