Alec McCowen Movies

Scotland Yard detectives attempt to solve a spate of safe robberies across England beginning with clues found at the latest burglary in London. The...

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Jack Hawkins

After a serial killer strangles several women with a necktie, London police identify a suspect—but he claims vehemently to be the wrong man.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Jon Finch

Gritty adaption of William Shakespeare's play about the English King's bloody conquest of France.

Genre: War

Cast: Kenneth Branagh

In 19th century New York high society, a young lawyer falls in love with a woman separated from her husband, while he is engaged to the woman's...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Daniel Day-Lewis

At his mother's funeral, stuffy bank clerk Henry Pulling meets his Aunt Augusta, an elderly eccentric with more-than-shady dealings who pulls him...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Maggie Smith

The Mediterranean, 1941/42 - Axis forces are using frogmen and manned torpedoes to attack previously impregnable harbours. The Allied forces need to...

Genre: History

Cast: Laurence Harvey

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

Following a nervous breakdown, Gwen takes up the job of head teacher in the small village of Haddaby. There she can benefit from the tranquillity and...

Genre: Horror

Cast: Joan Fontaine

James Bond returns as the secret agent 007 to battle the evil organization SPECTRE. Bond must defeat Largo, who has stolen two atomic warheads for...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Sean Connery

Alec Graham is sentenced to death for the murder of his girlfriend Jennie, with whom he spent a weekend at the English country home of the parents of...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Michael Redgrave

A rebellious youth sentenced to a reformatory for robbing a bakery rises through the ranks of the institution through his prowess as a long distance...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Michael Redgrave

During the Italian Renaissance, Pope Julius II contracts the influential artist Michelangelo to sculpt 40 statues for his tomb. When the pope changes...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Charlton Heston

A wanderer returns home only to find political turmoil, disease and romantic difficulties.

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Charlton Heston

When an attractive young girl is murdered, suspicion falls on several members of the local tennis club. It falls to Police Inspector Halloran to sort...

Genre: Mystery

Cast: John Mills

The life of King Henry the Fifth.

Genre: Drama

Cast: John Abineri

Four doctors face a serious dilemma when the beautiful wife of a TB-stricken artist begs one of them to cure her brilliant, but amoral, husband.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Dirk Bogarde

An insecure, aggressive widow of a tea garden manager reluctantly develops an affectionate relationship with an Indian housewife and her family.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Deborah Kerr

Maria is a dancer who becomes pregnant, unexpectedly, and has to decide whether or not to keep the baby. When her live-in boyfriend, who is not the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yolanda Vazquez

Len climbs Veronica and Percy’s fence intent on burglary, but what really happens next? The three acts of the play show the incident from each...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Alec McCowen

British iTV adaptation of Patrick Hamilton's Rope that aired as a part of ITV Play of the Week.

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Dennis Price

Viola and Sebastian are lookalike twins, separated by a shipwreck. Viola lands in Illyria, where she disguises herself like her brother and goes into...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Alec McCowen

For a poet with a gift for crafting words into barbs, Stevie Smith lives a relatively conventional life. Sheltered in a London suburb, she spends her...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Glenda Jackson

A woman is unhappy in her marriage to a boring, stiff judge, so she takes up with a wild-living RAF pilot, who ends up being more than she can...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Vivien Leigh

After a chance meeting and an indiscreet conversation, childhood friends Tommy Beresford and Tuppence Cowley become involved in a convoluted intrigue...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Francesca Annis

The story of the rise of a madame of a suburban brothel catering to older men, inspired by the real experiences of Cynthia Payne. The story follows...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Julie Walters

At the start of World War II, Cmdr. Ericson is assigned to convoy escort HMS Compass Rose with inexperienced officers and men just out of training....

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jack Hawkins

Alec McCowen's award-winning solo performance of the St Mark Gospel.

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Cast: Alec McCowen

In wartime England, a railway official learns that the chairman of the line had sexually abused his wife as a child, then given him the job so he...

Genre: Crime

Cast: David Suchet

A celebration of Max Miller , comedian and star. Presented by Gerald Scarfe with Max Bygraves Charlie Chester , Doris Hare Jean Kent , Alec...

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Cast: Gerald Scarfe

A lonely young boy idolizes his local priest. An old acquaintance of the priest shows up one day, and the boy learns that his idol isn't exactly what...

Genre: Drama

Cast: James Aubrey

The Peloponnesian Wars (Athens versus Sparta for twenty-seven years) told in the format of news broadcast-like monologues by Theucydides, Plato, and...

Genre: Drama

Cast: John Bennett

Based on the true story of Oberleutnant Franz von Werra, the only German prisoner of war captured in Britain to escape back to Germany during the...

Genre: War

Cast: Hardy Krüger

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: Richard Crenna

A dramatic story, based on actual events, about the friendship between two men struggling against apartheid in South Africa in the 1970s. Donald...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kevin Kline

In 1863, Amsterdam Vallon returns to the Five Points of America to seek vengeance against the psychotic gangland kingpin, Bill the Butcher, who...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Leonardo DiCaprio

The story revolves around the Dinky Doos, a provincial musical troupe living from hand to mouth.

Genre: Music

Cast: Eric Portman

Divorced couple Amanda and Elyot have both recently remarried. On their honeymoons, however, they discover that they have accidentally booked...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Alec McCowen

The sinking of the Titanic is presented in a highly realistic fashion in this tense British drama. The disaster is portrayed largely from the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kenneth More

Edith is a hotel waitress, single and in her mid-forties, with a major infatuation on Maurice Silcox, the hotel's head waiter. But Edith becomes...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Joan Plowright

Filled with wit and wisdom, The Importance of Being Earnest tells the tale of Jack Worthing and Algernon Moncrieff. Jack has invented an imaginary...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Paul McGann

After he mends a marital rift between a vacationing young couple, the bored, fragile wife falls hopelessly in love with the husband's ex-colleague...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Peter Finch

A summer evening in Edinburgh, 1776. The ailing philosopher David Hume has an unexpected visitor.

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Cast: Alec McCowen

During World War II, a German woman, Inga, goes missing and is presumed dead. Her infant son is placed in an orphanage where, years later, he's...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Cornell Borchers

On a cold day in January 1850, a group of travelling actors arrive out of the snow at the remote country estate of Count Horvath, in eastern Hungary....

Genre: Drama

Cast: Manning Wilson