Richard Briers
notum enim: Acting
dies natalis: 1934-01-14
Locus Natus: Raynes Park, Surrey, England, UK
Et ut:
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
Victor Frankenstein is a promising young doctor who, devastated by the death of his mother during childbirth, becomes obsessed with bringing the dead...
release : 1994.11.04popularis : 14.623
Hamlet
Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, returns home to find his father murdered and his mother now marrying the murderer... his uncle. Meanwhile, war is brewing.
release : 1996.12.25popularis : 17.39
Watership Down
When the warren belonging to a community of rabbits is threatened, a brave group led by Fiver, Bigwig, Blackberry and Hazel leave their homeland in a...
release : 1978.10.14popularis : 17.422
Much Ado About Nothing
In this Shakespearean farce, Hero and her groom-to-be, Claudio, team up with Claudio's commanding officer, Don Pedro, the week before their wedding...
release : 1993.05.07popularis : 13.21
In the Bleak Midwinter
Out of work actor Joe volunteers to help try and save his sister's local church for the community by putting on a Christmas production of Hamlet,...
release : 1995.09.29popularis : 5.382
Fathom
While touring abroad in Europe, beautiful American skydiver Fathom Harvill gets wrapped up in international intrigue when Scottish spy Douglas...
release : 1967.08.25popularis : 5.629
Love's Labour's Lost
The King of Navarre and his three companions swear a very public oath to study together and to renounce women for three years. Their honour is...
release : 2000.03.31popularis : 5.181
It's Your Move
A silent slapstick comedy depicting the travails of young couple moving into a new home, who hire an accident-prone firm of house removers, headed by...
release : 1982.10.18popularis : 2.844
Heavy Weather
At Blandings Castle, the Earl of Emsworth only cares about his prize pig 'The Empress' and is wilfully ignorant of the fact that his brother is...
release : 1995.12.24popularis : 1.614
Cockneys vs Zombies
A group of Cockneys arm themselves to rescue their elderly relative and his retirement home friends who are trapped and fighting off a zombie attack...
release : 2012.08.31popularis : 17.691
The Bargee
After a lock-keeper entrusts his daughter to a canal Casanova, he is shocked to learn that she is pregnant. He then refuses to open his locks -...
release : 1964.01.01popularis : 1.258
Run For Your Wife
John Smith has been happily involved in a bigamous marriage for five years. He lives with Stephanie in Finsbury and Michelle in Stockwell....
release : 2012.05.16popularis : 5.795
Rentadick
Armitage runs a chemical company that is on the verge of producing a gas that causes temporary disability. Clearly the military want it but it is...
release : 1972.12.31popularis : 6.594
The Funny Blokes of British Comedy
Movie with some of the greatest brittish comedians such as Rowan Atkinson, John Cleese.
release : 2005.03.03popularis : 1.911
Great
An animated film about the British engineer Isambard Kingdom Brunel, who spearheaded numerous engineering marvels of the early 19th century -...
release : 1975.03.17popularis : 3.207
A Matter of WHO
Health officials from the World Health Organization link a smallpox outbreak in Europe to oil drilling in the Middle East.
release : 1961.10.03popularis : 5.129
Swan Song
An aging actor remembers his past stage triumphs and contemplates a dim future on the stage of an empty theatre. The film was nominated for an Oscar...
release : 1992.01.01popularis : 5.819
Twelfth Night, or What You Will
The tale begins when a brother and sister are separated in a shipwreck, but survive to be washed up on the shore of Illyria. The sister, Viola,...
release : 1988.12.30popularis : 1.735
Peter Pan
In stifling Edwardian London, Wendy Darling mesmerizes her brothers every night with bedtime tales of swordplay, swashbuckling and the fearsome...
release : 2003.12.18popularis : 26.988
Girls at Sea
When HMS Scotia pays a visit to the French Riviera, the officers throw a lavish party to celebrate the engagement of Captain Robert Randall to Jill...
release : 1958.10.01popularis : 1.366
All the Way Up
Fred Midway may be a bit short on brains, but he's got plenty of ambition. However, before he can gain promotion as a salesman, he must make his...
release : 1970.06.01popularis : 2.156
Arms and the Man
Adaptation of the play by Bernard Shaw.
release : 1983.01.16popularis : 1.436
The Four Musketeers
The Four Musketeers defend the queen and her dressmaker from Cardinal Richelieu and Milady de Winter.
release : 1974.10.31popularis : 13.191
The Three Musketeers
The young D'Artagnan arrives in Paris with dreams of becoming a King's musketeer. He meets and quarrels with three men, Athos, Porthos, and Aramis,...
release : 1973.12.11popularis : 13.667
The Good Life: Secret & Scandals
The cosy sitcom had storylines tackling mid-life crises, drunken wife-swapping and more.
release : 2022.08.12popularis : 2.148
Roobarb and Custard: The Complete Collection
Roobarb and Custard: The Complete Collection has a lot of 69 episodes, the two pre-school children's shows including the 1974 tv show "Roobarb" (30...
release : 2017.06.12popularis : 0.743
All in Good Time
A Guinness advert in the form of a short comic film set in a traditional country pub.
release : 1964.01.02popularis : 1.243
Village Wooing
Adaptation of the play by George Bernard Shaw. (Synopsis) Richard Briers tries to woo Judi Dench in this play by George Bernard Shaw.
release : 1979.04.17popularis : 0.886
A Chorus of Disapproval
Guy Jones (Irons) moves to a small British town and joins the local amateur dramatics society as a way to meet people. However he soon finds the...
release : 1989.08.18popularis : 5.42
The Aerodrome
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...
release : 1983.12.13popularis : 1.034
Our Hidden Lives
Based on the best-selling book by award-winning writer Simon Garfield, four stories from Britain's 'lost decade' (1945 - 1955) are presented from the...
release : 2005.10.03popularis : 5.37
Murder She Said
Miss Marple believes she's seen a murder in a passing-by train, yet when the police find no evidence she decides to investigate it on her own.
release : 1961.09.26popularis : 14.666
Mouse and Mole at Christmas Time
Animation telling of the adventures of Mouse, Mole, Rat and Owl. Before giving a Twelfth Night party, Mouse makes a snowmole for Mole. In a dream,...
release : 2013.12.16popularis : 1.493
Doctor in Distress
"Doctor in Distress" is the fifth of the seven films in the "Doctor" series, and focuses on Sir Lancelot Spratt, Simon Sparrow's old teacher and...
release : 1963.07.30popularis : 3.514
Mole's Christmas
Rat and Mole must get to Mole's home through a snowy Christmas Eve while eluding weasel pickpockets.
release : 1994.12.25popularis : 4.924
The Student Prince
The Queen's youngest son is off to university, mainly because "I'm hopeless at anything else". Barry, his new bodyguard, has no time for the royal...
release : 1998.11.22popularis : 4.486
Dad
Lucy Gannon (Soldier, Soldier, Bramwell, Trip Trap) has written Dad, the poignant story of Larry James (Richard Briers), a cheery and independent...
release : 2005.02.24popularis : 1.781
Peter's Friends
After inheriting a large country estate from his late father, Peter invites his friends from college: married couple Roger and Mary, the lonely...
release : 1992.09.18popularis : 9.372
Henry V
Gritty adaption of William Shakespeare's play about the English King's bloody conquest of France.
release : 1989.10.05popularis : 10.374
Bottoms Up!
An incompetent boarding school headmaster, Professor Jim Edwards, devises a bizarre plot to raise the profile of his boarding school, and thus save...
release : 1960.03.25popularis : 2.429
Peter Kay's Animated All Star Band: The Official BBC Children in Need Medley
Big Chris leads a chorus of characters from various animated children's television shows in a medley of seven songs: 1. "Can You Feel It" 2. "Don't...
release : 2009.11.13popularis : 5.522
National Theatre Live: London Assurance
Grace has agreed to marry Sir Harcourt in return for his financial support of her family. At a house party in her father's place, Harcourt's son...
release : 2010.06.24popularis : 1.502
British Sitcom: 60 Years of Laughing at Ourselves
Documentary celebrating the British sitcom and taking a look at the social and political context from which our favourite sitcoms grew. We enjoy a...
release : 2016.09.12popularis : 4.9
Spice World
World famous pop group the Spice Girls zip around London in their luxurious double decker tour bus having various adventures and performing for their...
release : 1997.12.18popularis : 9.126
As You Like It
Witty, playful and utterly magical, the story is a compelling romantic adventure in which Rosalind and Orlando's celebrated courtship is played out...
release : 2006.09.01popularis : 10.004
A Small Miracle
On Christmas Eve, a poor old woman plays her accordion in the street. Apart from two children, the passers-by ignore her and by the end of the day...
release : 1976.01.01popularis : 2.88
Skallagrigg
Back in the 'bad old days' when the physically and mentally disabled were locked away in institutions a legend grew of someone who could stand up to...
release : 1994.03.09popularis : 2.101
Our Flesh and Blood
TV play by Mike Stott. Comedy about a couple expecting their first baby.
release : 1977.01.18popularis : 2.551
The Adventures of Mole
Mole decides it's time for an adventure! It isn't long before he discovers all the fun and thrills of the riverbank in the company of his new found...
release : 1995.12.24popularis : 1.63
A Home of Your Own
A Home of Your Own is a 1964 British comedy film which is a brick-by-brick account of the building a young couple’s dream house. From the day...
release : 1964.01.01popularis : 3.073
Unconditional Love
After her husband leaves her, a woman travels to London for the funeral of the pop star, Victor Fox, she's adored all her life. There, she meets the...
release : 2002.08.23popularis : 10.462
The Girl on the Boat
Norman Wisdom does to P.G. Wodehouse in Girl on the Boat what Jerry Lewis did to Gore Vidal in Visit to a Small Planet. The zany Wisdom, put in...
release : 1962.08.05popularis : 1.807
All About The Good Life
What was it really like behind the scenes of The Good Life? With contributions from Richard Briers, Penelope Keith, Monty Don, Brian Sewell and John...
release : 2010.12.29popularis : 1.742
P.Q. 17
"That order to scatter was as good as a death sentence to those merchant ships. And there isn't one officer or rating who doesn't agree with me." A...
release : 1981.12.15popularis : 0.894
The Adventures of Toad
Toad's life is just one big adventure! His latest and greatest hobby is racing around the countryside in his new motor car getting into all sorts of...
release : 1996.07.30popularis : 3.177
Doctor Who: Paradise Towers
The Doctor and Mel visit Paradise Towers, a residential complex that promises a peaceful life to its residents. However, the establishment is far...
release : 1987.10.26popularis : 2.149