Leo McKern

Baseado em uma história verdadeira, o filme acompanha um padre que, no século 19, se voluntariou para ir até a ilha de Molokai para cuidar dos que foram acometidos por um surto de lepra.

Tired of local corruption and the harshness of his life a bushman demonstrates the true Aussie spirit and decides to run for parliament

Based upon the true story that inpired the Christmas carol about a young king's care for his people.

Nostalgic comic drama in which Cyril and Amos, two veterans of the Normandy landings, return to France to visit the grave of their wartime buddy. They encounter Waldo, an American on a similar mission, and the meeting sparks memories of an old girlfriend from the past. With the mysterious American lady Lisa in their wake, Cyril and Waldo decide to try and track her down.

A semi-fictionalized account of the life of writer F.R. Leavis, his mentor Arthur Quiller Couch, and Leavis's own students at Cambridge University.

Ibsen's play is the story of Halvard Solness, Master Builder of a town in Norway. Solness is a successful architect but he's afraid of the being surpassed by those younger than himself. The arrival of a young woman called Hilda stirs up memories and feelings with stories of a promise he made her many years ago.

An aged couple decide to move from Melbourne to north Queensland.

Sir Alec Guiness stars with Leo McKern in the story of a friendship between a Catholic priest and a Communist Mayor. Together they travel from their remote village to Madrid and back exploring their friendship, the demands of belief and constancy of faith. This lavish production filmed entirely on location captures the wit, warmth, and vitality that make the original novel by Graham Greene a unique work of literature.

Dois amantes na França medieval são transformados por um feitiço maligno onde ela é um falcão durante o dia, e ele é um lobo durante a noite. Logo eles recorrem à ajuda de um jovem ladrão para ajudá-los a quebrar o feitiço.

When Miss Marple arrives at palatial Stonygates, one thing is certain. Before there's time to lather a warm scone with marmalade and place a tea cozy, murder most foul is bound to occur.

A non-stop roller coaster ride through the scariest moments of the greatest terror films of all time.

Comedy featuring interweaving stories of seven households caught up in a property chain on moving day, each one dependent on the other.

An aging King invites disaster when he abdicates to his corrupt, toadying daughters and rejects his one loving, but honest one.

In 1945, the Carlions assemble at an English country house for a family gathering. During the event, they must determine who is to take over the family brewing empire, since the present head of the business, Sir Frederick, is getting old. The results of the 1945 general election causes a major stir, and some angry farmers occupy a barn.

Duas histórias, em épocas diferentes, porém muito semelhantes. Os atores Mike e Ana vivem um conturbado relacionamento, em que a insegurança dela impede que os dois se entendam. Ao mesmo tempo, os personagens que interpretam em um filme se afastam após uma forte consequência social da época.

A bored Rumpole, living in Florida retirement, uses an inquiry from Phyllida as a pretext to re-establish himself back in chambers.

Duas crianças ainda pequenas e um cozinheiro de um navio, são os únicos sobreviventes de um náufragio e encontram segurança numa idílica ilha tropical. Em breve, contudo, o cozinheiro morre e os jovens rapaz e rapariga são deixados por conta própria. Os dias tornam-se anos e Emmeline e Richard tansformam a ilha na sua casa, redeados por criaturas exóticas e beleza natural. Eles aprendem a lidar com a viriedade de mudanças físicas que surgem com a adolencência e à medida que começam a tornar-se adultos, as suas afeições de criança transformam-se num amor sensível e profundo. Depois acontece o nascimento de uma criança. Mas será que eles vão voltar a ver a civilização de novo?

When Israeli officials learn that Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann may be living in Argentina, they send a team of secret agents to apprehend him.

The story of the courtship of Joseph and Mary, and of the events leading up to the first Christmas.

The story of the genocide of the Tasmanian aborigine population by British settlers. Specifically Truganini, the last living full-blood aborigine.

Um casal manda seu sobrinho órfão para a escola militar, onde ele descobre que é o anticristo. Depois de alguma relutância em aceitar o fato, ele passa a usar seus poderes satânicos para matar qualquer um que suspeite de sua herança demoníaca.

Quando o trapaceiro Harry fica sabendo que um tesouro secreto está escondido dentro de Candleshoe, uma propriedade inglesa, ele cria um elaborado plano para encontrar e roubar o prêmio. Ao convencer uma garota chamada Casey para se passar por uma neta perdida do dono da propriedade, Harry espera descobrir a localização do tesouro. Mas quando Casey muda de ideia, ela precisa encontrar o tesouro, a fim de salvar Candleshoe e impedir Harry antes que seja tarde demais. (e Livre - Estimado Livre)

O embaixador americano e a esposa querem muito ter filhos. Quando ela dá à luz um bebê morto e um padre sugere que adotem um recém-nascido saudável e órfão, ele aceita sem contar à mulher. O que ele não sabe é que o bebê é o anticristo.

An irreverent barrister chooses to defend a young Jamaican boy accused of stabbing on the same day his only son leaves for college in America.

Depois de anos à sombra do irmão famoso, Singerson Holmes é chamado para desvendar um intricado mistério, com resultados que deixarão seus clientes sem fôlego... De tanto rir!

A dramatised documentary of the life and work of JMW Turner.

In the Nazi occupied city of Rome, an assault on an SS brigade draws retaliation from the military governship. "Massacre in Rome" is the true story of how this partisan attack led to the mass execution of Italian nationals under the orders of SS-Lieutenant Colonel Kappler.

Ahead of a screening of his latest film a director converses with a prostitute, whilst his female star and estranged wife talks to a writer, his brother. Intercut are scenes from the film, and the making of it.

An Irish lass is branded a traitor when she falls for a British soldier.

TV play by David Mercer. First in a trilogy concerning Marxist novelist Robert Kelvin. The occasion is a dinner party, Kelvin is concerned with a summation of his life, addressed in his head to his lover, Emma.

O clima no Vaticano anda apreensivo. Católicos no mundo todo aguardam os cardeiais decidirem quem será o novo papa. Quando a fumaça branca finalmente surge a espera acaba: O bispo Kiril Lakota (Anthony Quinn), um político russo recém-liberto do cativeiro, é escolhido para liderar a Igreja Católica. Logo, sua atuação como pontífice ganhará ares políticos, pois ele é chamado para intervir na crise entre Rússia e China.

A young man's attempts at seduction and social climbing lead to mayhem.

Detective Scobie Malone accepts a mission to fly to London to arrest Sir James Quentin, a high-level commissioner wanted down under for murder. But when Malone arrives, he finds that the amiable Quentin is not only the key in groundbreaking peace negotiations, but also the target of an assassin himself.

Philip Scott, the boss of a toy company, is secretly also the chief of a British spy organization. Scott's cover is destroyed when enemy agents kidnap his girlfriend to force him to reveal the identities of his fellow spies.

After he resigns, a secret agent is abducted and taken to what looks like an idyllic village, but is really a bizarre prison. His warders demand information. He gives them nothing; he only tries to escape.

A BAFTA award nominated documentary about Danilo Dolci's 1967 march across Sicily as an expression of his fight against poverty, corruption and violence, together with transcripts of an interview with Dolci.

Alice in Wonderland (1966) is a BBC television play based on Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll. It was directed by Jonathan Miller, then most widely known for his appearance in the long-running satirical revue Beyond the Fringe.

Na Inglaterra do século XVI, Henrique VIII (Robert Shaw) planeja se separar de sua primeira esposa para se casar com Ana Bolena (Vanessa Redgrave), mas não recebe a aprovação de Thomas More (Paul Scofield), um fervoroso católico que se tornou Lord Chanceler, um altíssimo posto que ele preferiu renunciar a trair suas convicções. Entretanto, a importância de Sir Thomas é tão grande que mesmo após sua renúncia o rei continua lhe perseguindo. Até que surgem “provas” que o incriminam como alta traição, um crime punido com a morte.

An interpretation of Plato's Symposium as a picnic organised by a University don for his students. Each guest is asked to explain the nature of love before the Don, through a series of questions, reaches a unifying conclusion.

Help é o segundo filme da banda Britânica The Beatles. O álbum homónimo saiu no mesmo ano. O filme conta a história dum culto indiano que a cada dia escolhe uma vítima para ser sacrificada perante a deusa da morte kaili. Para isso, fornecem-lhe um anel que usará até que chegue a hora da sua morte. Porém este anel desaparece e descobre-se que foi enviado para Inglaterra, como presente a Ringo Starr, que caso não o devolva, se tornará a nova vítima. Porém, há um problema, ele não consegue tirá-lo do dedo.

A bawdy story of how a poor damsel surrenders her virtue again and again to get to the top of society.

Mysteries abound. What is going on between the wife and her brother? Are they indeed brother and sister? Sisson has his doubts about that … . Why does Sisson feel that there must be something wrong with his eyes, although he knows that he can see clearly and his eye doctor has assured him that his vision is perfect? He forces his secretary to tie a chiffon scarf over his eyes, and then he is able to make a pass at her, in response to one of her many come-ons. Ordinary events assume a sinister tinge. Sisson's two sons, giving him the deadpan treatment that little boys have been inflicting on their elders from time immemorial, seem as eerie as characters out of a ghost story. Always the questions remain. Is there a conspiracy against Sisson. Wikipedia

Durante a Primeira Guerra Mundial, as tropas britânicas estão entrincheiradas em Passchendaele, na Bélgica. Entre os voluntários, há um jovem soldado britânico, Arthur Hamp, que é o único sobrevivente de sua tropa original. Hamp passou 3 anos nas trincheiras e isso o torna um veterano. Ele nunca foi acusado de covardia, mas um dia ele simplesmente decide deixar a guerra para trás e andar sem parar até a Inglaterra. Em Calais, França, ele é confrontado por uma patrulha da Polícia Militar que imediatamente o prende por sair sem permissão. Os comandantes do Hamp decidem convocar uma corte marcial e acusá-lo de deserção. Se for considerado culpado, Hamp poderá ser morto por um pelotão de fuzilamento. O capitão Hargreaves é designado para ser o advogado de defesa de Hamp, mas ele parece cético sobre suas chances de absolvição do desertor. Durante sua primeira conversa, o capitão Hargreaves fica impressionado com a sinceridade e ingenuidade absolutas de seu cliente. (e 14 - Estimado 14 Anos)

Five pampered French children with their wheeled, headless, toy horse accidentally become tangled up in a plot to rob the Dijon- Paris express of 100,000,000. They foil the robbery when a thief stashes the key to his hiding place inside 'The Horse Without A Head'.

A young man travels to Prague to join his new employer, unaware that he is being used as an espionage courier.

An English professor decides that there are too many useless people in the world and invents a gas that will kill them off. But first they'll at least have a good laugh.

"Doctor in Distress" is the fifth of the seven films in the "Doctor" series, and focuses on Sir Lancelot Spratt, Simon Sparrow's old teacher and sometimes nemesis. When the eternal bachelor Sir Lancelot injures his back and falls in love with his physiotherapist Iris Marchant, he becomes very distressed and turns to Simon for help. Simon, who now is a senior doctor at fictional Hampden Cross Hospital and hopelessly in love with aspiring actress Delia, sends him to a nature cure clinic in a vain attempt to help him lose weight, but Sir Lancelot can't get Iris off his mind and has her followed, first by a private investigator and eventually by himself. When he finally proposes, she rejects him and marries an old army major, which distresses Sir Lancelot even more.

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

Repórteres britânicos suspeitam que um encobrimento internacional de um desastre global está em andamento. E eles estão certos. Um pânico histérico tomou o mundo depois que os Estados Unidos e a União Soviética simultaneamente detonaram dispositivos nucleares e fizeram com que a órbita da Terra se alterasse, enviando-a para mais perto do sol.

Mr. Topaze (Peter Sellers) is an unassuming school teacher in an unassuming small French town, who is honest to a fault. He is fired when he refuses to give a passing grade to a bad student, the grandson of a wealthy baroness. Castel Benac (Herbert Lom), a government official who runs a crooked financial business on the side, is persuaded by his mistress, Suzy (Nadia Gray), a musical comedy actress, to hire Mr. Topaze as the front man for his business. Gradually, Topaze becomes a rapacious financier who sacrifices his honesty for success and, in a final stroke of business bravado, fires Benac and acquires Suzy in the deal. An old friend and colleague, Tamise (Michael Gough) questions him and tells Topaze that what he now says and practices indicates there are no more honest men.

A bumbling gang of thieves crash a jazz party.

An Englishman and a cabby try to save an heiress from murder in Spain.

A short film without any direct action designed more as an experiment, with disjointed comic scenes with no common thread.

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

O ducado de Grand Fenwick decide que a única maneira de se livrar de seus problemas econômicos é declarar guerra aos Estados Unidos, perder e aceitar a ajuda estrangeira. Eles enviam uma força de invasão a Nova York (armados com arcos e flechas), que chega durante um exercício nuclear que deixou as ruas desertas. Vagando pelas ruas desertas em busca de encontrar alguém para se renderem, eles descobrem um cientista com uma arma moderníssima que pode destruir a Terra. Quando eles capturam o cientista e sua bomba eles ficam diante de uma nova possibilidade: O que você faz quando você ganha uma guerra?

A World War II evacuee (Van Johnson) returns years later to England and finds his father in prison framed for murder.

When a clerk tries to dodge paying a bus fare, it sparks a series of unforseen consequences

British barrister Sydney Carton lives an insubstantial and unhappy life. He falls under the spell of Lucie Manette, but Lucie marries Charles Darnay. When Darnay goes to Paris to rescue an imprisoned family retainer, he becomes entangled in the snares of the brutal French Revolution and is himself jailed and condemned to the guillotine. But Sydney Carton, in love with a woman he cannot have, comes up with a daring plan to save her husband.

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.”

Brocas radioativas do Exército Britânico em uma remota base escocesa atraem uma entidade subterrânea radioativa, de natureza desconhecida, que desaparece deixando dois soldados gravemente queimados pela radiação... e um profundo buraco na terra. Outras pessoas que encontraram com a "coisa" durante a noite sofrem da mesma forma, e com o aumento da gravidade; parece que a criatura é capaz de "absorver" radiação de qualquer fonte, crescendo mais e mais. O que será isso?? Como você destrói uma coisa que se "alimenta" na energia?

In a Swiss Alpine resort shortly after the War an army officer and upper-class Humpy Miller both set their sights on Mary, the landlord's daughter. When the two come down with chicken pox they are put in the charge of fellow guest Miss Cartwright, who turns out to be Humpy's old nanny. The two Englishmen unite not only against her tyranny but against a dense Greek who is also after Mary.

Murder in the Cathedral is a story about Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury, and his struggles against temptation and personal vanity prior to his murder in the great Cathedral.