Himself
The film director, Carol Reed, is the subject of this documentary short. The illegitimate son of the famous stage actor, 'Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree' , Reed was brilliant with actors, especially child actors, making him the perfect person to bring Oliver! to the screen. Reed is best known for three films he made in the late 1940s, and the documentary offers generous clips from Odd Man Out, The Fallen Idol, and the most famous of all, The Third Man. The film director, John Boorman, the assistant director, Guy Hamilton, the actors, Ron Moody and Bryan Forbes and the cinematographer, Oswald Morris, are among the interviewees.
Himself
A documentary about the making of The Stepford Wives (1975).
Self (archive footage)
A film biography with a difference, Sir John Mills' Moving Memories charts the life of one of Britain's most distinguished actors. Compiled from interviews with the man himself and with his family and friends, it traces his career from humble beginnings to all-time great of British cinema. The many film clips reveal an electric screen presence and a willingness to undertake a range of difficult, challenging roles.
Self
The history of film and video censorship in Great Britain.
Screenplay
"Chaplin" é um filme biográfico baseado na autobiografia do artista e no livro "A Vida de Charles Chaplin", escrito por David Robinson, que traz a história da vida de Charles Chaplin, um dos maiores gênios do cinema, interpretado por Robert Downey Jr. Indicado ao Oscar de Melhor Ator, Melhor Direção de Arte e Melhor Canção Original em 1993. O filme dá a oportunidade aos admiradores do grande artista de refletir sobre a sua vida, desde a sua sofrida infância na Inglaterra, até o recebimento de um Oscar Especial.
Writer
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.
Director
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.
Driver
Two lads in Edinburgh embark on a non-violent spree of robberies. They dress up in clown masks and act as modern highwaymen, robbing coach loads of tourists in the highlands. In the process they become folk heroes to the locals. Their adventures make for a whimsical and gentle comedy, in the Bill Forsyth vein.
Harry Grey
Newly widowed Etta visits her beloved Aunt M and discovers her bedridden and listless. Etta's struggle to restore her aunt's dignity and cheer brings renewed meaning to the lives of both women, but also reveals family secrets and forces confrontations with her aunt's indifferent son and hostile daughter-in-law.
Writer
O assassinato de vários médicos coloca em evidência um psiquiatra, tanto como suspeito quanto vítima, despertando seu interesse em solucionar o caso.
Director
O assassinato de vários médicos coloca em evidência um psiquiatra, tanto como suspeito quanto vítima, despertando seu interesse em solucionar o caso.
Outstanding raconteur Kenneth Williams regales his spellbound audience in typical fashion with a long look back at his career - from his time entertaining troops in the army, his radio work (including the Hancock shows), his work in theatre and - of course - the highly successful series of Carry On films. Playing wonderfully to his audience of celebrities (which include Michael Parkinson, Ned Sherrin, Gordon Jackson and Carry On cohorts Joan Sims and Bernard Bresslaw) he even finds time to answer a few of their questions.
Writer
Two men show up claiming to be the grandfather of a child heiress.
Director
Two men show up claiming to be the grandfather of a child heiress.
Writer
A woman starts work as a nanny to a mute boy in a Victorian household. The boy's growing attachment to her however causes greater problems than his original detachment to his family. Part of the 1980 season of BBC Play for Today.
Director
A woman starts work as a nanny to a mute boy in a Victorian household. The boy's growing attachment to her however causes greater problems than his original detachment to his family. Part of the 1980 season of BBC Play for Today.
Director
A sex comedy anthology containing four stories, each from a different country (England, France, USA and Italy). "An Englishman's Home" "The French Method" "Armando's Notebook" "Skippy"
Screenplay
Cansado das falcatruas de seus colegas de profissão, um agente da CIA se aposenta. Junto com a namorada, ele começa a escrever um livro de memórias sobre os anos de segredos obscuros e passa a ser perseguido pela agência. (e 12 - Estimado 12 Anos)
Producer
Tatum O'Neal é a garota órfã, treinada pela tia rica (Nanette Newman) para ser campeã olímpica de corrida de cavalos. No meio do caminho, não são poucos os obstáculos, ainda mais quando se está sempre sob a sombra da grande amazonas que foi sua tia.
Screenplay
Tatum O'Neal é a garota órfã, treinada pela tia rica (Nanette Newman) para ser campeã olímpica de corrida de cavalos. No meio do caminho, não são poucos os obstáculos, ainda mais quando se está sempre sob a sombra da grande amazonas que foi sua tia.
Director
Tatum O'Neal é a garota órfã, treinada pela tia rica (Nanette Newman) para ser campeã olímpica de corrida de cavalos. No meio do caminho, não são poucos os obstáculos, ainda mais quando se está sempre sob a sombra da grande amazonas que foi sua tia.
Herald (uncredited)
In the tiny kingdom of Euphrania, the King and his court are most anxious to get Prince Edward wed. But Edward wants to marry for love. Meanwhile, young Cinderella finds life drastically altered with her father's death as she's forced to be a servant in her own house. But a cheery fairy godmother helps her with her impossible tasks, and even gets her to take an evening out at the King's bride-fin
Screenplay
In the tiny kingdom of Euphrania, the King and his court are most anxious to get Prince Edward wed. But Edward wants to marry for love. Meanwhile, young Cinderella finds life drastically altered with her father's death as she's forced to be a servant in her own house. But a cheery fairy godmother helps her with her impossible tasks, and even gets her to take an evening out at the King's bride-fin
Director
In the tiny kingdom of Euphrania, the King and his court are most anxious to get Prince Edward wed. But Edward wants to marry for love. Meanwhile, young Cinderella finds life drastically altered with her father's death as she's forced to be a servant in her own house. But a cheery fairy godmother helps her with her impossible tasks, and even gets her to take an evening out at the King's bride-fin
Director
Joanna Eberhart has come to the quaint little town of Stepford, Connecticut with her family, but soon discovers there lies a sinister truth in the all too perfect behavior of the female residents.
Producer
A documentary detailing the production of Elton John's "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road" LP featuring footage from the recording session in France, interviews, and concert footage.
Director
A documentary detailing the production of Elton John's "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road" LP featuring footage from the recording session in France, interviews, and concert footage.
Self
A documentary detailing the production of Elton John's "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road" LP featuring footage from the recording session in France, interviews, and concert footage.
Narrator (voice)
Documentary about the dancer Rudolf Nureyev.
Producer
Documentary about the dancer Rudolf Nureyev.
Screenplay
Bruce Pritchard is paralysed in a soccer game and is confined to a wheelchair in a convalescence home. But this doesn't slow his lust for life. Then he meets Jill and has to think about the effects of disability.
Director
Bruce Pritchard is paralysed in a soccer game and is confined to a wheelchair in a convalescence home. But this doesn't slow his lust for life. Then he meets Jill and has to think about the effects of disability.
Producer
Ao voltar para casa, o executivo Harold Pelham (Roger Moore) sofre um terrível acidente de carro. Levado às pressas ao hospital, ele fica clinicamente morto por alguns minutos, mas logo retorna à vida. Após ser liberado, ele percebe que alguém está usando seu nome e que esse estranho compartilha sua casa, toma decisões nos seus negócios e infiltra-se em sua família. Apesar de todos os esforços para descobrir a identidade do intruso, Harold fracassa: o impostor possui uma personalidade volátil, agressiva e não perde tempo em deixar claro que planeja se livrar dele e assumir para sempre o seu lugar.
Executive Producer
A boy who cries wolf witnesses a political assassination on the island of Malta. But will anyone other than his granddad believe him?
Director
An eccentric Parisian woman's optimistic perception of life begins to sound more rational than the rather traditional beliefs of others.
Screenplay
Um joalheiro e um casal, reunidos em circunstâncias estranhas, planejam roubar uma fortuna em joias de um playboy rico.
Director
Um joalheiro e um casal, reunidos em circunstâncias estranhas, planejam roubar uma fortuna em joias de um playboy rico.
Screenplay
Margaret Ross is an impoverished old woman who lives alone in a seedy apartment and enjoys a rich fantasy life as an heiress. One day she discovers stolen money hidden by her son and believes her fantasy has come true.
Director
Margaret Ross is an impoverished old woman who lives alone in a seedy apartment and enjoys a rich fantasy life as an heiress. One day she discovers stolen money hidden by her son and believes her fantasy has come true.
Producer
In Victorian England, a fortune now depends on which of two brothers outlives the other—or can be made to have seemed to do so.
Director
In Victorian England, a fortune now depends on which of two brothers outlives the other—or can be made to have seemed to do so.
Radio (Voice)
When Singapore surrendered to the Japanese in 1942, the Allied POWs, mostly British but including a few Americans, were incarcerated in Changi prison. Among the American prisoners is Cpl. King, a wheeler-dealer who has managed to establish a pretty good life for himself in the camp. King soon forms a friendship with an upper-class British officer who is fascinated with King's enthusiastic approach to life.
Screenplay
When Singapore surrendered to the Japanese in 1942, the Allied POWs, mostly British but including a few Americans, were incarcerated in Changi prison. Among the American prisoners is Cpl. King, a wheeler-dealer who has managed to establish a pretty good life for himself in the camp. King soon forms a friendship with an upper-class British officer who is fascinated with King's enthusiastic approach to life.
Director
When Singapore surrendered to the Japanese in 1942, the Allied POWs, mostly British but including a few Americans, were incarcerated in Changi prison. Among the American prisoners is Cpl. King, a wheeler-dealer who has managed to establish a pretty good life for himself in the camp. King soon forms a friendship with an upper-class British officer who is fascinated with King's enthusiastic approach to life.
Writer
This story of love and espionage focuses on political turmoil as a small nation struggles to free itself from colonial rule, and one man tries to serve both justice and his own heart.
Writer
Jovem estudante de medicina com ambições artísticas se apaixona por uma garçonete, que o abandona e acaba casando com outro homem. Quando ela retorna grávida, ele a aceita de volta.
Camp Attendant
Em Paris, na mansão de Benjamin Ballon (George Sanders), um conhecido milionário, um crime é cometido e por engano é mandado o Inspetor Jacques Clouseau (Peter Sellers), o mais atrapalhado dos detetives franceses. Enquanto as investigações avançam, novas mortes acontecem e as evidências sugerem que a culpada é Maria Gambrelli (Elke Sommer), uma arrumadeira que trabalha na mansão de Ballon. Entretanto, Clouseau tem certeza da inocência dela e está disposto a investigar o caso (mas sempre de uma forma pouco convencional), para descobrir quem é o culpado ou culpados das mortes.
Producer
Working-class British housewife Myra Savage reinvents herself as a medium, holding seances in the sitting room of her home with the hidden assistance of her under-employed, asthmatic husband, Billy. In an attempt to enhance her credibility as a psychic, Myra hatches an elaborate, ill-conceived plot to kidnap a wealthy couple's young daughter so that she can then help the police "find" the missing girl.
Screenplay
Working-class British housewife Myra Savage reinvents herself as a medium, holding seances in the sitting room of her home with the hidden assistance of her under-employed, asthmatic husband, Billy. In an attempt to enhance her credibility as a psychic, Myra hatches an elaborate, ill-conceived plot to kidnap a wealthy couple's young daughter so that she can then help the police "find" the missing girl.
Director
Working-class British housewife Myra Savage reinvents herself as a medium, holding seances in the sitting room of her home with the hidden assistance of her under-employed, asthmatic husband, Billy. In an attempt to enhance her credibility as a psychic, Myra hatches an elaborate, ill-conceived plot to kidnap a wealthy couple's young daughter so that she can then help the police "find" the missing girl.
Screenplay
A beautiful blonde joins a small group of men running an oil station in the Sahara Desert and starts the emotions soaring.
Writer
Jane is young, French, pregnant and unmarried. Bucking convention, she is uninterested in settling with her baby's father or getting an abortion. After renting a room in a dingy London boarding house, Jane befriends the odd group of inhabitants and starts an affair with one boarder, Toby. As Jane's pregnancy threatens her new relationship, and the reality of single motherhood approaches, she is forced to decide what to do about both her baby and her budding romance.
Director
Jane is young, French, pregnant and unmarried. Bucking convention, she is uninterested in settling with her baby's father or getting an abortion. After renting a room in a dingy London boarding house, Jane befriends the odd group of inhabitants and starts an affair with one boarder, Toby. As Jane's pregnancy threatens her new relationship, and the reality of single motherhood approaches, she is forced to decide what to do about both her baby and her budding romance.
Screenplay
John Lewis is bored of his job and his wife. Then Liz, wife of a local councillor, sets her sights on him. But this is risky stuff in a Welsh valleys town - if he and Liz ever manage to consummate their affair, that is.
Director
When an injured wife-murderer takes refuge on a remote Lancashire farm, the farmer’s three children mistakenly believe him to be the Second Coming of Christ.
Cohn
Durante a Segunda Guerra Mundial, e após a perda de dois mil soldados britânicos no estreito grego de Kheros, os alemães resolvem reforçar defesas na região. Mas a retirada dos Aliados foi cortada por uma fortificação costeira alemã na ilha de Navarone, dotada de dois poderosíssimos canhões. Agora um pequeno grupo aliado, apoiado pela resistência grega, precisa de destruir as duas armas a fim de viabilizar a retirada britânica.
Screenplay
William is an unsuccessful guinea pig for a medical group interested in researching the common cold. He is soon fired and offered a job by the nearby National Atomic Research Center where they figure anyone who could fail at being a guinea pig is just what they need. They con William into thinking he will continue his guinea pig career by testing out some equipment for them before they send a group of astronauts to the moon.
Porthill
Involuntarily-retired Colonel Hyde recruits seven other dissatisfied ex-servicemen for a special project. Each of the men has a skeleton in the cupboard, is short of money, and is a service-trained expert in his field. The job is a bank robbery, and military discipline and planning are imposed by Hyde and second-in-command Race on the team, although civilian irritations do start getting in the way.
Screenplay
Involuntarily-retired Colonel Hyde recruits seven other dissatisfied ex-servicemen for a special project. Each of the men has a skeleton in the cupboard, is short of money, and is a service-trained expert in his field. The job is a bank robbery, and military discipline and planning are imposed by Hyde and second-in-command Race on the team, although civilian irritations do start getting in the way.
Producer
A young factory worker stands alone against a proposed strike.
Writer
A young factory worker stands alone against a proposed strike.
Dawson
Set during the Burma Campaign of World War 2, this is the story of courage and endurance of the soldiers struggling at close quarters against the enemy. The film examines the moral dilemmas ordinary men face during war, when the definitions of acceptable military action and insupportable brutality become blurred and distorted
Screenplay
Drama set in an Italian prisoner of war camp during World War 2, where a group of British soldiers find their plans for escape thwarted by a mysterious traitor in their midst.
Writer
A captain is promoted by his company from tramp steamers to their flagship passenger liner. Although he is a thoroughly competent sailor ready to take charge of such a ship, he is less prepared for the social duties his new position involves, not least the way he in which becomes the target for all the unattached women on board.
Screenplay
A incrível, mas verdadeira, história de como um imitador foi recrutado para imitar o General Montgomery para enganar os alemães sobre suas intenções antes da campanha do Norte da África. (e 14 - Estimado 14 Anos)
Butterfield
A incrível, mas verdadeira, história de como um imitador foi recrutado para imitar o General Montgomery para enganar os alemães sobre suas intenções antes da campanha do Norte da África. (e 14 - Estimado 14 Anos)
Weaver
Na Inglaterra durante a guerra, por volta de 1941, rebocadores mal armados são enviados para a chamada "U-Boat Alley", a área de atuação dos submarinos U-Boat alemães no canal da Mancha, para resgatar navios aliados danificados. Um americano chamado David Ross chega a capitão de um desses rebocadores. Ele recebeu uma chave de um colega de rebocadores, capitão Chris Ford, uma chave de um apartamento onde reside uma bonita mulher. Se algo acontecer com o amigo Chris, Ross deve usar a chave.
Marsh
In England, a group of space scientists led by Bernard Quatermass, who have developed plans for the first Moon colony, learn that a secret, ostensibly government-run, complex of identical design has been built in a remote part of England and is the focus of periodic falls of small, hollow "meteorites" originating in outer space. Quatermass determines to investigate and uncovers a terrifying extraterrestrial life form which has already begun action to take over the Earth.
Organ Salesman
IT’S GREAT TO A YOUNG stars John Mills as Dingle an easygoing high school teacher. When autocratic new headmaster Frome (Cecil Parker) begins imposing all sorts of repressive rules, Dingle does his best to stand up for his students, only to be dismissed for his troubles. The kids conspire to not only reinstate their favourite teacher, but to circumvent Frome's refusal to purchase new instruments for an upcoming music festival.
Screenplay
Police in Paris recruit an English ship's officer (Michael Craig) to help trap counterfeiters by joining them.
Frisby
A rich young society girl falls in love with a car mechanic. Her family is appalled and stops her seeing him. The girl attempts to commit suicide and then decides to elope.
Jimmy Wheeler
A bomb dooms the first space satellite, manned by a selfless crew, a stowaway reporter (Lois Maxwell) and a mad scientist (Donald Wolfit).
Prof. Evans
After a quayside mix-up with the Italian family of his fiancée, Able Seaman Knocker White finds himself literally left holding the baby. Unable to return it before his ship sails he enlists the help of best mate Puncher Roberts to smuggle the child aboard. But babies are surprisingly demanding and gradually the whole crew is drawn into helping keep it fed and washed - and undiscovered. Even so, the officers above deck start to puzzle over the increasingly strange happenings on board.
Writer
During the British retreat through Libya, a British officer takes shelter with a group of Arab Bedouin. He marries the chief's daughter. Sometime later, his younger brother, who had believed him to be dead, is informed that he may be alive in Libya - prompting him to set out and search for him.
Harry
Director William Fairchild's 1956 British comedy takes a peek into the private lives of various performers employed as extras in a new film that's currently shooting.
Writer
Durante a WW2 um Major da Reserva da Marinha Real deve trabalhar com um Capitão veterano e um grupo de recrutas incorrigíveis na tentativa do que é geralmente considerada como uma missão suicida. A ordem era a destruição secreta de todos navios alemães atracados num estaleiro rio acima em Bordeaux, na França ocupada. E o ataque seria feito usando... canoas.
Shorty
Set in 1931, the film takes place aboard a merchant ship, briefly harboured in South America. A young woman (Diane Cilento) boards the ship as a passenger, resulting in disharmony among the superstitious crew members. Virtuous seaman Anthony Steel protects the girl from the lecherous advances of captain Peter Finch.
Jimmy Winslow
O Castelo de Colditz foi usado pelos nazistas para manter os "bad boys", aqueles que regularmente tentavam escapar dos outros campos de prisioneiros. Sempre a quantidade de guardas ultrapassou o número de presos e, porque alguns presos políticos também foram levados para lá, eles foram "muito" rigorosamente vigiados. Mas se você colocar todas as pessoas em um lugar e todas elas estão tentando escapar, bem...
Dialogue
John, a blacksmith and swordsmith, is tutored at Camelot. As a commoner, he can't hope to win the hand of Lady Linet, daughter of the Earl of Yeoniland, so he creates a secret alternate identity as the Black Knight. In this new role, he is now able to help King Arthur when Saracens and Cornish men—disguised as Vikings -- plot to take over the country.
Eric Birling
Baseado numa peça famosa e ambientada no ano de 1912. O jantar de uma família inglês da nobreza é interrompido por um inspetor de polícia que traz a notícia de que uma garota conhecida de todos os presentes morreu em circunstâncias suspeitas. Parece que qualquer um ou todos poderiam ter algo com sua morte. Mas quem é o misterioso Inspetor e o que ele pode querer deles? (e 12 - Estimado 12 Anos)
Todd
An impoverished American sailor is fortunate enough to be passing the house of two rich gentlemen who have conceived the crazy idea of distributing a note worth one million pounds. The sailor finds that whenever he tries to use the note to buy something, people treat him like a king and let him have whatever he likes for free. Ultimately, the money proves to be more troublesome than it is worth when it almost costs him his dignity and the woman he loves.
Subby
A maritime farce set in the South Seas. A strong supporting cast includes Brian Rix, Anthony Newley & Harry Fowler.
Ted Reid
Two brothers work in their invalid father's repair garage. Johnny is the quiet, reliable one while Ted is younger and wilder. The brothers feud over Lucky, a beautiful band singer. Then their life is complicated: first by a police search for the unknown killer of a man in a dance hall fight, and then by a bookie pressuring Ted to pay his gambling debts.
Willie
Gilliatt, a fisherman-turned-smuggler on the isle of Guernsey, agrees to transport a beautiful woman to the French coast in the year 1800. She tells him she hopes to rescue her brother from the guillotine. Gilliatt finds himself falling in love and so feels betrayed when he later learns this woman is a countess helping Napoleon plan an invasion of England. In reality, however, the "countess" is an English agent working to thwart this invasion. When Gilliatt finds this out, he returns to France to rescue the woman who's true purpose has been discovered by the French.
The Brat
Wing-commander Tim Mason leads a squadron of Lancaster bombers on almost nightly raids from England. Having flown eighty-seven missions he will shortly be retiring from flying, but the strain is showing. He tries to make sure his men concentrate only on their job and so keeps women away from the base, but then he himself meets naval officer Eve Canyon.
William Cleggett
Gregory Peck é um barulhento capitão do mar na costa do Pacífico, por volta de 1850, que tem planos de comprar o Alasca dos russos... se eles não o matarem primeiro.
Fred Starling
Efforts to move Britain into the modern age don't sit well with the people of the small village of Anderia Marsh, who have claimed a right (going back to Henry III) to evade government-imposed import duties and taxes. And when the government decides to curb this right, the whole village quietly rises up in a comical rebellion. After their vessel runs aground during a storm and is impounded by the British authorities, local smugglers must find a way of disposing of their contraband brandy cargo before it's discovered by the Customs Officers.
Paul
True story of three British POWs and their attempt to escape from Nazi Germany
Tony
A modern-day retelling of Arnold Bennett's novel, in which a Treasury official with a reputation for fiscal prudence is left a great deal of money and has no idea how to cope with sudden personal wealth.
Trumble
Newspaper reporter Nat Hearn returns home after serving in the Royal Air Force during World War II. When one of the paper's owners dies, the man's partner and son offers Nat a position as editor in return for his financial backing. But Nat's reluctance to shy away from controversial issues raises more than a few eyebrows.
De Volta ao Pequeno Apartamento detalha as angústias de um pesquisador e especialista em desarme de bombas militares Sammy Rice. Ele vive um relacionamento complexo com a secretária Susan e é contratado pelo governo para orientar sobre uma nova e perigosa arma alemã.
