Carl Davis Movies

A film about the career and methods of the master silent comedy filmmaker.

In the late 1930s, three reclusive middle-aged spinster sisters live on their run down family estate in Ireland. Otto Beck, a perpetual graduate...

A live recording from the Vaudeville Theatre in London where Simon Callow recreates the reading performances of Charles Dickens.

Part of the "American Masters" series; this documentary shows the career of filmmaking pioneer D.W. Griffith

The spirit of the season is overflowing in A Christmas Carol. As the clock strikes midnight join Ebenezer Scrooge on the journey of a lifetime to...

An alcoholic falls in love with a Salvation Army captain who is trying to help him.

A funny thing happens to Lurcio on the way to the rent-a-vestal-virgin market stall. A mysterious scroll falls into his hands, listing the names of...

Morgan and Catherine Norvell have their future plans ready. In Monte Carlo, their sailboat is stocked. From there they are going to sail to Malta and...

Steven Dyer, an executive working for a giant multinational drugs company, decides to report his employer for breaches of Common Market trading...

A perennial understudy takes matters into her own hands to achieve fame at any price.

When his father becomes a bomb victim, Jimmy leaves Belfast for his uncle’s farm in remote west Ireland. But even here there are links to the...

A Marxist-Leninist expelled from the British Communist Party joins the Revolutionary Party of the Third World, sleeps around, and attempts to rethink...

In the midst of World War II, Nazi officer Otto Schatz declares the execution of Jewish music-hall comedian Genghis Cohn. Many years later, Otto is...

Short opera. A boy falls in love with a girl after an Appalachian prayer meeting, but her father wants her to go to the dance with a local shyster...

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

In August 1913 a strike at a Cornish clay pit leads to Welsh police being sent to keep order. Having no other source of income, a striking miner is...

Armitage runs a chemical company that is on the verge of producing a gas that causes temporary disability. Clearly the military want it but it is...

A very proper Englishman becomes saddled with youngsters that he has to help escape Nazi Germany. Adaptation of Nevil Shute's novel.

Told in a series of recollections, the film takes the form of a one woman narrative that tells the story of Isabella and her family suffering in...

A british colonel and his wife decide to remain in India after the departure of the British raj in the 1940s.