Arthur Lowe Movies

On the eve of World War II, zany heiress Amanda Kelly travels by train to Switzerland. While passing through Germany, she meets a sweet elderly lady,...

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Cybill Shepherd

Dad's Army was a 1971 feature film based on the BBC television sitcom Dad's Army. Directed by Norman Cohen, it was filmed between series three and...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Arthur Lowe

London, 1940. Aspiring jazz musician and future comedy legend Terence 'Spike' Milligan reluctantly obeys his call-up and joins the Royal Artillery...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Jim Dale

John Cleese is hilarious as the descendant of Sherlock Holmes in this modern detective drama of international power politics and intrigue. Unlike his...

Genre: Thriller

Cast: John Cleese

When the Earl of Gurney dies in a cross-dressing accident, his schizophrenic son, Jack, inherits the Gurney estate. Jack is not the average nobleman;...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Peter O'Toole

In the hazy aftermath of World War III, the fallout from a 'nuclear misunderstanding' is producing strange mutations amongst the survivors, and the...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Ralph Richardson

A Shakespearean actor takes poetic revenge on the critics who denied him recognition.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Vincent Price

An ambitious coffee salesman has a series of improbable and ironic adventures seemingly designed to challenge his naive idealism.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Malcolm McDowell

Recruited by the Russians during their days at Cambridge, three young Englishmen rise to become high-ranked MI5 agents until their exposure in 1949.

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Anthony Bate

A documentary about the portrayal of Adolf Hitler in popular culture.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Neil McCaul

When developer John Goggin plans to build a civic center, only Emma Mannering's corset shop stands in the way, and she refuses to sell, so he sends...

Genre: TV Movie

Cast: Derek Francis

London at the turn of the century. Three men are on a mission from the IRA to steal all the gold in the vaults of the Bank of England. Norgate, their...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Aldo Ray

Fresh-faced young Michael Rimmer worms his way into an opinion poll company and is soon running the place. He uses this as a springboard to get into...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Peter Cook

A tragedy played in standard cops and robbers costume. A policeman faced with deep moral choices finds that once he's set foot on the path of...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Jill Adams

A despondent young woman travels home to the North of England.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Patricia Healey

Classic short British comedy, full of stars, about two workmen delivering planks to a building site. This is done with music and a sort of "wordless...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Eric Sykes

A porn-store owner orders some new stuff from his supplier, but the delivery address gets mixed with the address of the local Barclays Bank. Here,...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Ronnie Corbett

A stern father and lenient mother try to deal with the ups and downs of their four children's lives in working class Bolton, England.

Genre: Drama

Cast: James Mason

Four people go to great lengths to obtain the fortune left in a will by a very wealthy practical joker.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Ronnie Corbett

Terry Wogan presents a compilation programme celebrating the unique talent of Arthur Lowe. Featuring interviews with those who knew him, and footage...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Terry Wogan

"The Spider and the Fly is set in Paris during the cloud-cuckoo days before WW I. The storyline intertwines the destinies of three people. Guy Rolfe...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Eric Portman

A fading seaside resort attempt to revive its fortunes with a summer show.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Arthur Lowe

When Johnny Matlock whisks away a cold war secret from under the noses of Berlin's top secret agents, his every move is followed when he returns to...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Tom Conway

Classic British drama about the residents of a large terrace house in London between Christmas 1938 and September 1939. Percy Boon lives with his...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Richard Attenborough

William is a dashing and eccentric Scotsman whose charms rapidly overwhelm the sweet and naïve Ann, but she nearly as quickly begins to...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sam Waterston

A humorous look at the preparation and writing of reports. Details the essential elements of good report writing. Intended for management in...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Arthur Lowe

When his mother eloped with an Italian opera singer, Louis Mazzini was cut off from her aristocratic family. After the family refuses to let her be...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Dennis Price

US Army Officer Dan Adams, blinded during the war, is framed for a diamond smuggling rap. Upon regaining his sight, Adams goes after the real thieves...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Robert MacKenzie

Three workmen assigned to dig a hole in a road for an electrical cable run into problems with local officials who believe the hole is being dug in...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Arthur Lowe

Saville is told by a palm reader he is doomed to become a murderer at some future time. He decides to get the inevitable out of the way before his...

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Cast: Terry-Thomas

A money-to-burn and girl-chasing Texas oilman, and a sensitive, dignified entomologist find themselves in charge of a brood of wild kids whose...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: John Carroll

In an English boys' boarding school, social hierarchy reigns supreme and power remains in the hands of distanced and ineffectual teachers and...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Malcolm McDowell

Compilation of sketches featuring the much-loved funnymen Eric Morecambe and Ernie Wise. Includes 'Anthony and Cleopatra' with Glenda Jackson, 'Monty...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Eric Morecambe

Another stab at Henry Fielding's hilarious novel about the amorous misadventures of a dashing young man in 18th century England. The brilliant 1963...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Nicky Henson

An unscrupulous property developer wants to flatten the street to make way for new buildings. Householder George Roper is happy to take the offered...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Richard O'Sullivan

A young man becomes infatuated with the exotic Lady Pitts whose much older husband is not pleased.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Joan Plowright

Unknown to everyone but his shady Middle Eastern bosses, watchmaker Hawkins is actually a professional hired assassin with a predilection for killing...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Alastair Sim

In Northern England in the early 1960s, Frank Machin is mean, tough and ambitious enough to become an immediate star in the rugby league team run by...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Richard Harris

Reformed drug addict Tim Brett (David Hemmings) is vacationing in Italy with his aunt. When she is murdered, he tries to investigate. Soon his whole...

Genre: Thriller

Cast: David Hemmings

A pair of reporters try to discover the link between three unsolved, seemingly isolated murders. The only connection between them is they all took...

Genre: Crime

Cast: John Bentley

Composed of three shorts – Ride of the Valkyrie, The White Bus, and Red and Blue – from three of Britain’s most-celebrated...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Zero Mostel

Follows the creation of Lindsay Anderson's The White Bus (1968), from pre-production to the shoot and in post.

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Cast: Lindsay Anderson

A reporter tries to prove that his wife is not responsible for the murder of a famous newspaper columnist.

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Jeff Morrow

A motley group of soldiers are set loose on swinging England in an initiative test to collect a selection of esoteric items.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Michael Callan

A gang of aspiring bank robbers involve themselves with arsonists and purchase their very own fire truck in an attempt to create the ultimate...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Dave King

Britannia Hospital, an esteemed English institution, is marking its gala anniversary with a visit by the Queen Mother herself. But when investigative...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Graham Crowden

Against the wishes of his domineering mother, Albert Stokes attends a work party. But the evening is not the escape he was hoping for.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tom Bell

A young woman leaves her backwards hometown to go to London to find a runaway suitor. What she doesn't know is that she has inherited a strange...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Sally Ann Howes

After murdering his lover, cross-channel swimmer Joy Webster, Derek Bond attempts to do same to her other boyfriend, Sheldon Lawrence. John Ireland...

Genre: Mystery

Cast: John Ireland

Based on one of Robert Louis Stevenson's short stories, a young reprobate who visits a jeweler with the intention of killing and robbing him, but has...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Philip Saville

This movie debut for saucy British TV comic Benny Hill has Benny leaving his job as a sweeper after winning some money. He becomes a private...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Benny Hill

A vacationing journalist investigates the mysterious death of a composer and debunks the theory that it was suicide.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Alex Nicol

A very slight tale based on an original American story by Leon Ware centered on the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco. This adaptation is set on...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ian Maclaine

It is Mrs Capper's 50th birthday and for years she has quietly gone about doing her best to help others. Her kind gestures have not gone unnoticed...

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Cast: Beryl Reid

Profile of actress Wendy Richard's remarkable television career, featuring classic clips and contributions from colleagues.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Wendy Richard

British television film about the life of Charles Dickens directed by Ned Sherrin and starring Anthony Hopkins, Jenny Agutter and Arthur Lowe....

Genre: Drama

Cast: Anthony Hopkins

A shop assistant finds a case with £2000 in it, and doesn't quite know what to do with it.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Lionel Jeffries

David Shields refuses to go into agriculture and opts instead for ship building

Genre: Drama

Cast: Gordon Jackson

In 1971 the Rugby Football Union produced a promotional film detailing the history and culture of rugby union. It included the following re-enactment...

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Cast: Brian Jackson