Maureen Pryor

Un trago rápido en el buffet antes de volver a casa. Los nervios de Freddie están sufriendo un martillazo últimamente: la economía está en serios problemas y ¿quién puede culpar a un hombre de negocios por una bebida ocasional? Su esposa y su amante para empezar.

Eleanor seems normal enough to her parents and teachers. Why then has she disappeared?

Un agente secreto británico (Michael Caine), amenazado de muerte, tendrá que actuar por su cuenta cuando unos traficantes de armas sin escrúpulos secuestran a su hijo y piden un desorbitado rescate en diamantes.

Peter Nichols adapted his own hit play to the screen, based on his experiences in hospitals. A riotous black comedy that's as timely today as ever, it contrasts the appalling conditions in a overcrowded London hospital with a soap opera playing on the televisions there. In an ingenious touch, the same actors appear in the "real" story as well as the "TV" one, thus blurring the distinctions even further. Jack Gould directs such outstanding British actors as Lynn Redgrave, Colin Blakely, Eleanor Bron, Jim Dale, Donald Sinden, Mervyn Johns, and, in only his second film, Bob Hoskins. The renowned Carl Davis composed the score.

Lady Caroline Lamb, dissatisfied in her marriage, has an affair with the dashing Romantic poet Lord Byron.

The wife of a public school head becomes gradually aware that her husband has been physically abusing his pupils. Written by the master of late-middle-age morality plays, William Trevor.

Biografía del compositor ruso Tchaikowsky, un hombre torturado que sólo era feliz con su música. A pesar de su condición homosexual, se casa con Nina Milukova, una joven apasionada y neurótica. Un matrimonio fracasado que le lleva al borde del suicidio y acaba con la salud mental de su mujer. Las relaciones de Tchaikowsky con su mecenas, Madame von Meck, también se deterioran cuando ésta se entera de su pasado amoroso. Incapaz de ser feliz, a pesar de su fama mundial, se suicida a los 53 años.

The last five years of Frederick Delius's life through the eyes of a young composer and aide, Eric Fenby.

A man mysteriously locks himself in a room in a boarding house leaving only a note saying he has decided to "retire from the world". His worried sister and the other boarders then try to discover why.

Cuando la hija de John Harris es gravemente herida en un accidente de navegación, el hospital le dice que ella va a necesitar una transfusión de sangre urgente. Debido a sus creencias religiosas, Harris se niega a dar el permiso y la niña muere. Cuando la investigación libera a Harris de toda culpa, el médico a cargo del caso intenta llamar a la policía para presentar cargos de homicidio contra Harris.

Johnnie Byrne is a member of the British Parliament. In his 40s, he's feeling frustrated with his life and his personal as well as professional problems tower up over him. His desires to win the next election are endangered by his constant looking for love and he is faced with the choice of giving up a career in politics or giving up the woman he loves.

Marcelle de Barthas is young French widow, who since her husband’s death some seven years previously, has lived a secluded life in her country house, with her four children. The eldest one, Emmy, is a beautiful and pure young girl of seventeen, who tentatively believes she has a calling to the religious life. The second child, Bertrand, aged fifteen, has been sent to England for an exchange holiday with a young English boy, Harry Fanning, and when the play opens, the French children are excitedly awaiting his arrival. Also living with the family is a French governess, and a tutor, Blaise Lebel. Lebel has a sombre power over the family, and it is the ‘intrusion’ of Harry that sets in motion in him a wave of resentment and fear.

A young boy goes to desperate lengths to save the family dog when his father agrees sell it to the local butcher.

The third of the "Doctor" films. Newly qualified doctor Simon Sparrow goes in search of a job. He applies for a surgery position at the hospital where he studied, but manages to insult the senior surgeon and one of the hospital's governors. So, instead he ends up as assistant to with a niggardly and rather scary GP with an amerous wife, followed by cushy but rather unmedical job with a Harley Street doctor, and then a job with a very nice GP whp is the opposite to the first one. But after getting the chance to rescue the hospital governor from a group of angry ladies at a resort in France, he finally lands a job at his beloved hosdpital.

British Melodrama and crime thriller that follows a group of jewel robbers after a major heist. The film makes extensive use of bombed out areas of London.

An American movie company wants to shoot a science-fiction film using a British army barracks as a location, and its soldiers as actors.

Simon Sparrow es un joven estudiante de medicina que llega al hospital de St Swithin's de Londres. Animado por sus amigos, empieza a salir con una enfermera de la que acaba enamorándose.

Jean Raymond an upper class woman with a gambling addiction, is given a twelve-month prison sentence resulting from her inability to pay her debts. At first she is overwhelmingly depressed by life in the women's prison; gradually, however, her misery is relieved by the many close friends she makes there. This sympathetic drama traces the contrasting lives and often faltering progress of the inmates of a women's prison.

Based on the Reginald Berkeley stage play, this compelling historical drama offers a depiction of the life story of Florence Nightingale (Anna Neagle), the young 19th-century Englishwoman famously drawn to a career in nursing. Traveling to Turkey during the Crimean War, Florence gains a reputation for being devoted to the care of wounded soldiers and for pioneering higher standards for sanitary hospital conditions.