Michael Medwin

Hermosa, glamurosa y adorada por el pueblo, Georgiana Spencer fue, como su descendiente Diana de Gales, la mujer más fascinante de su época. Pero mientras que su belleza y su carisma le forjó un nombre en la historia, el amor siempre se le escapó. Casada muy joven con uno de los hombres más ricos de Inglaterra, el duque de Devonshire, fue confidente íntima de ministros y de la Casa Real, llegando a ser un icono de la moda, madre adorada e influyente política para el partido liberal. Sin embargo, en el núcleo de su historia está la búsqueda desesperada de afecto y amor. Desde el apasionado pero fatídico romance con Charles Grey hasta el complicado triángulo amoroso con su marido y su mejor amiga lady Foster.

A soldier lands on an island and storms it. Only finding it defended by sheep and one old shepherd he claims it on behalf of his king and country. The shepherd though, doesn't seem that bothered and is happy just to see where it goes.

Episode of the BBC Scotland television series focusing on Lindsay Anderson's 1968 film "If...", featuring interviews with star Malcolm McDowell, cinematographer Miroslav Ondříček, assistant editor Ian Rakoff, director’s assistant Stephen Frears, producer Michael Medwin, and screenwriter David Sherwin

Yorkshire writer Kate finds out her biological clock is ticking down the same day that her husband leaves her. To get over the financial crisis this creates she takes in car-dealer Dave. He's homeless as Kate's husband has moved in with his wife. This leaves the problem of how to get promptly pregnant. Surely not with increasingly interesting Dave. They can't even agree on a baby's name - he thinks Fanny is silly and she finds Elvis, well, inconceivable.

Alicia está mirándose en el espejo de su dormitorio cuando, repentinamente, lo atraviesa y entra en un mundo de fantasía. El País del Espejo es un gigantesco tablero de ajedrez, donde la vida se ha convertido en un juego; Alicia, ahora un peón blanco, ha de cruzar el tablero y así transformarse en Reina. Bajo las enseñanzas de la malhumorada Reina Roja, Alicia emprende el fantástico viaje y conoce los personajes más divertidos y estrafalarios, viviendo extraordinarias aventuras.

En una despedida de soltero, al novio lo drogan y abandonan en un lugar lejano y desértico de Escocia. La situación ya es desesperada, pero es que además su boda es al día siguiente...

A British agent comes back from retirement after several of his former colleagues, including his former lover, are murdered. He must examine events from his own past to determine who killed them and why.

Thirteen-year-old Nick and his slightly dense older brother Herbert run the Diamond Private Detective Agency above Camden Town Tube Station in north-central London. When a master criminal called The Falcon dies, they come into possession of his box of chocolate Maltesers, which contains the secret key to a fabulous cache of diamonds. Can they unravel the mystery and avoid the clutches of seedy lowlifes Brenda Von Falkenberg, Gott and Himmell, The Fat Man and the dogmatic Chief Inspector Snape, all of whom want to find the swag first.

A diverse group of guests gather in a small hotel in Paris to contemplate the state of their lives in this pretentious drama. Joseph Goldman (Fernando Rey) is a washed-up Hollywood actor making a living in the dinner-theater circuit. Accompanied by his wife Sarah (Carole Regnier), Goldman meets Frederique (Berangere Bonvoisin), who is hiding from her former lover. French financier Arthur (Fabrice Luchini) hopes to get into the film industry and bends the ear of a British director (Michael Medwin). The talkative film has little action, and none of the characters evoke much interest or resolve their dilemma.

Tras desertar y trasladarse a Rusia, el ex agente del Servicio Secreto Británico Philip Kimberley regresa a su país para cumplir una última misión. Bajo el nombre de Sergei Kuzminsky y rejuvenecido gracias a una operación de cirugía plástica, tendrá que enfrentarse con Sir Gerald Scaith, un destacado miembro del espionaje inglés.

Saxon Logan's extraordinary 49 minute featurette pitches four people into a class war situation with a vicious sting in the tale.

La temible organización criminal Spectra ha ideado un ingenioso plan que le permite conseguir dos proyectiles nucleares, los cuales harán estallar si el gobierno no cede a su chantaje. El agente 007 se encargará del caso.

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)

Durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial (1939-1945), los submarinos alemanes hunden barcos mercantes británicos que transportan miles de toneladas de víveres y material bélico para la marina. La inteligencia británica de la India cree que la información les llega a los submarinos alemanes U-Boats a través de un transmisor de radio oculto en uno de los tres buques germanos que están en la colonia portuguesa de Goa. Como Portugal es neutral en la guerra, los barcos no pueden ser atacados por tropas convencionales, por lo que la inteligencia británica decide encargar la misión a un grupo de veteranos británicos expatriados.

En la Nueva York acosada por el crimen de los años 70, dos policías se hartan y deciden tomarse la justicia por la mano.

Young Linda Channing visits her fiancé Ian Faulkner at an old aristocratic residence near London. Here he witnesses several mysterious murders. There are no clues to these murders - only bloody corpses and the terrifying sound that always comes shortly before the murders. Inspector Mark Santini embarks on the investigation and slowly unfolds a story full of old wrongs and terrifying revelations...

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.

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.

Eddie Ginley (Albert Finney), un presentador y animador de veladas de cabaret, es un apasionado de la literatura policiaca que vive obsesionado con la idea de convertirse en un personaje de Dashiell Hammett. Así, un día, publica un anuncio ofreciéndose como detective privado. Pronto se le presenta el primer caso: un desconocido se pone en contacto con él y le envía una importante suma de dinero, una pistola y una fotografía para que haga desaparecer a una joven universitaria, hija de un militar. Ginley se ve entonces involucrado en una serie de turbios asuntos ligados a la política, a las drogas y al tráfico de armas. (FILMAFFINITY)

En 1860, un personaje tacaño y malhumorado que odia la Navidad, Ebenezer Scrooge, detesta a la gente, explota en su banco a su empleado Bob Cratchit y a sus clientes, y tiene un áspero tratamiento hacia su propio sobrino y conocidos. En la víspera de Navidad es visitado por el fantasma de su antiguo socio, Jacob Marley, quien le dice que tres espíritus lo visitarán a lo largo de la noche. Fue nominada en 1971 a cuatro premios Óscar: a la mejor dirección de arte, al mejor diseño de vestuario, a la mejor canción original (por la canción «Thank You Very Much», de Leslie Bricusse) y a la mejor banda sonora. Albert Finney (el protagonista) ganó el Globo de oro al mejor actor de Comedia o musical en 1971.

Estamos en Lancashire, Reino Unido. Una muchacha se niega a acabar su plato, lo cual enfurecerá inmensamente a su padre y provocará una serie de acontecimientos fuera de control, hasta llegar a un problema de proporciones disparatadas.

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.

Charlie Bubbles, a writer, up from the working class of Manchester, England, who, in the course of becoming prematurely rich and famous, has mislaid a writer's basic tool – the capacity to feel and to respond. Now he must visit his estranged wife and son, whom he has set up on a farm outside his native city. His journey accidentally becomes an attempt to reestablish his connections with life, people, and his own history.

Natascha, una bella condesa rusa afincada en Hong Kong, ve en un rico americano la oportunidad de viajar a los Estados Unidos y establecerse allí.

A man with a sandwich-board (advert) wanders around London meeting many strange characters.

A fast-moving comedy with Billy Fury, who plays himself in the film. The story reveals his great love of animals, and it features his own racehorse, Anselmo. Also featured are several of Billy's own dogs.

Un avión con destino a Atenas sufre problemas mecánicos y ha de aterrizar en Beirut. Alguien empieza a seguir a un miembro de la tripulación...

Percy Winthram is a naive young man who still lives at home with his mum. In London for the Cup Final with his friends, he finds himself in a Soho strip club, where he meets blonde hostess Cyrenne. Accepting a bet from friend Ginger, he accompanies Cyrenne back to her flat, and a boast-worthy night of lust seems to be on the cards; however, drained of beer and bravado, Percy's innocence and vulnerability become all too evident…

Danny es un psicópata de la clase trabajadora que se muda con una viuda rica para redecorar su casa, mientras tanto, "juega" con la hija y la criada mientras la viuda duerme.

Secuela de "Kali Yug, El misterio del templo indio"

Tommy Steele stars as a talent-spotter at a recording company who determines to organize a concert featuring all the most up-to-date singers and bands, in order that the orphanage where he was brought up be saved from closing.

Reconstrucción con todo lujo de detalles de uno de los episodios claves para el desarrollo de la II Guerra Mundial: el desembarco en las playas de Normandía llevado a cabo por las tropas aliadas en junio de 1944.

A former burglar trying to go straight joins a rehabilitation scheme using much the same methods as AA. Through the process, he takes work as a department store Santa, where the endless parade of goods and money, not to mention the pretty young shop hands have him like a moth to a flame in no time flat.

Set in Haven Hospital where a certain men's ward is causing more havoc than the whole hospital put together. The formidable Matron's debut gives the patients a chill every time she walks past, with only Reckitt standing up to her. There's a colonel who is a constant nuisance, a bumbling nurse, a romance between Ted York and Nurse Denton, and Bell who wants his bunion removed straight away, so after drinking alcohol, the men decide to remove the bunion themselves!

Birmania 1942; Segunda Guerra Mundial. Michael Quinn (Dirk Bogarde) es un valiente piloto de la RAF. Después de una fallida ofensiva en Birmania, al teniente Quinn le encargan una nueva misión. Esta consiste en viajar a Delhi con el fin de recibir un curso de japonés. Sus superiores confían en que Quinn se convierta en poco tiempo en un eficaz traductor, para interrogar a los prisioneros de guerra japoneses. La escuela a la que está destinado Quinn se encuentra en Red Fort, en Vieja Delhi. El primer escollo con el que se encuentra Quinn es un alumno receloso llamado Fenwick, que pronto le hará la vida imposible.

A cockney lad pretends to be a Lord in order to woo a South American princess

Tunis, 1943. Battle-weary troops of Company C have orders to occupy a derelict Tunisian farmhouse. They are to establish an artillery observation post, reporting on enemy movements before the imminent offensive to liberate Tunis. However German infantrymen discover their operations. The ensuing battle for control of this small piece of land will decide who controls Tunis but more critically, the victors in the battle of democracy versus fascism.

A group of misfit soldiers are desperately trying to fiddle themselves some leave. Instead they wrangle a posting to the British Middle-East protectorate of Darawa. Their frustrations and disappointment at landing one of the harshest territories is compensated when they discover a secret passage to the King's harem.

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.

Drama de aventuras en el mundo de las carreras de autos. Un espía que debe robar documentos relacionados con un nuevo motor para un equipo contrincante desata una ola de violencia. (FILMAFFINITY)

Infierno en Corea fue la primera gran producción sobre la acción de tropas británicas en la Guerra de Corea. La película relata los infortunios de una pequeña patrulla de combate que, tras reconocer un tranquilo poblado, se encuentra atrapada entre una gran cantidad de tropas chinas. La patrulla intentará romper el cerco, pero no hay brecha posible y las tropas enemigas parecen estar por todos los lugares. Acorralados, los supervivientes encontrarán refugio en un antiguo templo donde lucharán hasta su última bala. Basada en hechos reales, supuso el debut cinematográfico de Michael Caine.

A new career opens for Charley Moon when, during his army service, he is detailed to appear in a unit concert. In doing so, he becomes friendly with Harold Armytage, a peacetime actor of the old school. Hearing that Charley has no job to go to when demobilized, Armytage suggests they team up as stage comics. Things are not easy; jobs are few and far between, and when they can be found they are in the tattiest of theatres, but Charley gains the experience he needs. They then decide to try their luck in London.

This weird short manages to pack in fraud, murder, alcoholism and transvestitism, with two somewhat obvious plot twists but a acertain amount of interest in the characterisation and mise-en-scene. You can see Losey's long-take style in its early stages. If anything, his filming is TOO articulate, tipping his hand and giving away plot turns before they happen.

El joven médico Simon Sparrow (Dirk Bogarde) ejerce su profesión en “El Loto”, un buque de carga dirigido por el autoritario y borrachín Capitán Hogg. Allí conoce a los personajes más excéntricos y se ve involucrado en situaciones bastante embarazosas. Cuando en Río ve a Hélène Colbert (Brigitte Bardot), una joven y atractiva cantante francesa, cae rendido a sus pies.

II Guerra Mundial. La marina de guerra británica se encuentra amenazada por el acorazado alemán Tirpitz. Con una gran potencia de fuego, sobretodo sus ochos cañones de 381 milímetros con alcance de hasta 34 kilómetros, este acorazado podría acabar fácilmente con sus líneas de suministros marítimos, siendo este un riesgo que Inglaterra no puede consentir. Resguardado en el fiordo de Trondheim, Noruega, es imposible atacarlo con una oportunidad de éxito. Pero el Comandante Fraser (John Mills) propone un ingenioso y arriesgado plan. Su idea consiste en llegar a Trondheim camuflados con un pesquero noruego y una vez próximos al objetivo usar tres submarinos de bolsillo experimentales que deberán depositar bajo su casco varias cargas explosivas subacuáticas.

A fiction writer begins working on a biography of a pilot who went down during the test flight of a new plane and finds himself soon involved in a series of murders.

Two small boys are playing in a wood. The younger boy has a revolver and, not understanding that the gun differs from his toy pistol, plays 'highwayman' on the road and holds up a cyclist; the gun goes off, killing the cyclist. Both boys are unaware of the tragic consequences of their game. The body and the gun are found by Bob Carter, who had recently quarreled with the victim in the presence of their workmates, and both men had uttered threats. The evidence is strong, and Bob is arrested for murder...

When Ex Colonel Merton discovers a burglar ransacking his home, he is shocked to find out that the thief is a former soldier from his tank regiment. When the thief escapes, Merton tries to contact former members of the regiment, in order to find out what set the thief on the road to crime.

El científico de cohetes americano Stephen Mitchell (Howard Duff) trabaja para conseguir su objetivo de enviar el primer satélite artificial al espacio. Mientras tanto, Vanessa Mitchell (Cecile Chevreau), su esposa, está manteniendo una aventura con el científico Crenshaw (Andrew Osborn). Poco después de que Mitchell descubra esa relación, el satélite es lanzado antes de lo previsto y a su vez, su esposa y el amante desaparecen. Mitchell es acusado de asesinato y de haber dejado los cadáveres en el satélite. Para probar su inocencia, se ofrece voluntario para ir en busca del satélite.

Segunda Guerra Mundial (1939-1945). En 1942, Malta es bombardeada por la aviación alemana. En este escenario surge un romance entre un piloto, que es profesor universitario, y una muchacha maltesa.

An Irish "oracle" foretells the next day's track results to a newspaperman, resulting in a national uproar.

Alan McKim, un joven abogado, decide participar en el Rally Anual de coches antiguos de Londres a Brighton con su Darraq de 1904 llamado Genoveva. Wendy, su esposa, opina que la carrera es una tontería y un símbolo de inmadurez. Ambrose Claverhouse, amigo del joven matrimonio, decide competir con Alan en el Rally: Rosalind Peters, antigua novia de Ambrose, será su acompañante. Una carrera llena de tropiezos y sorpresas está a punto de empezar...

London policewomen handle rescues and larceny as they go about their work in Chelsea.

In this delightful fantasy adventure, a mild-mannered writer of adventure stories for girls (Richard Hearne) finds himself presented with an intriguing proposition from an elderly fan (Margaret Rutherford). She suggests that they conspire to steal a secret whiskey formula from ruthless distillers, who themselves stole it from her family in years gone by. With the recipe back in hand however, it's not long before they attract attention from the Inspectors of Scotland Yard.

A British Sanitary Engineer, goes on holiday with a set of plans for a new secret weapon which he has mistaken for his new plumbing invention. Everyone is hunting for him, including the Russians. The Russians find him and offer him a job in the Kremlin doing research (on plumbing he believes). He accepts, arrives in Russia and falls in love with Tania, a secret agent. And then discovers the true nature of the plans he is carrying...

During a holiday to the beach Jenny meets Alan and agrees to spend the week with him. Wanting to keep this a secret from her parents Jenny gets help from her friend Mary to pretend her whereabouts but disaster strikes during a boating accident. It is soon discovered Jenny was not with Mary. When the parents find out the truth they pressure the couple to get married, but Jenny thinks otherwise.

A theatre producer and actor try in vain to have a quiet week in a country cottage. But their efforts turn into comic disaster as a variety of wives, girlfriends and scoutmasters arrive uninvited.

In a small town in the 1950's a repertory company meets on Monday morning to start rehearsing the following week's play. This is a ghastly thing written by the aunt of one of the theatre's directors. The producer doesn't try to hide his annoyance about it, and is further exercised when the authoress herself arrives to help. The cast have to try and sort out real-life problems that keep intruding as they wrestle with the play's dire dialogue.

Soviet, British, French and American allies patrol post-war Vienna.

A devoted family man tries to help a beautiful alcoholic showgirl with her life, and becomes the the only suspect when someone else murders her.

W. Somerset Maugham introduces three more of his stories about human foibles.

A music-hall performer and her boyfriend find themselves caught up in the machinations of a trio of not particularly bright crooks.

A man and his sister live in a country home, not knowing that there is stolen loot hidden there. A gang of criminals attempts to get them to move so they can get the loot for themselves.

Jackie lives in poverty with his widowed mother. In a bid to escape poverty he gets involved in a robbery that sees him sentenced to three years in Borstal where he meets a tough crowd, tougher than anything on the outside.

Tottie True is a gay-90s British music-hall performer who has her sights set on moving from rags to riches, who loses her heart to the pure-and-true blue balloonist, Sid Skinner, but continues her upward search on improving her social status. She finally settles for Lord Landon Digby who has lots of assets and a very-stiff upper lip. She gets a lot of the latter and very little of the former, and decides Sid might have been a better choice.

In this drama, a frustrated upper-class writer decides that he will find real inspiration by examining his subjects first-hand. This leads him to begin wandering about the seamiest side of town where he witnesses a murder. When an innocent man is arrested, the writer refuses to assist him as the knowledge that he has been "slumming" could destroy his career. The young man is sentenced to 15 years in prison.

1806: Un oficial del Ejército obtiene de una avejentada condesa el secreto para ganar perpetuamente a las cartas. Lo malo es que esta lo obtuvo a través de un pacto con el Diablo.

Set on Blackpool’s Golden Mile, Jim (Douglass Montgomery), a once promising scientist, sets up in business as a patent medicine man selling hair tonic at the fair with his ex-army colleague Dan (Ronald Shiner). Following a fight with local hoods over pitch spaces, Jim falls for Jane (Hazel Court), the girl on a nearby candy floss stall. The two begin dating but Jim fails to mention he is already married.

A detective gets involved with a wealthy socialite who can't seem to stop hiccuping.

William Brown attempts to secure more pay and shorter hours for schoolboys.

El joven dublinés, Gulliver Sheils, fantasea sobre como escaparía de su vida monótona y se iría a los Mares del Sur, a Tahiti. Careciendo del dinero para tal empresa, empieza a merodear por fuera del Colegio de Trinidad con la esperanza de rescatar a una persona rica de un accidente de tráfico que lo recompensará para su heroísmo.

Ligera comedia amorosa en la que un playboy que vive en una zona vacacional presume de que no hay mujer que se le pueda resistir. Sin embargo, su ego cae por los suelos cuando conoce a una actriz que está por la zona de incógnito, y que no parece hacerle demasiado caso. Ante tamaña afrenta, el hombre decide seducirla a cualquier precio... incluido el matrimonio.

A family is in need of a new house help so they employ a mysterious young woman. They soon realise all is not as it seems as the past comes back to haunt the woman of the house.

Romance in Rio for a girl of the embassy staff.

After the war is over, two army pals take opposite paths in civvy street. One becomes a petty criminal, the other becomes a policeman.

Comic adventures of an 11-year-old boy and his neighborhood pals.

Un destacado político está preparado para destapar un escándalo financiero. Pero una mujer, que ha invertido fuertemente en el turbio negocio, lo amenaza con desvelar un secreto dañino de su pasado si hace público el fraude. Su problema se ve agravado por la intolerancia de su esposa hacia los defectos más insignificantes de su carácter.

Cockney Danny Cruff is the son of a man wrongly accused of murder. Danny decides to solve the mystery himself by hobnobbing with London's underworld. To do this, he poses as a juvenile delinquent.

On New Years Eve, 1899, baronet's son Edward Courtney becomes engaged to Kate, his mother's maid, much to the scandal of London society. The film then follows their family through four generations, with separations, joys, tragedies, and service in the Boer War, WWI, and WWII.

A newly married WREN, presumed drowned when her ship is torpedoed, spends three years on a tropical island before returning to England to find her husband remarried with a baby son.