Alan Bates Movies

An English playwright sacrifices his health waiting for his play's make-or-break opening on Broadway.

A young Christian boy attends a druid worship that is attacked by invading Irish tribes. Taken captive, he is taken back to Ireland to become a...

In a Yorkshire mining town, three educated brothers return to their blue-collar home to celebrate the 40th wedding anniversary of their parents, but...

Two childhood friends - Darren and Gary - re-unite for the funeral of an old acquaintance. Gary boasts of the life he's made in London during the...

Dr. Fischer has an unusual hobby — to expose human greed. How much humiliation will his fellow man endure enticed by valuable presents? Dignity...

A look at people who travel the world by air as part of their everyday jobs, including businessmen and women who fly around the world as easily as...

The reunion of a group of former medical students results in a flood of bitter memories.

A couple uses extremely black comedy to survive taking care of a daughter who is nearly completely brain dead. They take turns doing the daughter's...

During a train ride, an anxiety attack leads middle-aged illustrator John into an identity crisis. As his marital problems merge and blur into his...

Rupert Purvis jumps off a bridge onto a dog, causing problems for Blair, his superior at MI5. Blair must convince Hogbin, the agent who's been...

A short film based on a story by D.H. Lawrence in which two sisters meet after being apart for a long time.

S02E12 of “The Ray Bradbury Theater.” A ventriloquist is implicated in the murder of a man at a theater.

Alan Bates and Diane Cilento play an odd couple fleeing across fictitious European countries with NYC and the UN as their destination. A short film...

Theme of a powerful and respected man tearing his life to bits.

A barrister's complex life unravels as he juggles a court case and highly-strung mistress.

This promotional short film for the feature Far from the Madding Crowd (1967) takes us to the many locations in Dorset County, England, where the...

In 1916 author Marcel Proust is leading a reclusive life in Paris. He hires a quartet of musicians and befriends one of them, a wounded serviceman.

In 1950, a man returns home to the UK from India after the death of his wife to build bridges with his son, but instead ends up building an elaborate...

An author writes to his old schoolmate, telling him he is going to reveal a secret they have shared since the 1950s.

Adapted from the D. H. Lawrence novel this tells the romantic story of Siegmund and Helena. Siegmund, an orchestral violinist who is married with...