Carl Davis Movies

An alcoholic falls in love with a Salvation Army captain who is trying to help him.

Passion comes calling when a man suffering through an unhappy marriage in 1920s England runs into first love.

Armitage runs a chemical company that is on the verge of producing a gas that causes temporary disability. Clearly the military want it but it is...

A Marxist-Leninist expelled from the British Communist Party joins the Revolutionary Party of the Third World, sleeps around, and attempts to rethink...

Romantic novelist Edith Hope so horrifies her friends that they banish her to the solitude of a Swiss hotel. She decides to work out her exile by...

Jim Broadbent wrote and starred in this short film directed by none other than Mike Leigh. As a member of the landed gentry, the 23rd Earl of Leete...

A middle-aged professor's young bride and his assistant plan to commit a double murder disguised as a "Crime Passionel", but discover too late that...

Writer and Director Mike Leigh discusses the techniques used to create his plays.

The reputation of the Academy for the Daughters of Respectable Monarchs has, of course, always been of the highest order... then suddenly Signor...

Brecht's company of actors tells the story of Bertolt Brecht: his theatre, plays, poetry and his life.

Biography of Russian physicist & dissident Andrei Sakharov focuses on his first acts in his civil rights.

Based on a short story by George MacDonald, a princess experiences constant weightlessness.

A British Company in the WWI trenches await an inevitable German attack in this 1988 adaptation of R.C. Sherriff's play.

A frightened Swiss soldier climbs into a young Bulgarian girl's room during wartime.

In the late 1930s, three reclusive middle-aged spinster sisters live on their run down family estate in Ireland. Otto Beck, a perpetual graduate...

TV play by Jim Hawkins based on real events in Russia and the USA just after the Bolshevik Revolution.

Part of the "American Masters" series; this documentary shows the career of filmmaking pioneer D.W. Griffith

When his father becomes a bomb victim, Jimmy leaves Belfast for his uncle’s farm in remote west Ireland. But even here there are links to the...

The spirit of the season is overflowing in A Christmas Carol. As the clock strikes midnight join Ebenezer Scrooge on the journey of a lifetime to...

1982. A shop worker saves money all year for a holiday in France, using a magazine as guide to the mode of dress and manners of behaviour she thinks...