Simon Callow Movies
- 2011
The British Guide to Showing Off
The British Guide to Showing Off6.62011HD
Documentary about British artist Andrew Logan as he attempts to put on the 2009 edition of his Alternative Miss World. The film also presents a...
- 2016
There's Something About Romcoms
There's Something About Romcoms62016HD
The inside story of the best modern romcoms with Meg Ryan, Hugh Grant, Richard Curtis, Dermot Mulrooney, Rupert Everett, Jason Alexander, Stephen...
- 2010
The Unforgettable Harry Secombe
The Unforgettable Harry Secombe8.52010HD
A celebration of the life and career of Sir Harry Secombe, one of Britain's best-loved entertainers.
- 2007
Surveillance 24/7
Surveillance 24/74.12007HD
Our hero Adam gets drawn into a web of intrigue as evidence is planted on him of a gay royal affair.
- 2022
The Fringe, Fame and Me
The Fringe, Fame and Me02022HD
The Fringe, Fame and Me is the story of how a small Scottish arts festival that began 75 years ago this year became a national institution – a...
- 2005
Rag Tale
Rag Tale3.82005HD
A romance that plays out in the splashy, sensational world of British tabloids.
- 2012
Best Possible Taste: The Kenny Everett Story
Best Possible Taste: The Kenny Everett Story52012HD
Schoolboy Maurice Cole, growing up in 1960s Liverpool, is picked on for being effeminate but is already making his own comedy tapes, one of which...
- 2014
Rik Mayall: Lord of Misrule
Rik Mayall: Lord of Misrule7.52014HD
Comedian Rik Mayall died suddenly on 9 June 2014. Mayall's blend of rocket-fuelled physical comedy, surrealism, subversive satire and pompous punk...
- 2004
Thank You, Doctor Rey
Thank You, Doctor Rey5.72004HD
A gay young man is recruited into an illicit love triangle to watch a much older man’s sexual liaison, but ends up witnessing what turns out to...
- 2017
50 Years Legal
50 Years Legal7.22017HD
Leading activists and commentators explore the changes that have taken place since homosexuality was decriminalised in the UK in 1967 and the...
- 1993
Soft Top Hard Shoulder
Soft Top Hard Shoulder6.21993HD
Eight years ago, Gavin, the artistic son of a Scots-Italian ice-cream dynasty, turned his back on Glasgow and moved south to London to make his name...
- 1993
Camp Christmas
Camp Christmas3.51993HD
Several guests who are lesbian or gay go to a home for Christmas.
- 2008
Maggie Smith at the BBC: a portrait
Maggie Smith at the BBC: a portrait7.6672008HD
An exclusive featurette in which directors and fellow actors speaks about Maggie Smith's career and her way of working.
- 2005
Revisiting Brideshead
Revisiting Brideshead02005HD
Documentary with an affectionate look back at the classic Granada TV dramatisation of Evelyn Waugh's famous novel "Brideshead Revisited".
- 2022
Judi Dench: Our National Treasure
Judi Dench: Our National Treasure82022HD
A profile of the actress from a strict Quaker upbringing in Yorkshire, through her staunch determination to make it as a thespian. There's also a...
- 1987
Cariani and the Courtesans
Cariani and the Courtesans01987HD
When Cariani the painter falls in love with the beautiful girl who receives mysterious visitors in the rooms below, he is drawn into a web of danger...
- 2011
Art of Freedom
Art of Freedom9.22011HD
The documentary film Art of Freedom answers the most poignant questions on the phenomenon of Polish expeditions to the Himalayas. Poles have reigned...
- 1995
England, My England
England, My England51995HD
The story of Henry Purcell.
- 1990
Old Flames
Old Flames01990HD
Daniel is an obeying and high-flying barrister with the good life on his side. Nathaniel Quass is a rich and bizarre recluse, generous, obsessed and...
- 1993
Femme Fatale
Femme Fatale01993HD
Sicilian-born Maddalena has moved to a Devonshire village in England to escape volatile sexual tempers. She marries, but the lust she inspires in the...