Robert Stephens Movies

A less-than-qualified and far-from-perfect priest is mistakenly named the new pope. As the pontiff, he must deal with Vatican corruption, the Mob and...

A feisty 17th-century Scotswoman falls in love with a despised landowner, to the dismay of her father.

This complex and puzzling French drama walks the fine wavering line between the fictional and the very real as it tells the tale of a strangely...

A dying man Lord Gordon asks his niece Ada to find his son in Africa whom he left many years ago.

Rich and languorous, this adaptation of George Eliot's classic tale perfectly evokes rural England in the 18th Century. But beneath the tranquil...

Soho strip club compère Sammy Lee struggles to stay one step ahead of the notorious bookie, to whom he owes £300.

Alan Bennett's play about the mid-life crisis of an estate agent.

The story of "The Tolpuddle Martyrs". A group of 19th century English farm labourers who formed one of the first trade unions and started a campaign...

Turn-of-the-century love story centered around a young doctor and the emergence of modern science.

At the end of WW2, a compassionate Dutch policeman helps smuggle a Jewish woman into British Palestine.

Dame Maggie Smith stars in the 1967 screen version of Franco Zeffirelli's exuberant National Theatre production of Shakespeare's romantic comedy, in...

Morgan, an aggressive and self-admitted dreamer, a fantasist who uses his flights of fancy as refuge from external reality, where his unconventional...

A tribute to the celebrated and enigmatic actress, with her life story told by those who knew her best, celebrating her much-loved appearances across...

A 16th-century clergyman's view breaks the Catholic Church apart.

After a lengthy voyage, Capt. Bart docks his ship in a London harbor and is given a new mission by British Admiralty: capture the notorious Henry...

In Torre del Lago, by Lake Massaciuccoli, Puccini is writing "The Girl of the Golden West" when his wife Elvira accuses him of a dalliance with their...

After years working in Brazil, middle-aged engineer Martin Boyner returns to Switzerland to marry his longtime friend, the recently widowed Rose...

A young female designer is on the brink of an affair with a married male executive at the company where she works. The film tells the story of their...

The jealous King Leontes falsely accuse his wife Hermione of infidelity with his best friend, and she dies. Leontes exiles his newborn daughter...

The story of the great Soviet composer Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975) and his life and career during the rule of Stalin.