Cast: Kathleen Byron

Direction Steven Spielberg

Cast Tom Hanks · Tom Sizemore · Edward Burns · Matt Damon

Plot James Ryan (Matt Damon), who has parachuted into France during the Allied invasion of Europe, has just lost three brothers in combat. Government policy dictates that he should return home...

Direction Peter Hammond · Sarah Hellings

Cast Jeremy Brett · Edward Hardwicke · Rosalie Williams · Charles Gray

Plot Holmes, his friend Watson (or his brother Mycroft) work to solve the mysteries of three gables, the dying detective, a golden pince-nez, the red circle, a mazarin stone, and a...

Direction Michael Powell · Emeric Pressburger

Cast Deborah Kerr · Sabu · David Farrar · Flora Robson

Plot Five young British nuns are invited to move to a windy "palace", former house of the concubines of an old general, in the top of a mountain in Mopu, Himalaya,...

Direction Michael Powell · Emeric Pressburger

Cast David Niven · Kim Hunter · Roger Livesey · Raymond Massey

Plot Returning to England from a bombing run in May 1945, flyer Peter Carter's plane is damaged and his parachute ripped to shreds. He has his crew bail out safely, but...

Direction Craig McCall

Cast Jack Cardiff · Martin Scorsese · Kirk Douglas · Lauren Bacall

Plot In 2001 Jack Cardiff (1914-2009) became the first director of photography in the history of the Academy Awards to win an Honorary Oscar. But the first time he clasped the...

Direction Bille August

Cast Liam Neeson · Geoffrey Rush · Uma Thurman · Claire Danes

Plot Liam Neeson stars as Jean Valjean, a heartless convict who is transformed by a single act of mercy. Uma Thurman is Fantine, the vulnerable prostitute who begs Valjean to raise...

Direction Michael Powell · Emeric Pressburger

Cast David Farrar · Kathleen Byron · Jack Hawkins · Leslie Banks

Plot Sammy Rice (David Farrar) is a British scientist working with a specialist "back room" team in London during World War II. Rice is embittered because he feels military scientific research...

Direction Sidney Hayers

Cast Peter Wyngarde · Janet Blair · Margaret Johnston · Anthony Nicholls

Plot A skeptical college professor discovers that his wife has been practicing magic for years. Like the learned, rational fellow he is, he forces her to destroy all her magical charms...

Direction Peter Hammond

Cast Jeremy Brett · Charles Gray · Rosalie Williams · Frank Finlay

Plot Sherlock Holmes and his brother Mycroft investigate the murder of an amanuensis who clutches a pince-nez and whose last words were, "The professor--it was she."

Direction George Sidney

Cast Jean Simmons · Stewart Granger · Deborah Kerr · Charles Laughton

Plot Chronicles the life of queen Elizabeth I, before she became the queen of England. Apart from taking part in the court intrigues, she has an unhappy love for admiral Thomas...

Direction Roy Ward Baker

Cast Tyrone Power · Ann Blyth · Michael Rennie · Dennis Price

Plot A scientist obsessed with the past transports himself back in time to 18th-century London, where he falls in love with a beautiful young woman.

Direction Anthony Harvey

Cast Liv Ullmann · Peter Finch · Cyril Cusack · Paul Rogers

Plot In this historical drama based on actual events, Sweden's Queen Christina decides in 1654 to give up her throne in order to embrace Catholicism. However, as she studies the faith,...

Direction John Hough

Cast Peter Cushing · Mary Collinson · Madelaine Collinson · Dennis Price

Plot In nineteenth century middle-Europe, orphaned teenage twins Maria and Frieda go to live with their uncle Gustav Weil, who heads the Brotherhood, a vigilante group trying to stamp out vampirism....

Direction Krzysztof Zanussi

Cast Cezary Morawski · Sam Neill · Christopher Cazenove · Lisa Harrow

Plot The film is a biography of Pope John Paul II. It starts in 1926 when the boy Karol Wojtila was celebrating Christmas with his father in Poland. Some years later...

Direction David Miller

Cast Vince Edwards · Judy Geeson · Peter Vaughan · Diana Dors

Plot Hammerhead is a dangerous international criminal suspected by British Intelligence of trying to steal NATO defense secrets. In desperation, a young, charming soldier of fortune is called in to match...

Direction Barney Platts-Mills

Cast Susan Penhaligon · Bruce Robinson · Michael Feast · Robert Brown

Plot Peter Morrisey (Bruce Robinson) is an author who has just published his first novel. He meets receptionist, Ann Halpern (Susan Penhaligon) and fall in love. They spend some time in...

Direction Hettie Macdonald · David Moore

Cast Sian Reeves · Robert Pugh · Shaun Dingwall · Hazel Monaghan

Plot Period drama showing the life of the Freeman family through 40 years, starting in 1952.

Direction Bernard Knowles

Cast Jean Kent · Guy Rolfe · Paul Dupuis · Lana Morris

Plot An English governess marries a complete stranger while he is on his deathbed. When he dies, she inherits his estate but is soon involved with some French spies working for...

Direction John Gorrie

Cast Timothy West · Annette Crosbie · Helen Ryan · Felicity Kendal

Plot TV Series (1975). 13 episodes. The life of Edward VII (1841-1910), the King of the United Kingdom. Before becoming the king he developed a reputation of a playboy which angered...

Direction Lewis Gilbert

Cast Kathleen Byron · Laurence Harvey · Sydney Tafler · Dora Bryan

Plot Two villains team up to steal some jewelry. The robbery goes wrong and an innocent man is shot.