Robert Lang
notum enim: Acting
dies natalis: 1934-09-24
Locus Natus: Bristol, England, UK
Et ut:
The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian & The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
Young Prince Caspian of Narnia wonders and dreams about the old days of Narnia when animals talked, and there were mythical creatures and four rulers...
release : 1989.11.19popularis : 7.425
The Dance of Death
An egocentric artillery captain and his venomous wife engage in savage unremitting battles in their isolated island fortress of the coast of Sweden...
release : 1969.01.01popularis : 1.124
Night Watch
A woman recovering from a nervous breakdown tries to convince her husband and and the local London police that she has witnessed a murder in the...
release : 1973.11.08popularis : 7.007
Mrs Palfrey at The Claremont
All but abandoned by her family in a London retirement hotel, an elderly woman strikes up a curious friendship with a young writer.
release : 2005.11.25popularis : 4.584
The Trial
Joseph K. awakes one morning, to find two strange men in his room, telling him he has been arrested. Joseph is not told what he is charged with, and...
release : 1993.06.18popularis : 5.867
A Walk with Love and Death
Attempting to evade the turmoil of France's Hundred Years' War, Parisian student Heron of Foix decides to journey to the sea. En route, he meets the...
release : 1969.10.05popularis : 2.366
Rogue Male
In 1939, Sir Robert Thorndyke takes aim at Adolf Hitler with a high powered rifle, but the shot misses its mark. Captured and tortured by the Gestapo...
release : 1976.09.22popularis : 2.421
Hawks
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...
release : 1988.08.05popularis : 4.467
Deathday
Adam Crosse is a reporter for a local paper. A neurotic under-achiever, the last straw comes when he discovers his wife Lydia is having an affair and...
release : 1971.05.12popularis : 0.23
Interlude
A young female journalist in London falls in love with a married orchestra conductor.
release : 1968.05.01popularis : 0.949
Daylight Robbery
Neglected by her family, kept apart from her grandchildren, desperately short of money, Bea begins to gamble - at first for small stakes, but...
release : 1986.07.16popularis : 1.798
The Sandwich Man
A man with a sandwich-board (advert) wanders around London meeting many strange characters.
release : 1966.07.01popularis : 3.062
Last Wishes
An elderly recluse dies in the process of changing her will. The change would have meant that the servants would continue to live i n her house - now...
release : 1978.02.08popularis : 1.999
Beyond The Pale
Milly and her friends have been going on holiday together ever since they've known each other. This summer they return to one of their favourite...
release : 1989.08.30popularis : 1.125
The Stick Insect
A married couple go to stay at a remote cottage. Once there, they discover there is no running water for tea. Then, a stranger appears, accompanied...
release : 1975.08.18popularis : 1.809
The Bargain Hunters
Tom and Cynthia buy a £20 painting and suddenly believe it to be valuable.
release : 1971.08.10popularis : 1.144
Who Bombed Birmingham?
Docudrama film exploring the efforts of World in Action researchers Ian MacBride and Chris Mullin in proving that the "Birmingham Six" only admitted...
release : 1990.04.22popularis : 3.133
Savage Messiah
In the Paris of the 1910s, brash young sculptor Henri Gaudier begins a creative partnership with an older writer, Sophie Brzeska. Though the couple...
release : 1972.06.27popularis : 5.151
Donkeys' Years
Michael Frayn's play about a college reunion.
release : 1980.01.01popularis : 0.92
King Lear
An aging King invites disaster when he abdicates to his corrupt, toadying daughters and rejects his one loving, but honest one.
release : 1983.04.03popularis : 5.173
Tracey Ullman: A Class Act
A short series of 15 minute programmes, really expanded sketches, in which Tracey Ullman and Michael Palin play various roles satirizing the British...
release : 1993.01.09popularis : 2.023
Harem
A young British woman is kidnapped by an Arabian sheikh and held captive in his harem. At first she frantically tries to escape, but as they slowly...
release : 1986.02.09popularis : 4.355
The Dog It Was That Died
Rupert Purvis jumps off a bridge onto a dog, causing problems for Blair, his superior at MI5. Blair must convince Hogbin, the agent who's been...
release : 1989.01.01popularis : 1.578
Four Weddings and a Funeral
Over the course of five social occasions, a committed bachelor must consider the notion that he may have discovered love.
release : 1994.03.09popularis : 23.562
The First Great Train Robbery
In Victorian England, a master criminal makes elaborate plans to steal a shipment of gold from a moving train.
release : 1978.12.14popularis : 20.201
The MacKintosh Man
A member of British Intelligence assumes a fictitious criminal identity and allows himself to be caught, imprisoned, and freed in order to infiltrate...
release : 1973.11.08popularis : 7.115
Runners
When his young daughter disappears, her father refuses to accept that she is dead and sets out on a journey to find her.
release : 1983.08.18popularis : 1.892
Lady Windermere's Fan
Lord Windermere appears to all - including to his young wife Margaret - as the perfect husband. But their happy marriage is placed at risk when Lord...
release : 1985.09.15popularis : 1.194
Rasputin
Into an era seething with war and revolution, a man comes with an incredible power to heal a nation...or destroy it. Based on the true story of one...
release : 1996.03.23popularis : 8.065
Wilde
The story of Oscar Wilde, genius, poet, playwright and the First Modern Man. The self-realisation of his homosexuality caused Wilde enormous torment...
release : 1997.09.01popularis : 12.407
Shout at the Devil
During World War One an English adventurer, an American elephant poacher and the latter's attractive young daughter, set out to destroy a German...
release : 1976.04.12popularis : 4.072
Trust
When her husband is accused of murder, solicitor Anne Travers defends him -- but as the evidence mounts, she begins to question their "perfect" life.
release : 2000.08.15popularis : 1.947
Genghis Cohn
In the midst of World War II, Nazi officer Otto Schatz declares the execution of Jewish music-hall comedian Genghis Cohn. Many years later, Otto is...
release : 1994.03.02popularis : 2.01
The Cherry on the Top
A comic play set against the background of the Air Force.
release : 1964.09.27popularis : 0.967
Theban Plays: Antigone
In a final battle for the control of Thebes, Oedipus's two sons kill each other. Creon issues an order that no one is to bury Polynices upon pain of...
release : 1986.09.19popularis : 4.049
The House That Dripped Blood
A Scotland Yard investigator looks into four mysterious cases involving an unoccupied house.
release : 1971.02.22popularis : 15.746
Compensation Alice
Alice is determined to buy a flash new hat despite her husband not giving her the money.
release : 1967.07.01popularis : 0.676
Edward G: Like the Filmstar
Edward G is nothing like a film star; his life has been ordinary - until now. But he's just had a shattering experience.
release : 1973.06.11popularis : 0.676
I'm the Girl He Wants to Kill
Returning home to her flat, Ann Rogers passes a stranger leaving the building. A few moments later she discovers her neighbor lying dead in the...
release : 1974.03.18popularis : 0.764
Some Mother's Son
Based on the true story of the 1981 hunger strike in a British prison, in which IRA prisoner Bobby Sands led a protest against the treatment of IRA...
release : 1996.09.13popularis : 6.021
Nancherrow
The basic story involves Loveday's struggle to keep the estate Nancherrow in the family after the death of her father.
release : 1999.01.01popularis : 3.108
Othello
General Othello's marriage is destroyed when vengeful Ensign Iago convinces him that his new wife has been unfaithful.
release : 1965.12.15popularis : 5.753
Uncle Vanya
Adaptation of Chekhov's play from the Chichester Festival.
release : 1963.11.20popularis : 2.363
Olivier Talks About Othello
Promotional short hosted by Laurence Olivier promoting the film "Othello."
release : 1965.01.01popularis : 0.929
And No One Could Save Her
The life of young newlywed, Fern O'Neil, is turned upside-down when her husband is called home to visit his dying father in Ireland. When she fails...
release : 1973.02.21popularis : 3.044
The Medusa Touch
A French detective in London reconstructs the life of a man lying in hospital with severe injuries with the help of journals and a psychiatrist. He...
release : 1978.04.13popularis : 12.527
West 11
Joe Beckett, seasoned citizen of the bedsitter belt, aged about 22, is the renegade son of modest, respectable parents and, to use his own...
release : 1963.10.08popularis : 2.792
Twenty-Nine
Graham Baird wakes up in strange clothes in a strange apartment, both he and his wife want to know where he had been the previous night.
release : 1969.01.01popularis : 1.17
The Secret Thread
A writer, Arnold Reed, goes back to his former boyhood home in the East End, and there, finding it about to be torn down, he revisits his attic room,...
release : 1962.01.05popularis : 1.562
Catch Us If You Can
Dinah is a famous model and actress who is getting tired of life in the limelight and wants to take a break. While shooting a commercial spot for...
release : 1965.07.15popularis : 3.675