John Standing Movies

Based upon Wilkie Collins Victorian mystery, the gothic tale tells of a pair of half sisters whose lives end up caught in a grand conspiracy revolving...

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

A woman makes a powerful connection with a surprising stranger on her 30th birthday.

Winston Churchill understood the power of films, but the true extent of his use of cinema as a propaganda tool is rarely explored. In 1934, one of Bri...

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 i...

The Backstory of the Original Dancing Queen... as told by Sir John Standing.

The young and promising genetics researcher Thomas Nielsen will stop at nothing to become the first person to identify the elements in man that trigge...

She's new in chambers, and he's a troublemaker. But what 'is' the true status of the old lady's wartime marriage, and can the two young legal minds fi...

At their isolated hotel in the Canadian Rockies, a pair of teenage twin girls need to get over themselves and work together in order to defeat the mos...

A vaudeville star struggles with her addiction to pancakes.

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 su...

Shelley, a slightly-crazy heiress, discovers that her eccentric millionaire uncle Jason Carr was rather more eccentric than even she had thought--he w...

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

The Queen's Messenger is called to convey vital dispatches to a highly secretive conference called to combat the activities of modern poachers who thr...

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