Alan Bates Movies

The making of a serious, Canadian arthouse film descends into Hollywood farce when its producer is forced to compromise his vision to accommodate his...

Alan Bates and Diane Cilento play an odd couple fleeing across fictitious European countries with NYC and the UN as their destination. A short film...

A couple uses extremely black comedy to survive taking care of a daughter who is nearly completely brain dead. They take turns doing the daughter's...

The life of England’s George VI, who was forced to become King following the abdication of his brother, and his relationship with his wife,...

A short film based on a story by D.H. Lawrence in which two sisters meet after being apart for a long time.

Sir Hugo is more interested in reconstructing dinosaur bones than in paying attention to his wife, Lady Harriet. He's not thrilled when daughter Cleo...

Major James Prentis VC is a British spy of World War II and war hero who goes under the code name of "Shuttlecock". Alienated from his family and...

An English playwright sacrifices his health waiting for his play's make-or-break opening on Broadway.

In a historical interview only a few months before his death, the harger-than-life star of Zorba the Greek seaks frankly about his memorable role,...

Fact based drama about an American couple on vacation in Italy in 1994 with their two children who are attacked and shot by highway bandits. Shortly...

In a Yorkshire mining town, three educated brothers return to their blue-collar home to celebrate the 40th wedding anniversary of their parents, but...

Two childhood friends - Darren and Gary - re-unite for the funeral of an old acquaintance. Gary boasts of the life he's made in London during the...

S02E12 of “The Ray Bradbury Theater.” A ventriloquist is implicated in the murder of a man at a theater.

A look at people who travel the world by air as part of their everyday jobs, including businessmen and women who fly around the world as easily as...

Two men, with families in tow, meet for lunch. As they talk, repressed school memories come to the surface leaving them unsure about the paths they...

This promotional short film for the feature Far from the Madding Crowd (1967) takes us to the many locations in Dorset County, England, where the...

Powerful statement about the abuse of human rights by totalitarian governments, finds an unctuous and "civilized" interrogator humiliating the doomed...

In 1950, a man returns home to the UK from India after the death of his wife to build bridges with his son, but instead ends up building an elaborate...

In 1916 author Marcel Proust is leading a reclusive life in Paris. He hires a quartet of musicians and befriends one of them, a wounded serviceman.

A barrister's complex life unravels as he juggles a court case and highly-strung mistress.