Actress Susan Lynch (1971)

Agnès Merlet directs the fantasy thriller film, Hideaways (2011), written by Nick Murphy. Starring Rachel Hurd-Wood and Harry Treadaway, it is a co-production between France, Ireland, and Sweden. James Furlong comes from a long line of family members with strange abilities. His grandfather, Charlie, would go temporarily blind at the thought of sex while his father, Philip, could shut off electrical devices when frightened. Despite a tumultuous birth resulting in the death of ...

Filmmaker Shekhar Kapur released a biographical historical drama called Elizabeth: The Golden Age (2007). During this time, Catholic Spain, under the rule of King Philip II, held immense power in Europe. Despite multiple Catholic plots against Queen Elizabeth’s life in the 1570s, all were ultimately unsuccessful. Pope Sixtus V then turned to King Philip and convinced him to use his formidable naval force for invading and re-Catholicizing England. This plan would result in the overthrow of Elizabeth and give control of England to Philip with the pope’s approval. As part of this plot, Philip plans to have his ...