Drama
London, 1953. Mr. Williams, a veteran civil servant, is an important cog within the city's bureaucracy as it struggles to rebuild in the aftermath of World War II. Buried under paperwork at the office and lonely at home, his life has long felt empty and meaningless. Then a devastating medical diagnosis forces him to take stock, and to try and grasp some fulfilment before it passes permanently beyond reach.
MOVIE COMMENTS
SIMILAR MOVIES
You Don't Know Jack
Boiling Point
The Defiant Ones
Vanity Fair
Always - Sunset on Third Street
Withnail & I
October Sky
Intimate Enemies
Breath of Life
Henry Poole Is Here
Kidulthood
Scrooge
Flawless
The Living and the Dead
Ditto
Janta Ki Adalat
M*A*S*H
Ben-Hur
The Last Emperor
Cheaper by the Dozen
SIMILAR MOVIES
You Don't Know Jack
IMDB 7.1 | Jun , 2010
Controversy and legal problems follow Dr. Jack Kevorkian as he advocates assisted suicide.Boiling Point
IMDB 7.2 | Jul , 2021
A head chef balances multiple personal and professional crises at a popular restaurant in London.The Defiant Ones
IMDB 4.7 | Jan , 1986
Monroe and 'Joker' Johnson are two prisoners who despise each other. But after their prison transport crashes, they manage to escape chained to each other.Vanity Fair
IMDB 5.8 | Sep , 2004
Beautiful, funny, passionate, and calculating, Becky is the orphaned daughter of a starving English artist and a French chorus girl. She yearns for a more glamorous life than her birthright promises and resolves to conquer English society by any means possible. A mere ascension into the heights of society is simply not enough. So Becky finds a patron in the powerful Marquess of Steyne whose whims enable Becky to realise her dreams. But is the ultimate cost too high for her?Always - Sunset on Third Street
IMDB 7.6 | Nov , 2005
Teenage Mutsuko comes to Tokyo for work but ends up at a repair shop. She befriends the owner's family. Neighbors Hiromi, writer Chagawa with admirer Junnosuke strive alongside them in postwar Tokyo's evolution.Withnail & I
IMDB 7.3 | Jun , 1987
Two out-of-work actors -- the anxious, luckless Marwood and his acerbic, alcoholic friend, Withnail -- spend their days drifting between their squalid flat, the unemployment office and the pub. When they take a holiday "by mistake" at the country house of Withnail's flamboyantly gay uncle, Monty, they encounter the unpleasant side of the English countryside: tedium, terrifying locals and torrential rain.October Sky
IMDB 7.7 | Feb , 1999
Based on the true story of Homer Hickam, a coal miner's son who was inspired by the first Sputnik launch to take up rocketry against his father's wishes, and eventually became a NASA scientist.Intimate Enemies
IMDB 6.3 | Oct , 2007
A drama following a French platoon during Algeria's war of independence.Breath of Life
IMDB 0 | Oct , 1990
Set in Italy in 1946 just after World War 2, the film explores the lives and emotions of a group of patients who are terminally ill and confined to an isolated sanatorium.Henry Poole Is Here
IMDB 5.9 | Aug , 2008
Henry Poole abandons his fiancée and family business to spend what he believes are his remaining days alone. The discovery of a 'miracle' by a nosy neighbor ruptures his solitude and restores his faith in life.Kidulthood
IMDB 6.3 | Mar , 2006
A day in the life of a group of troubled 15-year-olds growing up in west London.Scrooge
IMDB 7.4 | Nov , 1951
Ebenezer Scrooge malcontentedly shuffles through life as a cruel, miserly businessman; until he is visited by three spirits on Christmas Eve who show him how his unhappy childhood and adult behavior has left him a selfish, lonely old man.Flawless
IMDB 6.7 | Sep , 2007
A female executive and a night janitor conspire to commit a daring diamond heist from their mutual employer, The London Diamond Corporation.The Living and the Dead
IMDB 6.4 | Sep , 2006
Lord Donald and Lady Nancy reside in the magnificent but run-down Longleigh House with James, their mentally disabled adult son. Nancy has fallen seriously ill and Donald is preparing to sell the house to raise enough money to pay for an operation. He arranges for the family nurse, Mary, to take care of Nancy while he leaves to tend to the sale. However, James wants to prove to his father that he can look after his mother on his own and decides to lock Mary out of the house. It isn't long before James starts mixing his mother's pills and forgetting to take his own medication, and as the stress of looking after his mother increases, so too does the severity of his own condition.Ditto
IMDB 6.6 | Nov , 2022
A story about the love and friendship that takes place in an era where a man and a woman communicate through radio by chance.Janta Ki Adalat
IMDB 5.2 | Jul , 1994
fight from honest police officer against rural thugs..M*A*S*H
IMDB 7 | Feb , 1970
The staff of a Korean War field hospital use humor and hijinks to keep their sanity in the face of the horror of war.Ben-Hur
IMDB 7.9 | Nov , 1959
In 25 AD, Judah Ben-Hur, a Jew in ancient Judea, opposes the occupying Roman empire. Falsely accused by a Roman childhood friend-turned-overlord of trying to kill the Roman governor, he is put into slavery and his mother and sister are taken away as prisoners.The Last Emperor
IMDB 7.6 | Oct , 1987
A dramatic history of Pu Yi, the last of the Emperors of China, from his lofty birth and brief reign in the Forbidden City, the object of worship by half a billion people; through his abdication, his decline and dissolute lifestyle; his exploitation by the invading Japanese, and finally to his obscure existence as just another peasant worker in the People's Republic.Cheaper by the Dozen
IMDB 6.3 | Dec , 2003
The Baker brood moves to Chicago after patriarch Tom gets a job coaching football at Northwestern University, forcing his writer wife, Mary, and the couple's 12 children to make a major adjustment. The transition works well until work demands pull the parents away from home, leaving the kids bored -- and increasingly mischievous.