Elizabeth Spriggs Movies

  • 1981
    The Cause

    The Cause

    The Cause

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    "I wish I could write ... about what Spain was like - a real cause. Not just Cornford, Hemingway and Orwell, but the ordinary blokes who went." A...

    The Cause
  • 1992
    The Old Devils

    The Old Devils

    The Old Devils

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    An adaptation of the novel by Kingsley Amis about a group of university friends reunited in retirement. Alun Weaver has found success as a celebrated...

    The Old Devils
  • 1979
    Afternoon Off

    Afternoon Off

    Afternoon Off

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    Lee, a Chinese man, works as a waiter in a hotel in England, despite speaking very little English. Told that a girl called Iris might be interested...

    Afternoon Off
  • 1980
    Richard's Things

    Richard's Things

    Richard's Things

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    Following her husband's death, a wife discovers and confronts her husband's lover. Their mutual pain, love, envy and jealousy bring them together in...

    Richard's Things
  • 2007
    James Ellis: An Actor's Life

    James Ellis: An Actor's Life

    James Ellis: An Actor's Life

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    Documentary tracing the life of James Ellis, one of Northern Ireland’s best loved actors.

    James Ellis: An Actor's Life
  • 1968
    Work Is a 4-Letter Word

    Work Is a 4-Letter Word

    Work Is a 4-Letter Word

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    Dreamlike satire about a young man who resists getting a job at the lone employing conglomerate in his dreary industrial town, but changes his mind...

    Work Is a 4-Letter Word
  • 1976
    Love Letters on Blue Paper

    Love Letters on Blue Paper

    Love Letters on Blue Paper

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    Why has Sonia taken to writing letters to her husband, posted to him in the letter-box just outside their house – love letters, on blue paper,...

    Love Letters on Blue Paper
  • 1984
    The Cold Room

    The Cold Room

    The Cold Room

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    A girl visiting modern day East Germany with her estranged father begins reliving the horrifying events that happened to a young girl living there...

    The Cold Room
  • 1980
    Fox

    Fox

    Fox

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    The thirteen-part series recounted the lives of the titular Fox family, who lived in Clapham in South London and had gangland connections.

    Fox
  • 1984
    Sakharov

    Sakharov

    Sakharov

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    Biography of Russian physicist & dissident Andrei Sakharov focuses on his first acts in his civil rights.

    Sakharov
  • 1982
    Intensive Care

    Intensive Care

    Intensive Care

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    When Denis Midgley's father is rushed to hospital, Midgley drops everything to be by his side. They've never really got on, so Midgley wants to be...

    Intensive Care
  • 1980
    The Enigma

    The Enigma

    The Enigma

    01980HD

    When John Fielding, MP, disappeared on the way home to his country estates he was, perhaps, cracking the first good joke of his life. Sergeant...

    The Enigma
  • 2004
    The Queen of Sheba's Pearls

    The Queen of Sheba's Pearls

    The Queen of Sheba's Pearls

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    Set in post-war England, a mysterious woman arrives at the Prettys' rural family home on the eve of young Jack's 16th birthday. Her remarkable...

    The Queen of Sheba's Pearls
  • 2000
    For My Baby

    For My Baby

    For My Baby

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    A young Austrian comedian struggles with the nightmare of his past and a dead sister who refuses to die by laying claim to his soul.

    For My Baby
  • 1979
    Julius Caesar

    Julius Caesar

    Julius Caesar

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    The assassination of the would be ruler of Rome at the hands of Brutus and company has tragic consequences for Brutus and the republic.

    Julius Caesar
  • 1981
    Fothergill

    Fothergill

    Fothergill

    01981HD

    John Fothergill, aesthete and scholar, becomes the proprietor of the Spread Eagle, in Thame, Oxfordshire, with the intent of turning it into the most...

    Fothergill
  • 1981
    The Kindness of Mrs Radcliffe

    The Kindness of Mrs Radcliffe

    The Kindness of Mrs Radcliffe

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    A day in the life of Mrs Radcliffe , who believes that the advice she so freely gives is done only out of kindness.

    The Kindness of Mrs Radcliffe
  • 1987
    The Devil's Disciple

    The Devil's Disciple

    The Devil's Disciple

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    Shaw turned to the classic Victorian melodrama to focus on the insincerity of much that his audience held dear, especially family and marriage. In...

    The Devil's Disciple
  • 1987
    Doctor Who: Paradise Towers

    Doctor Who: Paradise Towers

    Doctor Who: Paradise Towers

    6.51987HD

    The Doctor and Mel visit Paradise Towers, a residential complex that promises a peaceful life to its residents. However, the establishment is far...

    Doctor Who: Paradise Towers
  • 1968
    All's Well That Ends Well

    All's Well That Ends Well

    All's Well That Ends Well

    01968HD

    An adaptation directed by Claude Whatham for the BBC's Theatre 625 slot. Essentially a recording of John Barton's acclaimed Royal Shakespeare Company...

    All's Well That Ends Well