Alan Bates

During World War I, Scottish soldier Private Plumpick is sent on a mission to a village in the French countryside to disarm a bomb set by the retreating German army. Plumpick encounters a strange town occupied by the former residents of the local psychiatric hospital who escaped after the villagers deserted.

After his girlfriend's pregnancy forces him to marry her, a young man must adjust to his new life and contend with his domineering mother-in-law.

A traveler named Crossley forces himself upon a musician and his wife in Devon and uses the aboriginal magic he has learned to displace his host.

On any given day Ben Butley can shrug off everyone and everything with equal ease. But today, the disaster of his proudly misspent life threatens to dwarf his cynically fatalistic non-expectations. Arriving at his office, Butley is informed that his adored Joey is moving in with another man, his estranged wife is re-marrying, and his seemingly untalented colleague has been published ahead of him.

Celebrated Russian ballet dancer Vaslav Nijinsky begins to lose his mind when he has a scandalous affair with impresario Sergei Diaghilev.

Lindsay Anderson turns his acclaimed Royal Court Theater run into a riveting cinematic interpretation of David Storey's ferocious play. In their tiny Yorkshire house, God-fearing and hardworking Mr. and Mrs. Shaw welcome their sons home to celebrate the couple's fortieth wedding anniversary. But with each son's arrival, the Shaw's model blue collar family facade begins to chip away.

In an industrial Victorian town, the market's philosophy predominates over human sensitivity and represses true passions in this Dickens' adaptation.

In post-war London, a tug-of-war over a German shepherd exposes the secret relationship between a wealthy man and his young jailbird boyfriend.

At his father's memorial service, the son of a WWII spy hero reveals his dad's dark secrets from his military service days that have been hidden for more than 20 years and have torn their family apart.

The epic story revolving around the relationship between King Riyar & the beautiful Scheherazade, whose magical storytelling skills transport the ruler to a world of romance and adventures. TV-PG

A tale of torrid and forbidden love between a couple in the English countryside in the summer of 1900.

The uptight British heir to a Cretan mine learns about life and love from an exuberant Greek labourer while trying to restart his business and cure his writer's block.

This lively take on Mark Twain's masterpiece tells the story of a poor boy who dreams of being a prince, and a prince who longs for a normal life.

A woman who becomes a titled Lady after stealing her sister’s fiancé turns to highway robbery after she falls for a bandit she can’t ever truly have.

Based on the classic novel by Thomas Hardy, John Schlesinger’s 1967 adaptation of Far from the Madding Crowd has been fully restored, overseen by Nicolas Roeg (Don’t Look Now, The Man who Fell to Earth) originally the director of photography on this stunning classic. Featuring a star cast of Julie Christie (Doctor Zhivago, Don’t Look Now) Terence Stamp (The Collector, Superman) Alan Bates (Women in Love, The Fixer) and Peter Finch (Network, Sunday, Bloody Sunday).Headstrong and passionate Bathsheba Everdene (Julie Christie) unexpectedly inherits a large farm in rural Dorset. Struggling to manage the farm herself, she captivates the hearts and minds of three very different men: an honest and hardworking sheep farmer, (Alan Bates) a wealthy but tortured landowner (Peter Finch) and a reckless and violent swordsman (Terence Stamp). But as emotions become entangled, free spirited and innocent folly soon leads to devastating tragedy.

Story of a girl named Georgy, who marries a wealthy older man so that she can give her roommate's abandoned, illegitimate baby a home.

The Prince of Denmark plots his revenge when he unearths a duplicitous conspiracy behind his father’s death in this adaptation from Franco Zeffirelli.

In an industrial Victorian town, the market's philosophy predominates over human sensitivity and represses true passions in this Dickens' adaptation.