Antony Sher

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.

Documentary celebrating the LGBTQ contribution to the arts in Britain in the 50 years since decriminalisation. It features interviews with leading figures from right across the arts in Britain, including Stephen Fry, David Hockney, Sir Antony Sher, Alan Cumming, Sandi Toksvig, Jeanette Winterson, Will Young and Alan Hollinghurst, and it explores the distinctive perspectives and voices that LGBT artists have brought to British cultural life.

King Lear has ruled for many years. As age begins to overtake him, he decides to divide his kingdom amongst his children, living out his days without the burden of power. Misjudging his children’s loyalty and finding himself alone in the wilderness, he is left to confront the mistakes of a life that has brought him to this point. Antony Sher plays King Lear, one of the greatest parts written by Shakespeare in this, one of Shakespeare’s most epic and powerful plays.

From the stage of the Royal Shakespeare Theatre, David Tennant, Catherine Tate and guests mark the life of William Shakespeare on the 400th anniversary of the playwright's death.

As Man Booker Prize-winning writer Howard Jacobson retells The Merchant of Venice, 400 years after Shakespeare’s death, he travels with Alan Yentob to the ghetto in Venice to explore Shakespeare's most performed play - and in particular the character of the most divisive fictional Jew in history, Shylock. On their journey, Howard and Alan examine the evidence behind the charge of antisemitism against Shakespeare. How did his old Jew from Venice become such a useful propaganda tool during the Third Reich, and what was behind the absurd and infamous proposal to cut off a 'pound of flesh'?

Government officials practice their response and decisions in a simulated escalation of nuclear threat.

King Henry's health is failing as a second rebellion against his reign threatens to surface. Intent on securing his legacy, he is uncertain that his son Hal is a worthy heir, believing him more concerned with earthly pleasures than the responsibility of rule. Sir John Falstaff is sent to the country side to recruit fresh troops. Amongst the unwitting locals opportunities for embezzlement and profiteering prove impossible to resist - as the king's health continues to worsen, Hal must choose between duty, and loyalty to an old friend.

With his crown under threat from enemies both foreign and domestic, Henry IV prepares for war. Having deposed the previous king, he is only too aware how tenuous his position is, and the price to be paid if he falters.

Ao lado de um grupo de anões e de Gandalf, Bilbo segue em direção à Montanha Solitária, onde deverá ajudar seus companheiros a retomar a Pedra de Arken. O problema é que o artefato está perdido em meio a um tesouro protegido pelo temido dragão Smaug.

Director Tony Palmer tells the incredible life story of Athol Fugard, the prolific playwright, novelist, and director who exposed the horrors of South Africa's apartheid system for the entire world to see. Interviews with Desmond Tutu, Nelson Mandela, Yvonne Bryceland and others help to illuminate Fugard's remarkable legacy.

In a remote village in Eastern Europe, around 1900, the young Motl Mendl is entranced by the flickering silent images on his father's cinematograph.

The life of Charles Dickens recreated using puppets, live action and animation. An experimental visualisation by Chris Newby of a pre-recorded radio drama written by Michael Eaton and directed by Jeremy Mortimer.

O ator Lawrence Talbot (Benicio Del Toro), quando criança, sofreu com a morte de sua mãe e nunca mais voltou a morar com o pai (Anthony Hopkins). Mais de duas décadas depois do ocorrido, ele é chamado por sua futura cunhada Gwen Conliffe (Emily Blunt) para ajudá-la a encontrar o noivo desaparecido. Ao retornar para a casa do pai, Talbot acaba se envolvendo numa investigação sobre violentas mortes que acontecem nas noites de lua cheia, entrando em contato com o seu passado e descobrindo um segredo que mudará para sempre a sua vida.

A London tube driver considers pursuing a third fatal accident to collect a huge payout.

Primo Levi narra a história de como ele, um químico judeu italiano, foi capturado pelos nazistas e enviado a Auschwitz. Dele e de outros prisioneiros, foram tiradas todas as posses, identidade e orgulho.

Esta polêmica produção revela um lado obscuro do primeiro-ministro britânico Winston Churchill, que foi um importante articulador que colaborou para dar fim à Segunda Guerra Mundial. Mas este filme mostra um outro Churchill, um jovem ambicioso e de caráter duvidoso, um soldado que venceu a guerra jogando sujo e caçoando dos ingleses. Longe de ser biográfico, o que se vê aqui é uma leitura ficcional e debochada de uma figura importante na história do século 20. Conta com um grande elenco, com Christian Slater no papel central e ainda Neve Campbell como a princesa Elizabeth e Miranda Richardson como Eva Braun, a namorada de Hitler.

The ostensibly calm and courteous Gerald Ballantyne lives in and embodies modern suburbia. But he is haunted by the memory of a recent car crash and hounded by his estranged wife and her demands for divorce. Slowly, a festering insanity takes over and unwilling to face the outside world he embarks on a lunatic experiment. Confining himself to his middle-class home, he eschews contact with others and survives entirely off 'food' which he can find in his house. Based on JG Ballard's The Enormous Space.

Anthony Sher and Harriet Walter star in a highly-acclaimed screen version of William Shakespeare's classic story of tyranny and ambition. On the stage this Royal Shakespeare Company presentation was universally lauded. Following sell-out seasons at Statford's Swan Theatre and in London, the production played Japan and in the United States, where The New York Times praised director Gregory Doran's interpretation as a "harrowing and disturbingly funny parable for the dawn of the 21st century". To make this compelling screen version, Gregory Doran worked with all of the original cast and filmed at London's Roundhouse. Brilliantly shot by director of photography Ernie Vincze, the production uses the edgy techniques of fly-on-the-wall documentaries. The effect is raw, intimate and strikingly dynamic.

Aclamada versão animada da vida do Rei dos reis, com as vozes de consagrados atores britânicos e um roteiro excepcional, considerado um dos mais fiéis ao texto do Evangelho.

William Shakespeare's play as performed by the Barbican Theater in 1999.

Lieutenant Hornblower and his shipmates are sent to accompany a doomed royalist invasion of revolutionary France.

O jovem Will Shakespeare está para se tornar o dramaturgo de sua época mas é atacado pelo mal dos escritores: um total travamento. Sua comédia Romeu e Ethel, a filha do Pirata não sai do lugar e a estréia se aproxima rapidamente. O que Will precisa é uma musa — e ela aparece na forma da bela Lady Viola. O caminho do verdadeiro amor não vai ser fácil para Will. Viola está prometida em casamento ao insuportável Lorde Wessex sob o comando da Rainha Elizabeth. As alegrias e a tragédia de sua própria vida acabam no papel, tornando-se uma emocionante, inteligente e cativante história.

A morte do príncipe Alberto faz a Rainha Vitória ficar arrasada. John, o mais fiel serviçal do finado príncipe, consegue trazer a soberana de volta à vida. Mas a amizade que surge entre os dois cria um escândalo e gera diversas fofocas na corte, que não admite que um homem do povo (principalmente um escocês considerado arrogante) tenha tanta influência. Ele é obsessivamente preocupado com a segurança da soberana e, em virtude de tudo isto, ela é maldosamente chamada de Sra. Brown.

Greg Wise (Sense and Sensibility) and Keeley Hawes (Karaoke) star in this sumptuous adaptation of Wilkie Collins' classic mystery, the first detective novel ever written. The Moonstone, a sacred Hindu diamond was stolen from the head of the Moon God, in its shrine by John Herncastle in 1799. The stone is said to be cursed if it is removed from the shrine. In 1848, a man named Franklin Blake announces to Rachel that the Moonstone has been bequeathed to her by Herncastle. Blake gives her the jewel on her birthday and offers to mount the jewel for her, in order that she might wear it. Inevitably, the jewel is found missing the next morning and Rachel believes Blake stole it. Determined to prove his innocence, Blake leaves in order to pursue the real truth behind the theft.

Um jovem dançarino cuja vida e arte são integralmente conectados ao seu corpo se vê passando por profundas mudanças quando confrontado com o HIV. Depois de herdar o papel principal no balé Indian Summer de seu amigo Ramon (Anthony Higgins), Tonio (Jason Flemyng) recusa todos os tratamentos que possam interferir em suas habilidades de dança, se reconectando com a vida apenas com Jack (Anthony Sher), um homem tão diferente dele quanto duas pessoas podem ser, mas que se torna seu companheiro e amante.

O Sr. Sapo e seus amigos Ratinho, Toupeira e Texugo lutam contra os espertalhões que planejam transformar a Mansão Sapo numa fábrica de comida para cachorros. Monty Python para crianças, trazendo brigas e disputas entre doninhas, sapos e toupeiras.

Baseado uma história real. Um sinistro conto de genialidade errada. O filme narra a caminhada de um jovem para a loucura em virtude do absurdo cenário da vida suburbana inglesa. Hugh O'Conor interpreta Graham Young, um aluno dos subúrbios de Londres, cuja obsessão mortal por substâncias tóxicas faz com que ele assuma um assassinato experimental.

In the midst of World War II, Nazi officer Otto Schatz declares the execution of Jewish music-hall comedian Genghis Cohn. Many years later, Otto is comfortably retired into the life of a highly respected police commissioner, and is investigating a series of murders when he encounters the ghost of Genghis Cohn. The haunting turns into a taunting, and before he knows it, Schatz is slowly driven mad as he is lured into a trap.

Joseph Mnwana arrives at Heathrow on a flight from Johannesburg and asks for political asylum. But what is he fleeing from? The authorities are suspicious, and Joseph has an uncertain future in store.

Spring 1917: the privileged world of Sorn Castle is upside down, its stately rooms full of amputees from the Western Front. While the local aristocracy makes a first attempt at nursing, a romance blossoms.

Spring 1917: the privileged world of Sorn Castle is upside down, its stately rooms full of amputees from the Western Front. While the local aristocracy makes a first attempt at nursing, a romance blossoms.

Erik, o Viking, reúne guerreiros de sua aldeia e parte em uma jornada perigosa para Valhalla, para pedir aos deuses que acabem com a Era de Ragnorok e permitam que seu povo veja a luz do sol novamente. Uma sátira pitonista da vida viking.

A young man discovers that not only does he have the ability to read minds, but that if he holds a camera next to his head he can transmit the thoughts he sees onto film.

Royal Shakespeare Company's televised adaptation of Moliere's play with Antony Sher in the title role of Tartuffe.

Writer and Director Mike Leigh discusses the techniques used to create his plays.

Três perigosos prisioneiros do extinto planeta Krypton que estavam confinados na Zona Fantasma, se libertam graças à uma explosão. O trio parte então para a Terra, onde passam a ter os mesmos poderes do Superman, mas o objetivo deles é dominar o planeta.

During WWII, the United States set up army bases in Great Britain as part of the war effort. Against their proper sensibilities, many of the Brits don't much like the brash Yanks, especially when it comes to the G.I.s making advances on the lonely British girls. One relationship that develops is between married John, an Army Captain, and the aristocratic Helen, whose naval husband is away at war. Helen loves her husband, but Helen and John are looking for some comfort during the difficult times.

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

"This could be a bit special, Maggie. This could be the first case of an office block falling down during the topping-out party." A self-made man finds his building firm in trouble as a new office block nears completion.