Robert Stephens

BBC Arena's documentary on the Dames of British Theatre and film featuring Maggie Smith, Elieen Atkins, Judi Dench and Joan Plowright on screen together for the first time as they reminisce over a long summer weekend in a house Joan once shared with Sir Laurence Olivier.

The story of Henry Purcell.

Turn-of-the-century love story centered around a young doctor and the emergence of modern science.

Upon her father's death, a woman comes into emotional and psychological conflict with her young lover, her overbearing sister and her alcoholic stepmother.

Menino de sete anos de idade apresenta talento extraordinário para o xadrez. Seu pai, um cronista esportivo, começa a inscrevê-lo em torneios, nos quais é tido como uma revelação. A busca pelo sucesso ameaça tornar-se obsessiva, mas pai e filho têm uma rara oportunidade de reavaliar sua relação.

Rich and languorous, this adaptation of George Eliot's classic tale perfectly evokes rural England in the 18th Century. But beneath the tranquil surface of this pastoral idyll run deep passions and the bitter gall of betrayal.

A little boy, obsessed with blindness and violence, slowly gets trapped in his own delusions.

A young writer in 1939 Warsaw faces the conflict of acting his age or relapsing into childhood during the brink of World War II. Based on the famous novel Ferdydurke by Witold Gombrowicz.

A less-than-qualified and far-from-perfect priest is mistakenly named the new pope. As the pontiff, he must deal with Vatican corruption, the Mob and the reappearance of his old lover.

Sherman McCoy (Tom Hanks) é um grande corretor de Wall Street que ganha comissões milionárias e tem a sua vida modificada bruscamente quando ao ir com Maria Ruskin (Melanie Griffith), sua amante, para Manhattan, erra o caminho e vai parar no Bronx. Lá ele atropela um negro, fazendo com que este fato seja o ponto de partida da sua ruína e também o início da meteórica ascensão de Peter Fallow (Bruce Willis), um jornalista desconhecido.

Rose Sellars is a middle-aged woman who falls in love with a widower. However, his children believe that their father is too old to start a new relationship.

A famous movie actor claims that he has written a book. As result, a real author, not a very well known writer, vengefully kills him but then dies as a result of an accident. Next, they both find themselves in after-life, where souls of all famous people are gathered.

A feisty 17th-century Scotswoman falls in love with a despised landowner, to the dismay of her father.

O Rei Henrique V da Inglaterra é insultado pelo Rei da França. Por consequência, ele lidera seu exército contra os franceses, o que faz com que ele tenha que estar em constante atenção para deixar suas tropas motivadas e unidas.

A dying man Lord Gordon asks his niece Ada to find his son in Africa whom he left many years ago.

Carlos Quintas, the democratically-elected president of an unnamed South American country, has been deposed by a military coup. He is in London, the head of a government in exile, rallying international support. He is also a poet of talent and reputation, in love with Kate, his assistant, who has a secret of her own and keeps Carlos at a distance. The generals have a team of professionals in London bent on kidnap and assassination. Hovering around Carlos are two Russians, who may be KGB, an American book publisher, who may be CIA, an elusive Brit, probably from her majesty's secret service, and his own few supporters. Is Carlos doomed? Whom can he trust?

Eddie and Michael are two 16-year-old gay friends from Liverpool. Berated by his father for his camp behavior, Eddie runs away from his Liverpool home and joins Michael, a streetwise hustler, who is also on the run.

Jim Graham (Christian Bale) é um garoto de 11 anos de uma família inglesa que vive no Oriente. Jim tem um padrão de vida alto, mas de repente é separado de seus pais em virtude da China ser invadida pelo Japão. Isto o força a se defender e o obriga a crescer, tornando-se então um sobrevivente em um campo de concentração com rígidas regras.

On the isle of Rhodes, Katherine, an expatriate English photographer, lives with her daughter. A young local wants to encourage tourism, so he commissions a sculpture of the Unknown Tourist for the town square; the sculptor he brings to Rhodes is Kate's ex-husband. Also there to see Kate is Sharp, an aging antiquarian and her dear friend. He has something important to tell her. As Kate, her ex, and Sharp sort out things that go back years, two English tourists bumble about, one thinking he's fallen in love with Kate, his wife thinking she's found her own lover. A rare vase, a spy, old friendships, the statue's unveiling, and off-hand English sorting-out play into the resolution.

The story of "The Tolpuddle Martyrs". A group of 19th century English farm labourers who formed one of the first trade unions and started a campaign to receive fair wages.

In Torre del Lago, by Lake Massaciuccoli, Puccini is writing "The Girl of the Golden West" when his wife Elvira accuses him of a dalliance with their maid, Doria Manfredi, a young women from town. Although the maestro is frequently unfaithful, he denies the affair; Elvira insists she's right and publicly hounds Doria. Between scenes in this domestic drama that turns tragic, we watch a Scottish company rehearse and stage "Turandot," Puccini's last opera. The film finds parallels between the two stories and suggests that in the opera, Puccini expresses love for his wife and guilt in Doria's fate. Three local gentlemen provide a spoken chorus as Puccini's score plays throughout.

The story of the last two years the inhabitants of the islands of St Kilda (far off the west coast of Scotland) spent there, before being evacuated at their own request. This film, originally shown at the London Film Festival, marked the screen debut of writer and director Bill Bryden, who made his theatre reputation directing at the Glasgow Citizens' Theatre and the National Theatre. In persuasive style.

A new teacher at a highly problematic comprehensive school feels that corporal punishment may just be inflaming the problems, and so begins to campaign against it.

In this eerie, atmospheric tale, a young woman is on a train when she sees some people she thinks she knows from her childhood. On arriving home, her husband tells her that a certain countess has died. At that point, the film cuts to a scene of the countess singing in a mausoleum while the visual image of the graveyard's many tombstones passes before one's eyes. Back home, the husband -- also a "father-figure" -- is looking over his collection of wooden angels. Some time elapses, and he surreptitiously sees a thief come down through the chimney, steal some things, and then leave. To combat any recurrence, he builds an iron, escape-proof cage around the fireplace, and then goes away on a trip. When he comes back, he finds the thief dead in the cage. Thus far, the camera has only shown the husband in profile or from the back. Then there is another story about a young girl, with a spiteful, nasty mother, who is trying to cope with her own attraction to a man.

Friends, contemporaries and even enemies of Alexander the Great gather in a tent to tell his tale through their eyes.

The jealous King Leontes falsely accuse his wife Hermione of infidelity with his best friend, and she dies. Leontes exiles his newborn daughter Perdita, who is raised by shepherds for sixteen years and falls in love with the son of Leontes' friend. When Perdita returns home, a statue of Hermione "comes to life", and everyone is reconciled.

Jan and Meg Citron are on holiday in Germany. Their car is stopped by the police. A simple traffic offence? But their seemingly innocent past is ripped open and life will never be the same again.

Alan Bennett's play about the mid-life crisis of an estate agent.

A traveller by the name of Crossley forces himself upon a musician and his wife in a lonely part of Devon, and uses the aboriginal magic he has learned to displace his host.

Playwright Charles Watson entertains his niece Lily by telling her about the adventures of Philibert.Both these people have something to do with Philibert.

Keith Carradine e Harvey Keitel estrelam este filme dirigido por Ridley Scott (Gladiador), sobre dois oficiais do exército de Napoleão, que se enfrentam violentamente numa série de duelos. Os duelos começam por causa de um incidente insignificante e se tornaram ferozmente compulsivos, passando a reger a vida dos dois homens, durante 15 anos. Baseado na história de Joseph Conrad, Os Duelistas explora os temas de obsessão, honra e violência. Este filme visualmente deslumbrante desenrola uma trama instigante até seu inesperado final. Foi premiado com Melhor Filme de Estréia em 1977, no Festival de Cannes.

One sixteenth-century clergyman's view breaks the Catholic Church apart.

Hugo is a brilliant turn-of-the-century scientist, loved and respected by his family and friends, admired by his colleagues. But he is a man quickly becoming obsessed with a curious and frightening question... what is the mysterious apparition found in the photographs of his dying subjects?

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.

Holmes and Dr. Watson take on the case of a beautiful woman whose husband has vanished. The investigation proves strange indeed, involving six missing midgets, villainous monks, a Scottish castle, the Loch Ness monster, and covert naval experiments.

The play by William Shakespeare.

Edinburgh, 1932. Jean Brodie (Maggie Smith) é uma professora em uma escola para meninas, que inspira suas estudantes com suas idéias sobre arte, música e política, sendo que a última é baseada em noções românticas, que a levam a expressar sua admiração pelo fascismo na Itália.

Na cidade italiana de Verona, as famílias Montecchio e Capuleto brigam eternamente. Quando Romeu, um belo jovem Montecchio, vai a um baile dos Capuletos, se apaixona pela bela Julieta, uma Capuleto. Após um breve namoro, os dois fogem, criando maiores tensões entre as famílias.

An epic presentation of the turbulent days leading to the Russian Revolution. Based on the classic work by John Reed, this important documentary makes use of rare footage and little-known information, stirringly narrated by Orson Welles.

A film of the National Theatre's presentation of the Shakespeare play.

Morgan, an aggressive and self-admitted dreamer, a fantasist who uses his flights of fancy as refuge from external reality, where his unconventional behavior lands him in a divorce from his wife, Leonie, trouble with the police and, ultimately, incarceration in a lunatic asylum.

O filme narra a ascensão e o declínio de Cleópatra, rainha do Egito, sua luta para defender o império das ambições políticas e territoriais de Roma e seu relacionamento com Júlio César e Marco Antônio.

The compère of a seedy strip club struggles to keep one step ahead of the bookies to whom he owes money.

At the end of WW2, a compassionate Dutch policeman helps smuggle a Jewish woman into British Palestine.

A young female designer is on the brink of an affair with a married male executive at the company where she works. The film tells the story of their illicit lunch hour rendezvous.

Captains John Fellows and Henry Wynne-Walton finish their Army training at Sandhurst Military Academy and are sent to the Middle-East. John is to lead a parachute battalion while Henry is put in charge of a platoon of armoured cars of the Household Cavalry. John is constantly being told by his father, an ex-Guards officer that he is not as good as his brother who was killed during the war.

A emocionante história de uma jovem que tem uma mãe relapsa. Apaixona-se por um marinheiro negro, mas ele a deixa por conta do trabalho. Grávida e sem apoio, encontra seu porto seguro na amizade com garoto gay que estará ao lado dela nas horas mais difíceis.

After a lengthy voyage, Capt. Bart docks his ship in a London harbor and is given a new mission by British Admiralty: capture the notorious Henry Morgan, a pirate who has been wreaking havoc throughout the Caribbean. After recruiting some former shipmates for his crew, Capt. Bart sets sail in search of the infamous buccaneer, and is joined by a beautiful female stowaway in the process.

Unbeknownst to him, a soldier is sent on a doomed mission because of the high likelihood of him divulging secrets if captured and tortured.