Cinematography: Ken Westbury
The best movies, series, and documentaries with cinematography by Ken Westbury. Explore visually stunning titles that highlight an exceptional filmmaking.
The Singing Detective (TV Miniseries)
1986 · Series · 415 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Jon Amiel
Cast Michael Gambon · Patrick Malahide · Janet Suzman · Joanne Whalley
Plot Detective novelist Philip Marlow suffers from the crippling disease of psoriatic arthropathy. Confined to a hospital bed, Marlow mentally rewrites his early Chandleresque thriller, "The Singing Detective," with himself in...
7.7
152 votes
7.7
152 votes
Sherlock Holmes (TV Series)
1964 · Series · 50 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Antony Kearey · Viktors Ritelis · Max Varnel · Bill Bain
Cast Peter Cushing · Douglas Wilmer · Nigel Stock · Peter Madden
Plot TV Series (1964-1968). 2 seasons. The 1960s BBC series Sherlock Holmes has all the virtues of Arthur Conan Doyle's classic detective--shrewd and efficient, with flashes of visual panache but never...
6.7
170 votes
6.7
170 votes
The Man in the Brown Suit (TV)
1989 · Movie · 100 min. · United States
Direction Alan Grint
Cast Rue McClanahan · Tony Randall · Edward Woodward · Stephanie Zimbalist
Plot An American woman is getting involved in a diamond theft in South Africa.
4.8
41 votes
4.8
41 votes
Tears in the Rain (TV)
1988 · Movie · 97 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Don Sharp
Cast Sharon Stone · Christopher Cazenove · Paul Daneman · Anna Massey
Plot When Casey Cantrell's mother died, her last wish was that her daughter would give a letter to Lord Richard Bredon, living in the UK. When Casey arrives in London, Lord...
4.2
77 votes
4.2
77 votes
The Debussy Film
1965 · Documentary · 82 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Ken Russell
Cast Oliver Reed · Vladek Sheybal · Annette Robertson · Iza Teller
Plot An actor is playing Claude Debussy in a film about the composer's life, and finds himself identifying with his subject very closely.
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The Black Velvet Gown (TV)
1991 · Movie · 103 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Norman Stone
Cast Bob Peck · Janet McTeer · Geraldine Somerville · Brendan P. Healy
Plot In the 1830's in northern England, Riah Millican, a widow with three children, takes a job as housekeeper to a reclusive former teacher, Percival Miller. Miller makes Riah the gift...
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On Dangerous Ground (TV)
1996 · Movie · 100 min. · Canada
Direction Lawrence Gordon Clark
Cast Rob Lowe · Kenneth Cranham · Deborah Moore · Jürgen Prochnow
Plot When they learn of a secret covenant on the status of Hong Kong signed by Mao in 1944, Chinese factions, the British government, Hong Kong businessmen, AND the Mafia all...
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Dr. Fischer of Geneva (TV)
1984 · Movie · min. · United Kingdom
Direction Michael Lindsay-Hogg
Cast James Mason · Alan Bates · Greta Scacchi · Cyril Cusack
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West of Zanzibar
1954 · Movie · 90 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Harry Watt
Cast Anthony Steel · Sheila Sim · William Simons · Orlando Martins
Plot The story of native tribesmen who move towards Mombasa, getting drawn info the world of ivory smuggling.
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Pennies from Heaven (TV) (TV Miniseries)
1978 · Series · 478 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Piers Haggard
Cast Bob Hoskins · Cheryl Campbell · Gemma Craven · Kenneth Colley
Plot Arthur, a sheet music salesman, has an ear for the hit tunes, but nobody will trust it. And his imagination often bursts into full song, building musical numbers around the...
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The Andromeda Breakthrough (TV Miniseries)
1962 · Series · 45 min. · United Kingdom
Direction John Elliot · John Knight
Cast Peter Halliday · Susan Hampshire · John Hollis · Mary Morris
Plot TV Miniseres. 6 episodes. A sequel to the popular BBC TV science fiction serial "A for Andromeda", both written by cosmologist Fred Hoyle and TV producer and author John Elliot....
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Wessex Tales (TV) (TV Miniseries)
1973 · Series · min. · United Kingdom
Direction Desmond Davis · David Hugh Jones · Gavin Millar · Barry Davis
Cast Nick Brimble · John Hurt · Billie Whitelaw · Yvonne Antrobus
Plot TV Mini-Series (1973). 6 episodes.
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Anna Karenina (TV) (TV Miniseries)
1977 · Series · 50 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Basil Coleman
Cast Nicola Pagett · Eric Porter · Stuart Wilson · Davyd Harries
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Doctor Who: The Gunfighters (TV)
1966 · Movie · 95 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Rex Tucker
Cast William Hartnell · Peter Purves · Jackie Lane · Richard Beale
Plot The TARDIS arrives in the town of Tombstone in the Wild West and the Doctor decides he must visit a dentist. The local dentist is Doc Holliday, currently engaged in...
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Chimera (TV Miniseries)
1991 · Series · 60 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Lawrence Gordon Clark
Cast John Lynch · Christine Kavanagh · Kenneth Cranham · Gary Mavers
Plot 4 Episodes. A journalist investigates the death of his girlfriend at a fertility clinic where she worked and uncovers a plot to create a new breed of human based on...
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Supernatural (TV Miniseries)
1977 · Series · 50 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Simon Langton · Alan Cooke · Peter Sasdy · Claude Whatham
Cast Andre Van Gyseghem · Billie Whitelaw · Ian Hendry · Charles Kay
Plot Chilling anthology series where membership to the secret society, The Club of the Damned, is granted through telling horror stories.
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Doctor Who: The Invasion of Time (TV)
1978 · Movie · 149 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Gerald Blake
Cast Tom Baker · Louise Jameson · Christopher Tranchell · Milton Johns
Plot After a meeting in space with a group of unseen aliens the Doctor returns to Gallifrey and claims the presidency of the Time Lords. Leela meanwhile tries to work out...
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To the Lighthouse (TV)
1983 · Movie · 115 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Colin Gregg
Cast Kenneth Branagh · Rosemary Harris · Michael Gough · Suzanne Bertish
Plot A lecturer, his family, the spinster Aunt Lily, an old friend, and a student, Charles Tansley, spend a summer in an isolated house in Cornwall just before World War I.
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Doctor Who: The Abominable Snowmen (TV)
1967 · Movie · 143 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Gerald Blake
Cast Patrick Troughton · Frazer Hines · Deborah Watling · Norman Jones
Plot The TARDIS arrives in Tibet in 1935 and the Doctor visits the remote Detsen monastery in order to return a sacred bell, the ghanta, given to him for safe keeping...
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Midnight Man (TV)
1997 · Movie · 104 min. · Canada
Direction Lawrence Gordon Clark
Cast Rob Lowe · Kenneth Cranham · Deborah Moore · Hannes Jaenicke
Plot British soldiers force a recently captured IRA terrorist to cooperate with them and then assign him to go undercover with a gang of terrorists and prevent them from killing the...
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