Movies: Brian Cox

A drama documentary on the life and work of Italian communist Antonio Gramsci. Produced for Channel 4 in 1987, it was directed by the Scottish filmmaker Mike Alexander and starred John Sessions in scenes from Gramsci's life. Brian Cox provided the na...

Fact-based story of an Israeli government agent assigned to use her beauty as well as intelligence to snag a man on the run with atomic secrets....

In a psychiatric hospital, a junior doctor is treating a young black man diagnosed with Borderline Personality Disorder. The patient is having a final interview with the doctor, who has invited his mentor to sit in on the session. He is concerned tha...

Joanna once was married to Carl May, a very rich and powerful nuclear energy magnate. They love each other, but had to divorce after Joanna was caught on an incidental love affair. Since then Carl has made Joanna's life impossible. 10 years later she...

“Red Fox” tells a gripping contemporary tale of kidnapping, terrorism and political intrigue. Based on the book by Gerald Seymour, with a screenplay by James McManus, it tells the story of when Geoffrey Harrison (Brian Cox), a top executive with Brit...

The life of German composer Johann Sebastian Bach....

Drama about journalist Heather Brooke's fight for the disclosure of MPs' expenses....

A beautiful widow is determined to uncover the facts behind her husband's death....

A film-poem written in response to the controversy surrounding Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses...

A restaurant is fire-bombed, a TV journalist and a member of a local mafia are murdered, and a valuable statuette is stolen. Yevgeni Grushko is Head of the Mafia Investigations Division of the local police force, facing new challenges as the internic...

Comical opposites and recent widowers, Ira and Jimmy, are forced to become friends by their conspiring daughters. Their initial stubbornness gives way to a journey of unexpected friendship, proving that family has a way of bringing even the most unli...

After 35 years in Chicago, Donal reluctantly returns to the Scottish Highlands to make amends with his estranged older brother, Sandy. Sandy needs Donal to take over the family's whisky distillery or he will be forced to sell and give up on the famil...

A multi-part documentary about Alan Clarke, featuring interviews with various actors, writers and producers....

Imprisoned at home, his only distant link to the outside world coming through infrequent visits from his long-standing colleague Siobhan, an ageing Inspector Rebus reflects on his bizarre solitary confinement....

Documentary looking at the making-of and real-life stories behind the award-winning conspiracy thriller starring Oscar-winner Frances McDormand and Brian Cox...

Eight-year-old Sam is desperate for an allotment. When he meets Norman, a curmudgeonly old man with a neglected allotment and a death wish, Sam thinks he has the solution to both of their problems....

Hollywood actor Brian Cox is a son of Dundee. The city is the big constant of his life. He grew up amid the clatter of the jute mills, where both his parents began their working lives. The jute trade, making hessian from India's 'golden' fibre, domi...

Vic & Bob are on a road trip across England as they search for an elusive piece of celebrity memorabilia - Michael Jackson's "training" glove....

The documentary disputes the conclusion reached by the official investigation into the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103, instead advancing the theory that the bomb was introduced onto the aircraft by an unwitting drug mule, Khaled Jafaar, in what the fil...

A village cricket match on the lawn of a great country house - a traditional setting for the perfect English murder. A natural case for the Yard's best technicolor detective, except for the victim-the 20th-century lord of the manor, Sheik Ali Ben Has...