Robert Stephens Movies

A new teacher at a highly problematic comprehensive school feels that corporal punishment may just be inflaming the problems, and so begins to...

After a lengthy voyage, Capt. Bart docks his ship in a London harbor and is given a new mission by British Admiralty: capture the notorious Henry...

After several attempts to approach film star Cesar Valentin, writer Brian Smith takes matters into his own hands, shooting the actor in front of...

This complex and puzzling French drama walks the fine wavering line between the fictional and the very real as it tells the tale of a strangely...

At his mother's funeral, stuffy bank clerk Henry Pulling meets his Aunt Augusta, an elderly eccentric with more-than-shady dealings who pulls him...

The jealous King Leontes falsely accuse his wife Hermione of infidelity with his best friend, and she dies. Leontes exiles his newborn daughter...

Dame Maggie Smith stars in the 1967 screen version of Franco Zeffirelli's exuberant National Theatre production of Shakespeare's romantic comedy, in...

The story of "The Tolpuddle Martyrs". A group of 19th century English farm labourers who formed one of the first trade unions and started a campaign...

A feisty 17th-century Scotswoman falls in love with a despised landowner, to the dismay of her father.

Hugo is a brilliant turn-of-the-century scientist, loved and respected by his family and friends, admired by his colleagues. But he is a man quickly...

A dying man Lord Gordon asks his niece Ada to find his son in Africa whom he left many years ago.

A tribute to the celebrated and enigmatic actress, with her life story told by those who knew her best, celebrating her much-loved appearances across...

The musician Orpheus descends to Hades to bring back his dead wife, Eurydice.

At the end of WW2, a compassionate Dutch policeman helps smuggle a Jewish woman into British Palestine.

A young writer in 1939 Warsaw faces the conflict of acting his age or relapsing into childhood during the brink of World War II. Based on the famous...

Turn-of-the-century love story centered around a young doctor and the emergence of modern science.

The story of the great Soviet composer Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975) and his life and career during the rule of Stalin.

Jan and Meg Citron are on holiday in Germany. Their car is stopped by the police. A simple traffic offence? But their seemingly innocent past is...

A 16th-century clergyman's view breaks the Catholic Church apart.

In Torre del Lago, by Lake Massaciuccoli, Puccini is writing "The Girl of the Golden West" when his wife Elvira accuses him of a dalliance with their...