David Watkin Movies

Tells the life story of Danish author Karen Blixen, who at the beginning of the 20th century moved to Africa to build a new life for herself. The...

Genre: History

Cast: Robert Redford

Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, finds out that his uncle Claudius killed his father to obtain the throne, and plans revenge.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mel Gibson

In a time when girls were forbidden to study religious scriptures, a Jewish girl masquerades as a boy to enter religious training and unexpectedly...

Genre: Music

Cast: Barbra Streisand

A bombardier in World War II tries desperately to escape the insanity of the war. However, sometimes insanity is the only sane way to cope with a...

Genre: War

Cast: Alan Arkin

In 1930s fascist Italy, adolescent Luca just lost his mother. His father, a callous businessman, sends him to be taken care of by British expatriate...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Maggie Smith

Robin Hood, aging none too gracefully, returns exhausted from the Crusades to woo and win Maid Marian one last time.

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Sean Connery

The young D'Artagnan arrives in Paris with dreams of becoming a King's musketeer. He meets and quarrels with three men, Athos, Porthos, and Aramis,...

Genre: Action

Cast: Michael York

37-year-old Italian-American widow Loretta Castorini believes she is unlucky in love, and so accepts a marriage proposal from her boyfriend Johnny,...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Cher

After serving a prison term for her boyfriend, a streetwise, middle-aged moll named Gloria stands up against the mobs, which is complicated by a...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sharon Stone

After witnessing her lover being murdered by his jealous wife, Angela seeks refuge in a church where she encounters a young priest named Michael, who...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Tom Berenger

After his plane crashes in Siberia, a Russian dancer, who defected to the West, is held prisoner in the Soviet Union. The KGB keeps him under watch...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mikhail Baryshnikov

In their finely appointed Connecticut home, Agnes and Tobias have grown used to the imperfection and fragility of their marriage. Quietly nursing...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Katharine Hepburn

In Charenton Asylum, the Marquis de Sade directs a play about Jean Paul Marat's death, using the patients as actors. Based on 'The Persecution and...

Genre: Music

Cast: Patrick Magee

Through the forward-looking windows of the new diesel multiple-unit trains reveals a new world of signs, signals and railway sights to those who ride...

Genre: Documentary

Cast:

The holiday attractions of the Lancashire coast, including a beauty contest in Morecambe, Southport flower show and Blackpool Fun Fair.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Hubert Gregg

The extension of the electrification of the Southend line from Shenfield to Southend. The last steam train leaves Liverpool Street and makes its way...

Genre: Documentary

Cast:

An aspiring designer from the slums of Chicago puts herself through fashion school in the hopes of becoming one of the world's top designers. Her...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Diana Ross

Recently orphaned, a young boy is taken in by his godmother who is shocked to realize that she can see the boy's imaginary friend: a flamboyant,...

Genre: Fantasy

Cast: Whoopi Goldberg

Over the course of several years beginning in the 1950s, a man and his oddball family run hotels in New England and Vienna, as unexpected events...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Rob Lowe

When a son and mother move to Seattle in hopes for a better life, the mother meets a seemingly polite man. Things go south when the man turns out to...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Robert De Niro

The Four Musketeers defend the queen and her dressmaker from Cardinal Richelieu and Milady de Winter.

Genre: Action

Cast: Michael York

In the class-obsessed and religiously divided UK of the early 1920s, two determined young runners train for the 1924 Paris Olympics. Eric Liddell, a...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ben Cross

Three young boys pool their money and pay V, a kindhearted prostitute, to strip for them. Afterward, she drives them home to the suburbs -- but then...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Melanie Griffith

In the hazy aftermath of World War III, the fallout from a 'nuclear misunderstanding' is producing strange mutations amongst the survivors, and the...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Rita Tushingham

Dorothy, saved from a psychiatric experiment by a mysterious girl, finds herself back in the land of her dreams, and makes delightful new friends,...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Fairuza Balk

An American occult novelist battles to save the soul of a young girl from a group of Satanists, led by an excommunicated priest, who plan on using...

Genre: Horror

Cast: Richard Widmark

The "Memphis Belle" is a World War II bomber, piloted by a young crew on dangerous bombing raids into Europe. The crew only have to make one more...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Matthew Modine

A sexually repressed school teacher releases her pent up passions in a series of shocking crimes.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jeanne Moreau

Jane Eyre is an orphan cast out as a young girl by her aunt, Mrs. Reed, and sent to be raised in a harsh charity school for girls. There she learns...

Genre: Drama

Cast: William Hurt

A younger boy falls in love with a tragic girl who flirts with, and manipulates, her older suitors in 1800s Russia.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kirsten Dunst

After finding a sexually liberated boyfriend, a divorced woman gets sued over daughter's custody, by her ex, who claims that her lover has a bad...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Diane Keaton

Two men become entangled in a torrid love affair with the same woman. Pierre is Miriam's longtime lover. John is desperately searching for clues...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Heike Makatsch

In a dreary North London flat, the site of perpetual psychological warfare, a philosophy professor visits his family after a nine-year absence and...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Paul Rogers

Lady Booby alias 'Belle', the lively wife of the fat landed squire Sir Thomas Booby, has a lusty eye on the attractive, intelligent villager Joseph...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Ann-Margret

A teenager gets out of reform school and heads to Torquay for a swimming contest, where he meets a pair of young Northern lasses working as hotel...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ray Winstone

The Six-Sided Triangle is a 1963 short film directed by Christopher Miles, starring his younger sister Sarah Miles, Nicol Williamson, and Bill...

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Cast: Bill Meilen

In 17th-century France, Father Urbain Grandier seeks to protect the city of Loudun from the corrupt establishment of Cardinal Richelieu. Hysteria...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Vanessa Redgrave

Featuring music instead of any dialogue and set in a near Kafkaesque future, this loose remake of The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari follows a bureaucrat...

Genre: Horror

Cast: Mikhail Baryshnikov

Werner Ernst is a young hospital resident who becomes embroiled in a legal battle between two half-sisters who are fighting over the care of their...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: James Spader

During the Crimean War between Britain and Russia in the 1850s, a British cavalry division, led by the overbearing Lord Cardigan, engages in an...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Trevor Howard

A newly elected District attorney finds himself in the middle of a police corruption investigation that may involve his father and his partner.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Andy García

Short film starring and featuring the music of The Shadows

Genre: Music

Cast: Robert Morley

A recently orphaned heiress meets a young racing yacht captain on Long Island. He shows interest in her and, being heiress to $200,000,000, love may...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Rob Lowe

Parental disapproval of two teenagers wrapped up in a passionate love affair causes a confusion of arson, death and insanity.

Genre: Romance

Cast: Brooke Shields

Lively holiday in Blackpool, with jazz accompaniment.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Robert Shaw

A British mercenary arrives in pre-Revolution Cuba to help train the corrupt General Batista's army against Castro's guerrillas while he also...

Genre: Action

Cast: Sean Connery

The Prince, Don Ramiro (who has changed places with his valet, Dandini), meets Cenerentola and they are instantly attracted to each other. When the...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Frederica von Stade

An obscure Eastern cult that practices human sacrifice pursues Ringo after he unknowingly puts on a ceremonial ring (that, of course, won't come...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: George Harrison

A day in the life of London and the Home Counties in 1962, seen from the perspective of the use of London Transport facilities from buses and tubes...

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At her husband's funeral, Pearl, Jewish mother of two divorced and antagonistic daughters, meets an old Italian friend of her husband, whose advice...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Shirley MacLaine

A BBC documentary about a pre-rehearsal workshop held in New York prior to the Goodman Theater’s 1994 production of The Merchant of Venice,...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Philip Seymour Hoffman

A shipping disaster in the 19th Century has stranded a man and woman in the wilds of Africa. The lady is pregnant, and gives birth to a son in their...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Christopher Lambert

An inept British WWII commander leads his troops to a series of misadventures in North Africa and Europe.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Michael Crawford

After the last train at night and before the first in the morning, 800 people are hard at work behind the scenes making London's Underground fit to...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Leslie Dwyer

Composed of three shorts – Ride of the Valkyrie, The White Bus, and Red and Blue – from three of Britain’s most-celebrated...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Zero Mostel

A nebbish schoolteacher begs his smooth (and misogynistic) pal to teach him 'the knack' – how to score with women. Serendipitously, the men...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Rita Tushingham

A short documentary.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Bernard Braden

A romantic overview of England in the Elizabethan Age.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Alec Clunes

‘St Christopher’s - for the children of Railway Servants’. About a hundred children are cared for at this Derby railway orphanage...

Genre: Documentary

Cast:

The history of the BRS (British Road Services), the general haulage network of the UK. Part of BFI collection "Points and Aspects."

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Cast: Leonard Martin

A film about one of the most responsible and professional jobs on British Railways. Practical work in shop and signal box, on gantry and trackside,...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: John Stockbridge

An English nanny and one of two brothers fall down a Hawaiian cave, all the way to Atlantis.

Genre: Fantasy

Cast: Emo Philips

The assistant stage manager of a small-time theatrical company is forced to understudy for the leading lady at a matinée performance at which...

Genre: Music

Cast: Twiggy

American couple Jake and Tina are living in an expensive London hotel above their means, incurring a sizeable debt. When they are asked to pay a...

Genre: Drama

Cast: John Malkovich

Margaret is a nurse in England during WW2, and married to a secret agent. Things get complicated when she falls for David, an American pilot.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Harrison Ford

The work of a team of men who tackle a special British Road Services job in the treacherous terrain of the Scottish Highlands.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: John Rae

Approximately 40,000 people use the Waterloo & City Underground line every day. For years they had walked to and from the platforms at the Bank by a...

Genre: Documentary

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A cautionary tale of a typical holiday suitcase. Crammed beyond its capacity, imperfectly fastened, inadequately and confusedly labelled, the...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Maurice Denham