Videoteca

Sarafina! 1992 star_border 6.1
The plot centers on students involved in the Soweto Riots, in opposition to the implementation of Afrikaans as the language of instruction in schools. The stage version presents a school uprising similar to the Soweto uprising on June 16, 1976. A narrator introduces several characters among them the school girl activist Sarafina. Things get out of control when a policeman shoots several pupils in a classroom. Nevertheless, the musical ends with a cheerful farewell show of pupils leaving school, which takes most of act two. In the movie version Sarafina feels shame at her mother's (played by Miriam Makeba in the film) acceptance of her role as domestic servant in a white household in apartheid South Africa, and inspires her peers to rise up in protest, especially after her inspirational teacher, Mary Masombuka (played by Whoopi Goldberg in the film version) is imprisoned.

Love and Poison 1950 star_border 8
Christina of Sweden, in exile in Rome, takes a handsome Italian officer as her lover. But he is in love with the very young wife of an elderly count. After many adventures, duels, settling of old scores, the officer and the countess get married. Former Queen Christina finds herself another captain of the guard.

Old Bill Through the Ages 1924
A soldier serving in the trenches during the First World War falls asleep and travels through time, encountering a number of historical figures.

Wuthering Heights 1920
The first screen adaptation of Emily Bronte's book about star cross'd lovers who demolish themselves and everyone around them with their self-destructive love.

General Post 1920 star_border 6.5
An aristocrat allows his daughter to marry a tailor after he wins the VC saving his son's life.

Mr. Gilfil's Love Story 1920
Based on the short story from George Eliot's 1857 work Scenes of a Clerical life. A chaplain to an aristocratic British family falls in love with their ward, a young Italian woman, who he marries. Tragedy strikes when she dies only a few months later leaving him in a state of grief.

The Life Story of David Lloyd George 1918 star_border 5.8
A biopic of Britain's Great War Prime Minister.

Masks and Faces 1917 star_border 4.5
An actress cures an aged flirt by posing as his wife.

The Vicar of Wakefield 1916 star_border 5.5
A squire jails a vicar for debt and fakes a marriage to his daughter.

Lady Windermere's Fan 1916 star_border 5
Early silent version of the Oscar Wilde play.