James Ottaway Movies

In the late 1970s, Cockney crime boss Harold Shand, a gangster trying to become a legitimate property mogul, has big plans to get the American Mafia...

At a Catholic boys' school, domineering disciplinarian Father Goddard rules over his pupils with an iron hand. When one of his teenage charges...

Joe Newman, a naturalised Briton, is telephoned by his German father, whom he believed long dead, at the same time as a funeral is taking place in...

George and Betty, a middle-class English couple, have just moved into a big Edwardian house in London and are throwing a party to celebrate....

Tommy Adams has become quite the grown man. Now 19 years old, he is the man of the house, working full-time and supporting his widowed mother. He has...

A lawyer's agonizing journey to the breaking point of his private and professional lives as he becomes more and more alienated from everyone...

The Widowmaker is a 1990 made for television film starring Annabelle Apsion, Alun Armstrong, David Morrissey and Kenneth Welsh. The film deals with a...

Britain, 1958. Restless at school and bored with his life, Jim leaves home to take a series of low-level jobs at a seaside amusement park, where he...

A car mechanic faces prejudice at work because of his ethnicity.

British melodrama about a cabbie befriending a girl caught up in the white slave trade.

The prisoner Nemov is an honest man serving ten years for violations of Article 58. Nemov falls in love with Lyuba, who is having sex with the camp...

A grumpy Scottish soccer boss meets a young fan in a TB sanatorium.

An art student encounters a mysterious girl at a psychedelic party. She insists he give her a ride home on his motorbike, when something very strange...

An unfortunate sailor gets implicated in a murder he never committed. After a bookie is murdered, the sailor is caught in an ever-tightening vice...

Play which examines the conflict between the generations of a Greek-Cypriot family. Dimitri and Trulla are to be married. All seems well for the...

A story of choices leading to redemption or further from it, set against a backdrop of human nature and societal constraints.