Direction: Christopher Morahan

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


Direction Christopher Morahan · Jim O'Brien

Cast Peggy Ashcroft · Tim Pigott-Smith · Art Malik · Charles Dance

Synopsis A fifteen-hour adaptation of four novels by Paul Scott, collectively known as the "Raj Quartet," which describe the final years of Great Britain's colonial rule in India. The action begins in 1942, a time of tension as the Japanese army...

7.4

161 votes

7.4

161 votes

Paper Mask

1990 · Movie · 105 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Christopher Morahan

Cast Paul McGann · Amanda Donohoe · Frederick Treves · Tom Wilkinson

Synopsis With the papers of a young doctor who died in a deadly accident, the ambitious male nurse Matthew manages to get hired as a doctor in the casuality department of an hospital in Bristol. Nurse Christine believes it's only his...

6.4

30 votes

6.4

30 votes

Clockwise

1986 · Movie · 86 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Christopher Morahan

Cast John Cleese · Penelope Wilton · Alison Steadman · Stephen Moore

Synopsis Brian Stimpson is the headmaster of a comprehensive (high) school in England. He sets himself, his staff and pupils very high standards. On the way to a conference at which he is to talk, all manner of disasters strike.

5.8

131 votes

5.8

131 votes

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Direction Christopher Morahan

Cast David Jason · Tim Pigott-Smith · Gorden Kaye · Brenda Blethyn

Synopsis In 1940, Britain's gold reserves were transferred for safety to Liverpool because of the threat of a German invasion.

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Theatre 625 (TV Series)

1964 · Series · 90 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Christopher Morahan · Alan Cooke · Alan Gibson · Donald McWhinnie

Cast Michael Bryant · Judi Dench · Maurice Denham · Ronald Hines

Synopsis TV Series (1964-1968). 5 seasons. 115 episodes.

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Emergency Ward 10 (TV Series)

1957 · Series · 30 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Rex Firkin · Shaun O'Riordan · Geoffrey Stephenson · John Cooper

Cast Jill Browne · Charles Tingwell · Rosemary Miller · Peter Howell

Synopsis 992 Episodes (1957-1967). Set in Oxbridge General Hospital, this soap opera focused equally on the lives and loves of its medical staff and the pressure of their work.

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A Night Out (TV)

1967 · Movie · 60 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Christopher Morahan

Cast Tony Selby · Anna Wing · Avril Elgar · John Castle

Synopsis Albert, a shy and repressed young man who lives with his mother, is persuaded to go for "a night out" with his workmates; it turns nightmarish.

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All Neat in Black Stockings

1969 · Movie · 96 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Christopher Morahan

Cast Victor Henry · Susan George · Jack Shepherd · Clare Kelly

Synopsis An irresponsible window cleaner believes he has found true love with a woman he picked up in a tavern.

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Direction Christopher Morahan · Alvin Rakoff

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

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

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Direction Christopher Morahan

Cast Alan Bates · Tom Hickey · Richard Wilson · Paul Zimet

Synopsis "Unnatural Pursuits" is such a delicious send-up of theater life, you'll recognize its rightness even if all you know about theater life comes from "Pursuits." Based on a Simon Gray play, this joint A&E/BBC production stars Alan Bates as Hamish...

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Direction Les Blair · Robert Young · Robert Bierman · Dewi Humphreys

Cast Alfred Molina · Geraldine James · Timothy West · Sean Bean

Synopsis (1985-2002). 6 seasons. Producer Kenith Trodd was part of a 1984 team brought together to study how the BBC should respond to Channel Four's pioneering efforts in making films for both television and theatrical release. The result was a transition...

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Malatesta (TV)

1964 · Movie · 95 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Christopher Morahan

Cast Patrick Wymark · Jessica Dunning · Cyril Shaps · John Hollis

Synopsis Sigismondo Malatesta is a condottiere, a mercenary for hire and patron of the arts.

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Old Times (TV)

1975 · Movie · 75 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Christopher Morahan

Cast Anna Cropper · Barry Foster · Mary Miller

Synopsis BBC adaptation of Harold Pinter's 1971 two-act play, about a married couple and the wife's friend, Anna.

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Diamonds for Breakfast

1968 · Movie · 102 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Christopher Morahan

Cast Marcello Mastroianni · Rita Tushingham · Elaine Taylor · Margaret Blye

Synopsis Four thieves try to steal the Imperial Jewels of Russia.

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Direction Tristram Powell · Udayan Prasad · Christopher Morahan · Sandy Johnson

Cast Geoffrey Chater · Bernard Hill · Pete Postlethwaite · Patrick Godfrey

Synopsis (1985-2002). 10 seasons. Producer Kenith Trodd was part of a 1984 team brought together to study how the BBC should respond to Channel Four's pioneering efforts in making films for both television and theatrical release. The result was a transition...

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