Simon Callow Movies

Jamie and Lucy have an encounter with what appears to be a pair of ghost children. But these spooky kids, Sara and Georgie, aren’t actually...

An adaptation of David Garrick's 1747 afterpiece, this lighthearted comedy follows Miss Biddy Bellair as she pits her suitors against eachother in...

Late Bloomers stars Isabella Rossellini and William Hurt as a married couple pulled apart by the threat of old age. Each reacts in a different way:...

The inside story of the best modern romcoms with Meg Ryan, Hugh Grant, Richard Curtis, Dermot Mulrooney, Rupert Everett, Jason Alexander, Stephen...

When writer's block derails the literary dreams of Olly Pickering, he has to move in with his friend Murray after losing all his money. Things start...

A Claymation version of the classic story of Don Quixote.

Hidden camera show that sees devious parents subjecting their unsuspecting children to some outrageous pranks.

Celebrate 40 years of Amadeus in this exclusive featurette

He's a low level criminal with no future and just out of prison. She's a low level lawyer never noticed by others, a lost soul without a life. Their...

William Shakespeare’s Sonnets are among the most beautiful and most fascinating poems ever written. All of the poems, together with their...

One of Shaw's "pleasant plays", The Man of Destiny is a one-act lighthearted comedy of egos and social hypocrisy. Set in 1796 in northern Italy, it...

A diverse collection of horror shorts by several different film makers. A few are presented as trailers.

His wife having recently died, Thomas Jefferson accepts the post of United States ambassador to pre-revolutionary France, though he finds it...

A gay young man is recruited into an illicit love triangle to watch a much older man’s sexual liaison, but ends up witnessing what turns out to...

Cass has come to a personal point of emotional invulnerability, until she meets Virgil, a cartographer. Along with his partner Malcolm, they attempt...

When Orson Welles went into self-imposed exile in Europe, he first found stardom with The Third Man and then immersed himself in challenging films,...

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

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...

An exclusive featurette in which directors and fellow actors speaks about Maggie Smith's career and her way of working.