Simon Callow Movies

A shepherd’s son befriends a dragon, who is more inclined to compose poetry than attack the frightened villagers.

BBC Play for Today. Maximillian Schreiber runs a series of gruelling motivational courses - all coming at a cost to the participants - including VAT.

An adaptation of David Garrick's 1747 afterpiece, this lighthearted comedy follows Miss Biddy Bellair as she pits her suitors against eachother in...

This star-studded gala celebrates the centenary of the birth of legendary Broadway composer Richard Rodgers. Rodgers' contribution to musical...

Our hero Adam gets drawn into a web of intrigue as evidence is planted on him of a gay royal affair.

Dodger and the gang return to London to pull off their biggest mission yet: to rob the Crown Jewels ahead of the Queen's Coronation.

A gay young man is recruited into an illicit love triangle to watch a much older man’s sexual liaison, but ends up witnessing what turns out to...

Four monologues by playwright Peter Barnes celebrating the bicentennial of the French Revolution.

In the early 1930s, Orson Welles ascends to unprecedented stardom while President Franklin Delano Roosevelt navigates a nation in crisis. As WWII...

Charting the evolution of public and political attitudes to homosexuality over the last four decades, from decriminalisation in 1967 to today's...

A broke and frustrated IT technician decides to embark on a one woman heist to steal valuable data worth millions on the black market.

Set during World War II, an upper-class family begins to fall apart due to the conservative nature of the patriarch and the progressive values of his...

The story of an honest Lincolnshire farmer, hit hard by the credit crunch, squeezed by a greedy supermarket and struggling to survive. All his...

One of Shaw's "pleasant plays", The Man of Destiny is a one-act lighthearted comedy of egos and social hypocrisy. Set in 1796 in northern Italy, it...

A diverse collection of horror shorts by several different film makers. A few are presented as trailers.

A love triangle is unraveled when a young painter is approached by an admirer who eases him into making sense of his relationship with his wife.

An exclusive featurette in which directors and fellow actors speaks about Maggie Smith's career and her way of working.

Set and filmed at the iconic Maida Vale studios, The Dead Room tells the story of a long-running radio horror series and its veteran presenter and...

British biopic of composer George Frideric Handel

The documentary film Art of Freedom answers the most poignant questions on the phenomenon of Polish expeditions to the Himalayas. Poles have reigned...