Philip Saville Movies

In the Golden Age of Hollywood, two men had it all; one was a top screenwriter, the other a film idol. But when the witch hunts of McCarthyism swept...

The ghost of the King of Denmark tells his son Hamlet to avenge his murder by killing the new king, Hamlet's uncle. Hamlet feigns madness,...

A man mysteriously locks himself in a room in a boarding house leaving only a note saying he has decided to "retire from the world". His worried...

Two small boys are playing in a wood. The younger boy has a revolver and, not understanding that the gun differs from his toy pistol, plays...

Justice, the poets have it, is a blind goddess. Eric Portman stars as the lawyer defending a lord, Hugh Williams, accused by his secretary Michael...

An FBI agent goes to the French-Spanish border to round up some smugglers and counterfeiters after his brother is murdered.

In late-1970s suburban London, Chris and Marion have settled into a comfortable yet all-too-predictable middle-class existence. Chris receives an...

A personal take on working with Harold Pinter via intimate conversations with actors, directors and writers who share their experiences of the man...

Set in the austere post–World War II British world of rationing, Cyril dreams up an ode to an imaginary character named Merlin Mound who can...

Sam and Ingrid start out with dreams of marrying someone rich who will make life easy. When they find they do not match up to each other's dreams...

The Anthony Newley/Leslie Bricusse London and Broadway musical hit Stop the World, I Want to Get Off is given literal treatment in this filmization....

A woman's unfulfilling marriage leads her into a passionate affair with a wealthy extramarital lover.

Three guardian angels help three souls evaluate their past lives.

An Irishwoman married to a German in pre-First World War Liverpool prepares to meet her brother-in-law – a young man named Adolf Hitler. Years...

Two extraordinary days in the life of young Beatles-fan Kevin - as he drifts in space between yesterday and today.

Three men arrive in a small town to pull the local bank heist.

The wife of a public school head becomes gradually aware that her husband has been physically abusing his pupils. Written by the master of...

A corpse is fished out of a north London canal with stab wounds through the eyes. The victim was a prominent member of the Hasidic Jewish community,...

Birmingham is a melting pot of races and every community has a stake in the city's underworld. When former SAS officer John Kline is released from...

A married man forms a liaison with a woman he meets on a train, and is divorced by his wife who allows him access to their daughters on Sundays,...