Most Popular John Standing Trailers
Total trailers found: 73
16 December 2005
A family in financial crisis is forced to sell Lassie, their beloved dog. Hundreds of miles away from her true family, Lassie escapes and sets out on a journey home.
14 June 2024
A woman awaiting her brother's return from war falls in love with an allied American soldier.
10 July 2007
Former CIA Operative James Dial is coaxed back into action to kill a terrorist in London, but it all goes wrong and he is forced into hiding, where he meets and befriends a 12 year old girl.
28 May 2018
An aging King invites disaster, when he abdicates to his corrupt, toadying daughters, and rejects his loving and honest one.
03 July 1980
A German spy is passing on information about the location of Allied ships in the neutral harbor of Goa, India, with catastrophic results.
09 October 1980
A Victorian surgeon rescues a heavily disfigured man being mistreated by his "owner" as a side-show freak.
23 March 2007
Two hopeful lads from Leatherhead trying to break into the movies stumble upon the opportunity of a lifetime.
23 February 2006
In a world in which Great Britain has become a fascist state, a masked vigilante known only as “V” conducts guerrilla warfare against the oppressive British government.
29 June 1966
During the housing shortage of the Summer Olympic Games in 1964, two men and a woman share a small apartment in Tokyo, and the older man soon starts playing Cupid to the younger pair.
01 September 1997
Clarissa Dalloway looks back on her youth as she readies for a gathering at her house. The wife of a legislator and a doyenne of London's upper-crust party scene, Clarissa finds that the plight of ailing war veteran Septimus Warren Smith reminds her of a past romance with Peter Walsh.
27 October 1965
When Singapore surrendered to the Japanese in 1942, the Allied POWs, mostly British but including a few Americans, were incarcerated in Changi prison.
01 November 1967
Five people visit a fairground sideshow run by the sinister Dr. Diabolo. Having shown them a handful of haunted-house-style attractions, he promises them a genuinely scary experience if they will pay extra.
20 June 2019
A woman makes a powerful connection with a surprising stranger on her 30th birthday.
10 April 2002
The Falklands Play is a dramatic account of the political events leading up to, and including, the 1982 Falklands War.
01 July 1971
The venomous and amoral wife of a wealthy architect tries, any way she can, to break up the blossoming romance between her husband and his new mistress; a good-natured young widow who holds a dark past.
29 October 1999
When her TV star husband Alex decides to divorce her so that he can start a career in politics, newly single mother Maddy goes shoplifting and ends up in jail.
01 January 1997
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 revolving around a mentally ill woman dressed in white.
23 October 1987
A scientific group set out on a journey into space to find a magical creature. What they find is a killer computer on the ship they chartered.
21 December 2000
On her wedding night, a young woman conceives a child during an hallucinatory encounter. Several years later, as her friends and family begin to behave strangely, she pieces together clues that lead to one conclusion.
07 June 1963
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 Jack has designed to American millionaire Paul Fisher.
27 July 2006
An American journalism student in London scoops a big story, and begins an affair with an aristocrat as the incident unfurls.
19 January 1992
This follow-up to "Drug Wars: The Camarena Story" chronicles the fact-based fight by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency and the Colombian government to bring down billionaire drug lords Don Pablo Escobar Gaviria and José Rodriguez Gacha, leaders of the infamous Medellin Cartel.
22 May 1999
Following the death of a mother, a father and son open up their very own harem in their Genevan estate after watching 8½.
14 November 1997
An American gets a ticket for an audience participation game in London, then gets involved in a case of mistaken identity.
02 January 2000
Parallel stories: 18th century Harrison builds the marine chronometer for safe navigation at sea; 20th century Gould is obsessed with restoring it.
25 June 1999
Rogue Trader tells the true story of Nick Leeson, an employee of Barings Bank who--after a successful trading run--ends up accumulating $1.
29 February 2016
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.
06 October 2023
In the summer of 2014, a World War II veteran sneaks out of his care home to attend the 70th anniversary commemoration of the D-Day landings in Normandy.
15 September 2007
Sally Lockhart crosses paths with the nefarious industrialist Axel Bellman, the richest and most powerful man in Europe.
04 September 2007
Fifty years ago, a Home Office committee chaired by Wolfenden, then vice-chancellor of Reading University, recommended the decriminalization of homosexuality.
27 November 1990
This classic war mini-series stars George Peppard and Michael York in a gripping tale of danger, intrigue, and a deadly secret that could determine the fate of millions.
17 December 1992
An aged Charlie Chaplin narrates his life to his autobiography's editor, including his rise to wealth and comedic fame from poverty, his turbulent personal life and his run-ins with the FBI.
01 November 1984
Based on the official transcripts of the investigation that followed after the very suspicious notorious death in prison of one of the most important leading men of the South African anti-apartheid movement, Steven Biko.
27 January 1979
A dedicated teacher tries to reach out to juvenile delinquent students at a London alternative school.
20 August 1989
A British agent comes back from retirement after several of his former colleagues, including his former lover, are murdered.
29 June 2001
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, an unstable but brilliant poet, becomes friends with the unknown William Wordsworth, and together they set out to recreate English poetry in the spirt of liberty and democracy.
01 September 1969
Intellectually driven doctoral student Rosamund Stacey, while undertaking graduate work at the British Museum, becomes pregnant after a brief affair with a television newsreader.
16 October 1962
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 'rugger' and can't sink a whole pint of beer, and African student Reggie.
16 October 1970
A married man with two small children begins an affair with a beautiful young actress which quickly �
24 December 1976
When the Nazi high command learns in late 1943 that Winston Churchill will be spending time at a country estate in Norfolk, it hatches an audacious scheme to kidnap the prime minister and spirit him to Germany for enforced negotiations with Hitler.
31 December 1983
An adaptation of George Bernard Shaw's play.
01 March 1962
She's new in chambers, and he's a troublemaker. But what 'is' the true status of the old lady's wartime marriage, and can the two young legal minds find the answer?
28 November 2003
London 1939. In the weeks before the beginning of the Second World War, the Say When jazz club keeps London's Shoreditch swinging.
02 February 1992
The true story of mysterious deaf-mute boy Joseph in France just before the revolution.
18 January 2020
The Backstory of the Original Dancing Queen... as told by Sir John Standing.
24 January 2019
Winston Churchill understood the power of films, but the true extent of his use of cinema as a propaganda tool is rarely explored.
04 February 1966
Inspector Holloway is investigating a series of brutal murders in which a doll of each victim is found at the scene.
22 February 1987
A British businessman whose family company has been taken over by a multinational corporation clashes with his new American manager while they both vacation with their families at an Italian villa at their employer's expense.
17 June 1988
A vaudeville star struggles with her addiction to pancakes.
01 May 1989
American tourist Gene LePere (Lee Remick), on vacation in Turkey, is hounded by a street vendor into buying a carved head she doesn't want.
15 September 2004
Fleeing 1930s New York and leaving behind a chequered past, the giltzy divorcee Mrs Stella Erlynne travels to Italy's sun-dappled Amalfi coast.
01 January 1983
An American student arrives in England for the wedding of his room-mate's sister.
18 March 1983
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 Malayan Jungle to entertain the troops.
12 April 2018
In 1895, Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) was the most famous writer in London, and Bosie Douglas, son of the notorious Marquess of Queensberry, was his lover.
14 September 2014
In this sequel to Hope and Glory (1987), Bill Rohan has grown up and is drafted into the army, where he and his eccentric best mate, Percy, battle their snooty superiors on the base and look for love in town.
08 March 2017
Disgraced poet Ted Wallace is summoned to his friend's country manor to investigate a series of unexplained miracles.
01 July 1972
Four sexy young foreign girls come to England as au pairs and quickly become quite intimate with their employers, host families, and just about everyone else they encounter.
23 November 1969
Adaptation of the play by Brandon Thomas.
12 January 1964
Jean Hobley has a problem, trying to hold down a job that allows her to pick up her child from school.
15 April 1970
In the year 2050, advances in medicine have resulted in a need for population control. People reaching the age of 100 must submit to a government controlled euthanasia program.