Movies: George Bernard Shaw

An actress cures an aged flirt by posing as his wife....

The action in this lavishly produced film takes place at an oddly ark-shaped mansion during World War I, and in spirit (although not in story) it reflects the play which inspired it, the ferociously antiwar Heartbreak House by George Bernard Shaw. A ...

Can Professor Higgins teach a working-class flower girl to speak like a duchess?...

The burglar Karl Kilian Ledig tries to get his somewhat reluctant son Carl Gustaf interested in his "profession". He bring him along one evening to the sculpture Ulla-Carin von Knaake's house to break in and steal from her safe. Complications arise w...

September evening, an unusual ark house, resembling a ship in shape, for its owner, the gray-haired old man, captain Châtover, sailed the whole life through the seas. A strange house where people behave differently. Young beauty sisters reign in thi...

Shaw's comedy of ideologies looks forty years to the future at the impossibility of government as the British cabinet and monarchy face a day of "crisis" for the country. King Magnus is happy to engage a prime minister seeking to transform the nation...

Adaptation of the play by George Bernard Shaw. (Synopsis) Richard Briers tries to woo Judi Dench in this play by George Bernard Shaw....

1865: Swiss captain Bluntschli fights as mercenary in the war between Bulgaria and Serbia. When his group's attacked by a few Bulgarian troopers, he learns that he's got the wrong ammunition for his cannon and has to flee. His flight leads him right ...

Adaptation of the play by Bernard Shaw....

A titled Englishwoman proves more than a match for the fearsome Captain Brassbound....

The poor, lower-class girl Eliza Dolittle sells flowers at London’s St. Paul’s Cathedral to passers-by. Her plain jargon, her headstrong way of expressing herself, fascinates the briefly passing-by language researcher and phonetics teacher professor ...

Teleplay by the Vakhtangov Theater based on B. Shaw's play of the same name....

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Dutch television adaptation of George Bernard Shaw's play "Saint Joan"....

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Shaw turned to the classic Victorian melodrama to focus on the insincerity of much that his audience held dear, especially family and marriage. In 1777 as the American War of Independence rages, Dick Dudgeon returns to the family he revolted against ...

Compilation film about a very German first half of the 20th century....

The third act of George Bernard Shaw's philosophical comedy Man and Superman. This dream episode depicts a lively debate between Don Juan, the Devil, Juan's former lover Dona Ana, and her father, the commander, who was murdered by Don Juan in a duel ...

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Can Professor Higgins transform flower-girl Eliza Dolittle into a great lady?...