Jack Shepherd
notum enim: Acting
dies natalis: 1940-10-29
Locus Natus: Leeds, Yorkshire, England, UK
Et ut:
The Golden Compass
After overhearing a shocking secret, precocious orphan Lyra Belacqua trades her carefree existence roaming the halls of Jordan College for an...
release : 2007.12.04popularis : 25.825
God on Trial
In the Jewish tradition of arguing with God, Jewish prisoners in Auschwitz decide to put God on Trial.
release : 2008.09.03popularis : 9.098
Wonderland
There's little wonder in the working-class lives of Bill, Eileen, and their three grown daughters. They're lonely Londoners. Nadia, a cafe waitress,...
release : 1999.05.13popularis : 4.842
Sons and Lovers
An adaptation for television by Trevor Griffiths of DH Lawrence's classic novel
release : 1981.01.14popularis : 3.198
Into the Storm
This powerful follow-up to “The Gathering Storm” follows Churchill from 1940 to 1945 as he guided his beleaguered nation through the...
release : 2009.05.31popularis : 12.317
Man and Boy
When television executive Harry has a one-night-stand, his wife Gina walks out on him, leaving Harry to look after the couple's young son.
release : 2002.03.30popularis : 4.691
Trust Me
Harry plays hoaxes on gullible tabloid journalists. But when he gets ambitious and tries to sell the faked memoirs of a contract killer to a...
release : 1992.10.25popularis : 0.589
All Neat in Black Stockings
A small comedy drama about the life and sex adventures of an amorous window cleaner, in the hip and swingin' London of the '60s.
release : 1969.04.10popularis : 2.282
Ultimate Fights from the Movies
In their second film compilation following their 'Boogeymen:The Killer Compilation' series, FlixMix takes you into the history of action movies from...
release : 2002.04.16popularis : 9.984
The Unborn
A physicist has apocalyptic visions of his unborn baby.
release : 1980.05.15popularis : 0.498
The Other Boleyn Girl
Based on the controversial novel by Philippa Gregory, "The Other Boleyn Girl" is a fictionalised account of the life of Lady Mary Boleyn who becomes...
release : 2003.03.28popularis : 12.412
Blue Black Permanent
In 1990s Edinburgh, Barbara Thorburn reflects on memories of her poet mother, Greta, and her tragic death.
release : 1992.01.01popularis : 2.137
Twenty-one
Katie is a free spirited independently minded 21-year-old. The film follows her as she reflects on the men in her life. Along the way we meet her...
release : 1991.10.04popularis : 1.284
Body Contact
In the future, around Tottenham and Hackney, taxi driver Smiley comes to the assistance of the beautiful Dominique Renoir, who's on the run from her...
release : 1987.12.06popularis : 4.049
The Virgin Soldiers
The core of the plot is the romantic triangle formed by the protagonist, a conscripted soldier named Private Brigg, a worldly professional soldier...
release : 1969.10.14popularis : 6.243
Hope In The Year Two
In April 1794, Georges Danton, the hero of the French Revolution, is imprisoned in a Paris jail, awaiting his morning appointment with La Guillotine....
release : 1994.05.11popularis : 0.818
A Woman at War
Helene Moskiewicz, a young Jewish woman living in pre-World War II Belgium, is forced to suffer through German occupation by watching her parents...
release : 1991.08.10popularis : 2.849
A Dad for Christmas
Matt, a 19-year-old student, goes to the hospital to see his newborn son. He learns his girlfriend plans to put the baby up for adoption without his...
release : 2006.12.03popularis : 2.486
Count Dracula
For those familiar with Bram Stoker's novel, this adaptation follows the book quite closely in most respects. Jonathan Harker visits the Count in...
release : 1977.12.22popularis : 4.75
A Cock and Bull Story
Steve Coogan, an arrogant actor with low self-esteem and a complicated love life, is playing the eponymous role in an adaptation of "The Life and...
release : 2005.07.17popularis : 12.782
Nobody Here But Us Chickens
Three short plays celebrating people with disabilities.
release : 1989.11.25popularis : 2.049
Ready When You Are, Mr McGill
A film extra has won a chance for the big break in his career. He has two crucial lines in a television film, but nothing goes according to plan.
release : 1976.01.11popularis : 2.265
Escape from Sobibor
The true story of WWII's notorious Sobibor Nazi death camp, where a courageous inmate orchestrates and leads the escape of over 300 prisoners.
release : 1987.04.12popularis : 11.118
Nina
Play for Today about Russian dissidents.
release : 1978.10.17popularis : 1.785
All Good Men
On the eve of an in-depth television interview, Edward Waite, former Labour cabinet minister, calls his family together for a birthday celebration...
release : 1974.01.31popularis : 0.704
Occupations
In an attempt to win better conditions for the workers in 1920s Turin, Gramsci leads a takeover of the factories by the workers. He is offered...
release : 1974.01.01popularis : 0.749
Blue Ice
An ex-British spy (Michael Caine) helps a U.S. diplomat's wife (Sean Young) and blows the lid off a deadly government cover-up.
release : 1992.10.09popularis : 9.586
Greyhawk
A reclusive, disillusioned Army veteran is prompted into action when his only friend goes missing on a down-at-heel council estate.
release : 2014.06.28popularis : 3.661
Ball-Trap On The Cote Sauvage
Joe and Sarah Marriot are a pair of European campers who have pitched their tent for a little R & R at a campsite in France. The other families...
release : 1989.12.27popularis : 2.079
Shoot to Kill
Shoot to Kill is a four-hour drama documentary reconstruction of the events that led to the 1984–86 Stalker Inquiry into the shooting of six...
release : 1990.06.03popularis : 2.414
Lights and Shadows
This film within a film is based on the painting Las Meninas by Diego de Velazquez. A young boy enters the canvas of the famous picture of the...
release : 1988.09.02popularis : 1.947
No Escape
In the year 2022, a ruthless prison warden has created the ultimate solution for his most troublesome and violent inmates: Absolom, a secret jungle...
release : 1994.04.29popularis : 18.567
Lorna Doone
The year is 1675. England is threatened by religious and political rivalries. King Charles II's Catholic brother, James, is next in line for the...
release : 2001.03.11popularis : 4.102
Two Days That Shook the Branch
Des, an enthusiastic incompetent, always promises rather more that he can deliver.
release : 1978.05.09popularis : 4.037
The Act
Eastern Europe, February 1944: Johann Frink and Otto Hansen, once famous Berlin cabaret artists, are summoned to take part in a special...
release : 1989.08.09popularis : 0.896
Misterioso
On the death of her mother, a young woman in northern England learns that her father is actually her step-father. She embarks on a search for her...
release : 1991.07.25popularis : 1.688
Murderers Among Us: The Simon Wiesenthal Story
A biographical portrayal of Simon Wiesenthal, famous Nazi Hunter. From his imprisonment in a Nazi Concentration Camp, the film follows his liberation...
release : 1989.04.22popularis : 1.155
The Big Man
An unemployed Scottish miner is forced into bare-knuckle boxing to make ends meet.
release : 1990.08.31popularis : 3.434
A Pint of Plain
'A Pint of Plain' was filmed on location in and around Shepherd's Bush, here in West London. Because O'Sullivan enabled his actors to use...
release : 1975.01.01popularis : 2.362
Through the Night
The play tells the story of Christine Potts, who undergoes an unexpected mastectomy, and struggles to cope with the aftermath and the deficiencies of...
release : 1975.12.02popularis : 2.42
The Bed Sitting Room
In the hazy aftermath of World War III, the fallout from a 'nuclear misunderstanding' is producing strange mutations amongst the survivors, and the...
release : 1969.06.01popularis : 4.485
Charlotte Gray
This is a drama set in Nazi-occupied France at the height of World War II. Charlotte Gray tells the compelling story of a young Scottish woman...
release : 2001.12.28popularis : 8.621
The Object of Beauty
American couple Jake and Tina are living in an expensive London hotel above their means, incurring a sizeable debt. When they are asked to pay a...
release : 1991.04.12popularis : 4.431
The Only Boy for Me
Annie, a single mother who is devoted to her son Charlie, starts a relationship with Mack. The problems start when Mack asks Annie and Charlie to...
release : 2006.09.06popularis : 1.752
Tales from Hollywood
A slightly ironical description of the colony of German artists in Los Angeles, who had to leave their country during the Nazi-regime. A young...
release : 1992.10.18popularis : 3.168
The Ballad of Ben Bagot
Ben Bagot is 17; bright, charming and attractive, but he has difficulty setting his sights on reality and always makes the wrong decisions for...
release : 1973.11.08popularis : 1.146
The Hospice
When he loses his way on a country road and is bitten by an animal, Maybury stumbles across a strange house where an extravagant dinner is taking...
release : 1987.01.01popularis : 1.625
Something to Hide
A man having marital problems with his shrewish wife picks up a young, pretty and pregnant hitchhiker. Before he knows it, he's in over his head and...
release : 1972.01.01popularis : 5.961
The Martins
Out of work, scrounger Robert Martin lives with his dysfunctional family - long suffering wife accident prone son and pregnant teenage daughter in a...
release : 2001.09.14popularis : 3.172
The Scarlet Tunic
Passions erupt between a German hussar (Jean-Marc Barr) serving with King George III's personal cavalry and the only daughter of an English solicitor...
release : 1998.06.12popularis : 5.029
Roll On Four O'Clock
Compelling drama from screenwriter Colin Welland set in a city comprehensive school of low expectations and ambitions. Pupil Latimer does not conform...
release : 1970.12.19popularis : 1.46
Scoop
Scoop is a 1987 TV film directed by Gavin Millar, adapted by William Boyd from the 1938 satirical novel Scoop by Evelyn Waugh. It was produced by Sue...
release : 1987.04.26popularis : 3.83
Greed
A retail billionaire's 60th birthday party is celebrated in an exclusive hotel on the Greek island of Mykonos.
release : 2019.09.07popularis : 9.343
Pidgeon – Hawk or Dove?
Wallace Pidgeon, a schoolteacher, has a School Sports Day that goes drastically wrong and finds himself torn between the contradictory demands of his...
release : 1974.03.28popularis : 0.787
A Room for the Winter
James van Santen, a white South African writer facing imminent arrest for acts of sabotage, has escaped to England. He leaves behind him not only a...
release : 1981.11.03popularis : 0.927
Hard Travelling
Jessica's promising debut as a young artist is shattered by a sudden and violent death. She escapes into a restless succession of journeys whose...
release : 1986.03.30popularis : 2.101
Crimestrike
What would happen if the nation’s criminals decided to go on strike? A comedy drama based on an idea by Czech writer Jaroslav Hasek.
release : 1990.10.01popularis : 0.84
The Angry Earth
About the oppression of the Welsh coal miners during the 19th century and early 20th century as seen through the the eyes of Gwen, a 110 year old...
release : 1989.01.01popularis : 1.719
The Party
10 May 1968. In Paris the barricades are about to burst into flames as students and police clash. In London the fashionable Left are having a...
release : 1988.03.08popularis : 0.572