Robert Stephens Movies

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

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...

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

At his mother's funeral, stuffy bank clerk Henry Pulling meets his Aunt Augusta, an elderly eccentric with more-than-shady dealings who pulls him...

A little boy, obsessed with blindness and violence, slowly gets trapped in his own delusions.

Eddie and Michael are two 16-year-old gay friends from Liverpool. Berated by his father for his camp behavior, Eddie runs away from his Liverpool...

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

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...

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...

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

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

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...

Jan and Meg Citron are on holiday in Germany. Their car is stopped by the police. A simple traffic offence? But their seemingly innocent past is...

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

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

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

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

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...

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...

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...