Tag: country estate

  • The Living Daylights

    After a defecting Russian general reveals a plot to assassinate foreign spies, James Bond is assigned a secret mission to dispatch the new head of the KGB to prevent an escalation of tensions between the Soviet Union and the West.

  • La Belle Noiseuse

    The former famous painter Frenhofer lives quietly with his wife on a countryside residence in the French Provence. When the young artist Nicolas visits him with his girlfriend Marianne, Frenhofer decides to start again the work on a painting he long ago stopped: La Belle Noiseuse. And he wants Marianne as model.

  • Heavy Weather

    At Blandings Castle, the Earl of Emsworth only cares about his prize pig ‘The Empress’ and is wilfully ignorant of the fact that his brother is planning to publish a book which might ruin the family name forever. Moreover, the Earl’s nephew might cause the family some major damage by getting married to a terribly…

  • Gosford Park

    In 1930s England, a group of pretentious rich and famous gather together for a weekend of relaxation at a hunting resort. But when a murder occurs, each one of these interesting characters becomes a suspect.

  • The Importance of Being Earnest

    Two young gentlemen living in 1890s England use the same pseudonym (‘Ernest’) on the sly, which is fine until they both fall in love with women using that name, which leads to a comedy of mistaken identities.