Ralph Richardson Movies

A barber gives in to temptation and steals some money, leading to blackmail and murder.

A London barrister believes the woman who spent the night in his hotel suite is the erring wife of his newest client.

When Hitler invades Poland, sports journalist Colin Metcalfe (Hugh Williams) is unexpectedly reassigned as a foreign correspondent in Norway. En...

Nora Helmer has years earlier committed a forgery in order to save the life of her authoritarian husband Torvald. Now she is being blackmailed, and...

A multi-award winning biography covering the life and career of legendary screen and stage actor/director Laurence Olivier.

An American student arrives in England for the wedding of his room-mate's sister.

After financial improprieties are discovered at the Eastern trading company where he works, Peter Willems flees the resulting disgrace and criminal...

This early, influential propaganda film blends documentary and studio footage to show the valiant efforts of the Royal Air Force to defend the...

'No Man's Land' is a play by Harold Pinter written in 1974 and first performed in 1975. In this 1978, TV adaptation, a seedy poet shows up at the...

Special introducing William Shakespeare to young people through sketches, readings and music.

Smiley Greevins is a cheeky, mischievous, imaginative little boy who lives in the small town of Murrumbilla in the Australian outback. His father...

An English clergyman's neglect of his grown children, in his zeal to tend to his parishioners, comes to the surface at a Christmas family gathering.

Part 1 of a documentary about when Alexander Korda was asked about who might replace him when he has resigned as a chief of the production of the...

A visiting American engages in a bold business promotion, the likes of which the British have not seen.

John Smith, a middle-aged married man, is made redundant by his employer; at a loss and despairing, his friend Harry Jones suggests applying to the...

In this promotional short for the feature film Doctor Zhivago (1965), director David Lean explains why he chose the performers for the leading roles...

When David Lean made his film Doctor Zhivago (1965), he realized that it would be impossible to do location shooting in Moscow. Instead, he found a...

A young man journeys from a difficult childhood to maturity, exploring social injustice, personal development, and the complexities of human...

Hedda Gabler has just come back from her honeymoon, married to boring but reliable academic George Tesman. Refusing to tie herself down in life and...

Part of BFI collection "Portrait of a People."