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Upon discovering that their town is up for sale, crafty Irish villagers scheme to raise the money to prevent the buy-out. They hold a poetry contest with a tempting grand prize -- the deed to their local pub. But what could happen when a duplicitous American rapper emerges as the best poet around?
Infelicitous Stephen Wallace falls in love with beautiful Wendy, who spurns his affections. He proceeds to make a pact with Satan to be able to marry the woman of his dreams, but he gets more than he bargained for.
Raymond Briggs' classic family story about smelly monsters, dangerous humans and what happens when the things that go bump in the night move in next door comes to life on Sky 1. Timothy Spall, Victoria Wood and Keeley Hawes star
Melissa and Olive, two spirited sisters with no filmmaking experience, embark on an ambitious project to document their parent's bizarre and hilarious journey through ‘parental puberty’. Armed with a camera and a sense of adventure, they create a chaotic documentary filled with comedic mishaps, unexpected insights, and a heartfelt exploration of family dynamics in the face of change.
Alfie Byrne is a middle-aged bus conductor in Dublin in 1963. He would appear to live a life of quiet desperation: he's gay, but firmly closeted, and his sister is always trying to find him "the right girl". His passion is Oscar Wilde, his hobby is putting on amateur theatre productions in the local church hall. We follow him as he struggles with temptation, friendship, disapproval, and the conservative yet oddly lyrical world of Ireland in the early 1960s.
Peter, a hair living on the head of a balding man named Tim, has decided to hand in his notice.
The Private Life of Samuel Pepys is a 2003 British comedy television film directed by Oliver Parker and starring Steve Coogan, Lou Doillon and Nathaniel Parker. It portrayed the historical diarist Samuel Pepys. It was aired on BBC2 on 16 December 2003, drawing an audience of 2.9 million viewers.
After waking up in purgatory, a man is tested as to whether or not he is fit for the afterlife. Along the way, he realises what really mattered to him in life, and all because of a sandwich.
Christmas is approaching and Jack Whitehall is racing to get home in time to spend it with his family. Stranded on the other side of the world, he enlists the help of some famous faces and embarks on a far-fetched quest across the globe. His cast of celebrity do-gooders includes Jimmy Fallon, Dave Bautista, Rebel Wilson, Tom Davis, and Michael Bublé. But will they get him back in time for Christmas?
It’s a lonely life being a caveman, especially if you believe you're the last one on earth. Bear fights, love, death and new life as the last caveman finds out that maybe he’s not as alone as he thought...
An American car salesman in London becomes mixed up in a series of fatal occurrences at a secluded mansion.
A funny thing happened to Lurkalot, serf to Sir Coward de Custard, on the way to Custard Castle. Lurkalot sells lusty love potions and rusty chastity belts in the market place, but on this day Sir Graggart de Bombast arrives to sack the castle, and to get the lovely Lobelia Custard in the sack! Lurkalot must help Custard cream the knight in pining armour...
Demobbed from the army Nat, Norman and Dan get new jobs, solve a crime and stage a concert party.
A group of South Asian women try but cannot escape their problems on a day trip to a British beach resort.
Jack, a young actor facing a tough luck in his acting career decides to sell his soul to the devil in exchange for fame and success.
A team of inept undertakers attempt to get a coffin to a funeral on time. An undertaker is in charge of moving a coffin from a home to the church. The home is on the 26th floor of a skyscraper; the stairs are narrow; the lift is small and prone to stop working. Chaos ensues.
Florence’s lipstick trouble takes a dark turn when she encounters a sinister message.
Mel Brooks delivers an enjoyable hour of comic diversion with his lovely actress-wife Anne Bancroft, writer comedian Ronny Graham and British Shakespearean actor Jonathan Pryce. Brooks Spontaneous humor, social commentaries and zany sketches leave the audience rolling in the aisles and will leave you wanting more of Mel!
A Satirical Documentary about Arthur Hemsworth, an upper class man with no exposure to the outside world, as he goes on a journey to find out what a Chav is.
The daughter of an American leather magnate is sent on a series of sightseeing tours in London with her father's business associate, but finds herself targeted by an opportunistic blackmailer.
In Nish, Don’t Kill My Vibe, Nish Kumar brings his trademark blend of righteous fury and self-deprecating chaos to a world that feels like it’s permanently on fire.
A stressed mother with two small children receives a visit from a rather large hairy childhood friend who helps her get her life back together.
High in the sky of a sci-fi metropolis a lone spaceship is confronted by a much larger and more intimidating vessel.
Comedy about a couple expecting their first baby.
The comedic shenanigans of a man who inherits a boat.
'1914. Knight poses as rating aboard son's cruiser and helps Q-ship sink U-boat.' (British Film Catalogue)
The lives and ambitions of talented kids come together at a very special school called the Teen Star Academy, where dreams really do come true.
Comedy drama about the trials and tribulations of three sets of parents as they finally realise that their children have grown up and reluctantly they have to let them enroll at Cambridge University.
A would be private eye gets mixed up in a smuggling case.
Shooting a vampire flick in an old, abandoned manor house should have worked like a dream, but the film crew is out of their depth, over schedule and desperate to get the shoot finished and go home. However, as the moon turns full, the nightmare begins. Blood flows and the body count rises as cast and crew meet the manor’s resident werewolf…
A married couple both face temptations while separated for a few days. The husband meets an attractive female fellow traveler in Paris while the wife accidentally spends a night aboard a Royal Navy ship with a male friend after she is stranded following a party. Despite knowing the essential innocence of both husband and wife, their sinister new butler uses information about their discretions to demand blackmail payments.
On the death of his father, Tim Webber returns to his childhood village in Somerset to find something sinister is disturbing the idyllic peace of the villagers.
A post-war housing crisis leaves a shy woman to share a house with two couples. Comic situations arise as the new roomer becomes infatuated with one of the husbands.
Frank Skinner has been in the stand-up game for well over 20 years and this DVD showcases him at the peak of his talents at the Birmingham's National Indoor Arena (NIA) in front of a packed audience as part of his 2007 tour. Since quitting TV 2 years ago, Skinner has focused on his stand-up and this show is the culmination of those efforts.
Scotland Yard Inspector George Gideon starts his day off on the wrong foot when he gets a traffic-violation ticket from a young police officer. From there, his 'typical day" consists in learning that one of his most-trusted detectives has accepted bribes; hunts an escaped maniac who has murdered a girl; tracks a young girl suspected of involvement in a payroll robbery and then helps break up a bank robbery.
Hapless Henry Palfrey is patronised by his self-important chief clerk at work, ignored by restaurant waiters, conned by shady second-hand car salesmen, and, worst of all, endlessly wrong-footed by unspeakably rotten cad Raymond Delauney who has set his cap at April, new love of Palfrey's life. In desperation Henry enrolls at the College of Lifemanship to learn how to best such bounders and win the girl.
After losing their father in the Boer War, orphaned brothers Harry and Davy must leave their home in Scotland to live with their grandmother and cantankerous grandfather in Nova Scotia. The boys want nothing more than a pet dog, but their grandfather refuses to get them one. Then, when the brothers find an abandoned baby, they decide to keep it – but the foundling may not have been abandoned after all.
Mr D's birthday falls on November 29th, 2013. He is heading to his usual pub, The Clutha Vaults, to create memories that will last a lifetime. It is exactly what Mr. D receives, a memory that will remain with him forever.
A young man with Down's Syndrome tricks his sister into a road trip to go to a concert, while being pursued by their mum. With no phones, no money and no plan, can they make it?
Chronicling the controversial career of bad boys N.W.H. (Niggaz With Hats), this uproarious 'mockumentary' lampoons all of hardcore rap's hot-button issues. This underground laugh riot recounts the rise, fall and resurrection of a clueless bunch of would-be rappers, Ice Cold, Tone-Def & Tasty Taste performing as N.W.H.
After a conspiracy theorist is unambiguously dumped, his loyal to a fault childhood best friend schemes to fake a Sasquatch sighting to lift his dwindling spirits.
What happens to the saints and sinners of a small Irish village on the day the world is supposed to end.
Quietly competent young Joanna moves with her scatterbrain mother to a country village to take up her first job as District Nurse. She soon overcomes the suspicion of her patients used to someone rather older, while becoming romantically involved with a local farmer - at least until he tries to evict a newly-arrived expectant couple who park their caravan on his land.
When the scene of the crime has your jaw dropping from steamy felonious activity, it's time for the SSI: Sexy Squad Investigation forensics team to uncover the clues, crack the case and nail the perpetrators. Seduction Cinema's hottest new spoof takes you deep into the sordid world of sensual wrongdoing and the courageous men and women of law enforcement who bring hardened criminals to justice.
When Dorset postman Clive Peacock is forced into early retirement, the years ahead look bleak. But on his last day in the job, in a moment of unexpected rebellion he makes a decision that will change his life. As he makes his final collection from the postbox in the small seaside town where he lives, he decides to deliver the letters himself, by hand, no matter the destination. Mounting his trusty bicycle, he sets off on what proves to be an odyssey of self-discovery. Pursued by the police and lionised by the media, Clive becomes both a fugitive and a reluctant hero.
A gang of street boys foil a master crook who sends commands for robberies by cunningly altering a comic strip's wording each week, unknown to writer and printer. The first of the Ealing comedies.
After a frog falls from the sky and smashes a hole in his Mam's sunroof, Rollie, an alcoholic 20-something, and Can, his painfully enterprising friend, wade through their bizarre Welsh hometown in an effort find the repair money.
After John receives a call from his friend regarding his absence at a party, a piece of stationery speaks to him unexpectedly, which is revealed to be his Stapler. Cautiously, John tries to get to know the Stapler to see what he can learn.
Lana feels trapped in her relationship and her job, but after a chance encounter with an old school friend leaves them locked in her favourite bookshop overnight, maybe things can start to change.
With their headmistress under lock and key in her majesty's prison, the St Trinian's girls find themselves under the protection of the army. However, when the sixth form take a fancy to winning a trip to Italy through means fair or foul, the army discover this is one battle they can't win. Let loose in Europe, it is not long before St Trinian's have succeeded in endangering European relations.
Varun discovers his girlfriend has a history of dating Indian men and can't shake it off.
Kaisa is a Scot, a successful London lawyer, who snorts coke and has one-night stands with strangers. Her mother calls from Aberdeen with some story begging her to fly to Norway and collect her alcoholic dad whom she hasn't seen in years.
Filmed at the iconic O2 Academy in Brixton, UK, internationally acclaimed comedian Gina Yashere ticks a lot of boxes. Her identity is as multi-faceted as her comedy. Gina has plenty of stories to tell in a way that only Gina can tell them, from her recent move from LA to NYC, her origins as a London born Nigerian to being suspected of drug trafficking in Indonesia and many other tales.
Jack is a children's author turned crime novelist whose detailed research into the lives of Victorian serial killers has turned him into a paranoid wreck, persecuted by the irrational fear of being murdered. When Jack is thrown a life-line by his long-suffering agent and a mysterious Hollywood executive takes a sudden and inexplicable interest in his script, what should be his big break rapidly turns into his big breakdown, as Jack is forced to confront his worst demons; among them his love life, his laundry and the origin of all fear.
Two friends are on the search for a good time with hot women when they make the drive out to what they believe is a "nude camp" but things quickly spiral out of control.
The inhabitants of Todday are content to live their lives in peace and quiet, until, that is, the government decides their little corner of the world would be the perfect place for a rocket launch site.
A group of students pay their way through school by forming a pop band called Toomorrow. Sonic vibrations from a special instrument called a ‘tonaliser’ cause an extraterrestrial to abduct the group, and have them entertain the Alphoid population.
When Layla, a struggling Arab drag queen, falls in love for the first time, they lose and find themself in a transformative relationship that tests who they really are.
Coffee aficionado Jo is doing her best to keep her plant-based, independent coffee shop afloat alongside her band of misfit employees. In a last-ditch effort to save her business, Jo and her team embark to battle it out as the underdogs competing in the World Barista Championship in order to finally have a chance to prove herself in the dairy-dominated world of coffee.