logologo
MovieVerse© 2024
Privacy PolicyTerms of ServiceContact Us
Made with ❤️ by Thathsara
movie poster
Downhill
Sign in to create your own watchlist

Downhill

Oct 24, 1927
1h 46m
★ 5.7

A College Hero round whom is woven a picture of Love and Treachery.

Overview

When school captain Roddy Berwick takes the blame for his friend’s scandal, he is expelled and disowned by his family. Cast out of his privileged world, Roddy drifts through a series of humiliations—from waiter to penniless actor to gigolo—descending ever further into ruin and self-disgust.

Genres

Drama

Production Companies

Gainsborough Pictures

Downhill Trailers

You may also like

The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
7.9

The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari

Feb 27, 1920

Francis, a young man, recalls in his memory the horrible experiences he and his fiancée Jane recently went through. Francis and his friend Alan visit The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, an exhibit where the mysterious doctor shows the somnambulist Cesare, and awakens him for some moments from his death-like sleep.

Metropolis
8.1

Metropolis

Feb 6, 1927

In a futuristic city sharply divided between the rich and the poor, the son of the city's mastermind meets a prophet who predicts the coming of a savior to mediate their differences.

Blind Chance
7.5

Blind Chance

Jan 10, 1987

Witek runs after a train. Three variations follow on how such a seemingly banal incident could influence the rest of Witek's life.

Mifune
6.9

Mifune

Mar 12, 1999

Kresten, newly wed, is on the threshold of a great career success in his father-in-law’s company. But when the death of his own father takes him back to his poverty-stricken childhood home, far out in the country, his career plans fall apart. For one thing he has to deal with his loveable, backward brother, who is now all alone; for another, he meets a stunning woman who comes to the farm as a housekeeper, in disguise of her real profession as a call-girl.

Bad Education
7.4

Bad Education

Mar 19, 2004

An examination on the effect of Franco-era religious schooling and sexual abuse on the lives of two longtime friends.

Green Street Hooligans
7.3

Green Street Hooligans

Sep 9, 2005

After being wrongfully expelled from Harvard University, American Matt Buckner flees to his sister's home in England. Once there, he is befriended by her charming and dangerous brother-in-law, Pete Dunham, and introduced to the underworld of British football hooliganism. Matt learns to stand his ground through a friendship that develops against the backdrop of this secret and often violent world. 'Green Street Hooligans' is a story of loyalty, trust and the sometimes brutal consequences of living close to the edge.

Proof
6.3

Proof

Sep 5, 2005

Catherine is a woman in her late twenties who is strongly devoted to her father, Robert, a brilliant and well-known mathematician whose grip on reality is beginning to slip away. As Robert descends into madness, Catherine begins to wonder if she may have inherited her father's mental illness along with his mathematical genius.

Art School Confidential
6.1

Art School Confidential

May 5, 2006

Starting from childhood attempts at illustration, the protagonist pursues his true obsession to art school. But as he learns how the art world really works, he finds that he must adapt his vision to the reality that confronts him.

Fifth Avenue
0.0

Fifth Avenue

Jan 24, 1926

When her cotton crop is burned, Barbara Pelham, a beautiful southern girl, comes to New York to find work as a fashion designer, staying with Mrs. Kemp, a woman she meets on the northbound train. In Mrs. Kemp's house, Barbara encounters Peter Heffner, a wealthy stockbroker, and discovers from him that she has taken up residence in a whorehouse. There is a police raid, but Barbara escapes arrest and returns home. Heffner's son, Neil, goes south to inspect some family property and there meets Barbara, with whom he falls in love. They decide to be married, and she accompanies him to New York, where she meets the elder Heffner for a second time. He denounces her as a whore, but Barbara goes to Mrs. Kemp, who explains the misunderstanding to everyone's satisfaction.

Candyman
6.6

Candyman

Oct 16, 1992

The Candyman, a murderous soul with a hook for a hand, is accidentally summoned to reality by a skeptic grad student researching the monster's myth.

Stay
6.6

Stay

Sep 24, 2005

Psychiatrist Sam Foster has a new patient, Henry Letham, who claims to be suicidal. In trying to diagnose him, Sam visits Henry's prior therapist and also finds Henry's mother -- even though Henry has said that he murdered both of his parents. As reality starts to contradict fact, Sam spirals into an unstable mental state. Then he finds a clue as to how and when Henry may try to kill himself, and races to try to stop him.

N'Diangane
7.0

N'Diangane

Jan 2, 1975

This film presents a harsh critique of the Koranic teaching through the tragic story of a small talibé, student of a beggar.

The Mistletoe Bough
5.5

The Mistletoe Bough

Nov 30, 1904

During a game of hide and seek, a new bride hides in a chest and remains undiscovered until a strange visitation thirty years later.

Crazy
6.3

Crazy

Jun 8, 2000

Benjamin, a 16-year-old with lousy grades, switches to a boarding school in order to eventually reach grammar school. Adjusting to his new environment is difficult as he has to struggle with being a teen... specially when he falls in love to the school's dream girl, Malen.

The Forest for the Trees
6.5

The Forest for the Trees

Sep 16, 2004

As an awkward idealistic high school teacher begins her first job in the city, things turn out to be much tougher than she had imagined.

Before the Fall
7.0

Before the Fall

Jul 4, 2004

In 1942, Friedrich Weimer's boxing skills get him an appointment to a National Political Academy (NaPolA) – high schools that produce Nazi elite. Over his father's objections, Friedrich enrolls. During his year in seventh column, Friedrich encounters hazing, cruelty, death, and the Nazi code. His friendship with Albrecht, the ascetic son of the area's governor, is central to this education.

The Teacher
6.5

The Teacher

Sep 13, 2017

Teacher in the most prestigious highschool in the country, François enjoys the life he’s always known, in the intellectual and bourgeois society of Paris. Trapped in a situation where he’s forced to accept a job in a school of a tough underprivileged suburb, he finds himself confronted to his own limits and to the upheaval of his values and certainties.

A Venetian Night
6.0

A Venetian Night

Apr 15, 1914

The young Anselmus Aselmeyer fulfilled a long cherished dream: He travels to Venice, the city of his dreams. Once there, the porter Pipistrello directs him immediately to the hotel of his boss, and Anselmus lands in the middle of a wedding party. Mestre Mangiabene, a wealthy oilman, marries the beautiful but completely depleted Marchesina dei Bisognosi. But the secretly loves an officer.

Leading Lady
5.4

Leading Lady

Jun 7, 2014

An idealistic British drama school teacher, Jodi Rutherford, persuades a cynical South African farmer to prepare her for a role in a major film as an Afrikaans war heroine. In return Jodi undertakes to direct the annual concert on the Willemse farm. Jodi's interaction with the quirky small town citizens and the stubborn Kobus, teaches her that: "there is more to life than lights... camera... and action!"

Faust
7.9

Faust

Oct 13, 1926

God and Satan war over earth; to settle things, they wager on the soul of Faust, a learned and prayerful alchemist.

Cast

Ivor Novello

Roddy Berwick

Ivor Novello

Ben Webster

Dr. Dawson

Ben Webster

Norman McKinnel

Sir Thomas Berwick

Norman McKinnel

Robin Irvine

Tim Wakeley

Robin Irvine

Jerrold Robertshaw

The Rev. Henry Wakeley

Jerrold Robertshaw

Sybil Rhoda

Sybil Wakeley

Sybil Rhoda

Annette Benson

Mabel

Annette Benson

Lilian Braithwaite

Lady Berwick

Lilian Braithwaite

Isabel Jeans

Julia

Isabel Jeans

Ian Hunter

Archie

Ian Hunter

Hannah Jones

Dresser

Hannah Jones

Barbara Gott

Madame Michet

Barbara Gott