Derek Jacobi

Biography of the British painter Francis Bacon. The movie focuses on his relationship with George Dyer, his lover. Dyer was a former small time crook.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Derek Jacobi

Swords fly as Beowulf battles the evil Grendel in this exciting animated adaptation of the epic poem. Incorporating fascinating sketch art and...

Genre: Animation

Cast: Derek Jacobi

A widowed field mouse must move her family -- including an ailing son -- to escape a farmer's plow. Aided by a crow and a pack of superintelligent,...

Genre: Family

Cast: Derek Jacobi

A kindly shop owner whose overwhelming gambling debts allow a greedy landlord to seize his shop of dusty treasures. Evicted and with no way to pay...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Derek Jacobi

A drama based on the novel by Charles Dickens which tells the story of Arthur Clennam who is thrown into a debtor's prison. There he meets a young...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Derek Jacobi

As incomparable in swordplay and wordplay as he is, the gallant soldier, philosopher, and poet Cyrano de Bergerac is as timid as a schoolboy before...

Genre: TV Movie

Cast: Derek Jacobi

A talented young violinist enrols at an isolated music school. But when he begins having visions of the other students dead, he realises there is a...

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Derek Jacobi

A biography of the English mathematician Alan Turing, who was one of the inventors of the digital computer and one of the key figures in the breaking...

Genre: History

Cast: Derek Jacobi

A documentary on the subject of the collections of books, instruments and medical anomalies at The College of Physicians of Philadelphia and the...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Derek Jacobi

Two astronauts await the news that will decide their fate.

Genre: Science Fiction

Cast: Derek Jacobi

Richard II, who ascended the throne as a child, is a regal and stately monarch. He believes he is the rightful ruler of England, ordained by God, yet...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Derek Jacobi

A costume drama / satire about financial skull-duggery, and confidence tricksters in both the upper and lower classes in Victorian London. A working...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Derek Jacobi

IN 1988, rising star Kenneth Branagh tackled the role of Shakespeare’s prince of Denmark for the first time in his professional career under...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Derek Jacobi

Dramatization of Russian ballet star Vaclav Nijinsky's diaries which detail his madness as well as his homosexual relationship with Ballet Russe...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Derek Jacobi

The journalist Alf Mattson gets thoroughly drunk at his birthday party, where his wife announces that she intends to divorce him. He is knocked down...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Derek Jacobi

Hamlet comes home from university to find his uncle married to his mother, and his father's ghost haunting the battlements and scaring the watch....

Genre: Drama

Cast: Derek Jacobi

Sidney Turtlebaum is a bitter sweet comedy that tells the story of Sidney, an eccentric gay Jewish man in his seventies. To punish the world Sidney...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Derek Jacobi

The early life of Roman ruler Julius Caesar as told in three working prisons in South Africa, the UK and Canada. A small group of professional actors...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Derek Jacobi

An ageing monarch. A kingdom divided. A child’s love rejected. As Lear’s world descends into chaos, all that he once believed is brought...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Derek Jacobi

Out in the English Channel is the tiny island of Sark, in August 1990, a French Physicist attempted a bizarre one man invasion attempt on the island....

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Cast: Derek Jacobi

The story of a long-lost book that mysteriously reappears and connects an old man searching for his son with a girl seeking a cure for her mother's...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Derek Jacobi

Set in the Spain of 1680, a time of torture and interrogation by the Grand Inquisitor. A young man appears that is healing the sick and raising the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Derek Jacobi

We've all had "one of those days" - when nothing seems to go right, when life just seems to be dealing you one poor hand after another. Unfortunately...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Derek Jacobi

In 1998 former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet visits Britain for medical treatment. On being tipped off, Amnesty International seize the chance to...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Derek Jacobi

Henry is a lonely child who lives for his favourite holiday.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Derek Jacobi

The Mischief Theatre Company return as the Cornley Polytechnic Drama Society who are this time determined to ignore a BBC blacklisting by hijacking a...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Derek Jacobi

NOTHING IS TRUER THAN TRUTH is a feature length documentary about Edward de Vere, Seventeenth Earl of Oxford, A-list party boy on the continental...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Derek Jacobi

The documentary uses Graham Greene's own words from his books and recordings, as well as photographs and clips from his many films, to reveal the...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Derek Jacobi

This film explores many of his key canvases which have been newly filmed in HDTV. The works are complemented solely with Bacon’s own words,...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Derek Jacobi

Charts six interlinked narratives after the cast and crew of a film are sent home from set.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Derek Jacobi

The film looks at the places Charles Dickens lived and worked and how he used them in his novels and stories.

Genre: History

Cast: Derek Jacobi

Peter Pan Goes Wrong: The Olivier Award-winning Mischief Theatre brings Peter Pan Goes Wrong to the small screen. As part of a commitment to...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Derek Jacobi

Narrated by Sir Derek Jacobi - star of the landmark television series "I, Claudius" - this documentary explores art and culture around the Bay of...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Derek Jacobi

THE UNITED GRAND LODGE OF ENGLAND CELEBRATED ITS EPIC TERCENTENARY CELEBRATION AT THE ROYAL ALBERT HALL IN 2017. Over 4,000 Freemasons from...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Derek Jacobi

A BBC Earth documentary inside the world of the most venomous creatures on Earth, with stories from survivors of deadly venom attacks from animals...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Derek Jacobi

An eccentrically-dressed stranger gets off a train and within a few days has endeared himself to the citizens of the town with his jovial behaviour...

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Cast: Derek Jacobi

Follow the breathtaking adventures of divers looking for pearls in the Persian Gulf and learn how the gems brought fortune to the islands of Bahrain.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Derek Jacobi

In the run-up to a General Election, the British Prime Minister thinks he is receiving messages from God.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Derek Jacobi

Famous barrister Webster is not well and not an easy man to look after. His carer Urban knows how to take the rough with the smooth. But on this...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Derek Jacobi

Over a million people a year are injected with animal venom, and many thousands die. We see how the nine main types of venom work their damage in the...

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Cast: Derek Jacobi

Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, returns home to find his father murdered and his mother now marrying the murderer... his uncle. Meanwhile, war is brewing.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kenneth Branagh

Gritty adaption of William Shakespeare's play about the English King's bloody conquest of France.

Genre: War

Cast: Kenneth Branagh

After precipitating the death of a tenant with whom he has been feuding, Squire Fairfield brings the dead man's young daughter to live in Wyvern...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Naomi Watts

A period drama set in the early years of the 20th century. Josef, a former construction worker who delighted in dancing on girders high above the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: James Thierrée

Recruited by the Russians during their days at Cambridge, three young Englishmen rise to become high-ranked MI5 agents until their exposure in 1949.

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Anthony Bate

Jefferson Steel, a washed-up Hollywood action star, is desperate to revive his flagging career. When his sleazy agent signs him up for what he...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Burt Reynolds

Quasimodo, the hunchback bellringer of Notre Dame's cathedral, meets a beautiful gypsy dancer, Esmeralda, and falls in love with her. So does...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Anthony Hopkins

Animated TV-film version of Frances Hodgson Burnett's classic children's story about a spoiled English orphan who lives in India but is transplanted...

Genre: Animation

Cast: Honor Blackman

A young man's life is turned around with the help of a genie inside a lamp.

Genre: Animation

Cast: Nicky Stoter

A claymation adaptation of "The Chimes: A Goblin Story of Some Bells that Rang an Old Year Out and a New Year In". The Chimes was a short novel by...

Genre: Animation

Cast: Cindy Harrison

Travel back to late 18th century Lowell, MA, now infamous for its textile mills and its "Lowell Girls," the poor, barely-educated waifs who helped...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: David Macaulay

How did ancient Egyptians build the Great Pyramid at Giza, joining two million blocks of heavy stone with amazing precision? Who were the leaders who...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: David Macaulay

John is a special forces operative who retires after his family is killed in a terrorist bombing, but his former bosses have other plans. He is...

Genre: TV Movie

Cast: Dennis Waterman

Mysterious Castles of Clay is a 1978 film about a termite colony; filmed in Kenya by film-makers Joan and Alan Root, and narrated by Orson Welles....

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Orson Welles

It's Christmas, and Angelina Mouseling (Finty Williams) is auditioning for the lead role in the musical extravaganza, Cinderella Mouse and the Ugly...

Genre: Animation

Cast: Finty Williams

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ellie Bamber

Maestro Zubin Mehta introduces the history of Zoroastrianism and prophet Zarathushtra in an epic that covers 3500 years of the Zoroastrians, Parsees...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Zubin Mehta

A film adaptation of the 1606 satirical tragedy by Thomas Middleton, relocated to a post-apocalyptic Liverpool. Christopher Eccleston plays the...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Christopher Eccleston

With the loss of Patroclus (his undeclared male lover), Greek warrior Achilles returns to the Trojan War.

Genre: Animation

Cast: Simon Green

A low-ranking Secret Service agent is conned into supplying information to Eastern Bloc countries. Although he is not a suspect due to his...

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Nicol Williamson

Before the war, in Berlin, Adam was an entertainer- cabaret impresario, magician, musician-loved by all until he finds himself in a concentration...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jeff Goldblum

Newcastle, 1939. Shipyard worker Joe feels emasculated and past his prime; too old to serve in the war, and he’s shocked when his wife leaves...

Genre: War

Cast: Kevin Whately

During World War 2 the Germans arrested people at random off the streets of Paris and in retaliation to sabotage by the resistance announced the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Anthony Hopkins

After a violent storm, Ali awakens on a deserted beach, sick and disoriented. They'll be looking for him and he must keep moving. Ivan, a local...

Genre: Fantasy

Cast: Rupert Evans

Complex tale about small and big players in the African diamond business wrapped around a murder of US senator's daughter.

Genre: TV Movie

Cast: James Purefoy

Live theatre presentation of Shakespeare's classic play about two teenagers from warring families whose love affair ends in tragedy.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Lily James

Mist: The Tale of a Sheepdog Puppy is a British family television film following the life of a border collie puppy as she grows up to become a...

Genre: TV Movie

Cast: Brian Blessed

Author David Macaulay hosts CATHEDRAL, based on his award-winning book. Using a combination of spectacular location sequences and cinema-quality...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: David Macaulay

The glories of Ancient Rome are explored in ROMAN CITY, based on David Macaulay's acclaimed book. This animated and live-action video recounts life...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: David Macaulay

The film follows the fortunes of an avant garde Morris team in their struggle to evolve Morris Dancing.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Lucy Akhurst

Promotional short hosted by Laurence Olivier promoting the film "Othello."

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Laurence Olivier

For more than 100 years, the Statue of Liberty has been a symbol of hope and refuge for generations of immigrants. In this lyrical, compelling and...

Genre: History

Cast: David McCullough

Two orphaned brothers turned radical Christian hitmen venture to rural Ilkley under the instruction of Father Enoch. Their mission: assassinate the...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Tom Brooke

A drama about greed, the film will focus on a group of men corrupted by greed, who, in their desperation, are drawn together for one night to play a...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tom Felton

This existential comedic drama follows an ailing film director as he begins to shoot what he believes to be his final work of art. What starts out as...

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Cast: Matthew Modine

Five highly-trained KGB agents are sent to the west to assassinate several Soviet dissidents. In order to stop the diabolical plot, an American agent...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Martin Sheen

Strings is a mythological story about the son of a king, Hal Tara, who sets out on a journey to avenge the death of his father. To his surprise he...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: James McAvoy

General Othello's marriage is destroyed when vengeful Ensign Iago convinces him that his new wife has been unfaithful.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Laurence Olivier

A debauched young aristocrat entrusts the running of his country house to Tom, the butler, on whom he depends absolutely. Before long the servant...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Oliver Reed

Nearly a thousand miles away from their beloved Moscow, Chekhov's Three Sisters live in virtual exile. Olga , a schoolmistress, attempts to support...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jeanne Watts

England, early 20th century. The future writer and philologist John Ronald Reuel Tolkien (1892-1973) and three of his schoolmates create a strong...

Genre: War

Cast: Nicholas Hoult

The cast and crew of I, Claudius (1976) discuss the making of the series.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: George Baker

The BBC delves into its archives to discover British acting greats as they take their first tentative steps on the road to success. Long before they...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Michael Caine

A star-studded short film encouraging people to get COVID-19 vaccines and featuring the song "The Rhythm of Life" from the 1966 classic musical,...

Genre: Music

Cast: Jim Broadbent

As the war between the vampires and the Lycans rages on, Selene, a former member of the Death Dealers (an elite vampire special forces unit that...

Genre: Fantasy

Cast: Kate Beckinsale

Following the suicide of an elderly Jewish man, investigative journalist Peter Miller sets out to hunt down an SS Captain and former concentration...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jon Voight

An ancient skeleton has been discovered in Jerusalem in a rich man's tomb. Colouration of the wrist and leg bones indicates the cause of death was...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Antonio Banderas

A journalist investigates a series of murders that follows the discovery of an unpublished novel by Charles Dickens in the cellar of an old Thames...

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Vinnie Jones

Superficial people are revealed and drastically changed by circumstance or luck in this a tale of death, seduction, blackmail and theft among British...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kristin Scott Thomas

The time is the late '80s, a crucial period in the history of South Africa. President P.W. Botha is hanging on to power by a thread as the African...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Amelia Bullmore

At the age of forty Dame Margot Fonteyn is considered to be past her best as a prima ballerina and Ninette de Valois is reducing her roles at the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Lindsay Duncan

The true story of the 19th century Belgian priest, Father Damien, who volunteered to go to the island of Molokai, to console and care for the lepers.

Genre: Drama

Cast: David Wenham

A lonely young aristocrat in turn-of the century England struggles to meet the approval of his over-bearing, class-conscious father while trying to...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jared Leto

When news of the closure of a small hospital's geriatric ward begins to reach the community, the hospital invites a local news crew to document their...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jennifer Saunders

In the year 180, the death of emperor Marcus Aurelius throws the Roman Empire into chaos. Maximus is one of the Roman army's most capable and...

Genre: Action

Cast: Russell Crowe

Arising out of the horror of the Spanish Civil War, a candidate for canonization is investigated by a journalist who discovers his own estranged...

Genre: War

Cast: Charlie Cox

In the year 1215, the rebel barons of England have forced their despised King John to put his royal seal on the Magna Carta, a seminal document that...

Genre: Romance

Cast: James Purefoy

When a spoiled English girl living in 19th century India loses both parents in a cholera epidemic, she is sent back to England to live in a country...

Genre: TV Movie

Cast: Gennie James

A film of the National Theatre's presentation of the Shakespeare play.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Maggie Smith

A dramatization of the life of Albert Speer, Hitler's young architect and onetime confidant, and his meteoric rise into the Nazi hierarchy. Based...

Genre: History

Cast: Rutger Hauer

Lara Croft, the fiercely independent daughter of a missing adventurer, must push herself beyond her limits when she finds herself on the island where...

Genre: Action

Cast: Alicia Vikander

Before Alice went to Wonderland, and before Peter became Pan, they were brother and sister. When their eldest brother dies in a tragic accident, they...

Genre: Fantasy

Cast: Angelina Jolie

In 1939, Charlotte Salomon leaves Berlin to seek refuge at her grandparents' villa in the south of France. A little later, war breaks out, and...

Genre: War

Cast: Birgit Doll

The true story of Lakshmibai, the historic Queen of Jhansi who fiercely led her army against the British East India Company in the infamous mutiny of...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Devika Bhise

London, 1956. Genius actor and film director Laurence Olivier is about to begin the shooting of his upcoming movie, premiered in 1957 as The Prince...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Michelle Williams

A director talks about his old horror film. It's Austria, Krampusnacht, December 1977. The Devonshires arrive at the alpine chalet for a holiday. The...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Reece Shearsmith

In 1949, composer Roman Strauss is executed for the murder of his wife. In 1990s Los Angeles, a detective comes across a mute amnesiac woman who is...

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Kenneth Branagh

A love story offering an intimate look inside the marriage of Winston and Clementine Churchill during a particularly troubled, though little-known,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Albert Finney

It's the greatest mystery of all time; who wrote the works of Shakespeare? DEREK JACOBI leads an impressive cast on a quest to uncover the truth...

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Cast: Jonathan Bate

A look at the mysterious relationship between Victorian art critic John Ruskin and his teenage bride Effie Gray.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Dakota Fanning

The story of former Hollywood star Grace Kelly's crisis of marriage and identity, during a political dispute between Monaco's Prince Rainier III and...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Nicole Kidman

Roman teenager, Atti is forced to join the Roman army when one of his clever schemes falls foul of Emperor Nero. He is sent to "miserable, cold, wet...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Sebastian Croft

Luca is the pre-eminent artist of his generation and at the peak of his career, lauded, feted and collected by all. He is the ultimate showman...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Alison Doody

When her father unexpectedly passes away, young Ella finds herself at the mercy of her cruel stepmother and her daughters. Never one to give up hope,...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Lily James

The King's Speech tells the story of the man who became King George VI, the father of Queen Elizabeth II. After his brother abdicates, George...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Colin Firth

Since A.D. 50, a mysterious sacred artifact known as the Loculus has been at the center of a bloody clandestine war. Missing for a few hundred years,...

Genre: Fantasy

Cast: James D'Arcy

Genius Belgian detective Hercule Poirot investigates the murder of an American tycoon aboard the Orient Express train.

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Kenneth Branagh

A British Special Boat Service commando tracks down an international terrorist cell.

Genre: Action

Cast: Dominic Cooper

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Albert Speer

Funny, passionate, exciting, and smart: ‘Muse Of Fire’ will change the way you feel about Shakespeare forever. This unique feature...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Ian McKellen

A chance opportunity arises for Robert Atkinson, a London banker who risks his bank's money to leave the mundane behind and start a new life. To take...

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Maryam Hassouni

The film will follow the continuing story of Lucius, the son of Lucilla.

Genre: Action

Cast: Paul Mescal

Reflecting Peter O'Toole's theatrical legacy, this feature documentary is structured into four acts, each introduced by a quote about O'Toole that...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Peter O'Toole

A French detective in London reconstructs the life of a man lying in hospital with severe injuries with the help of journals and a psychiatrist. He...

Genre: Horror

Cast: Richard Burton

The story of Jack Johnson, the first African American Heavyweight boxing champion.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Keith David

The true story of a Prussian aristocrat working for German military intelligence during World War II, who, with a group of fellow devout Christians,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Helen McCrory

Comedy drama based on the true story of two British Army dentists who in 1942, eager to see action, go AWOL and invade occupied France on their own.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kenneth Cranham

Al Pacino's deeply-felt rumination on Shakespeare's significance and relevance to the modern world through interviews and an in-depth analysis of...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Al Pacino

We mark 60 glorious years of Coronation Street, the world’s longest-running soap, with a celebration of the women who have ruled the roost in...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Lorraine Kelly

An international assassin known as ‘The Jackal’ is employed by disgruntled French generals to kill President Charles de Gaulle, with a...

Genre: Action

Cast: Edward Fox

To celebrate its 50th anniversary, the National Theatre of Great Britain presents National Theatre: 50 Years on Stage, bringing together the best...

Genre: TV Movie

Cast: Roger Allam

For 200 years, the United States Congress has been one of the country's most important and least understood institutions. In this elegant, thoughtful...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: David McCullough

Widower Cedric Brown hires Nanny McPhee to care for his seven rambunctious children, who have chased away all previous nannies. Taunted by Simon and...

Genre: Fantasy

Cast: Emma Thompson

Set against the backdrop of the succession of Queen Elizabeth I, and the Essex Rebellion against her, the story advances the theory that it was in...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jamie Campbell Bower

A documentary giving film fans a behind-the-scenes look at the making this Robert Altman film about a murder at an English country estate. Includes...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Robert Altman

After overhearing a shocking secret, precocious orphan Lyra Belacqua trades her carefree existence roaming the halls of Jordan College for an...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Nicole Kidman

The comedienne stars in this festive sketch show, alongside a host of celebrity guests.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Victoria Wood

In 1930’s England, a group of pretentious rich and famous gather together for a weekend of relaxation at a hunting resort. But when a murder...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Maggie Smith

In their second film compilation following their 'Boogeymen:The Killer Compilation' series, FlixMix takes you into the history of action movies from...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Jet Li

Three people — a blue-collar American, a French journalist and a London school boy — are touched by death in different ways.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Matt Damon

Broadway: The Golden Age is the most important, ambitious and comprehensive film ever made about America's most celebrated indigenous art form. ...

Genre: Music

Cast: Edie Adams