Alec McCowen

舞台は19世紀半ばのニューヨーク。移民同士の抗争で父を殺され、自身も投獄された少年アムステルダム。15年後、復讐のために素性を隠して、父を殺したギャング団に入り込む。しかし、そこで謎めいた女ジェニーと出会い、許されない恋に落ちてしまう……。

In wartime England, a railway official learns that the chairman of the line had sexually abused his wife as a child, then given him the job so he could continue having sexual access to her. The husband and wife kill him together, but are seen by a train driver, who also has problems of his own. The wife tries to divert suspicion by implicating another driver and befriending the witness, but it doesn't go that smoothly.

19世紀後半のNY社交界を舞台に繰り広げられる、貴族階級からはみ出た伯爵夫人と、その幼なじみの弁護士の静かな恋愛を描く。イーディス・ウォートンの原作に基づいたM・スコセッシによる、“斜陽”の物語。オペラ観賞に訪れた弁護士のニューランドは、幼なじみの伯爵夫人エレンに再会する。彼女には離婚を認めようとしない夫がいて、彼にも婚約者がいた。そんな状況の中で、奔放な彼女に心惹かれていくニューランド。しかし、上流階級の掟は二人を許そうとはしなかった……。アカデミー衣装デザイン賞を受賞した絢爛豪華な舞台の中で、D・D＝ルイス、M・ファイファー、W・ライダーなど、魅力的な顔合わせで描かれる禁じられた大人の愛を、スコセッシは切なく、感動的に再現。抑圧された世界でこそ生じる葛藤と胸の高なりを与えてくれる。

Maria is a dancer who becomes pregnant, unexpectedly, and has to decide whether or not to keep the baby. When her live-in boyfriend, who is not the father, admits to cheating on her, she kicks him out. Still unable to decide what to do, she imagines a dialogue with the fetus.

Shakespeare: The Animated Tales (also known as The Animated Shakespeare) is a series of twelve half-hour animated television adaptations of the plays of William Shakespeare, originally broadcast on BBC2 between 1992 and 1994. Macbeth was a cel animation directed by Nikolai Serebryakov

Alec McCowen's award-winning solo performance of the St Mark Gospel.

シェイクスピア史劇を、ローレンス・オリヴィエの再来ともいわれるケネス・ブラナーが監督・主演で映像化した作品。15世紀前半、百年戦争の最中にあったイギリス・ヘンリー5世の活躍を描く。

A summer evening in Edinburgh, 1776. The ailing philosopher David Hume has an unexpected visitor.

南アフリカ共和国のアパルトヘイト問題に立ち向かった黒人運動家スティーヴ・ビコを取材した記者ドナルド・ウッズの原作を基に、「ガンジー」のＲ・アッテンボローが製作・監督した社会派ドラマ。

The story of the rise of a madame of a suburban brothel catering to older men, inspired by the real experiences of Cynthia Payne. The story follows Christine Painter as the down-at-heel waitress who, with the help of prostitute Shirley and cross-dressing Wing Commander Morten, seeks to up her earnings by turning her suburban home into a brothel. Before long she and her girls are chaining up judges, spanking Generals and attending to the needs of Honourable Members. Christine sees herself as providing a vital service to these harmless pervs and when finally the house is busted and the case comes to court, it's fair to say that the presiding judge isn't unfamiliar with her work.

Adaptation from the play by Oscar Wilde.

An insecure, aggressive widow of a tea garden manager reluctantly develops an affectionate relationship with an Indian housewife and her family.

An account of how Lech Walesa and the "Solidarity" trade union confronted the might of Communist dictatorship in Poland.

After a chance meeting and an indiscreet conversation, childhood friends Tommy Beresford and Tuppence Cowley become involved in a convoluted intrigue led by a mysterious man known simply as Mr. Brown.

世界は冷戦真っ只中。ジェームズ・ボンドの007復帰トレーニングから物語は始まる。マティーニとフォアグラ、キャビアで怠惰になった身体を鍛えなおすことを新着したMに命令された007。たまたま本部から斡旋されたロンドン郊外の治療施設でボンドはスペクターの女殺し屋ファティマ、そしてアメリカ空軍に所属するジャックの秘密特訓を目撃する。そしてその数日後、ジャックは米空軍より核弾頭搭載巡航ミサイルを2機盗むことに成功する。 この事件を追うボンドは地中海へ向かい、世界的な大富豪のラルゴをマークする。世界の海を豪華クルーザー「空飛ぶ円盤号」（クルーザー全長87m、アドナン・カショーギ所有）で移動しながら慈善活動を行なうビジネスマンだが、裏の顔は秘密結社スペクターのNo.1（スペクターNo.2＝首領は白猫を抱くブロフェルド）であった。そして彼のそばにはジャックの妹であるドミノがいた。

A lonely young boy idolizes his local priest. An old acquaintance of the priest shows up one day, and the boy learns that his idol isn't exactly what he seems to be--it turns out that many years before, the priest had betrayed his friend, and now his friend has come back for revenge.

A workaholic persuades a lonely unmarried lady to pose as his wife. Soon she starts wondering about his past, and things start to go downhill.

Viola and Sebastian are lookalike twins, separated by a shipwreck. Viola lands in Illyria, where she disguises herself like her brother and goes into the service of the Duke Orsino. Orsino sends her to help him woo the Lady Olivia, who doesn't want the Duke, but finds that she likes the new messenger the Duke's sending. Then, of course, Viola's brother shows up, and merry hell breaks loose. Meanwhile, Olivia's uncle and his cohorts are trying to find some way to get back at Olivia's officious majordomo, Malvolio.

The life of King Henry the Fifth.

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.

For a poet with a gift for crafting words into barbs, Stevie Smith lives a relatively conventional life. Sheltered in a London suburb, she spends her days engaged in tedious housework, crafting verse and conversing with her aunt. But while her body may be committed to drudgery, Stevie's mind is constantly trying to break free, which causes her to rail against religion and middle-class values, and prevents her from finding happiness with a man interested in her.

Divorced couple Amanda and Elyot have both recently remarried. On their honeymoons, however, they discover that they have accidentally booked adjoining suites at the same hotel. Containing some of Coward's best dialogue, the play revolves around the agonising realisation that despite their ferocious incompatibility, they are still drawn to each other.

At his mother's funeral, stuffy bank clerk Henry Pulling meets his Aunt Augusta, an elderly eccentric with more-than-shady dealings who pulls him along on a whirlwind adventure as she attempts to rescue an old lover.

Len climbs Veronica and Percy’s fence intent on burglary, but what really happens next? The three acts of the play show the incident from each of the three perspectives.

霧の都・ロンドン。テムズ河に女性の全裸死体が浮かんだ。今回も犯行手口は縞柄のネクタイによる絞殺。市民は姿なき殺人鬼の相次ぐ凶行に震え上がっていた。そんな折、元妻を殺され容疑者になってしまったリチャードは、友人のラスクに助けを求めるが…。

A wanderer returns home only to find political turmoil, disease and romantic difficulties.

Following a nervous breakdown, Gwen takes up the job of head teacher in the small village of Haddaby. There she can benefit from the tranquillity and peace, enabling her to recover fully. But under the facade of idyllic country life she slowly unearths the frightening reality of village life in which the inhabitants are followers of a menacing satanic cult with the power to inflict indiscriminate evil and death if crossed.

During the Italian Renaissance, Pope Julius II contracts the influential artist Michelangelo to sculpt 40 statues for his tomb. When the pope changes his mind and asks the sculptor to paint a mural in the Sistine Chapel, Michelangelo doubts his painting skills and abandons the project. Divine inspiration returns Michelangelo to the mural, but his artistic vision clashes with the pope's demanding personality and threatens the success of the historic painting.

After he mends a marital rift between a vacationing young couple, the bored, fragile wife falls hopelessly in love with the husband's ex-colleague who is married to a long-suffering and emotionally and physically scarred woman. The couple soon runs off to Greece together to pursue the romance.

A rebellious youth sentenced to a reformatory for robbing a bakery rises through the ranks of the institution through his prowess as a long distance runner. During his solitary runs, reveries of his life and times before his incarceration lead him to re-evaluate his privileged status as a prized athlete.

Four doctors face a serious dilemma when the beautiful wife of a TB-stricken artist begs one of them to cure her brilliant, but amoral, husband.

The sinking of the Titanic is presented in a highly realistic fashion in this tense British drama. The disaster is portrayed largely from the perspective of the ocean liner's second officer, Charles Lightoller. Despite numerous warnings about ice, the ship sails on, with Capt. Edward John Smith keeping it going at a steady clip. When the doomed vessel finally hits an iceberg, the crew and passengers discover that they lack enough lifeboats, and tragedy follows.

The Mediterranean, 1941/42 - Axis forces are using frogmen and manned torpedoes to attack previously impregnable harbours. The Allied forces need to come up with something to answer this threat, which they find in the form of Lt. Lionel "Buster" Crabb.

Based on the true story of Oberleutnant Franz von Werra, the only german prisoner of war captured in Britain to escape back to Germany during the Second World War.

When an attractive young girl is murdered, suspicion falls on several members of the local tennis club. It falls to Police Inspector Halloran to sort out all the red herrings, and finally after a confrontation at the top of the local church spire, arrest the culprit. Another fascinating look at what life was like in Britain during the 50's.

The story revolves around the Dinky Doos, a provincial musical troupe living from hand to mouth.

Alec Graham is sentenced to death for the murder of his girlfriend Jennie, with whom he spent a weekend at the English country home of the parents of his friend Brian Stanford. Alec’s father, David Graham, a not-so-successful writer and alcoholic who has neglected his son in the past, flies in from Canada to visit his son on death row. David then goes on a quest to try and clear his son’s name while battling “the bottle.”

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.

A woman is unhappy in her marriage to a boring, stiff judge, so she takes up with a wild-living RAF pilot, who ends up being more than she can handle. (TCM.com)

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.

At the start of World War II, Cmdr. Ericson is assigned to convoy escort HMS Compass Rose with inexperienced officers and men just out of training. The winter seas make life miserable enough, but the men must also harden themselves to rescuing survivors of U-Boat attacks, while seldom able to strike back. Traumatic events afloat and ashore create a warm bond between the skipper and his first officer