Single Drama / TV Movie
by Simon_6 | created - 14 Nov 2013 | updated - 16 Mar 2018 | PublicList of stand alone, single dramas I have seen. Which don't fit easily into my Film Diary Lists. Predominately UK television productions which have a life beyond British television and are promoted as TV Movies or may receive festival screenings.
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1. The Accidental Death of an Anarchist (1983 TV Movie)
74 min | Comedy, Drama
During questioning by the police, a railway worker falls to his death from the multi-story police HQ. The government says it was an accident but there is a public outcry. The Superintendant... See full summary »
Directors: Alan Horrox, Gavin Richards | Stars: Gavin Richards, Jim Bywater, Clive Russell, Gavin Muir
Votes: 119
14-09-1983 C4. TV version of the Belt and Braces Roadshow Company's production.
2.
Partners in Crime (1983–1984)
Episode:
The Secret Adversary
(1983)
PG | 115 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
After two old friends accidentally meet and resolve to become investigators for hire, they quickly become embroiled in a missing treaty and a Bolshevik conspiracy.
Director: Tony Wharmby | Stars: James Warwick, Francesca Annis, Gavan O'Herlihy, Alec McCowen
Votes: 511
09-10-1983. Central. Agatha Christie's The Secret Adversary.
3. The Aerodrome (1983 TV Movie)
91 min | Drama, Sci-Fi
In the future England is ruled by a fascist government, and one day the leaders begin the construction of a heavily guarded, mysterious airport.
Director: Giles Foster | Stars: Peter Firth, Richard Johnson, Richard Briers, Dominic Jephcott
Votes: 33
13-12-1983 BBC1.
4. Separate Tables (1983 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 112 min | Drama
The arrival of a beautiful model stirs up the guests of a peaceful small-town hotel where most of them hide from their troubles; secrets, infatuations, and lies emerge.
Directors: John Schlesinger, Ken Price | Stars: Julie Christie, Alan Bates, Claire Bloom, Irene Worth
Votes: 220
02-01-1984 Central.
5. An Englishman Abroad (1983 TV Movie)
61 min | Drama
The actress Coral Browne travels to Moscow and meets a mysterious Englishman. It turns out that he's the notorious spy Guy Burgess.
Director: John Schlesinger | Stars: Alan Bates, Coral Browne, Charles Gray, Harold Innocent
Votes: 618
22-01-1984 BBC2.
6. Edwin (1984 TV Movie)
90 min | Drama
Touching comedy about a high court judge, now retired to his English countryside home, who resolves to end years of suspicion about his wife's fidelity and the true paternity of their son.
Director: Rodney Bennett | Stars: Alec Guinness, Renée Asherson, Paul Rogers
Votes: 78
03-05-1984 C4.
7. Threads (1984 TV Movie)
TV-MA | 112 min | Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
The effects of a nuclear holocaust on the working class city of Sheffield, England and the eventual long-term effects of nuclear war on civilization.
Director: Mick Jackson | Stars: Karen Meagher, Reece Dinsdale, David Brierly, Rita May
Votes: 20,128
23-09-1984 BBC2.
8. A Profile of Arthur J. Mason (1984 TV Movie)
Drama
After years of being a butler, Arthur J. Mason finds himself a celebrity at the age of 63. A novel he wrote 36 years ago has been discovered and published to great acclaim. A TV crew go to ... See full summary »
Director: Michael Whyte | Stars: Charles Gray, Bernard Hepton, Cherie Lunghi
18-10-1984 C4.
9. The Ebony Tower (1984 TV Movie)
80 min | Drama
A young artist goes to interview an older painter who lives in the south of France with two young women. He gets caught up in the painter's Bohemian lifestyle and begins to examine his own attitudes towards life and art.
Director: Robert Knights | Stars: Laurence Olivier, Roger Rees, Greta Scacchi, Toyah Willcox
Votes: 222
09-12-1984 Central.
10.
Screen Two (1985–1998)
Episode:
Poppyland
(1985)
TV-14 | 90 min | Drama
He is a respectable pillar of London society who yearns for an idyllic existence away from the noise and the smoke. She feels hemmed in by the confines of an isolated fishing village and ... See full summary »
Director: John Madden | Stars: Alan Howard, Phoebe Nicholls, John McEnery, Richard Wilson
Votes: 16
Screen Two was umbrella banner for made for television films. 13-01-1985 BBC2.
11.
Screen Two (1985–1998)
Episode:
Unfair Exchanges
(1984)
TV-14 | 70 min | Drama
Mavis's plight will ring a bell in the heart of anyone who ever felt like murdering a telephone. Is some ghoulish mind behind the increasingly mysterious and sinister calls she gets? Is it ... See full summary »
Director: Gavin Millar | Stars: Julie Walters, George Lapham, David Rappaport, Robert Kingswell
Votes: 23
20-01-1985 BBC2.
12.
Screen Two (1985–1998)
Episode:
Knockback: Part 2
(1985)
TV-14 | 180 min | Drama
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 Sylvia have to face the fact that, for the ... See full summary »
Director: Piers Haggard | Stars: Pauline Collins, Derrick O'Connor, Michelle Mulvany, Timothy Jessel
Votes: 7
Original shown as part BBC2's Screen Two season; aired in two parts. 27-01-1985 BBC2.
13. The Rutles: All You Need Is Cash (1978 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 76 min | Comedy, Music
Charts the adventures of the prefab four, possibly the most famous band of all time.
Directors: Eric Idle, Gary Weis | Stars: Eric Idle, John Halsey, Ricky Fataar, Neil Innes
Votes: 6,949
3-3-1985 BBC2.
14. The Knowledge (1979 TV Movie)
89 min | Comedy, Drama
Four men attempt "The Knowledge" examination to qualify as London taxi drivers.
Director: Bob Brooks | Stars: Nigel Hawthorne, Mick Ford, Kim Taylforth, Jonathan Lynn
Votes: 270
19-08-1985 C4.
15. Callahan (1982 TV Movie)
30 min | Adventure, Comedy
Indiana Jones spoof, an unsold pilot. Callahan and his new assistant try to solve the world's problems through science.
Director: Harry Winer | Stars: Hart Bochner, Jamie Lee Curtis, John Harkins, Peter Maloney
Votes: 46
Pilot which never went to series. 18-10-1985 Central.
16.
Great Performances (1971– )
Episode:
Monsignor Quixote
(1986)
TV-G | 120 min | Music, Musical
In this modern adaptation of the Don Quixote theme based on a novel by Graham Greene, Quixote is an old Spanish village priest who travels through Spain with his friend, Sancho, the ... See full summary »
Director: Rodney Bennett | Stars: Alec Guinness, Leo McKern, Ian Richardson, Graham Crowden
Votes: 223
16-12-85 Central.
17.
Minder (1979–1994)
Episode:
Minder on the Orient Express
(1985)
TV-14 | 106 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
Saving deceased gangster Jack South's daughter Nikki from an attack by hired thugs earns "minder" Terry McCann a trip for two across Europe on the famous Orient Express. But a perfect ... See full summary »
Director: Francis Megahy | Stars: Dennis Waterman, George Cole, Glynn Edwards, Peter Childs
Votes: 291
25-12-1985 Central.
18. Tenko Reunion (1985 TV Movie)
110 min | Drama, History, War
In 1950, five years after their release from internment, the women return to Singapore for a reunion, unaware of the intrigue that is to involve them in treachery and murder.
Director: Michael Owen Morris | Stars: Ann Bell, Stephanie Cole, Veronica Roberts, Elizabeth Chambers
Votes: 154
26-12-1985 BBC1.
19.
Screen Two (1985–1998)
Episode:
Hotel du Lac
(1986)
TV-14 | 75 min | Drama
An authoress, whose career is more successful than her private life, arrives at a Swiss hotel and finds her life changing in unexpected ways.
Director: Giles Foster | Stars: Anna Massey, Denholm Elliott, Googie Withers, Julia McKenzie
Votes: 191
2-03-1986 BBC2.
20.
Screen Two (1985–1998)
Episode:
The McGuffin
(1986)
TV-14 | 100 min | Drama
From his window, film critic Paul Hatcher watches neighbour Mrs. Forbes-Duthie and her transvestite grandson, Gavin. He sees two men attacking them and Gavin falling to his death. The men were looking for something and believe he has it.
Director: Colin Bucksey | Stars: Charles Dance, Ann Todd, Mark Rylance, Bill Shine
Votes: 68
12-01-1986 BBC2.
21. Jessie (1984 TV Movie)
100 min | Documentary, Crime
The story of a Dr. Jessie Hayden, a female police department psychiatrist.
Director: Richard Michaels | Stars: Lindsay Wagner, Tony Lo Bianco, Celeste Holm, William Lucking
Votes: 55
03-04-1986 Central.
22. Shadowlands (1986 TV Movie)
92 min | Biography, Drama, Romance
Noted author and scholar finds love, then must endure its loss...
Director: Norman Stone | Stars: Joss Ackland, Claire Bloom, David Waller, Rupert Baderman
Votes: 614
04-05-1986 BBC2.
23. Death Is Part of the Process (1986 TV Movie)
150 min | Drama
The struggles of white intellectuals and their black activist friends in the apartheid of South Africa during the 1950s.
Director: Bill Hays | Stars: Art Malik, John Matshikiza, Jack Klaff, Estelle Kohler
28-09-1986 BBC1. Shown in two parts.
24.
Screen Two (1985–1998)
Episode:
Hedgehog Wedding
(1987)
TV-14 | Drama
Mr and Mrs Desmond Howard Jones invite you to the wedding of their daughter Mariella to Dominic Frazer.
Director: Tim King | Stars: Frederick Treves, Sheila Allen, Christoph Hargreaves-Allen, Marsha Fitzalan
Votes: 13
17-04-1987 BBC2.
25.
Screen Two (1985–1998)
Episode:
After Pilkington
(1987)
TV-14 | 100 min | Drama
What's happened to Pilkington? James doesn't much care, he's far more interested in renewing acquaintance with the girl he silently adored as a teenager - but maybe she knows something.
Director: Christopher Morahan | Stars: Bob Peck, Miranda Richardson, Reina James, Gary Waldhorn
Votes: 104
03-11-1987 BBC1.
26. Scoop (1987 TV Movie)
120 min | Drama
A reporter is mistakenly sent to report from the war front. There he meets other reporters who are waiting for a scoop. When one notable reporter goes missing, they all presume he found a scoop and go looking for him.
Director: Gavin Millar | Stars: Michael Maloney, Michael Hordern, Robert Eddison, Leon Sinden
Votes: 122
26-04-1987 Central.
27.
Horizon (1964– )
Episode:
The Race for the Double Helix
(1987)
97 min | Documentary
Watson and Crick race to find the structure of DNA before Linus Pauling, Maurice Wilkins, or Rosalind Franklin can find the key to unlocking the secret.
Director: Mick Jackson | Stars: Jeff Goldblum, Tim Pigott-Smith, Alan Howard, Juliet Stevenson
Votes: 716
27-04-1987 BBC2.
28.
Screen Two (1985–1998)
Episode:
East of Ipswich
(1987)
TV-14 | Drama
Seventeen-year-old Richard and his parents take their annual seaside holiday in a guesthouse on England's east coast in the 1950s. Julia, a teenage girl holidaying with her parents in a ... See full summary »
Director: Tristram Powell | Stars: John Nettleton, Pat Heywood, Edward Rawle-Hicks, Allan Cuthbertson
Votes: 238
23-06-1987 BBC1.
29. Cause célèbre (1987 TV Movie)
109 min | Crime, Drama
When a woman's husband is murdered by her lover, both are tried for murder. The prosecution claims that she is the mastermind behind the crime, but she has an ace up her sleeve.
Director: John Gorrie | Stars: Helen Mirren, Harry Andrews, David Suchet, David Morrissey
Votes: 215
23-08-1987 Central.
30.
Screen Two (1985–1998)
Episode:
The Vision
(1987)
TV-14 | 104 min | Drama
Veteran broadcaster James Marriner is persuaded to front a new big budget national family TV channel. But he begins to suspect that the channel is a front for something much more sinister and political.
Director: Norman Stone | Stars: Dirk Bogarde, Lee Remick, Eileen Atkins, Helena Bonham Carter
Votes: 63
10-01-1988 BBC2.
31. Mr. H Is Late (1988 TV Movie)
30 min | Comedy
A team of inept undertakers attempt to get a coffin to a funeral on time.
Director: Eric Sykes | Stars: John Alderton, Bobby Ball, Tommy Cannon, Norman Collier
Votes: 136
15-02-1988 Central.
32.
Theatre Night (1985–1990)
Episode:
The Master Builder
(1988)
138 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Ibsen's play is the story of Halvard Solness, Master Builder of a town in Norway. Solness is a successful architect but he's afraid of the being surpassed by those younger than himself. The... See full summary »
Director: Michael Darlow | Stars: Leo McKern, Jane Lapotaire, Miranda Richardson, Donald Churchill
Votes: 24
15-05-1988 BBC2.
33. Number 27 (1988 TV Movie)
74 min | Comedy
A contractor attempts to convince a 90-year old woman to sell her house but ends up falling in love with the house's history and befriending the old woman.
Director: Tristram Powell | Stars: Joyce Carey, Nigel Planer, Helena Michell, Edward Lyon
Votes: 33
23-10-1988 BBC1.
34. Season's Greetings (1986 TV Movie)
110 min | Comedy, Drama
Eight people attend a christmas party in hope of having a pleasant celebration, however it takes various awkward turns and ends with one of the guests leaving sooner than they thought.
Director: Michael A. Simpson | Stars: Peter Vaughan, Geoffrey Palmer, Barbara Flynn, Lesley Dunlop
Votes: 126
22-12-1988 BBC2.
35. CivvyStreet (1988 TV Movie)
57 min | Drama, History, War
Life in Albert Square circa 1939-1945.
Director: Julia Smith | Stars: Gary Olsen, Karen Meagher, Avis Bunnage, Linda Robson
Votes: 16
26-12-1988 BBC1.
36.
Screen Two (1985–1998)
Episode:
Defrosting the Fridge
(1989)
TV-14 | 95 min | Drama
An American football coach takes over the running of a no-hope English soccer team.
Director: Sandy Johnson | Stars: Joe Don Baker, Phyllis Logan, William Armstrong, Maggie O'Neill
Votes: 21
26-03-1989 BBC2.
37.
Screen Two (1985–1998)
Episode:
Will You Love Me Tomorrow
(1987)
TV-14 | 85 min | Drama
Freedom fascinates and frightens Jackie, encountering the real world for the first time in years, She clings to an ideal: 'What I want most in the whole world is to be in love and to be loved'. Reality can be harsh and unforgiving.
Director: Adrian Shergold | Stars: Joanne Whalley, Tilly Vosburgh, Phil Daniels, Iain Glen
Votes: 87
21-08-1989 BBC2.
38. Robin Williams: An Evening at the Met (1986 TV Special)
65 min | Documentary, Comedy
In this hilarious stand up comedy, Robin Williams is energetic, witty and again hilarious. It's the number one stand up comedy of all time.
Director: Bruce Gowers | Star: Robin Williams
Votes: 1,593
24-09-1989 VHS tape.
39. She's Been Away (1989)
103 min | Drama
Locked away in an asylum as a young girl because she was an embarrassment to her family, then forgotten, an old woman returns to what's left of her kin and to her memories.
Director: Peter Hall | Stars: Peggy Ashcroft, Geraldine James, James Fox, Jackson Kyle
Votes: 221
02-10-1989 Triangle Cinema.
40.
Screen One (1985–2002)
Episode:
The Mountain and the Molehill
(1989)
Comedy, Crime, Drama
It is May 1944, two weeks before D-day. Britain stands poised for the long-awaited invasion of France - thousands of troops wait anxiously for the orders to come for embarkation. MI5 is ... See full summary »
Director: Moira Armstrong | Stars: Michael Gough, Michael Quill, Demetri Jagger, Jacob Krichefski
Votes: 22
15-10-1989 BBC1.
41.
Screen One (1985–2002)
Episode:
Blore M.P.
(1989)
Comedy, Crime, Drama
Derek Blore MP enjoys both a happy successful political career and a sideline in the suburbs. When his two political lives become confused, with an added Russian complication, he finds a national scandal engulfing him.
Director: Robert Young | Stars: Maggie O'Neill, Timothy West, Alexei Jawdokimov, Sergei Rusakov
Votes: 12
22-10-1989 BBC1.
42. A Day in Summer (1989 TV Movie)
105 min | Comedy, Drama
Boring bank manager Peplow arrives by the early-morning train in the small Yorkshire Dales town of Great Minden on the day of their annual Feast (fair). He chances to meet Herbert Ruskin, ... See full summary »
Director: Bob Mahoney | Stars: Peter Egan, Jack Shepherd, John Sessions, Jill Bennett
Votes: 31
01-02-1989 Central.
43.
Theatre Night (1985–1990)
Episode:
Arms and the Man
(1989)
104 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
1865: Swiss captain Bluntschli fights as mercenary in the war between Bulgaria and Serbia. When his group's attacked by a few Bulgarian troopers, he learns that he's got the wrong ... See full summary »
Director: James Cellan Jones | Stars: Helena Bonham Carter, Kika Markham, Patsy Kensit, Pip Torrens
Votes: 126
16-04-1989 BBC2.
44.
Theatre Night (1985–1990)
Episode:
Knuckle
(1989)
Comedy, Drama, Romance
A young gun-runner returns to his hometown to find out what happened to his sister.
Director: Moira Armstrong | Stars: Emma Thompson, Tim Roth, Bernard Hepton, Geoffrey Church
Votes: 19
07-05-1989 BBC2.
45.
Theatre Night (1985–1990)
Episode:
Benefactors
(1989)
Comedy, Drama, Romance
David wants to sweep away acres of crumbling south London houses and replace them with a perfect low-rise set of homes. But he has reckoned without the opposition of his oldest friend.
Director: Barry Davis | Stars: Barbara Flynn, Michael Kitchen, Alan Rickman, Harriet Walter
Votes: 11
25-05-1989 BBC2.
46. Back Home (1989 TV Movie)
103 min | Drama, Family
During World War II, young Virginia "Rusty" Dickinson was sent to America for safety. It's now five years later and she returns to her native country, England. From the family she hardly ... See full summary »
Director: Piers Haggard | Stars: Hayley Mills, Hayley Carr, Adam Stevenson, Brenda Bruce
Votes: 151
23-07-1989 Central.
47. The Fifteen Streets (1989 TV Movie)
104 min | Drama, History, Romance
In northern England around 1900, the worker John O'Brien lives near poverty in a small house in the worker's district. He falls in love with Mary, the teacher of his highly intelligent ... See full summary »
Director: David Wheatley | Stars: Owen Teale, Sean Bean, Anny Tobin, Leslie Schofield
Votes: 573
20-08-1989 Central.
48.
Screenplay (1986–1993)
Episode:
Seeing in the Dark
(1989)
Drama
Tony has begun to panic that life may be passing him by. As his friends forge ahead, he feels stuck in a dead end job and trapped by his relationship with Judith. One day, he starts to be ... See full summary »
Director: Gareth Jones | Stars: David Threlfall, Sylvestra Le Touzel, Greg Hicks, Jane Bertish
13-09-1989 BBC2.
49.
Screen Two (1985–1998)
Episode:
Old Flames
(1990)
TV-14 | Drama
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 sad. This reluctant pair are caught up ... See full summary »
Director: Christopher Morahan | Stars: Stephen Fry, Simon Callow, Clive Francis, Miriam Margolyes
Votes: 37
14-01-1990 BBC2.
50.
Screen Two (1985–1998)
Episode:
Drowning in the Shallow End
(1990)
TV-14 | Drama
A young man's personal and professional life falls apart.
Director: Colin Gregg | Stars: Phoebe Nicholls, Paul McGann, Sam Preston, Caroline Guthrie
Votes: 13
28-01-1990 BBC2.
51.
American Playhouse (1980–1994)
Episode:
The Great American Fourth of July and Other Disasters
(1982)
56 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Matt Dillon plays a young Jean Shepherd (author and narrator of A Christmas Story). Through Matt, Shep tells several humorous stories about his teen years in an Indiana steel town.
Director: Richard Bartlett | Stars: Matt Dillon, James Broderick, Barbara Bolton, Babe Sargent
Votes: 253
11-03-1990 C4.
52.
Screen One (1985–2002)
Episode:
Frankenstein's Baby
(1990)
75 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
Paul quarrels with his girlfriend Jane about when to start a family and Dr Eva Frankenstein comes to his aid by helping him to become the world's first pregnant man!
Director: Robert Bierman | Stars: Nigel Planer, Kate Buffery, Yvonne Bryceland, William Armstrong
Votes: 22
09-09-1990 BBC1.
53.
Screen One (1985–2002)
Episode:
Sweet Nothing
(1990)
Comedy, Crime, Drama
A youth abandoned by his family joins a group of homeless people.
Director: Tony Smith | Stars: Lee Ross, Malcolm Sinclair, Adam Searle, Bob Mason
Votes: 28
23-09-1990 BBC1.
54.
Screen One (1985–2002)
Episode:
Sticky Wickets
(1990)
75 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
It's a big night at the New Dragon Inn when a coach of distinguished Germans arrives. But disaster looms - it's the local cricket team's annual fancy dress bash and the theme is the Second World War.
Director: Dewi Humphreys | Stars: James Bolam, Alun Armstrong, George Sewell, William Thomas
Votes: 17
14-10-1990 BBC1.
55. The Short & Curlies (1987 TV Short)
17 min | Short, Comedy
A short comedy by Mike Leigh about the romance between a young woman and a man who communicates only through jokes and humor. The story is told as a series of very short vignettes between ... See full summary »
Director: Mike Leigh | Stars: Alison Steadman, Sylvestra Le Touzel, David Thewlis, Wendy Nottingham
Votes: 1,173
02-01-1990 C4.
56. Ending Up (1989 TV Movie)
Comedy, Drama
A traditional rural English Christmas, reluctantly spent with the predominantly geriatric family (who all have their quirks and eccentricities) ends in tragedy after a practical joke goes ... See full synopsis »
Director: Peter Sasdy | Stars: John Mills, Wendy Hiller, Michael Hordern, Lionel Jeffries
Votes: 43
04-01-1990 Central.
57.
Screenplay (1986–1993)
Episode:
Antonia and Jane
(1990)
R | 71 min | Drama
Plain Jane Hartman hates her life. She's goofy, boring and only has sex if she reads Iris Murdoch novels out loud to her loopy boyfriend. Her oldest friend Antonia McGill knows about ... See full summary »
Director: Beeban Kidron | Stars: Saskia Reeves, Imelda Staunton, Patricia Leventon, Alfred Hoffman
Votes: 340 | Gross: $1.00M
18-07-1990 BBC2.
58.
Screenplay (1986–1993)
Episode:
Night Voice
(1990)
Drama
Clarence Flamer hosts a late-night talk show on regional radio station North Star Sound. A phone call he takes one night leads to his discovering a mortgage scam being run by a group of ... See full summary »
Director: Richard Spence | Stars: Alexei Sayle, Kevin Whately, Ruth Sheen, Lesley Sharp
Votes: 8
25-07-1990 BBC2.
59. Murder East - Murder West (1990 TV Movie)
Mystery
MURDER EAST - MURDER WEST, mini-series produced by John Goldschmidt for ITV and ARD on location in Berlin during the days following the opening of the Berlin Wall: This superbly made ... See full summary »
Director: Peter Smith | Stars: Jeroen Krabbé, Suzanna Hamilton, Joanne Pearce, Heather Canning
Votes: 37
30-07-1990 Central.
60.
Screenplay (1986–1993)
Episode:
The Englishman's Wife
(1990)
Drama
A woman and her daughter are stranded in a rambling old house deep in the countryside of County Tyrone. Their economic circumstances are hopeless, but it is friends and former business ... See full summary »
Director: Robert Cooper | Stars: Imelda Staunton, Adrian Dunbar, Denys Hawthorne, Laura Hill
Votes: 5
01-08-1990 BBC2.
61. Vincent & Theo (1990)
PG-13 | 138 min | Biography, Drama
The familiar tragic story of Vincent van Gogh is broadened by focusing as well on his brother Theodore, who helped support Vincent. The movie also provides a nice view of the locations which Vincent painted.
Director: Robert Altman | Stars: Tim Roth, Paul Rhys, Adrian Brine, Jean-François Perrier
Votes: 4,207 | Gross: $2.23M
Expanded version of cinema release. 13-08-1990 Central.
62.
The Play on One (1988–1991)
Episode:
Don't Hang Up
(1990)
80 min | Drama
When Sarah, a New York actress, calls Joe, a London playwright they begin a very special relationship conducted through trans-Antlantic phone calls. And both Sarah and Joe have very special... See full summary »
Director: Barry Davis | Stars: Rosanna Arquette, David Suchet
Votes: 54
23-08-1990 BBC1.
63. The World of Eddie Weary (1990 TV Movie)
98 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
Alex Conway is an actor who plays the part of 'Eddie Weary', a sympathetic, down-at-heel, shabby, Northern, working-class private detective, in a TV show. Except Conway is actually a ... See full summary »
Director: Alan Grint | Stars: Ray Brooks, Celia Imrie, Connie Booth, Anita Dobson
31-08-1990 Central.
64. Blood Rights (1990– )
55 min
A journalist investigates the disappearance of the drug addicted daughter of a prominent Tory MP.
Stars: Brian Bovell, Maggie Steed, Struan Rodger, Deobia Oparei
Votes: 13
24-10-1990 BBC2.
65.
Screen One (1985–2002)
Episode:
Happy Feet
(1991)
Comedy, Crime, Drama
The pupils of the Dora Jackson School of Dancing compete in the 1960 Classical Dance Festival in Scarborough. Fifties rock 'n' roll meets classical ballet with the arrival of Dora's ex-boyfriend Clifford and a mysterious ghost.
Director: Mike Bradwell | Stars: Phyllis Logan, Marjie Lawrence, Stephen Hancock, Derrick O'Connor
Votes: 14
01-01-1991 BBC1.
66.
Screen Two (1985–1998)
Episode:
They Never Slept
(1991)
TV-14 | 74 min | Drama
When plucky Corporal Pru Merriman reports to her superiors, she is catapulted into the murky world of the French Resistance.
Director: Udayan Prasad | Stars: Edward Fox, Emily Morgan, James Fleet, Elaine Ford
Votes: 23
31-03-1991 BBC2.
67.
Screen Two (1985–1998)
Episode:
Aimée
(1991)
TV-14 | 90 min | Drama
A white Mercedes, the English countryside, a cathedral city, a haunted figure at the wheel with an overnight bag in the boot. Frank Summers has run away from a career as a fabulously ... See full summary »
Director: Pedr James | Stars: Donald Sumpter, Juliet Stevenson, Simon Chandler, Christine Rose
Votes: 36
07-04-1991 BBC2.
68. A Murder of Quality (1991 TV Movie)
90 min | Mystery
Taken from the book by John le Carré, George Smiley rallies to the aid of his former intelligence colleague, Ailsa Brimley, to investigate a mysterious letter from a junior master's wife at... See full summary »
Director: Gavin Millar | Stars: Denholm Elliott, Joss Ackland, Glenda Jackson, Billie Whitelaw
Votes: 968
10-04-1991 Cent.
69. The Black Candle (1991 TV Movie)
103 min | Drama
Yorkshire in the 1880's: Joe Skinner marries Lily Whitmore, the woman he has long admired, to give a name to her illegitimate child by Lionel Fillmore, the opportunistic son of an ... See full summary »
Director: Roy Battersby | Stars: Cathy Sandford, Nathaniel Parker, James Gaddas, Bob Smeaton
Votes: 355
26-05-1991 Cent.
70.
Screenplay (1986–1993)
Episode:
Redemption
(1991)
90 min | Drama
After 16 years away Stan Peachey returns to his village. His wife still loves him but his sister wants revenge. What was his crime?
Director: Malcolm McKay | Stars: Tom Courtenay, Malcolm Storry, Lindsay Duncan, Miranda Richardson
Votes: 19
03-07-1991 BBC2.
71.
The Play on One (1988–1991)
Episode:
Misterioso
(1991)
Drama
On the death of her mother, a young woman in northern England learns that her father is actually her step-father. She embarks on a search for her birth father, finds him running a jazz club... See full summary »
Director: John Glenister | Stars: Suzan Sylvester, Jack Shepherd, Hugh Ross, Eilidh Alexander
Votes: 7
27-07-1991 BBC1.
72.
Screenplay (1986–1993)
Episode:
Amongst Barbarians
(1990)
75 min | Drama
Two teenage boys, Ralph and Bryan, are in a jail in Malaysia, awaiting death. They have been found guilty of smuggling drugs. 48 hours before their execution, their parents arrive to visit them.
Director: Jane Howell | Stars: David Jason, Rowena Cooper, Anne Carroll, Lee Ross
Votes: 36
21-08-1991 BBC2.
73.
The Play on One (1988–1991)
Episode:
Out of the Blue
(1991)
Drama
TV play about a video director.
Director: Nick Hamm | Stars: Colin Firth, Catherine Zeta-Jones, John Lynch, Cathy Tyson
Votes: 83
22-08-1991 BBC1.
74. Thatcher: The Final Days (1991 TV Movie)
Drama, History
The events leading up to Margaret Thatcher's resignation as Prime Minister in 1990.
Director: Tim Sullivan | Stars: Sylvia Syms, Bruce Alexander, Henry Ayrton, Christopher Benjamin
Votes: 27
11-09-1991 Cent.
75.
Screen One (1985–2002)
Episode:
Filipina Dreamgirls
(1991)
90 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
Several men from Wales travel to the Philippines on an arranged tour to meet Filipina women for romance and possible marriage. None of the women are the ideal Asiatic beauties the men ... See full summary »
Director: Les Blair | Stars: Bill Maynard, Charlie Drake, Geoffrey Hutchings, Lee Cornes
Votes: 75
15-09-1991 BBC1.
76.
Screen One (1985–2002)
Episode:
Prince
(1991)
75 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
A family is affected very greatly by their Alsatian dog Prince.
Director: David Wheatley | Stars: Sean Bean, Celia Montague, Jackie McGuire, Janet McTeer
Votes: 56
6-10-1991 BBC1.
77.
Screen One (1985–2002)
Episode:
Alive and Kicking
(1991)
95 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
Stevie "Smudger" Smith and his wife Marie are both addicted to drugs; he's also a dealer. The day he 'deals with' another dealer, she gives birth to a baby. The baby appears to be addicted ... See full summary »
Director: Robert Young | Stars: Lenny Henry, Robbie Coltrane, Annabelle Apsion, Geff Francis
Votes: 71
13-10-1991 BBC1.
78.
Screen One (1985–2002)
Episode:
A Question of Attribution
(1991)
70 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
Sir Anthony Blunt, who was a Soviet agent for 25 years, is routinely questioned and gives no answers, but is knighted and works as Director of the Courtauld Institute, and presents his ... See full summary »
Director: John Schlesinger | Stars: James Fox, Gregory Floy, David Calder, Edward de Souza
Votes: 267
20-10-1991 BBC1. 17-07-1992 BBC2.
79.
The Play on One (1988–1991)
Episode:
Changing Step
(1990)
90 min | Drama
During World War I, a hospitalized amputee falls in love with one of his nurses.
Stars: James Convey, Susan Wooldridge, Eleanor Bron, Antony Sher
10-11-1991 BBC2.
80. An Angel at My Table (1990)
R | 158 min | Biography, Drama
Janet Frame was a brilliant child who, as a teen, was misdiagnosed with schizophrenia. Explore Janet's discovery of the world and her life in Europe as her books are published to acclaim.
Director: Jane Campion | Stars: Kerry Fox, Alexia Keogh, Karen Fergusson, Iris Churn
Votes: 8,688 | Gross: $1.05M
Original version. 7 to 9th Jan 1992 C4.
81.
Screen Two (1985–1998)
Episode:
Common Pursuit
(1992)
TV-14 | Drama
British drama following the lives of a group of friends who met at university.
Director: Christopher Morahan | Stars: Stella Gonet, Kevin McNally, Tim Roth, Andrew McCarthy
Votes: 74
08-03-1992 BBC2.
82. Resnick: Lonely Hearts (1992– )
50 min
Elaborate sandwich and jazz loving DI Charlie Resnick tackles crime on the streets of Nottingham His skills are tested by a domestic murder case which has a devastating effect on his already troubled personal life.
Stars: Tom Wilkinson, Paul Bazely, Daniel Ryan, Michael Feast
Votes: 19
31.03.1992. BBC1.
83. A Masculine Ending (1992 TV Movie)
95 min | Mystery
While English professor Loretta Lawson is attending a conference in Paris, she stays the night in the flat of a friend's acquaintance. She discovers a sleeping man in one of the bedrooms, ... See full summary »
Director: Antonia Bird | Stars: Janet McTeer, Imelda Staunton, Paul Brooke, Suzanna Hamilton
Votes: 58
12-04-1992 BBC1.
84.
Screen Two (1985–1998)
Episode:
Memento Mori
(1992)
TV-14 | Drama
A group of old people is being frightened by mysterious phone calls.
Director: Jack Clayton | Stars: Stephanie Cole, Jacqueline Leonard, Renée Asherson, Michael Hordern
Votes: 208
19-04-1992 BBC2.
85. Thacker (1992 TV Movie)
85 min | Comedy
A retired army officer moves to the English countryside for peace and quiet, but soon finds himself battling witchcraft and a gang of thugs, among other unexpected dangers.
Director: Richard Spence | Stars: Leslie Phillips, Margaret Tyzack, Graham Crowden, Freda Dowie
Votes: 12
20-04-1992 BBC1.
86.
ABC Stage 67 (1966–1967)
Episode:
Dare I Weep, Dare I Mourn?
(1966)
50 min | Comedy, Drama, Musical
In West Berlin, a man who lived his whole life under the thumb of his father, must get the coffin with his father's remains across the border. However, he is in for a not so pleasant surprise.
Director: Ted Kotcheff | Stars: James Mason, Hugh Griffith, Jill Bennett, Kay Walsh
Votes: 37
25-04-1992 C4.
87. A Brief History of Time (1991)
G | 80 min | Documentary, Biography
A film about the life and work of the cosmologist, Stephen Hawking, who despite his near total paralysis, was one of the great minds of all time.
Director: Errol Morris | Stars: Stephen Hawking, Isobel Hawking, Janet Humphrey, Mary Hawking
Votes: 5,916 | Gross: $2.28M
04-05-1992 C4.
88. Angels (1992 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 78 min | Comedy
Three guardian angels help three souls evaluate their past lives.
Director: Philip Saville | Stars: Tom Bell, David Birrell, David Boyce, Phillip Brock
Votes: 35
02-06-1992 Central.
89.
4 Play (1989–1991)
Episode:
A Fair and Easy Passage
(1990)
Drama
Director: Tim Fywell | Stars: Yvonne Bryceland, Rosemary McHale, Ian Hogg, Sarah Neville
03-06-1992 C4. Part of a season of single television plays.
90.
Screenplay (1986–1993)
Episode:
Force of Duty
(1992)
80 min | Drama
RUC detective Simpson Gabby is consumed by guilt after he fails to act decisively in a moment of terror. As the pressure on him builds, Gabby gradually loses control of his life.
Director: Pat O'Connor | Stars: Donal McCann, Adrian Dunbar, Patrick Malahide, Ingrid Craigie
Votes: 15
08-07-1992 BBC2.
91.
Screenplay (1986–1993)
Episode:
Bad Girl
(1992)
Drama
A young single mother has to convince the authorities that she is a fit parent.
Director: George Case | Stars: Jane Horrocks, Lesley Manville, Tom Beard, Nicholas Woodeson
Votes: 21
15-07-1992 BBC2.
92.
Screen One (1985–2002)
Episode:
A Question of Attribution
(1991)
70 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
Sir Anthony Blunt, who was a Soviet agent for 25 years, is routinely questioned and gives no answers, but is knighted and works as Director of the Courtauld Institute, and presents his ... See full summary »
Director: John Schlesinger | Stars: James Fox, Gregory Floy, David Calder, Edward de Souza
Votes: 267
17-07-1992 BBC2.
93.
Screenplay (1986–1993)
Episode:
Bitter Harvest
(1992)
Drama
A young black British woman goes to the Dominican Republic as an aid worker. When she goes missing, her parents make an emotional journey to piece together her story.
Director: Simon Cellan Jones | Stars: Josette Simon, Sue Johnston, Rudolph Walker, Yul Vazquez
22-07-1992 BBC2.
94.
Screenplay (1986–1993)
Episode:
Journey to Knock
(1991)
105 min | Drama
Journey to Knock humourously follows three disabled men on their pilgrimage from the North of England to Knock shrine in Co. Mayo.
Director: David Wheatley | Stars: John Hurt, David Thewlis, Charles Simon, Pat Laffan
Votes: 36
12-08-1992 BBC2.
95.
Screen One (1985–2002)
Episode:
A Very Polish Practice
(1992)
Comedy, Crime, Drama
Dr. Stephen Daker feels finally settled in his life in Poland with his new wife Grete Grotowska and son Tomasz but he soon find things to be just as tumultuous, not least because Bob Buzzard is still around. And is that those nuns again?
Director: David Tucker | Stars: Peter Davison, Joanna Kanska, Adam Przedrzymirski, David Troughton
Votes: 63
06-09-1992 BBC1.
96.
Screen One (1985–2002)
Episode:
Born Kicking
(1992)
85 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
Roxanne (known as Roxy) is a star performer in her local soccer team. Her natural talent is noticed by local team owner Victor Grace who signs her up. However it's not so easy being the only female professional soccer star in the country.
Director: Mandie Fletcher | Stars: John Abineri, Betty Aird, Ian Arthur, Eve Barker
Votes: 37
20-09-1992 BBC1.
97.
Screen One (1985–2002)
Episode:
Running Late
(1992)
Comedy, Crime, Drama
Big-headed London TV show-host George Grant goes about his daily business of hurrying and barking at people when an urgent telephone call from his wife sends him on his way to meet her in a... See full summary »
Director: Udayan Prasad | Stars: Peter Bowles, Michael Byrne, Adrian Rawlins, Suzette Llewellyn
Votes: 48
11-10-1992 BBC1.
98.
Screen One (1985–2002)
Episode:
Losing Track
(1992)
85 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
In 1950, a man returns home to the UK from India after the death of his wife to build bridges with his son, but instead ends up building an elaborate model railway.
Director: Jim Lee | Stars: Alan Bates, Geraldine James, Michael Culver, Ben Holden
Votes: 26
15-10-1992 BBC1.
99.
Screen One (1985–2002)
Episode:
Trust Me
(1992)
80 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
Harry plays hoaxes on gullible tabloid journalists. But when he gets ambitious and tries to sell the faked memoirs of a contract killer to a publisher, things start to go seriously wrong.
Director: Tony Dow | Stars: Alfred Molina, Alphonsia Emmanuel, Hywel Bennett, Jill Gascoine
Votes: 33
25-10-1992 BBC1.
100. Fool's Gold: The Story of the Brink's-Mat Robbery (1993 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 93 min | Crime, Drama
A dramatized speculation of what happened in November 1983 when Micky McAvoy and some of his mates planned a heist and were surprised when they discovered they'd stumbled across a large ... See full summary »
Director: Terry Winsor | Stars: Sean Bean, Trevor Byfield, Larry Lamb, George Jackos
Votes: 219
14-11-1992 Central.
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