Carl Davis Movies

An Edwardian take on the Shakespeare play starring Laurence Olivier.

Geraldine and her two daughters, Livvie and Angeline, are living rough on the streets on London. When their van blows up, they must find an...

An affectionate portrait of the man and the musician in a week that sees the ex-Beatie playing at the Buckingham Palace concert. With contributions...

For nearly a decade, Gilbert and Sullivan’s collaborations have delighted the English people. But in 1884, as a London heat wave cuts into the...

Story of the life of Quentin Crisp, an Englishman who was brave enough to live his life according to his own style even in the hostile days of WW2.

A live recording from the Vaudeville Theatre in London where Simon Callow recreates the reading performances of Charles Dickens.

Lon Chaney, the silent movie star and makeup artist, renowned for his various characterizations and celebrated for his horror films, becomes the...

Using previously unreleased archival material in addition to contemporary interviews, this Academy Award-winning documentary tells the story of the...

Peter Nichols adapted his own hit play to the screen, based on his experiences in hospitals. A riotous black comedy that's as timely today as ever,...

Part of the "American Masters" series; this documentary shows the career of filmmaking pioneer D.W. Griffith

The doomed love story between Marguerite Gautier, a French courtesan frequented by high-class gentlemen, who is suffering from tuberculosis, and a...

A frightened Swiss soldier climbs into a young Bulgarian girl's room during wartime.

Doctor Peter Husak introduces the American Jack Carver to his friend, nurse Kate, and it's love on first sight. But when she learns, in a dramatic...

Stock broker Nick Carraway consents to play Cupid for his rich married cousin Daisy Buchanan and her former love, nouveau riche Jay Gatsby.

This hand drawn animated film, based on the award winning graphic novel by Raymond Briggs, is an intimate and affectionate depiction of the life and...

An alcoholic falls in love with a Salvation Army captain who is trying to help him.

A beautiful young woman asks Holmes to help her father, a former army captain and hopeless opium addict break free of the curse surrounding a stolen...

Told in a series of recollections, the film takes the form of a one woman narrative that tells the story of Isabella and her family suffering in...

Three postal workers and their dysfunctional families interact over cups of tea and Sunday dinner.

Based on the 1907 autobiography "Father and Son" by Christian fundamentalist and naturalist Edmund Gosse, but Dennis Potter adapted only one section...