Simon Callow Movies

A shepherd’s son befriends a dragon, who is more inclined to compose poetry than attack the frightened villagers.

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.

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

This star-studded gala celebrates the centenary of the birth of legendary Broadway composer Richard Rodgers. Rodgers' contribution to musical...

A gay young man is recruited into an illicit love triangle to watch a much older man’s sexual liaison, but ends up witnessing what turns out to...

A woman sets out a well-intentioned plan of bringing her dysfunctional family together in the wake of the family's matriarch, her mother-in-law.

An adaptation of David Garrick's 1747 afterpiece, this lighthearted comedy follows Miss Biddy Bellair as she pits her suitors against eachother in...

A broke and frustrated IT technician decides to embark on a one woman heist to steal valuable data worth millions on the black market.

Our hero Adam gets drawn into a web of intrigue as evidence is planted on him of a gay royal affair.

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

The story of an honest Lincolnshire farmer, hit hard by the credit crunch, squeezed by a greedy supermarket and struggling to survive. All his...

A love triangle is unraveled when a young painter is approached by an admirer who eases him into making sense of his relationship with his wife.

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

A diverse collection of horror shorts by several different film makers. A few are presented as trailers.

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...

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...

An exclusive featurette in which directors and fellow actors speaks about Maggie Smith's career and her way of working.

The documentary film Art of Freedom answers the most poignant questions on the phenomenon of Polish expeditions to the Himalayas. Poles have reigned...

Set during World War II, an upper-class family begins to fall apart due to the conservative nature of the patriarch and the progressive values of his...

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