Movies: Carl Davis

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...

Lon Chaney, the silent movie star and makeup artist, renowned for his various characterizations and celebrated for his horror films, becomes the subject of this documentary....

Passion comes calling when a man suffering through an unhappy marriage in 1920s England runs into first love....

The Secret Life of Ian Fleming follows the exciting life of a dashing young Ian Fleming, the mastermind behind the highly successful James Bond books and movies....

A perennial understudy takes matters into her own hands to achieve fame at any price....

A Romanian immigrant uses good food, good humor and good conversation to break down the walls around a reclusive woman's heart....

Biography of Russian physicist & dissident Andrei Sakharov focuses on his first acts in his civil rights....

A middle-aged professor's young bride and his assistant plan to commit a double murder disguised as a "Crime Passionel", but discover too late that one of their intended victims has become a fellow conspirator....

The reputation of the Academy for the Daughters of Respectable Monarchs has, of course, always been of the highest order... then suddenly Signor Doloro de Lara— a Professor of Magic—puts in an unwelcome appearance, and the enchanting little world is ...

Examination of the events that led to the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland....

A documentary about the era of classic monster movies that were made at Universal Studios during the 1930s and 1940s....

Based on a short story by George MacDonald, a princess experiences constant weightlessness....

Brecht's company of actors tells the story of Bertolt Brecht: his theatre, plays, poetry and his life....

When his father becomes a bomb victim, Jimmy leaves Belfast for his uncle’s farm in remote west Ireland. But even here there are links to the past....

An Edwardian take on the Shakespeare play starring Laurence Olivier....

A woman goes slowly mad as she is confined to a room for weeks on end by her husband....

In the late 1930s, three reclusive middle-aged spinster sisters live on their run down family estate in Ireland. Otto Beck, a perpetual graduate student from Bavaria with a habit of making pompous declamations, rents the back lodge to work on his eso...

Biopic of Malcolm Campbell, detailing his tumultuous life and extreme drive as he attempts to break the world speed records on land and water....

1982. A shop worker saves money all year for a holiday in France, using a magazine as guide to the mode of dress and manners of behaviour she thinks expected of a wealthy woman....

Three postal workers and their dysfunctional families interact over cups of tea and Sunday dinner....