Stanley MyersFilmography

Middlemarch

In this 1994 BBC adaptation of George Eliot's novel, altruism, social reform, and romantic love struggle to survive against...

Heart of Darkness

Previously the inspiration for Francis Ford Coppola's Apocalypse Now (1979), the dark novella Heart of Darkness by Joseph...

Stalag Luft

The winner of the Ivor Novello Award for Television Theme Music in 1994, director Adrian Shergold's spoof of wartime escape...

Trusting Beatrice

Claude is a landscaper who is having a terrible day. He has been abandoned by his girl friend, humiliated by his boss, and...

The Summer House

Martin Sherman adapted Alice Thomas Ellis' novel for this comedy about a suburban Englishwoman who's about to settle on...

Sarafina!

Whoopi Goldberg stars in this musical take on the South African struggles against Apartheid in the mid-1970s, during the...

Cold Heaven

Nicolas Roeg's Cold Heaven (based on a novel by Brian Moore) examines grief and loss and spiritual questions concerning...

Voyager

Set in the 1950s, Voyager concerns the travels of an American construction engineer (Sam Shepard) who is wandering throughout...

Mrs. 'Arris Goes to Paris

Anthony Shaw directs his mother, Angela Lansbury of Murder She Wrote, in this lighthearted made-for-television adventure. Set...

Iron Maze

Iron Maze updates the Akira Kurosawa Rashomon tale and works it into a story involving the Japanese corporate takeover of a...

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead

Much as he would later do with Shakespeare in Love (1998), writer Tom Stoppard delivered a tale of Shakespearean origin from...

The Witches

In Nicolas Roeg's adaptation of Roald Dahl's novel The Witches, a young boy is vacationing at the seaside with his...

Dark Obsession

Dark Obsession is a slow, English-made, psychological thriller dealing with erotic obsession, guilt and betrayal. Sir Hugo...

Torrents of Spring

Based on the novel by Ivan Turgenev, this drama tells of a young Russian noble during the mid 19th century who, although...

Scenes from the Class Struggle in Beverly Hills

In this satirical skewering of the lifestyles of the rich and famous, a divorced Beverly Hills gal ends up on the doorstep...

Paperhouse

Eleven-year-old Charlotte Burke, the neglected daughter of Ben Cross and Glenne Headley, passes out on the school playground...

Christabel

A BBC production, Christabel was one of several British TV iniseries seen during the 1988-89 season of the PBS anthology...

Age Old Friends

Hume Cronyn and Vincent Gardenia star as two retirement-home residents, longtime friends who possess wildly diverse...

Danny, the Champion of the World

Danny, the Champion of the World is set in rural England. Nasty country squire Robbie Coltrane, who owns half the land,...

The Boost

James Woods and Sean Young were still "an item" when they costarred in The Boost. The stars play an investment broker and his...

Track 29

A dissatisfied woman encounters a mysterious stranger who may be her long-lost son in this peculiar, darkly comic drama....

Stars and Bars

Though a fine cast was assembled for this comedy, none can save this embarrassingly humorless satire. Henderson Dores...

Taffin

This melodrama is set in Ireland and follows bill collector and karate master Taffin as he and other try to keep a soccer...

Stones for Ibarra

Glenn Close and Keith Carradine are the only non-Latino cast members of the made-for-TV Stones for Ibarra. Close and...

Tidy Endings

Based on the play by actor/playwright Harvey Fierstein, this drama is about a man (played by Fierstein) whose companion dies...

Ladder of Swords

Down on their luck, stranded out on the moors of England, the "Three D's" are a trio of circus performers (a bear trainer and...

Nature of the Beast

Bill Coward (Lynton Deardon) is a 14-year-old teenager who is intrigued by stories of a mysterious beast who is killing sheep...

Shoulder to Shoulder

The elaborate British miniseries Shoulder to Shoulder was an anecdotal dramatization of the women's suffrage movement in...

Sammy and Rosie Get Laid

In this alternately comic and grave reflection on the effects of Thatcherism on polyethnic England, middle-class liberals...

You Talkin' to Me?

In this film, an aspiring young actor moves to Los Angeles from his New York home, hoping to make it big in show business....

Castaway

Nicolas Roeg directed this dreamy erotic adventure film based on two Australian non-fiction best-sellers -- Lucy Irvine's...

Wish You Were Here

The British Wish You Were Here served as the auspicious film debut for 16-year-old Emily Lloyd. The scene is a British...

Prick Up Your Ears

This unadorned biography of playwright Joe Orton (Gary Oldman) charts his bawdy, dangerous relationships. Alfred Molina plays...

Scoop

Baja Oklahoma

Based on a 1983 novel by Dan Jenkins, Baja Oklahoma is set sometime in the 1950s. Texas barmaid Lesley Ann Warren wants more...

The Wind

One of the few Greek filmmakers to work substantially in international productions, Nico Mastorakis has primarily been...

Trading Hearts

Sportswriter Frank Deford wrote the screenplay to this romantic melodrama about a washed-up baseball pitcher and a...

The Lightship

Before entering this story of a battle between the ostensible forces of good over evil, viewers should know that a lightship...

My Beautiful Laundrette

After the death of his wife and his subsequent descent into alcoholic near-agoraphobia, a crotchety Pakistani intellectual...

Separate Vacations

An unhappily married husband takes off to Mexico in hopes of finding a fulfilling romantic interlude, and scores nothing but...

Harry's Kingdom

Harry's Kingdom and Harry's Machine are alternate titles for the 1985 low-budgeter Hollywood Harry. Actor Robert Forster made...

The Zero Boys

When friends Larry (Tom Shell), Steve (Daniel Hirsch), and Rip (Jared Moses) decide to celebrate their survival game victory...

Strong Medicine

This two-part, four-hour TV miniseries was adapted from the same-named 1984 novel by Arthur Hailey. Pamela Sue Martin headed...

Monte Carlo

A made-for-TV miniseries set during World War II, Monte Carlo features a Russian singer (Joan Collins) who works in the...

The Second Victory

The first victory in The Second Victory is the Allied triumph in World War II. British major Anthony Andrews, in charge of...

The Chain

The Chain is linked by a series of moves. As one couple moves out of their current residence to live in posher quarters,...

Florence Nightingale

Jaclyn Smith is a curious choice to play the title character in the made-for-TV biopic Florence Nightingale. This fact,...

Dreamchild

Irreverent British writer Dennis Potter speaks aloud what many literary historians have only postulated in whispers in...

Insignificance

Using four famous but unnamed individuals to symbolize a notorious era in American politics, as well as to explore the nature...

Black Arrow

Produced for cable TV by The Disney Channel, The Black Arrow is based on the classic Robert Louis Stevenson adventure tale....

Blind Date

Co-writer and director Nico Mastorakis filmed this unusual low-budget thriller in his native Athens, Greece. Timothy Bottoms...

Success Is the Best Revenge

Alex Rodak (Michael York) is a Polish director in exile in London with his family, which includes an older teenage son Adam...

Beyond the Limit

John Mackenzie directed this schematic adaptation of Graham Greene's best-selling thriller The Honorary Consul. Richard Gere...

Time Traveller

In this standard sci-fi romance, the widow Andrea (Adrienne Barbeau) lives on a Greek island with her son Timmy...

The Incubus

A series of brutal rapes and murders have begun occurring in a small town. Teenager, Tim (Duncan McIntosh), has had horrible...

Moonlighting

Jeremy Irons portrays Nowak, one of four Polish laborers, living in England. In exchange for a place to stay, Irons and his...

Eureka

A reclusive, unhappy gold magnate finds his isolated tropical paradise threatened by the intrusion of organized criminals in...

Lady Chatterley's Lover

The once-notorious D. H. Lawrence novel Lady Chatterly's Lover seemed like kid stuff by the time this 1981 adaptation hit the...

The Gentleman Bandit

Made for television, The Gentleman Bandit stars Ralph Waite as a popular priest whose life is shattered by a case of mistaken...

The Watcher in the Woods

This Disney Studios attempt at entering the horror genre is a British production based on the chilling novel by Florence...

The Martian Chronicles

Everyone who tuned into The Martian Chronicles during its three-day run in January of 1980 sincerely hoped that it would be...

A Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man

Producer/director Joseph Strick continues his long cinematic love affair with the works of Irish author James Joyce in...

Yesterday's Hero

Jackie Collins screenplay falters in this so-so melodrama about a soccer player and his road to fame and fortune. Rod Turner...

The Great Riviera Bank Robbery

Why is it that some of the most outlandish movie plotlines are grounded in reality? The Great Riviera Bank Robbery is based...

Border Cop

The original title of this film was The Border. It tells the story of one border guard's desire to put an end to the...

The Greek Tycoon

The producers of The Greek Tycoon insisted that their film was not based on any "actual persons, living or dead." Yeh, right....

The Deer Hunter

One of several 1978 films dealing with the Vietnam War (including Hal Ashby's Oscar-winning Coming Home), Michael Cimino's...

The Class of Miss MacMichael

Miss MacMichael (Glenda Jackson) is a dedicated teacher. She needs to be, because her students are delinquents who are barely...

Absolution

Two Catholic boarding school students (Dominic Guard and Dai Bradley) embark upon a carefully calculated campaign to drive...

The Comeback

British sado-exploitation guru Pete Walker directed this mundane horror-mystery about an American pop star (Jack Jones) who,...

Summer of My German Soldier

Despite its far-fetched plotline, the made-for-TV Summer of My German Soldier was popular with audiences and critics alike....

Schizo

Frightmare director Pete Walker follows-up his 1976 shocker The Confessional with this grim tale of a beautiful figure skater...

Le Coup De Grace

1976's Coup de Grace (released in Germany as Der Fangschluss) was inspired by a Marguerite Yourcenar novel and directed by...

The Wilby Conspiracy

The Wilby Conspiracy is set in South Africa, at a time when Apartheid was the order of the day. Political activist Shack...

House of Whipcord

In this British exploitation film, an elderly husband and wife begin torturing young women whose behavior offends their...

The Confessional

British sleaze artist Pete Walker applies his characteristic sleazy, ultra-violent touch to this audacious, Catholic-bashing...

Conduct Unbecoming

Based on a play by Barry England, the British Conduct Unbecoming revolves around a sexual violation--which may or may not...

Frightmare

This ghoulishly fun Grand Guignol horror piece from director Pete Walker features a tour-de-force performance by...

The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz

Richard Dreyfuss put himself on the map with his performance in this movie about how ambition and greed can drive someone at...

Little Malcolm and His Struggle Against the Eunuchs

Little Malcolm is playwright David Halliwell's brilliantly vicious attack on the hollowness of the 1960s protest movement....

Caravan to Vaccares

This glossy Alistair MacLean action programmer concerns the machinations involved in smuggling an Eastern European scientist...

Road Movie

Two truckers struggle to stay financially afloat in economic hard times in his downbeat highway drama. But to do so, they...

The Love Ban

Few theatre marquees could accommodate the title It's a 2'6" Above the Ground World, so most British exhibitors chose the...

The Blockhouse

Set during World War 2, The Blockhouse takes place virtually in its entirety in an underground German blockhouse. Six men of...

X, Y and Zee

More commonly known as Zee & Co., this cautionary tale of extramarital discretions finds a threatened and desperate wife...

Sitting Target

In between gigs writing two of the first films from director John Boorman and the sequel to The French Connection (1971),...

Strohfeuer

Margarethe Von Trotta, who later became a well-known film director herself, stars in this film which is directed by her...

King, Queen, Knave

Based on a novel by Vladimir Nabokov, this English-language satirical drama details the experiences of Frank...

The Devil's Widow

In this interesting horror movie, a pleasure-seeking noblewoman uses contemporary black magic to toy with the young lovers...

A Severed Head

This sophisticated black comedy sex romp is based on the novel by Iris Murdoch, which she also turned into a stage play (with...

Raging Moon

Malcom McDowell, who went on to play a chillingly heartless young man in A Clockwork Orange, here plays Bruce, a cheerful...

The Walking Stick

Based on a novel by Winston Graham, The Walking Stick stars Samantha Eggar as Deborah, a polio-stricken woman courted by...

Take a Girl Like You

This 1970 British sex farce stars Hayley Mills as Jenny Bunn, a naïve young schoolteacher from the north of England who comes...

Underground

Singer Robert Goulet had already spent a season (1966-67) as a TV secret agent on Blue Light when he signed for the...

Tropic of Cancer

Three years after cinematizing James Joyce's long-censored Ulysses, Joseph Strick mounted an adaptation of another racy...

Michael Kohlhaas

Michael (David Warner) is an independent businessman and a happily married man with two children. Traveling to the market one...

Two Gentlemen Sharing

A black Jamaican lawyer shares an apartment with a liberal white man in Two Gentlemen Sharing. Andrew (Hal Frederick), the...

The Night of the Following Day

A pair of desperate men plan to kidnap a wealthy heiress upon her arrival in France. Bud (Marlon Brando) and Leer...

Otley

Gerald Arthur Otley (Tom Courtenay) is a British secret agent called in to investigate the murder of a suspected influence...

Age of Consent

James Mason is Bradley Morahan, an Australian artist far away from home and trying to prod his muse in the bowels of New York...

No Way to Treat a Lady

New York detective Moe Brummell (George Segal) is assigned to track down a serial killer who has been preying on lonely...

Separation

In this drama, a woman begins having a nervous breakdown after her marriage falls apart. Through her visions, real and...

Ulysses

Based on the classic novel by James Joyce, this drama deals with the life of an impotent married Jewish man, his wife and a...

Kaleidoscope

A cardsharp comes up with the ultimate system for beating the casinos at their own game in this high-style caper comedy....