The Name of the Rose, 1986. Directed by Jean-Jacques Annaud. Starring Sean Connery, Christian Slater, Helmut Qualtinger, Michael Lonsdale, William Hickey, Ron Perlman, F. Murray Abraham, and Valentina Vargas. SYNOPSIS: An intellectually nonconformist friar investigates a series of mysterious deaths in an isolated abbey. Imagine, if you will, Sean Connery as a Columbo-style medieval monk […]