Sheila Hancock Movies

Steve Deakin teaches history and is a foot soldier in the Sealed Knot Society. In a fortnight between two English Civil War battles he finds he faces...

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Cast: Sean Bean

Buster is a small time crook who pulls a big time job. When he finds that the police will not let the case drop, he goes into hiding and can't...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Phil Collins

She is a scientist. He is a Lebanese doctor. They meet at a banquet and fall into a carefree, passionate relationship. But difficulties abound...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Joan Allen

When his family moves from their home in Berlin to a strange new house in Poland, young Bruno befriends Shmuel, a boy who lives on the other side of...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Asa Butterfield

Norman Puckle, a well-meaning but clumsy grocer's assistant, can't seem to do anything right. After being rejected by Marlene, the love of his life,...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Norman Wisdom

Traces the role of women in British television, from 1946 to 1997.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Hazel Adair

A psychotic killer gets in the good graces of his aging invalid employer, and worms his way into the affection of her beautiful daughter, with...

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Albert Finney

Mrs Taggart always celebrates her anniversary with her grown sons. It’s a tradition practised since the death of her husband and she is...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Bette Davis

A young woman joins a group of protesters trying to stop the construction of a highway through a forest with the purpose of having sex with their...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Christine Tremarco

Young Jenny heads to the South of England to start a new career as a school teacher. Even before she has had a chance to settle in she meets Patrick,...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Oliver Reed

Liz, a lonely widow,returns home from her holiday in Torquay with Damar, a Nepalese ex-Gurkha, whom she intends to marry. Her grown-up,divorced...

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Cast: Sheila Hancock

Prompted by horrific nightmares, Henry delves into the mystery of his past and begins to uncover the truth about his father's death, triggering a...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Dean Andrews

A group of elderly women go on vacation to the seaside. One of them takes her son along and constantly watches him saying he has a brain tumor. His...

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Cast: Sheila Hancock

Three contemplative monologues about killing, written by Hugo Blick.

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Cast: Sheila Hancock

This is the story of the lovely Kate Swallow and the loves of her life. At the start she is with Alec Bolton, a noted author, who discourages her...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Carole Bouquet

Curmudgeonly author Giles De'Ath, a widower with a marked distaste for modern popular culture, attempts to buy a ticket for a film adaptation of an...

Genre: Drama

Cast: John Hurt

A stranger arrives at an old woman's house on the west coast of Scotland where she allows him to stay in exchange for odd jobs. But who is he?

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sheila Hancock

Two Britons—inventor Hengist Pod, and Horse, a brave and cunning fighter—are captured and enslaved by invading Romans and taken to Rome....

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Sid James

No one thinks a seventeen-year-old girl can take on the hard men of London's gangland, but it's a mistake to underestimate Maura Ryan: she's tough,...

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Cast: Susan Lynch

Set against the backdrop of a beautiful garden in the heart of London, this contemporary fairy tale revolves around the unlikely friendship between a...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jessica Brown Findlay

A woman writes a book about sex and marriage and it becomes a best seller.

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Cast: Amanda Barrie

Recently released from prison, French chef Jacques pursues an obsession -- to leave his past behind and work for the great British chef Victor...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Nico Rogner

Alice follows a white rabbit down a rabbit-hole into a whimsical Wonderland, where she meets characters like the delightful Cheshire Cat, the clumsy...

Genre: Fantasy

Cast: Tina Majorino

Doctors Burke and Hare leave the confines of St Swithins for the world of general practice, stopping off on the way as patients at the Foulness...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Michael Craig

Sylvia's work increasingly takes her away from the three men who help bring up Mary, her daughter. When she decides to move to England and take Mary...

Genre: Family

Cast: Tom Selleck

Two terminally ill patients in a hospital yearn for relief from their predicament. With little or no friends, they form an uneasy alliance and plot...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Timothy Dalton

Young English girl Nikky and her aunt arrive at the Moon-Spinners, a hotel on Crete, to a less than enthusiastic welcome. The coolness of the owner...

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Hayley Mills

A surprisingly candid behind-the-scenes account of the career of Ken Loach, one of Britain’s most celebrated and controversial filmmakers, as...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Ken Loach

Actress and writer Sheila Hancock has long been fascinated by the life and works of the Brontë sisters. In this programme, she searches for an...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Sheila Hancock

The girls of St. Trinian's decide they are being asked to do too much work so they go on strike.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Sheila Hancock

Television film adaptation of the true story ("A Friend Like Henry" by Nuala Gardner) of a young autistic boy and his extraordinary friendship with...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Keeley Hawes

The TARDIS arrives on the planet Terra Alpha, where the Seventh Doctor and Ace discover a society in which sadness is against the law - a law...

Genre: Science Fiction

Cast: Sylvester McCoy

When he was a little boy, Dillon's rock musician father and hippie mother died in a traffic accident. Now in his twenties, Dillon wants nothing more...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sheila Hancock

To try and overcome a lifetime of bitterness and resentment, 83-year-old Edie decides that it is never too late. After packing an old camping bag,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sheila Hancock

Chaos ensues when a bunch of misfits man a British searchlight battery during World War II.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Ian Carmichael

Two women, recovering from personal tragedy, take a boat trip through the Scottish Highlands. After a run in with the locals, their relaxing break...

Genre: Horror

Cast: Finlay MacMillan

Based on Jo Brand's critically acclaimed novel of the same name, The More You Ignore Me is a warm, comedy drama focusing on the life of an...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Sheridan Smith

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

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Michael Crawford

Christopher, a middle-aged man who is obsessed with repairing old radios, marries the Russian bride Natasha. She comes to live with him and his...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Lia Williams

Alice is determined to buy a flash new hat despite her husband not giving her the money.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Sheila Hancock

Twice Round the Daffodils is a 1962 British comedy drama film directed by Gerald Thomas and starring Juliet Mills, Donald Sinden, Donald Houston,...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Juliet Mills

Sheila Hancock stars as Ellie; a woman gathering her strength on the morning of the hardest day of her life. Unwaveringly, she prepares to perform...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sheila Hancock

Two young people, Daniel and Samantha, are selected in a television show to marry. They have never seen each other ever. After the wedding ceremony...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Steven Duffy

Norman Wisdom does to P.G. Wodehouse in Girl on the Boat what Jerry Lewis did to Gore Vidal in Visit to a Small Planet. The zany Wisdom, put in...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Norman Wisdom

Dermot is in love with Pearl and is going to meet her family for the first time. But not everyone lives in the same world as us..

Genre: Drama

Cast: Warren Saire

Story is told by George Cole and Sheila Hancock ; adapted by Milton Subotsky from the original stories by Hans Christian Andersen, the Brothers Grimm...

Genre: Animation

Cast: George Cole

When Jack Blake picks up a woman and her daughter stranded when their car breaks down, he is struck by the daughter's resemblance to his own murdered...

Genre: Thriller

Cast: John Hurt

Jack is obsessed with nuclear armageddon and takes his wife, Ellen, and their children into a fallout shelter in their garden to wait out the atomic...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sheila Hancock

Opening with the first day of rehearsals of the London production of "Sweeney Todd", this ninety-minute documentary focuses on the rehearsal process...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Hal Prince