Drama, Romance
After a childhood of abuse by his evangelistic father, misfit Oscar Hopkins becomes an Anglican minister and develops a divine obsession with gambling. Lucinda Leplastrier is a rich Australian heiress shopping in London for materials for her newly acquired glass factory back home. Deciding to travel to Australia as a missionary, Oscar meets Lucinda aboard ship, and a mutual obsession blossoms. They make a wager that will alter each of their destinies.
MOVIE COMMENTS
SIMILAR MOVIES
Krb bez ohně
Faustine and the Beautiful Summer
Waitress
Overboard
The Thing from Another World
Tell No One
Nothing Else Matters
Water Lilies
Lord of the Flies
The Butterfly Tree
Shooting My Life's Script
Wildlife
Stříbrná oblaka
Metropolis
My Life Without Me
Apocalypse Now
Blade Runner
Anatomy of a Murder
Open Hearts
Italian for Beginners
SIMILAR MOVIES
Krb bez ohně
IMDB 0 | Mar , 1937
Faustine and the Beautiful Summer
IMDB 6.1 | Jan , 1972
Faustine suffers the wounds of first love. During a summer when she is staying with her grandmother, she comes to know the nearby neighbors. Two brothers live in the large house. One is divorced and one has recently remarried, both of them live there with their teenaged and adult children. Though the boys of the household are drawn to Faustine, she grows ever more smitten with the divorced older man...Waitress
IMDB 6.7 | May , 2007
Jenna is a pregnant, unhappily married waitress in the deep south. She meets a newcomer to her town and falls into an unlikely relationship as a last attempt at happiness.Overboard
IMDB 6.8 | Dec , 1987
Heiress Joanna Stayton hires carpenter Dean Proffitt to build a closet on her yacht—and refuses to pay him for the project when it's done. But after Joanna accidentally falls overboard and loses her memory, Dean sees an opportunity to get even.The Thing from Another World
IMDB 6.7 | Apr , 1951
Scientists and US Air Force officials fend off a blood-thirsty alien organism while investigating at a remote arctic outpost.Tell No One
IMDB 7.2 | Nov , 2006
A man receives a mysterious e-mail appearing to be from his wife, who was murdered years earlier. As he frantically tries to find out whether she's alive, he finds himself being implicated in her death.Nothing Else Matters
IMDB 5.1 | May , 2008
Carla, the runaway with high aims. Lucie, the street girl. Interchanged identities and a shared baby. Collage of a fateful year.Water Lilies
IMDB 6.5 | May , 2007
Set during a sultry summer in a French suburb, Marie is desperate to join the local pool's synchronized swimming team, but is her interest solely for the sake of sport or for a chance to get close to Floriane, the bad girl of the team? Sciamma, and the two leads, capture the uncertainty of teenage sexuality with a sympathetic eye in this delicate drama of the angst of coming-of-age.Lord of the Flies
IMDB 6.4 | Mar , 1990
When their plane crashes, 25 schoolboys find themselves trapped on a tropical island, miles from civilization.The Butterfly Tree
IMDB 6.4 | Nov , 2017
Evelyn, an ex-burlesque queen, bewitches single dad Al and his teenage son Fin with her zest for life. When father and son discover they are competing for the affections of the same woman, it reopens old wounds over the death of Fin's mother.Shooting My Life's Script
IMDB 7 | Feb , 2024
Everything changes in Fani's life when the opportunity arises to do an exchange program and live in another country for a year. The revealing conversations by phone or MSN and the constant notes during the class turn to another subject: the upcoming trip.Wildlife
IMDB 6.6 | Sep , 2018
14-year-old Joe is the only child of Jeanette and Jerry — a housewife and a golf pro — in a small town in 1960s Montana. Nearby, an uncontrolled forest fire rages close to the Canadian border, and when Jerry loses his job (and his sense of purpose) he decides to join the cause of fighting the fire, leaving his wife and son to fend for themselves.Stříbrná oblaka
IMDB 0 | Sep , 1938
Metropolis
IMDB 8.1 | Feb , 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.My Life Without Me
IMDB 6 | Mar , 2003
A fatally ill mother with only two months to live creates a list of things she wants to do before she dies without telling her family of her illness.Apocalypse Now
IMDB 8.3 | May , 1979
At the height of the Vietnam war, Captain Benjamin Willard is sent on a dangerous mission that, officially, "does not exist, nor will it ever exist." His goal is to locate - and eliminate - a mysterious Green Beret Colonel named Walter Kurtz, who has been leading his personal army on illegal guerrilla missions into enemy territory.Blade Runner
IMDB 7.9 | Jun , 1982
In the smog-choked dystopian Los Angeles of 2019, blade runner Rick Deckard is called out of retirement to terminate a quartet of replicants who have escaped to Earth seeking their creator for a way to extend their short life spans.Anatomy of a Murder
IMDB 7.8 | Jul , 1959
Semi-retired Michigan lawyer Paul Biegler takes the case of Army Lt. Manion, who murdered a local innkeeper after his wife claimed that he raped her. Over the course of an extensive trial, Biegler parries with District Attorney Lodwick and out-of-town prosecutor Claude Dancer to set his client free, but his case rests on the victim's mysterious business partner, who's hiding a dark secret.Open Hearts
IMDB 6.9 | Sep , 2002
Cecilie and Joachim are about to get married when a freak car accident leaves Joachim disabled, throwing their lives into a spin. The driver of the other car, Marie, and her family don’t get off lightly, either. Her husband Niels works in the hospital where he meets Cecilie and falls madly in love with her.Italian for Beginners
IMDB 6.3 | Dec , 2000
Several lonely hearts in a semi-provincial suburb of a town in Denmark use a beginner's course in Italian as the platform to meet the romance of their lives. The film, which unspools the connections and family drama shared between the students, complies with several aesthetic principles of Dogme 95 movement.