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An Audience with Peter Ustinov (1988)

8.4/10
Director: Alasdair Macmillan
Starring: Peter Ustinov

Although appearing in over 100 film and television productions, Peter Ustinov is best remembered for his portrayal of Hercule Poirot in 6 Agatha Chris... Read more

The Magic Flute (1994)

7.9/10
Starring: Narrated by, Peter Ustinov

Performed by the Salzburg Marionette Theatre and the Rias Symphony-Orchester Berlin, conducted by Ferenc Fricsay. Narrated by Peter Ustinov. Read more

Tarka the Otter (1979)

6.9/10
Director: David Cobham
Starring: Narrated by, Peter Ustinov

A captivating tale set in the 1920s and based on the best-selling book by Henry Williamson. This is one of those highly unusual films told almost enti... Read more

Grendel Grendel Grendel (1981)

7/10
Director: Alexander Stitt
Starring: Peter Ustinov, Arthur Dignam

'Grendel, Grendel, Grendel' is an animated re-telling of the epic poem 'Beowulf', told from the perspective of the great monster, Grendel (Peter Ustin... Read more

The Marriage Of Figaro (1995)

8.2/10
Starring: Narrated by, Peter Ustinov

This unusual production is one of a series of Mozart's works performed by marionettes! The Salzburg Marionette Theatre joins forces with the Philharm... Read more

The Sundowners (1960)

7.2/10
Director: Fred Zinnemann
Starring: Deborah Kerr, Robert Mitchum, Peter Ustinov

The story of Australian sheepherders in the 1920s, it is a character study bought alive by sensitive direction, as well as by the fine acting of a sup... Read more

Topkapi (1964)

7.1/10
Director: Jules Dassin
Starring: Melina Mercouri, Peter Ustinov, Maximilian Schell

About a group of sophisticated thieves orchestrating the perfect heist, that of the gem-strewn dagger from the Topkapi Museum in Constantinople. Peter... Read more

Lorenzo's Oil (1993)

7.3/10
Director: George Miller
Starring: Nick Nolte, Susan Sarandon, Peter Ustinov

A stirring adaptation of the real-life story of Michaela and Agusto Odone, whose son Lorenzo was stricken by an incurable, and fatal, disease known as... Read more

Quo Vadis ( Blu-ray ) (1951)

7.2/10
Director: Mervyn LeRoy
Starring: Deborah Kerr, Peter Ustinov, Robert Taylor, Leo Genn

Ancient Rome is the setting for this dramatic epic of faith, love, and courage. Revered Imperial soldier Marcus Vinicius (Robert Taylor) returns from... Read more

Lola Montes (1955)

7.4/10
Director: Max Ophuls
Starring: Peter Ustinov, Martine Carol, Anton Walbrook, Oskar Werner

A lush romantic drama that was filmmaker Max Ophuls' last work and his only film in colour. Martine Carol is mesmerizing as the famous adventurer and... Read more

The Old Curiosity Shop (1994)

6.6/10
Director: Kevin Connor
Starring: Peter Ustinov, Tom Courtenay, James Fox, Sally Walsh

Peter Ustinov is the kindly shopkeeper, Sally Walsh his granddaughter, Little Nell, and Tom Courtenay the conniving Mr Quilip in this filming of the b... Read more

Quo Vadis (1951)

7.2/10
Director: Mervyn LeRoy
Starring: Deborah Kerr, Peter Ustinov, Robert Taylor, Leo Genn

Ancient Rome is the setting for this dramatic epic of faith, love, and courage. Revered Imperial soldier Marcus Vinicius (Robert Taylor) returns from... Read more

Appointment With Death (1988)

6.2/10
Director: Michael Winner
Starring: Peter Ustinov, Lauren Bacall, Piper Laurie, David Soul

When domineering and much despised Emily Boynton (Piper Laurie), is murdered, renowned Belgian sleuth Hercule Poirot (Peter Ustinov), has to summon up... Read more

Logan's Run (1976)

6.8/10
Director: Michael Anderson
Starring: Michael York, Jenny Agutter, Peter Ustinov, Richard Jordan, Roscoe Lee Browne, F...

In the 23rd century, life inside the domed city that houses the Earth's population is perfect - except that anyone who tries to live past the age of 3... Read more

Strumpet City (1979)

8.7/10
Starring: Angela Harding, Cyril Cusack, Donal McCann, David Kelly, Frank Grimes, Peter O'T...

A panoramic saga of Dublin life during one of the city's most turbulent eras in the early 1900s, based on the novels of James Plunkett, which are in t... Read more

The Bachelor (1999)

5/10
Director: Gary Sinyor
Starring: Renee Zellweger, Peter Ustinov, Edward Asner, Chris O'Donnell, Brooke Shields

This remake of Buster Keaton's 1925 film "Seven Chances" is a romantic comedy in which commitment-phobe Chris O'Donnell is told he will inherit $100 m... Read more

Billy Budd (1962)

7.9/10
Director: Peter Ustinov
Starring: Peter Ustinov, Terence Stamp, Robert Ryan, Melvyn Douglas, David McCallum

Herman Melville's classic sea story receives a superb treatment with Peter Ustinov behind the lens. In his first film, Terence Stamp is Billy Budd, an... Read more

Rosamunde Pilcher's Winter Solstice (2005)

Director: Martyn Friend
Starring: Sinead Cusack, Jan Niklas, Jean Simmons, Geraldine Chaplin, Peter Ustinov

Rosamunde Pilcher ('Coming Home') has another best-selling novel adapted into an absorbing miniseries. The recently bereaved Elfrida Phipps moves to a... Read more

Robin Hood (Disney) (1973)

6.7/10
Director: Wolfgang Reitherman
Starring: Voices Of, Brian Bedford, Phil Harris, Peter Ustinov, Terry-Thomas

Disney's animated version of the legend casts Robin as a fox battling the evil wolf sheriff of Nottingham for freedom in Sherwood Forest. Peter Ustin... Read more

Animal Farm (1999)

6/10
Director: John Stephenson
Starring: Voices Of, Kelsey Grammer, Ian Holm, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Julia Ormond, Pete Pos...

Wonderful effects by Jim Henson's Creature Shop bring to life the barnyard rebels of George Orwell's classic cautionary tale. Rallying in search of a... Read more

Evil Under The Sun (1982)

7/10
Director: Guy Hamilton
Starring: Peter Ustinov, Jane Birkin, Maggie Smith, Diana Rigg, James Mason, Roddy McDowal...

Peter Ustinov, a delight as Hercule Poirot is at an exclusive Adriatic island resort for a holiday . But evil is aboard at his luxury hotel as the s... Read more

One of Our Dinosaurs is Missing (1975)

6/10
Director: Robert Stevenson
Starring: Peter Ustinov, Helen Hayes, Clive Revill, Derek Nimmo, Joan Sims, Bernard Bressl...

Combining healthy doses of suspense and humour, this lighthearted comedy/thriller skips and slides through one outrageous situation after another. An... Read more

The Egyptian (1954)

6.6/10
Director: Michael Curtiz
Starring: Edmund Purdom, Gene Tierney, Jean Simmons, Peter Ustinov, Victor Mature, Michael...

Based on the novel by Mika Waltari and helmed by 'Casablanca' director Michael Curtiz, The Egyptian, a lavish period soaper, is set several centuries... Read more

Logan's Run ( Blu-ray ) (1976)

6.8/10
Director: Michael Anderson
Starring: Farrah Fawcett, Jenny Agutter, Michael York, Peter Ustinov, Richard Jordan, Rosc...

In the 23rd century, life inside the domed city that houses the Earth's population is perfect - except that anyone who tries to live past the age of 3... Read more

Blackbeard's Ghost (1968)

6.8/10
Director: Robert Stevenson
Starring: Peter Ustinov, Dean Jones, Suzanne Pleshette, Elsa Lanchester, Joby Baker, Ellio...

In this warmhearted Disney fantasy a group of crooks want to take over an island and turn it into a casino. After they kick senior citizen Elsa Lanche... Read more

Luther (2003)

6.6/10
Director: Eric Till
Starring: Joseph Fiennes, Alfred Molina, Jonathan Firth, Claire Cox, Peter Ustinov, Bruno...

Joseph Fiennes delivers a fine performance in the title role of this affecting religious biodrama. When the Pope orders his priests to sell absolution... Read more

We're No Angels (1955)

7.5/10
Director: Michael Curtiz
Starring: Humphrey Bogart, Aldo Ray, Peter Ustinov, Leo G Carroll, Basil Rathbone, Joan Be...

This entertaining black comedy would be the last collaboration of Humphrey Bogart with director Michael Curtiz. Not best-known for his comedic work, B... Read more

Alice In Wonderland (1999)

6.3/10
Director: Nick Willing
Starring: Tina Majorino, Whoopi Goldberg, Martin Short, Gene Wilder, Peter Ustinov, Ben Ki...

Lewis Carroll's fantasy comes alive yet again in this slick new 1999 production starring Tina Majorino as Alice, Robbie Coltrane (Tweedle-Dum), Whoopi... Read more

Ashanti (1979)

5.4/10
Director: Richard Fleischer
Starring: Michael Caine, Peter Ustinov, Kabir Bedi, Omar Sharif, Beverly Johnson, Rex Harr...

Dr David Linderby (Michael Caine) and his wife (Beverly Johnson) are doing humanitarian work in an African village when she disappears without trace.... Read more

The Great Muppet Caper (1981)

7.2/10
Director: Jim Henson
Starring: John Cleese, Muppets, Diana Rigg, Peter Ustinov, Charles Grodin, Robert Morley,...

The Muppets investigate the robbery of the fabulous Baseball Diamond, owned by fashion queen Lady Holiday (Diana Rigg) - and Miss Piggy is the prime s... Read more

Spartacus (1960)

7.9/10
Director: Stanley Kubrick
Starring: Charles Laughton, Jean Simmons, Kirk Douglas, Laurence Olivier, Peter Ustinov, T...

Director Stanley Kubrick directed this tale of the slave rebellion that took place in 71 B.C., led by the famous and indomitable gladiator, Spartacus,... Read more

Spartacus ( Blu-ray ) (1960)

7.9/10
Director: Stanley Kubrick
Starring: Charles Laughton, Jean Simmons, Kirk Douglas, Laurence Olivier, Peter Ustinov, T...

Director Stanley Kubrick directed this tale of the slave rebellion that took place in 71 B.C., led by the famous and indomitable gladiator, Spartacus,... Read more

Death on the Nile (1978)

7.3/10
Director: John Guillermin
Starring: Angela Lansbury, Bette Davis, David Niven, Lois Chiles, Maggie Smith, Mia Farrow...

Peter Ustinov and Mia Farrow star in this adaptation of Agatha Christie's famous mystery, with Hercule Poirot playing detective games with a dozen or... Read more

The Last Remake of Beau Geste (1977)

6.1/10
Director: Marty Feldman
Starring: Ann-Margret , James Earl Jones, Marty Feldman, Michael York, Peter Ustinov, Ter...

Set in England and Morocco in 1906, Marty Feldman's "remake" mocks all the do-or-die extravaganzas we've known and loved as he portrays Digby, identic... Read more

The Way Ahead (1944)

7.1/10
Director: Carol Reed
Starring: David Niven, James Donald, John Laurie, Peter Ustinov, Stanley Holloway, Trevor...

A.k.a. "The Immortal Battalion". Having seen a 44 minute training film called 'The New Lot', Winston Churchill approached actor David Niven about maki... Read more

The Muppet Show: Season 1 (1976)

8.4/10
Director: Philip Casson, Peter Harris
Starring: Kermit the Frog, Miss Piggy, Fozzie Bear, Peter Ustinov, Bruce Forsyth, Candice...

All 24 episodes of the emmy award winning first season are finally here with perennial icons Kermit the Frog, Miss Piggy, Gonzo the... whatever, Fozzi... Read more

The Agatha Christie Collection: The Mirror Crack'd / Death on the Nile / Murder on the Orient Express / Evil Under the Sun / Endless Night (2008)

Director: Guy Hamilton, John Guillermin, Sidney Gilliat, Sidney Lumet
Starring: Albert Finney, Angela Lansbury, Bette Davis, David Niven, Elizabeth Taylor, Hayl...

A box set containing 5 theatrical movies and bonus documentary. 'The Mirror Crack'd': A colony of Hollywood ex-patriots arrive in England only to find... Read more

Jesus of Nazareth (Blu-Ray) (1977)

8.5/10
Director: Franco Zeffirelli
Starring: Anne Bancroft, Anthony Quinn, Christopher Plummer, Claudia Cardinale, Donald Ple...

Beginning before the Nativity and extending through the Crucifixion and Resurrection, this mini-series brings to life all of the sweeping drama in the... Read more

Jesus of Nazareth (1977)

8.5/10
Director: Franco Zeffirelli
Starring: Robert Powell, Olivia Hussey, Anne Bancroft, Ernest Borgnine, Claudia Cardinale,...

Franco Zeffirelli's highly acclaimed version of the life of Jesus. This epic, moving drama, filmed in Tunisia and Morocco, features a stellar internat... Read more