Movies: Ian Holm

In a dreary North London flat, the site of perpetual psychological warfare, a philosophy professor visits his family after a nine-year absence and introduces the four men - father, uncle and two brothers - to his wife....

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....

Mel Gibson teaches Hamlet to a group of high school drama students....

Madame Ranevsky and her daughter Anya return home from Paris to find that their beloved family estate and cherry orchard are to be auctioned off to pay debts. Lopahin, a former serf on the estate who is now a wealthy landowner, proposes razing the ho...

Documentary following the journey of the Dalai Lama's personal envoy to the remote feudal kingdom of Mustang....

A documentary about and an interview with Hollywood actress Bette Davis about her life and career from the late 1920s to the 1980s on stage and mostly before the camera....

Eustace and Dorrie Edgehill have decided to leave Samola, a British protectorate in the Pacific. After the failure of his latest harebrained scheme, no one is likely to give Eustace a job now. Or are they?...

A semi-fictionalized account of the life of writer F.R. Leavis, his mentor Arthur Quiller Couch, and Leavis's own students at Cambridge University....

After the death of novelist Robert Kelvin, his mistress Emma tries to adjust and reflects upon their relationship....

'I'm British', says the young lady with strawberry blonde hair and a Midlands accent, 'but I don't have a drop of British blood in me.' Carmen Laanemagi is from Leicester - and Estonia. Pauline Riemers is a nurse in Epsom; her parents are Latvian. Al...

A documentary about the making of 'The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King'....

A troubled actress has conversations with a range of different people....

A study of a man’s slide into the abyss of alcoholism and of the women who attempt to save him...

Roald Dahl's version of Little Red Riding Hood...

Impressions of contemporary British arts and fashion. Summary of art through the ages taking in every thing from Mary Quant to the Marat/Sade production. Made for the Montreal "Expo '67" exhibition....

A look at the way TV affects and manipulates viewers....

'There's absolutely no escape. No chairs or tables to hold on to, no fags to light or drinks to pour: no small talk or trivial daytime chatter. Just the naked person.'...

In London, Tom and Phyl are self-assured and in control of the situation whenever they meet their friends Huw and Tegwen. But when they're not on home ground and when they accept an invitation to visit Huw and Tegwen’s home in Wales, relationships ch...

Edward Gobey has a strange compulsion....

An ill tailor is trying to finish a coat for a wealthy man. He is hindered by his cat and helped by some grateful mice....