Simon Callow Movies

A romance that plays out in the splashy, sensational world of British tabloids.

Dodger and the gang return to London to pull off their biggest mission yet: to rob the Crown Jewels ahead of the Queen's Coronation.

In the early 1930s, Orson Welles ascends to unprecedented stardom while President Franklin Delano Roosevelt navigates a nation in crisis. As WWII...

A celebration of the life and career of Sir Harry Secombe, one of Britain's best-loved entertainers.

Leading activists and commentators explore the changes that have taken place since homosexuality was decriminalised in the UK in 1967 and the...

Celebrate 40 years of Amadeus in this exclusive featurette

BBC Play for Today. Maximillian Schreiber runs a series of gruelling motivational courses - all coming at a cost to the participants - including VAT.

Set and filmed at the iconic Maida Vale studios, The Dead Room tells the story of a long-running radio horror series and its veteran presenter and...

Several guests who are lesbian or gay go to a home for Christmas.

Travel back in time to a scene set in London in 1872, where a young Phileas Fogg is about to wager a fortune in the hope of completing an impossible...

Documenting the days and weeks preceding Boy George's appearance in a New York courtroom in June 2006 for cocaine possession and his subsequent...

The rapid rise and violent fall of rock band Stack of Corpses whose attempt to jump start their career by stealing another singer’s song ends...

Axel Heyst is an American recluse with a dubious past living in the Dutch East Indies port of Surabaya circa 1913. Staying in a German hotel there,...

William Shakespeare’s Sonnets are among the most beautiful and most fascinating poems ever written. All of the poems, together with their...

A shy, stuttering professor brings satanist Aleister Crowley back to life.

At a two-day business conference, God decides to romantically pair Terry, a moral crusader, with his "win-at-all-cost" antithesis, Mary. However,...

One of Shaw's "pleasant plays", The Man of Destiny is a one-act lighthearted comedy of egos and social hypocrisy. Set in 1796 in northern Italy, it...

Charting the evolution of public and political attitudes to homosexuality over the last four decades, from decriminalisation in 1967 to today's...

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...

Hidden camera show that sees devious parents subjecting their unsuspecting children to some outrageous pranks.