Movies: Keith Barron

  • 1980
    Jessie

    Jessie (1980)

    Jessie

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    A woman starts work as a nanny to a mute boy in a Victorian household. The boy's growing attachment to her however causes greater problems than his original detachment to his family. Part of the 1980 season of BBC Play for Today....

    Jessie
  • 1974
    The Land That Time Forgot

    The Land That Time Forgot (1974)

    The Land That Time Forgot

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    During World War I, a German U-boat sinks a British passenger ship and takes the survivors aboard. After getting lost in fog, the submarine surfaces near the unknown island of Caprona, a lost world where they find dinosaurs and Neanderthals....

    The Land That Time Forgot
  • 1973
    Nothing But the Night

    Nothing But the Night (1973)

    Nothing But the Night

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    When various trustees of the Van Traylen Orphanage begin dying in close order, it's at first written off as a coincidence. But, when a school bus accident very nearly takes out three more of them along with a group of orphans, Col. Bingham and his pa...

    Nothing But the Night
  • 1970
    Freelance

    Freelance (1970)

    Freelance

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    A street-smart witness to a gangland slaying tries to beat the hit man at his own game....

    Freelance
  • 1973
    Only Make Believe

    Only Make Believe (1973)

    Only Make Believe

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    Playwright Christopher Hudson finds his medical problem hinders his writing. He employs secretary Sandra George and dictates his new play to her, but tensions soon develop between the two. As Hudson creates, scenes from his play are dramatized and in...

    Only Make Believe
  • 1975
    Good Salary, Prospects, Free Coffin

    Good Salary, Prospects, Free Coffin (1975)

    Good Salary, Prospects, Free Coffin

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    After two of her roommates disappear while out for a job interview, a woman answers a want ad for the same job....

    Good Salary, Prospects, Free Coffin
  • 1989
    Nineteen96

    Nineteen96 (1989)

    Nineteen96

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    Britain in the mid-1990s: a divided, violent nation where civil disorder and urban terrorism are on the increase. Scotland Yard detective Commander Jack Bentham is seconded to Wales to look into a series of shootings by police officers, and uncovers ...

    Nineteen96
  • 1980
    Ramp Ahead

    Ramp Ahead (1980)

    Ramp Ahead

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    Patrick Dench is a successful loudmouth barrister and professional womanizer who treats everybody with disrespect but still manages to bed every beautiful woman in sight....

    Ramp Ahead
  • 2011
    In Love with Alma Cogan

    In Love with Alma Cogan (2011)

    In Love with Alma Cogan

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    The film revolves around, Norman, a world-weary manager of a pier theatre in a seaside resort. Norman has worked in the theatre for all of his life, but will not accept that the local council, which own the theatre are planning to install more commer...

    In Love with Alma Cogan
  • 1986
    God's Outlaw

    God's Outlaw (1986)

    God's Outlaw

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    A dramatized biography of William Tyndale, the 16th Century reformer determined to translate the Bible into English, which illegal act set him at odds with the Catholic Church, Sir Thomas More and King Henry VIII....

    God's Outlaw
  • 1968
    It’s Dearer After Midnight

    It’s Dearer After Midnight (1968)

    It’s Dearer After Midnight

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    A two-hander, set in a fictional Northern city, featuring Keith Barron as a taxi driver and Sian Phillips as the customer he takes to a strip club in the city....

    It’s Dearer After Midnight
  • 2002
    Plain Jane

    Plain Jane (2002)

    Plain Jane

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    Drama set in 1911 about a love triangle concerning a father, his son and their maid, Jane....

    Plain Jane
  • 2010
    Last Tango in Croydon

    Last Tango in Croydon (2010)

    Last Tango in Croydon

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    An elderly man, Joe (Keith Barron) is lost, bored and tired of his Care Home existence. In steps young Joe, a bored, lost and smart kid on a trip to visit his Grandma in the home. After a chance meet, the two chat, young Joe and old Joe share a daydr...

    Last Tango in Croydon
  • 1965
    Fable

    Fable (1965)

    Fable

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    In Great Britain a reversal of African apartheid comes into place, and the country is governed by black people with whites as the subservients....

    Fable
  • 1997
    Police 2020

    Police 2020 (1997)

    Police 2020

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    In 2020, DCI Billy O'Connell is tasked with tackling an armed suspect who takes a group of Russian immigrants hostage in a lift after blaming the immigrant population for an outbreak of tuberculosis that killed most of his family...

    Police 2020
  • 1973
    Red Riding Hood

    Red Riding Hood (1973)

    Red Riding Hood

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    A repressed junior librarian, frustrated with looking after her sick father, finds herself drawn into a dangerous relationship with the man who might have murdered her mean-spirited grandmother....

    Red Riding Hood
  • 1966
    The Devil's Eggshell

    The Devil's Eggshell (1966)

    The Devil's Eggshell

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    The discovery of mysterious egg-shaped objects at the sites of a series of disasters lead people to believe that we are being attacked by alien beings, but it is revealed to be a conspiracy....

    The Devil's Eggshell
  • 1980
    The Best of Friends

    The Best of Friends (1980)

    The Best of Friends

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    What is friendship? Why do two grown men behave like egomaniac children or flustered prima donnas? And when they meet unexpectedly after ten years, how will things be?...

    The Best of Friends
  • 1965
    VOTE, VOTE, VOTE for Nigel Barton

    VOTE, VOTE, VOTE for Nigel Barton (1965)

    VOTE, VOTE, VOTE for Nigel Barton

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    Candidate Nigel Barton goes from idealism to cynicism as he becomes disillusioned and suspicious of hollow campaign promises....

    VOTE, VOTE, VOTE for Nigel Barton
  • 1975
    Grain Drain

    Grain Drain (1975)

    Grain Drain

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    A short film informing viewers about the dangers of grain silos. Part of BFI collection "Worth the Risk?"....

    Grain Drain