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Sir Richard Charles Hastings Eyre CBE (born 28 March 1943) is an English director of film, theatre, television, and opera.
Total trailers found: 60
20 October 2006
We follow Henrik Ibsen throughout his life. From early shame over his father's bankruptcy, via bitterness over the then conservative public life, to his older years as a national institution that tourists gathered to watch on their way to their very punctual, daily lunch at the Grand Café in Oslo.
30 May 1983
As England begins its military engagement in the Falklands, a BBC news journalist attempts to climb up from his working-class roots, at any cost, lying to those around him to get what he wants, only to discover that he is the recipient of a deception far more clever than his own.
28 May 2018
An aging King invites disaster, when he abdicates to his corrupt, toadying daughters, and rejects his loving and honest one.
27 February 2007
As a 13-year-old, fledgling writer Briony Tallis irrevocably changes the course of several lives when she accuses her older sister's lover of a crime he did not commit.
11 November 1980
In his further adventures Frank finds success and unhappiness.
25 December 2008
The story of a husband who suspects his wife of adultery, and sets out to track down the other man in her life.
20 October 1981
In 1945, the Carlions assemble at an English country house for a family gathering. During the event, they must determine who is to take over the family brewing empire, since the present head of the business, Sir Frederick, is getting old.
29 May 1988
The film centers on the experiences of Robert Lawrence MC, an officer of the Scots Guards during the Falklands War of 1982.
05 December 1978
One man's view of the British Army in Germany - the social life, discipline, drink, women and, occasionally, the defence of the West.
01 September 1984
A farmer becomes an unintentional celebrity when, because of a strike, he has to walk his 5000 geese 100 miles to market.
29 December 1995
A murderous lust for the British throne sees Richard III descend into madness. Though the setting is transposed to the 1930s, England is torn by civil war, split between the rivaling houses of York and Lancaster.
01 January 1979
Developed by Paul Copley from his own 1977 stage play, Pillion tells the story of motorbike enthusiast Fenton and his friends, meeting in a rural shed.
01 August 2018
In the midst of a marital crisis, a High Court judge must decide if she should order a life-saving blood transfusion for a teen with cancer despite his family's refusal to accept medical treatment for religious reasons.
03 September 2004
Humble Maria, who outfits top London theater star Ned Kynaston, takes none of the credit for the male actor's success at playing women.
02 November 1986
67 year-old Victor is forced to move into an old people's home but he prefers to grow old disgracefully.
13 April 1984
A woman enlists a man who claims he is gay to accompany her on a long drive to a feminist conference in Munich.
24 April 1980
Second World War drama - A young woman decides against working in a munitions factory, and lands a post with the signals corps attempting to crack the Enigma code.
04 November 1980
Frank, a young lad from Sheffield, leaves home to seek his fortune in London; he finds the big city d
04 February 2016
Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London Live showing of Verdi's Traviata with subsequent re-screenings Violetta, a Parisian courtesan suffering from tuberculosis, is throwing a party to celebrate her recovery.
27 December 2021
Archival footage provides a glimpse into the life of Cameron Mackintosh; the storied producer famous for Les Misérables, Phantom of the Opera, Cats and many more.
13 March 1979
In a Cheshire village, Jack, an electrician, is rewiring the house where a dissident Russian professor is staying.
25 December 2006
A veteran high school teacher befriends a younger art teacher, who is having an affair with one of her 15-year-old students.
15 January 2010
Richard Eyre’s stunning new production of Bizet’s opera was the talk of the town when it was unveiled on New Year’s Eve 2009.
30 December 2016
This documentary celebrates one of Britain’s greatest actors, Dame Judi Dench, and looks back over her remarkable 60-year career.
31 January 1980
Wally, a caretaker in a block of flats, loses his job when the flats are used to rehouse Bhengali families.
02 February 2019
Mezzo-soprano Clémentine Margaine reprises her remarkable portrayal of opera’s ultimate seductress, a triumph in her 2017 debut performances, with impassioned tenors Yonghoon Lee and Roberto Alagna as her lover, Don José.
11 October 1979
Play For Today written by and starring Neville Smith. Christian Harvey , a local radio DJ and ageing rocker, is an obsessive fan of Elvis and the news of Elvis's death is for him a personal tragedy as well as the end of an era.
12 December 1978
What happens to provincial journalists when there's nothing in the news and they have a paper to fill?
21 October 1980
Colin Pasmore tests his strength against his family ties but finds them stronger than he ever imagined.
26 June 2014
Helene Alving leads an outwardly contented life. On the eve of the 10th anniversary of her husband's death, she is about to open an orphanage as a memorial to him.
18 May 1995
Political drama written by David Hare and starring John Thaw and based on Labour's disastrous 1992 election campaign.
03 January 1980
Play by Robert Holman, about two brothers at a rural comprehensive in Teeside. The older brother, Gordon, joins the army and is killed by the IRA in Northern Ireland.
25 October 1979
Comedians is a TV movie/play by Trevor Griffiths, set in a Manchester evening class for aspiring working-class comedians.
18 October 2014
Richard Eyre’s elegant production, which opened the Met’s 2014–15 season, sets the action of Mozart’s timeless social comedy in a manor house in 1930s Seville.
10 July 2008
An exclusive featurette in which directors and fellow actors speaks about Maggie Smith's career and her way of working.
23 January 1979
Grace leaves her old folks' home to return to her birthplace in Lambeth, a place which has changed on the surface but at its heart is still the same.
12 October 2020
Marking Play for Today’s 50th anniversary, Drama Out of a Crisis is a compelling exploration of the series, its origins, achievements, controversies and legacies.
05 March 2016
Kristine Opolais is the young woman whose conflicting desires for love and luxury lead to her tragic end, and Roberto Alagna plays the man who falls for her in Puccini’s early hit.
24 October 1978
George, a black South African, finds it hard to settle down in London after his experiences in South Africa.
15 March 2014
Star tenor Jonas Kaufmann brings aching intensity and vocal charisma to the tortured title hero of Massenet’s Goethe adaptation.
30 January 2019
Alfredo Germont and the courtesan Violetta Valéry fall in love at a party in Violetta's Paris salon.
22 February 1986
Franz, a young man, works in a dye factory in Prague. One day he notices a rash-like eczema, growing on his hands.
20 March 2003
Based on Nicholas Wright's 2002 play exploring the life of the young Vincent Van Gogh during a stay in Brixton, London in 1873.
01 January 2000
An old woman in a rocking chair listens to a disembodied voice (her own) that recounts her life and that of her mother's.
13 October 1981
Madame Ranevsky and her daughter Anya return home from Paris to find their beloved family estate and cherry orchard are to be auctioned off to pay debts.
08 November 1979
Jake lives in the shadow of his dying grandfather, who was once the town's toughest hard man. Despite their hatred of each other, Jake's sole aim is to be as tough as the old man was.
18 October 1979
A watchmaker finds his livelihood is threatened by cheaply imported digital watches.
11 December 2002
Richard Eyre talks to Judi Dench about her art, her career and views on acting.
14 December 2001
True story of the lifelong romance between novelist Iris Murdoch and her husband John Bayley, from their student days through her battle with Alzheimer's disease.
31 October 2015
One fateful night in a small English regional theatre during World War II a troupe of touring actors stage a production of Shakespeares King Lear.
04 November 1987
Visualisation of Tony Harrison's poem "v.". v. is about the multiple meanings of the letter - victory, versus, verses, etc.
01 November 2014
Georgian mezzo-soprano Anita Rachvelishvili gives a dynamic performance as Bizet’s iconic gypsy, the woman who lives by her own rules.
25 August 1969
A young woman has a mental breakdown in a state institution.
05 July 2009
Renée Fleming has matured into one of the finest sopranos around at the moment, a true star with a sparkling personality and a velvet-toned voice that is capable of wringing the finest emotions out of works by Strauss and Tchaikovsky that from a lesser singer could sound rather cold and clinical.
17 March 2023
When news of the closure of a small hospital's geriatric ward begins to reach the community, the hospital invites a local news crew to document their planning of a concert in honor of the hospital's most celebrated nurse.
06 January 1993
The only son of wealthy widow Violet Venable dies while on vacation with his cousin Catherine. What the girl saw was so horrible that she went insane; now Mrs.
26 April 2025
Conductor Joana Mallwitz makes her Met debut leading an extraordinary cast in Mozart’s comic masterpiece.
04 March 2001
La traviata (Italian: [la traˈviaːta], "The Fallen Woman"[1][2]) is an opera in three acts by Giuseppe Verdi set to an Italian libretto by Francesco Maria Piave.
