Movies: Freddie Jones

Biography of former first lady Eleanor Roosevelt, who forged a new role for herself in the years after her husband's death....

A film biography by David Jones with Freddie Jones as John Clare "I am - yet what I am, none cares or knows" (John Clare) John Clare (1792-1864), farm labourer, had three obsessions: his youthful love for Mary Joyce, the countryside of his native N...

Film adaptation of Vladimir Nabokov's debut novel, 'Mary'....

Receiving a tip from his dentist Jack Shorter, policeman Peter Pascoe takes a closer look at the Calliope Kinema Club, a film club notorious for showing adult entertainment movies. Shorter is convinced that one particular scene in a movie he recently...

In the snooker room at a genteel gentleman's club, the mood darkens when adultery becomes the subject of conversation....

A fiendish barber in early 19th century London has many dark secrets in his past and also in his present day activities....

The true story of successful and respectable Edwardian businessman Roger Ackerley, who managed to conceal the existence of a secret love and the three daughters she bore, from his society wife and remaining children. Known to the daughters only as 'U...

An opium-addicted choirmaster develops an obsession for a beautiful young girl and will not stop short of murder in order to have her....

During the Romanian Revolution in December 1989, a young girl is shot in the head by Tudor Barbu, a member of the Securitate. His brother Octavian was the girl's teacher who "filled her head with the ideas of truth". The question isn't how did she di...

Malcolm tries to keep his dual lives -- and two wives -- separate, but when both of his spouses want to attend the same concert, he runs into a big problem....

The religious beliefs of pet shop owner Joe (Freddie Jones) are shaken by the terminal illness of his daughter Lucy (Angharad Rees). For Potter, this play "makes more than a wry nod at possibilities which can comprehend pain, or disgust, or the impla...

The evil brother of Richard the Lionheart is holding the king for ransom, and only Robin Hood and his band of merry men can save him...for a small fee, of course....

During a rural representation of The Passion of Christ, a young actor and a married costume designer start a romance....

1973 BBC TV movie adaptation of the book by Lewis Carroll....

A young woman's knowledge of Shakespeare helps her solve a five-year-old mystery....

Two TV Plays by Vaclav Havel, one called 'Audience', and one called 'Private View'....

A play about the life and work of the artist Auguste Renoir, based on the book by his film director son, Jean Renoir....

Ike is a strange little creature - half baby, half duck. Escaping from his cot, he flaps madly around the room, making a bee line for a box of matches showing a picture of a swan on the lid. Then all Ike's toys come after him, full tilt......

A corrupt parish council embezzle EU money to pay for their decadent lifestyles instead of funding the cultural development of their town. They soon find themselves having to perform the unimaginable task of producing one of the great Shakespearean p...

This unusual look at plant reproduction investigates the diversity of plant adaptations for pollination with an emphasis on unusual co-evolved relationships with animal pollinators. Sexual encounters of the floral kind includes unusual bird and mamma...