Robert Stephens Movies

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

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

A famous movie actor claims that he has written a book. As result, a real author, not a very well known writer, vengefully kills him but then dies as...

The compère of a seedy strip club struggles to keep one step ahead of the bookies to whom he owes money.

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

Hugo is a brilliant turn-of-the-century scientist, loved and respected by his family and friends, admired by his colleagues. But he is a man quickly...

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...

A new teacher at a highly problematic comprehensive school feels that corporal punishment may just be inflaming the problems, and so begins to...

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.

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

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

The story of Henry Purcell.

Rose Sellars is a middle-aged woman who falls in love with a widower. However, his children believe that their father is too old to start a new...

Playwright Charles Watson entertains his niece Lily by telling her about the adventures of Philibert.Both these people have something to do with...

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

A young writer in 1939 Warsaw faces the conflict of acting his age or relapsing into childhood during the brink of World War II. Based on the famous...

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...

Unbeknownst to him, a soldier is sent on a doomed mission because of the high likelihood of him divulging secrets if captured and tortured.

Upon her father's death, a woman comes into emotional and psychological conflict with her young lover, her overbearing sister and her alcoholic...