Mark Dignam Movies

The poor, elderly—and the wily, when it comes to parting those who can afford it from their money—Scottish skipper of a broken-down old...

An account of how Lech Walesa and the "Solidarity" trade union confronted the might of Communist dictatorship in Poland.

Dramatization short on British romantic poet John Keats.

In November of 1939, the British consulate in Norway receives documents saying that the Nazis are conducting secret rocket research in...

A murderer hopes to escape his death sentence by identifying the leaders of a spy ring.

A gangster is caught and arrested by police. When he's being transported by bus -- filled with innocent civilians -- it's hi-jacked by his gang in...

Murder in the Cathedral is a story about Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury, and his struggles against temptation and personal vanity prior to...

Based on the official transcripts of the investigation that followed after the very suspicious notorious death in prison of one of the most important...

Macbeth and his wife murder Duncan in order to gain his crown, but the bloodbath doesn't stop there, and things supernatural combine to bring the...

An English professor decides that there are too many useless people in the world and invents a gas that will kill them off. But first they'll at...

The parson of a small rural community knows he is dying and this makes him reconsider his life so far and what he can still do to help the community.

Murder unfolds around a young girl who sleepwalks and talks while she does so.

A young bride is possessed by a dybbuk, a malicious possessing spirit, believed to be the dislocated soul of a dead person, on the eve of her wedding.

A BBC TV comedy movie about the people living in Pompeii prior to its destruction by volcano, focusing on the life of a house slave (played by...

Das russische Wunder (The Russian Miracle) (1963) is a two-part East German documentary directed by Annelie and Andrew Thorndike. The documentary...

The British Passing Stranger stars Hollywood actor Lee Patterson as a deserting American GI. He drifts about until he falls in with a gang of...

A devestating, yet bracing look at a family whose proximity to each other belies the decay of their relationships, The Wild Duck is just as modern...

Tony Richardson's Hamlet is based on his own stage production. Filmed entirely within the Roundhouse in London (a disused train shed), it is shot...

A young couple move to the countryside and discover a strange mummified animal in the wall of their cottage. The wife increasingly feels that she and...

"I like preaching... Only two things in my life have ever excited me as much: playing football and making love." But his congregation feel he's gone...