Rosalind Elliot
Actor · 1943 – 2020 · Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, UK
Movies11
Movie6.7ActionAdventureIn 1908 London, a women's rights campaigner discovers the Assassination Bureau Limited, an organization that kills for justice. When its motives are called into question, she commissions the assassination of its chairman. Knowing that his colleagues have recently become more motivated by greed than morality, he turns the situation into a challenge for his board members: kill him or be killed.
The Assassination Bureau
1969 · 96 votes
Movie5.3HorrorScience FictionA serial killer who drains his victims of blood is on the loose and London police follow him to a house owned by an eccentric scientist.
Scream and Scream Again
1970 · 109 votes
Movie5.2CrimeHorrorIn Paris, in the beginning of the Twentieth Century, Cesar Charron owns a theater at the Rue Morgue where he performs the play "Murders in the Rue Morgue" with his wife Madeleine Charron, who has dreadful nightmares. When there are several murders by acid of people connected to Cesar, the prime suspect of Inspector Vidocq would be Cesar's former partner Rene Marot. But Marot murdered Madeleine's mother many years ago and committed suicide immediately after.
Murders in the Rue Morgue
1971 · 51 votes
Movie6.6DramaAn asocial and enigmatic office clerk refuses to do his work, leaving it up to his boss to decide what should be done with him.
Bartleby
1970 · 13 votes
Movie4.0ComedyDramaA small comedy drama about the life and sex adventures of an amorous window cleaner, in the hip and swingin' London of the '60s.
All Neat in Black Stockings
1969 · 6 votes
Movie6.7ComedyDramaYoung newlyweds Arthur and Jenny Fitton want nothing more than to get their marriage started on the right foot. But before they can depart for their honeymoon in Spain, they have to spend their first night together at the home of Arthur's parents. The couple are prevented from having any intimacy, but it only gets worse. They find out that their trip to Spain is canceled, which sets the tone for a rocky few weeks.
The Family Way
1966 · 33 votes
MovieWhen Henry James Prince is dismissed from his post as a curate, he decides to found his own religion, called the Abode of Love.
Beloved
1976
MovieScience FictionPresumed lost after its initial broadcast in 1975, Thwum features a young Pete Postlethwaite in his earliest television appearance. This sci-fi themed play sees UFO fanatic Bernard (Paul Moriarty) trying to convince skeptical reporter Duffy (Pete Postlethwaite) to report on the imminent landing of an alien craft. An almost complete copy – two minutes are missing – was recovered from a domestic video recording kept by director Pedr James. [adapted from wearecult.rocks] Part of the anthology series Second City Firsts.
Thwum
1975
Movie4.5DramaAlfie meets his romantic match when the modern-day Casanova falls in love with a career woman. Alfie soon realises that Abby, a magazine editor, is just as romantically ruthless as he is.
Alfie Darling
1975 · 13 votes
Movie5.5DramaTV MovieAlan Bennett's debut play for television follows the members of a Halifax cycling club, on an outing from Halifax to the ruins of Fountains Abbey. Set in the summer of 1911 and projects an idyllic vision of Edwardian England .
A Day Out
1972 · 6 votes
Movie3.3DramaTV MovieSusie, a transgender bartender, deals with four patrons who stumble into her place of work. She grows wary of the two men and the two women, the latter of which are underage, and tension begins to mount and escalate between all of the characters.
Under the Age
1972 · 3 votes
Series6
- TVDrama
A series of plays from Birmingham by new writers.
TV6.8ComedyClassic BBC comedy starring Robert Lindsay as revolutionary leader Wolfie Smith of the Tooting Popular Front. Hoping to emulate his icons, Wolfie forms the Tooting Popular Front with a small group of his friends. However, he soon finds himself struggling to get his ambitious plans off the ground due to his laid back attitude and lack of organisation.
Citizen Smith
1977 · 14 votes
TV8.2ComedyPorridge is a British situation comedy broadcast on BBC1 from 1974 to 1977, running for three series, two Christmas specials and a feature film also titled Porridge. Written by Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais, it stars Ronnie Barker and Richard Beckinsale as two inmates at the fictional HMP Slade in Cumberland. "Doing porridge" is British slang for serving a prison sentence, porridge once being the traditional breakfast in UK prisons. The series was followed by a 1978 sequel, Going Straight, which established that Fletcher would not be going back to prison again. Porridge was voted number seven in a 2004 BBC poll of the 100 greatest British sitcoms.
Porridge
1974 · 57 votes
TV7.5CrimeDramaFollows the linked fates of nine bank robbers, led by George. It begins with the nine men meeting in prison during their appeal and traces each individual after the group escape from custody.
Villains
1972 · 4 votes
TV10.0Featuring dramatised versions of true stories that shocked mainstream Victorian society.
Victorian Scandals
1976 · 1 votes
TV6.6ComedyA bittersweet sitcom about a couple who meet again five years after he jilted her at the altar.
Just Good Friends
1983 · 16 votes