David SuchetFilmography

Generation Rx

Actors: David Suchet

Synopsis: Documentary filmmaker Kevin P. Miller (We Become the Silent: The Last Days of Health Freedom) takes an illuminating look at the increasingly prolific use of mood-altering drugs among youth in this incendiary film that ponders both the long-term effects on the individual, as well as the troubling Read More

Flood

Actors: Robert Carlyle, Jessalyn Gilsig, Tom Courtenay, Joanne Whalley, David Suchet

Synopsis: The citizens of London must grapple with one of the greatest environmental crises in British history, and the possible obliteration of the city itself, in Flood, a natural disaster opus from director Tony Mitchell (Supervolcano). In present day England, a colossal storm hits the North Atlantic Read More

Flushed Away

Actors: Hugh Jackman, Kate Winslet, Ian McKellen, Jean Reno, Bill Nighy

Synopsis: A previously pampered society mouse must fight his way back to the comforts of Kensington after he is sent spiraling into an underground world filled with scavenger rats and villainous toads in a fun-filled family adventure produced by DreamWorks Animation and Aardman Features and featuring the Read More

Poirot: Death on the Nile

Actors: David Suchet

Synopsis: David Suchet once again plays the part of Hercule Poirot in this adaptation of Death on the Nile. The detective must investigate the murder of Linnet Doyle, one of the wealthiest women in England. She is killed while on honeymoon with her new husband, who was once the fiancée of Doyle's best Read More

A Bear Named Winnie

Synopsis: Discover the true story behind author A.A. Milne's beloved children's character in this tale of the remarkable friendship between a Canadian soldier, and the cub that stood as a symbol of friendship and hope in a world plagued by war. It was during the early days of World War I that 34th Fort Read More

The In-Laws

Actors: Michael Douglas, Albert Brooks, Robin Tunney, Ryan Reynolds, Candice Bergen

Synopsis: Lots of people have misgiving about their in-laws, but in this offbeat comedy, a man discovers that his new son-in-law's father is significantly stranger than he's able to deal with. Jerry Peyser (Albert Brooks) is a well-meaning but slightly anal-retentive podiatrist who doesn't much care for Read More

Foolproof

Actors: Ryan Reynolds, David Suchet, Kristin Booth, Joris Jarsky, James Allodi

Synopsis: A harmless game among friends escalates into a dangerous game of wits against a master criminal in writer/director William Phillips' taut sophomore thriller. For seven years, Kevin (Ryan Reynolds), Samantha (Kristin Booth), and Rob (Joris Jarsky) have mastered the homespun game Foolproof, in which Read More

Henry VIII

Actors: Ray Winstone

Synopsis: The life of one of Great Britain's most influential and feared monarchs is dramatized in this lavish production, originally produced for British television. King Henry VIII (Ray Winstone) is a shrewd but ruthless ruler who is determined to sire a male heir who will succeed him on the throne. Read More

Pinocchio

Actors: Roberto Benigni, Nicoletta Braschi, Kim Rossi Stuart, Carlo Giuffré

Synopsis: Academy Award-winner Roberto Benigni adapts the classic children's tale by Carlo Collodi for the big-budget family-oriented comedy Pinocchio. In his usual fashion, Benigni directs and stars, this time as the little puppet boy made out of wood. The familiar story begins as a log of pinewood falls Read More

Poirot: Evil Under The Sun

Actors: David Suchet, Hugh Fraser, Philip Jackson, Pauline Moran, Michael Higgs

Synopsis: First filmed as a theatrical feature in 1982, Agatha Christie's 1940 mystery novel Evil Under the Sun was remade as a two-hour episode of the off-and-on British TV series Poirot. David Suchet is back as the infuriatingly brilliant and fussy Belgian detective Hercule Poirot, who after suffering a Read More

Poirot: Murder in Mesopotamia

Actors: David Suchet

Synopsis: Agatha Christie's Belgian detective solves another case in the A&E mystery Poirot: Murder in Mesopotamia. Hercule Poirot (David Suchet) takes a trip to the Middle East to visit his old friend, Captain Hastings (Hugh Fraser). While he is vacationing, Poirot is asked to investigate when an Read More

Live From Baghdad

Actors: Michael Keaton, Helena Bonham Carter, Lili Taylor, Joshua Leonard, David Suchet

Synopsis: As America geared itself for another possible armed conflict in Iraq, the HBO cable service offered a dramatization of events surrounding the 1991 Persian Gulf War. Originally telecast on December 8, 2002, Live From Baghdad recounted the efforts by the CNN network to be first on the scene when Read More

Poirot: The Mysterious Affair at Styles

Actors: David Suchet

Synopsis: Agatha Christie introduced one of her most famous characters, idiosyncratic Belgian detective Hercule Poirot, in her novel The Mysterious Affair at Styles, and David Suchet, who has played Poirot in a number of films produced for British television, takes the character back to his beginnings in Read More

The Way We Live Now

Actors: David Suchet, Matthew MacFadyen, Paloma Baeza, Cheryl Campbell, Shirley Henderson

Synopsis: The six-part British miniseries The Way We Live Now was adapted from the satirical 1875 novel by Anthony Trollope. The central character was Augustus Melmotte (David Suchet), a mysterious international financier of questionable parentage. Invading the uppermost circles of Victorian society Read More

Poirot: The Disappearance of Mr. Davenheim

Actors: David Suchet

Synopsis: After Inspector Japp is called upon to investigate the strange disappearance of a wealthy banker, Poirot (David Suchet) makes a five-quid wager with Japp that he can solve the mystery without even leaving his flat. After Hastings is dispatched on a number of bizarre errands, Poirot figures out the Read More

Poirot: The Lost Mine

Actors: David Suchet

Synopsis: During a Monopoly match with Hastings, Poirot is interrupted by an aristocratic banker to investigate the disappearance of a client. The client, who was supposed to sell the bank a map to a lucrative silver mine, is found murdered, and a young stockbroker is implicated in the crime. Poirot works Read More

Poirot: The Adventure of the Cheap Flat

Actors: David Suchet

Synopsis: When an arrogant FBI agent who has come to London to investigate the case of a nightclub singer-turned-spy dismisses Poirot (David Suchet) as a "gumshoe," Poirot is rather unimpressed. He finds himself getting involved in the case after meeting a couple who seem to have gotten a Read More

Poirot: Wasps' Nest

Actors: David Suchet

Synopsis: At a garden party he is attending with Hastings and Japp, Poirot (David Suchet) meets a young writer who happens to be the son of an old friend. The young man introduces Poirot to his fiancée. While jokingly reading the tea leaves in the young woman's cup, the sleuth sees something disturbing. Read More

Poirot: The Plymouth Express

Actors: David Suchet

Synopsis: Poirot is reluctantly persuaded by an Australian mining magnate to investigate a French count who happens to be the latest suitor of the magnate's daughter. Together with Hastings, Poirot observes the count at tea with the young woman, and watches as the count shows her some bearer bonds he claims Read More

Poirot: The Million Dollar Bond Robbery

Actors: David Suchet

Synopsis: Poirot (David Suchet) is called in to investigate a bank manager's close call with a hit-and-run driver. The manager, it turns out, has been chosen by the bank to carry a $1 million in Liberty bonds to New York on the maiden voyage of the Queen Mary. Someone is obviously out to stop him, and it's Read More

World's Most Beautiful Waterways: England 1 - Journey Through the Heart of England

Sabotage!

Actors: Stephen Fry, David Suchet, Dominique Pinon, Alexandra Van Der Noot, Santiago Segura

Synopsis: French history gets turned upside down in this lavishly mounted comedy with an international cast. As Napoleon (David Suchet) prepares for the Battle of Waterloo, he's nearly killed by an assassin. The attempted murder is foiled by Corporal Armani (Dominique Pinon), and a grateful Napoleon Read More

World's Most Beautiful Waterways: England 2 - The River Thames

Wing Commander

Actors: Freddie Prinze, Jr., Saffron Burrows, Matthew Lillard, Tchéky Karyo, Jürgen Prochnow

Synopsis: Based on a popular series of video games, Wing Commander introduces us to an elite fighter squadron in the year 2654. The Earth confederation is at war with a vicious race called the Kilrathi. The Kilrathi have captured a navigational device which will allow them to jump through worm-holes in Read More

RKO 281

Actors: Liev Schreiber, James Cromwell, Melanie Griffith, John Malkovich, Brenda Blethyn, Roy Scheider

Synopsis: When RKO Pictures began work on production number 281, no one could have imagined that they were making perhaps the greatest American film of all time. But the moment Orson Welles (played by Liev Schreiber) announced that he intended to make a film based on the life of tyranical multi-millionaire Read More

A Perfect Murder

Actors: Michael Douglas, Gwyneth Paltrow, Viggo Mortensen, David Suchet, Sarita Choudhury

Synopsis: A Perfect Murder is based on Frederick Knott's play Dial M for Murder, filmed by Alfred Hitchcock in 1954. Married to commodities trader Stephen Taylor (Michael Douglas), Emily Bradford (Gwyneth Paltrow) is romantically involved with artist David Shaw (Viggo Mortensen). Aware of this affair Read More

Sunday

Actors: David Suchet, Lisa Harrow, Jared Harris

Synopsis: Writer-director Jonathan Nossiter's first feature film is a moody exploration of assaults upon, and shifts in, personal identity. The movie's action all takes place on a Sunday in a poor section of the New York City borough of Queens. Oliver (David Suchet) is a newly homeless middle-aged man who Read More

The Phoenix and the Carpet

Actors: Jessica Fox, Ivan Berry, Charlotte Chinn, Ben Simpson, David Suchet

Synopsis: Previously adapted for British television in 1976, Edith Nesbit's 1904 children's novel The Phoenix and the Carpet was again brought to the small screen by the BBC beginning November 16, 1997. The plot remained the same, with five Victorian-era children coming into possession of an enchanted Read More

Executive Decision

Actors: Kurt Russell, Halle Berry, John Leguizamo, Steven Seagal, Oliver Platt

Synopsis: In this action thriller, a group of Islamic terrorists, led by Nagi Hassan (David Suchet), highjacks a 747 jetliner with 400 passengers aboard, but Lt. Col. Austin Travis (Steven Seagal), a United States intelligence agent, is convinced that this isn't an ordinary case of air piracy. His Read More

Moses

Actors: Ben Kingsley

Synopsis: The life of the reluctant Old Testament prophet is told in this made-for-television biblical drama. When the Pharaoh Ramses calls for the death of all Hebrew children, a mother puts her son Moses in a basket and sends him down the Nile to save his life. The baby is found by a princess and raised Read More

Deadly Voyage

Actors: Omar Epps, Joss Ackland, David Suchet, Sean Pertwee, Jean-Claude LaMarre

Synopsis: This made-for-cable thriller stars Omar Epps as Ofusu, one of nine asylum-seeking African refugees who sneak aboard a Russian cargo vessel en route to France. When the ship's captain (Joss Ackland) discovers the stowaways, he is reminded by his aggressively ambitious executive officer (Sean Pertwee Read More

Poirot: Dead Man's Mirror

Actors: David Suchet

Poirot: Jewel Robbery at the Grand Metropolitan

Actors: David Suchet

Poirot: The ABC Murders

Actors: David Suchet, Hugh Frasier, Philip Jackson

Synopsis: David Suchet stars as the fastidious Belgian detective Hercule Poirot in this made-for-TV adaptation of the classic mystery by Agatha Christie. A killer is on the loose who is toying with the great sleuth by sending him a series of letters in which he announces when and where his next crime will Read More

Poirot: Death in the Clouds

Actors: David Suchet, Philip Jackson

Synopsis: Belgium's greatest export since the waffle, master detective Hercule Poirot is on the case once again in this made-for-TV feature adapted from the classic novel by Agatha Christie. A devious blackmailer is murdered in the middle of an airline flight, and it's all but impossible to separate the Read More

Poirot: One, Two, Buckle My Shoe

Actors: David Suchet

Synopsis: Agatha Christie's popular sleuth Hercule Poirot (David Suchet) goes after the murderer of a dentist in the full-length feature One, Two, Buckle My Shoe. Poirot and Inspector Japp (Philip Jackson) investigate a murder and find the connection to a high-profile political figure. After finding the Read More

The Fool of the World and the Flying Ship

Synopsis: Here's a story that seeks to remind children that even the most humble of people can do well in life, especially if they have helpful friends. The story is based on an old Russian folk tale about a peasant boy who competes with others to win the hand of a princess in marriage. The story progresses Read More

Poirot: How Does Your Garden Grow?

Actors: David Suchet

Synopsis: Agatha Christie's fastidious Belgian detective is on the trail of evildoers once again in this made-for-TV mystery. Hercule Poirot (David Suchet) is attending a flower show where a pink rose is to be named after him when he's given a packet of seeds by an older woman. Poirot is later called upon Read More

Poirot: The Theft of the Royal Ruby

Actors: David Suchet

Poirot: The Veiled Lady

Actors: David Suchet

Synopsis: Following a jewelry heist, Poirot (David Suchet) is approached by an enigmatic veiled lady who requests his help in thwarting a blackmailer. His investigative tactics place him briefly on the wrong side of the law, and Poirot is thrilled to learn his fame as a detective has reached the criminal Read More

Poirot: Double Sin

Actors: David Suchet

Synopsis: Hastings is surprised when Poirot (David Suchet) announces his intention to retire and asks Hastings to accompany him on a trip to the seaside. En route, the two make the acquaintance of a young woman who discovers some valuable antiques missing from her possession. Hastings thinks that he's found Read More

Separation

Poirot: The Adventure of the Western Star

Actors: David Suchet

Synopsis: In this whodunit based on a novel by Agatha Christie, Hercule Poirot (David Suchet) is delighted to be entertaining a lovely Belgian film star one evening, while Chief Inspector Japp (Philip Jackson) is hot on the trail of a master jewel thief. When the actress confesses she's been receiving Read More

Poirot: The Cornish Mystery

Actors: David Suchet

Synopsis: In a small Cornish town, a wife suspects her dentist husband of slowly poisoning her because he's got the hots for his young, blond assistant. When Poirot (David Suchet) steps in to investigate, he finds that the wife is partially correct, but solving the real mystery is more complicated than it Read More

Don't Hang Up

Synopsis: Made for British television, Don't Hang Up offers one of Rosanna Arquette's best and least-mannered performances. She plays a New York actress, confined to her apartment by a physical handicap. David Suchet co-stars as a Londoner who suffers a mortal fear of crowded places. The two strike up a Read More

Poirot: The Kidnapped Prime Minister

Actors: David Suchet

Synopsis: Belgium's most famous detective comes to the rescue of his adopted British homeland in this mystery based on the novel by Agatha Christie. The Prime Minister of England has arrived in France for a major international summit meeting when he's kidnapped. Hercule Poirot (David Suchet) is called in to Read More

When the Whales Came

Actors: Paul Scofield, David Threlfall, Helen Mirren, David Suchet, Helen Pearce

Synopsis: In this English drama, set during World War I, a strange, deaf man, known to all as "The Birdman" (Paul Scofield), must enlist the help of young Daniel Pender (Max Rennie) and Gracie Jenkins (Helen Pearce) to prevent the narwhal whales from suffering abuse at the hands of the local islanders. Read More

To Kill a Priest

Actors: Christopher Lambert, Ed Harris, Joanne Whalley, Joss Ackland, David Suchet

Synopsis: One of the first films by Polish director Agnieszka Holland to gain international acclaim, this drama is a joint French-American production based loosely on the real-life story of the dissident Polish priest Jerzy Popieluszko. In the early 1980s, as the democracy and labor movement known as Read More

Poirot: The King of Clubs

Actors: David Suchet

Synopsis: When a theatrical impresario is murdered, the prime suspect is the young starlet he had taken under his wing, but Poirot suspects there is more to the case than meets the eye. ~ Mark Hockley, All Movie Guide Read More

Poirot: Incredible Theft

Actors: David Suchet

Poirot: Adventure of Johnnie Waverly

Actors: David Suchet

Poirot: Murder in the Mews

Actors: David Suchet

Synopsis: Poirot investigates a case that at first appears to be a suicide, but he soon begins to suspect foul play, although proving it is far from easy. ~ Mark Hockley, All Movie Guide Read More

Poirot: Adventure of the Clapham Cook

Synopsis: Agatha Christie's creation Hercule Poirot is called in to investigate the mysterious disappearance of a cook, but this is only the first of many strange events in a trail that ultimately leads to murder. ~ Mark Hockley, All Movie Guide Read More

Poirot: Four and Twenty Blackbirds

Actors: David Suchet

Poirot: Problem at Sea

Actors: David Suchet

Poirot: Triangle at Rhodes

Actors: David Suchet

Poirot: Third Floor Flat

Actors: David Suchet

Synopsis: Just as Poirot is feeling at a loose end because he has no case to work on, there is a killing in the very apartment building where he is staying and he is soon in the thick of another investigation. ~ Mark Hockley, All Movie Guide Read More

Poirot: The Dream

Synopsis: A leading businessman consults Hercule Poirot when he begins to have terrifying nightmares and finds that they have a more tangible significance as far as his well-being is concerned. ~ Mark Hockley, All Movie Guide Read More

Poirot [TV Series]

Synopsis: The great, and always perfectly attired Belgian private detective Hercule Poirot, who came to England in 1914 as a refugee, solves numerous puzzling mysteries in this series. Poirot and his sidekick Captain Hastings is one of mystery-writer Agatha Christie's best-loved characters, and this series Read More

A World Apart

Actors: Barbara Hershey, Jodhi May, Jeroen Krabbé, David Suchet, Paul Freeman

Synopsis: Cinematographer Chris Menges' first directorial effort, A World Apart was inspired by the lives of South African journalist Ruth First and her daughter Shawn Slovo (who wrote the film's screenplay). Barbara Hershey plays the fictional counterpart to Ms. First, Diana Roth, with Jodhi May as her Read More

Harry and the Hendersons

Actors: John Lithgow, Melinda Dillon, Margaret Langrick, Joshua Rudoy, Kevin Peter Hall

Synopsis: While vacationing in the Pacific Northwest, the Henderson clan's dad George (John Lithgow), mom Nancy (Melinda Dillon), daughter Sarah (Margaret Langrick) and son Ernie (Joshua Rudroy) accidently run over a strange animal with their car, and when they get out to see what it is, they find the Read More

The Last Innocent Man

Actors: Ed Harris, Roxanne Hart, David Suchet, Bruce McGill, Darrell Larson

Synopsis: Filmed in Portland, Oregon, The Last Innocent Man stars Ed Harris as an adroit criminal lawyer. Having gotten several obviously guilty clients off the hook, Harris suffers a conscience attack and takes a few months off to get his act together. He is pulled out of his sabbatical by his girl friend Roxanna Hart Read More

Cause Célèbre

Actors: Helen Mirren, David Suchet

Synopsis: When the ailing husband of an adulterous wife is discovered bludgeoned to death and suspicions fall on the older woman's young lover, the newly widowed woman claims that it was she who was solely responsible for the death despite evidence that points to the contrary in this dramatic account of Read More

Iron Eagle

Actors: Shawnee Smith, Louis Gossett, Jr., Jason Gedrick, David Suchet, Tim Thomerson, Larry B. Scott, Robbie Rist

Synopsis: A seat-of-the-pants militia attitude gets a boost from this conventional drama about the heroics of a teen son anxious to free his father from captivity in a small Middle Eastern nation. Doug's (Jason Gedrick) father is an Air Force pilot who was shot down on a mission near the border of an Arab Read More

Crime of Honor

Synopsis: This drama is set within the international corporate world and centers on a highly principled executive for an international drug-manufacturer who just prior to his retirement decides to blow the whistle on his dishonest colleagues who have involved themselves in the illegal South American drug Read More

A Song for Europe

Actors: David Suchet, Maria Schneider, Reinhard Glemnitz, Georges Claisse

Synopsis: This informative and disturbing docudrama is about the legal persecution of a whistle-blower, a VIP in a drug consortium with corporate offices in Basle, Switzerland. This executive went to the European Common Market (now the EU) with evidence of his company's malpractice. As a result, he was put Read More

Gulag

Actors: David Keith, Malcolm McDowell, David Suchet

Synopsis: In this made-for-TV thriller, a sportscaster engineers a daring escape from a Soviet prison camp after being snared by a KGB scheme. Mickey Almon (David Keith), a sports star-turned-journalist, arrives in Moscow to cover an international tournament. Soon, though, he's tempted to play the hero once Read More

The Falcon and the Snowman

Actors: Timothy Hutton, Sean Penn, David Suchet, Lori Singer, Pat Hingle

Synopsis: John Schlesinger directed this fact-based drama - adapted from Robert Lindsay's bestseller of the same title -- about two Californians, friends since boyhood, who are caught selling government secrets to the Soviet Union. Christopher Boyce (Timothy Hutton) is an all-American boy, studying for the Read More

Murrow

Synopsis: Daniel J. Travanti plays a glum, no-nonsense Edward R. Murrow in this made-for-TV biopic. We follow Murrow's rise to prominence as America's foremost news commentator between the years 1940 through 1955, beginning with his on-the-spot radio coverage of the bombing of London. After the war, Murrow Read More

Mussolini: The Untold Story

Actors: George C. Scott, Lee Grant, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Virginia Madsen, Raul Julia

Synopsis: The story in this two-part TV biopic was probably "untold" mainly because it was untrue. According to the revisionist script by Stirling Silliphant, Italian dictator Benito Mussolini (overplayed by George C. Scott) may have been a fascist, a tyrant, a mass murderer and an intimate of Adolf Hitler Read More

Thirteen at Dinner

Actors: Peter Ustinov, Faye Dunaway, David Suchet

Synopsis: Agatha Christie's famous Belgian fussbudget detective Hercule Poirot (Peter Ustinov) is called in after a beautiful American actress (Faye Dunaway) claims that her husband, a prominent British lord, was murdered by a woman who looks just like her. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Muse

Actors: David Suchet, Frances Tomelty

Synopsis: A critic impacts the life of a talented man in this drama. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes

Actors: Ralph Richardson, Ian Holm, James Fox, Christopher Lambert, Andie MacDowell

Synopsis: Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes is a reverent retelling of the Edgar Rice Burroughs original, with a 1980s-sensibilities slant. Shipwrecked on the coast of Africa, Lord Jack Clayton (Paul Geoffrey) and his pregnant wife Lady Alice (Cheryl Campbell) attempt to survive in the Read More

Master of the Game

Actors: Dyan Cannon, Harry Hamlin, Ian Charleson, Cliff De Young, Fernando Allende

Synopsis:

Another of the many Sidney Sheldon novels given the TV-miniseries treatment in the 1970s and '80s, Master of the Game yielded a three-part, nine-hour extravaganza, with enough corporate and romantic intrigue to fill an entire television season. Covering nearly 100 years, the story (which Read More

The Little Drummer Girl

Actors: Diane Keaton, Yorgo Voyagis, Klaus Kinski, Sami Frey, Michael Cristofer

Synopsis: Based on John Le Carré's novel by the same name, this story about Charlie (Diane Keaton) a female double agent working between the Palestinians and Israelis, loses some of the excitement and in-depth characterization engendered by the long novel -- mainly because the novel is hard to capture in a Read More

Red Monarch

Actors: Colin Blakely, David Suchet, Carroll Baker, Ian Hogg, Nigel Stock

Synopsis: Presented in a series of ostensibly farcical or irreverent episodes without any particular connection to each other, and based on short stories written by Yuri Krotkov's own personal knowledge of Stalin, the Red Monarch sketches the infamous Russian dictator as something of a buffoon suffering Read More

Trenchcoat

Actors: Margot Kidder, Robert Hays, David Suchet, Gila Von Weitershausen, Daniel Faraldo

Synopsis: In this pseudo-farce, the heroine Mickey (Margot Kidder) takes two weeks off work to go to Malta and write a mystery novel and finds herself caught up in a series of real-life murders that she weaves into her progressing story. Caught between a parody, a children's film, and a who-dunnit, the Read More

Being Normal

Synopsis: Anna Carteret and David Suchet (TV's Hercule Poirot) star in Being Normal. The pair play a British couple who must come to terms with their son's physical handicap. "Denial" is the operative word in the early scenes, leading to several tense confrontations. According to one press release, Being Read More

The Missionary

Actors: Michael Palin, Maggie Smith, Trevor Howard, Denholm Elliott, Michael Hordern

Synopsis: Michael Palin wrote and stars in this comedy as The Reverend Charles Fortescue, an unassuming missionary called back to England after spending ten years in Africa teaching children in a native village. Upon arriving in London, he finds that his new assignment is to take charge of a slum mission Read More

The Hunchback of Notre Dame

Actors: Anthony Hopkins, Derek Jacobi, Lesley-Anne Down, Robert Powell, John Gielgud

Synopsis: While most people are familiar only with the Lon Chaney Sr. and Charles Laughton versions of Victor Hugo's The Hunchback of Notre Dame, this 1982 TV adaptation was the fourteenth filmization of the Hugo novel. Anthony Hopkins, barely recognizable under mounds of disfiguring body makeup, plays Read More

A Tale of Two Cities

Actors: Peter Cushing, Chris Sarandon, Flora Robson

Synopsis: Chris Sarandon does the "far, far, better thing" when he tackles the dual role of Syndey Carton and Charles Darnay in this Anglo-American TV adaptation of Charles Dickens' A Tale of Two Cities. The ubiquitous producer/screenwriter combination of Norman Rosemont and John Gay was responsible for Read More

Seesaw

Synopsis: A well-to-do family is torn apart by the kidnapping of their teenage daughter in this harrowing thriller starring Poirot himself, David Suchet. It was a regular Sunday afternoon until 17-year-old Hannah Price failed to return home as usual, and over the course of the next two days, her devastated Read More