Results for: books tagged ‘Violence’
The Homecoming: Harold Pinter
When Teddy, a professor in an American university, brings his wife Ruth to visit his old home in London, he finds his family still living in the house. In the ... More
Un Chien Andalou: Luis Bunuel
Un Chien Andalou, the most influential of all surrealist films, has shocked, provoked and puzzled audiences and critics since its release in 1929.Luis Bunuel's first film was a collaboration with ... More
Blood Simple & Raising Arizona: Joel Coen and Ethan Coen
The screenplays of the first two films by the Coen Brothers. Blood Simple is a contemporary noir thriller in which a woman commits adultery and her estranged husband hires a ... More
Difficulties of a Bridegroom: Ted Hughes
'These nine pieces hang together, in my mind, as an accompaniment to my poems'. So wrote Ted Hughes in the foreword to this collection, taken from forty years of occasional ... More
The General: John Boorman
The General is the story of Martin Cahill - a working-class Dubliner who was the mastermind behind a series of daring robberies that stunned Ireland in the 1980s. Despite being ... More
Bonnie and Clyde: David Newman
Based on the true-life exploits of the 1930s Barrow gang, Bonnie & Clyde is not only one of the most entertaining films in Hollywood's history, but also one of the ... More
Pulp Fiction: Quentin Tarantino
Winner of the Academy Award for Best Screenplay and the prestigious Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival, Pulp Fiction exploded on to the screen in 1994 and transformed the ... More
The Villain's Opera: Nick Dear
Under cover of his South London pub, Peachum plies a successful trade in small-time scams. But his world is shattered when the charismatic villain, Macheath, not only plans to marry ... More
Curfew and Other Stories: Sean O'Reilly
Sean O'Reilly's characters inhabit a world that can seem dangerously indifferent to human feeling but alive to the thrills of living on the edge. Unnecessary risks are taken which are ... More
Gagarin Way: Gregory Burke
Gagarin Way, by Dunfermline playwright Gregory Burke, is a cruel, funny first play about a human heist gone horribly wrong.Winner of the Meyer/Whitworth Award 2002, Winner of the Critics' Circle ... More
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