Phoebe Nicholls Movies

Genres: Drama    Family    Fantasy    Mystery   

Starring: Harvey Keitel, Jason Salkey, Peter O'Toole, Lara Morgan, Adam Franks, ...

Based on a famous "Cottingley fairies" hoax perpetrated by two English girls
during World War I in 1917, "FairyTale: A True Story" presents alternate
views of reality to suggest that, like the view of Aborigines, dreams are as
real as conscious reality. If you take the special effects fairies too
literally in this film, you will miss the point. The film plays a trick on
you, ju...

Genres: Drama    Romance   

Starring: James Wilby, Hugh Grant, Rupert Graves, Denholm Elliott, Simon Callow, ...

‘Maurice' had a deep emotional impact on me when I first saw it in my early
teens, more than ten years ago. I just saw it again for the first time since
then and I was a bit worried that I would be disappointed, but then I was
definitely not. It still had the same magic.To me, this is the #1 Merchant-Ivory work. I find this movie astoundingly
profound compared to several other...

Genres: Biography    Drama    History   

Starring: Anthony Hopkins, John Hurt, Anne Bancroft, John Gielgud, Wendy Hiller, ...

If one was to turn on David Lynch's The Elephant Man midway through,
without knowing what it was, one might be startled at the appearance of
the main character. One might even be tempted to make fun of the
character. But if one was to watch the film from the beginning, one's
sympathy with John Merrick (John Hurt), 'The Elephant Man,' would be
strong enough to deny that the form...

Genres: Drama    Romance   

Starring: Alan Bates, Oliver Reed, Glenda Jackson, Jennie Linden, Eleanor Bron, ...

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