Ralph Richardson Movies

David Storey's adaptation of his award winning play for the BBC's Play for Today series.

An ambitious coffee salesman has a series of improbable and ironic adventures seemingly designed to challenge his naive idealism.

A dramatised introduction to the 'Y Scheme', whereby potential young naval recruits could apply for the type of job they wanted before being called...

Phillipe, the son of an ambassador in London, hero-worships his father's butler Baines. His perception of the man changes when he accidentally...

The picture shows the industrialization of England, and the measures taken to clean up afterwards: a lyrical counterpart of Men In Danger, and a...

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...

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...

Anthony Richmond schemes to get the fortune of his tyrannical, wheelchair-using tycoon uncle Charles Richmond by persuading Maria, a nurse he...

Unable to recall the past 24 hours, a British bank clerk is the prime suspect for a robbery/murder.

Part of BFI collection "Portrait of a People."

In Victorian England, a fortune now depends on which of two brothers outlives the other—or can be made to have seemed to do so.

When the mastertape of McCartney's latest album is misplaced, he must discover its whereabouts in less than 24 hours or else risk losing his...

An English clergyman's neglect of his grown children, in his zeal to tend to his parishioners, comes to the surface at a Christmas family gathering.

This early, influential propaganda film blends documentary and studio footage to show the valiant efforts of the Royal Air Force to defend the...

Television broadcast of Bees on the Boat-Deck by J.B. Priestley.

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...

Drama describing the story of the building of Saint Peter's Cathedral, Vatican, Rome.

A barber gives in to temptation and steals some money, leading to blackmail and murder.

Lady Caroline Lamb, dissatisfied in her marriage, has an affair with the dashing Romantic poet Lord Byron.

The Silver Fleet was inspired by a true story from World War II. Holland now under German occupation, a Shipyard owner and Chief engineer Jaap van...