Michael Hordern

Miser Ebenezer Scrooge hates Christmas, but then gets a visit from his companion Jacob Marley, who has been dead for seven years. He urges Scrooge to change his life.

BBC presents the classic play by William Shakespeare. Michael Hordern and Derek Godfrey star. Exiled, Prospero lives on a desolate island with his daughter, Miranda. When Prospero's usurping brother sails by the island, Prospero conjures a storm that wrecks the ship and changes all of their lives.

The aging King Lear decides to abdicate and divide his kingdom in accordance with how much his three daughters say they love him. His youngest daughter refuses to answer and finds herself banished. The elder daughters plot a cruel betrayal against him which ultimately threatens the kingdom and the King's own sanity.

Mole, Rat, and Badger must figure out how to change Toad’s ways in this version of Kenneth Grahame's classic in stop motion model animation.

Harrington Brande (Michael Hordern), a British diplomat who recently broke up with his wife, is stationed in a small coastal town in Spain with his son, Nicholas (Jon Whiteley). Harrington is unreasonably possessive of Nicholas, and becomes jealous when he begins to form a close friendship with Jose (Dirk Bogarde), their gentle gardener. When Harrington decides to frame Jose for a crime to end their relationship, Nicholas becomes enraged and runs away from home.

In this absurdist comedy, the 20 British survivors of nuclear war are keeping calm and carrying on despite the wreckage all around them.

A poor doctor's daughter wins the hand of Bertram, the son of the Countess of Rousillon. Newlywed Helena is abandoned by a petulant Bertram who insists that she may not call him husband until she gets from him a ring and can bear him a child. Helena ever determined sets her plan into action to complete these impossible tasks and follows Bertram to Italy.

A group of young British guardsmen have to cover up a hit-and-run incident that occurred at the end of a night of drunken revelry. With Gabriel Byrne, Amanda Donohoe.

The heartwarming coming-of-age film set in the 1950s stars Reese Witherspoon as a 14-year-old girl who gets her first difficult lesson in love.

In Shakespeare's classic play, the Montagues and Capulets, two families of Renaissance Italy, have engaged in a bitter feud for generations. When Romeo Montague and Juliet Capulet fall desperately in love, not even bad blood can keep them apart.

Commandos, posing as German soldiers, parachute into a city to rescue a supposed allied General from a Nazi hideaway fortress that can only be reached by cable car.

With only a map tattooed on his son's head, a 17th-century pirate sets sail in search of treasure and freedom in this tongue-in-cheek comedy.

A bitter old miser who rationalizes his uncaring nature learns genuine compassion when three spirits individually visit him on Christmas Eve.

The death of King Henry VIII throws his kingdom into chaos because of succession disputes. His weak son Edward, is on his deathbed. Anxious to keep England true to the Reformation, a scheming minister marries off his son, Guildford, to Lady Jane Grey, whom he places on the throne after Edward dies. Once sat atop the throne, the young couple faces the dangers that come with great power.

In this adaptation of Dickens’s classic novel, a bitter old miser is given a chance at redemption when he is visited by three ghosts on Christmas Eve.

When a young woman is forced to be her step-family’s servant after her father dies, her fairy godmother sends her to a royal ball to meet a prince.

A rich merchant's beautiful daughter and her volatile older sister are courted by rival suitors in this rambunctious version of Shakespeare's comedy.

In the 1880s, a British-commanded Egyptian army is tasked with defending the capital of Sudan from an invading army comprised of Muslim zealots.

Zero Mostel, Buster Keaton, Phil Silvers and an all-star cast scam their way through this boisterous romp amidst gorgeous girls, mistaken identities, stunning surprises, cunning disguises and great Sondheim songs.