John Thaw

Harry Jenkins is a self-made business man, who one day receives a message that his only daughter has died in a car crash. Last time he saw his daughter was at his wife's funeral. When trying to deal with his daughter's affairs, he finds out he is a grandfather of a nine-year-old girl, named Saffron. Since he is her only relative, social services hands over Saffron to him. At first he tries to get rid of her, but he soon finds out that they share more than his daughter, Saffron's mother. They take a trip from Manchester to London, to find Saffron's estranged father, but they find so much more

When British Intelligence Officer Tracy Barnes attacks visiting German politician Dieter Krause, solicitor's clerk Joshua Mantle is called to help unravel the events which led to the assault.

A seemingly happily married, successful plastic surgeon embarks on a torrid affair with tragic consequences for his marriage and those close to him.

We're in an English village shortly before Dunkirk. "Mr. Tom" Oakley still broods over the death of his wife and small son while he was away in the navy during WWI, and grief has made him a surly hermit. Now children evacuated from London are overwhelming volunteers to house them. Practically under protest, Mr. Tom takes in a painfully quiet 10-year-old, who gradually reveals big problems.

Contemporary thriller set partly on the island of Rhodes. A bankrupt former garage owner, now working as a waiter and a caretaker on the Greek isle, is hauled in by the local police when a young Englishwoman he has befriended goes missing. Under suspicion of murder, he flees the island and returns to England, where he begins trying to piece together the missing woman's background and her reasons for visiting Rhodes in the first place.

Political drama written by David Hare and starring John Thaw and based on Labour's disastrous 1992 election campaign. Labour leader George Jones battles with his party on the campaign trail of a general election.

Documentary on the making of the Inspector Morse series.

1962년, 73세의 찰리 채플린Charles Chaplin: 로버트 다우니 주니어 분)은 스위스의 자택에서 자신의 자서전 편집을 맡은 작가 조지 헤이든(가상의 인물, George Hayden: 안소니 홉킨스 분)에게 자신이 살아온 이야기를 들려준다. 영국 뮤직홀 배우 부부의 아들로 태어난 채플린은 건달이다시피한 아버지가 어려서 죽고, 어머니(Hannah Chaplin: 제랄딘 채플린 분) 마저 정신 이상으로 어려서 헤어지게 된다. 17세에 당시 영국에서 최고의 인기를 누리던 프레드 카노(Fred Karno: 존 토우 분) 극단에 입단, 인기를 끌면서 헤티 켈리(Hetty Kelly: 모이라 켈리 분)라는 극단 배우를 사랑하게 된다. 당시 헐리웃에는 단편 희극 영화를 주로 만들며 '코미디왕'으로 불리는 케스턴 영화사의 감독 겸 프로듀서 맷 세네트(Matt Sennett: 댄 애크로이드 분)가 단편 희극에 쓸 영국 배우를 찾다가 채플린을 스카웃하게 되어 미국으로 오게 된다. 채플린은 당시 흔하게 볼 수 있었던 영국인들 모습을 재미있게 분장하여 그의 전설이 시작된다. 1914년 그는 캐스턴 영화사에서 짧막한 희극 영화를 35편이나 찍으면서 대중의 우상으로 떠올랐고, 이듬해에는 형 시드니(Sydney Chaplin: 폴 라이스 분)가 영국에서 건너와 채플린의 메니저가 되면서 영화사로 옮겨 단편 영화들에 직접 감독까지 겸하게 된다. 1919년 채플린은 그리피스, 매리 픽포드(Mary Pickford: 마리아 핏틸로 분), 더글러스 페어뱅크스(Douglas Fairbanks: 케빈 클라인 분) 등과 함께 유나이티드 아티스트 사를 만든 뒤에 장편영화 제작에 착수하는데...

Biography of Arthur Harris (aka "Bomber Harris") of RAF Bomber Command, during WW2 - in particular his strategy of heavy bomber "Millenium Raids" on German cities.

남아공의 특혜받는 백인 국민으로 태어난 도날드 우즈(Donald Woods: 케빈 클라인 분)는 지방 신문의 편집 국장으로 흑인민권운동가 스티브 비코(Steve Biko: 덴젤 워싱턴 분)에 대한 비방기사를 실었다가 흑인 여의사 람펠레 박사(Dr. Bamphele: 조셋 사이몬 분)의 항의 방문을 받는다. 그녀의 권유로 비코를 직접 찾아가 만난 우즈는 아프리카인 고유의 문화와 생존권을 회복하기 위해 평화투쟁의 방법을 지도하고 있는 비코에게 깊은 감명을 받고 조국 남아프리카의 장래는 흑백인이 공존하는 민주적 체제여야 한다는 확신을 갖게 된다. 백인사회의 하급노동만을 전담하면서 그들이 길들이는 방식대로 교육을 받던 흑인들이 비코의 지도로 의식화되고 고유의 문화운동으로 삶의 보람을 찾는 것을 기사에 반영하던 우즈는 정부당국으로부터 불온의 딱지가 붙어서 요시찰 인물이 된다. 그러나 그는 비코가 당국에 의해 체포되고 고문사 당한 다음 단식투쟁에 의해 죽었다고 허위발표되자 시체를 촬영하여 세계 언론기구에 우송한 다음 보안당국에 의해 연금상태가 되고, 흑백차별에 반대하는 모든 백인의 운명도 흑인과 같아진다는 것을 체험한다. 그는 탄압을 견디다 못해 비코의 전기를 출간하기 위해 국외로 탈출할 결심을 하고 호주방송의 특파원인 브루스 기자의 도움으로 남아공 국경밖으로 극적으로 탈출하고, 첩보영화를 방불케 하는 기발하고 대담한 작전으로 아내와 다섯 아이들로 국경을 넘게 하여 비행기편으로 영국 망명에 성공한다.

사건 의뢰가 없어 무료해 하던 홈즈에게 모스턴이라는 젊은 여성이 찾아온다. 그녀는 모르는 사람으로부터 일년에 한 번씩 이유도 모르는 채 진주를 받았는데, 이번엔 진주를 보낸 사람으로부터 직접 만나자는 연락이 왔다는 것이다. 홈즈는 왓슨과 함께 새디어스 숄토를 찾아가서 진주에 얽힌 사연을 듣고는 모스턴의 아버지와 숄토의 아버지가 연관이 있다는 것을 알아낸다. 사건의 전말을 추적하며 홈즈는 새디러스 숄토의 형을 찾아갔지만, 그는 이미 살해 당한 후였고 네개의 서명이 쓰인 종이만 남아 있는데…….

After seeing her husband fail in fighting a battle to keep his factory open, a manageress loses her job in a disagreement with the manager over sexual harassment of her staff. She accepts the advice of her father and joins his son, a left-wing organizer, and takes her plight to the union.

A father is intent on finding the truth as to how his soldier son met his death while serving in Northern Ireland.

The reign of England's King John is threatened by Philip of France who demands that John's nephew Arthur be placed on the throne. Pragmatic and decisive, King John moves to plactate the French, but there are others who seek disputre his authority.

In Southern Rhodesia in the 1940s, city-dweller Mary marries farmer Dick Turner and is plucked from the comforts of her cosmopolitan life and forced to live on his unsuccessful farm. Mary slowly goes insane and has a sexual affair with her black servant, Moses. When the affair is discovered, Mary asks Moses to leave the farm, but he returns and murders her.

Sir Francis Drake circumnavigates the world in search of adventure and treasure.

John Thaw plays Vinny Mathews a small time boxing promoter who struggles with his conscience as to whether or not to provide a fighter for a Sporting Club promotion, a fighter he knows is unfit against an opponent who is way out of his league. However Mathews needs sponsorship and this would be the ideal opportunity to mix with the "frilly shirted" sportsmen who enjoy their lavish lifestyle as fighters slug it out as the steak is served!

The plot is set on a group of bank robbers, who are both violent and successful, strangely getting away each time with an amount around the £60,000 mark, and often leaving behind cash in excess of this sum. The robbers are willing to kill their own team, to get away. As Jack Regan himself puts it after the first raid in the film: "I've never seen so many dead people". Armed with gold-plated Purdey shotguns, they evaded Regan and the Flying Squad for quite some time, before Regan finds encouragement from his Detective Chief Superintendent who was sent down for corruption because Jack wouldn't testify in court for him.

When one of Regan's snouts complains that his girlfriend's recent suicide was murder, the flying squad detective feels compelled to investigate. He uncovers a conspiracy that reaches the heart of the government, and finds himself fitted up, suspended and under the scrutiny of Special Branch.

Abridged movie version of the 1974 British TV series concerning the whereabouts of Al Capone's illegal gains, garnered during the Prohibition era.

Rough, tough and politically incorrect in the way that only the best 70's dramas can be, Regan was a pilot film for The Sweeney - one of the major television successes of the last fifty years. Featuring John Thaw as the irascible Detective Inspector Regan and Dennis Waterman as his loyal 'oppo' Detective Sergeant Carter, Regan was an immediate critical and ratings hit, resulting in four series of The Sweeney and two successful feature films. Jack Regan is a good copper, but his tough, intuitive style is becoming unfashionable in a Scotland Yard seeking a new image. When a policeman is mysteriously murdered, Regan breaks all the rules to find the killer - but he finds there are men in the Flying Squad prepared to break him.

The vengeful Doctor rises again, seeking the Scrolls of Life in an attempt to resurrect his deceased wife.

An out of work man must take his son to a school poetry competition while accompanied by his friendly neighbours, of which, he's not too secretly been having an affair with the wife.

While on vacation, a woman's husband is taken by the Russian government. After one attempt fails, she begins looking for a suitable spy to capture and trade in exchange for her husband, but she develops an attraction to the one she thinks is a good candidate.

British mercenaries (Stanley Baker, Alex Cord) finish their Congo feud in Hong Kong, with a woman (Honor Blackman) caught in the middle.

A Marxist-Leninist expelled from the British Communist Party joins the Revolutionary Party of the Third World, sleeps around, and attempts to rethink his place within the revolution after the events of the 1968 May uprising in Paris.

A national service NCO (David Warner) comes face to face with an embittered Irish Gunner (Nicol Williamson) who is determined to humiliate him.

Two young journalists simulate a murder, but the scheme backfires when the mock victim disappears.

Alan Roper tells Bookie Larry Hart that he is planning to steal £60,000 and Hart offers to launder the money for him. What Hart doesn't know is that it is actually his money Roper intends to steal.

항상 화난 얼굴로 사고만 치고 다니는 콜린 스미스(톰 커트니 분)는 남편을 병으로 잃자마자 바로 딴 남자와 살림을 차리는 어머니를 무척 미워한다. 그러던 어느 날, 빵집을 털다가 체포되어 소년원에 간 그는 교도소장(마이클 레드그레이브 분)의 눈에 띄어서 장거리 주자가 된다. 소년원의 위상을 높이기 위한 교도소장은 콜린이 '크로스 컨트리' 레이스에 참가해 우승할 수 있도록 지원을 아끼지 않는다. 한편 콜린은 매일 아침 달리기 연습을 하며 자신이 미워하던 어머니와 소년원에 들어오게 된 일 등을 생각하는데...

Serjeant Musgrave and his small band of men arrive in an impoverished northern coal town, ostensibly on a recruiting drive.....but their intentions are very different, and will have repercussion's on the town for years to come.