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Back To The Secret Garden on DVD (1999)
Starring: George Baker, Joan Plowright, Camilla Belle
Director: Michael Tuchner
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Twelve-year-old Lizzie (Camilla Belle) has come to Misselthwaite Manor where she meets fellow orphans Robert (Aled Roberts), Steven (Justin Girdler), and Geraldine (Florence Hoath). Lizzie soon learns about a secret garden and wants to find out more. But Martha (Joan Plowright) is fearful of its ..read more »

59% from 741 members

Wilt (1988)
Starring: Mel Smith, Jeremy Clyde, Griff Rhys Jones
Director: Michael Tuchner
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Watch now: Unavailable
A black comedy based on a Tom Sharpe novel. Henry Wilt regularly fantasises about killing his wife, and after dumping an unwanted inflatable doll in a ditch and when his wife then goes missing the finger of accusation is pointed straight at him. Stars Griff Rhys Jones, Mel Smith, Alison Steadman ..read more »

63% from 745 members
Not available for rental

The Hunchback Of Notre Dame on DVD (1982)
Starring: Anthony Hopkins, David Suchet, John Gi
Director: Michael Tuchner
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Made-for-TV film adaptation of Victor Hugo's classic novel with Anthony Hopkins in the title role as Quasimodo the hunchback, who falls for gypsy girl Esmeralda (Lesley Anne-Down). The film is set in the year 1450 against the background of the famed Paris cathedral which was recreated in Pinewood ..read more »

55% from 129 members

Summer of My German Soldier (1978)
Starring: Kristy McNichol, Bruce Davison, Esther Rolle
Director: Michael Tuchner
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Kristy McNichol stars as a Jewish-American girl, patty Bergen, who befriends a German prisoner of war, played by Bruce Davison. Esther Rolle also stars as The Bergen's black maid who takes care of Patty and Patty's sister, Sharon. As one of the individuals who is closest to Patty, she is very ..read more »

60% from 2 members
Currently unavailable

Bar Mitzvah Boy on DVD (1976)
Starring: Adrienne Posta, Jeremy Steyn, Kim Clifford
Director: Michael Tuchner
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Made-for-TV drama that follows the fears and trepidations of a young Jewish boy as he approaches his Bar Mitzvah. Eliot Green (Jeremy Steyn) is about to turn 13, the age at which a ceremony is held to commemorate the fact that a child has come of age. The responsibilities inherent in this don't ..read more »

55% from 16 members

The Likely Lads on DVD (1976)
Starring: James Bolam, Rodney Bewes, Brigit Forsyth
Director: Michael Tuchner
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Bob (Rodney Bewes) and Terry (James Bolam) find their lifelong friendship beginning to change as Terry becomes involved with a new woman and the lads' weekly drinks sessions stop. Bob is dismayed, but his wife sees the opportunity to get Terry married off and put a wedge between the friends. Of ..read more »

70% from 714 members

Wessex Tales (2 discs) on DVD (1973)
Starring: Ben Kingsley, Jane Asher, Paul Rogers
Director: Michael Tuchner, Gavin Millar, Gavin Millar /
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All six stand-alone episodes of the 1970s BBC drama series based on short stories written by Thomas Hardy. Episodes are: 'The Withered Arm', 'Fellow Townsmen', 'A Tragedy of Two Ambitions', 'An Imaginative Woman', 'The Melancholy Hussar and 'Barbara of the House of Glebe'. John Hurt, Ben Kingsley ..read more »

61% from 58 members

Fear is the Key on DVD (1972)
Starring: Barry Newman, Suzy Kendall, Ben Kingsley
Director: Michael Tuchner
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Following the death of his family in an aeroplane crash, a man plots an elaborate revenge scheme on those responsible.

63% from 272 members

Villain on DVD (1971)
Starring: Ian McShane, Nigel Davenport, Joss Ackland
Director: Michael Tuchner
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Based on James Barlow's novel, 'Burden of Proof',; Cathleen Burnett plays the long suffering mother who attempts to keep her wayward and viscious son in line. Richard Burton plays the confused, angry young man who cannot get to grips with his homosexuality.

66% from 558 members

Tales Of The Unexpected - Complete First... (2 discs)
Starring: Jose Ferrer, Pamela Stephenson, Roald Dahl
Director: Simon Langton, Michael Tuchner
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All nine stand-alone episodes from the first series of the fantastical television drama, devised by popular author Roald Dahl. In this series, an American sailor on shore leave in the West Indies makes a bet with a mysterious man that he can light his cigarette lighter ten times in a row, a ..read more »

66% from 354 members
Not available for rental

Jack Rosenthal At The BBC Collection (5 discs) on DVD
Starring: Ian East, Gary Carp, Jeremy Steyn
Director: Alan Parker, Michael Tuchner, John Goldschmidt
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Jack Rosenthal's name stands high in the list of television's greatest dramatists. With a career that started on early episodes of Coronation Street, he was well-advised to launch into writing plays and began by drawing on his own experiences in The Evacuees directed by a young Alan Parker. Jack ..read more »

79% from 60 members

Michael Tuchner facts

5 most recent films

Back To The Secret Garden - 3.0 stars
Wilt - 3.0 stars
The Hunchback Of Notre Dame - 3.0 stars
Summer of My German Soldier - 3.0 stars
Bar Mitzvah Boy - 3.0 stars

5 highest-rated films

Jack Rosenthal At The BBC Collection - 4.0 stars
The Likely Lads - 3.5 stars
Tales Of The Unexpected - Complete First Series - 3.5 stars
Villain - 3.5 stars
Wilt - 3.0 stars

5 lowest-rated films

Bar Mitzvah Boy - 3.0 stars
Summer of My German Soldier - 3.0 stars
The Hunchback Of Notre Dame - 3.0 stars
Back To The Secret Garden - 3.0 stars
Wessex Tales - 3.0 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Michael Ontkean - 3 times - show films
Pamela Stephenson - 3 times - show films
Roald Dahl - 3 times - show films
Jose Ferrer - 3 times - show films
Jeremy Steyn - 2 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Alan Parker - 6 times - show films
John Goldschmidt - 6 times - show films
Gavin Millar - 3 times - show films
Simon Langton - 3 times - show films
Gavin Millar / - 1 times - show films

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