Robert Stephens Movies

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...

One sixteenth-century clergyman's view breaks the Catholic Church apart.

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

A famous movie actor claims that he has written a book. As result, a real author, not a very well known writer, vengefully kills him but then dies as...

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

On the isle of Rhodes, Katherine, an expatriate English photographer, lives with her daughter. A young local wants to encourage tourism, so he...

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

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...

A little boy, obsessed with blindness and violence, slowly gets trapped in his own delusions.

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

A young female designer is on the brink of an affair with a married male executive at the company where she works. The film tells the story of their...

Alan Bennett's play about the mid-life crisis of an estate agent.

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

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

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...

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

Morgan, an aggressive and self-admitted dreamer, a fantasist who uses his flights of fancy as refuge from external reality, where his unconventional...

Rich and languorous, this adaptation of George Eliot's classic tale perfectly evokes rural England in the 18th Century. But beneath the tranquil...

The compère of a seedy strip club struggles to keep one step ahead of the bookies to whom he owes money.