Alec McCowen

Usta yönetmen Martin Scorsese'in yönetmenliğini yaptığı Gangs of New York, 1800'li yıllar New York'unda, İrlandalı ve İtalyan göçmenlerin şehrin kontrolünü ele geçirmek için sokak çetelerini oluşturmaya başladıkları dönemde geçiyor. Hikaye, Dead Rabbits ve Native Americans adlı iki çete üzerinde yoğunlaşmaktadır. Dead Rabbits çetesinin lideri öldürülür ve çete dağılır. Yıllar sonra Rabbits çetesinin öldürülen liderinin oğlu kendi çetesini oluşturup diğer çetenin liderinini ortadan kaldırmaya girişecektir.

1965 yapımı James Bond filmi Thunderball'un bir yeniden yapımı olan Asla Asla Deme, Bond rolünün ilk ve belki de en iyi aktörü olan Sean Connery'i bir kez daha tehlikeli görevlere sokuyor.Ölümcül SPECTRE organizasyonu, bu kez dünayı yoketmekle tehdit etmektedir. Örgütün 2 numaralı adamı olan Maximilian Largo, 2 nükleer başlıklı füze ele geçirmiştir ve 1 numara Blofeld, NATO'yu, füzeleri büyük şehirlerde patlatmakla tehdit etmektedir.İngiliz Gizli Servisi, SPECTRE konusunda en tecrübeli ajanları olan 007'i tehlikeyi engellemekle görevlendirir. Bond ve Largo arasında nefes kesici bir savaş başlar.

Edith Wharton’ın aynı adlı romanından uyarlanan filmde, 19. yüzyıl New York sosyetesinin gözbebeği genç Newland Archer, sosyeteye uygun hanım hanımcık bir kız olan May Welland ile nişanlanır, ancak düzenli hayatı, May'in sosyete geleneklerine bir o kadar aykırı kuzeni Kontes Ellen Olenska ile tanıştığı zaman altüst olur. İlk başta, Newland, istismarcı kocasını terk etmiş ve bu yüzden yüksek sosyetede dışlanmış bu güzel kontesi savunur ancak zamanla onda kendisine benzer bir ruh bulur ve birbirlerine aşık olurlar.

Tanrı bile bu gemiyi batıramaz sözleriyle suya indirilen ve daha ilk seferinde küçük bir buz dağına çarpıp batan ünlü Titanik gemisinin yaşadığı trajediye anlatan Titanik Faciası,. Walter Lord’ un eserinden uyarlanan ve Goldeen Globes’da En İyi Yabancı Film ödülünü alan film hakında bazı ilginç ayrınıtılar; Titanik faciasından kurtulanlar arasında filmin yapımcısı William Mac Quitty’de vardı. Quitty faciadan kurtulduğunda altı yaşındaydı. Bazı söylentilere göre Titanik’in batma sahneleri, 1943 yılında çekilen ünlü Nazi propaganda filmi Titanicden alınmış. 35 feet boyundaki dev gemi maketinin 15 feet derinlikteki bir havuza nasıl sığdırıldığı hala bir sır.

Film, siyahi eylemci Stephen Biko ve onun mesajını tüm dünyaya duyurmak uğruna hayatını tehlikeye atan beyaz liberal bir gazetecinin gerilim dolu hikayesini anlatıyor. Biko'nun gözünden Güney Afrika gerçeğini öğrenen editör, arkadaşının polis baskısıyla susturulduğunu öğrenir. Biko'nun mesajına karşı sessiz kalmak istemeyen editör tehlikeli bir görev üstlenir ve dünyaya cesaret vermek adına Biko'nun unutulmaz hikayesini anlatmaya karar verir.

Cinnet, Alfred Hitchcock'un yıllar sonra sevgili kentine, yani Londra'ya dönüşünü simgeler. Bu dönüş ustaya ilham vermiş gibidir: Kentin son derece başarılı bir fon olarak kullanıldığı, herşeyiyle tipik İngiliz bir seri cinayetler öyküsü izleriz. Film, aynı zamanda Hitchcock filmlerinde görülegelmiş en kanlı cinayet sahnelerinden bazılarını da içerir. Ve bu nedenle kimi eleştirmenlerden "zevksiz" damgasını yer. Sanki biraz da bunu dengelemek için, katilin peşindeki polis komiseriyle eşinin evlerindeki yemek tartışmaları, ustanın mutfak kültürüne olan büyük ilgisinin bir yansıması ve ayrıca başlıbaşına bir mizah unsurudur. Ve film star oyuncuya sahip değilse de tipik İngiliz, birinci sınıf bir takım oyunculuğu içerir.

V. Henry William Shakespeare’in ayni adli oyunundan uyarlanan 1944 yapimi bir Laurence Olivier filmidir. Yönetmenliğini yapan “Laurence Olivier”, ayni zamanda başrolü de oynamıştır. Senaryosunu Olivier, Dallas Bower ve Alan Dent ile birlikte uyarlamıştır.

Londra'da bir hava saldırısı sırasında, gözüpek bir bombardıman uçağı pilotu olan David Halloran, güzeller güzeli İngiliz hemşire Margaret ile tanışır. Acımasız bir tutku alevlenir. Margaret'in kocası Paul Sellinger, Gestapo'nun Fransa'daki merkezinden gizli belgeleri İngiltere'ye götürmekle görevlidir. David Holloran, Paul'u Fransa'ya uçurur, ancak uçakları düşürülür. Birlikte Paul'un görevini yerine getirmeye çalışırlar. İşte burada David, Paul'un gerçekte kim olduğunu öğrenir. Hayatta kalma mücadelesi, aynı zamanda her ikisinin de sevdiği kadın için bir mücadeleye dönüşür.

1503 yılında Katolik Kilisesi'nin başına geçen Papa II. Julius bir yandan diğer İtalyan şehir devletleri ve komşu ülke Fransa'yla savaşırken, diğer yandan da bilim adamlarının ve sanatçıların koruyuculuğunu yapıyordu. Bu ihtiraslı ve savaşçı lider ordusuyla Roma'ya geldiğinde birçok sanatçıyı etrafında toplayarak bazı yeni mimari ve sanat eserlerinin yapımı için emirler verir. Bu arada devrin ünlü heykeltraşı Michelangelo’yu da Sistine Şapeli’nin tavanına görkemli bir dinî fresk yapması için görevlendirir. Ancak ünlü heykeltraş resim yapmaktan pek hoşlanmamaktadır ve bu istek karşısında sürekli ayak diretir, hatta bu görevi kabul etmemek için İstanbul'a gidip Osmanlı Sultanı için Haliç Köprüsü projesinde çalışmayı düşünür, üstelik bu iş için Sultan'dan kaparo bile alır.

Fırıncıyı soyduğu için cezalandırılan isyankar bir gençlik, uzun mesafe koşucusu olarak cesareti ile kurumun saflarına yükselir. Yalnız çalışması sırasında hayatının ve hapis cezası öncesi yaşadığı gerçeği, Vali'nin ödül koşucusu olarak ayrıcalıklı statüsünü yeniden değerlendirmeye yöneltti.

Based on the true story of Oberleutnant Franz von Werra, the only German prisoner of war captured in Britain to escape back to Germany during the Second World War.

At the start of World War II, Cmdr. Ericson is assigned to convoy escort HMS Compass Rose with inexperienced officers and men just out of training. The winter seas make life miserable enough, but the men must also harden themselves to rescuing survivors of U-Boat attacks, while seldom able to strike back. Traumatic events afloat and ashore create a warm bond between the skipper and his first officer.

At his mother's funeral, stuffy bank clerk Henry Pulling meets his Aunt Augusta, an elderly eccentric with more-than-shady dealings who pulls him along on a whirlwind adventure as she attempts to rescue an old lover.

Two young gentlemen living in 1890s England use the same pseudonym ('Ernest') on the sly, which is fine until they both fall in love with women using that name, which leads to a comedy of mistaken identities.

A woman is unhappy in her marriage to a boring, stiff judge, so she takes up with a wild-living RAF pilot, who ends up being more than she can handle.

A wanderer returns home only to find political turmoil, disease and romantic difficulties.

Fed up with working hard just to scrape by, Christine Painter comes up with a bold plan to become the madam of a brothel and earn her financial freedom: she opens a house of spanking to fabulous reviews.

The Peloponnesian Wars (Athens versus Sparta for twenty-seven years) told in the format of news broadcast-like monologues by Theucydides, Plato, and others.

Scotland Yard detectives attempt to solve a spate of safe robberies across England beginning with clues found at the latest burglary in London. The film is notable for using a police procedural style made popular by Ealing in their 1950 film The Blue Lamp. It is known in the US as The Third Key.

Alec Graham is sentenced to death for the murder of his girlfriend Jennie, with whom he spent a weekend at the English country home of the parents of his friend Brian Stanford. Alec’s father, David Graham, a not-so-successful writer and alcoholic who has neglected his son in the past, flies in from Canada to visit his son on death row. David then goes on a quest to try and clear his son’s name while battling “the bottle.”

A young man journeys from a difficult childhood to maturity, exploring social injustice, personal development, and the complexities of human relationships.

The Mediterranean, 1941/42 - Axis forces are using frogmen and manned torpedoes to attack previously impregnable harbours. The Allied forces need to come up with something to answer this threat, which they find in the form of Lt. Lionel "Buster" Crabb.

After he mends a marital rift between a vacationing young couple, the bored, fragile wife falls hopelessly in love with the husband's ex-colleague who is married to a long-suffering and emotionally and physically scarred woman. The couple soon runs off to Greece together to pursue the romance.

Following a nervous breakdown, Gwen takes up the job of head teacher in the small village of Haddaby. There she can benefit from the tranquillity and peace, enabling her to recover fully. But under the facade of idyllic country life she slowly unearths the frightening reality of village life in which the inhabitants are followers of a menacing satanic cult with the power to inflict indiscriminate evil and death if crossed.

İngiltere'nin hayali Midsomer kontluğunda hayat kartpostal kadar huzurlu görünür, ta ki ilk ceset bulunana kadar. Müfettiş Barnaby, güler yüzlü köylülerin arkasına saklanmış sırları ve akla gelmeyecek cinayet yöntemlerini çözmeye çalışır.

The South Bank Show is a television arts magazine show produced by ITV between 1978 and 2010. A new series began on Sky Arts from 27 May 2012. Presented by Melvyn Bragg, the show aims to bring both high art and popular culture to a mass audience.

Play for Today is a British television anthology drama series, produced by the BBC and transmitted on BBC1 from 1970 to 1984. During the run, more than three hundred programmes, featuring original television plays, and adaptations of stage plays and novels, were transmitted. The individual episodes were between fifty and a hundred minutes in duration.

A BBC television anthology series featuring productions of classic and contemporary stage plays usually broadcast on BBC1. Each production featured a different work, often using prominent British stage actors in the leading roles. The series was transmitted from October 1965 to September 1983.

An anthology series of television plays which aired on BBC1 from October 1964 to May 1970. The plays were usually written for television, although adaptations from other sources also featured.

Omnibus was an arts-based BBC television documentary series, broadcast mainly on BBC1 in the United Kingdom. The programme was the successor to the long-running arts-based series 'Monitor'. It ran from 1967 until 2003, usually being transmitted on Sunday evenings. During its 35-year history, the programme won 12 Bafta awards. Among the series' best remembered documentaries are Cracked Actor, a profile of David Bowie, and Rene Magritte, a graduate film by David Wheatley, 'Madonna: Behind the American dream', a film produced by Nadia Hagger, and a profile of the British film director Ridley Scott. For a season in 1982, the series was in a magazine format presented by Barry Norman. The series was replaced by 'Imagine' hosted by Alan Yentob.

Theatre 625 is a British television drama anthology series, produced by the BBC and transmitted on BBC2 from 1964 to 1968. It was one of the first regular programmes in the line-up of the channel, and the title referred to its production and transmission being in the higher-definition 625-line format, which only BBC2 used at the time.

Jim Bergerac is a detective sergeant in The Foreigners Office who likes to do things his own way. While dealing with his own personal demons Bergerac has a knack of finding trouble, and sometimes causing it.

Orson Welles’ Great Mysteries is a British television anthology series produced by Anglia Television for the ITV network and broadcast between 1973 and 1974. The series presents standalone adaptations of classic mystery, crime, and supernatural stories drawn from literary sources including Dickens, Conan Doyle, Wilkie Collins, Balzac, Maugham, O. Henry, and others. Each episode is framed by original introductory and closing sequences performed by Orson Welles, who serves as the series’ host and sole recurring on-screen presence. These segments, written and directed by Welles (uncredited), function as stylized narrative framing devices rather than dramatic participation in the stories themselves. The dramatic content of each episode is performed by separate casts and directors, with no continuing characters or serialized narrative, establishing the series as a unified television anthology rather than a collection of standalone films.

An anthology of short plays shown on BBC Television between 1965 and 1973, used in part at least as a training ground for new writers, on account of its short length, and which therefore attracted many writers who later became well known.

The BBC's flagship cinema review TV program featuring reviews of new releases, news items and interviews. The title of the program changes each year to incorporate the year of broadcast.

Sunday Night Theatre was a long-running series of televised live television plays screened by BBC Television from early 1950 until 1959. The productions for the first five years or so of the run were re-staged live the following Thursday, partly because of technical limitations in this era, and the theatrical basis of early television drama. Some of the earliest collaborations between Rudolph Cartier and Nigel Neale were produced for this series, including Arrow to the Heart and Nineteen Eighty-Four. The Sunday night drama slot was subsequently renamed The Sunday-Night Play which ran for four seasons between 1960 and 1963. ITV transmitted its own unrelated run of Sunday Night Theatre between 1971 and 1974.

An anthology of plays and novels adapted into feature length TV movies, broadcast on BBC2 from September 1977 to April 1979.

Anthology series of half hour plays produced in BBC's Television Centre's studios.

NET Playhouse is an American dramatic television anthology series produced by National Educational Television. NET subsequently merged with WNDT Newark, New Jersey to form WNET and was superseded by the Public Broadcasting Service. American television anthology series of wide range of genres, from history and drama, to fantasy, and science fiction. Fiction novels, stories, stage plays, fairytales, and historic events are dramatized in each episode.

A series of dramas featuring staged theatre plays.

Spirited dialogue, posh Roaring '20s style, and devious mysteries abound as Tommy and Tuppence Beresford mix marriage and mystery solving.

Anthology of self-contained dramas that aired from 1977 to 1978.

An anthology of single plays offering up adaptations of either of prominent stage plays or novels.

Studio 4 is an anthology drama series utilising BBC Television Centre's Studio Four, and running for two series in 1962 on BBC One. It was envisaged as a sequel to Storyboard, a similar anthology series which had been transmitted the previous year.

An animated adaptation of twelve of Shakespeare's best-known plays. The series was produced by S4C for the BBC, but animated by some of the foremost artists of Soyuzmultfilm, the former Soviet Union's main animation studio. Each 26-minute play is directed by a different animator, in a wide variety of styles: cel animation for Macbeth, stop-motion puppets in Twelfth Night, and paint on glass for Hamlet.

Mr. Palfrey is a mild-mannered, but highly skilled counter-espionage agent employed by a small, unnamed department within British intelligence. He and his team tackle complex cases, often involving government cover-ups and internal affairs.

Highly regarded anthology from the 1980s presenting a diverse range of high-quality single dramas that would serve as pilots for possible future series.

The fascinating story of John Harrison who, in the 18th century, believed he could make a clock that would work on board a ship—and so solve the problem of finding longitude at sea.