John Standing Movies

When her TV star husband Alex decides to divorce her so that he can start a career in politics, newly single mother Maddy goes shoplifting and ends...

The true story of mysterious deaf-mute boy Joseph in France just before the revolution.

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

The Falklands Play is a dramatic account of the political events leading up to, and including, the 1982 Falklands War. The play was written by Ian...

A dedicated teacher tries to reach out to juvenile delinquent students at a London alternative school.

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...

Four men involved in the investigation of a German millionaire at the end of World War II are found murdered with tiny dolls beside their corpses.

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

1956/57 - This episode reflects the Kim Philby spy affair.

American tourist Gene LePere (Lee Remick), on vacation in Turkey, is hounded by a street vendor into buying a carved head she doesn't want. Then she...

Adaptation of the play by Brandon Thomas.

When linguistics professor Henry Higgins boasts that he can pass off Cockney flower girl Eliza Doolittle as a princess with only six months'...

By order of Her Majesty's Secret Service, Captain Strong is given a dangerous assignment to deliver a delicate communication to the British...

In the year 2050, advances in medicine have resulted in a need for population control. People reaching the age of 100 must submit to a government...

Jean Hobley has a problem, trying to hold down a job that allows her to pick up her child from school.