Movies: Bob Hoskins

When the British Amnesty shows finally resumed in 1987 after a six-year hiatus, the show format was retooled in an effort to take advantage of the growing number of rock musicians supporting Amnesty. Instead of the live show being primarily a comedy ...

A festive tale about two lost toys searching for a new home....

In Frankie Howerd's third Up... film it's World War I and he plays Lurk, an absolute cowerd, er coward. He's evading the call-up for all he's worth. But one evening he's hypnotised by a drunken hypnotist (Stanley Holloway) into being brave, but he fa...

The Making of 'Doomsday'...

A silent comedy. Two accident-prone plumbers go to fix the plumbing at a home for retired gentle-folk on the coldest day of the year in Finland. Everything that can go wrong for these plumbers goes wrong....

The story of Panamanian dictator, Manuel Noriega....

Outstanding comedian and musician Dudley Moore regales his spellbound audience in typical fashion with his hilarious edition of the long-running An Audience With series. Backed by a full orchestra - and interrupted by both Peter Cook and the Dagenham...

This 1976 BBC documentary sees Ken Campbell (and his Roadshow) investigate the origins and the development of the traditional British Christmas pantomime....

Brecht's company of actors tells the story of Bertolt Brecht: his theatre, plays, poetry and his life....

A historical adaptation of John Gay's 18th Century ballad opera, exuberantly performed for BBC television....

The gloriously glamorous Dame Edna entertains a celebrity audience in this 1988 special....

An elderly man's innocent friendship with an eight year old girl is tarnished by the assumptions of a community when the little girl goes missing....

The Metaliens, alien robots intent on galactic domination, encounter a major setback. Their enormous Space Saucer, 'Compromise', enters a black hole in a strange, uncharted region of Space, and collides with another craft – sending the Kleptonite Bal...

During WWII a youth deserts his country's army after a combat experience, but not before wounding his commanding officer with a knife in order to escape. The young man, now very emotionally distraught, dresses in women's clothes and eventually joins ...

Two female tourists are taken hostage by criminals who are chasing a man recently released from prison who knows the whereabouts of stolen money...

A behind-the-scenes documentary hosted by Joanna Cassidy on the making of Who Framed Roger Rabbit....

When EMI refused to produce Monty Python's Life of Brian, George Harrison founded Handmade Pictures so that he could see the film. This is the story of him and Handmade Films....

A documentary about the making of The Long Good Friday, including interviews with John Mackenzie, stars Bob Hoskins, Helen Mirren, Pierce Brosnan, producer Barry Hanson and Phil Meheux....

Sharkey, part of the sinister world of child trade, picks up Vlado, an orphan of war, dreaming of freedom and a better life. They embark upon a strange and enlightening journey through war torn Bosnia. As they struggle to get out of the country and f...

A short autobiographical film written by Dexter Fletcher....