Movies: Peter Firth

A magician searches for his successor to fight evil....

A mother leads a life of prostitution after separating from her abusive boyfriend in order to support her family....

A woman is attempting to cope with her son's tragic death when her mother arrives on an ill-timed visit with her own remedies....

Eco-terrorists attack a ship carrying toxic waste....

Directed by the Oscar-winning screenwriter Ennio De Concini, Daniele e Maria (1973) is the tale of a forbidden romance between a rich and reclusive boy and the poor girl whose kindness opens up his formerly sheltered life. As the familiar setup from ...

Three kids get mixed up with jewel thieves and stolen diamonds in a 24-hour road rally....

In the midst of a war between Venice and Genoa, Marco Polo, a citizen of Venice, is imprisoned by the inquisition and is charged with heresy....

Ellen Carter's career is on the rocks. She hasn't written a worthy novel since her husband went missing and she was suspected by the police of murdering him. To top it all off, she has reason to believe that her new tenant Leslie Steckler is the seri...

The doomed love story between Marguerite Gautier, a French courtesan frequented by high-class gentlemen, who is suffering from tuberculosis, and a young gentleman Armand Duval who's new in town....

This film was made entirely in Ghana and consists of documentary scenes and a fictitious story about a British engineer who wants to import microchips to Africa. But the reaction of the blacks to his plans to build a fully automatic plastic furniture...

In the future England is ruled by a fascist government, and one day the leaders begin the construction of a heavily guarded, mysterious airport. BBC adaptation of Rex Warner's 1941 novel of the same name. A stereotypical village in a somewhat altern...

Dominick Hide, a time traveller from the year 2130, is studying the London transport system of 1980. Time travellers are supposed to be observers, and are strictly forbidden to land their flying saucers. One time traveller who broke this rule acciden...

Ben Bagot is 17; bright, charming and attractive, but he has difficulty setting his sights on reality and always makes the wrong decisions for himself and others. Faced with a pregnant girlfriend, he 'chucks' his job in a shoe shop without any future...

They are all 'in' for life so the pleasures are sparse, and strictly of their own making.Their really big event is the Christmas pantomime, only this year they have lost their star. Mother Bear has escaped. Still, there is some consolation. The new a...