Churchill's Secret

Feb 29, 2016

1h 41m

★ 6.3

Overview

British Prime Minister Winston Churchill suffers from a stroke in the summer of 1953 that's kept a secret from the rest of the world.

Genres

History

TV Movie

Drama

Production Companies

Daybreak Pictures

Churchill's Secret Trailers

No Trailers found.

Cast

Winston Churchill

Michael Gambon

Clemmie Churchill

Lindsay Duncan

Millie Appleyard

Romola Garai

Randolph Churchill

Matthew Macfadyen

Diana Churchill

Tara Fitzgerald

Sarah Churchill

Rachael Stirling

Lord Moran

Bill Paterson

Mary Churchill

Daisy Lewis

Anthony Eden

Alex Jennings

Rab Butler

Chris Larkin

Brendan Bracken

James Wilby

Jock Colville

Patrick Kennedy

The Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) caused a great impression on the lives of most of the American artists of that era, so many movies were made in Hollywood about it. The final defeat of the Spanish Republic left an open wound in the hearts of those who sympathized with its cause. The eventful life of screenwriter Alvah Bessie (1904-1985), one of the Hollywood Ten, serves to analyze this sadness, the tragedy of Spain and its consequences.

6.4

Indignation

Jul 29, 2016

In 1951, Marcus Messner, a working-class Jewish student from New Jersey, attends a small Ohio college, where he struggles with anti-Semitism, sexual repression, and the ongoing Korean War.

5.0

Bogie

Mar 4, 1980

The Humphrey Bogart story from the early '30s until his death, covering the period as a struggling young actor through movie stardom and his marriages to Mayo Methot and Lauren Bacall.

6.8

East of Ipswich

Feb 1, 1987

Seventeen-year-old Richard and his parents take their annual seaside holiday in a guesthouse on England's east coast in the 1950s. Julia, a teenage girl holidaying with her parents in a nearby guesthouse, catches Richard's eye, but her Dutch friend Anna is intent on causing trouble.

5.6

Teatro del crimen

Feb 13, 1957

In a music hall has committed a murder, the police will also find the murderer.

6.8

Margaret Thatcher: The Long Walk to Finchley

Jun 12, 2008

A light hearted look at future Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's rise from research chemist in 1949 to becoming MP for Finchley in 1959, encompassing her early relationship and marriage to oil millionaire Denis Thatcher.

5.7

If Paris Were Told to Us

Jan 27, 1956

Historical film directed and written by Sacha Guitry follows the the history of Paris from its founding through the significant events in the city's history.

6.1

Oh, Love… How Have You Put Me!

Nov 23, 1951

A low-class baker accidentally gets to know an attractive but bitter fiancée. By getting her snobby, dead-pan family to spend some time with his scumbag friends, he changes their lives, while at the time stealing the girl's heart.

0.0

The Bell Jar

Invalid Date

Based on the 1963 novel by Sylvia Plath, a young woman's summer in New York sees her working for a Mademoiselle-like magazine, return home to New England, and subsequent breakdown all amidst the horrors of the fifties, from news of the Rosenbergs' execution to sleazy disc jockeys and predatory college boys.

1.0

Ernie Kovacs: Between the Laughter

May 14, 1984

TV movie biopic depicting the life, career, and family of comedian Ernie Kovacs.

6.2

A Very British Sex Scandal

Jul 20, 2007

A Very British Sex Scandal tells the story of Peter Wildeblood, a royal correspondent for the Daily Mail newspaper. He is a closet homosexual and like many gay men at that time, lives in secret as homosexuality is against the law. One evening he meets Eddie McNally, who is on leave from the air force and the pair embark on an affair together. However, it is their weekend at the estate of Lord Edward Montagu which eventually leads to a scandal which rocked modern Britain and led to a reconsideration of, and the eventual decriminilisation of homosexuality.

7.0

The Day Silence Died

Jul 2, 1999

A handsome and mysterious stranger, played by Darío Grandinetti, walks into the town square of Villaserena one day and strategically places loudspeakers around the town, blaring a variety of musical tunes. Soon, he begins to sell airtime to the various locals, who broadcast their own personal love dedications and (more frequently) insults for all to hear. A subplot evolves between Abelardo (the stranger), Celeste (a young woman who is chained inside her father's house to stop her running away), and José (a young man).

7.3

Surcos

Oct 26, 1951

A farm family moves into a city maybe at the end of the Spanish Civil War. They move in with the sister of the farmers wife. In the city everything is illegal or immoral or both.

7.2

The Man Who Knew Infinity

Apr 8, 2016

Growing up poor in Madras, India, Srinivasa Ramanujan Iyengar earns admittance to Cambridge University during WWI, where he becomes a pioneer in mathematical theories with the guidance of his professor, G.H. Hardy.

6.2

Main Street

Oct 26, 1956

A small town in Spain, October 1955. Isabel, a 35-year-old dreamer who feels like a failure because she is not married yet, becomes the new target of a group of soulless pranksters.

4.7

Between Two Women

Mar 10, 1986

When shy school teacher Val and Harry, the son of an aged opera singer, get married, Val quickly discovers that Harry's mother, Barbara, is not very happy with their union. In fact, Barbara tries to separate the couple. But, when Barbara suffers a debilitating stroke, Val's compassion and empathy mend the rift between two women, giving Barbara the will to survive. But will Barbara learn to love her daughter-in-law?

5.3

Beefcake

Sep 1, 1998

A look at the 1950s muscle men's magazines and the representative industry which were popular supposedly as health and fitness magazines, but were in reality primarily being purchased by the still-underground homosexual community. Chief among the purveyors of this literature was Bob Mizer, who maintained a magazine and developed sexually inexplicit men's films for over 40 years. Aided by his mother, the two maintained a stable of not so innocent studs.

6.0

Ford: The Man and the Machine

May 11, 1987

Adapted from a book by Robert Lacey, this biographical film chronicles both the private and public life of automobile manufacturer Henry Ford (Cliff Robertson).