Movies
A Business Affair (1994)
High toned treachery in the London literary world. Based on the real-life love triangle between critic Cyril Connelly, publisher George Weidenfeld, and author/spy Barbara Skelton.
Young Toscanini (1988)
The Graduate in the world of 1880s opera, and a true story as well. Arturo Toscanini, before he became the world’s leading conductor, is expelled from Italian music school for his radical politics. He winds up in Rio where he starts a risky affair with the mistress of the Emperor of Brazil (Elizabeth Taylor!),
Pentathlon (1994)
Neo-Nazi terrorists strike at a Mercedes plant in an ambitious South Carolina city innocently seeking foreign industry.
Trade Secrets (1986)
A murder mystery among oenophiles and aristocrats at one of the great Bordeaux wine chateaus, the Chateau Palmer, Downton Abbey with vines and corpses.
JFK (1991)
The obsessive quest of New Orleans DA Jim Garrison to solve the Kennedy assassination from a conspiracy he discovers in his backyard of the French Quarter.