Robert Paynter Movies

A snobbish investor and a wily street con-artist find their positions reversed as part of a bet by two callous millionaires.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Dan Aykroyd

Private eye Philip Marlowe investigates a case of blackmail involving the two wild daughters of a rich general, a pornographer and a gangster.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Robert Mitchum

American tourists David and Jack are savaged by an unidentified vicious animal whilst hiking on the Yorkshire Moors. Retiring to the home of a...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: David Naughton

Seymour Krelborn is a nerdy orphan working at Mushnik's, a flower shop in urban Skid Row. He harbors a crush on fellow co-worker Audrey Fulquard, and...

Genre: Horror

Cast: Rick Moranis

Ed Okin used to have a boring life. He used to have trouble getting to sleep. Then one night, he met Diana. Now, Ed's having trouble staying alive.

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Jeff Goldblum

The Griswolds win a vacation to Europe on a game show, and so pack their bags for the continent. They do their best to catch the flavor of Europe,...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Chevy Chase

When the Muppets graduate from Danhurst College, they take their song-filled senior revue to New York City, only to learn that it isn't easy to find...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Jim Henson

Two bumbling government employees think they are U.S. spies, only to discover that they are actually decoys for nuclear war.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Chevy Chase

Three escaped criminals from the planet Krypton, who have the same powers on Earth as Superman, test the Man of Steel's mettle. Led by General Zod,...

Genre: Science Fiction

Cast: Christopher Reeve

Aiming to defeat the Man of Steel, wealthy executive Ross Webster hires bumbling but brilliant Gus Gorman to develop synthetic kryptonite, which...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Christopher Reeve

Cross is an old hand at the CIA who often teams up with Frenchman Jean “Scorpio” Laurier, a gifted freelance operative. After their last...

Genre: Action

Cast: Burt Lancaster

Get Back is a 1991 concert film starring Paul McCartney that documents The Paul McCartney World Tour of 1989–1990. The film was directed by...

Genre: Music

Cast: Paul McCartney

Nearly 2 hours of the short films that made HIStory... Including never before released short films.

Genre: Music

Cast: Michael Jackson

In 1870s New Mexico, a half-breed kills a bigoted sheriff in self-defense but the posse that eventually hunts him finds itself in dangerous territory.

Genre: Western

Cast: Charles Bronson

A random selection of housewives around the UK take a day off from their traditional domestic chores.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: MacDonald Hobley

George Bernard Shaw’s illustrious friends pay tribute to his talents – with anecdotes, artefacts and one-liners.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Sybil Thorndike

While passing through the town of Bannock, a bunch of drunken cattlemen go overboard with their celebrating and accidentally kill an old man with a...

Genre: Western

Cast: Burt Lancaster

Documentary about the anti-nuclear demonstration staged in Trafalgar Square on 17 September 1961.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Shelagh Delaney

Six young actresses auditioning for a movie role at a remote mansion are targeted by a mysterious masked murderer.

Genre: Horror

Cast: John Vernon

A POW in World War II is put to work in a Munich zoo, looking after an Asian elephant. The zoo is bombed by the Americans and the director of the zoo...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Oliver Reed

Snowploughs are readied to rescue a snowbound train - in one of the most popular of all British Transport Films.

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Cast: Deryck Guyler

Prequel to the Henry James classic "Turn of the Screw" about the events leading up to the deaths of Peter Quint and Ms. Jessel, and the slow...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Marlon Brando

A documentary showing aspects of long-disappeared rural life in Northumberland in 1953.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Stephen Murray

Ben Gazzara and Paul Winfield play Vietnam veterans turned mercenaries who are hired to rescue a kidnapped executive.

Genre: Action

Cast: Ben Gazzara

This fly on the wall-style documentary from 1961 won an Oscar for best documentary, and shows the changing patterns of human emotions during 24 hours...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Peggy Ashcroft

A pair of children befriend an eccentric old man, who lives isolated on the far shore of their island home. But it turns out that the old man knows a...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Paul Scofield

Chanticleer is a foolhardy farm rooster who believes his crows can actually make the sun come up and shine. When the sun rises one morning without...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Glen Campbell

The people of the Scottish Highlands live in small communities set in landscapes of unsurpassed beauty.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Moray McLaren

The operation of the London Transport central Lost Property Office at Baker Street. Collected in BFI's "London on the Move."

Genre: Documentary

Cast: John Slater

A tour of East Anglia, with its waterways and low-lying country.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Frank Duncan

Originally intended as an advertising short, this film follows The Elizabethan, a non-stop British Railways service from London to Edinburgh along...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Alan Wheatley

Arthur Bishop is a veteran hit man who, owing to his penchant for making his targets' deaths seem like accidents, thinks himself an artist. It's made...

Genre: Action

Cast: Charles Bronson

When a spoiled English girl living in 19th century India loses both parents in a cholera epidemic, she is sent back to England to live in a country...

Genre: TV Movie

Cast: Gennie James

A school journey through the city of London as seen through the eyes of the children and their teacher.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Frank Duncan

The Cotswolds are the largest areas of Britain, stretching over a hundred miles from Chipping Camden to the city of Bath.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Stephen Murray

Politically passionate and one of the first working class reporters at the BBC, Jack Ashley wanted to show the suffering caused by high unemployment...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Colin Wills

Light verse and gay music make their own comment on the holidaymakers of the Yorkshire coastline. Between Tees and Humber thousands each year enjoy...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Robert Shaw

From Great Britain, the United States, France, Italy, Australia and behind the Iron Curtain. They are the most superbly conditioned animals in the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Michael Crawford

A teenaged girl discovers that her stepfather is trying to murder her and her mother, but when she tells people, no one will believe her.

Genre: Horror

Cast: Rachael Kelly

A London accountant on his honeymoon gets swept away by gambling fever.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Robert Lindsay

Superman agrees to sacrifice his powers to start a relationship with Lois Lane, unaware that three Kryptonian criminals he inadvertently released are...

Genre: Science Fiction

Cast: Christopher Reeve

A mercenary is hired by the FBI to track down a powerful recluse criminal, a woman is also trying to track him down for her own personal vendetta.

Genre: Action

Cast: Sophia Loren

A night at the movies turns into a nightmare when Michael and his date are attacked by a horde of bloody-thirsty zombies. On top of the success of...

Genre: Horror

Cast: Michael Jackson

A fond farewell to London's trams - whose peculiarly endearing qualities were discovered only at the threat of their disappearance.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Brewster Mason

This short, evocative account of the poet's life is set among contemporary scenes of the people of south-west Scotland as they grow from children to...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Stewart McAllister

Damien Thorn has helped rescue the world from a recession, appearing to be a benign corporate benefactor. When he then becomes U.S. Ambassador to the...

Genre: Horror

Cast: Sam Neill