Richard Burton – IDLIX

Nineteen Eighty-Four

Sun, 24 Aug 2025 18:21:16 +0000

George Orwell’s novel of a totalitarian future society in which a man whose daily work is rewriting history tries to rebel by falling in love.

Absolution

Sun, 24 Aug 2025 12:50:24 +0000

At a Catholic boys’ school, domineering disciplinarian Father Goddard rules over his pupils with an iron hand. When one of his teenage charges confesses to murder, the dogmatic but deeply repressed Goddard finds his faith challenged and his life spiralling dangerously out of control.

The Wild Geese

Sun, 24 Aug 2025 11:31:07 +0000

A British multinational company seeks to overthrow a vicious dictator in central Africa. It hires a band of (largely aged) mercenaries in London and sends them in to save the virtuous but imprisoned opposition leader who is also critically ill and due for execution. Just when the team has performed a perfect rescue, the multinational does a deal with the vicious dictator leaving the mercenary band to escape under their own steam and exact revenge.

The Medusa Touch

Sun, 24 Aug 2025 11:20:19 +0000

A French detective in London reconstructs the life of a man lying in hospital with severe injuries with the help of journals and a psychiatrist. He realises that the man had powerful telekinetic abilities.

Exorcist II: The Heretic

Sun, 24 Aug 2025 10:35:30 +0000

Bizarre nightmares plague Regan MacNeil four years after her possession and exorcism. Has the demon returned? And if so, can the combined faith and knowledge of a Vatican investigator and a research specialist free her from its grasp?

Equus

Sun, 24 Aug 2025 10:35:26 +0000

A psychiatrist, Martin Dysart, investigates the savage blinding of six horses with a metal spike in a stable in Hampshire, England. The atrocity was committed by an unassuming seventeen-year-old stable boy named Alan Strang, the only son of an opinionated but inwardly-timid father and a genteel, religious mother. As Dysart exposes the truths behind the boy’s demons, he finds himself face-to-face with his own.

The Klansman

Sun, 24 Aug 2025 09:00:30 +0000

A small southern town has just been rocked by a tragedy: a young white woman has been raped by a black man. When young black man Garth witnesses the Ku Klux Klan’s violent retaliation against his innocent friend, Garth declares a one-man war on the Klan and hunts them down one-by-one.

Brief Encounter

Sun, 24 Aug 2025 08:40:40 +0000

Two strangers, both married to others, meet in a railway station and soon find themselves in a brief but intense affair.

Under Milk Wood

Sun, 24 Aug 2025 08:32:23 +0000

The delightful if peculiar story of a day in the life of a small, Welsh fishing village called “Llareggub” in which we meet a host of curious characters (and ghosts) through the ‘eyes’ of Blind Captain Cat.

Massacre in Rome

Sun, 24 Aug 2025 08:25:25 +0000

In the Nazi occupied city of Rome, an assault on an SS brigade draws retaliation from the military governship. “Massacre in Rome” is the true story of how this partisan attack led to the mass execution of Italian nationals under the orders of SS-Lieutenant Colonel Kappler.