Cast: Ian Richardson

Direction Paul Seed

Cast Ian Richardson · Diane Fletcher · Susannah Harker · Miles Anderson

Plot Francis Urquhart, Chief Whip, manipulates things and people to achieve his ambitions in the Houses of Parliament, all the while keeping his hand carefully hidden behind the scenes. But Mattie...

Direction John Irvin

Cast Alec Guinness · Ian Richardson · Michael Jayston · Ian Bannen

Plot George Smiley has been retired for about a year when he finds a friend from the circus, his old outfit in British Intelligence sitting in his living room. He is...

Direction Paul Seed

Cast Ian Richardson · Michael Kitchen · Kitty Aldridge · Colin Jeavons

Plot In 'To Play The King', the second installment of this political satire, Francis Urquhart has managed to become the British prime minister and crush all significant opposition. Everyone who knows...

Direction Justin Chadwick · Susanna White

Cast Anna Maxwell Martin · Denis Lawson · Gillian Anderson · Charles Dance

Plot TV Mini-series (2005). 15 episodes. Based on a Charles Dickens' novel. It tells the story of the beautiful Lady Dedlock, who nurses a dark secret, and the merciless lawyer Tulkinghorn,...

Direction Terry Gilliam

Cast Jonathan Pryce · Kim Greist · Michael Palin · Katherine Helmond

Plot The film centers on Sam Lowry, a young man trying to find a woman who appears in his dreams while he is working in a mind-numbing job and living a...

Direction Mike Vardy

Cast Ian Richardson · Diane Fletcher · Paul Freeman · Isla Blair

Plot Francis Urquhart is too experienced a politician not to know that everything must end, even his long career as British prime minister. In order to secure his retirement and establish...

Direction Peter Brook

Cast Patrick Magee · Ian Richardson · Michael Williams · Clifford Rose

Plot The Marquis de Sade is locked in the Charenton mental hospital and decides to put on a play. His overseers agree as long as he follows certain conditions. He writes...

Direction Tom Stoppard

Cast Gary Oldman · Tim Roth · Richard Dreyfuss · Joanna Roth

Plot Showing events from the point of view of two minor characters from Hamlet, men who have no control over their destiny, this film examines fate and asks if we can...

Direction Richard Attenborough

Cast Kevin Kline · Penelope Wilton · Denzel Washington · John Hargreaves

Plot An epic drama based on the true story of newspaper editor Donald Woods' investigation into the murder of nationalist leader Steven Biko. Mistrustful of each other at first, but joined...

Direction Alex Proyas

Cast Rufus Sewell · Kiefer Sutherland · William Hurt · Jennifer Connelly

Plot Upon awakening with a start in an icy bathtub in a strange room--with a woman's dead body inconveniently nearby--John Murdoch can't remember how he got there. With a police detective...

Direction Christian Carion

Cast Diane Kruger · Benno Fürmann · Daniel Brühl · Guillaume Canet

Plot This movie is inspired by a true story, which happened during the First World War, for Christmas Eve 1914, in many different places of the battlefront. When war breaks out...

Direction Paul Seed

Cast Ian Richardson · Sean Wightman · Robin Laing · Dolly Wells

Plot In the tumult that follows his killing off his fictional character Sherlock Holmes, Arthur Conan Doyle reflects on the man who influenced and provided the prototype for the great detective,...

Direction Paul Marcus

Cast Ian Richardson · Charles Edwards · Rik Mayall · Annette Crosbie

Plot When Sir John Starr complains that the investigation into his son's murder is not producing results, the Chief Constable asks Dr. Joseph Bell to assist. Bell agrees but there is...

Direction David Cronenberg

Cast Jeremy Irons · John Lone · Barbara Sukowa · Ian Richardson

Plot In 1960s China, French diplomat Rene Gallimard falls in love with an opera singer, Song Liling - but Song is not at all who Gallimard thinks.

Direction Paul Marcus

Cast Charles Edwards · Claire Harman · Henry Goodman · Paul McNeilly

Plot Drs. Arthur Conan Doyle and Joseph Bell investigate when the police find two bodies floating in the river. Both seemed to have victims of the same killer as they have...

Direction Tim Fywell

Cast Katie Blake · Charles Edwards · Alexander Armstrong · Simon Quarterman

Plot Dr. Arthur Conan Doyle assists a young woman, Miss Grace, who is terrified by an apparition that follows her when she bicycles home along a lonely stretch of road. He...

Direction Andy Wilson

Cast Jonathan Rhys Meyers · Celia Imrie · John Sessions · Warren Mitchell

Plot A villain threatens the rise of a new earl in an ancient kingdom.

Direction Vadim Jean

Cast David Jason · Marc Warren · Michelle Dockery · David Warner

Plot It's Hogswatch (equivalent to Christmas) on the Discworld and the Hogfather has gone missing, requiring Death to take his place while his granddaughter Susan endeavors to find out what has...

Direction Tony Richardson

Cast Charles Dance · Burt Lancaster · Teri Polo · Adam Storke

Plot Tony Richardson's version of Leroux's oft-filmed novel about a disfigured hermit and his tortured love for a gifted young singer stars Charles Dance as the maimed Erik Destler, aka the...

Direction John Mackenzie

Cast Pierce Brosnan · Michael Caine · Joanna Cassidy · Ned Beatty

Plot Caine plays a senior British administrator who is part of the intelligence establishment. When his findings offend his superiors he is reassigned to a customs post. While there he finds...