St. Ives

St. Ives

1998 · 90 min · ★ 5.5 · Drama, Romance

In 1813, Capitaine Jacques St. Ives, a Hussar in the Napoleonic wars, is captured and sent to a Scottish prison camp. He's a swashbuckler, so the prison's commander, Major Farquar Bolingbroke Chevening, asks for lessons in communicating with women. Both men have their eyes on the lovely Flora, who resides with her aunt, the iconoclastic and well-traveled Miss Susan Emily Gilcrist. By chance, living close to the camp is Jacques's grandfather and brother, whom Jacques believes died years before. Jacques decides to escape, find his relatives, and win the hand of Flora; Major Chevening and an unforeseen enemy stand in his way. Can Miss Gilcrist contrive to make everything work out?

Directed by Harry Hook · Written by Allan Cubitt

Your Rating

Cast

Jean-Marc Barr Captain Jacques de Keroual de Saint-Yves
Miranda Richardson Susan Gilchrist
Chris McHallem Gautier
Richard E. Grant Major Farquhar Chevening
Anna Friel Flora Gilchrist
Jason Isaacs Alain de Keroual de Saint-Yves
Michael Gough Comte de Saint-Yves
Cécile Pallas Mathilde
Tim Dutton François
Vernon Dobtcheff Bonnefoy
Barney Craig Linlithgow
Desmond Barrit Biggerstaff

Make it a double feature

3h together

St. Ives

The Many Lives of Albert Walker

Both from Harry Hook.

More from Harry HookSee all →

The Many Lives of Albert Walker

The Many Lives of Albert Walker · 2002

The Many Lives of Albert Walker

After killing his English partner, a Canadian businessman assumes his identity. Things begin to fall apart for him when the murdered man's body is found.

Silent Witness

Silent Witness · 1996

SeriesCrimeDrama

A team of exceptional forensic pathologists and scientists investigate heinous crimes and use their skills to catch the people responsible.

The Last of His Tribe

The Last of His Tribe · 1992

The Last of His Tribe

MovieDramaWestern

Ishi, the last Yahi Indian of California, must leave his homeland and learn to navigate the world of the white man in order to survive.

The Kitchen Toto

The Kitchen Toto · 1988

The Kitchen Toto

The son of a priest slain by the Mau Mau moves in with a police officer and his wife in 1950 Kenya.

Lord of the Flies

Lord of the Flies · 1990

Lord of the Flies

MovieAdventureDrama

When their plane crashes, 25 schoolboys find themselves trapped on a tropical island, miles from civilization.

David Suchet: People I Have Shot

David Suchet: People I Have Shot · 2012

David Suchet: People I Have Shot

MovieDocumentary

David Suchet follows in the footsteps of his grandfather, Fleet Street photographer Jimmy Jarche, in a quest to capture on camera how Britain has changed in the past century.

More Like This

Three Times

Three Times · 2005

MovieRomanceDrama

In three separate segments, set respectively in 1966, 1911, and 2005, three love stories unfold between three sets of characters, under three different periods of Taiwanese history and governance.

Class of 1984

Class of 1984 · 1982

MovieActionCrime

Andy is a new teacher at an inner city high school that is unlike any he has seen before. There are metal detectors at the front door and the place is basically run by a tough kid named Peter Stegman. Soon, Andy and Stegman become enemies and Stegman will stop at nothing to protect his turf and drug dealing business.

The Silence

The Silence · 1963

MovieDramaRomance

Traveling through an unnamed European country on the brink of war, sickly, intellectual Ester, her sister Anna and Anna's young son, Johan, check into a near-empty hotel. A basic inability to communicate among the three seems only to worsen during their stay. Anna provokes her sister by enjoying a dalliance with a local man, while the boy, left to himself, has a series of enigmatic encounters that heighten the growing air of isolation.

The Wendell Baker Story

The Wendell Baker Story · 2005

The Wendell Baker Story

MovieComedyDrama

Luke Wilson plays a good-hearted ex-con who gets a job in a retirement hotel. Three elderly residents help him win back his girlfriend as he lends them a hand in fighting hotel corruption.

She's the One

She's the One · 1996

MovieRomanceComedy

Mickey, a free-spirited New York cabbie, and Francis, a materialistic Wall Street stockbroker, are extremely competitive and confused about women as a result of their father's influence. They disagree on everything, but they have one thing in common: Mickey's ex-fiance Heather is Francis's secret love. Although both brothers are already married, Heather triggers their longtime sibling rivalry.

Blood Simple

Blood Simple · 1985

MovieCrimeDrama

The owner of a seedy small-town Texas bar discovers that one of his employees is having an affair with his wife. A chaotic chain of misunderstandings, lies and mischief ensues after he devises a plot to have them murdered.

C.R.A.Z.Y.

C.R.A.Z.Y. · 2005

MovieComedyDrama

A young French Canadian, one of five boys in a conservative family in the 1960s and 1970s, struggles to reconcile his emerging identity with his father's values.

My Beautiful Laundrette

My Beautiful Laundrette · 1985

My Beautiful Laundrette

MovieComedyDrama

A young Pakistani Briton manages a rundown laundrette with his lover while dealing with tension in his family, the local Pakistani community, and a persistent mob of skinheads.

Barfly

MovieComedyDrama

Downtrodden writer Henry and distressed goddess Wanda aren't exactly husband and wife: they're wedded to their bar stools. But, they like each other's company—and Barfly captures their giddy, gin-soaked attempts to make a go of life on the skids.

Out of the Blue

Out of the Blue · 2006

Out of the Blue

MovieDramaCrime

Ordinary people find extraordinary courage in the face of madness. On 13–14 November 1990 that madness came to Aramoana, a small New Zealand seaside town, in the form of a lone gunman with a high-powered semi-automatic rifle. As he stalked his victims the terrified and confused residents were trapped for 24 hours while a handful of under-resourced and under-armed local policemen risked their lives trying to find him and save the survivors. Based on true events.

Spun

MovieCrimeDrama

Over the course of three days Ross, a college dropout addicted to crystal-meth, encounters a variety of oddball folks - including a stripper named Nikki and her boyfriend, the local meth producer, The Cook - but all he really wants to do is hook up with his old girlfriend, Amy.

The Matador

The Matador · 2005

MovieActionComedy

The life of Danny Wright, a salesman forever on the road, veers into dangerous and surreal territory when he wanders into a Mexican bar and meets a mysterious stranger, Julian, who's very likely a hit man. Their meeting sets off a chain of events that will change their lives forever, as Wright is suddenly thrust into a far-from-mundane existence that he takes to surprisingly well … once he gets acclimated to it.

Rate this film

Your ratings make Midnight smarter