Movies: George Bernard Shaw

  • 1967
    Saint Joan

    Saint Joan (1967)

    Saint Joan

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    A television adaptation of George Bernard Shaw's play about the life, battles and subsequent trial of Joan of Arc, based on the kept records from her trial....

    Saint Joan
  • 1983
    Arms and the Man

    Arms and the Man (1983)

    Arms and the Man

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    Adaptation of the play by Bernard Shaw....

    Arms and the Man
  • 1937
    Pygmalion

    Pygmalion (1937)

    Pygmalion

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    When linguistics professor Henry Higgins boasts that he can pass off Cockney flower girl Eliza Doolittle as a princess with only six months' training, Colonel George Pickering takes him up on the bet. Eliza moves into Higgins's home and begins her ri...

    Pygmalion
  • 1984
    Androcles and the Lion

    Androcles and the Lion (1984)

    Androcles and the Lion

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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...

    Androcles and the Lion
  • 1977
    Heartbreak House

    Heartbreak House (1977)

    Heartbreak House

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    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?...

    Heartbreak House
  • 1935
    Pygmalion

    Pygmalion (1935)

    Pygmalion

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    When linguistics professor Henry Higgins boasts that he can pass off Cockney flower girl Eliza Doolittle as a princess with only six months' training, Colonel George Pickering takes him up on the bet. Eliza moves into Higgins's home and begins her ri...

    Pygmalion
  • 1935
    BBC: The Voice of Britain

    BBC: The Voice of Britain (1935)

    BBC: The Voice of Britain

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    An impressionistic portrait of the BBC....

    BBC: The Voice of Britain
  • 1989
    Arms and the Man

    Arms and the Man (1989)

    Arms and the Man

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    First produced on the London stage in 1894, "Arms and the Man" immediately established Shaw's reputation as one of the greatest wits in London drama. This beautifully remastered BBC production brings to life an uproarious comedy that still resonates ...

    Arms and the Man
  • 1972
    Mrs. Warren's Profession

    Mrs. Warren's Profession (1972)

    Mrs. Warren's Profession

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    Performed in 1902, after being banned by the censor for eight years, Shaw's indictment of the hypocrisy surrounding prostitution still shocked its audiences. Mrs. Warren has graduated from prostitution to opening and operating a chain of brothels thr...

    Mrs. Warren's Profession
  • 1975
    Widower's Houses

    Widower's Houses (1975)

    Widower's Houses

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    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...

    Widower's Houses
  • 1975
    Heartbreak House

    Heartbreak House (1975)

    Heartbreak House

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    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...

    Heartbreak House
  • 1939
    The Apple Seller

    The Apple Seller (1939)

    The Apple Seller

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    The Apple Seller
  • 1950
    Wonderful Times

    Wonderful Times (1950)

    Wonderful Times

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    Compilation film about a very German first half of the 20th century....

    Wonderful Times
  • 2018
    My Astonishing Self: Gabriel Byrne on George Bernard Shaw

    My Astonishing Self: Gabriel Byrne on George Bernard Shaw (2018)

    My Astonishing Self: Gabriel Byrne on George Bernard Shaw

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    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....

    My Astonishing Self: Gabriel Byrne on George Bernard Shaw
  • 1975
    Don Juan in der Hölle

    Don Juan in der Hölle (1975)

    Don Juan in der Hölle

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    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....

    Don Juan in der Hölle
  • 1967
    Androcles and the Lion

    Androcles and the Lion (1967)

    Androcles and the Lion

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    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....

    Androcles and the Lion
  • 1987
    The Devil's Disciple

    The Devil's Disciple (1987)

    The Devil's Disciple

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    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 ...

    The Devil's Disciple
  • 1972
    La miliardaria

    La miliardaria (1972)

    La miliardaria

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    La miliardaria
  • 1979
    Caesar and Cleopatra

    Caesar and Cleopatra (1979)

    Caesar and Cleopatra

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    Caesar and Cleopatra
  • 1962
    Don Juan in Hell

    Don Juan in Hell (1962)

    Don Juan in Hell

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    The third act of George Bernard Shaw's philosophical comedy Man and Superman. This dream episode depicts a lively debate between Don Juan, the Devil, Juan's former lover Dona Ana, and her father, the commander, who was murdered by Don Juan in a duel ...

    Don Juan in Hell