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Robert Downey Jr stars as a 17th-century young doctor exploited by King Charles II. Director Michael Hoffman’s 1995 film Restoration is based on the 1989 novel by Rose Tremaine, and stars Robert Downey Jr, Sam […]
Director Terence Fisher’s minor, unremarkable 1952 drama film Distant Trumpet stars Derek Bond as a London Harley Street doctor, David Anthony, who takes over from his indisposed brother Richard Anthony (Derek Elphinstone) to perform medical […]
Director Luis Buñuel’s 1956 French-Italian film Cela S’Appelle l’Aurore [That Is the Dawn] is a rather straightforward sentimental love story melodrama with just the odd touch of the moral issues and no surrealism from Buñuel […]
Director Roger Christian’s 1994 biographical drama Nostradamus tells the story of famed 16th-century doctor, physician, astrologer, prognosticator and visionary Nostradamus (Tchéky Karyo), who clashes with the authorities over the bloodletting treatment of the plague, which […]
Beautifully acted and exquisitely written, co-writer/director Lisa Cholodenko’s poignant, funny, truthful 2010 comedy drama hits to the bone. Annette Bening and Julianne Moore play physician Nic and landscape designer Jules, a couple who share a complicated […]
Richard Lester takes us back to the San Francisco-style kookie Swinging Sixties era, in the interesting but shaky 1968 romantic drama film Petulia. Julie Christie stars as the Arch Kook Petulia, a zany young British […]
Director Henry Cass’s neat and nimble 1950 small-scale black comedy stars Alec Guinness, who is his usual expert and excellent self in a subtly sentimental, neatly scripted original story and screenplay by J B Priestley. […]