Movies: Richard Eyre

  • 2014
    The Metropolitan Opera: The Marriage of Figaro

    The Metropolitan Opera: The Marriage of Figaro (2014)

    The Metropolitan Opera: The Marriage of Figaro

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    Richard Eyre’s elegant production, which opened the Met’s 2014–15 season, sets the action of Mozart’s timeless social comedy in a manor house in 1930s Seville. Ildar Abdrazakov leads the cast as the resourceful Figaro set on outwitting his master, th...

    The Metropolitan Opera: The Marriage of Figaro
  • 1981
    The Cherry Orchard

    The Cherry Orchard (1981)

    The Cherry Orchard

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    Madame Ranevsky and her daughter Anya return home from Paris to find their beloved family estate and cherry orchard are to be auctioned off to pay debts. Lopahin, a former serf on the estate who is now a wealthy landowner, proposes razing the home an...

    The Cherry Orchard
  • 2009
    La Traviata

    La Traviata (2009)

    La Traviata

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    Renée Fleming has matured into one of the finest sopranos around at the moment, a true star with a sparkling personality and a velvet-toned voice that is capable of wringing the finest emotions out of works by Strauss and Tchaikovsky that from a less...

    La Traviata
  • 2020
    Drama Out of a Crisis: A Celebration of Play for Today

    Drama Out of a Crisis: A Celebration of Play for Today (2020)

    Drama Out of a Crisis: A Celebration of Play for Today

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    Marking Play for Today’s 50th anniversary, Drama Out of a Crisis is a compelling exploration of the series, its origins, achievements, controversies and legacies. Featuring a rich and surprising range of archive extracts and original interviews with...

    Drama Out of a Crisis: A Celebration of Play for Today
  • 1980
    Chance of a Lifetime

    Chance of a Lifetime (1980)

    Chance of a Lifetime

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    Play by Robert Holman, about two brothers at a rural comprehensive in Teeside. The older brother, Gordon, joins the army and is killed by the IRA in Northern Ireland. The younger blames his father for letting Gordon join the army....

    Chance of a Lifetime
  • 2014
    Ghosts

    Ghosts (2014)

    Ghosts

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    Helene Alving leads an outwardly contented life. On the eve of the 10th anniversary of her husband's death, she is about to open an orphanage as a memorial to him. To mark this occasion, her bohemian painter son Oswald has returned from Paris. Helene...

    Ghosts
  • 2016
    The Metropolitan Opera - Puccini: Manon Lescaut

    The Metropolitan Opera - Puccini: Manon Lescaut (2016)

    The Metropolitan Opera - Puccini: Manon Lescaut

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    Kristine Opolais is the young woman whose conflicting desires for love and luxury lead to her tragic end, and Roberto Alagna plays the man who falls for her in Puccini’s early hit. Richard Eyre’s elegant production, which sets the action in 1940s occ...

    The Metropolitan Opera - Puccini: Manon Lescaut
  • 1979
    Long Distance Information

    Long Distance Information (1979)

    Long Distance Information

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    Play For Today written by and starring Neville Smith. Christian Harvey , a local radio DJ and ageing rocker, is an obsessive fan of Elvis and the news of Elvis's death is for him a personal tragedy as well as the end of an era....

    Long Distance Information
  • 1986
    The Insurance Man

    The Insurance Man (1986)

    The Insurance Man

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    Franz, a young man, works in a dye factory in Prague. One day he notices a rash-like eczema, growing on his hands. All attempts to treat it with ointment fail, and the rash gradually spreads over his body. After complaining to the management he is la...

    The Insurance Man
  • 1978
    One Bummer News Day

    One Bummer News Day (1978)

    One Bummer News Day

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

    One Bummer News Day
  • 1980
    Murder Rap

    Murder Rap (1980)

    Murder Rap

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    Wally, a caretaker in a block of flats, loses his job when the flats are used to rehouse Bhengali families....

    Murder Rap
  • 2021
    Cameron Mackintosh - The First 50 Years

    Cameron Mackintosh - The First 50 Years (2021)

    Cameron Mackintosh - The First 50 Years

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    Archival footage provides a glimpse into the life of Cameron Mackintosh; the storied producer famous for Les Misérables, Phantom of the Opera, Cats and many more....

    Cameron Mackintosh - The First 50 Years
  • 1986
    Past Caring

    Past Caring (1986)

    Past Caring

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    67 year-old Victor is forced to move into an old people's home but he prefers to grow old disgracefully....

    Past Caring
  • 1980
    Pasmore

    Pasmore (1980)

    Pasmore

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    Colin Pasmore tests his strength against his family ties but finds them stronger than he ever imagined....

    Pasmore
  • 1979
    Waterloo Sunset

    Waterloo Sunset (1979)

    Waterloo Sunset

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    Grace leaves her old folks' home to return to her birthplace in Lambeth, a place which has changed on the surface but at its heart is still the same....

    Waterloo Sunset
  • 1979
    Pillion

    Pillion (1979)

    Pillion

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    Developed by Paul Copley from his own 1977 stage play, Pillion tells the story of motorbike enthusiast Fenton and his friends, meeting in a rural shed. Recorded in the first half of 1979 for the BBC's Play for Today, the finished play was never broad...

    Pillion
  • 2025
    The Metropolitan Opera: The Marriage of Figaro

    The Metropolitan Opera: The Marriage of Figaro (2025)

    The Metropolitan Opera: The Marriage of Figaro

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    Conductor Joana Mallwitz makes her Met debut leading an extraordinary cast in Mozart’s comic masterpiece. Bass-baritone Michael Sumuel stars as the clever valet Figaro, opposite soprano Olga Kulchynska as his betrothed, the wily maid Susanna. Bariton...

    The Metropolitan Opera: The Marriage of Figaro
  • 1984
    Loose Connections

    Loose Connections (1984)

    Loose Connections

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    A woman enlists a man who claims he is gay to accompany her on a long drive to a feminist conference in Munich....

    Loose Connections
  • 2003
    Vincent in Brixton

    Vincent in Brixton (2003)

    Vincent in Brixton

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    Based on Nicholas Wright's 2002 play exploring the life of the young Vincent Van Gogh during a stay in Brixton, London in 1873. In the play, which is largely fictional, he falls in love with an English widow....

    Vincent in Brixton
  • 1995
    The Absence of War

    The Absence of War (1995)

    The Absence of War

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    Political drama written by David Hare and starring John Thaw and based on Labour's disastrous 1992 election campaign. Labour leader George Jones battles with his party on the campaign trail of a general election....

    The Absence of War