List of the best Murray Melvin movies: A Taste of Honey(1961), Kaleidoscope(1966), The Emperor's New Clothes(2001), The Boy Friend(1971), A Day in the Death of Joe Egg(1972), Nutcracker(1982), The Ceremony(1963), Sparrows Can't Sing(1963), Let Him Have It(1991), The Phantom of the Opera(2004), England, My England(1995), Alfie(1966) ... ...
Gay & Lesbian, Comedy, Drama
UK
1961
100 Minutes
Geoffrey Ingham
teenager daughter mother sailor boyfriend gay/lesbian bleak emotional england household love friendship mother/daughter relationship emotional abuse pregnancy family dysfunction growing up love discovery 1960s
A pregnant teenage girl must fend for herself when her mother remarries, leaving the girl with only a new male friend for support.
Comedy, Mystery & Thriller
UK
1966
103 Minutes
Aimes
Warren Beatty Susannah York Clive Revill Eric Porter Murray Melvin George Sewell Stanley Meadows John Junkin Larry Taylor Yootha Joyce Jane Birkin
Romantic comedy which has Barney Lincoln and Angel McGinnis as a pair of amorous adventurers in the gambling places of London and the Riviera. Barney Lincoln is a rambling gambling man who ... See full summary »
Comedy
Italy|UK|Germany
2001
106 Minutes
Antommarchi
Ian Holm Iben Hjejle Tim McInnerny Tom Watson Nigel Terry Hugh Bonneville Murray Melvin Eddie Marsan Clive Russell
emperor peasant widow british soldier merchant amusing playful intricate paris st. helena trading places war napoleon bonaparte romance adventure escape 1820s
During Napoleon's exile on St. Helena, some loyalists hire a look-alike to swap places with the deposed Emperor. While the impostor lives in luxury on the island, the real Napoleon returns to Paris in order to retake the throne.
Musical, Comedy
UK|USA
1971
136 Minutes
Alphonse
Twiggy Christopher Gable Max Adrian Moyra Fraser Bryan Pringle Catherine Willmer Murray Melvin Georgina Hale Sally Bryant Vladek Sheybal Tommy Tune
director actor stage manager chorus girl spectacular campy england small town stage theater production stardom ambition movies song and dance underdog love 1920s
When the leading lady of a low-budget musical revue sprains her ankle, the assistant stage manager is forced to understudy and perform in her place, becoming a star and finding love in the process.
Comedy, Drama
UK
1972
107 Minutes
Doctor
Alan Bates Janet Suzman Peter Bowles Sheila Gish Joan Hickson Elizabeth Robillard Murray Melvin Fanny Carby
mother father daughter friend bleak offbeat shocking family home england parenthood mother/daughter relationship cerebral palsy family transformation quest 1970s
A couple uses extremely black comedy to survive taking care of a daughter who is nearly completely brain dead. They take turns doing the daughter's voice and stare into the eyes of death ... See full summary »
Drama
1982
101 Minutes
Leopold
Joan Collins Finola Hughes Carol White Paul Nicholas William Franklyn Leslie Ash Murray Melvin
A Russian ballerina (Finola Hughes) defects to a London ballet company run by a woman (Joan Collins) who deals in corruption.
Crime, Drama
Spain|USA
1963
106 Minutes
First Gendaime
Laurence Harvey Sarah Miles Robert Walker John Ireland Ross Martin Lee Patterson Jack MacGowran Murray Melvin
A bank robber is sentenced to prison for committing a murder during the robbery. His brother comes up with a plan to break him out of prison--but on the condition that his brother's girlfriend "date" him first.
Comedy, Drama
UK
1963
94 Minutes
Georgie
James Booth Barbara Windsor Roy Kinnear Avis Bunnage Brian Murphy George Sewell Barbara Ferris Griffith Davies Murray Melvin Arthur Mullard Peggy Ann Clifford
seaman wife bus driver baby emotional melodramatic intense touching sad sea boat home returning home new love fatherhood doubt past loves adventure love forbidden love
Charlie returns to the East End after two years at sea to find his house demolished and wife Maggie gone. Everyone else knows she is now shacked up with married bus driver Bert and a ... See full summary »
Crime, Drama
UK|France
1991
119 Minutes
Secondary School Teacher
Christopher Eccleston Paul Reynolds Tom Courtenay Tom Bell Eileen Atkins Clare Holman Mark McGann Michael Gough Michael Elphick Murray Melvin Ronald Fraser
teen boy friend father mother sister police officer bleak disturbing england family home court prison suburbia murder case troubled youth trial injustice rebellion quest fall
In 1950s England, slow-witted Derek Bentley falls in with a group of petty criminals led by Chris Craig, a teenager with a fondness for American gangster movies. Chris and Derek's ... See full summary »
Musical, Romance, Drama
UK
2004
141 Minutes
Gerard Butler Emmy Rossum Patrick Wilson Miranda Richardson Minnie Driver Simon Callow Ciarán Hinds Jennifer Ellison James Fleet Victor McGuire Murray Melvin
phantom singer benefactor theater owner theatrical producer love interest intense emotional melodramatic paris opera house lair obsession music rivalry disfigurement jealousy extortion love temptation
A young soprano becomes the obsession of a disfigured and murderous musical genius who lives beneath the Paris Opéra House.
Biography
UK
1995
158 Minutes
Simon Callow Michael Ball Rebecca Front Lucy Speed Letitia Dean Nina Young John Shrapnel Robert Stephens Terence Rigby Bill Kenwright Murray Melvin
In 1960s, a British playwright attempts to reconstruct the life of real life 17th century English composer Henry Purcell even though little is known about him. Purcell's life is reenacted and his music performed.
Comedy, Drama
UK
1966
114 Minutes
Michael Caine Shelley Winters Millicent Martin Julia Foster Jane Asher Shirley Anne Field Vivien Merchant Eleanor Bron Denholm Elliott Alfie Bass Graham Stark
ladies' man girlfriend friend quirky witty london car sex infidelity pregnancy illness romance growing up transformation 1950s
An unrepentant ladies' man gradually begins to understand the consequences of his lifestyle.
Drama
UK|USA
1975
184 Minutes
Ryan O'Neal Marisa Berenson Patrick Magee Hardy Kruger Steven Berkoff Gay Hamilton Leonard Rossiter Godfrey Quigley Arthur O'Sullivan Diana Koerner Marie Kean
soldier spy wealthy woman gambler love interest maid engaging emotional village ireland farm england romance infidelity war marriage suicide wealth fall rise
An Irish rogue wins the heart of a rich widow and assumes her dead husband's aristocratic position in 18th-century England.
Drama, History
UK
1962
101 Minutes
Alec Guinness Dirk Bogarde Maurice Denham Nigel Stock Richard Carpenter Peter Gill David Robinson Robin Stewart Ray Brooks Peter Greenspan Anthony Quayle
captain lieutenant cabin boy sailor tense thrilling ship ocean naval warfare mutiny napoleonic wars leadership adventure rivalry 1800s
On the H.M.S. Defiant, during the French Revolutionary War, fair Captain Crawford is locked in a battle of wills against his cruel second-in-command Lieutenant Scott-Padget, whose heavy-handed command style pushes the crew to mutiny.