Anton Lesser Movies

Biography of Russian physicist & dissident Andrei Sakharov focuses on his first acts in his civil rights.

Limousine driver Sentwali is living in self-imposed exile when he meets and forms a connection with a charismatic actress, and for the first time in...

Exquisitely sculptured Russian puppets perform this powerful and enchanting story full of regal and rustic characters. A fit of temper has tragic...

Whilst celebrating Lleu's 18th birthday, Lleu and two friends go for a boat ride, when they discover beneath the water the golden doorway to the...

The tale begins when a brother and sister are separated in a shipwreck, but survive to be washed up on the shore of Illyria. The sister, Viola,...

Drama based on real-life events. Marie Stubbs, a diminutive Glaswegian headmistress who is coming up to retirement age, takes on one last challenge:...

British filmmaker Simon Cellan Jones directs the BBC drama Eroica, starring Ian Hart as Ludwig van Beethoven. Shot on digital video, this TV film...

When the company Justin works for is taken over, he must choose between standing up for what he thinks is right or being made redundant.

A poignant, tender drama about a grumpy old man in a Leeds care home and a reluctant Barmitzvah boy — and the unlikely friendship that changes...

Contemporary thriller set partly on the island of Rhodes. A bankrupt former garage owner, now working as a waiter and a caretaker on the Greek isle,...

An aging King invites disaster, when he abdicates to his corrupt, toadying daughters, and rejects his loving and honest one.

A dark psychological thriller which follows a couple who find themselves in a hit and run situation, with the evidence suggesting there was no...

In the summer of 1931, with Germany on the brink of economic collapse, and the city of Berlin turning into a paramilitary war-zone, audacious young...

An inquisitive retiree surprises her new neighbours to say hello; what she wasn’t expecting is that they would all be naked. A short about...

A reworking of the 14th century Arthurian medieval poem as an animated film styled to look like stain glass windows.

Dramatisation of the real-life road-rage killing in 1996 of Stephen Cameron by Kenneth Noye, who was also implicated in the Brinks Mat bullion...

Adaptation of the George Eliot novel.

The story, told partly in flashback to 1968, concerns a clique of English public schoolboys who bully and humiliate an unpopular younger pupil (Cox)...

The bitter Trojan War drags on - the Greeks blame Achilles' apathy for low morale, while Troy's hero Hector challenges one of the enemy to a personal...

The Project follows the lives of a group of young Labour party activists from their final days of university to Westminster's corridors of power....