Cast: John Standing

Direction Hettie Macdonald

Cast David Suchet · Helen Baxendale · Hugh Fraser · Anne Reid

Synopsis An ailing Poirot returns to Styles with Hastings nearly three decades after solving their first mystery there in order to prevent a serial killer from claiming more victims.

Direction Charles Sturridge

Cast Michael Gambon · Jeremy Irons · Bill Nighy · Brian Cox

Synopsis In the 18th century, the only way to navigate accurately at sea was to follow a coastline all the way, which would not get you from Europe to the West Indies or the Americas. Observing the sun or stars would...

Direction Bryan Forbes

Cast George Segal · Tom Courtenay · James Fox · Patrick O'Neal

Synopsis George Segal is the mastermind of all black market operations in a Japanese prison camp. He is called "King Rat" because of his breeding of rodents to serve as food for his emaciated fellow prisoners. British officer James Fox helps...

Direction John Sturges

Cast Michael Caine · Donald Sutherland · Robert Duvall · Donald Pleasence

Synopsis 1943, The war is entering its final stages and Germany is teetering on the brink of defeat. An increasingly unhinged Hitler, orders a mission to have British Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill kidnapped and brought to Germany. The plan seems...

Direction Charles Walters

Cast Cary Grant · Samantha Eggar · Jim Hutton · John Standing

Synopsis Cary Grant arrives in Tokyo early during Olympic week. With no hotel rooms anywhere, he pulls a card from the embassy bulletin board and talks his way into Samantha Eggar's flat. Later finding Jim Hutton, an architecture student and olympic...

Direction Mike Barker

Cast Helen Hunt · Scarlett Johansson · Milena Vukotic · Stephen Campbell Moore

Synopsis A seductress steals away the husband of a younger woman. Inspired by the Oscar Wilde play "Lady Windermere's Fan".

Direction Oliver Parker

Cast Michael Caine · Glenda Jackson · John Standing · Danielle Vitalis

Synopsis In the summer of 2014, Bernard Jordan, an 89-year-old World War II veteran, escapes from his residence where he lives with his wife Rene, to join his fellow war veterans on a Normandy beach, commemorating their fallen comrades on the...

Direction Tim Fywell

Cast Tara Fitzgerald · Justine Waddell · Ian Richardson · Simon Callow

Synopsis Based upon Wilkie Collins Victorian mystery, the gothic tale tells of a pair of half sisters whose lives end up caught in a grand conspiracy revolving around a mentally ill woman dressed in white. As the story unfolds, murder, love,...

Direction John Jencks

Cast Roger Allam · Tim McInnerny · Fiona Shaw · Matthew Modine

Synopsis It centers on a lapsed poet, failed drama critic, redundant husband and hard-working drunk, Ted Wallace (Roger Allam). Fired from his newspaper job, Ted leaps at the chance to drown his sorrows at his old friend's country estate, Swafford Hall....

Direction Peter Greenaway

Cast John Standing · Matthew Delamere · Vivian Wu · Toni Collette

Synopsis After his wife dies, 55-year-old businessman Philip Emmenthal, at the prompting of his playboy son Storey, populates his Geneva villa with eight and a half concubines. Three are from Kyoto, where Storey manages Pachinco palaces. Each has a distinctive personality:...

Direction Jon Amiel

Cast Bill Murray · Peter Gallagher · Joanne Whalley · Alfred Molina

Synopsis Murray is mistaken for a spy and must stop a plot to assasinate international leaders at a banquet.

Direction Freddie Francis

Cast Patrick Wymark · Margaret Johnston · John Standing · Colin Gordon

Synopsis Four men who were involved in the investigation of a German millionaire at the end of WW II are found murdered with tiny dolls left next to their corpses.

Direction Santosh Sivan

Cast Linus Roache · Rahul Bose · Nandita Das · Jennifer Ehle

Synopsis A English spice baron settles in South India during the waning years of the Raj.

Direction Marleen Gorris

Cast Vanessa Redgrave · Rupert Graves · Michael Kitchen · Natascha McElhone

Synopsis Vanessa Redgrave (Howard's End) plays Clarissa Dalloway, an MP's wife, whose life is thrown into crisis when a lover she rejected 30 years ago makes an unexpected appearance at a party she is hosting at her elegant London home, prompting...

Direction Rupert Everett

Cast Rupert Everett · Colin Firth · Emily Watson · Tom Wilkinson

Synopsis It centers around the final three years of Oscar Wilde (1854–1900). Wilde (Rupert Everett), sequestered at a remote seaside hotel in France by faithful friends (Edwin Thomas and Colin Firth), is soon restlessly traversing Europe, beset by warring impulses: to...

Direction Freddie Francis

Cast Jack Palance · Beverly Adams · Burgess Meredith · Peter Cushing

Synopsis A special sideshow torture exhibit has the power, according to the showman Dr. Diablo, to warn people of evil in their futures. The skeptical customers are shown the greed and violence they're hiding.

Direction Richard Eyre

Cast Anthony Hopkins · Emma Thompson · Florence Pugh · Emily Watson

Synopsis An aging King invites disaster, when he abdicates to his corrupt, toadying daughters, and rejects his loving and honest one. Set in the fictional present and starring Anthony Hopkins, the 80 year-old King Lear divides his kingdom among his daughters,...

Direction Charles Jarrott

Cast George Peppard · Michael York · Deborah Raffin · John Mills

Synopsis An American officer on a Landing Craft carrying plans for the Allied invasion of Europe in Normandy takes part on landing maneuvers, his craft was attacked and sunk by German EBoats. and he finds himself on German occupied Jersey Islands....

Direction Richard Marquand

Cast Katharine Ross · Sam Elliott · Roger Daltrey · Charles Gray

Synopsis Six beautiful people arrive for a weekend in the country. Six guests of the unseen host who lies wasting away upstairs...Five heirs to a mysterious Legacy watch the body of the sixth float to the side of the pool...Four claim...

Direction Brian G. Hutton

Cast Elizabeth Taylor · Michael Caine · Susannah York · Margaret Leighton

Synopsis The venomous and amoral wife of a wealthy architect tries, any way she can, to break up the blossoming romance between her husband and his new mistress; a good-natured young widow who holds a dark past.