Movies: George Bernard Shaw

Captain Shotover, a retired seafarer, is reluctantly hosting a weekend house party for his two daughters and their bohemian friends. As they indulge in dangerous flirtations, will anyone notice their drift to destruction?...

Shaw turned to the classic Victorian melodrama to focus on the insincerity of much that his audience held dear, especially family and marriage. In 1777 as the American War of Independence rages, Dick Dudgeon returns to the family he revolted against ...

An impressionistic portrait of the BBC....

In heaven there is faith, and love. Only in hell there is justice. Everyone here gets the part that suits them best. Therefore, hell is the place for eternal pleasures....

The story of Androcles, the simple-hearted Christian tailor whose friendship with a lion saves himself and his friends from martyrdom in the Roman Colosseum....

Dutch television adaptation of George Bernard Shaw's play "Saint Joan"....

Award-winning Irish actor Gabriel Byrne explores the life, works and passions of George Bernard Shaw, a giant of world literature, and - like Byrne - an emigrant Irishman with the outsider's ability to observe, needle and puncture....

Two friends, Harry and William, meet the respectable Mr. Sartorius and his lovely daughter Blanche on the trip. Harry falls in love with Blanche and proposes to her. But it suddenly turns out that Sartorius made his entire fortune through fraud. What...

Young poet Henry Epjohn is passionately in love with Aurora, the wife of aristocrat Teddy Bompas. Aurora suspects that her husband has gotten hold of poems composed by Henry and dedicated to her, so she asks Henry to lie to Teddy about it. However, H...

One of Shaw's "pleasant plays", The Man of Destiny is a one-act lighthearted comedy of egos and social hypocrisy. Set in 1796 in northern Italy, it features a battle of wits between Napoleon Bonaparte and a mysterious, daring woman who has stolen his...

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Shaw used the traditional fable of Andocles to focus on the integrity of religious belief. Androcles, a christian fleeing persecution in Rome, is captured by Caesar's men. Alongside other christians - Ferrovius, a fierce fighter, Lavinia, a beautiful...

Famous author George Bernard Shaw's monologue to an audience on a variety of topics, including his impression of Mussolini's stern facial expressions. TITLE CARDS READ "1927. SHAW TALKS FOR MOVIETONE Several months before 'The Jazz Singer' appeare...

Can Professor Higgins transform flower-girl Eliza Dolittle into a great lady?...

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A titled Englishwoman proves more than a match for the fearsome Captain Brassbound....

September evening, an unusual ark house, resembling a ship in shape, for its owner, the gray-haired old man, captain Châtover, sailed the whole life through the seas. A strange house where people behave differently. Young beauty sisters reign in thi...

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Based on a play by Bernard Shaw....