David Watkin

30 minute documentary about the making of the film Help! with Richard Lester, the cast and crew. Includes exclusive behind the scenes footage of The Beatles on set.

Hell on Earth is an hour-long documentary presented by Mark Kermode. It's about Ken Russell's 1971 film, The Devils which is one of the most controversial films ever made. Kermode chats to Russell as well as two of the films stars Georgina Hale and Murray Melvin. Also included are scenes that were cut from the released film for being too controversial.

A younger boy falls in love with a tragic girl who flirts with, and manipulates, her older suitors in 1800s Russia.

Kay Mander kept training and social issues to the fore in the 1940s with her innovative documentaries. Mander, now living in Kirkcudbrightshire, recalls her life and work, with clips from many of her films.

Semi-autobiographical film directed by Franco Zeffirelli, telling the story of young Italian boy Luca's upbringing by a circle of English and American women, before and during World War II.

After serving a prison term for her boyfriend, a streetwise, middle-aged moll named Gloria stands up against the mobs, which is complicated by a six-year-old urchin with a will of his own, whom she reluctantly takes under her wing after his family has been gunned down.

Werner Ernst is a young hospital resident who becomes embroiled in a legal battle between two half-sisters who are fighting over the care of their comatose father. But are they really fighting over their father's care, or over his $10 million estate? Meanwhile, Werner must contend with his nutty supervisor, who insists that he only care for patients with full insurance. Can Werner sidestep the hospital's legal team and do what's best for the patient?

Two men become entangled in a torrid love affair with the same woman. Pierre is Miriam's longtime lover. John is desperately searching for clues about his past when he and Miriam have a fateful encounter in a Berlin train station. The allure of forbidden love becomes irresistible, and an intense love triangle is ignited. Who will Miriam choose? Who will walk away? For two men who desperately adore the same woman and for the woman who loves them equally...there is no easy way out.

A newly elected District attorney finds himself in the middle of a police corruption investigation that may involve his father and his partner.

Recently orphaned, a young boy is taken in by his godmother who is shocked to realize that she can see the boy's imaginary friend: a flamboyant, French magician named Bogus.

Jane Eyre is an orphan cast out as a young girl by her aunt, Mrs. Reed, and sent to be raised in a harsh charity school for girls. There she learns to be come a teacher and eventually seeks employment outside the school. Her advertisement is answered by the housekeeper of Thornfield Hall, Mrs. Fairfax.

A BBC documentary about a pre-rehearsal workshop held in New York prior to the Goodman Theater’s 1994 production of The Merchant of Venice, directed by Peter Sellars in Chicago.

Three young boys pool their money and pay V, a kindhearted prostitute, to strip for them. Afterward, she drives them home to the suburbs -- but then her car breaks down. It's just as well, though, because a mobster named Waltzer is after her, and V realizes the suburbs are the perfect place to hide. But things get a lot more complicated when V falls in love with Tom, a single father who is unaware of her real profession.

When a son and mother move to Seattle in hopes for a better life, the mother meets a seemingly polite man. Things go south when the man turns out to be abusive, endangering their lives. As the mother struggles to maintain hope in an impossible situation, the son has plans to escape.

At her husband's funeral, Pearl, Jewish mother of two divorced and antagonistic daughters, meets an old Italian friend of her husband, whose advice years previously had stopped the husband leaving home. For 23 years he, now a widower, has secretly loved Pearl...

Featuring music instead of any dialogue and set in a near Kafkaesque future, this loose remake of The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari follows a bureaucrat whom mysterious Dr. Ramirez and his hideous sidekick want as their latest victim.

American couple Jake and Tina are living in an expensive London hotel above their means, incurring a sizeable debt. When they are asked to pay a lavish dinner bill and Jake's card is declined, he suggests they sell Tina's tiny, expensive Henry Moore sculpture to cover the debt. After they hatch a scheme to claim the sculpture was stolen in order to collect insurance on it, the sculpture mysteriously goes missing.

Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, finds out that his uncle Claudius killed his father to obtain the throne, and plans revenge.

第2次世界大戦時、24回の白昼爆撃の任務を遂行していた唯一のB－17爆撃機、メンフィス・ベル。故郷に帰るまであと残る最後の1回の飛行を前に、ほとんどが10代の若者の乗組員達は明日を胸にそれぞれの思いで前夜を過ごしていた。そして翌朝、朝焼け雲をついてメンフィス・ベルと10人の若者は飛び立ってゆく。

After witnessing her lover being murdered by his jealous wife, Angela seeks refuge in a church where she encounters a young priest named Michael, who gives her sanctuary. But the killing was not a simple act of passion, as the victim had ties to organized crime, and, surprisingly, so does Michael, whose father is a powerful don. When the priest finds himself falling in love with Angela, his religious vows and family ties are both severely tested.

After finding a sexually liberated boyfriend, a divorced woman gets sued over daughter's custody, by her ex, who claims that her lover has a bad influence on the kid.

An English nanny and one of two brothers fall down a Hawaiian cave, all the way to Atlantis.

A recently orphaned heiress meets a young racing yacht captain on Long Island. He shows interest in her and, being heiress to $200,000,000, love may not be the reason.

ニューヨークのダウンタウンに住むロレッタを中心に、人の心を狂わす満月の夜に起こるイタリア人一家のさまざまな出来事をユーモアを交えて描くドラマ。この作品でシェールはオスカーに輝いた。

20世紀初頭のアフリカを舞台に、愛と冒険に生きたひとりの女の半生を描いた一大ロマンス。スウェーデン貴族と結婚し、ケニアに渡って来たデンマーク人の令嬢カレン。だがそこには幸せな結婚生活は無く、農場経営も思うように進まない。そんな彼女の前にサファリのガイドを務めている冒険家が現れた……。アカデミー賞7部門受賞。

ソ連からアメリカへ亡命した著名なバレエ・ダンサーのニコライ。ある日、搭乗していた旅客機がシベリアに緊急着陸し、KGBに軟禁されてしまい……。ミハイル・バリシニコフとグレゴリー・ハインズのダンス・シーンも見もの。

オズの国から戻ったドロシーはオズの国の事ばかり気になり眠れない。ドロシーが流れ星を見た翌朝、めんどりのビリーナが庭に落ちていた"OZ"の印がある鍵を見つける。エムおばさんはドロシーに最新式の電気治療を受けさせようと病院へ連れて行き入院することになる。 その晩は激しい嵐にで電気治療が始まりかけた時に停電し見知らぬ少女が助けに現れる。ドロシーは病院から脱出するが、2人とも川の濁流に飲まれてしまい翌朝ドロシーが目を覚ますとオズの国に戻っていた。

ホテル経営を夢見る父を大黒柱とする不思議な家族の物語が、次男のジョン視点で語られていく。若い頃高級ホテル「アーバスノット・バイ・ザ・シー」でひと夏のアルバイトを経験したベリー家の父ウィンスロー（ウィン）は、ホテルに現れた熊と大道芸人のフロイトと出会う。ヨーロッパに渡るためにフロイトは熊をウィンスローに託すが、熊は誤射によって死んでしまう。その後ニューハンプシャー州デイリーで高校教師を務めるもののホテル経営の夢を抱いていたウィンスローは廃校になった女子高を買い取りそこを「ホテル･ニューハンプシャー」と名付け、家族を巻き込んだホテル経営に乗り出す。

Rebbe Mendel is a single father who teaches the Talmud, a sacred text of Judaism, to the boys of his small Polish town. Behind closed doors, he also instructs his daughter, Yentl, despite the fact that girls are forbidden to study religious scripture. When Yentl's father dies, she still has a strong desire to learn about her faith -- so she disguises herself as a male, enrolls in a religious school, and unexpectedly finds love along the way.

Two young kids fall in love with each other. But the passion is too consuming for the parents of Jade. The parents try to stop them from seeing each other. But when this doesn't work, David burns down the house and is sent away. This doesn't stop him from seeing her. When he gets out he goes to look for her. But the passion for his first love is too strong and she has to leave.

パリ・オリンピック陸上短距離で祖国イギリスに金メダルをもたらした2人の若者がいた。ユダヤの血をひいている為、言われなき差別と偏見を受けてきたハロルド。彼にとって走ることは偏見に勝利することであった。一方、宣教師の家に生まれたエリックは神のため、信仰のため走った。

The Prince, Don Ramiro (who has changed places with his valet, Dandini), meets Cenerentola and they are instantly attracted to each other. When the Philosopher, Alidoro, later takes Cenerentola (dressed in magnificent clothing) to the palace, Dandini (still posing as the prince) tries to talk of love to her, but Cenerentola rejects him, saying that she is in love with his 'valet'. Ramiro, who has overheard this comment, is overjoyed, and immediately proposes to her, but Cenerentola says that he must first seek her out and then, if he still felt the same way, she would marry him. She gives him one of a matching pairs of bracelets, telling him to look for its companion on her right arm (she then leaves the palace). Ramiro ends the masquerade, and he and Dandini resume their true identities. The Prince then sets out on his quest - little realising that destiny, in the form of a violent thunderstorm, is about to take a hand in the affair.

A British mercenary arrives in pre-Revolution Cuba to help train the corrupt General Batista's army against Castro's guerrillas while he also romances a former lover now married to an unscrupulous plantation owner.

A teenager gets out of reform school and heads to Torquay for a swimming contest, where he meets a pair of young Northern lasses working as hotel chambermaids. However, their fun is interrupted by a gang of Scottish punks who come to cause trouble.

Margaret is a nurse in England during WW2, and married to a secret agent. Things get complicated when she falls for David, an American pilot.

Lady Booby alias 'Belle', the lively wife of the fat landed squire Sir Thomas Booby, has a lusty eye on the attractive, intelligent villager Joseph Andrews, a Latin pupil and protégé of parson Adams, and makes him their footman. Joseph's heart belongs to a country girl, foundling Fanny Goodwill, but his masters take him on a fashionable trip to Bath, where the spoiled society comes mainly to see and be seen, but drowns in the famous Roman baths. When the all but grieving lady finds Joseph's Christian virtue and true love resist her lusting passes just as well as the many ladies who fancy her footman, she fires the boy. He's found and nursed by an innkeeper's maid, which stirs lusts there, again besides his honorable conduct, but is found by the good parson.

獅子王リチャードと共に十字軍遠征に赴いていたロビン・フッドが20年ぶりに故郷シャーウッドの森に帰って来た。依然として権力をふるうノッティンガムの代官との確執や、かつての仲間たちとの交流を交えながら、尼僧となっている恋人マリアンとの恋の顛末をロマンティックに描きあげた異色編。

An American occult novelist battles to save the soul of a young girl from a group of Satanists, led by an excommunicated priest, who plan on using her as the representative of the Devil on Earth.

Tracy, an aspiring designer from the slums of Chicago puts herself through fashion school in the hopes of becoming one of the world's top designers. Her ambition leads her to Rome spurring a choice between the man she loves or her newfound success.

The Four Musketeers defend the queen and her dressmaker from Cardinal Richelieu and Milady de Winter.

The young D'Artagnan arrives in Paris with dreams of becoming a king's musketeer. He meets and quarrels with three men, Athos, Porthos, and Aramis, each of whom challenges him to a duel. D'Artagnan finds out they are musketeers and is invited to join them in their efforts to oppose Cardinal Richelieu, who wishes to increase his already considerable power over the king. D'Artagnan must also juggle affairs with the charming Constance Bonancieux and the passionate Lady De Winter, a secret agent for the cardinal.

In their nice Connecticut home, Agnes and Tobias have grown used to the imperfection and fragility of their marriage. Quietly nursing their grief over the death of their son, they get by well enough together. Agnes' boozy sister wanders in and out, and they allow anxiety-stricken friends to move into an upstairs room. But, when their daughter, Julia, shows up announcing her fourth divorce, long-repressed emotions come to the surface.

In a dreary North London flat, the site of perpetual psychological warfare, a philosophy professor visits his family after a nine-year absence and introduces the four men - father, uncle and two brothers - to his wife.

The assistant stage manager of a small-time theatrical company is forced to understudy for the leading lady at a matinée performance at which an illustrious Hollywood director is in the audience scouting for actors to be in his latest "all-talking, all-dancing, all-singing" extravaganza.

In 17th-century France, Father Urbain Grandier seeks to protect the city of Loudun from the corrupt establishment of Cardinal Richelieu. Hysteria occurs within the city when he is accused of witchcraft by a sexually repressed nun.

第二次世界大戦下、地中海の小島にある米軍基地では、相次ぐ戦争に嫌気がさした兵士たちが戦地から逃げ出す画策を計画していた……。アラン・アーキン主演、戦争の不条理さを風刺したブラック・コメディ。

In the hazy aftermath of World War III, the fallout from a 'nuclear misunderstanding' is producing strange mutations amongst the survivors, and the noble Lord Fortnum finds himself transforming into a bed sitting room.

A chronicle of events that led to the British involvement in the Crimean War against Russia and which led to the siege of Sevastopol and the fierce Battle of Balaclava on October 25, 1854 which climaxed with the heroic, but near-disastrous calvary charge made by the British Light Brigade against a Russian artillery battery in a small valley which resulted in the near-destruction of the brigade due to error of judgement and rash planning on part by the inept British commanders.

An inept British WWII commander leads his troops to a series of misadventures in North Africa and Europe.

In Charenton Asylum, the Marquis de Sade directs a play about Jean Paul Marat's death, using the patients as actors. Based on 'The Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat as Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum of Charenton Under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade', a 1963 play by Peter Weiss.

A sexually repressed school teacher releases her pent up passions in a series of shocking crimes.

バハマにあるカイリ教国は、人身御供の儀式直前に生け贄の指輪がないことに気がつく。その指輪がリンゴの指にある事を突き止めた司祭･クラングは、指輪を求めて英国へと渡り、ビートルズをあらゆる手段で付け狙う。始めのうちは身の回りで何が起こっているのか分からなかったリンゴとビートルズ一同だったが、やがて教団に指輪を狙われていることを知り、指輪を抜こうと試みるが何をやっても抜けない。指輪の専門家や怪しい科学者･フットにも頼んだが、やはり指輪はびくともしない。それどころか最後の頼りにした科学者フットまでこの指輪で大儲けを企み、指輪を狙い始める。そんな中で、生け贄にされていたが時間切れで助かった妹を持つ美女･アーメが、ビートルズを救うべく策動する。舞台を英国からオーストリア・アルプス、再び英国を経てバハマへと移す。

A nebbish schoolteacher begs his smooth (and misogynistic) pal to teach him 'the knack' - how to score with women. Serendipitously, the men meet up with a new girl in town, as well as a friendly lunatic who can’t help but paint things white.

Part of BFI collection "London on the Move". A day in the life of London and the Home Counties in 1962, seen from the perspective of the use of London Transport facilities from buses and tubes to long distance coach routes. Accompanied by extracts from BBC radio

A film about one of the most responsible and professional jobs on British Railways. Practical work in shop and signal box, on gantry and trackside, coupled with instruction in mechanics, electricity, electronics and draughtsmanship, lead the apprentice intro the intricacies of design, the excitement of research and experiment, and the intense satisfaction of being in on a big changeover from old-style semaphore signalling to a new coloured light system.

The work of a team of men who tackle a special British Road Services job in the treacherous terrain of the Scottish Highlands.

Through the forward-looking windows of the new diesel multiple-unit trains reveals a new world of signs, signals and railway sights to those who ride behind the driver. For children, particularly, find this is a fascinating experience. This film communicates something of their excitement and wonder as well as some of the wry, un-conscious humour with which their pertinent and amusing questions and comments are so often interlerded.

‘St Christopher’s - for the children of Railway Servants’. About a hundred children are cared for at this Derby railway orphanage and this film gives a selection of scenes from a typical day: the breakfast mail, a boy with a problem, a girl with a worry, a visit from two widowers, a birthday tea party. An official insight into a forgotten aspect of railway operation.

A short documentary.

The holiday attractions of the Lancashire coast, including a beauty contest in Morecambe, Southport flower show and Blackpool Fun Fair.

Lively holiday in Blackpool, with jazz accompaniment.

The extension of the electrification of the Southend line from Shenfield to Southend. The last steam train leaves Liverpool Street and makes its way for a new stage in the modernisation plan for British Railways. How it was done and the men who did it.

A romantic overview of England in the Elizabethan Age.

The history of the BRS (British Road Services), the general haulage network of the UK. Part of BFI collection "Points and Aspects."