Nigel Hawthorne

An uproarious version of history that proves nothing is sacred – not even the Roman Empire, the French Revolution and the Spanish Inquisition.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Mel Brooks

The Soviets have developed a revolutionary new jet fighter, called 'Firefox'. Worried that the jet will be used as a first-strike weapon—as...

Genre: Science Fiction

Cast: Clint Eastwood

Taran is an assistant pigkeeper with boyish dreams of becoming a great warrior. However, he has to put the daydreaming aside when his charge, an...

Genre: Animation

Cast: Grant Bardsley

Two dogs, Rowf and Snitter, stuggle to survive in the countryside after escaping from an animal research laboratory. They are pursued by search...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: John Hurt

Aging King George III of England is exhibiting signs of madness, a problem little understood in 1788. As the monarch alternates between bouts of...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Nigel Hawthorne

A murderous lust for the British throne sees Richard III descend into madness. Though the setting is transposed to the 1930s, England is torn by...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ian McKellen

Ross, who lives with his eccentric Uncle Cullen, is desperately trying to become a successful businessman. When he attempts to sell the family wine...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Minnie Driver

In 1839, the slave ship Amistad set sail from Cuba to America. During the long trip, Cinque leads the slaves in an unprecedented uprising. They are...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Morgan Freeman

Simon Phoenix, a violent criminal cryogenically frozen in 1996, escapes during a parole hearing in 2032 in the utopia of San Angeles. Police are...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Sylvester Stallone

Early 20th century England: while toasting his daughter Catherine's engagement, Arthur Winslow learns the royal naval academy expelled his...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Rebecca Pidgeon

Horrified at the prospect of her beloved school being sold, a young French girl named Madeline uses her wit and craftiness to attempt to save it,...

Genre: Family

Cast: Hatty Jones

Tarzan was a small orphan who was raised by an ape named Kala since he was a child. He believed that this was his family, but on an expedition Jane...

Genre: Family

Cast: Tony Goldwyn

Shakespeare's comedy of gender confusion, in which a girl disguises herself as a man to be near the count she adores, only to be pursued by the woman...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Helena Bonham Carter

Blake Pellarin is on the campaign trail to become president of the United States. While making a stop in St. Louis, a chance encounter brings his...

Genre: Drama

Cast: William Hurt

When Lucy Cullins, a successful but cranky producer at a home shopping network hires an actor named Nick to play Santa Claus on the network, she gets...

Genre: TV Movie

Cast: Whoopi Goldberg

A pregnant New York social worker begins to develop romantic feelings for her gay best friend, and decides she'd rather raise her child with him,...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Jennifer Aniston

The rise of modern Turkey under the leadership of Mustafa Kemal, later known as Atatürk. He established peace on the borders of Turkey for the...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Mustafa Kemal Atatürk

The L.A. police find two bodies in a fancy house and suspect the wife of one victim. Dr. Ellis, a hypnotherapist, takes her back in time; with the...

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Nigel Hawthorne

The plot is set on a group of bank robbers, who are both violent and successful, strangely getting away each time with an amount around the...

Genre: Action

Cast: John Thaw

Two separate people, a man and a woman, find something very stirring about the sea turtles in their tank at the London Zoo. They meet and form an...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Glenda Jackson

The story about a man-sized frog named Prince Frederic who is turned into a frog by his wicked aunt Messina and hired by British Intelligence to...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Ben Kingsley

Based on the acclaimed novel by Doris Lessing, this dystopian science fiction tale concerns a woman struggling to make her way in a post-apocalyptic...

Genre: Science Fiction

Cast: Julie Christie

A period film, set around an English country house whose owners want to arrange a marriage of convenience between their elder daughter and an...

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Cast: Nigel Hawthorne

With issues of his own, an ex-army officer-turned-lawyer defends an impoverished young cowherd of killing a baby.

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Cast: Gavin Hood

In 1727, an Arab colt is born with the signs of the wheat ear and the white spot on his heel: evil and good. And thus begins the life of Sham. He is...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Richard Harris

It's the sixties. Gregory loves Ginny, and Ginny loves Gregory. But unfortunately Ginny also loves Philip, or at least she used to, and Philip loves...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Imogen Stubbs

A classic series of 52 x 5-minute poems, affectionately narrated by the late Sir Nigel Hawthorne in the UK and re-voiced for Disney in the USA by...

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Cast: Alan Marriott

Comedy featuring interweaving stories of seven households caught up in a property chain on moving day, each one dependent on the other.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Warren Mitchell

The true story of the First world football competition, won by a team comprised of miners from Durham.

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Cast: Dennis Waterman

Dramatization of the famous 1971 trial in which the editors of the British underground magazine "Oz" were charged with obscenity.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hugh Grant

Four men attempt "The Knowledge" examination to qualify as London taxi drivers.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Mick Ford

While still the Prince of Wales, the future Edward VIII meets the married American socialite, Wallis Simpson. Their relationship causes furor in the...

Genre: TV Movie

Cast: Edward Fox

A South African political prisoner is tortured to obtain information on apartheid conspirators. Ten years later, the head officer in charge of the...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Nigel Hawthorne

The story of the Russian-born, Wisconsin-raised woman who rose to become Israel's prime minister in the late 1960s and early 1970s.

Genre: TV Movie

Cast: Ingrid Bergman

A small town shopkeeper is conned into standing for an extreme right-wing party at a by-election and later discovers his financed by the corporation...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Colin Jeavons

Gothic thriller about Old Martin who heeds the voice of Anna, who calls him back to the mountain cabin where he left her to die while she gave birth...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Espen Skjønberg

British explorer Henry Stanley travels to Africa in 1871 seeking missionary David Livingstone.

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Aidan Quinn

In the early years of the 20th century, Mohandas K. Gandhi, a British-trained lawyer, forsakes all worldly possessions to take up the cause of Indian...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ben Kingsley

The friendship of a young boy and an old Polish emigre as they struggle to re-create 'the smallest show on earth' - a flea circus

Genre: Drama

Cast: Nigel Hawthorne

A rabbi is murdered. Detective Llonrot is called in on the case and looks for a 'rabbinical explanation' for the murder. Other murders are committed...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Nigel Hawthorne

When the warren belonging to a community of rabbits is threatened, a brave group led by Fiver, Bigwig, Blackberry and Hazel leave their homeland in a...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: John Hurt

Dissolute barrister Sydney Carton becomes enchanted and then hopelessly in love with the beautiful Lucie Manette. But Lucie loves and marries Charles...

Genre: TV Movie

Cast: Chris Sarandon

This fact-based story follows a woman who launches a rescue of her Royal Air Force pilot son, who was shot down over Germany in 1941. Getting no help...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Dyan Cannon

One man's defiant stand against the hypocrisy of polite society is the theme of Molière's comic masterpiece. Ian Holm stars in this film set...

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Cast: Ian Holm

Royal Shakespeare Company's televised adaptation of Moliere's play with Antony Sher in the title role of Tartuffe.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Antony Sher

Quasimodo, the hunchback bellringer of Notre Dame's cathedral, meets a beautiful gypsy dancer, Esmeralda, and falls in love with her. So does...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Anthony Hopkins

Alan Bennett's personal overview of art, filmed in the atmospheric location of a Leeds art gallery.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Alan Bennett

Jimmy Nicholson returns from working in the Middle East to visit his son at boarding school. He went to the same public school himself and is...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ian Carmichael

Prospero, the true Duke of Milan is now living on an enchanted island with his daughter Miranda, the savage Caliban and Ariel, a spirit of the air....

Genre: Fantasy

Cast: Michael Hordern

Set in 1884, and based on the assumption that Britain is one of the Baltic states between Russia and Latvia, making it part of Europe instead of an...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Stephen Rea

This special one-off documentary celebrates the past and present of hit sitcoms Yes Minister and Yes, Prime Minister. Exploring the shows in some...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Paul Eddington

Dean has a rare talent. He can be made happy. He exudes happiness and confidence like a rare blossom. Both Sarah in the past, and Julia now, could do...

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Richard Pasco

Bernard Fripp is told by his doctor that he has only 30 minutes left to live. This sets Bernard bumbling off on a mission to live his final minutes...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Rowan Atkinson

A woman starts work as a nanny to a mute boy in a Victorian household. The boy's growing attachment to her however causes greater problems than his...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Nanette Newman

Thirty-seven men from the disputed territory of South West Africa are on trial for their lives in Pretoria, 1,000 miles from their home. They are to...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Leon Gluckman

A comedy about the law - seen from the inside. All formality and procedure on the surface but not quite so convincing when you see the works.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Richard Beckinsale

A quick drink in the buffet before going home. Freddie's nerves are taking a hammering lately; the economy is in dire trouble and who can blame a...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tony Britton

A black comedy about excessive consumption. A young couple are determined to make a break with a predictable future as servants of a large...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Christopher Benjamin

A dissident Czechoslovakian playwright awaits trial for his activities against the current political regime.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Nigel Hawthorne

London, England, during World War II. After living a tragic life experience, young Violette Szabo joins the Special Operations Executive and crosses...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Virginia McKenna

An account of the Eastern Front, epic in scale and savagery, as Soviets experienced it and Stalin commanded it.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Nigel Hawthorne

The passionate love story that was Queen Victoria and Prince Albert's lengthy marriage. Beginning in 1837, the year of King William IV's death and...

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Cast: Victoria Hamilton

In an attempt to win better conditions for the workers in 1920s Turin, Gramsci leads a takeover of the factories by the workers. He is offered...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jack Shepherd

In pursuit of faith, God and the Devil, spells are cast, buckets of water thrown and men with black beards dance and sing.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Peter Bayliss

On the night before Halloween, the Evil Queen from Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs plans to conquer Halloween, and asks her cauldron to show you...

Genre: Animation

Cast: Susanne Blakeslee

Based on the 1925 novel The Sailor's Return by David Garnett. A sailor returns to his hometown to open a pub bringing with him his new black wife....

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Cast: Tom Bell

The Hiding Place is an account of a Dutch family who risk their lives by offering a safe haven for Jews during World War II

Genre: Drama

Cast: Julie Harris

Miss A, troubled by problems, consults a clairvoyant. Can he solve them for her by summoning the spirits? Or is he just a fraud, out to steal her...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Nigel Hawthorne

Mr. Puff, a foppish, would-be playwright-critic, invites his literary-minded associates to see a production of his horrendous and nonsensical...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Hywel Bennett

Bio-drama tracing the life and career of Polish cardinal Karol Wojtyla from his days as a young activist in Poland to his rise and installation in...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Albert Finney

Harry Watson has kept his feelings for his children to himself.

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Cast: Alfred Burke

This movie is a combination of mime and dance that accompanies the "voiced-over" lyrics of a selection of poems by John Betjeman. Altogether, this...

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Cast: Nigel Hawthorne

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Nigel Hawthorne

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Minnie Driver