Nigel Havers
notum enim: Acting
dies natalis: 1951-11-06
Locus Natus: Edmonton, Middlesex, England, UK
Et ut: Nigel Allan Havers
Empire of the Sun
Jamie Graham, a privileged English boy, is living in Shanghai when the Japanese invade and force all foreigners into prison camps. Jamie is captured...
release : 1987.12.09popularis : 20.78
Farewell to the King
An American soldier who escapes the execution of his comrades by Japanese soldiers in Borneo during WWII becomes the leader of a personal empire...
release : 1989.03.03popularis : 5.542
Penelope
Forlorn heiress Penelope Wilhern is cursed, and the only way out is to fall in love with someone of suitable stock. But how can she find her soul...
release : 2006.03.01popularis : 17.436
Chariots of Fire
In the class-obsessed and religiously divided UK of the early 1920s, two determined young runners train for the 1924 Paris Olympics. Eric Liddell, a...
release : 1981.05.15popularis : 19.727
The Whistle Blower
A war veteran tries to investigate the murder of his son who was working as a Russian translator for the British intelligence service during the Cold...
release : 1986.11.21popularis : 7.937
A Passage to India
Set during the period of growing influence of the Indian independence movement in the British Raj, the story begins with the arrival in India of a...
release : 1984.12.14popularis : 20.219
Full Circle
After the death of her daughter, wealthy housewife Julia Lofting abruptly leaves her husband and moves into an old Victorian home in London to...
release : 1978.02.09popularis : 13.162
Quiet Days in Clichy
Expatriate Henry Miller indulges in a variety of sexual escapades while struggling to establish himself as a serious writer in Paris.
release : 1990.05.09popularis : 4.543
Bon Voyage
Roddy and Lola strike up a romance on the cruise liner SS Mara as it heads to Hong Kong from San Francisco.
release : 1985.12.08popularis : 2.049
The Heart Surgeon
Cardiac surgeon Alex Marsden has an affair with Marcella Duggan, but then finds himself having to operate on her husband Larry, who is also his...
release : 1997.05.04popularis : 3.668
Lie Down with Lions
Doctor Peter Husak introduces the American Jack Carver to his friend, nurse Kate, and it's love on first sight. But when she learns, in a dramatic...
release : 1994.06.12popularis : 2.607
Burke & Wills
A story based on true events about two explorers on a doomed journey trying to cross Australia on foot in the 19 century.
release : 1985.10.30popularis : 4.348
An Audience with Freddie Starr
A celebrity audience pays tribute to the inimitable Freddie Starr, one of Britain's zaniest comedians.
release : 1996.03.02popularis : 0.862
The Life and Death of Peter Sellers
The turbulent personal and professional life of actor Peter Sellers (1925-1980), from his beginnings as a comic performer on BBC Radio to his huge...
release : 2004.10.01popularis : 7.961
Best Ever Bond
Roger Moore presents the ten best sequences ever to have appeared in the James Bond series, and cast members recall their favourite moments.
release : 2002.11.22popularis : 5.522
Tales of Television Centre
Various actors, presenters, directors and other staff who have worked at the iconic BBC Television Centre at Shepherd's Bush in London reminisce...
release : 2012.05.17popularis : 4.173
Susan
Follows a bedsit girl with a dark and damaging secret.
release : 1975.02.19popularis : 0.634
Sleepers
Amidst the thaw of glasnost, the Kremlin discovers that two Soviet agents, sent to England under deep cover in 1965, have been “lost.” A...
release : 1991.04.10popularis : 2.939
Edward II
The reign of Edward II, King of England, is troubled from the start when he brings his male lover, hated by the nobles, out of exile.
release : 1970.08.06popularis : 3.275
Rupture: A Matter of Life OR Death
Maryam d'Abo suffered a subarachnoid haemorrhage in 2007 and is lucky to be alive. Her experience inspired this film, made by her film director...
release : 2011.10.07popularis : 0.905
French Without Tears
The romantic and comic adventures of a group of Englishmen in France, on a course to learn the language.
release : 1976.05.16popularis : 1.617
Unity
Period Drama. The true story of Unity Mitford who in the 1930's went to live in Germany and was friends with Adolf Hitler.
release : 1981.03.20popularis : 0.473
Soft Targets
Stephen Poliakoff's parody of the spy-thriller genre. A Russian diplomat becomes convinced that he is at the centre of a Foreign Office plot.
release : 1982.10.19popularis : 2.365
Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe?
Mystery abounds when it is discovered that, one by one, the greatest Chefs in Europe are being killed. The intriguing part of the murders is that...
release : 1978.09.13popularis : 5.708
The Cockfields Christmas Special
It's 27th December and Simon and Esther pay a flying visit to Ray and Sue. They can only stay for the day as Simon is so busy with work. Sue wishes...
release : 1970.01.01popularis : 1.023
Birth of the Beatles
The early days of the Fab Four are traced from their bleakest hours as unknowns on Penny Lane in Liverpool to their triumph on "The Ed Sullivan Show."
release : 1979.11.23popularis : 3.878
Murder on the Blackpool Express
A Blackpool coach driver and a tour guide get caught up in a deadly comedic conspiracy when bus passengers begin mysteriously dying one by one.
release : 2017.11.11popularis : 5.507
Combat
A mother wants her son to marry but has to accept he is living with a man.
release : 1985.02.28popularis : 1.686
Coming Out
Lewis, a gay writer of romantic novels, writes an article on gay issues under the pseudonym of "Zippy Grimes." The reason for this is that he hasn't...
release : 1979.04.10popularis : 1.949
The Burning Season
Based on the true story of a Brazilian rubber tapper who leads his people in protest against government and developers, who want to cut down their...
release : 1994.09.17popularis : 3.485
Paradise Lost
A scientist in the rain forest squares off against a land developer while trying to solve some unexplained deaths.
release : 1999.07.20popularis : 1.389
Element of Doubt
A woman has doubts about the intentions of her husband, even to the point where she thinks he might kill her.
release : 1996.12.30popularis : 2.244
Miranda: My Such Fun Celebration
Miranda Hart and the cast of her sitcom come together to celebrate the show's tenth anniversary with a music-filled, star-studded spectacular from...
release : 2020.01.01popularis : 3.074
Pope Joan
Based on the medieval legend of Pope Joan, who was made Pope for a brief period around 855 A.D. The movie presents her existence as fact, though it...
release : 1972.08.16popularis : 5.793
The Death of the Heart
A young orphan girl, Portia, goes to live with her well-to-do aunt and uncle. As she is groomed to become a lady, she is confused by the young man...
release : 1987.05.03popularis : 4.196
Trouser Bar
Set in a London gentleman's outfitters in 1976, and taking inspiration from the emotions aroused by a fetishist love of corduroy, leather and tight...
release : 2016.04.28popularis : 1.373
Agatha Christie: 100 Years of Poirot and Miss Marple
British writer Agatha Christie (1890-1976) published her first novel in 1920, in which the eccentric Belgian private sleuth Hercule Poirot made his...
release : 2020.10.10popularis : 12.637
The Next Voice You See
An American jazz pianist, blinded in a London bank robbery ten years before, makes his first return appearance in England at an engangement party...
release : 1975.05.17popularis : 3.41