Ralph Richardson Movies

It is pouring with rain at one minute to midnight on Friday the thirteenth, and the driver of a London bus is peering through his blurred windscreen...

Nora Helmer has years earlier committed a forgery in order to save the life of her authoritarian husband Torvald. Now she is being blackmailed, and...

Domineering actor-manager Max Till takes the impoverished Maika Tamara under his wing, turning her into an overnight sensation. But as her fame...

World War II propaganda film.

Part of BFI collection "They Stand Ready."

An American student arrives in England for the wedding of his room-mate's sister.

A behind the scenes look at the making of the 1973 film “O Lucky Man!"

A visiting American engages in a bold business promotion, the likes of which the British have not seen.

In 1894, French officer Alfred Dreyfus is wrongly convicted for the treasonous acts of another man, Major Esterhazy. When investigations begin into...

A television interviewer is determined to get a coup on a dodgy cabinet minister.

Winifred Holtby realised that Local Government is not a dry affair of meetings and memoranda:- but 'the front-line defence thrown up by humanity...

'No Man's Land' is a play by Harold Pinter written in 1974 and first performed in 1975. In this 1978, TV adaptation, a seedy poet shows up at the...

Bulldog Drummond forms a gang to rescue his wife and thwart his nemesis, Carl Peterson.

Special introducing William Shakespeare to young people through sketches, readings and music.

The port city of Bristol, England, in the 1800s is home to Java Head, a sailing ship line company. The owner has two sons. One, a handsome seafarer,...

In this promotional short for the feature film Doctor Zhivago (1965), director David Lean explains why he chose the performers for the leading roles...

A multi-award winning biography covering the life and career of legendary screen and stage actor/director Laurence Olivier.

Adaptation of J. B. Priestley’s play.

When David Lean made his film Doctor Zhivago (1965), he realized that it would be impossible to do location shooting in Moscow. Instead, he found a...

John Smith, a middle-aged married man, is made redundant by his employer; at a loss and despairing, his friend Harry Jones suggests applying to the...