Movies: John Normington

Parallel stories: 18th century Harrison builds the marine chronometer for safe navigation at sea; 20th century Gould is obsessed with restoring it....

The year is 1914 and Richard Hannay, Mining Engineer who is visiting Britain for a short time before returning to South Africa, is shocked when one of his neighbours, Colonel Scudder, bursts into his rooms one night and tells him a story that Prussia...

As a 13-year-old, fledgling writer Briony Tallis irrevocably changes the course of several lives when she accuses her older sister's lover of a crime he did not commit....

Twin sisters -- one a European jet-setter, the other an unhappy New Jersey housewife -- impulsively decide to swap lives and identities for a week, with unforseen results....

In a corporate-controlled future, an ultra-violent sport known as Rollerball represents the world, and one of its powerful athletes is out to defy those who want him out of the game....

Henry Wilt is a more or less failed teacher who fantasizes about murdering his dominant, non-attentive wife Eva. At a party who gets stuck in an inflatable doll and makes a complete fool of himself. Eventually, he dumps the doll in a hole at a buildi...

A French detective in London reconstructs the life of a man lying in hospital with severe injuries with the help of journals and a psychiatrist. He realises that the man had powerful telekinetic abilities....

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

Dr. Sam Bliss, a medical research scientist based at Cambridge University, investigates bizarre and unexplained deaths, with the help of his assistant, Dr. Melanie Kilpatrick....

A female prosecuting solicitor has the toughest of jobs on her hands when she has to take over from a male whose conduct is less than professional....

'My word is my bond. And I thought only schmucks do business like that.' Gino, a Russian gangster, is playing for higher stakes than most when he invests in the British stock exchange. Any drop in share prices could put his life in immediate danger....

Play on the problems of alcoholism....

Alan Clarke's standalone film first appeared as an episode of the BBC series "The Edwardians" and concerns notorious bon vivant, swindler, MP, public speaker, founder of the Financial Times and publisher of John Bull magazine, Horatio Bottomley....

A lawyer's agonizing journey to the breaking point of his private and professional lives as he becomes more and more alienated from everyone connected with him....

Jim MacLaine is now enjoying the nomadic 'gigs and groupies' life on tour with his band. When he achieves all his wildest dreams of international stardom, the sweet taste of success begins to turn sour....

Michael Marler, a successful businessman in London, is about to make his way to the top. After 37 years, the death of his father brings him back to his hometown of Liverpool, where he’s confronted with his lost Irish roots. He finds out that his fath...

Work Experience is a 1989 short film directed by James Hendrie. It follows Terence who is caught in a vicious circle. He cannot get a job because he has no experience, but he cannot gain experience without getting a job! The film won an Oscar for Be...

A young woman vanishes on a visit to an island with her husband and child, only to turn up decades later apparently unchanged in age or appearance and her once infant son is now older than she is…...

In the summer of 1947, Britain prepares to commemorate the wedding of Princess Elizabeth and Prince Phillip. To get around food-rationing laws, Dr. Charles Swaby, accountant Henry Allardyce and solicitor Frank Lockwood are fattening a black-market pi...

Set in the near future, civil servants are busy winkling out and repatriating all first generation immigrants. The attempt drowns in paper until the form-filling is curtailed in the name of efficiency....