Simon Callow Movies

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is a remarkably talented young Viennese composer who unwittingly finds a fierce rival in the disciplined and determined...

Genre: History

Cast: F. Murray Abraham

Over the course of five social occasions, a committed bachelor must consider the notion that he may have discovered love.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Hugh Grant

Young Shakespeare is forced to stage his latest comedy, "Romeo and Ethel, the Pirate's Daughter," before it's even written. When a lovely noblewoman...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Joseph Fiennes

When the young orphan boy James spills a magic bag of crocodile tongues, he finds himself in possession of a giant peach that flies him away to...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Paul Terry

In 12th century England, the handsome and noble knight, George, has left the Crusades behind to follow his dream of a peaceful life on his own piece...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: James Purefoy

When Lucy Honeychurch and chaperon Charlotte Bartlett find themselves in Florence with rooms without views, fellow guests Mr Emerson and son George...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Helena Bonham Carter

Substance-addicted Hollywood actress, Suzanne Vale is on the skids. After a spell at a detox centre her film company insists as a condition of...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Meryl Streep

Col. Guile and various other martial arts heroes fight against the tyranny of Dictator M. Bison and his cohorts.

Genre: Action

Cast: Jean-Claude Van Damme

Summoned from an ashram in Tibet, Ace finds himself on a perilous journey into the jungles of Africa to find Shikaka, the missing sacred animal of...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Jim Carrey

After his lover rejects him, Maurice attempts to come to terms with his sexuality within the restrictiveness of Edwardian society.

Genre: Drama

Cast: James Wilby

Deformed since birth, a bitter man known only as The Phantom lives in the sewers underneath the Paris Opera House. He falls in love with the obscure...

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Gerard Butler

When writer's block derails the literary dreams of Olly Pickering, he has to move in with his friend Murray after losing all his money. Things start...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Stuart Townsend

Arn, the son of a high-ranking Swedish nobleman is educated in a monastery and sent to the Holy Land as a knight templar to do penance for a...

Genre: Action

Cast: Joakim Nätterqvist

Animated version of the classic Charles Dickens story. Warned by the ghost of his old business partner Marley that his sins would lead to punishment...

Genre: Animation

Cast: Simon Callow

A shy, stuttering professor brings satanist Aleister Crowley back to life.

Genre: Horror

Cast: Simon Callow

Axel Heyst is an American recluse with a dubious past living in the Dutch East Indies port of Surabaya circa 1913. Staying in a German hotel there,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Willem Dafoe

Bill is a man who's very bitter about his divorce and losing custody of his son. So, when one of his friends is being sued for divorce by his wife so...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Anthony Hopkins

Passions erupt between a German hussar (Jean-Marc Barr) serving with King George III's personal cavalry and the only daughter of an English solicitor...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jean-Marc Barr

Late Bloomers stars Isabella Rossellini and William Hurt as a married couple pulled apart by the threat of old age. Each reacts in a different way:...

Genre: Drama

Cast: William Hurt

Simon Callow's one-man show about Charles Dickens.

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Cast: Simon Callow

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Paul Newman

In the middle of the night, Egyptian soldiers search for Moses (Martin Jarvis) whose brother Aaron (Tony Leader) swfitly dispatches him on a camel....

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Cast: Simon Callow

In a small European country, the king is scheduled to visit a small, quiet and "safe" village. It turns out that while the village may indeed be...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Camilla Søeberg

Dramatization of the famous 1971 trial in which the editors of the British underground magazine "Oz" were charged with obscenity.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hugh Grant

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...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Dianne Wiest

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

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Ian McKellen

An 11-year-old boy's amazing ability to break wind leads him first to fame and then to death row, before it helps him to fulfill his ambition of...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Bruce Cook

His wife having recently died, Thomas Jefferson accepts the post of United States ambassador to pre-revolutionary France, though he finds it...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Nick Nolte

After a series of bad relationships, a man orders a mail order bride and receives more than he bargained for.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Patrick Warburton

During the 1930s in England, a group of young socialites dominate the national gossip with extravagant and outlandish antics. Among the group is the...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Stephen Campbell Moore

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: Reinhold Messner

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: Dawn Steele

Bob, an incompetent man, is searching for an available job by alphabetical order. He had just failed all of the A's, and discovers an ad in the...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Tom Green

The extraordinary life of Orson Welles (1915-85), an enigma of Hollywood, an irreducible independent creator: a musical prodigy, an excellent...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Simon Callow

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

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Cast: Simon Callow

Fate, the pensions crisis and a steadfast refusal to accept the injustice of old age have contrived to force law abiding, retired couple, Arthur and...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Bernard Hill

Emily Walters is an American widow living a peaceful, uneventful existence in the idyllic Hampstead Village of London, when she meets local recluse,...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Diane Keaton

Join renowned actor Simon Callow as he uncovers the moving origins of the song Silent Night that has been two hundred years in the making. A story...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Simon Callow

The story of Henry Purcell.

Genre: History

Cast: Michael Ball

In 1947, Lord Mountbatten assumes the post of last Viceroy, charged with handing India back to its people, living upstairs at the house which was the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hugh Bonneville

At the suggestion of a straight friend, gay man Leo joins a men’s group, where he causes some upsets by declaring his attraction to one of its...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kevin McKidd

A saga of class relations and changing times in an Edwardian England on the brink of modernity, the film centers on liberal Margaret Schlegel, who,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Emma Thompson

William Thacker is a London bookstore owner whose humdrum existence is thrown into romantic turmoil when famous American actress Anna Scott appears...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Julia Roberts

A washed up actor best known for playing the title character in the 1980s detective show "Mindhorn" must work with the police when a serial killer...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Julian Barratt

Genre: Drama

Cast: Simon Callow

A beautiful young woman asks Holmes to help her father, a former army captain and hopeless opium addict break free of the curse surrounding a stolen...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Charlton Heston

A romance that plays out in the splashy, sensational world of British tabloids.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Rupert Graves

Joanne Kilbourn, ex-detective turned university lecturer, is still haunted by the unsolved murder of her politician husband,

Genre: TV Movie

Cast: Wendy Crewson

At a two-day business conference, God (Simon Callow) decides to romantically pair Terry, a moral crusader, with his "win-at-all-cost" antithesis,...

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Cast: Simon Callow

Queen Victoria strikes up an unlikely friendship with a young Indian clerk named Abdul Karim.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Judi Dench

He's a low level criminal with no future and just out of prison. She's a low level lawyer never noticed by others, a lost soul without a life. Their...

Genre: Action

Cast: Sam Rockwell

In 1843, despite the fact that Dickens is a successful writer, the failure of his latest book puts his career at a crossroads, until the moment when,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Dan Stevens

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

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Craig Kelly

Two soldiers from opposite sites get stuck between the front lines in the same trench. The UN is asked to free them and both sides agree on a...

Genre: Action

Cast: Branko Đurić

Daniel is an obeying and high-flying barrister with the good life on his side. Nathaniel Quass is a rich and bizarre recluse, generous, obsessed and...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Stephen Fry

Thousands of years ago, the great Child King Tutankhamen ruled. Few know the details of his life -- No one knows the secrets of his death. All that...

Genre: Action

Cast: Casper Van Dien

Leading activists and commentators explore the changes that have taken place since homosexuality was decriminalised in the UK in 1967 and the...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Olly Alexander

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...

Genre: Horror

Cast: Simon Callow

Rob Haley, an up-and-coming chef and restaurateur in London, is grief-stricken when he loses his wife. With encouragement from his infamous friend...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Dougray Scott

Orson Welles Biographer Simon Callow discusses the making of "Mr. Arkadin" (aka "Confidential Report.")

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Simon Callow

Radio producer Harry Alan Towers discusses his work with Orson Welles.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Simon Callow

As his life comes to its end, famous Hollywood director Orson Welles puts it all on the line at the chance for renewed success with the film The...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Alan Cumming

Based on Charles Dickens’s own performance adaptation, Simon Callow and director-designer Tom Cairns have created a one-man theatrical...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Simon Callow

British biopic of composer George Frideric Handel

Genre: History

Cast: Hugh Grant

Based upon Wilkie Collins Victorian mystery, the gothic tale tells of a pair of half sisters whose lives end up caught in a grand conspiracy...

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Tara Fitzgerald

Documenting the days and weeks preceding Boy George's appearance in a New York courtroom in June 2006 for cocaine possession and his subsequent...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Boy George

A celebration of the life and career of Sir Harry Secombe, one of Britain's best-loved entertainers.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Harry Secombe

When Orson Welles went into self-imposed exile in Europe, he first found stardom with The Third Man and then immersed himself in challenging films,...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Simon Callow

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: Simon Callow

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Delphine Seyrig

Eight years ago, Gavin, the artistic son of a Scots-Italian ice-cream dynasty, turned his back on Glasgow and moved south to London to make his name...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Peter Capaldi

Featuring a tour de force performance from Simon Callow, Being Shakespeare is a one-man show about the life and work of the world’s greatest...

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Cast: Simon Callow

Released alongside a spectacular edition of Shakespeare’s Sonnets for the Apple iPad, this beautifully produced DVD features specially filmed...

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Cast: Simon Russell Beale

English National Ballet has been performing a version of Nutcracker every year since 1950. In 2020, the tradition lives on. Join Clara and her...

Genre: Music

Cast: Simon Callow

A Claymation version of the classic story of Don Quixote.

Genre: Animation

Cast: Simon Callow

After his friend, a hot young artist, is killed, a resourceful American man living in London covers up the crime and tries to keep the friend's name...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Barry Pepper

It is 2020. Findings by environmental scientist Professor Thom Archer suggest that Halo, the corporate energy company drilling on the Greenland...

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Richard Roxburgh

Jamie and Lucy have an encounter with what appears to be a pair of ghost children. But these spooky kids, Sara and Georgie, aren’t actually...

Genre: Fantasy

Cast: Simon Callow

Docudrama that recounts the astonishing life story of a forgotten genius, English poet Alexander Pope, who lived from 1688 to 1744.

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Cast: Emilia Fox

Join the likes of Jeremy Renner, Hailee Steinfeld, Florence Pugh, and Vincent D’Onofrio as they reveal how Marvel Studios’...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Trinh Tran

Yes, your eyes have still not gone blind from masturbating, Yes you are reading this right, Grindsploitation is back! Back from the dark depths of...

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Cast: John Patrick Brennan

8 part series behind the scenes at the famous Theatre Royal, Haymarket, with a focus on a production Waiting for Godot featuring Ian McKellen,...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Ian McKellen

Documentary with an affectionate look back at the classic Granada TV dramatisation of Evelyn Waugh's famous novel "Brideshead Revisited".

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Simon Callow

Documentary about British artist Andrew Logan as he attempts to put on the 2009 edition of his Alternative Miss World. The film also presents a...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Andrew Logan

A woman struggles with her views on religion, complicated by her attraction to a devout believer.

Genre: Romance

Cast: Rose Reid

Merchant Ivory is the longest running partnership in the history of cinema. As a film production entity, Merchant Ivory was founded in 1961 by...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: James Ivory

The Fringe, Fame and Me is the story of how a small Scottish arts festival that began 75 years ago this year became a national institution – a...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Phoebe Waller-Bridge

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Ismail Merchant

When Cariani the painter falls in love with the beautiful girl who receives mysterious visitors in the rooms below, he is drawn into a web of danger...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Paul McGann

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

Genre: Animation

Cast: Martin Jarvis

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

Genre: Crime

Cast: Kyla Frye

Sicilian-born Maddalena has moved to a Devonshire village in England to escape volatile sexual tempers. She marries, but the lust she inspires in the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sophia Diaz

A profile of the actress from a strict Quaker upbringing in Yorkshire, through her staunch determination to make it as a thespian. There's also a...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Judi Dench

Recluse Dr. Nina Jekyll befriends with her newly hired help, Rob. They must work together to prevent Hyde from destroying her life.

Genre: Horror

Cast: Eddie Izzard

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

Genre: Animation

Cast: Simon Callow

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.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Ben Cura

Comedian Rik Mayall died suddenly on 9 June 2014. Mayall's blend of rocket-fuelled physical comedy, surrealism, subversive satire and pompous punk...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Rik Mayall

The inside story of the best modern romcoms with Meg Ryan, Hugh Grant, Richard Curtis, Dermot Mulrooney, Rupert Everett, Jason Alexander, Stephen...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Julie Walters

A woman sets out a well-intentioned plan of bringing her dysfunctional family together in the wake of the family's matriarch, her mother-in-law.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Brittany Snow

Collection of highlights from the first and second series of British comic Sarah Millican's show about television. The programme includes stand-up...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Sarah Millican

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

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Orson Welles

Five months following the murders, Christopher Robin tries returning to his regular life while dealing with his PTSD. Deep within the 100-Acre-Wood,...

Genre: Horror

Cast: Scott Chambers

The rapid rise and violent fall of rock band Stack of Corpses whose attempt to jump start their career by stealing another singer’s song ends...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Simon Callow

Travel back in time to a scene set in London in 1872, where a young Phileas Fogg is about to wager a fortune in the hope of completing an impossible...

Genre: Animation

Cast: Simon Callow

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

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Maggie Smith

The film follows Cass, a young woman who has resigned herself to a life of emotional invulnerability until she meets Virgil, a cartographer who makes...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Naomi Scott

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.

Genre: TV Movie

Cast: Christopher Eccleston

Schoolboy Maurice Cole, growing up in 1960s Liverpool, is picked on for being effeminate but is already making his own comedy tapes, one of which...

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Cast: Oliver Lansley

Based on Dava Sobel’s bestselling book, Galileo’s Daughter, this documentary reveals a new side to the famously stubborn scientist...

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Cast: Simon Callow

The third entry in the Blood and Honey series. Plot TBA. Said include characters such as: Rabbit, The Heffalumps and Woozles.

Genre: Horror

Cast: Scott Chambers

Will team Winnie the Pooh with murderous versions of figures including Bambi, Tinkerbell, Pinocchio, Peter Pan, Tigger, Piglet, The Mad Hatter and...

Genre: Horror

Cast: Scott Chambers