Richard Rodney Bennett Movies

A young Englishman dreams of escaping from his working class family and dead-end job as an undertaker's assistant. A number of indiscretions cause...

Spurred on by the death of his drug-addicted sister at the hands of ruthless narcotics kingpin Frank McNally, U.S. drug enforcement agent Charles...

A psychiatrist, Martin Dysart, investigates the savage blinding of six horses with a metal spike in a stable in Hampshire, England. The atrocity was...

Following a nervous breakdown, Gwen takes up the job of head teacher in the small village of Haddaby. There she can benefit from the tranquillity and...

A young coal miner's daughter enters the servility of a deeply religious and lonely old aristocratic woman in regional England during the late 1920s,...

This featurette takes a closer look at the production history of Murder on the Orient Express. Included in it are clips from archival interviews with...

Painter Jan Van Rooyer has been art teacher to Jacqueline Cousteau, an older Frenchwoman who becomes his lover. But when she turns up dead, Van...

In 1941 Greece, on the eve of German occupation, cynical American foreign correspondent Michael Morrison arrives in Athens, intending to depart for...

A man who served prison time for intent to molest a child tries to build a new life with the help of a sympathetic psychiatrist.

A clerical error leads to the appointment of a left-leaning small-town priest to a rich village, where he immediately horrifies his snobby...

Lady Caroline Lamb, dissatisfied in her marriage, has an affair with the dashing Romantic poet Lord Byron.

Western intelligence agents try, by all means necessary, to prevent a Communist-bloc defector from leaving the West in his bid to return home to lead...

Documentary about the composer Elizabeth Maconchy, filmed during the rehearsal of a new composition

Sketches of a Spanish circus made by Richard Williams in 1953 come to life. Williams began the project at the age of 20 and finished it when he was...

In this sardonic comedy, after an executive is killed in a mysterious automobile accident, the French offices of his multinational company is...

A priest arrives at a mission-post in China accompanied by a young native girl who has joined him along the way. His job is to relieve the existing...

Born to twin sisters on the same day in London, France and Margaret are more like brother and sister than cousins. The close relationship between the...

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,...

Alan and Sylvia fall in love and Alan gains a renewed sense of purpose. He begins to hope for an eventual release on licence. However both he and...

A study of absurdity in a suburban family: father recreates the Old Bailey in the living room while the son teaches speak-your-weight machines to...