Norman Rodway Movies

  • 1986
    Theban Plays: Oedipus the King

    Theban Plays: Oedipus the King

    Theban Plays: Oedipus the King

    21986HD

    Plagues are ravaging Thebes, and the blind fortune-teller Tieresias tells Oedipus, the King, that the gods are unhappy. The murder of the former king...

    Theban Plays: Oedipus the King
  • 1977
    Blasphemy at the Old Bailey

    Blasphemy at the Old Bailey

    Blasphemy at the Old Bailey

    01977HD

    In 1977 the Old Bailey saw the start of the first trial for blasphemy in this country for over half a century. Begun by Mary Whitehouse against the...

    Blasphemy at the Old Bailey
  • 2000
    County Kilburn

    County Kilburn

    County Kilburn

    02000HD

    Along the kilometre stretch of Kilburn High road in London, there are twenty-eight pubs: that's one every thirty-six metres. Populated predominantly...

    County Kilburn
  • 1959
    Shake Hands with the Devil

    Shake Hands with the Devil

    Shake Hands with the Devil

    6.51959HD

    In 1921 Dublin, the IRA battles the "Black & Tans," special British forces given to harsh measures. Irish-American medical student Kerry O'Shea hopes...

    Shake Hands with the Devil
  • 1996
    Mother Night

    Mother Night

    Mother Night

    6.621996HD

    An American spy behind the lines during WWII serves as a Nazi propagandist, a role he cannot escape in his future life as he can never reveal his...

    Mother Night
  • 1984
    Pericles, Prince of Tyre

    Pericles, Prince of Tyre

    Pericles, Prince of Tyre

    71984HD

    When Prince Pericles, visiting Antioch, discovers the dreaded answer to King Antiochus's riddle, he flees for his life straight into famine,...

    Pericles, Prince of Tyre
  • 1973
    Baby Blues

    Baby Blues

    Baby Blues

    01973HD

    Lavinia has been yearning and trying for ten years to conceive, and finally gives birth to a live baby. However, she finds that things are not as she...

    Baby Blues
  • 1990
    King of the Wind

    King of the Wind

    King of the Wind

    6.41990HD

    In 1727, an Arab colt is born with the signs of the wheat ear and the white spot on his heel: evil and good. And thus begins the life of Sham. He is...

    King of the Wind
  • 1959
    This Other Eden

    This Other Eden

    This Other Eden

    61959HD

    A small town plans to erect a monument in memory of an IRA rebel killed during the 1920s. The son of the English Colonel who killed the rebel objects...

    This Other Eden
  • 1967
    See You at the Pillar

    See You at the Pillar

    See You at the Pillar

    6.51967HD

    A short film about Dublin City using a mixture of contemporary footage, folk music and quotations from past residents, Shaw, Wilde and Behan etc....

    See You at the Pillar
  • 1996
    The Empty Mirror

    The Empty Mirror

    The Empty Mirror

    5.51996HD

    Adolf Hitler faces himself and must come to terms with his infamous career in an imaginary post-war subterranean bunker where he reviews historical...

    The Empty Mirror
  • 1985
    Pity in History

    Pity in History

    Pity in History

    01985HD

    A sculptor is working to finish off a memorial to the Royalist years - just as Cromwell's men are approaching the surrounding cathedral walls.

    Pity in History
  • 1962
    The Quare Fellow

    The Quare Fellow

    The Quare Fellow

    5.351962HD

    Thomas Crimmins is a new warder, or guard, in an Irish prison. He is young, naive, and idealistic, determined to serve his country by his part in...

    The Quare Fellow
  • 1991
    The War That Never Ends

    The War That Never Ends

    The War That Never Ends

    11991HD

    The Peloponnesian Wars (Athens versus Sparta for twenty-seven years) told in the format of news broadcast-like monologues by Theucydides, Plato, and...

    The War That Never Ends
  • 1967
    The Penthouse

    The Penthouse

    The Penthouse

    5.5631967HD

    A married man and his young mistress suffer sadistic torture when Tom, Dick and Harry invade their penthouse.

    The Penthouse
  • 1975
    A Midsummer Nightmare

    A Midsummer Nightmare

    A Midsummer Nightmare

    01975HD

    A young woman's knowledge of Shakespeare helps her solve a five-year-old mystery.

    A Midsummer Nightmare
  • 1978
    Danton's Death

    Danton's Death

    Danton's Death

    01978HD

    Danton's Death is arguably the most dramatic and penetrating study of revolution ever written. Georg Büchner concentrates on that moment in 1794...

    Danton's Death
  • 1967
    I'll Never Forget What's'isname

    I'll Never Forget What's'isname

    I'll Never Forget What's'isname

    5.3081967HD

    Advertising golden boy Andrew Quint is fed up with his fabulously successful life. In very dramatic fashion, he quits his job to return to writing...

    I'll Never Forget What's'isname
  • 1985
    Coming Through

    Coming Through

    Coming Through

    41985HD

    While researching the work of author D.H. Lawrence (Kenneth Branagh), Kate (Alison Steadman) begins a romance with a fellow academic, and learns...

    Coming Through
  • 1962
    The Devil's Agent

    The Devil's Agent

    The Devil's Agent

    6.41962HD

    German actor Peter van Eyck stars as Droste, a mild-mannered businessman who was an intelligence expert during World War II. When Droste runs into...

    The Devil's Agent