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Carl Davis was an American music composer and conductor for film and television. He was the driving force behind the reinvention of the silent movie for this generation and wrote the score to some of the most loved and remembered British television dramas. Davis was a conductor and composer of symphonic works, as well as a notable writer for the ballet.
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Total trailers found: 95
21 December 2003
An alcoholic falls in love with a Salvation Army captain who is trying to help him.
11 July 1989
Teenagers Sarah and Debbie run away from home and find themselves on the streets of London.
01 January 1996
A live recording from the Vaudeville Theatre in London where Simon Callow recreates the reading performances of Charles Dickens.
04 February 1983
A dysfunctional couple remember a better time.
15 November 1989
A film about the career and methods of the master silent comedy filmmaker.
28 December 1980
A british colonel and his wife decide to remain in India after the departure of the British raj in the 1940s.
13 December 1983
In the future England is ruled by a fascist government, and one day the leaders begin the construction of a heavily guarded, mysterious airport.
16 March 2012
A perennial understudy takes matters into her own hands to achieve fame at any price.
06 May 2016
The story of Florence Foster Jenkins, a New York heiress, who dreamed of becoming an opera singer, despite having a terrible singing voice.
20 June 1984
Biography of Russian physicist & dissident Andrei Sakharov focuses on his first acts in his civil rights.
28 August 1981
In this story-within-a-story, Anna is an actress starring opposite Mike in a period piece about the forbidden love between their respective characters, Sarah and Charles.
31 December 1972
Armitage runs a chemical company that is on the verge of producing a gas that causes temporary disability.
29 September 1988
A London art broker goes to Copenhagen where he requires the services of a secretary fluent in Danish, English, and German.
04 November 1991
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 treasure.
29 November 1973
Set in the near future. As a consequence of an ecumenical movement (Vatican Council IV), the Catholic Church has joined other religions and has eliminated much of the original dogma of Catholicism.
01 January 1994
Liberation tells the dramatic story of the battle waged on two fronts during World War II - the Allied campaign to liberate Europe and Hitler's genocidal campaign against the Jews.
15 December 1999
For nearly a decade, Gilbert and Sullivan’s collaborations have delighted the English people. But in 1884, as a London heat wave cuts into the theater trade, their latest work, "Princess Ida", receives lukewarm press.
02 November 1990
The ultimate weapon, claimed to be safe for mankind, produces global side-effects including time slides and disappearances.
29 March 1985
This is a movie about the life of Israel's king David.
05 April 1976
Johnny has joined the army because he likes canoeing, but ends up in a war-torn city and is compromised into helping the enemy.
26 October 1976
When his father becomes a bomb victim, Jimmy leaves Belfast for his uncle’s farm in remote west Ireland.
15 April 1994
Scandal and mystery reign following the arrival of Edwina in a small Irish town populated entirely by widows.
30 November 1983
Passion comes calling when a man suffering through an unhappy marriage in 1920s England runs into first love.
18 June 1993
Joseph K. awakes one morning, to find two strange men in his room, telling him he has been arrested. Joseph is not told what he is charged with, and despite being "arrested," is allowed to remain free and go to work.
24 March 1993
Part of the "American Masters" series; this documentary shows the career of filmmaking pioneer D.W. h
03 March 1989
An English bon-vivant osteopath is enchanted with a young exotic dancer and invites her to live with him.
04 December 1994
Eustacia Vye, an exquisite beauty despairing at her boring life on an English moor, sets up a fateful lovers' triangle when she uses her wiles to entice two men, a dashing suitor and a successful man who made his name abroad and returned to his home on the heath.
01 June 1993
Morgan and Catherine Norvell have their future plans ready. In Monte Carlo, their sailboat is stocked.
01 January 1988
A British Company in the WWI trenches await an inevitable German attack in this 1988 adaptation of R.
07 April 1991
A dramatization of the events of Brown vs. Board of Education, the American court case that destroyed the legal validity of racial segregation.
04 March 1975
Englishman Robinson Crusoe, stranded alone on an island for years, is overjoyed to find a fellow man, a black islander whom he names Friday.
16 March 1982
Three postal workers and their dysfunctional families interact over cups of tea and Sunday dinner.
04 October 1991
A look at Paul and Carl Davis as they complete work on the Liverpool Oratorio, and rehearse the musicians for the world premiere.
29 March 2000
Stock broker Nick Carraway consents to play Cupid for his rich married cousin Daisy Buchanan and her former love, nouveau riche Jay Gatsby.
14 January 1972
A funny thing happened to Lurkalot, serf to Sir Coward de Custard, on the way to Custard Castle. Lurkalot sells lusty love potions and rusty chastity belts in the market place, but on this day Sir Graggart de Bombast arrives to sack the castle, and to get the lovely Lobelia Custard in the sack! Lurkalot must help Custard cream the knight in pining armour.
17 December 1975
Story of the life of Quentin Crisp, an Englishman who was brave enough to live his life according to his own style even in the hostile days of WW2.
25 October 1998
A shy and quiet World War II evacuee is housed by a disgruntled old man, and they soon develop a close bond.
30 December 1985
Adaption of George Eliot's novel. When a respectable weaver is wrongfully accused of theft, he becomes a virtual hermit until his own fortune is stolen and an orphaned child is found on his doorstep.
20 April 1984
The true story of jockey Bob Champion who overcame cancer to win the 1981 Grand National
01 January 1982
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 one of their intended victims has become a fellow conspirator.
17 July 2005
An original documentary from Turner Classic Movies, Garbo offers an intimate look at the life and career of the movies' most luminous, reclusive and mystifying star.
01 June 1991
Echoes That Remain combines hundreds of rare archival photos and previously unseen film footage with live action sequences shot on location at the sites of former Jewish communities in Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Poland and Romania.
09 November 1993
In the midst of World War II, Nazi officer Otto Schatz declares the execution of Jewish music-hall comedian Genghis Cohn.
05 November 1983
Macbeth and his wife murder Duncan in order to gain his crown, but the bloodbath doesn't stop there, and things supernatural combine to bring the Macbeths down.
07 October 1973
An Edwardian take on the Shakespeare play starring Laurence Olivier.
02 March 1986
Romantic novelist Edith Hope so horrifies her friends that they banish her to the solitude of a Swiss hotel.
04 April 1968
A national service NCO (David Warner) comes face to face with an embittered Irish Gunner (Nicol Williamson) who is determined to humiliate him.
04 September 1982
Writer and Director Mike Leigh discusses the techniques used to create his plays.
19 December 1979
Biopic of Malcolm Campbell, detailing his tumultuous life and extreme drive as he attempts to break the world speed records on land and water.
01 November 1971
Christopher Lee stars in this Amicus production of “Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde” where the names have been changed to Dr.
21 October 1974
When Young Phillip is separated form his mother and found by a black man named Timothy and his cat Stewcat, Phillip becomes blind and they all end up on an island.
03 March 1982
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 expected of a wealthy woman.
05 May 1989
Born to a rich landowner in the waning days of the Victorian era, Ursula Brangwen grows into a beautiful young woman full of imagination and ambition.
24 December 1999
Geraldine and her two daughters, Livvie and Angeline, are living rough on the streets on London. When their van blows up, they must find an alternative place to stay.
15 October 2016
This hand drawn animated film, based on the award winning graphic novel by Raymond Briggs, is an intimate and affectionate depiction of the life and times of his parents, two ordinary Londoners living through extraordinary events.
16 April 1984
Short opera. A boy falls in love with a girl after an Appalachian prayer meeting, but her father wants her to go to the dance with a local shyster who the father thinks will bail him out of his money troubles instead.
10 August 1979
Brecht's company of actors tells the story of Bertolt Brecht: his theatre, plays, poetry and his life.
01 June 1994
Narrated by George Stevens Jr., this documentary by Oscar-winning director George Stevens trains its lens on World War II in a way that's rarely been seen before: in full color.
11 March 1971
A funny thing happens to Lurcio on the way to the rent-a-vestal-virgin market stall. A mysterious scroll falls into his hands, listing the names of all the conspirators plotting to murder Emperor Nero.
03 March 1985
Biography of the legendary filmmaker directed by his son.