Films and TV series directed by Bryan Forbes

Jessie

Film Age rating: n/a Year: 1980 IMDB Rating: 7.7

A woman starts work as a nanny to a mute boy in a Victorian household. The boy's growing attachment to her however causes greater problems than his original detachment to his family. Part of the 1980...

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Whistle Down the Wind

Film Age rating: 3 Year: 1961 IMDB Rating: 7.6

When an injured wife-murderer takes refuge on a remote Lancashire farm, the farmer’s three children mistakenly believe him to be the Second Coming of Christ.

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Seance on a Wet Afternoon

Film Age rating: 11 Year: 1964 IMDB Rating: 7.6

Working-class British housewife Myra Savage reinvents herself as a medium, holding seances in the sitting room of her home with the hidden assistance of her under-employed, asthmatic husband, Billy. I...

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King Rat

Film Age rating: 9 Year: 1965 IMDB Rating: 7.5

When Singapore surrendered to the Japanese in 1942, the Allied POWs, mostly British but including a few Americans, were incarcerated in Changi prison. Among the American prisoners is Cpl. King, a whee...

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The L-Shaped Room

Film Age rating: 13 Year: 1962 IMDB Rating: 7.3

Jane is young, French, pregnant and unmarried. Bucking convention, she is uninterested in settling with her baby's father or getting an abortion. After renting a room in a dingy London boarding house,...

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The Whisperers

Film Age rating: 8 Year: 1967 IMDB Rating: 7.1

Margaret Ross is an impoverished old woman who lives alone in a seedy apartment and enjoys a rich fantasy life as an heiress. One day she discovers stolen money hidden by her son and believes her fant...

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The Slipper and the Rose

Film Age rating: 2 Year: 1976 IMDB Rating: 6.9

In the tiny kingdom of Euphrania, the King and his court are most anxious to get Prince Edward wed. But Edward wants to marry for love. Meanwhile, young Cinderella finds life drastically altered with...

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The Raging Moon

Film Age rating: 7 Year: 1971 IMDB Rating: 6.9

Bruce Pritchard is paralysed in a soccer game and is confined to a wheelchair in a convalescence home. But this doesn't slow his lust for life. Then he meets Jill and has to think about the effects of...

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