John Standing Movies

A young man travels to Prague to join his new employer, unaware that he is being used as an espionage courier.

British Prime Minister Winston Churchill suffers from a stroke in the summer of 1953 that's kept a secret from the rest of the world.

On her wedding night, a young woman conceives a child during an hallucinatory encounter. Several years later, as her friends and family begin to...

The Falklands Play is a dramatic account of the political events leading up to, and including, the 1982 Falklands War. The play was written by Ian...

Harry Brown is a somewhat rough and wild university student, who has the ability to win friends, especially the underdogs like Phil who doesn't play...

A British businessman whose family company has been taken over by a multinational corporation clashes with his new American manager while they both...

A fallen WWI American soldier strikes a divine bargain to reunite with his bride in England. As he resumes life unaware he's a ghost, love and loss...

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...

The Rabbit is the world's belling-selling vibrator. In the past year alone, millions have been sold all over the globe. Now experts are warning the...

Robert Wagner plays an American who owns a Lisbon nightclub and Teri Garr is a slightly dippy chanteuse who has stumbled across a Nazi plot to kidnap...

It is 1947, the year of the communist rebellion in Malaya and the British army's SADUSEA (Song And Dance Unit South East Asia) are called to the...

By order of Her Majesty's Secret Service, Captain Strong is given a dangerous assignment to deliver a delicate communication to the British...

The film follows Jack Hopkins, an aircraft designer with a passion for traction engines. His boss is eager to sell a new supersonic jet plane that...

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

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

A British agent comes back from retirement after several of his former colleagues, including his former lover, are murdered. He must examine events...

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

Fifty years ago, a Home Office committee chaired by Wolfenden, then vice-chancellor of Reading University, recommended the decriminalization of...

In 1939, Sir Robert Thorndyke takes aim at Adolf Hitler with a high powered rifle, but the shot misses its mark. Captured and tortured by the Gestapo...

A dedicated teacher tries to reach out to juvenile delinquent students at a London alternative school.