Movies: Peter Needham

  • 1990
    An Angel at My Table

    An Angel at My Table (1990)

    An Angel at My Table

    7.01990HD

    Based on the autobiographical work of New Zealand writer Janet Frame, this production depicts the author at various stage of her life. Afflicted with mental and emotional issues, Frame grows up in an impoverished family and experiences numerous trage...

    An Angel at My Table
  • 1998
    Firelight

    Firelight (1998)

    Firelight

    6.61998HD

    In 1838, lovely governess Elisabeth agrees to bear a child of anonymous English landowner, and he will in return pay her father's debt. At birth she, as agreed, gives up the child. Seven years later she is hired as governess to a girl on a remote Sus...

    Firelight
  • 1994
    Before the Rain

    Before the Rain (1994)

    Before the Rain

    7.31994HD

    The circularity of violence seen in a story that circles on itself. In Macedonia, during the war in Bosnia, Christians hunt an ethnic Albanian girl who may have murdered one of their own. A young monk who's taken a vow of silence offers her protectio...

    Before the Rain
  • 1987
    A Prayer for the Dying

    A Prayer for the Dying (1987)

    A Prayer for the Dying

    5.71987HD

    Martin, an I.R.A. hitman, is seen by a Catholic priest while carrying out a hit. He grows a bond with the priest and his niece. But his past and his former employers put all their lives in danger....

    A Prayer for the Dying
  • 1995
    The Widowing of Mrs. Holroyd

    The Widowing of Mrs. Holroyd (1995)

    The Widowing of Mrs. Holroyd

    31995HD

    D.H, Lawrence's early play about a married woman who wishes her husband dead after falling in love with another man comes to the screen in this adaptation starring Zoe Wannamaker and Colin Firth. When her wish becomes a horrifying reality, her life b...

    The Widowing of Mrs. Holroyd
  • 1992
    The Count of Solar

    The Count of Solar (1992)

    The Count of Solar

    01992HD

    The true story of mysterious deaf-mute boy Joseph in France just before the revolution....

    The Count of Solar
  • 1975
    The Christmas Tree

    The Christmas Tree (1975)

    The Christmas Tree

    01975HD

    Three lucky pine trees, with human faces, are cut down in order to enjoy the holidays with human families....

    The Christmas Tree
  • 1974
    Easy Go

    Easy Go (1974)

    Easy Go

    01974HD

    A hot day by the Thames - very hot for some Deptford children. When they and some dockers spot a 'prize' in the river, the race is on between the rival factions to win it....

    Easy Go
  • 1973
    Jingle Bells

    Jingle Bells (1973)

    Jingle Bells

    01973HD

    Play by Arthur Hopcraft about Christmas in a Northern town, and the relationship within a family....

    Jingle Bells
  • 1992
    Lovelock

    Lovelock (1992)

    Lovelock

    01992HD

    Jack Lovelock won New Zealand’s first Olympic athletics gold medal. He did so in spectacular fashion, winning the 1500 meters at the 1936 Berlin Olympics. In front of Hitler and 110,000 spectators, the famous ‘Lovelock kick’ unfurled into NZ’s sporti...

    Lovelock