Joss Ackland Movies

A banished hero of Rome allies with a sworn enemy to take his revenge on the city.

Olympian gods watch the Earth and resolve to fight a group of terrorists who stole a diskette containing a secret that can destroy the world.

A Master Painter of Twentieth Century Modern Art, Joan Miro was at once both distinctly modern and a lover of history. Created with exclusive access...

Jane Lapotaire and Joss Ackland star in this adaptation of Rudolph Besier's play. Elizabeth Barrett is kept a virtual prisoner by her father. Then...

When D. C. Dangerous Davies, not held in high regard by his superiors, is assigned to find a notorious criminal kingpin, he uncovers the details of...

In this 2005 featurette, many key WATERSHIP DOWN animators and background artists recall their painstaking work on this landmark adaptation.

This play is about a couple trying to overcome the problems in making a successfull clandestine assignation. It was one of a series of playlets by...

Unassuming planning engineer David Webb finds himself on the Queen Elizabeth to New York with instructions to negotiate a high-powered loan. His lack...

The story of a retired man who decides to fulfil his life-long ambition of walking from one end of Britain to the other.

Forty-five-year-old Adrian has been living with his mother Lucy and running their Wiltshire dairy farm all his adult life. When Lucy unexpectedly...

A young, English, ne'er-do-well who goes to stay with his sister and her wealthy fiancé/benefactor in 1930's Germany, just before the rise of...

Sir Archie and Cuckoo Peveril have lived in elegant splendour on Cap Ferrat since the end of the war. But the heady days of extravagant socialising...

Gerald is on the edge of a complete breakdown. During an afternoon spent with his father, he starts to come to terms with the wounding confusions and...

A seaside hotel for senior citizens is the setting for late-season love as costars Jean Simmons and Joss Ackland meet and make a match in this...

Warned that it is haunted, a skeptical young couple buy a rundown yacht and fix it up to be their home-on-the-sea, only to slowly realize that it...

A compelling study of personal ambition versus the good of the state.

The story is about Donald McGlone, the boy with chocolate fingers (his fingers are made of chocolate). Because he is different, Donald has no friends...

A man with cognitive problems lives and works in a hospice. One day an American banker discovers that the man is his son.

Ellis Cripper has lost his money and his memory; in different ways he tries to make sense of his situation.

Poland 1939, shortly before invasion of the German troops. To save their belongings from the Nazis, the Jewish family Diamant transfers them to their...