Barbara Jefford

The Ninth Gate -- A rare book dealer, while seeking out the last two copies of a demon text, gets drawn into a conspiracy with supernatural overtones.

The Shoes of the Fisherman -- Based on the best-selling book by Morris L. West, this sweeping epic follows Anthony Quinn as a Russian political prisoner who becomes Pope and tries to prevent an atomic war.

When recent widow Lilia Herriton traveled to Italy, she fell in love with handsome, charming, and penniless Gino Carella. The marriage between Lilia and Gino sparked a conflict with her family and friends that will change them all forever. All of their proper lives are torn apart by the conflict between love, awakening sexual passion, and 19th century propriety created when a widow follows her heart. Starring Rupert Graves ("V for Vendetta," "The Madness of King George"), Academy Award, Golden Globe and Emmy Award-winner Helen Mirren ("The Queen," "Elizabeth I"), Academy Award, Golden Globe and Emmy Award-nominee Helena Bonham Carter ("The Wings of the Dove," "Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street"), and Academy Award-nominee, Golden Globe and Emmy Award-winner Judy Davis ("A Passage to India," "Husbands and Wives").

Johnny Depp unlocks the gates to hell in Roman Polanski's thriller, The Ninth Gate. Depp stars as Dean Corso, an unscrupulous rare-book dealer who is hired to locate the last remaining copies of "The Nine Gate of the Shadow Kingdom," a demonic manuscript that can summon the Devil. Corso becomes embroiled in a conspiracy involving murder, theft and satanic ritual, and ultimately finds himself confronting the devil incarnate.

A rare book dealer, while seeking out the last two copies of a demon text, gets drawn into a conspiracy with supernatural overtones.

A rare book dealer, while seeking out the last two copies of a demon text, gets drawn into a conspiracy with supernatural overtones.

Rare book broker, Dean Corso, is hired by a millionaire to locate one the last remaining copies of a rare book that was supposedly co-authored by the devil. Corso soon becomes embroiled in a conspiracy involving murder, theft and satanic rituals.

An original and delightfully gruesome slasher film, Saint Nick re-imagines jolly old Saint Nick as a murderous bishop fulfilling a grisly prophecy under the December full moon. Packed with creative yuletide horror, Saint is a fun chiller that follows local teen Frank (Weeber) as he sets out on a bloody, high-energy battle to save Amsterdam from the wrathful “Sinterklaas” and his minions.

A film adaptation of William Shakespeare's famous play in which four lovers sort out their problems with the help of fairies at midnight in the forest of Athens.

Film version of Shakespeare's comedy performed by members of the Royal Shakespeare Company.

Based on the best-selling book by Morris L. West, this sweeping epic follows Academy Award-winner Anthony Quinn ("Zorba the Greek", "Lawrence of Arabia") as a Russian political prisoner who becomes Pope and tries to prevent an atomic war. Also starring Oscar-winners Sir Lawrence Olivier ("Wuthering Heights," "Marathon Man") and Sir John Gielgud ("Arthur," "Ghandi"), and TV's original "Fugitive," David Janssen. Received Oscar nominations for Best Original Score and Art Direction.

Peter Hall directs this fine Royal Shakespeare Company adaptation of the Bard's most pixilated romantic comedy about a group of amorous adults -- under a fairy's spell -- that couple and uncouple at the slightest provocation. ("What fools these mortals be.") Stars Diana Rigg, Judi Dench, Ian Holm, Helen Mirren, Ian Richardson and David Warner. One of Shakespeare's most magical plays (and unusual in that it lacks a written source for the plot).