John Standing Movies

Fifty years ago, a Home Office committee chaired by Wolfenden, then vice-chancellor of Reading University, recommended the decriminalization of...

The film follows Jack Hopkins, an aircraft designer with a passion for traction engines. His boss is eager to sell a new supersonic jet plane that...

A scientific group set out on a journey into space to find a magical creature. What they find is a killer computer on the ship they chartered.

An American student arrives in England for the wedding of his room-mate's sister.

Inspector Holloway is investigating a series of brutal murders in which a doll of each victim is found at the scene. The dolls, as it turns out,were...

She's new in chambers, and he's a troublemaker. But what 'is' the true status of the old lady's wartime marriage, and can the two young legal minds...

This classic war mini-series stars George Peppard and Michael York in a gripping tale of danger, intrigue, and a deadly secret that could determine...

A vaudeville star struggles with her addiction to pancakes.

London 1939. In the weeks before the beginning of the Second World War, the Say When jazz club keeps London's Shoreditch swinging. Run by Thomas...

When the Nazi high command learns in late 1943 that Winston Churchill will be spending time at a country estate in Norfolk, it hatches an audacious...

An aged Charlie Chaplin narrates his life to his autobiography's editor, including his rise to wealth and comedic fame from poverty, his turbulent...

Fleeing 1930s New York and leaving behind a chequered past, the giltzy divorcee Mrs Stella Erlynne travels to Italy's sun-dappled Amalfi coast. Mrs...

A young man travels to Prague to join his new employer, unaware that he is being used as an espionage courier.

Drama-documentary exploring the life of Jane Austen. Actor Anna Chancellor, a distant relative of Jane Austen, discovers the woman behind the...

An adaptation of George Bernard Shaw's play.

The young and promising genetics researcher Thomas Nielsen will stop at nothing to become the first person to identify the elements in man that...

Based on a Court Martial held aboard HMS Hibernia in Malta in 1893. The court endeavours to determine why, during fleet manoeuvres, HMS Victoria is...

A married man with two small children begins an affair with a beautiful young actress which quickly blossoms into a full blown romance, until she...

Harry Brown is a somewhat rough and wild university student, who has the ability to win friends, especially the underdogs like Phil who doesn't play...

Based on the official transcripts of the investigation that followed after the very suspicious notorious death in prison of one of the most important...