Michael Jayston Movies

An Edwardian take on the Shakespeare play starring Laurence Olivier.

Documentary about Nagisa Oshima. It includes interviews with Oshima, Donald Richie, Roger Pulvers and Paul Mayersberg

Adaptation of the play by Oscar Wilde.

A woman has doubts about the intentions of her husband, even to the point where she thinks he might kill her.

Macbeth, the Thane of Glamis, receives a prophecy from a trio of witches that one day he will become King of Scotland. Consumed by ambition and...

While on a Pyrenees vacation in 1922, upright English gentleman Richard Chandos (Malcolm McDowell, A Clockwork Orange, Heroes) encounters the...

One-off comedy drama that follows the story of three World War II veterans: Harry, Frank and Albert. It is October 2000 and, at the age of 76,...

Play dealing with the life of British Army lieutenant Siegfried Sassoon, and his protests against the inhumanity of the First World War

London has always been a source of influence, inspiration and curiosity - Finisterre tries to identify the dreams that London holds for so many....

Set before the Battle of Trafalgar, this is the story of relationship between Admiral Lord Nelson and Lady Hamilton during the Napoleonic Wars.

Teenagers Sarah and Debbie run away from home and find themselves on the streets of London.

The rise of Charles Dickens, from poverty to prosperity, traced and reflected in his writings.

The events around the signing of The Armistice at the end of the First World War.

Sheila Hancock stars as Ellie; a woman gathering her strength on the morning of the hardest day of her life. Unwaveringly, she prepares to perform...

Recently widowed Laura Vallance returns home to England after many years living abroad. She knows few people in England, but she desires rest and...

King Lear, old and tired, divides his kingdom among his daughters, giving great importance to their protestations of love for him. When Cordelia,...

A scholarly king and his three companions swear off the society of women for three years, only to have a diplomatic visit from a French princess and...

An out of work man must take his son to a school poetry competition while accompanied by his friendly neighbours, of which, he's not too secretly...