Movies: Sylvia Syms

Simon Crawford is a barrister whose daughter is killed in a hit-and-run accident. When his neighbor is also killed, evidence points to the barrister as the murderer....

A group of ex-university students reunite to perform a Shakespeare play in a quaint English village....

The re-creation of events leading up to Margaret Thatcher's defeat as party leader and Britain's Prime Minister....

Magazine editor Valerie Carr lives in London with her two daughters Jan, aged seventeen, and Poppet, thirteen. When Jan is invited to a party at the Savoy, she meets dashing young Tony Ward Black mad about jive, owner of a Bentley, and supposedly run...

Amanda Donohoe and Peter Firth star in Tony Bicât’s unnerving thriller about a poisoned marriage in which both people are locked in passionate affairs and fantasizing about murder...

Comedy about 4 middle aged businessmen on a team building exercise in the lake district...

A dramatized account of the Scott Inquiry about the sales of arms to Iraq....

A British soldier escapes from 1880s Khartoum and goes down the Nile river with a fellow soldier, a governess and the daughter of an emir....

A team of inept undertakers attempt to get a coffin to a funeral on time. An undertaker is in charge of moving a coffin from a home to the church. The home is on the 26th floor of a skyscraper; the stairs are narrow; the lift is small and prone to st...

An advertising executive investigating the death of an old girlfriend uncovers a conspiracy to cover up the spread of BSE in humans....

Early 1960s realist drama following a day in the lives of two London flatmates. Sylvia Syms and June Ritchie star as Billa and Ginnie, two singletons sharing a London flat who both work as night club hostesses in the same Soho club. Tensions arise wh...

An elderly couple face separation when one of them is admitted to a care home....

Ailidh (Mirren Burke) has two loves in this world: spying on her neighbours and writing graphic novels. The arrival of Jacob (Rollo Weeks - Girl with a Pearl Earring), inspires Ailidh and she soon begins conjuring up increasingly elaborate plans to b...

A small girl, who doesn't believe in fairytales, meets an old woman who claims she is a mermaid....

A silent slapstick comedy depicting the travails of young couple moving into a new home, who hire an accident-prone firm of house removers, headed by Sykes. It features an all-star cast including Tommy Cooper, Bernard Cribbins, Jimmy Edwards, Irene H...

Sylvia Syms looks through the BBC archives to tell the story of one of Hollywood's greatest ever feuds - the rivalry between legendary actresses Bette Davis and Joan Crawford. Interviews from the 1960s and 70s reveal the mutual loathing that came to ...

In all walks of life, there are challenges that lie ahead....