Callender
An acclaimed British television drama about the life of Prince John – youngest child of Britain's King George V and Queen Mary – who died at the age of 13 in 1919. John suffered from epileptic seizures and an autism-like developmental disorder, and the Royal Family tried to shelter him from public view as much as possible.
Richard
La vida de Chris da un vuelco cuando su marido muere de leucemia. La viuda decide emprender un proyecto para recaudar fondos contra la enfermedad. Su plan es publicar un calendario sensual con fotos de las mujeres del instituto de la mujer.
Lord Belford
A lawyer finds himself increasingly frustrated by the professional criminals he is called upon to defend, and hooks upon the idea of devising perfect crimes.
Sir George
Roland Michell (Aaron Eckhart) descubre por azar el borrador de una carta de amor escrita por un poeta (Jeremy Northan) de cuya muerte se conmemora el centenario. Interesado en averiguar la supuesta aventura extramatrimonial del escritor, pide ayuda a una colega británica (Gwyneth Paltrow). Ambos se sentirán fascinados por una historia de amor secreta y de trágico destino.
Montesino
Alonso Quijano es un hidalgo campesino que, trastornado por la lectura de las novelas de caballería, se convierte en el caballero andante Don Quijote de La Mancha. Acompañado de su escudero Sancho Panza, emprenderá las más disparatadas y fantásticas aventuras para ganarse la admiración y el amor de su dama Dulcinea del Toboso.
Old Man
Helen trabaja en un salón de belleza, y su novio Bob es locutor de una emisora de radio local. Honda es un niño mudo que graba en secreto las conversaciones de los demás; su hermana Smokey es empleada de un bar. Martin es un tipo misterioso que comparte una oscura historia del pasado con Helen. Honda se enamora de Helen y comienza a grabar sus conversaciones con Bob...
Mustrum Ridcully (voice)
The young druid Imp y Celyn comes to Ankh-Morpork to become a famous musician, but a new guitar from a mysterious shop possesses him with a new kind of music - the Music with Rocks In. To make matters worse, Death, saddened by the death of his adopted daughter, has gone away to try and forget, and his granddaughter Susan suddenly has the family duty passed on to her.
John of Gaunt
The incompetent Richard II is deposed by Henry Bolingbroke and undergoes a crisis of identity once he is no longer king.
George
Inspired by the 1982 Roberto Calvi Affair in which an Italian banker was found hanging from a bridge across the River Thames, the story follows Alan, a man from Northern England who is homeless after the loss of his wife and job. One night while sleeping in a deserted building, Alan witnesses the murder of a high-profile businessman. He attempts to leave the scene unnoticed, but the killers realize that someone has seen them commit the crime. He goes to the police only to discover that one of the killers is leading the case. To stay alive, Alan recruits the help of Billie Hayman, an American journalist, to cover his story.
Humphrey Folland
A Gothic comedy, featuring a distinguished cast, and starring Leslie Phillips and Margaret Tyzack. Retired colonial army officer George Thacker has high hopes of recapturing his memories of an idyllic English village life after a lifetime of meting out justice in the Far East. But instead of peace and quiet, he is greeted by violence, voodoo and a distressed damsel, brandishing a shotgun. Worst of all, the ghost of his old flame, Edith, still haunts him, threatening both his marriage and his life.
Lipetkin
A drama of intrigue and betrayal in Stalin's Russia. Stepan grows up in an orphanage, learning to love Stalin as 'a father to all children'. He retains disturbing memories of the disappearance of his real father and, when a strange message is delivered to him, he's determined to find out the truth.
Mr. Graceful
Tras siete años de matrimonio, Brenda, hastiada de su vida en la mansión Hetton, que es el orgullo y la alegría de su marido, entabla relación con un solicitado joven londinense. Lo que empezó siendo una simple vía de escape, está a punto de derrumbar los pilares de su tradicional modo de vida. Adaptación de "A Handful of Dust", de Evelyn Waugh, un retrato de la alta sociedad inglesa del periodo de entreguerras que muestra el carácter artificioso y frío de unas relaciones sociales no exentas de cinismo y crueldad.
Judge Hate
Carl Moss leaves jail,where he has taken the rap for his evil twin Sterling,and has been declared a model prisoner. Pauline Sneek,his probation officer - and girlfriend - gets him community work teaching youngsters how to lead law-abiding lives. This displeases Sterling,as he needs the young delinquents for his bicycle stealing ring.
Chief Justice (voice)
In 1940 Kenya as their country prepares for war, the local aristocratic social set lives a decadent, self-indulgent lifestyle, that leads to murder. The same events were also dramatised in the feature film White Mischief, which was released seven months after the first transmission of The Happy Valley.
The Bishop
Sir Alec Guiness stars with Leo McKern in the story of a friendship between a Catholic priest and a Communist Mayor. Together they travel from their remote village to Madrid and back exploring their friendship, the demands of belief and constancy of faith. This lavish production filmed entirely on location captures the wit, warmth, and vitality that make the original novel by Graham Greene a unique work of literature.
Headmaster
Seventeen-year-old Richard and his parents take their annual seaside holiday in a guesthouse on England's east coast in the 1950s. Julia, a teenage girl holidaying with her parents in a nearby guesthouse, catches Richard's eye, but her Dutch friend Anna is intent on causing trouble.
Herbert
his three-part miniseries begins with elderly Lady Slane (Wendy Hiller) sitting watchfully by the deathbed of her husband. Tended by her equally aged French maid Genoux (Eileen Way), who has served her faithfully for a lifetime, Lady Slane deals with a succession of advice from her large flock of middle-aged children. The family is chagrined by, but honors, her choice to live a modest country retirement at some distance, in Hampstead Heath. Lady Slane competently comes to terms to lease and restore a crumbling house, aided by an aging land agent Gervase Bucktrout (Maurice Denham). Once settled, an acquaintance from 50 years past, Mr. Fitzgeorge (Harry Andrews), visits the cottage to rekindle memories of their brief, deep, but unfulfilled brush as soul-mates in colonial India when Lady Slane was a devoted young wife and mother. Great-granddaughter Deborah (Jane Snowden), who has been trapped by a socially desirable but passionless engagement, regularly visits to confide and seek wisdom.
Lord Belfield
A principios del siglo XX Karen Blixen (Streep), una mujer europea de gran coraje, llega a Kenia para dirigir una plantación de café junto a su marido (Brandauer), un mujeriego incorregible con el que no se ha casado por amor. Para su sorpresa, Karen se da cuenta de que poco a poco se está enamorando de la tierra, de sus gentes... y de Denys Finch-Hatton (Redford), un enigmático cazador aventurero.
Sir Geoffrey Macklin
Un agente británico viaja a París con una importante misión: rescatar a un oficial prisionero de los nazis o, por lo menos, impedirle que cuente todo lo que sabe sobre el desembarco de Normandía.
Friar Francis
Benedick and Beatrice fight their merry war of words. But when Beatrice's friend, Hero, is humiliatingly jilted by Benedick's best friend, Claudio, Benedick has to choose which side he's on. But unknown to all, Claudio's been tricked by the bastard Don John, and (unfortunately), it's up to Dogberry and Verges to solve the case.
Old Priest
Tras presenciar la muerte de su hermana bajo las garras de un lobo, la joven Rosaleen regresa a casa de su abuela, lugar donde ella acostumbra a contar historias acerca del hombre lobo y del peligro que entrañan los hombres cejijuntos.
Judge Wood
The Wyatts wish to educate their children at home, but the education authorities have other ideas. Moving between 1969 and 1980, we see how this affects the various individuals and attitudes.
Caius Lucius
Cymbeline, the King of Britain, is angry that his daughter Imogen has chosen a poor (but worthy) man for her husband. So he banishes Posthumus, who goes to fight for Rome. Imogen (dressed as a boy) goes in search of her husband, who meanwhile has boasted to his pal Iachimo that Imogen would never betray him. And Iachimo's determined to prove him wrong.
Fitzbanks
In 1905, after 10 years of missionary work in Africa, the Rev. Charles Fortesque is recalled to England, where his bishop gives him his new assignment - to minister to London's prostitutes.
Professor Millar
Comedia que trata sobre el personal de un hospital que, atemorizado, se prepara para la visita de nada más y nada menos que la reina de Inglaterra. El centro Britannia Hospital va a inaugurar un nuevo ala en su edificio y la soberana del país decide estar presente ese día. El pánico se extiende por todo el hospital, ante la visión de todo lo que puede ocurrir durante el esperado acontecimiento. La cocinera se niega a preparar el menú del día, los pintores se resisten a terminar su trabajo y los manifestantes que quieren derrocar a un dictador que se encuentra hospitalizado en el centro serán los encargados de crispar los ánimos al máximo nivel.
Mick Travis (Malcolm McDowell) es un periodista que comienza un documental sobre un hospital. (FILMAFFINITY)
First Sea Lord
El agente 007 debe acudir a recuperar el ATAC, un dispositivo militar secreto de guía por satélite, antes de que sea vendido a los rusos.
Sir Peter
A cool hard study of 'the art of the deal' on a global scale. Sir Peter, the chillingly affable chief exec of big British multi-national UKM, learns that the Soviet Union's chief scientists are in London with government credit to spend. He's keen to flog them a tyre-production plant. based in the Ukraine, which will unshackle UKM from bothersome unions at home. But at the negotiating table, it fast becomes apparent that the Soviets are more interested in the laser technology UKM employs to vulcanise their tyres; and Peter starts to foresee a new future in military aerospace for his ever fiexible firm.
Soldeed
After the TARDIS collides with a spacecraft delivering human tributes to the evil bull-like Nimon, the Doctor and Romana must stop the fearsome alien's quest to rule the galaxy.
Collins, the Butler
Three unrelated horror shorts from 1975 UK horror anthology series "Classics Dark and Dangerous" edited together into one horror film anthology with three segments. Each story features a woman who willingly or unwillingly spreads evil.
Fanatics' Leader
Michael Palin interpreta a un campesino del medievo que tratará de matar a un monstruo que está arrasando los pueblos allá por donde pasa.
Lord Yardarm
Aka Hardcore, aka Frankly Fiona. The heavily fictionalised fantastical autobiography of the fantastic 70s sex superstar Fiona Richmond, played by Fiona herself!
Prison Doctor
Fletcher discovers that his fellow inmates are planning to escape.
The General
Un piloto se ve forzado a aterrizar en mitad del desierto. Allí conocerá a un principito de otro planeta que le hará ver las cosas desde otro punto de vista. Adaptada del magistral cuento de Saint-Exupery, esta mágica fábula musical fue dirigida por un especialista en el género, Stanley Donen, artífice de clásicos como "Siete novias para siete hermanos" o "Cantando bajo la lluvia". La cinta fue nominada a la mejor música y canción original en la edición de los Oscars de 1975.
Barberini
Queen Christina of Sweden abdicates and travels to Rome to embrace the Catholic church.
Count Alexei
A bassist shows up early for the betrothal ball of a beautiful princess, and whiles away the time having a dip in the river. The princess is doing the same, unbeknownst to the bass player, but when someone steals their clothes, the bass player helps the princess to preserve her dignity by transporting her back to the castle in his bass case, and along the way they discover they have feelings for each other. Based on a short story by Anton Chekhov.
Dr Smiles
Jerry Cornelius es un físico multimillonario que trata de encontrar un proyecto de su padre, un físico que ha recibido el premio Nobel y que acaba de morir. Es el denominado “programa final”: se trata del diseño de un ser humano perfecto, capaz incluso de autorreproducirse. En una Europa en pleno caos, la Señora Brunner y otros científicos, piden ayuda a Cornelius para encontrarlo. Cuando lo consiguen se aplican a sí mismos el programa en una abandonada fortaleza nazi del Ártico.
Stewart / Prof. Millar / Meths Drinker
Original y surrealista crítica al capitalismo a través de las aventuras de un joven vendedor de café. Brillante reparto. Música de Alan Price, candidato en 1974 a un Globo de Oro por la mejor banda sonora y galardonado por la Academia Británica con el premio "Anthony Asquith". Arthur Lowe fue elegido en el mismo año, mejor actor secundario por la Academia Británica.
Mr. Clutterbuck
Mysterious old solicitor Mr. Blunden visits Mrs. Allen and her young children in their squalid, tiny Camden Town flat and makes her an offer she cannot refuse. The family become the housekeepers to a derelict country mansion in the charge of the solicitors. One day the children meet the spirits of two other children who died in the mansion nearly a hundred years prior. The children prepare a magic potion that allows them to travel backwards in time to the era of the ghost children. Will the children be able to help their new friends and what will happen to them if they do?
Truscott
Cuando un miembro de la Cámara de los Lores deja su patrimonio a su hijo Jack, un joven desequilibrado que se cree Jesucristo, los otros miembros de la familia intentarán arrebatarle la herencia. (FILMAFFINITY)
Sir Coward de Custard
A funny thing happened to Lurkalot, serf to Sir Coward de Custard, on the way to Custard Castle. Lurkalot sells lusty love potions and rusty chastity belts in the market place, but on this day Sir Graggart de Bombast arrives to sack the castle, and to get the lovely Lobelia Custard in the sack! Lurkalot must help Custard cream the knight in pining armour...
Lay Preacher
A man having marital problems with his shrewish wife picks up a young, pretty and pregnant hitchhiker. Before he knows it, he's in over his head and mixed up in violence and murder.
Recruiting Officer
Based upon Paul Gallico's delicate novel, Patrick Garland's Golden Globe winning The Snow Goose is a stark and hauntingly beautiful drama set amongst the striking scenery of the Essex salt marshes during the early years of WWII. A bearded Richard Harris leads the modest cast with his sensitive portrayal of tormented soul Philip Rhayader, a lonely misshapen man shunned by society but with a great love of life; Harris isnt overly bitter of his treatment and expresses his compassion through his paintings and love of the waterfowl that surround him. Harris is ably supported by the waiflike Jenny Agutter as Frith, who radiates the requisite amount of youthful innocence and naivety, and won a best supporting actress Emmy Award for her performance.
Mr. Bolton
The dreary existence of middle-aged spinster Maura Prince takes an unexpected turn with the arrival of young handyman Billy Jarvis, but there is more to Billy than meets the eye. Based on the novel Nest in a Fallen Tree by Joy Cowley.
Alfred Spaulton
Edwin Antony (Hywel Bennett) is emasculated in an accident which kills a young philanderer. Doctors successfully replace his member with that of the dead man, but refuse to tell him the full story of the organ's origin. So Edwin begins a search which takes him to the philanderer's wife - and also to his many, many girlfriends...
Bishop of Cowley
Fresh-faced young Michael Rimmer worms his way into an opinion poll company and is soon running the place. He uses this as a springboard to get into politics and in the mini-skirted flared-trousered world of 1970 Britain starts to rise through the Tory ranks.
Lawyer Max
Adaptación de una obra teatral de George Tabori que ilustra el proceso de concienciación de un decadente aristócrata cuya mansión se halla junto a un barrio de marginados.
Mr. Trelawny
An archaeologist unearths the mummy of an Egyptian queen. He doesn't realize that his daughter has a strong resemblance to the dead queen, and soon the mummy awakens. Complications ensue.
MO
The core of the plot is the romantic triangle formed by the protagonist, a conscripted soldier named Private Brigg; a worldly professional soldier named Sergeant Driscoll, and Phillipa Raskin, the daughter of the Regimental Sergeant Major. The location is a British army base in Singapore during the Malayan Emergency.
Smythe
Novak es un agente americano que es llamado para una misión en Londres. En la capital inglesa deberá trabajar junto al agente Thompson para dar con una cuadrilla de falsificadores de dinero, y para ello trabajarán como infiltrados. (FILMAFFINITY)
History Master
Polémica película en la que el pionero del Free Cinema inglés arremete contra la enseñanza superior y hace una sátira violenta y sin matices de los colegios superiores y del establishment británico.
Counsel
Morgan es un artista que, influido por las ideas marxistas de su madre, siente la necesidad de rebelarse contra el orden social establecido y contra toda clase de convencionalismos. Pero esta actitud lo alejará cada vez más de la realidad y, poco a poco, contraerá una grave patología psicológica que lo lleva a identificarse con un gorila, animal al que se siente muy unido. Llegado a este punto, su mujer Leonie le pide el divorcio y, aunque Morgan intenta recuperarla, ella ha empezado a sentirse atraída por otro hombre. (FILMAFFINITY)
Two young journalists simulate a murder, but the scheme backfires when the mock victim disappears.
Prosecuting Counsel
A study of absurdity in a suburban family: father recreates the Old Bailey in the living room while the son teaches speak-your-weight machines to sing in the attic.
Naval Officer (uncredited)
Lt Commander Badger, RN: an exceptionally likeable fellow, the Artful Bodger has one besetting sin a shining honesty which compels him to say the right thing at entirely the wrong time! When untimely remarks to some new recruits are splashed across the tabloids, the rush is on to find him a new posting somewhere far away.
Scoutmaster
An Edinburgh travel agent loses his keys and his fiancé in one night. A friend finds the keys and makes loads of copies with his address attached as a joke. She gives them to him as he leaves for a holiday. He gives the keys to several women he romances across the continent. He gets engaged again by phone and arranges to meet his fiancé at his flat, but the flat isn't empty
Man Giving Directions to the Beach (uncredited)
Based on a novel by Nigel Tranter, The Bridal Path is a light-hearted look at the somewhat unfortunate results that can come of the continued marrying of fairly close cousins in a restricted and remote community. Set in the Hebrides off Scotland, the story tells how Ewan MacEwan leaves the isle of Eorsa in search of the perfect wife, but finally returns to marry Katie.