Movies: Peter Hall

  • 1970
    Perfect Friday

    Perfect Friday (1970)

    Perfect Friday

    6.11970HD

    The deputy manager of a London bank has worked out a way to rob the branch of £200,000. When he becomes involved with the attractive Lady Dorset he decides to go ahead with his plan. He needs her help and that of her philandering spendthrift husband....

    Perfect Friday
  • 1974
    When Mother Went on Strike

    When Mother Went on Strike (1974)

    When Mother Went on Strike

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    When Clementine Kemper, the mother of three children, is once again prevented from playing the piano and singing by her husband Harry, she packs her things and leaves....

    When Mother Went on Strike
  • 1965
    The Wars of the Roses

    The Wars of the Roses (1965)

    The Wars of the Roses

    8.51965HD

    A 1965 BBC adaptation of William Shakespeare's first historical tetralogy (1 Henry VI, 2 Henry VI, 3 Henry VI and Richard III), which deals with the conflict between the House of Lancaster and the House of York over the throne of England, a conflict ...

    The Wars of the Roses
  • 1973
    The Pedestrian

    The Pedestrian (1973)

    The Pedestrian

    6.41973HD

    When a German businessman causes a car accident with deadly consequences, the papers start digging into his past to find scandals. What they find causes him to reevaluate his own past during WW2 when he was in Greece....

    The Pedestrian
  • 1994
    Jacob

    Jacob (1994)

    Jacob

    6.51994HD

    Isaac's son Jacob deprives his brother Esau of his birthright and has to flee for his life. He finds shelter with his uncle Laban, but is himself deceived. Finally, Jacob has to face both his uncle and brother....

    Jacob
  • 1990
    Orpheus Descending

    Orpheus Descending (1990)

    Orpheus Descending

    3.21990HD

    Val Xavier is a drifter in 1940's Mississippi who brings new life to an Italian immigrant woman trapped in a loveless marriage....

    Orpheus Descending
  • 1975
    The Last Word

    The Last Word (1975)

    The Last Word

    21975HD

    Leo, the owner of the stocking product "Discrete", has driven his company into the wall; the company is virtually bankrupt....

    The Last Word
  • 1973
    The Homecoming

    The Homecoming (1973)

    The Homecoming

    61973HD

    In a dreary North London flat, the site of perpetual psychological warfare, a philosophy professor visits his family after a nine-year absence and introduces the four men - father, uncle and two brothers - to his wife....

    The Homecoming
  • 1980
    Beethoven's Fidelio

    Beethoven's Fidelio (1980)

    Beethoven's Fidelio

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    Sir Peter Hall's remarkably faithful interpretation of Beethoven's opera at Glyndebourne...

    Beethoven's Fidelio
  • 2003
    The Shakespeare Sessions

    The Shakespeare Sessions (2003)

    The Shakespeare Sessions

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    Major film and television stars re-enact famous scenes from the plays of William Shakespeare ....

    The Shakespeare Sessions
  • 2020
    Seek

    Seek (2020)

    Seek

    4.52020HD

    Two sisters have been driving all night when they come across a dilapidated roadside park and bathroom. Horrific events follow when one of them stumbles upon a strange message and a mischievous resident that wants to play a terrifying game....

    Seek
  • 1995
    Never Talk to Strangers

    Never Talk to Strangers (1995)

    Never Talk to Strangers

    5.21995HD

    Sarah Taylor, a police psychologist, meets a mysterious and seductive young man, Tony Ramirez, and falls in love with him. As a cause of this relationship, she changes her personality when she begins to receive anonymous telephone calls....

    Never Talk to Strangers
  • 1974
    Akenfield

    Akenfield (1974)

    Akenfield

    7.21974HD

    As a young man, Tom, prepares to leave the Suffolk village of his birth, voices and experiences from his family's past crowd in on his mind, weaving a poetic tapestry of the love of home and the longing to get away from it....

    Akenfield
  • 1968
    A Midsummer Night's Dream

    A Midsummer Night's Dream (1968)

    A Midsummer Night's Dream

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    Peter Hall's film adaptation of Shakespeare's comedy, filmed in and around an English country house and starring actors from the Royal Shakespeare Company....

    A Midsummer Night's Dream
  • 2005
    Spin by David Shrigley

    Spin by David Shrigley (2005)

    Spin by David Shrigley

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    Shrigley puts his personal spin on news stories and big events every day for a week by creating seven pieces of thought-provoking and entertaining artwork which offer an alternative, very personal interpretation on a topical news story. In the week-...

    Spin by David Shrigley
  • 1976
    Mother Ireland

    Mother Ireland (1976)

    Mother Ireland

    01976HD

    Edna O’Brien is interviewed by Russell Harty about her writing and her relationship with Ireland, as explored in her latest non-fiction book Mother Ireland....

    Mother Ireland
  • 1984
    Monteverdi - L'Incoronazione Di Poppea

    Monteverdi - L'Incoronazione Di Poppea (1984)

    Monteverdi - L'Incoronazione Di Poppea

    01984HD

    This is a finely tuned opera with music by the Italian composer, Claudio Monteverdi, libretto by G. E. Busenello, and the fine voices of contralto Maria Ewing, baritone Dennis Bailey, and several other sub-leads is not to be missed and will be fully ...

    Monteverdi - L'Incoronazione Di Poppea
  • 1980
    Fidelio

    Fidelio (1980)

    Fidelio

    101980HD

    Sir Peter Hall's remarkably faithful interpretation of Beethoven's opera at Glyndebourne. Elizabeth Söderström plays Leonore, with Elizabeth Gale as Marzelline and Curt Appelgren as Rocco....

    Fidelio
  • 1985
    Carmen - Glyndebourne Festival Opera

    Carmen - Glyndebourne Festival Opera (1985)

    Carmen - Glyndebourne Festival Opera

    01985HD

    Don José is a guard who begins an affair with the tempestuous Carmen. He is imprisoned and loses his job, then flees with her to the mountains. When the relationship starts to break down José refuses to acknowledge it and will not leave, even when he...

    Carmen - Glyndebourne Festival Opera
  • 1976
    British Reggae

    British Reggae (1976)

    British Reggae

    01976HD

    Originally made for the TV program, Aquarius. The 1976 British Reggae episode explored the London reggae scene and the African Caribbean community. It featured Peter Hall, Delroy Washington, Aswad, and Cimarons. The documentary was filmed in Stoke Ne...

    British Reggae