Sylvia Syms Movies

A dramatized account of the Scott Inquiry about the sales of arms to Iraq.

Magazine editor Valerie Carr lives in London with her two daughters Jan, aged seventeen, and Poppet, thirteen. When Jan is invited to a party at the...

An elderly couple face separation when one of them is admitted to a care home.

A British soldier escapes from 1880s Khartoum and goes down the Nile river with a fellow soldier, a governess and the daughter of an emir.

A nervous ad executive creates havoc on his daughter's wedding day and becomes obsessed with a dream girl he keeps seeing everywhere but whom he...

Jonas Wilde, a British secret agent licensed to kill, wants to resign from his murderous work, but his superiors pressure him into taking on a new...

A silent slapstick comedy depicting the travails of young couple moving into a new home, who hire an accident-prone firm of house removers, headed by...

In wartime Italy nuns in a convent regularly smuggle Jewish children out of a nearby internment camp. The Italian army officer in charge suspects...

A young boy, unable to speak, befriends a wild colt with blue eyes and a falcon named "Lady".

A small girl, who doesn't believe in fairytales, meets an old woman who claims she is a mermaid.

Masked intruders take the family of a bank manager hostage in order to rob his bank.

Dying of cancer, an old woman trapped in her Glasgow flat relieves her pain by drinking morphine and whisky cocktails and dreaming of her youth and...

A married, middle-aged woman is shocked to discover that her husband, who she thought was content in their marriage, has become infatuated with a...

The re-creation of events leading up to Margaret Thatcher's defeat as party leader and Britain's Prime Minister.

In all walks of life, there are challenges that lie ahead.

Returning from a business trip, toy salesman Simon Scott is caught attempting to smuggle a wristwatch bought for his wife's birthday through Customs....

Domestic difficulties develop in a working-class family when their daughter falls in love with a Jamaican man.

Sylvia Syms looks through the BBC archives to tell the story of one of Hollywood's greatest ever feuds - the rivalry between legendary actresses...