Movies: Leon Lissek

Adapted and directed by Peter Brook from the Royal Shakespeare Company’s ‘production-in-progress US’, this long-unseen agitprop drama-doc – shot in London in 1967 and released only briefly in the UK and New York at the height of the Vietnam War – rem...

In Afghanistan, the ruthless sport of buzkashi is a game of great pride. When Uraz breaks his leg and loses a spirited match, he brings shame to his village, especially his father. After losing his leg below the knee, Uraz, to regain his honor, must ...

A fanciful biopic of legendary conductor Arturo Toscanini as a very young man....

TV Movie consisting of two episodes of the UK TV series "Journey to the Unknown" (1968): 'Matakitas is Coming' (episode 1.3) and 'The Last Visitor' (episode 1.9)....

A Jewish girl in 19th century London dreams of becoming a stage actress....

A dramatized biography of William Tyndale, the 16th Century reformer determined to translate the Bible into English, which illegal act set him at odds with the Catholic Church, Sir Thomas More and King Henry VIII....

Baal is an amoral poetic genius who, after a life of debauchery, betrayal and violence, is about to cut his ties to the world and meet his doom. A high society party is where the end begins....

An old captain & his young wife share a lot of adventures after they're shipwrecked and captured by Aborigines on an island near Australia....

In the small town of Coopers Bay, there are two high schools situated right next to each other. There’s Winchester, an all boys comprehensive and St Elizabeth’s, a girl’s only Catholic faculty. They are separated by woodland where pupils from both ca...

A banished hero of Rome allies with a sworn enemy to take his revenge on the city....

Based on the adventures of Jack Sheppard, the thief and jail-breaker who became a folk hero in 1720s London....

Four British teens on vacation visit an island and discover that a terrorist group is using it as their headquarters....

An account of how Lech Walesa and the "Solidarity" trade union confronted the might of Communist dictatorship in Poland....

Television interviewer George Grant, renowned for his ability to get at the truth, is at the peak of his career. But when he receives a message at his office that his wife needs to see him urgently - a matter of life and death - his life is irreversi...

A Romanian immigrant uses good food, good humor and good conversation to break down the walls around a reclusive woman's heart....

Robert Marcarelli - In this impressive drama, starring Gary Cooper, we follow Saul the angry zealot to Paul the servant of Christ, who will pay any price to bring his message to the world. - Garry Cooper, Leon Lissek, Kermit Christman...

Devoutly religious Ruth returns from Israel to care for her dying mother, but when she tries to bring her estranged brother David back into the fold, in accordance with her mother's wishes, the result is a startling journey into the darkest realms of...

A lawyer representing Amnesty International tries to find the whereabouts and condition of 17 political prisoners detained in a country known for its systematic torture of prisoners....

Intertwined story of the lives of two women; an Englishwoman suffering abuse from her violent husband, and a Russian poet serving hard labour because of her subversive work....

A young Austrian comedian struggles with the nightmare of his past and a dead sister who refuses to die by laying claim to his soul....