Carl Davis Movies

Writer and Director Mike Leigh discusses the techniques used to create his plays.

The true story of jockey Bob Champion who overcame cancer to win the 1981 Grand National

Biography of the legendary filmmaker directed by his son.

Set in the near future. As a consequence of an ecumenical movement (Vatican Council IV), the Catholic Church has joined other religions and has...

Biography of Russian physicist & dissident Andrei Sakharov focuses on his first acts in his civil rights.

Biography based on the life of the author Beatrix Potter.

Two young people plot to get their hands on grannie's money, but rather than simply pushing her down the stairs they hatch an elaborate plot to...

A perennial understudy takes matters into her own hands to achieve fame at any price.

Steven Dyer, an executive working for a giant multinational drugs company, decides to report his employer for breaches of Common Market trading...

A rich merchant, Antonio is depressed for no good reason, until his good friend Bassanio comes to tell him how he's in love with Portia. Portia's...

Iranian Iradj Azimi directed this French historical drama re-creating events depicted in the famous 1819 painting The Raft of the Medusa by Jean...

Trevor is an extremely shy undertaker's assistant. He always tags along with his good friend Ronnie, when he goes to the pub with his girlfriend...

When his father becomes a bomb victim, Jimmy leaves Belfast for his uncle’s farm in remote west Ireland. But even here there are links to the...

Adaption of George Eliot's novel. When a respectable weaver is wrongfully accused of theft, he becomes a virtual hermit until his own fortune is...

In the late 1930s, three reclusive middle-aged spinster sisters live on their run down family estate in Ireland. Otto Beck, a perpetual graduate...

A middle-aged professor's young bride and his assistant plan to commit a double murder disguised as a "Crime Passionel", but discover too late that...

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...

Passion comes calling when a man suffering through an unhappy marriage in 1920s England runs into first love.

A film about the career and methods of the master silent comedy filmmaker.

A British Company in the WWI trenches await an inevitable German attack in this 1988 adaptation of R.C. Sherriff's play.