Michael Darlow

Directing

Michael Darlow

Born 1934-06-13 · Wolverhampton, Staffordshire, England, UK

Michael Darlow is an English director and producer.

Acting credits

Behind the camera

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At the Trenartha Tin Plate Works a bitter industrial dispute has lasted five months. The founder of the company, the staunch conservative John Anthony, refuses to accede to the demands of the workforce, despite the cessation of output and the resultant decline in share value and despite the human suffering the strike is causing, especially to the families of the workers. Equally uncompromising is the strike leader David Roberts, who even opposes his own union by holding out for the workers' demands.

Strife

1988

A Dinner of Herbs poster
NR

Jane, an English journalist goes to Israel to write on the Palestinian situation and meets and falls in love with an Israeli professor of English. As their love affair develops, they realize they have opposing views on Israel’s treatment of the Palestinians.

A Dinner of Herbs

1988

Bomber Harris poster
7.8

Biography of Arthur Harris (aka "Bomber Harris") of RAF Bomber Command, during WW2 - in particular his strategy of heavy bomber "Millenium Raids" on German cities.

Bomber Harris

1989

Angel Voices poster
9.0

It is the summer of 1963: the year of the Beatles and wild dances like the Hully Gully. Tommy Bray's choirboys set off on their annual trip to Blackpool, but Tommy Bray fears that his beloved choir may not survive the temptations of the time.

Angel Voices

1989

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NR

In 1956, the British Prime Minister Anthony Eden grapples with the Suez Crisis, which brings an end to his political career.

Suez 1956

1979

Hazlitt in Love poster
1.0

The story of the love of writer and critic Willlam Hazlitt for the young daughter of his landlady in the 1820s.

Hazlitt in Love

1977

Cricket poster
NR

1997: A village cricket team (complete with computerised Wisden Almanac with the voice of Brian Johnson) is suspected of moonlighting as a private guerilla arm, fighting the Forestry Commission.

Cricket

1982

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8.0

In pre-WWI England, a youngster is expelled from a naval academy over a petty theft, but his parents raise a political furor by demanding a trial.

The Winslow Boy

1989

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9.0

The World at War: A Special Presentation - Secretary to Hitler

The World at War: A Special Presentation - Secretary to Hitler

1974

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NR

No synopsis available yet.

Omnibus: François Truffaut

1973

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NR

No synopsis available yet.

Omnibus: François Truffaut

1973

Accounts poster
5.2

Financial and emotional accounts are settled as a family battle to survive in an unforgiving land.

Accounts

1983

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Mr. Pye is a missionary whose mission to spread God's love on the tiny English Channel island of Sark faces supernatural setbacks in this comic fantasy from the author of Gormenghast.

Mr. Pye

1986

Little Eyolf poster
6.7

Alfred Allmers has spent his whole life writing a book on "responsibility," a luxury he can afford as a result of his marriage to the wealthy and beautiful Rita. However, much to Rita's annoyance, his attention isn't always undivided toward her, as Alfred shifts his focus between his book, their son Eyolf, and his half-sister Asta. As Allmers slowly feels trapped in an unfulfilling marriage, emotions and a painful past threaten to boil over into a terrible finale.

Little Eyolf

1982

Make and Break poster
NR

Lots of pent up business people struggle to balance business with pleasure.

Make and Break

1987

The Final Solution poster
NR

The Final Solution is set against the backdrop of WW2. It follows a relentless detective racing against time to solve a complex conspiracy. The plot weaves historical events seamlessly, capturing the tension and moral dilemmas of the era.

The Final Solution

1975

Come the Revolution poster
10.0

Comedy about a pub theatre group seen as dramatic revolutionaries by an actress with more than her share of imagination.

Come the Revolution

1977

The Master Builder poster
NR

Ibsen's play is the story of Halvard Solness, Master Builder of a town in Norway. Solness is a successful architect but he's afraid of the being surpassed by those younger than himself. The arrival of a young woman called Hilda stirs up memories and feelings with stories of a promise he made her many years ago.

The Master Builder

1988

Fatal Spring poster
NR

'Can you imagine, just try to imagine the numbers of good men who are going to be slaughtered this summer ...' Using a remarkable blend of dramatic techniques, this study of three English poets - who were also three courageous soldiers - gradually develops towards their historical and crucial meeting.

Fatal Spring

1980

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NR

Based on the story of Nina Voronel's husband, a physics professor and Jewish "dissident" in the Soviet Union.

Last Night Another Dissident...

1981

Imaginary Friends poster
6.0

Ellen Pitblado is a widow who lives in recluse in 1930s Gloucestershire. When her scummy journalist nephew, Douglas, tries to force her to give him her money, she calls her mysterious lookalike gentlemen friends to her aid.

Imaginary Friends

1982

One Bummer News Day poster
NR

What happens to provincial journalists when there's nothing in the news and they have a paper to fill?

One Bummer News Day

1978

The Barretts of Wimpole Street poster
8.0

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 the poet Robert Browning bursts into her life.

The Barretts of Wimpole Street

1982

Johnny Cash at San Quentin poster
8.8

On February 24th, 1969, two days before he turned 37, Johnny Cash led his traveling troupe behind the foreboding walls of the California State Penitentiary at San Quentin, long known as one of America's toughest prisons.

Johnny Cash at San Quentin

1969