Kenneth Cranham

Kenneth Cranham

Nascimento : 1944-12-12, Dunfermline - Scotland - UK

História

Scottish born actor Kenneth Cranham is one of the most recognisable character actors in Britain. Having trained at the National Youth Theatre and RADA, Cranham first came to prominence as Noah Claypole in the 1968 Carol Reed musical Oliver! In the late '70s, Cranham memorably played Sapper Salt in Euston Films' Danger UXB, before taking the title role in the popular postwar set period comedy drama Shine on Harvey Moon. His most famous film role from around this time was Dr. Philip Channard in Hellraiser II. In more recent years he has starred in the HBO series Rome, as well as the films Hot Fuzz, Layer Cake, Valkyrie, Made in Dagenham, Maleficent and Film Stars Don't Die In Liverpool. Among many stage credits are West End productions of Entertaining Mr Sloane, Loot, An Inspector Calls (both transferring to Broadway), The Ruffian on the Stair, The Birthday Party and Gaslight (at the Old Vic). For his role as Inspector Goole in An Inspector Calls, he was nominated for a Laurence Olivier Award. In 2016, Cranham won the Olivier Award for Best Actor in a Play for his role as Andre in Florian Zeller's The Father. The play originated at the Theatre Royal Bath's Ustinov Studio in the Autumn of 2014, before touring the country and transferring to the West End in the Summer of 2015, and returning to the Duke of York's Theatre in Spring 2016. The play received an unprecedented five star review from every leading national press publication, and Cranham's performance was described as "the performance of his life" His first wife was actress Diana Quick. He has two daughters: Nancy Cranham with actress Charlotte Cornwell, and Kathleen Cranham with his second wife, actress Fiona Victory, whom he met on the set of Shine on Harvey Moon.

Perfil

Kenneth Cranham

Filmes

A Sombra de Stalin
Lloyd George
A extraordinária história não contada de Gareth Jones, um ambicioso e jovem jornalista galês que viajou para a União Soviética em 1933 e descobriu a chocante verdade por trás da “utopia” soviética e do regime de Josef Stalin.
Segredos Oficiais
Judge Hyam
Depois de passar anos trabalhando como tradutora de mandarim para inglês, a espiã do governo britânico Katharine Gun torna-se mundialmente famosa ao expor segredos extremamente confidenciais da Agência de Segurança Nacional. Após obter acesso a memorandos secretos, ela consegue provar que ocorreu uma grande pressão a seis países para que eles votassem a favor da invasão ao Iraque em 2003, realizada pelos Estados Unidos.
Born a King
Lord Curzon
A coming-of-age story set in 1919 about 14 year old Faisal, an Arab prince who is dispatched from the deserts of Arabia to London by his warrior father, Prince Abd Al-Aziz, on a high stakes diplomatic mission to secure the formation of his country.
Egon Schiele: Dangerous Desires
Leopold Czihaczek
The dramatic story of Egon Schiele in his own words, celebrating his remarkable artistic achievements but also debating the controversies around his work.
Joe Orton Laid Bare
Himself
Exploring the wit, work and world of Joe Orton through his own words, and the testimony of those who knew him and worked with him.
Estrelas de Cinema Nunca Morrem
Joe Turner
Baseado nas memórias de Peter Turner, o filme gira em torno da lúdica, porém apaixonante relação entre Turner (Bell) e a vencedora do Oscar Gloria Grahame (Bening) na cidade de Liverpool em 1978. O que se inicia como um caso vibrante entre a lendária femme fatale e seu jovem amante rapidamente se aprofunda de maneira imprevisível. Sua paixão e seu desejo pela visa são levados ao limite por eventos que vão além do controle dos dois.
Dark Ditties Presents: The Offer
The Host
Seven strangers are invited to a house to be offered a large inheritance, instead they find themselves trapped in a deadly game to the death.
Leviathan: The Story of Hellbound: Hellraiser II
Self
Leviathan: The Story of Hellbound: Hellraiser II is a feature length documentary uncovering the history and the making of Clive Barker's Hellbound: Hellraiser II. Released on three DVDs, part two looks in-depth at Hellbound.
Leviathan: The Story of Hellraiser and Hellbound: Hellraiser II
Himself
Leviathan: The Story of Hellraiser and Hellbound: Hellraiser II is a feature length documentary uncovering the history and the making of Clive Barker's Hellraiser and Hellbound: Hellraiser II films.
Malévola
King Henry
Motivada por vingança e o desejo feroz de proteger seu reino, Malévola cruelmente coloca uma maldição irrevogável na filha recém-nascida do rei dos humanos, Aurora. Conforme cresce, Aurora enfrenta um conflito fervente entre o reino da floresta, local onde ela cresceu e ama, e o reino humano, que mantém o seu legado. Malévola percebe que Aurora pode ser a chave para a paz no reino e é forçada a tomar medidas drásticas que mudarão para sempre os dois mundos.
Hércules
Lucius
A trama enfoca a história de amor entre o filho de Zeus e a princesa mortal de Creta, prometida para o irmão mais velho do semideus. Após serem enganados por um maléfico rei, Hércules e o capitão são vendidos como escravos e devem lutar lado a lado para retomar sua liberdade.
Circuito Fechado
Cameron Fischer
Um mercado popular em Londres sofre um atentado terrorista. Um ataque com bombas desperta a atenção de todo o país, e não demora até que um suspeito seja detido. Para defender este homem, são chamados dois advogados de primeira linha (Rebecca Hall e Eric Bana), que já tiveram um caso amoroso. À medida que avançam nas investigações, eles descobrem que o governo britânico está implicado neste caso, uma provável fraude organizada pelo próprio Estado. Com a dupla chegando cada vez mais perto da verdade, suas vidas correm um sério risco.
Flying Blind
Victor
Frankie is in her forties, ambitious and successful. She works in the aerospace industry at Filton, designing surveillance drones for the military. Shes never married, and is completely in control of every part of her life. Her closest relationship is with her father, who worked as an engineer on Concorde. But her life changes forever when she embarks on a passionate affair with Kahil, a French/Algerian aerospace student, twenty years younger than her. One day, she arrives at work and is detained by the security services: Kahil is a person of interest to MI5. Her well-ordered life starts to unravel in a welter of suspicion and prejudice, as Frankie no longer knows whether to follow her passion or listen to the doubts that increasingly overwhelm her.
Panto!
Jerry
Morecambe FM disc jockey Lewis Loud is thrilled to be appearing in his first pantomime 'Dick Whittington' opposite glamorous soap star Tamsin.
Suspension of Disbelief
Bullock
Martin is a screenwriter, who finds himself in one of his own plays: A young woman is found dead in the Thames and no one really knows, what has happened to her.
Graffiti Wars
Narrator (Voice)
A look at the feud between graffiti artists King Robbo and Banksy.
National Theatre Live: The Cherry Orchard
Firs
Madame Ranevskaya is a spoiled, aging aristocratic lady who returns from a trip to Paris to face the loss of her magnificent Cherry Orchard estate after a default on the mortgage. In denial, she continues living in the past, deluding herself and her family, while the beautiful cherry trees are being axed down by the re-possessor Lopakhin, her former serf, who has his own agenda.
The Night Watch
Horace Mundy
Set against the turbulent backdrop of London in the 1940s, this adaptation of Sarah Waters' bestselling novel, The Night Watch, follows four young Londoners inextricably linked by their wartime experiences. In a time when the barriers of sexual morality and social convention have been broken down, Kay, Helen, Viv and Duncan enjoy a freedom never experienced before. Moving back in time through the 1940s into the maelstrom of the Blitz, the lives, loves and losses of these four central characters are unravelled. For them, the post-war victory is bittersweet, for it returns them to the margins of society, from which they hoped they had been liberated. In order to build their future they must each make peace with their past.
Revolução em Dagenham
Monty Taylor
As operárias da fábrica da Ford de Dagenham vivenciam uma rotina desgastante de trabalho, atrelada a condições precárias e longas jornadas. O basta vem em 1968 quando são classificadas como não qualificadas. Motivadas por Rita O’Grady, as mulheres passam a reivindicar a igualdade de direitos em relação aos salários e o fim da discriminação sexual. Inicialmente direcionada aos patrões, a manifestação se volta contra o governo em uma luta que foi fundamental para que o parlamento britânico consolidasse o Projeto de Paridade Salarial em 1970.
Harold Pinter:  A Celebration
In June 2009, a group Britain's leading actors gathered for one night only to perform a celebration of the work of Harold Pinter at the National Theatre, directed by Ian Rickson. The team who made the acclaimed Harold Pinter documentaries for BBC's Arena was there to record this unique performance.
Spanish Flu: The Forgotten Fallen
MJ O'Loughlin
Spanish Flu: The Forgotten Fallen is a 2009 television drama. It deals with Dr James Niven's attempts to deal with the 1918 flu pandemic in Manchester. Its screenplay was written by Peter Harness and it starred Bill Paterson as Niven, along with Mark Gatiss, Kenneth Cranham and Charlotte Riley. It was first broadcast on BBC Four on 5 August 2009.
Valquíria
Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel
Claus von Stauffenberg, um coronel do Exército Alemão que foi ferido nos combates no Norte de África, regressa a Berlim e torna-se o líder uma improvável conspiração de altos oficiais militares para assassinar Adolph Hitler, dissolver as SS, devolver a liberdade aos alemães e acabar com a Segunda Guerra Mundial.
Heroes & Villains: Napoleon
General Carteaux
Twenty Four year-old Corsican refugee Napoleon Bonaparte is a lowly artillery captain in the French army at the siege of Toulon. Destitute and relying on his success in the new and dangerous revolutionary society, his mother and siblings become embroiled in Napoleon's struggle. The opponents are the English but the enemy are the revolutionaries authorities who seek to keep him in his place. Using his astonishing tactical mind, his sheer audacity and extraordinary military bravery, Napoleon emerges victorious and sets out on a path that would one day lead him to the throne of France.
Sinking of the Lusitania
Captain Turner
The story of the sinking of the Lusitania in 1915 after she was torpedoed off the Irish coast. The story is told from the perspective of Prof. Holbourn (a passenger), the German U-boat and its captain and crew, and other passengers, crew and Admiralty staff
Chumbo Grosso
James Reaper
Nicholas Angel (Simon Pegg) é um dos melhores policiais de Londres, sendo bom ao ponto de causar inveja nos demais homens da lei. Por causa disso, é transferido por seus superiores para a pequena cidade de Sandford, que possui o menor índice de criminalidade de toda Inglaterra. Chegado lá, forma parceria com o curioso Danny Butterman (Nick Frost) e começa a achar estranho o fato de acontecerem muitos acidentes na cidade.
Um Bom Ano
Sir Nigel
Um banqueiro londrino, Max Skinner, herda a vinícola de seu tio em Provence, na França. Assim que chega à vinícola, ele conhece uma mulher da Califórnia que diz ser sua prima e dona da propriedade.
Hannibal: Rome's Worst Nightmare
Narrator
It is 200 years before the birth of Christ and Rome is the new superpower of the ancient world. She believes she is invincible - but one man is destined to change that. He is a man bound by oath to avenge the wrongs inflicted on his home and, in pursuit of revenge, he will stop at nothing. Hannibal explores the man behind the myth, revealing what drove the 26-year-old to mastermind one of the most audacious military moves in history. With 40,000 soldiers and 37 elephants, he marched 1,500 miles to challenge his enemies on their own soil. It was an act so daring that few people believed it possible.
The Lavender List
Harold Wilson
A political drama about the last days of Harold Wilson's Labour government in the 1970s and his curious relationship with his personal secretary Marcia Williams
Nem Tudo é o Que Parece
Jimmy Price
Planejando se aposentar e começar uma nova vida, sr. X, um traficante bem sucedido de West End, recebe um pedido de um último favor: negociar a venda de um milhão de pílulas de ecstasy. Infelizmente para o sr. X., as pílulas foram roubadas de um grande traficante sérvio que irá cortar sua cabeça se ele vendê-las. E com um czar do crime de Londres prometendo aposentá-lo permanentemente se ele não vender, sr. X tem toda razão de estar preocupado com o seu futuro. Não há nada pelo qual valha a pena perder a cabeça.
Trauma
DC Jackson
Ben (Colin Firth) é um homem atormentado. Quando acorda de um coma descobre que sua mulher, Elisa (Naomi Harris) morreu no acidente de carro que sofreram. Com o mundo caindo à sua volta, ele encontra forças para tentar reconstruir sua vida: volta para o analista da infância, procura amigos antigos e faz nova amizade com a bela Charlotte (Mena Suvari). Mas três acontecimentos fazem sua vida virar novamente de cabeça para baixo: o assassinato da famosa atriz Lauren, que trabalhava com Elisa; as visões de sua esposa, que começam a assombrá-lo; a descoberta de que, antes do acidente, seu casamento com Elisa tinha terminado. Agora ele precisa entender por que as coisas aconteceram dessa forma e se ele tem algo a ver com esse crime…
Man Dancin'
D.I. Walter 'Pancho' Villers
Tough comedy drama set in Glasgow. Former enforcer Jimmy exits jail a changed man, but both his criminal boss and a corrupt copper think he's bluffing.
Sparkling Cyanide
George Barton
Based on the novel by Agatha Christie In this TV movie, a classic mystery is updated and relocated to a glamorous world of London socialites and secret agents, introducing two unique and compelling investigators and taking us through to the highest corridors of power.
A Estrela da Equipe
Chairman Collins
Blackball follows the fortunes of Cliff Starkey, a working-class fine of lawn bowls with an exceptional talent. Wanting to take on the Aussies he manages to become regional champion, only to get banned. Sports agent Rich Schwartz picks him up and makes him so popular the Bowls Committee deem to lift the ban. Now the question is whether he can regain his form and his friends to beat the Aussies.
Killing Hitler
Brigadier Sir Stewart Menzies
A drama-documentary about Operation Foxley, a 1944 British plan to assassinate Adolf Hitler.
Pollyanna
Mr. Pendleton
Pollyanna Whittier goes to live with her wealthy but bitter aunt after the tragic death of her father. Pollyanna shares a game her father taught her -- the 'Glad Game' -- in which everyone can find a silver lining in even the darkest cloud, and her sunny nature, good humor and determination to look on the bright side of life prove to have an astonishing effect on those around her. With the help of her orphaned friend, Jimmy Bean, she casts her spell on the grumpiest townsfolk of Beldingsville -- including the cynical shut-in Mrs. Snow, the morose millionaire Mr. Pendleton and the enigmatic Dr. Chilton. And Pollyanna masterminds the romance between her Aunt's maid, Nancy, and the handyman, Tim. It is only Aunt Polly, who cannot bring herself to embrace Pollyanna's innocence and joy. But all is not straightforward in Pollyanna's war against pessimism, since she must overcome a personal tragedy that threatens to banish "glad" from her vocabulary forever.
Night Flight
Ted Atwell
Night Flight was a powerful drama set in 1943 and the present telling the story of two World War II veterans. Harry Peters piloted a Lancaster bomber at just 20. His now middle-class world is thrown into disarray when former comrade Vic Green lands. A tale of secrets, scandal and corruption based on ghosts as yet not laid to rest.
Two Men Went To War
Sgt. Peter King
Comedy drama based on the true story of two British Army dentists who in 1942, eager to see action, go AWOL and invade occupied France on their own.
Women Talking Dirty
George
A lively, outspoken single mother develops an unlikely friendship with a shy cartoonist.
Shiner
Gibson
The past catches up with a ruthlessly ambitious boxing promoter.
Born Romantic
Barney
In modern-day London, three men (Craig Ferguson, Jimi Mistry and David Morrissey) and three women (Olivia Williams, Jane Horrocks and Catherine McCormack) fall in and out of love and back again, to the Greek-chorus accompaniment of two cab drivers, who engage in an ongoing conversation about sex. A winning romantic comedy, Born Romantic is the second feature by British writer-director David Kane of This Year's Love fame.
Gangster No. 1
Tommy
Neste suspense passado no Soho londrino dos anos 70, um ambicioso e carismático gângster planeja como eliminar o seu chefe e tomar o seu lugar, o temido respeitado número 1. Mas, é claro, sempre há um preço a pagar.
The Most Fertile Man in Ireland
Da
Unimpressive, 24-year-old virgin, Eamonn (Kris Marshall) lives in Belfast with his mother, during the Troubles. Local girl, Mary Malloy (Tara O'Neil) decides that since she has probably slept with every man in town Eamonn should be next on her list. He proves to be quite a catch... and Mary gets pregnant even though she took precautions. A doctor discovers that Eamonn has a very high sperm count and, with the birth rate in Ireland decreasing, Millicent (Bronagh Gallagher) decides to hire out Eamonn to women whose husbands have been firing blanks; all with the blessing of the local Catholic church which sees it as morally better than artificial means.
Lady Audley's Secret
Sir Michael Audley
When Lucy Graham (Neve McIntosh) weds the much older Sir Michael Audley (Kenneth Cranham), his nephew Robert (Steven Mackintosh) is suspicious of the lovely young woman's motives. Soon, Robert's friend disappears, and Robert believes Lucy may be involved. But as he attempts to unearth the truth about Lucy's past, he finds himself irresistibly drawn to her dangerous allure. Betsan Morris Evans's period drama is based on the novel by Mary Elizabeth Braddon's.
As Aventuras de Kevin e Perry - A Primeira Transa de Kevin e Perry
Vicar
Kevin e Perry são dois garotos de 15 anos desesperados para perder a virgindade. Nos raros momentos em que não estão pensando em garotas, Kevin sonha em ser cantor e Perry aspira ser um DJ. Quando eles conseguem sem querer, impedir um assalto a banco, a dupla recebe uma recompensa em dinheiro considerável e decide ir de férias para Ibiza, em busca de mulheres bonitas. Mas, quando os pais de Kevin anunciam que vão junto, os meninos temem que as expectativas das férias sejam frustradas.
The Murder of Stephen Lawrence
Michael Mansfield QC
Stephen Lawrence was a black London teenager murdered by white racists in 1993. His parents fought to have the crime properly investigated, culminating in a judicial enquiry into the event itself and also the inadequacies of the ensuing investigation by the London Metropolitan Police.
The Last Yellow
Len
Two losers try to lift themselves out of the mire by letting their fantasy world take over their lives.
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Espionage Escapades
Colonel Schmidt
Sixteen-year-old Indiana Jones joins an international trio of spies plotting against their German counterparts in the neutral city of Barcelona. Then later the same year, Indiana is reassigned to Prague where he is to receive an important phone call.
Vigo
The Producer
Based on the life of a classic french cineast Jean Vigo, the story follows his daily struggle with sanity, normal life and uncompromising filmmaking. Story also focuses on his relationship with his supporting wife whom he met in sanatorium.
RPM
Biggerman
A professional car thief pulls off the heist of a lifetime when he steals a prototype supercar.
O Lutador
Matt MaGuire
Após 14 anos preso por envolvimento com o IRA, Danny Flynn quer retomar sua vida, manter-se longe da política e reabrir sua academia, mas descobre que a antiga namorada, por quem ainda é apaixonado, está casada com militante do IRA que cumpre pena.
Midnight Man
Brig. Charles Ferguson
British soldiers force a recently captured IRA terrorist to cooperate with them and then assign him to go undercover with a gang of terrorists and prevent them from killing the U.S. President. But the spy isn't in long before he realizes that the first plot is but a ruse for a more sinister scheme that could result in trouble between China and Great Britain. - Written by Ørnås
Deep in the Heart
Robert Flaherty
Two British filmmakers attempt to make a documentary about Austin, Texas, and encounter strange and eccentric characters along the way.
On Dangerous Ground
Brig. Charles Ferguson
Vusi Madlazi returns to the South African village he left as a young boy (he was organizing against apartheid, and left in fear of his life) to bury his father. He meets up with his brother Ernest, who tells him their other brother Stephen couldn't be contacted. Vusi goes to Johannesburg to find him, but at first can only find his neighbor/girlfriend, Karin, a stripper. Vusi proceeds to learn how conditions have changed since the end of apartheid, not always for the better for black men.
Rosas da Sedução
Simon
Após uma infância sofrida, Lisa se isolou emocionalmente. O trabalho é sua primeira prioridade e o amor, a última. Após perceber a sua solidão, um homem sensível lhe envia, anonimamente, um enorme buquê de flores. .
Requiem Apache
Tony
Alan Bleasdale's comic crime caper for Channel 4 about a former getaway driver desperate to leave his life of crime behind. Featuring Alfred Molina, David Ross, Amanda Mealing, Andrew Schofield and Julie Walters. Raymond Murtagh's Requim Apache tells the story of Hamish, who was once one of the criminal underworld's best getaway drivers. Now a new father and retired to the Suffolk countryside, he has to watch the baby at home alone. However, Hamish's peaceful and idyllic new life is shattered when his past rears its ugly head once again, and the old gang comes over for a visit. They make him an offer he dare not refuse to take on one last bank job. However, with no babysitter available, he is forced to take the baby with him.
Royal Celebration
Douglas
A bittersweet drama about a street party held in a suburban London square to mark the 1981 Royal Wedding. After two years of the Thatcher administration there is recession and unrest, but the economic boom is just around the corner. Meanwhile, there's the fairytale wedding of Charles and Diana to celebrate.
Monkey Boy
Hennessey
Half man, half monkey, Chad was born in a lab and kept hidden from the world. A journalist, investigating a macabre mass-murder, discovers the mutant boy — a creature with the mind of a child and superhuman strength. But the reporter finds out the hard way that nothing, and nobody, can stand in the way of progress. (Re-titled for its American VHS release, "Monkey Boy" is an abbreviated film version of Lawrence Gordon Clark's 1991 mini-series "Chimera".)
A Little Bit of Lippy
Reggie Titherington
Kenneth Cranham and Rachel Davies star as the parents of 19-year-old Marian Fairley, who finds a pair of women's knickers in her husband's laundry. Outraged to think he is havingan affair, she takes the TV, the microwave and the baby, and moves in with her parents down the road. But an even bigger shock awaits her.
Paixão Imortal - História de um Vampiro.
Edgar
Anne é uma jovem bibliotecária que desperta rapidamente o interesse do elegante e discreto Alex, um dos frequentadores regulares do espaço. O que ninguém sabe é que ele é um vampiro com séculos de vida que viu nela uma sósia de um amor antigo, há muito desaparecido, e que ele também é o responsável pela onda de mortes misteriosas que tem acontecido na cidade.
Sob Suspeita
Frank Vance
In the late 1950s, British police officer Tony Aaron resigns from the force after sleeping with Hazel, wife of the man whose house he was supposed to guard. In his new job as a fake private investigator, he helps couples get divorces by photographing Hazel having "affairs" with the husband. When she is murdered during a job, Tony begins having an affair with the dead man's mistress, Angeline, while trying to prove his innocence.
A Última Tempestade
Sebastian
An exiled magician finds an opportunity for revenge against his enemies muted when his daughter and the son of his chief enemy fall in love in this uniquely structured retelling of the 'The Tempest'.
Just Another Secret
Brosch
An American intelligence agent uncovers a plot to assassinate Soviet Premier Gorbachev just at the time when glasnost is coming into place.
Hellraiser II: Renascido das Trevas
Dr. Philip Channard / Channard Cenobite
Após enfrentar os monstros sadomasoquistas do inferno que mataram sua família, a jovem Kristy (Ashley Laurence) está em um hospital psiquiátrico, onde não acreditam em sua história. Mas mal sabe ela que o diretor da clínica, Dr. Channard (Kenneth Cranham) é um profundo estudioso do apavorante mundo que Kristy conheceu. Disposto a conhecer tudo por trás dessa história, ele traz de volta a terrível madrasta de Kristy, Julia (Clare Higgins), que passa a matar inocentes. Agora, a jovem se vê novamente correndo risco de passar a eternidade no pior de seus pesadelos.
The Black and Blue Lamp
Satirical and surreal play by Arthur Ellis, dealing with the manner in which the British police force has been represented on TV for four decades. In 1949 Tom Riley is arrested for the murder of PC George Dixon. As he awaits interrogation at the station he is mysteriously transported into an episode of The Filth - a 1988 police series where the hard men rule, where he is told by the local CID that he'll be confessing to the murder or else his genitals are getting cut off ! This black comedy questions whether the police have changed or is it the way film and television present them.
Em Nome de Deus
Vice Chancellor Suger
Abelard, a famous teacher of philosophy at the cathedral school of Notre Dame, falls in love with one of his students, Héloïse d'Argenteuil. A sixteen-year old girl raised in a convent, Héloïse has an intellectual curiosity and rebels against the status of women in 12th century Europe. When others begin to suspect their relationship, Heloise's uncle Fulbert and the bishop of Paris work together to put a stop to it. Héloïse becomes pregnant with Abelard's child, and they are married in secret. Abelard struggles for acting against the will of God, yet is unable to escape his love for Heloise.
Chocolat
Boothby
Um retrato das relações entre as raças ambientado nos Camarões antes da sua independência, na perspectiva de uma garotinha branca e seu empregado negro. A estreia de Claire Denis como diretora.
The Party
Joe Shawcross
10 May 1968. In Paris the barricades are about to burst into flames as students and police clash. In London the fashionable Left are having a dialogue.
Normal Service
Peter
It's General Election day 1964, and the resources of Forth and Clyde Television are under stress. Too many shows want too many things done too quickly. Some of the design and graphics staff are intent on not getting involved. Others won't survive the strain.
The Birthday Party
Stanley Webber
It is Stanley's birthday, but the party he is given is not quite what he expects.
Making Waves
Joe Nash
A group of elderly women go on vacation to the seaside. One of them takes her son along and constantly watches him saying he has a brain tumor. His problem is something else entirely.
Dead Man's Folly
Insp. Bland
Durante um jogo de caça ao assassino numa casa de campo, para a qual Hercule Poirot é convidado como o "especialista", ocorre um verdadeiro assassinato.
Lady Windermere's Fan
Lord Darlington
Lord Windermere appears to all - including to his young wife Margaret - as the perfect husband. But their happy marriage is placed at risk when Lord Windermere starts spending his afternoons with an adventuress who is working her way through London's high society, Mrs. Erlynne. Worse, Windermere gives her big sums of money. To crown it all he asks his wife to invite the detestable woman to her own birthday party. Upset and outraged, the puritan Lady Windermere decides to leave her husband and goes to Lord Robert Darlington, who has been courting her for some time. Unfortunately she leaves her fan - the one Robert offered her for her birthday - in Robert's house...
The Dumb Waiter
Gus
In the kitchen, two assassins await the arrival of their victim. But someone keeps sending them messages via the dumb waiter.
The Caretaker
Aston
The story of two brothers and a tramp. Harold Pinter's first major success as a dramatist.
The Sin Bin
Alan Grieves
TV play set in an experimental self-rehabilitations unit at a British Prison, where six lifers participate in group therapy.
The Merchant of Venice
Gratiano
A rich merchant, Antonio is depressed for no good reason, until his good friend Bassanio comes to tell him how he's in love with Portia. Portia's father has died and left a very strange will: only the man that picks the correct casket out of three (silver, gold, and lead) can marry her. Bassanio, unfortunately, is strapped for cash with which to go wooing, and Antonio wants to help, so Antonio borrows the money from Shylock, the money-lender. But Shylock has been nursing a grudge against Antonio's insults, and makes unusual terms to the loan. And when Antonio's business fails, those terms threaten his life, and it's up to Bassanio and Portia to save him.
'Tis Pity She's a Whore
Giovanni
Lord Sorenzo marries the beautiful young Annabella, but unbeknownst to him, she is pregnant as a result of an incestuous relationship with her brother Giovanni. Sorenzo discovers the truth, and his ambitious, scheming servant Vasques, resorts to murder (and worse) to ensure that the whole affair ends in a heart rending tragedy! The original 17th century play was set in Italy, this version the action takes place in Victorian England.
Donkeys' Years
Bill Taylor
Michael Frayn's play about a college reunion.
Butterflies Don't Count
Tom
"Whether priest or thespian, never once let yourself doubt that the role you're playing is real. Lead your little flock from childhood to the grave via God's sweet sacraments and let no doubts intrude -ever. Once you start to question - you're finished."
Joseph Andrews
The Wicked Squire
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.
Robin e Marian
Jack's Apprentice
Uma espécie de tragicomédia de aventura, o filme "Robin e Marian" mostra a lenda de Robin Hood porém cerca de vinte anos após a maioria das versões da história, com Robin e seu ajudante Little John retornando ao seu antigo esconderijo na floresta de Sherwood cansado do mundo das Cruzadas e sua brutalidade revoltante. Eles são informados por seus ex-companheiros Frei Tuck e Will Scarlett que Maid Marian agora vive no convento nas proximidades, onde ela se tornou uma abadessa. Marian saúda o retorno de Robin com sentimentos mistos, mas depois que ele a resgata de seu inimigo de longa data, o xerife de Nottingham, que tenta prendê-la por motivos religiosos, os dois se tornam amantes mais uma vez.
Vampira
Paddy
In order to revive his long hibernating bride, Vampira, Count Dracula takes blood samples from several beautiful models, but during the transfusion, Vampira's race turns from white to black.
The Changeling
Antonio
Sexual passion breeds violence in the Thomas Middleton and William Rowley written tale of a beautiful woman who falls in love with a sea-captain. Filmed with lush production values and at a leisurely, very British pace, Helen Mirren is riveting as Beatrice-Joanna, a young lass already torn by love and commitment.Beatrice-Joanna (Helen Mirren) is betrothed to Lord Alonzo de Piraquo (Malcolm Reynolds) but is in love with Alsemero (Brian Cox). She hires her father's manservant, De Flores (Stanley Baker), to kill Alonzo but after he has done so, she realises De Flores wants her as a reward.The Changeling was an instalment of the BBC's Play of the Month series and is a production for television of a 1622 Jacobean tragedy of the same name, written by Thomas Middleton and William Rowley.
Achilles Heel
Gordon
A professional footballer suffers an injury which could jeopardise his career.
Irmão Sol, Irmã Lua
Paolo
A trajetória da vida de São Francisco de Assis (Graham Faulkner), que quando jovem era filho de comerciantes ricos e desfrutava de vinho, mulheres e canções sem ter nenhuma preocupação. Quando a guerra e a doença assolam a região onde vive, ele sofre uma grande transformação. Ao aparecer diante do bispo local e tirar suas roupas renuncia sua vida prévia para se dedicar a Deus. Mas sua pregação só iria chegar ao ápice ao ir para Roma, para ter uma audiência com o papa Inocêncio III (Alec Guinness).
Fragment of Fear
Joe
A reformed drug addict travels to Italy to find out who murdered his aunt.
All the Way Up
Tom Midway
Fred Midway may be a bit short on brains but he's got plenty of ambition. However, before he can gain promotion as a salesman he must make his family more socially acceptable.
Otley
Kid
A petty crook finds himself mistaken for a murderer and a secret agent.
Oliver!
Noah Claypole
Adaptação musical da obra Oliver Twist de Charles Dickens, um conto clássico de um órfão que foge do lugar onde trabalha e se junta com um grupo de meninos comandados por Dodger Artful e é treinado para ser um pickpockets, um batedor de carteiras, pelo mestre ladrão Fagin.