John Welsh

Todd Barret is an aspiring businessman. He's got what it takes, but what he doesn't have is enough money to stay in college. So he cooks up a plan to make the first ever all male sports calendar. He eventually convinces Cactus Jack, a very shadowy and tough loan shark, to give him enough money to make the deal. Todd makes enough to pay for his education, but what about the money he owes Cactus Jack?

Cuando salió a correr por la mañana, ¡no se dio cuenta de que estaría corriendo por su vida!

A married couple from Poland emigrates to the U.S.,. but things don't turn out as well as they had imaged. The husband's business fails, while his wife's career really takes off. The husband, unable to cope with the pressures of his failed business, his failing marriage and the adjustments necessary to live in a completely different society, begins to take out his frustrations on his wife.

El planeta Krull es atacado por un monstruo y todo un ejército de alienígenas asesinos. Para hacerles frente, dos naciones enemigas deciden juntar sus fuerzas uniendo en matrimonio al príncipe Colwyn y a la princesa Lyssa, pero el día de la ceremonia el palacio es asaltado, la princesa secuestrada y Colwyn herido. Lo primero que debe hacer el príncipe es encontrar una espada voladora con poderes extraordinarios que le servirá para encontrar a la princesa y librar al planeta de la amenaza de la bestia.

Años 50. Benjy Stone (Mark Linn-Baker), un joven guionista de televisión que colabora en un exitoso programa de humor, debe acompañar al inglés Alan Swan (Peter O'Toole), un viejo artista totalmente alcoholizado, los días que dure el rodaje. Benjy tendrá que proporcionarle las mayores comodidades, evitar que beba y procurar que llegue a las grabaciones en el mejor estado posible, tarea que se convertirá en una auténtica pesadilla.

La película cuenta la historia biográfica de Karol Wojtyla, comenzando en 1926 en Polonia: muestra la invasión nazi a ese país, y la vida de Wojtyla como sacerdote, obispo y cardenal, hasta que finalmente es nombrado papa con el nombre de Juan Pablo II.

Timon loves to give parties and objects to friends, but when he cannot pay his creditors, his "friends" refuse to help him, and he becomes a misanthropic hermit.

The jealous King Leontes falsely accuse his wife Hermione of infidelity with his best friend, and she dies. Leontes exiles his newborn daughter Perdita, who is raised by shepherds for sixteen years and falls in love with the son of Leontes' friend. When Perdita returns home, a statue of Hermione "comes to life", and everyone is reconciled.

Katie, the 14-year-old daughter of a travelling family, is left in charge of an ailing mother and her nine brothers and sisters in Dublin whilst her father is in England seeking his fortune.

Es el año 1914 y Richard Hannay, ingeniero de minas que está visitando Gran Bretaña por un corto tiempo antes de regresar a Sudáfrica, se sorprende cuando uno de sus vecinos, el coronel Scudder, irrumpe en sus habitaciones una noche y le cuenta una historia de que el durmiente de Prusia Los agentes planean pre-comenzar la Primera Guerra Mundial asesinando a un ministro de Asuntos Exteriores visitante. Sin embargo, Scudder es asesinado y Hannay es incriminada por los "durmientes". Huyendo a Escocia, Hannay intenta limpiar su nombre y detener a los agentes con la ayuda de Alex Mackenzie, pero no solo es perseguido por el Jefe Supt Lomas por la muerte de Scudder, sino también por los agentes encabezados por Appleton que ha logrado esconderse un puesto de alta posición en el gobierno británico ...

Terror stalks a small California community when a broke and depressed animal owner and trainer is forced to abandon his tigers and let them fend for themselves in the nearby wilderness.

Cuando el profesor Lionel Carpenter tiene, por fin, su primera experiencia sexual, algo extraño e inesperado ocurre: se queda embarazado. Ahora todo el mundo quiere sacar provecho de la situación, incluso el mismísimo presidente.

A quietly unhappy housewife finds a stranger in her house and is raped at knife-point by him. But when she turns to friends, neighbours and her parents-in-law for sympathy, they all seem preoccupied by other matters.

Through the story of a single family, Brassneck traces a history that parallels the Labour Party's advent to power in 1945 through to the property speculation of the 1960s and the disillusionment with the Labour government in the early 1970s. Like most of the early work of the writers, David Hare and Howard Brenton, committed radical (if not revolutionary) socialists throughout the 1970s, it is a satirical attack on capitalist greed and corruption, full of savage, and often disturbing, humour.

Richard and Jane Elkinson are having their annual Christmas party. Only trouble is stockbroker Richard's been made redundant and, as the night wears on, the guests are becoming less tactful

Set in a cemetery, the film tells the story of a young man whom a blind man wrongly imagines to be black, and explores the nature of human prejudice.

Greed, corruption, ignorance, and disease. Midsummer, 1349: the Black Death reaches northern Germany. Minstrels go to Hamelin for the Mayor's daughter's wedding to the Baron's son. He wants her dowry to pay his army while his father taxes the people to build a cathedral he thinks will save his soul. A local apothecary who's a Jew seeks a treatment for the plague; the priests charge him with witchcraft. One of the minstrels, who has soothed the Mayor's daughter with his music, promises to rid the town of rats for the fee. The Mayor agrees, then renigs. In the morning, the plague, the Jew's trial, and the Piper's revenge come at once.

Alan Clarke's standalone film first appeared as an episode of the BBC series "The Edwardians" and concerns notorious bon vivant, swindler, MP, public speaker, founder of the Financial Times and publisher of John Bull magazine, Horatio Bottomley.

El ejecutivo Harold Pelham sufre un grave accidente tras el cual se enfrenta a la sombra de la muerte. Cuando, contra todo pronóstico, se recupera milagrosamente, descubre que su vida ya no le pertenece.

Inglaterra, siglo XVII. Las discrepancias entre el rey Carlos I Estuardo (1625-1649), que era católico, y el Parlamento, dominado por los puritanos de Oliverio Cromwell, desencadenaron una guerra civil (1642-1648). La causa inmediata fue la sublevación de los católicos irlandeses tras la matanza del Ulster de 1641. La guerra terminó con la victoria de Cromwell. En 1649 tuvo lugar la ejecución de Carlos I y la abolición de la Monarquía, que fue sustituida por la República (1649-1660). Cromwell adoptó el título vitalicio de "Lord Protector", disolvió el Parlamento y empezó a ejercer una dictadura personal.

A principios del siglo XX, en la Rusia zarista, Rasputín, un monje de origen campesino con mirada salvaje, demuestra su misterioso poder salvando la vida de una mujer y pidiendo vino y mujeres a modo de compensación. Pronto Rasputín usará su encanto maléfico y sus poderes para transformarse en un ser manipulador y violento. Cada vez más feroz, más sensual y más tortuoso, el monje de modales rudos se adentrará en la sofisticada clase alta de la sociedad rusa hasta tratar a la misma zarina.

Children's film serial in 6 parts. Jane witnesses a bullion robbery but does not realise at first that one of the robbers is an old friend of hers whom she likes and trusts. 1. Highway robbery. 2. Mystery at the forge. 3. Night prowler. 4. Mysterious stranger. 5. All at sea. 6. Catch as catch can.

Children's film serial in 6 parts. Jane witnesses a bullion robbery but does not realise at first that one of the robbers is an old friend of hers whom she likes and trusts. 1. Highway robbery. 2. Mystery at the forge. 3. Night prowler. 4. Mysterious stranger. 5. All at sea. 6. Catch as catch can.

Children's film serial in 6 parts. Jane witnesses a bullion robbery but does not realise at first that one of the robbers is an old friend of hers whom she likes and trusts. 1. Highway robbery. 2. Mystery at the forge. 3. Night prowler. 4. Mysterious stranger. 5. All at sea. 6. Catch as catch can.

Children's film serial in 6 parts. Jane witnesses a bullion robbery but does not realise at first that one of the robbers is an old friend of hers whom she likes and trusts. 1. Highway robbery. 2. Mystery at the forge. 3. Night prowler. 4. Mysterious stranger. 5. All at sea. 6. Catch as catch can.

Children's film serial in 6 parts. Jane witnesses a bullion robbery but does not realise at first that one of the robbers is an old friend of hers whom she likes and trusts. 1. Highway robbery. 2. Mystery at the forge. 3. Night prowler. 4. Mysterious stranger. 5. All at sea. 6. Catch as catch can.

Children's film serial in 6 parts. Jane witnesses a bullion robbery but does not realise at first that one of the robbers is an old friend of hers whom she likes and trusts. 1. Highway robbery. 2. Mystery at the forge. 3. Night prowler. 4. Mysterious stranger. 5. All at sea. 6. Catch as catch can.

Children's film serial in 6 parts. Jane witnesses a bullion robbery but does not realise at first that one of the robbers is an old friend of hers whom she likes and trusts. 1. Highway robbery. 2. Mystery at the forge. 3. Night prowler. 4. Mysterious stranger. 5. All at sea. 6. Catch as catch can.

A young student is haunted by recurring dreams of her mother murdering her father, but her nightmare is just beginning as she tries to prove to her loved ones that she is not insane.

Thomas Crimmins is a new warder, or guard, in an Irish prison. He is young, naive, and idealistic, determined to serve his country by his part in meting out justice to criminals. His superior, Regan, however, realizes that even prisoners are human beings, and Regan is sick of the eye-for-an-eye attitude that leads the state to execute condemned men, or "quare fellows." Crimmins begins to see that not all is black and white in his new world, and when he becomes involved with Kathleen, the wife of one of the condemned men, his attitude begins to change. When new evidence arises to suggest that Kathleen's husband may not deserve his fate, Crimmins is torn between his duty and his humanity.

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.

A gang of aspiring bank robbers involve themselves with arsonists and purchase their very own fire truck in an attempt to create the ultimate diversion. But posing as firemen leads them to disaster.

When the atheistic ranting of Irish-American author James Mulcahy upsets the inhabitants of the Irish village to which he has retired, a mob threatens him. But moments after he has dared God to strike him dead, a stranger appears and does so. The man, dubbed "Johnny Nobody" by the press, claims no knowledge of Mulcahy or even of himself. He asks the help of the village priest, Father Carey, in his upcoming trial for Mulcahy's murder. While the amnesiac Johnny goes to trial, Father Carey mulls questions of belief raised by the case. And then, the good father learns a little more about Johnny Nobody...

Misticismo, entrega, espiritualidad y pobreza conforman la historia de Francisco de Asís, hijo de un acaudalado comerciante de telas, que un día abandonó todas las comodidades y riquezas de la casa paterna para dedicarse en cuerpo y alma a servir a Dios y a los necesitados. Biografía de uno de los personajes religiosos más importantes de la Historia.

Jim Fuller (Stuart Whitman), que ha sido condenado a tres años de cárcel por haber intentado abusar de un niño, intenta rehacer su vida con la ayuda del psiquiatra de la prisión (Rod Steiger), que le consigue incluso un trabajo cuando queda en libertad.

Unbeknownst to him, a soldier is sent on a doomed mission because of the high likelihood of him divulging secrets if captured and tortured.

A British flight officer plans to rescue an airline stewardess who is trapped in East Germany.

A boy tells his parents that a bus conductor turned him off the bus home for not having a ticket. The story gets out of control and the conductor, a war veteran with memory problems, is harassed until events take a tragic turn.

The movie takes place during WWII. A dashing British RAF Officer is earmarked for a secret mission behind enemy lines in occupied France, but wishing to distract the enemy, enlists a person to double for him and thereby draw attention to North Africa . An unlikely airman is found and tutored in the ways of an English officer.

Young blonde woman seems to destroy everyone she comes in contact with.

During World War II, a Royal Artillery officer is assigned to an anti-aircraft battery that is filled with female soldiers of the Auxiliary Territorial Service. His wife who has enlisted is mistakenly posted to the battery in violation of regulations of husbands and wives serving together in the same formation. She becomes jealous of what she perceives as him paying too much attention to the other Auxiliary Territorial Service women.

A professional thief is sprung from prison with the assistance of a new partner who wants to know where he's hid his loot.

A newly qualified surgeon takes the blame for his drug addict colleague after the death their patient through neglect.

Bridget Monaghan, a single mother who has had six children by different fathers, shocks the conservative inhabitants of an Irish village.

Unassuming planning engineer David Webb finds himself on the Queen Elizabeth to New York with instructions to negotiate a high-powered loan. His lack of confidence means he is completely out of his depth, at least until he finds his personality changes every day during the hour the ship's clocks stop to make allowance for their westward passage.

El doctor Frankenstein escapa a la muerte en la guillotina y se dedica a ejercer como médico de cabecera bajo el nombre de doctor Stein; pero no ha olvidado su proyecto de crear un ser humano.

Durante la II Guerra Mundial en 1940, después de realizar un sabotaje delante de sus líneas, una unidad británica en Francia pierde a su oficial. El cabo se encuentra entonces con la responsabilidad de liderar al grupo y encontrar a su unidad, en plena retirada. Mientras, el cerco sobre Dunkerque se termina de cerrar, y tanto civiles como militares, al otro lado del canal, tratan por todos los medios de socorrer a los soldados cercados. (FILMAFFINITY)

Durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial (1939-1945), un alto mando británico deja en libertad a un ladrón de cajas fuertes para que le ayude a conseguir importantes secretos del enemigo.

American scientist Dr. Frank Smith is brought to Britain to help the C.I.A. There is a defecting East block scientist they want him to debrief. The commies are less than amused and set Dr. Smith up for a murder.

Returning from a business trip, toy salesman Simon Scott is caught attempting to smuggle a wristwatch bought for his wife's birthday through Customs. He is arrested and, due to a bungled defence by his solicitor, obliged to serve a three-month prison sentence. It is only the beginning of his woes; his employer, Colonel Wilson, is understanding, but he is ultimately forced to sack Simon, who discovers that finding another job under such circumstances is extremely difficult. But Colonel Wilson is determined to help his former employee find a solution.

A doctor becomes the victim of extortionists when one of his patients dies under questionable circumstances.

Jim Dixon feels anything but lucky. At the university he has to do the bidding of absent-minded and boring Professor Welch to have any hope of keeping his job. Worse, he has managed to get entangled with unexciting but neurotic Margaret Peel, a friend of the Professor's. All-in-all, the pub is the only friendly place to be. His misery is completed at a dreadful weekend gathering of the Welch clan by the arrival of son Bertrand. Not so much that Betrand is loud-mouthed and boorish - which he is - but that he has as companion Christine Callaghan, the sort of marvellous and unattainable woman Jim can only dream about.

The wife of a condemned man tries to save him in England by finding the real killer.

Tras obtener el permiso para marcharse del Ejército en Alemania, Harry va en busca de su mujer a Inglaterra, donde tiene un trabajo como conductor de camiones. Pronto su jefe intentará involucrarlo en una operación de contrabando. Al principio se resiste, pero Harry le ofrece a la bellísima Lynn a cambio.

An escaped murderer flees France to England, where he forces an ex-forger, now established as a reputable estate owner, and the forger's daughter who knew nothing of his past, to counterfeit 5-pound notes for mass distribution around the countryside.

Roger Thursby is an overly keen, newly-qualified barrister who rubs his fellow barristers up the wrong way. When he is thrown in at the deep-end, with a particularly hot-tempered judge and tricky case, Thursby learns how to prove himself not only to the judge and fellow barristers but also to the public gallery.

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.

Scotland Yard detectives attempt to solve a spate of safe robberies across England beginning with clues found at the latest burglary in London. The film is notable for using a police procedural style made popular by Ealing in their 1950 film The Blue Lamp. It is known in the US as The Third Key.

En la primavera de 1943, un vecino de Punta Umbría descubrió, mientras pescaba en ”El Portil”, el cuerpo sin vida de un militar inglés junto con los restos de una balsa neumática. Sin saberlo, aquel pescador, acababa de encontrar al hombre que nunca existió: la operación ”Mincemeat” había comenzado.

A brilliant scientist who has lost his memory is hunted by Communist agents out to obtain a secret formula.

U.S. Embassy employee Lee Cochrane and his wife, Sue, receive a shock when they discover that their 18-month-old son, Simon, has disappeared in London. He was last seen with their nanny, and the couple seemingly have no leads that might help police Detective Craig in his investigation. The media sensationalizes the incident, causing an unnecessary distraction as the couple prepares to confront the culprit face-to-face.

A confession to a priest from a thief leads to the priest's life being threatened by his gang.

Inglaterra, siglo XIV. Eduardo, Príncipe de Gales, y su padre el rey Eduardo III de Inglaterra (1327-1377), conducen un ejército a la provincia francesa de Aquitania para protegerla de los franceses. Tras ser derrotada en el campo de batalla, Francia intenta, sin éxito, asesinar al príncipe Eduardo, por lo que secuestran a su esposa, la hermosa Juana de Holanda.

Richard Greene interpreta a un agente que se dirige a la frontera franco-española para reunir a algunos contrabandistas y falsificadores tras el asesinato de su hermano. Es ayudado por la cantante Anouk Aimee, de quien se enamora.

Around the turn of the century, in England, alcoholic Uncle Willie is the bane of his family, of which his brother-in-law is the family spokesman. It is decided to let Uncle Willie buy a bicycle shop in order to impress Virginia van Stuyden, an American heiress in love with Frank. This pleases Uncle Willie's young nephew, Charles. Complications arise when stuffy lord, Sir George Probus, at whose home Virginia is staying, becomes shocked when she attends a carnival.

During World War II, a German woman, Inga, goes missing and is presumed dead. Her infant son is placed in an orphanage where, years later, he's adopted by a childless couple. The adoptive parents' happiness is shattered when Inga reappears and insists on custody of her son.

1912. La cena de una acaudalada familia inglesa se ve interrumpida por un inspector de policía, que les comunica que una muchacha conocida por todos los presentes ha muerto en misteriosas circunstancias. Parece que cualquiera de ellos podría haber sido el responsable. ¿Pero quién es este inspector y que quiere de ellos? (FILMAFFINITY)

Story of how two youngsters round up crooks planning to blow up the British fleet off Gibraltar.