Movies: John Woodvine

Newcastle, 1939. Shipyard worker Joe feels emasculated and past his prime; too old to serve in the war, and he’s shocked when his wife leaves him for a younger naval officer. Needing a new challenge, Joe and his friend Harry reluctantly volunteer to ...

Satirical and surreal play by Arthur Ellis, dealing with the manner in which the British police force has been represented on TV for four decades. In 1949 Tom Riley is arrested for the murder of PC George Dixon. As he awaits interrogation at the stat...

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An account of how Lech Walesa and the "Solidarity" trade union confronted the might of Communist dictatorship in Poland....

Adaptation of Terence Rattigan's play produced for the BBC in 1985....

In an unscripted inquest, three practicing barristers interrogate actors portraying relevant figures of the 16th century in order to determine what really happened to the playwright and poet, Christopher Marlowe....

A divorcee takes his children on a trip to Cornwall....

Hamlet suspects his uncle has murdered his father to claim the throne of Denmark and the hand of Hamlet's mother, but the Prince cannot decide whether or not he should take vengeance....

Directed by Michael Shoring....

Every Good Boy Deserves Favour is a stage play by Tom Stoppard with music by André Previn. It was first performed in 1977. The play criticizes the Soviet practice of treating political dissidence as a form of mental illness. Its title derives from th...

Jack Prince, a British renegade, joins a rebellion and becomes one of the most feared pirates in the Caribbean...

The Thane of Cawdor plots to become King of Scotland....

A father and son set up a firm of bailiffs to seize the property of poll-tax dodgers....