Direction: Alvin Rakoff

The best movies, series, and documentaries directed by Alvin Rakoff. Explore exceptional titles that showcase a unique filmmaking vision.


Hoffman

1970 · Movie · 113 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Alvin Rakoff

Cast Peter Sellers · Sinead Cusack · Ruth Dunning · Jeremy Bulloch

Plot A businessman blackmails his attractive young secretary into spending a weekend with him. Though he's a creep throughout, he gradually emerges as a sympathetic character.

6.4

165 votes

6.4

165 votes

Romeo & Juliet (TV)

1978 · Movie · 168 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Alvin Rakoff

Cast Patrick Ryecart · Rebecca Saire · Celia Johnson · Michael Hordern

Plot Two households, both alike in dignity, in fair Verona where we lay our scene, from ancient grudge break to new mutiny where civil blood makes civil hands unclean. From forth...

5.5

30 votes

5.5

30 votes

City on Fire

1979 · Movie · 106 min. · Canada

Direction Alvin Rakoff

Cast Barry Newman · Susan Clark · Shelley Winters · Leslie Nielsen

Plot William Dudley (Leslie Nielson) is a corrupt mayor of a nameless Midwestern U.S. city who has allowed a chemical refinery to be built right in the center of town, far...

4.7

87 votes

4.7

87 votes

Death Ship

1980 · Movie · 91 min. · Canada

Direction Alvin Rakoff

Cast George Kennedy · Nick Mancuso · Saul Rubinek · Richard Crenna

Plot Survivors of a tragic shipping collision are rescued by a mysterious black ship which appears out of the fog. Little do they realise that the ship is actually a Nazi...

3.8

424 votes

3.8

424 votes

Say Hello to Yesterday

1971 · Movie · 96 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Alvin Rakoff

Cast Jean Simmons · Leonard Whiting · Evelyn Laye · Derek Francis

Plot An affluent, middle-aged housewife in a failing marriage is romantically pursued by a young man while running errands in London.

Not rated

Not rated

The First Olympics: Athens 1896 (TV Miniseries)

1984 · Movie · 237 min. · United States

Direction Alvin Rakoff

Cast David Ogden Stiers · Hunt Block · David Caruso · Alex Hyde-White

Plot This movie describes the founding of the modern Olympics and concentrates on the creation of the American team and their trials in getting to the Olympics in Athens.

Not rated

Not rated

The Comedy Man

1964 · Movie · 92 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Alvin Rakoff

Cast Kenneth More · Cecil Parker · Dennis Price · Billie Whitelaw

Plot Charles Byrd, known as "Chick", has spent his adult life acting in small repertory companies all over the UK, and he's never had much luck. All too aware that he's...

Not rated

Not rated

Dirty Tricks

1981 · Movie · 95 min. · Canada

Direction Alvin Rakoff

Cast Elliott Gould · Kate Jackson · Rich Little · Arthur Hill

Plot A Harvard University student finds a strange letter that seems to be signed by George Washington. When trying to contact an expert (Prof. Chandler) to authenticate it, he is murdered...

Not rated

Not rated

A Voyage Round My Father (TV)

1984 · Movie · 90 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Alvin Rakoff

Cast Laurence Olivier · Alan Bates · Jane Asher · Elizabeth Sellars

Plot Screen legend Laurence Olivier stars as the eccentric patriarch, a blind barrister so stubborn and cantankerous that he refuses to acknowledge his sightlessness. Alan Bates (Gosford Park) portrays his devoted...

Not rated

Not rated

Shades of Greene (TV Series)

1975 · Series · 60 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Peter Hammond · Alan Cooke · Alastair Reid · Philip Saville

Cast Denholm Elliott · Shane Briant · Neville Phillips · Ian Hendry

Plot TV Series (1975). 18 episiodes

Not rated

Not rated

The Treasure of San Teresa

1959 · Movie · 84 min. · United Kingdom

Not rated

Not rated

Passport to Shame

1958 · Movie · 86 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Alvin Rakoff

Cast Eddie Constantine · Diana Dors · Herbert Lom · Odile Versois

Plot Cabdriver Constantine falls for French girl mixed up with white slave ring, eventually helps to liberate her.

Not rated

Not rated

The Sextet (TV Series)

1972 · Series · min. · United Kingdom

Direction Alan Bridges · James Ferman · Michael Hayes · Donald McWhinnie

Cast Denholm Elliott · Billie Whitelaw · Richard Vernon · Dennis Waterman

Plot TV Series (1972). 8 episodes. An anthology series of BBC television dramas on sexual themes. The same cast was featured in each production.

Not rated

Not rated

Paradise Postponed (TV Miniseries)

1986 · Movie · 569 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Alvin Rakoff

Cast Paul Shelley · David Threlfall · Michael Hordern · Annette Crosbie

Plot The plot focused on inquires into why the leftist Reverend Simeon Simcox left the Simcox brewery millions to Leslie Titmuss, a city developer and Conservative cabinet minister. Simeon's sons Fred,...

Not rated

Not rated

A Dance to the Music of Time (TV Miniseries)

1997 · Movie · 104 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Christopher Morahan · Alvin Rakoff

Cast Gillian Barge · Nicholas Jones · Simon Russell Beale · Robin Bailey

Plot 4 episodes. Anthony Powell's 12 volume novel sequence "A Dance to the Music of Time" has been dramatised for television.

Not rated

Not rated

King Solomon's Treasure

1979 · Movie · 88 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Alvin Rakoff

Cast David McCallum · John Colicos · Patrick MacNee · Britt Ekland

Plot Three adventurers lead an expedition into darkest Africa in search of the treasure of King Solomon, and on the way encounter hostile natives, volcanoes, dinosaurs and a lost Phoenician city...

Not rated

Not rated

A Talent for Murder (TV)

1984 · Movie · 80 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Alvin Rakoff

Cast Angela Lansbury · Laurence Olivier · Hildegarde Neil · Charles Keating

Plot A famed mystery writer (Dame Angela Lansbury) and her doctor ex-lover (Sir Laurence Olivier) solve her daughter-in-law's murder.

Not rated

Not rated

The World in My Pocket

1961 · Movie · 93 min. · Germany - West Germany (FRG)

Not rated

Not rated

Crossplot

1969 · Movie · 96 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Alvin Rakoff

Cast Roger Moore · Martha Hyer · Alexis Kanner · Claudie Lange

Plot A successful London ad-exec hires a beautiful Hungarian girl to pose for some modeling shots, little realising that she has overheard an assassination plot and is now being hunted by...

Not rated

Not rated

Court Martial (TV Series)

1965 · Series · 60 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Alvin Rakoff · Harvey Hart · Peter Maxwell · Robert Douglas

Cast Bradford Dillman · Peter Graves · Kenneth J. Warren · Angela Browne

Plot TV Series (1965-). 26 Episodes. During World War II this crack team from the Judge Advocate General's office investigates crime all over Europe and then proceeds to the court-martial itself.

Not rated

Not rated