Peter Ustinov

In a series of four documentaries, Marcel Ophuls pays tribute to his father Max, and in this last one discusses his role as an assistant director ...

Having struggled to crack his brief, Dennis Hopper decides the only honourable act is to throw himself off a roof. Before this final act, Sir ...

A panel of experts examines the five main suspects in the Jack the Ripper murders and determines which of them is the most likely to have ...

Granpa tells stories to his granddaughter Emily, who imagines them as crayon drawings in motion.

Stuck in their late Grandfather’s country cottage with no TV, Anthea, Robert and Chris are resigned to a boring week until they find a ...

1839. The young Nell Trent is leading a happy life with her grandfather in his curiosity shop. Wharf owner Daniel Quilp has given large amounts ...

Stiff Upper Lips is a broad parody of British period films, especially the lavish Merchant-Ivory productions of the ‘eighties and early ...

A middle-aged truck driver travelling through the desert with his good-for-nothing nephew and a pretty nun, gets stuck and are forced to wait to ...

The Faust legend retold (loosely) and applied to a mentally disturbed patient in a hospital run by a doctor of dubious sanity himself. The ...

The Angel of God and an ordinary shepherd named Gideon debate obedience versus disobedience to God.

A story of the friendship between an elderly Jewish man and a young African-American boy set during the Vietnam War.

Several animated stories from “Metamorphoses,” the Roman poet Ovid’s narrative of legends, are presented.

A resourceful thief helps a handscome prince fight an evil wizard and win the hand of a beautiful princess.

The film recounts the sobering tale of how 19 innocent lives were taken in a community experiencing paranoid hysteria regarding the suspected ...

Three convicts escape from prison on Devil’s Island just before Christmas and arrive at a nearby French colonial town. They go to the store ...

Schoolteacher William Potts is the double of a captured German spy, so he is sent to Germany by British Intelligence to obtain the plans of a new ...

During the Allied Bombing offensive of World War II the public was often informed that “A raid took place last night over …, One (or ...

In the 23rd century, inhabitants of a domed city freely experience all of life’s pleasures- but no one is allowed to live past 30. Citizens ...

An investigation into the mysterious world of the crime novelist Agatha Christie, with comments from poison experts, policeman and pathologists ...

An animated film from 1999 based on the famous novel by George Orwell. Animals on a farm lead a revolution against the farmers to put their ...

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

Jimmie is seeing his single friends get married one by one. He isn’t too worried until his girlfriend Anne catches the bouquet at his ...

Arthur Simon Simpson is a small-time crook biding his time in Greece. One of his potential victims turns out to be a gentleman thief planning to ...

Kermit and Fozzie are newspaper reporters sent to London to interview Lady Holiday, a wealthy fashion designer whose priceless diamond necklace ...

In the Australian Outback, the Carmody family–Paddy, Ida and their teenage son Sean–are sheep drovers, always on the move. Ida and ...

The rebellious Thracian Spartacus, born and raised a slave, is sold to Gladiator trainer Batiatus. After weeks of being trained to kill for the ...

With his mauve taxi, the old philosopher Dr. Seamus Scully runs around the small green roads of the south of Ireland, becoming confident of his ...

During a murder hunt game at a country house, to which Hercule Poirot is invited as an “expert”, a real murder occurs.

In Acapulco, Hercule Poirot attends a dinner party in which one of the guests clutches his throat and suddenly dies. The causes seem to be ...

Digby Geste joins his brother, Beau, in the Foreign Legion following the theft of a priceless family heirloom.