Michael Medwin

Джорджина была непосредственной девушкой, она обожала нарушать правила, флиртовать, подтрунивать и играть. Мать выдала ее замуж за герцога графства Девоншир. Она приобрела положение в обществе, роскошный особняк, богатство, но где же любовь? Сможет ли она смирить свои чувства и повиноваться долгу? Или она, став законодательницей мод и признанным идеалом высшего общества, бросит ему вызов?

A soldier lands on an island and storms it. Only finding it defended by sheep and one old shepherd he claims it on behalf of his king and country. The shepherd though, doesn't seem that bothered and is happy just to see where it goes.

Episode of the BBC Scotland television series focusing on Lindsay Anderson's 1968 film "If...", featuring interviews with star Malcolm McDowell, cinematographer Miroslav Ondříček, assistant editor Ian Rakoff, director’s assistant Stephen Frears, producer Michael Medwin, and screenwriter David Sherwin

Yorkshire writer Kate finds out her biological clock is ticking down the same day that her husband leaves her. To get over the financial crisis this creates she takes in car-dealer Dave. He's homeless as Kate's husband has moved in with his wife. This leaves the problem of how to get promptly pregnant. Surely not with increasingly interesting Dave. They can't even agree on a baby's name - he thinks Fanny is silly and she finds Elvis, well, inconceivable.

Экранизация сказки Льюиса Кэрролла "Алиса в Зазеркалье". Алиса решила понарошку войти в зеркало и оказалась в Зазеркалье, где мир представлял большую шахматную доску. Из зазеркальной комнаты Алиса попадает в зазеркальный сад живых цветов, где встречает Красную Королеву и становится Белой Пешкой. Её ждут удивительные приключения в сказочной стране!

Молодой парень, работающий в детской секции супермаркета демонстратором игрушек, собрался жениться. По традиции друзья устроили мальчишник. Один из приятелей подсыпал чего-то в кружку пива. И жених отрубился… В лондонском кабаке… А проснулся в неизвестном месте, на берегу океана, в холодных волнах прибоя, совершенно голым, в абсолютно безлюдной местности. Впрочем, одну фигурку на горизонте наш герой все-таки заприметил: старушка стояла на холме… Она и объяснила жениху, что он — на окраине какого-то шотландского островка… Долог же будет путь парня на собственную свадьбу! Как бы ему не опоздать!..

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.

Thirteen-year-old Nick and his slightly dense older brother Herbert run the Diamond Private Detective Agency above Camden Town Tube Station in north-central London. When a master criminal called The Falcon dies, they come into possession of his box of chocolate Maltesers, which contains the secret key to a fabulous cache of diamonds. Can they unravel the mystery and avoid the clutches of seedy lowlifes Brenda Von Falkenberg, Gott and Himmell, The Fat Man and the dogmatic Chief Inspector Snape, all of whom want to find the swag first.

A diverse group of guests gather in a small hotel in Paris to contemplate the state of their lives in this pretentious drama. Joseph Goldman (Fernando Rey) is a washed-up Hollywood actor making a living in the dinner-theater circuit. Accompanied by his wife Sarah (Carole Regnier), Goldman meets Frederique (Berangere Bonvoisin), who is hiding from her former lover. French financier Arthur (Fabrice Luchini) hopes to get into the film industry and bends the ear of a British director (Michael Medwin). The talkative film has little action, and none of the characters evoke much interest or resolve their dilemma.

Philip Kimberly, the former head of the British Secret Service who defected to Russia, is given plastic surgery and sent back to Britain by the KGB to retrieve some vital documents. With the documents in hand, he instead plays off MI6 and the KGB against each other.

Saxon Logan's extraordinary 49 minute featurette pitches four people into a class war situation with a vicious sting in the tale.

«Никогда не говори «никогда»» - 14-й фильм из серии фильмов о Джеймсе Бонде. Этот фильм не входит в официальную «Бондиану», так как не спродюсирован семейством Брокколи. Стилизованный римейк «Шаровой молнии» 1965 года. Бонд вновь противостоит главе организации СПЕКТР. Примечательны электронные игры с болевым эффектом. Действие фильма происходит в Англии, на Багамских островах, во Франции.

Комедия абсурда, действие которой происходит в госпитале. Группы непонятно против чего протестующих людей, нетерпеливые пациенты, сумасшедший доктор — вот далеко еще не все участники этого веселого зрелища в жанре черной комедии. Комичность всей этой нерезберихи усиливается еще и визитом Королевы Матери.

У них было меньше всего шансов стать героями Второй мировой. Ведь они — убеленные сединами ветераны Калькуттской легкой кавалерии.Эти добровольцы не были в бою со времен Бурской войны. Но у них есть шанс изменить ситуацию, когда они отложат в сторону свои клюшки для гольфа и отставят стаканы с джином, чтобы стать «Морскими волками».

In crime ridden New York of the seventies two cops has had enough. They decide to take justice into their own hands. Things turn exciting and humorous. No hoodlum goes safe.

Young Linda Channing visits her fiancé Ian Faulkner at an old aristocratic residence near London. Here he witnesses several mysterious murders. There are no clues to these murders - only bloody corpses and the terrifying sound that always comes shortly before the murders. Inspector Mark Santini embarks on the investigation and slowly unfolds a story full of old wrongs and terrifying revelations...

Молодой англичанин Майкл Трэвис — пока ещё не джентльмен ищет себя в этом «безумном, безумном, безумном мире!». Как приятно начать свой путь в бизнес с запасов кофе, личного автомобиля, блестящего (натурально!) костюма с иголочки и — почти весь мир у тебя в кармане! Но дальше начинается жизненная дорога в прямом и переносном смысле. Джентльменский набор киногероя: карьера, надежда, обман, путешествие, катастрофа, любовь, музыка, котелок с тростью, снова обман… И единственная удача, которая обязательно придёт, если всегда оставаться самим собой!

Молодой англичанин Майкл Трэвис — пока ещё не джентльмен ищет себя в этом «безумном, безумном, безумном мире!». Как приятно начать свой путь в бизнес с запасов кофе, личного автомобиля, блестящего (натурально!) костюма с иголочки и — почти весь мир у тебя в кармане! Но дальше начинается жизненная дорога в прямом и переносном смысле. Джентльменский набор киногероя: карьера, надежда, обман, путешествие, катастрофа, любовь, музыка, котелок с тростью, снова обман… И единственная удача, которая обязательно придёт, если всегда оставаться самим собой!

Ливерпульский конферансье мечтает написать детективный роман. Чтобы глубже погрузиться в среду он дает объявление об услугах частного детектива. Вскоре он получает первый заказ, а вместе с ним – пакет с фотографией молодой женщины, пистолет и тысячу фунтов стерлингов. И теперь он оказывается вовлечен в чрезвычайно запутанное дело, связанное с контрабандой героина и торговлей оружием.

1860 год. Скупой и капризный Эбенезер Скрудж влюблён лишь в своё богатство. Он не разделяет общей радости от приближающегося Рождества. В вечер сочельника Скруджу предстаёт дух его покойного компаньона Джейкоба Марли. Дух Марли сожалеет, что после смерти был наказан за чёрствость и корысть. Он не хочет такой же участи для Скруджа. По его просьбе Скруджа посетят три духа, которые помогут ему измениться. Они будут являться один за другим в течение трёх ночей…

A stern father and lenient mother try to deal with the ups and downs of their four children's lives in working class Bolton.

Действия разворачиваются в английской школе, где царят старые порядки — школьников бьют хлыстами за провинности, старшеклассники шефствуют и издеваются над младшими. У группы старшеклассников созревает план протеста…

Charlie Bubbles, a writer, up from the working class of Manchester, England, who, in the course of becoming prematurely rich and famous, has mislaid a writer's basic tool – the capacity to feel and to respond. Now he must visit his estranged wife and son, whom he has set up on a farm outside his native city. His journey accidentally becomes an attempt to reestablish his connections with life, people, and his own history.

Результатом двух мировых войн для Гонконга явился небывалый приток эмигрантов. Наташа Александрова, молодая графиня из России, сбежав в Шанхай четырнадцатилетней девочкой, стала любовницей гангстера. Теперь она вынуждена зарабатывать себе на хлеб сомнительным ремеслом танцовщицы. И вот судьба посылает ей шанс в лице сына нефтяного магната, американского дипломата Огдена Мирса.Как-то раз, изрядно погуляв, Огден возвращается на роскошный лайнер в свою каюту-люкс, где обнаруживает тайком пробравшуюся туда Наташу. Неудобное положение, в которое попадает Мирс, усугубляется не только известием о назначении его послом Соединенных Штатов в Аравии, но и неотвратимой перспективой встречи с законной супругой…

A man with a sandwich-board (advert) wanders around London meeting many strange characters.

A fast-moving comedy with Billy Fury, who plays himself in the film. The story reveals his great love of animals, and it features his own racehorse, Anselmo. Also featured are several of Billy's own dogs.

When a jet airliner with engine trouble lands in Beirut for a twenty-four hour stopover, purser 'Jonesey' fears his life is in danger from a gold-smuggling gang whom he double-crossed on a previous trip. So begins a day of chilling suspense, as he and other crew members find themselves embroiled in a desperate race to get out of the country alive!

Percy Winthram is a naive young man who still lives at home with his mum. In London for the Cup Final with his friends, he finds himself in a Soho strip club, where he meets blonde hostess Cyrenne. Accepting a bet from friend Ginger, he accompanies Cyrenne back to her flat, and a boast-worthy night of lust seems to be on the cards; however, drained of beer and bravado, Percy's innocence and vulnerability become all too evident…

A psychotic killer gets in the good graces of his aging invalid employer, and worms his way into the affection of her beautiful daughter, with unpleasant results for all.

At the end of the 19th century, during the British rule of India, the goddess Kali commits a number of murders, among which the man who was conducting a cargo of serum to a village infected with disease. Worried with the vast number of fatalities that will result from stopping this shipment, Dr. Palmer asks for help from Major Talbot. The Major suspects about the murderer turn onto the doctor, and he must take refuge in the jungle, after faking his own death by a tiger. Help does come in the shapely form of Amrita, a native dancer, who will give him shelter, and will even free him from a gang of robbers. Dr. Palmer still has a number of real and fantastic adventures until he sees an end to his tribulations...

Tommy Steele stars as a talent-spotter at a recording company who determines to organize a concert featuring all the most up-to-date singers and bands, in order that the orphanage where he was brought up be saved from closing.

Картина повествует о знаменитой высадке в Нормандии, легендарном дне «Д» — 6 июня 1944 года. Ранним утром того дня армада из 5 тысяч судов армии союзников, сосредоточенных на Британских островах, пересекла Ла-Манш и начала высадку экспедиционных сил на побережье Нормандии. Как для союзников, так и для немцев это был самый долгий день…

A former burglar trying to go straight joins a rehabilitation scheme using much the same methods as AA. Through the process, he takes work as a department store Santa, where the endless parade of goods and money, not to mention the pretty young shop hands have him like a moth to a flame in no time flat.

В госпитале «Приют» одна из мужских палат причиняет больше проблем, чем весь остальной госпиталь. Огромная главная медсестра наводит ужас на всех пациентов, и только Рекитт противостоит ей. Среди прочих персонажей: майор, который является для всех постоянной неприятностью, неуклюжая медсестра, влюбленные Тед Йорк и медсестра Дентон, и Белл, который требует срочно сделать ему операцию. Однажды, после пьянки, мужчины из этой палаты решают помочь Беллу…

Dirk Bogarde is an officer during World War II learning Japanese in India in order to do intelligence work on the Indian front. While there he gets a Japanese teacher, who is full of the inscrutable and mysterious East, like a Chinese motorcycle.

A cockney lad pretends to be a Lord in order to woo a South American princess

Tunis, 1943. Battle-weary troops of Company C have orders to occupy a derelict Tunisian farmhouse. They are to establish an artillery observation post, reporting on enemy movements before the imminent offensive to liberate Tunis. However German infantrymen discover their operations. The ensuing battle for control of this small piece of land will decide who controls Tunis but more critically, the victors in the battle of democracy versus fascism.

A group of misfit soldiers are desperately trying to fiddle themselves some leave. Instead they wrangle a posting to the British Middle-East protectorate of Darawa. Their frustrations and disappointment at landing one of the harshest territories is compensated when they discover a secret passage to the King's harem.

The third of the "Doctor" films. Newly qualified doctor Simon Sparrow goes in search of a job. He applies for a surgery position at the hospital where he studied, but manages to insult the senior surgeon and one of the hospital's governors. So, instead he ends up as assistant to with a niggardly and rather scary GP with an amerous wife, followed by cushy but rather unmedical job with a Harley Street doctor, and then a job with a very nice GP whp is the opposite to the first one. But after getting the chance to rescue the hospital governor from a group of angry ladies at a resort in France, he finally lands a job at his beloved hosdpital.

Stanley Baker's O'Donovan is sent to steal the plans of a rival company's racing car designs, to ensure his employers win the competition. However, when opening a safe containing the plans, he triggers an alarm leading to a gun battle where he kills a number of people. James Robertson Justice, alarmed by the scandal surrounding the killings, orders his agent be killed surreptitiously to hide his involvement with the plot. The film uses original footage from the Mille Miglia , an Italian open-road endurance race, featuring classic period racing cars.

Based on real events, A Hill in Korea charts the fortunes of a small group of British soldiers serving in the Korean War. Out on a routine patrol, the soldiers find that Chinese troop movements have cut them off from their own lines. They try to fight their way back to safety but with the enemy surrounding them on all sides, the prospects look bleak. Facing almost insurmountable odds, they decide to stand a fight.

A new career opens for Charley Moon when, during his army service, he is detailed to appear in a unit concert. In doing so, he becomes friendly with Harold Armytage, a peacetime actor of the old school. Hearing that Charley has no job to go to when demobilized, Armytage suggests they team up as stage comics. Things are not easy; jobs are few and far between, and when they can be found they are in the tattiest of theatres, but Charley gains the experience he needs. They then decide to try their luck in London.

This weird short manages to pack in fraud, murder, alcoholism and transvestitism, with two somewhat obvious plot twists but a acertain amount of interest in the characterisation and mise-en-scene. You can see Losey's long-take style in its early stages. If anything, his filming is TOO articulate, tipping his hand and giving away plot turns before they happen.

Саймон Спэрроу устраивается работать судовым врачом. Он предполагает, что его ждет спокойное плавание. Однако на борт корабля поднимаются дочь судовладельца и певичка-француженка. Говорят, что женщина на корабле - к несчастью, а тут их сразу две...

Фильм рассказывает о реальных событиях октября 1942-го и сентября 1943-го годов, когда англичане совершили попытки вывести из строя немейкий линкор "Тирпиц" - операциях "Title" и "Source". Изменены лишь имена участников событий и некоторые детали операций- возможно из соображений секретности. "Тирпиц" укрывался в норвежских фьордах, и одним своим присутствием в северных водах угрожал. Атлантическим конвоям и сковывал значительные силы Британского флота. Для устранения этой угрозы, британским подводникам пришлось преодолеть множество трудностей - неспокойное Северное море, немецкий флот, береговые батареи. Участник операции "Source" - Дональд Кэмерон - был военным советником при съемках фильма. За эту операцию он был награжден крестом Виктории.

A fiction writer begins working on a biography of a pilot who went down during the test flight of a new plane and finds himself soon involved in a series of murders.

Two small boys are playing in a wood. The younger boy has a revolver and, not understanding that the gun differs from his toy pistol, plays 'highwayman' on the road and holds up a cyclist; the gun goes off, killing the cyclist. Both boys are unaware of the tragic consequences of their game. The body and the gun are found by Bob Carter, who had recently quarreled with the victim in the presence of their workmates, and both men had uttered threats. The evidence is strong, and Bob is arrested for murder...

When Ex Colonel Merton discovers a burglar ransacking his home, he is shocked to find out that the thief is a former soldier from his tank regiment. When the thief escapes, Merton tries to contact former members of the regiment, in order to find out what set the thief on the road to crime.

The test launch for the first inter-planetary research station goes wrong when the satellite station is inadvertently set up instead of returning to earth. Two people attached to the secret project are missing, presumed murdered, and all suspicions fall on the cuckold husband, the scientist responsible for the lack of fuel aboard the rocket. The theory is he murdered his wife and her lover, depositing the bodies on the errant rocket. Desperate to prove his innocence he volunteers for the next mission to link up with the satellite and clear his name.

In 1942 Britain was clinging to the island of Malta since it was critical to keeping Allied supply lines open. The Axis also wanted it for their own supply lines. Plenty of realistic reenactments and archival combat footage as the British are beseiged and try to fight off the Luftwaffe. Against this background, a RAF reconnaissance photographer's romance with a local girl is endangered as he tries to plot enemy movements.

An Irish "oracle" foretells the next day's track results to a newspaperman, resulting in a national uproar.

Наступает время для традиционного пробега старинных автомобилей из Лондона в Брайтон, а Алан МакКим и Амброуз Клеверхауз, похоже, не остановятся в своих попытках доказать превосходство друг над другом, несмотря на их дружбу.

London policewomen handle rescues and larceny as they go about their work in Chelsea.

In this delightful fantasy adventure, a mild-mannered writer of adventure stories for girls (Richard Hearne) finds himself presented with an intriguing proposition from an elderly fan (Margaret Rutherford). She suggests that they conspire to steal a secret whiskey formula from ruthless distillers, who themselves stole it from her family in years gone by. With the recipe back in hand however, it's not long before they attract attention from the Inspectors of Scotland Yard.

A British Sanitary Engineer, goes on holiday with a set of plans for a new secret weapon which he has mistaken for his new plumbing invention. Everyone is hunting for him, including the Russians. The Russians find him and offer him a job in the Kremlin doing research (on plumbing he believes). He accepts, arrives in Russia and falls in love with Tania, a secret agent. And then discovers the true nature of the plans he is carrying...

During a holiday to the beach Jenny meets Alan and agrees to spend the week with him. Wanting to keep this a secret from her parents Jenny gets help from her friend Mary to pretend her whereabouts but disaster strikes during a boating accident. It is soon discovered Jenny was not with Mary. When the parents find out the truth they pressure the couple to get married, but Jenny thinks otherwise.

A theatre producer and actor try in vain to have a quiet week in a country cottage. But their efforts turn into comic disaster as a variety of wives, girlfriends and scoutmasters arrive uninvited.

In a small town in the 1950's a repertory company meets on Monday morning to start rehearsing the following week's play. This is a ghastly thing written by the aunt of one of the theatre's directors. The producer doesn't try to hide his annoyance about it, and is further exercised when the authoress herself arrives to help. The cast have to try and sort out real-life problems that keep intruding as they wrestle with the play's dire dialogue.

Soviet, British, French and American allies patrol post-war Vienna.

A devoted family man tries to help a beautiful alcoholic showgirl with her life, and becomes the the only suspect when someone else murders her.

W. Somerset Maugham introduces three more of his stories about human foibles.

A music-hall performer and her boyfriend find themselves caught up in the machinations of a trio of not particularly bright crooks.

A man and his sister live in a country home, not knowing that there is stolen loot hidden there. A gang of criminals attempts to get them to move so they can get the loot for themselves.

Jackie lives in poverty with his widowed mother. In a bid to escape poverty he gets involved in a robbery that sees him sentenced to three years in Borstal where he meets a tough crowd, tougher than anything on the outside.

Tottie True is a gay-90s British music-hall performer who has her sights set on moving from rags to riches, who loses her heart to the pure-and-true blue balloonist, Sid Skinner, but continues her upward search on improving her social status. She finally settles for Lord Landon Digby who has lots of assets and a very-stiff upper lip. She gets a lot of the latter and very little of the former, and decides Sid might have been a better choice.

In this drama, a frustrated upper-class writer decides that he will find real inspiration by examining his subjects first-hand. This leads him to begin wandering about the seamiest side of town where he witnesses a murder. When an innocent man is arrested, the writer refuses to assist him as the knowledge that he has been "slumming" could destroy his career. The young man is sentenced to 15 years in prison.

Единственная западная экранизация повести Александра Сергеевича Пушкина «Пиковая дама». За карточной игрой один из офицеров рассказывает друзьям о своей престарелой родственнице - графине Раневской (Эдит Эванс), которой некогда сам граф Сен-Жермен открыл тайну трёх верных карт, выигрывающих кряду. Герман (Антон Уолбрук), который никогда не садится за игровой стол из боязни проиграть, загорается идеей выведать у графини эту тайну. Для этого он знакомится с воспитанницей графини Лизой (Ивонн Митчелл). Девушка влюбляется в него и даёт ему ключ от дома. Ночью Герман проникает в дом графини, чтобы выпытать у старухи тайну трёх карт. Графиня отказывается отвечать и умирает. Следующей ночью Герману является призрак графини и называет «верные» карты - это тройка, семёрка и туз. Герман ставит на кон всё своё состояние, выигрывает первые две ставки на тройке и семёрке, но затем открывает вместо туза пиковую даму и сходит с ума...

Set on Blackpool’s Golden Mile, Jim (Douglass Montgomery), a once promising scientist, sets up in business as a patent medicine man selling hair tonic at the fair with his ex-army colleague Dan (Ronald Shiner). Following a fight with local hoods over pitch spaces, Jim falls for Jane (Hazel Court), the girl on a nearby candy floss stall. The two begin dating but Jim fails to mention he is already married.

A detective gets involved with a wealthy socialite who can't seem to stop hiccuping.

William Brown attempts to secure more pay and shorter hours for schoolboys.

A young Irishman comes up with an unusual plan to get the money to emigrate to Tahiti. One of the Ealing comedies.

A confirmed bachelor and a woman who claims to hate men get together and find romance.

A family is in need of a new house help so they employ a mysterious young woman. They soon realise all is not as it seems as the past comes back to haunt the woman of the house.

Romance in Rio for a girl of the embassy staff.

After the war is over, two army pals take opposite paths in civvy street. One becomes a petty criminal, the other becomes a policeman.

Comic adventures of an 11-year-old boy and his neighborhood pals.

A prominent politician is preparing to expose a financial scandal. But then a woman who has invested heavily in the shady venture threatens to uncover a damaging secret in the politician's past if he exposes the speculation as a fraud. His problem is compounded by his wife's intolerance of the slightest character flaws.

Cockney Danny Cruff is the son of a man wrongly accused of murder. Danny decides to solve the mystery himself by hobnobbing with London's underworld. To do this, he poses as a juvenile delinquent.

On New Years Eve, 1899, baronet's son Edward Courtney becomes engaged to Kate, his mother's maid, much to the scandal of London society. The film then follows their family through four generations, with separations, joys, tragedies, and service in the Boer War, WWI, and WWII.

A newly married WREN, presumed drowned when her ship is torpedoed, spends three years on a tropical island before returning to England to find her husband remarried with a baby son.