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A fatal accident changes the destiny of two families when Elizabeth Lancaster's wish comes true and she receives the heart transplant she desperately needs. The operation leaves her physically healthy but emotionally estranged from her husband and children. When the husband of the woman whose heart now beats in Elizabeth?s body, pays her a visit the two fall in love. Having betrayed her husband, Elizabeth must decide which of the two men she wants to be with.
Ray is an off-licence worker, working day and night to keep his family afloat. His daily phone calls back home offer him a lifeline amongst the hustle and bustle of a city he is still getting used to. As his days and nights start to merge into one, Ray is forced to confront the choices he has made that have landed him in this country.
An elderly couple find their quiet life unsettled by their new neighbours' disturbing allegations. A dark psychological thriller about elder abuse and power.
A man introduces his new girlfriend to his best buddy.
Alice, a New York cooking show YouTuber journeys to an English castle to lay the remains of a WWII nurse in the gardens, and finds herself in the midst of the holiday charm of its proprietor.
Duncan Craig signs on a whaling ship, partly because his own business deal has fallen through, partly to help Judie Nordhall find her father. Rumor has it that her father may have been murdered by Erik Bland, son of her father's partner and her one-time lover. Duncan and Erik find themselves on rival whaleboats and, ultimately, on an ice floe.
Intercutting dramatic vignettes with newsreel footage, the story follows the characters from an infantry squad as they make their way from Sicily to Germany during the end of World War II.
A woman, Denise, suspects her husband, Mark, of intellectually cheating on her using The Transcendental Call Girl Centre so she hires a private detective.
In 2014, at the height of the Ukrainian revolution, a mother loses her son who is killed while protesting in Independence Square. Her attempt to bury him as a hero clashes with a corrupt bureaucratic system, testing her view of Ukraine.
Late summer 1993. After stealing a stash of money and drugs, aging raver David crashes his car deep in the woods - trapped in the wreckage, injured and helpless, he hangs suspended between life and death. When a mysterious poacher discovers him, no rescue comes, only a watchful, unsettling presence that seems intent on letting nature finish the job. As the hours stretch and the elements close in, a tense and claustrophobic battle of wills, and wits, unfolds - where survival hinges on outlasting both the wilderness and the predator at its edge.
Based on the adventures of Jack Sheppard, the thief and jail-breaker who became a folk hero in 1720s London.
A lawyer's love for a young girl causes him to defend the man he thinks to be her lover. During the trial the lawyer finds out that the man is his own son.
Through the experiences of two women in Paris and London, Ghost Dance offers an analysis of the complexity of our conceptions of ghosts, memory and the past. The film focuses on the French philosopher Jacques Derrida, who observes, 'I think cinema, when it's not boring, is the art of letting ghosts come back.' He also says that 'memory is the past that has never had the form of the present.'
The tragic story of Vincent van Gogh broadened by focusing as well on his brother Theodore, who helped support Vincent. Based on the letters written between the two.
Liliwin is a poor acrobat hired to entertain at an Aurifaber wedding. But when he is dismissed and the master of the house is found unconscious and robbed, Cadfael must find the real thief before the mob takes vengeance.
Amelia and Michael is a 2007 British drama short film directed by Daniel Cormack, starring Anthony Head and Natasha Powell and executive produced by Richard Johns.
Former FBI agent, now single mother Lisa Brennan, takes a holiday to escape an unhappy love affair and painful family memories. But in a heartbeat, she is not only faced with a daughter kidnapped by human traffickers, but also faces murder charges and must keep one step ahead of the foreign police.
Two British children travel to Italy in an attempt to break up their runaway mother's affair with an Italian concert pianist.
Starring Anthony Hopkins as speed king Donald Campbell. Set in 1967, Campbell broke the 300mph water speed barrier in his beloved Bluebird K7.
John, a blacksmith and swordsmith, is tutored at Camelot. As a commoner, he can't hope to win the hand of Lady Linet, daughter of the Earl of Yeoniland, so he creates a secret alternate identity as the Black Knight. In this new role, he is now able to help King Arthur when Saracens and Cornish men—disguised as Vikings -- plot to take over the country.
A day in the life of an overly cheerful group of people exchanging niceties in the means of hand-drawn speech bubbles.
Six filmmakers take part in this anthology film which cross six European cities, celebrating the locations’ relationships with cycling.
Fledge needs a job. He'll take anything. And when Dawlish gives him strange errands to run, for cash in hand, strictly 'on the palm', it's a welcome change from the dole. Until he finds himself digging dirt on an old friend....
In a cyberpunk metropolis ruled by corporate surveillance, Nov leads a double life: a compliant data worker by day and an anti-establishment hacker by night. Tormented by the death of her sister and driven by revenge, she discovers a way to enter cyberspace through R.E.M sleep, bending digital realm at the cost of her sanity. As her grip on the real world blurs, Nov confronts memory, identity, and the ghostly spectres of a world lost to technology. Dreamer is a stylized, hauntology-infused vision that follows in the steps of classic cyberpunk through analog aesthetics and philosophical background.
Stan gets a little annoyed when his Mum and Sister keep buying expensive items on hire purchase, but the money he earns for overtime working as a bus driver means that he can afford it... just! His job is secure, as bus drivers are hard to come by, and his overtime prospects are good, until the bus company decide to revoke a long standing rule and employ women bus drivers. Aghast at the thought of
When famous DJ Alan Partridge’s radio station is taken over by a new media conglomerate, it sets in motion a chain of events which see Alan having to work with the police to defuse a potentially violent siege.
A hard-bitten newspaper reporter is drawn back into the world of sleaze he had hoped to have left behind, and this time it goes right to the top.
The "Ladies Who Do" are office cleaners. One of them discovers some hot stock tips and they make a fortune. They then make good use of it to save their old neighbourhoods from the wicked developer.
When headstrong Merrin, trapped in the rhythms of her family's mussel-picking trade, stumbles upon a mysterious hagstone, she unwittingly sets off a chain of events that challenges her family ties, and the unseen forces shaping their mundane lives.
Recording of the actor in conversation with Joan Bakewell at the National Film Theatre, London.
A czarist captain stops at nothing to learn the secrets of a countess rumored to have sold her soul to the devil in order to always win at cards.
Western journalists visit Moscow to interview Adrian Harris, a former controller in British intelligence who was also a double agent for the USSR. Harris believes in both Communism and Englishness, believing himself to have betrayed his class, but not his country. The press find these beliefs incompatible, and want to find out why he became a ‘traitor’. Harris is plagued by anxieties over both his actions and his upper-class childhood, and drinks to a state of collapse
After years in the twelve steps of Alcoholics Anonymous, James becomes a sponsor to newcomer Luka. The pair bond over black coffee, trade stories and build a fragile friendship out of their shared experiences. But as Luka approaches step five – the moment of confession – dangerous truths emerge, threatening the trust on which both of their recoveries depend.
Investigators approach a bird watching hut deep in the forest following the disappearance of a grieving man. As they piece together his final moments, the evidence they gather becomes increasingly unnerving and hard to explain.
In 1960, acclaimed filmmaker James Ivory traveled to Afghanistan to shoot scenes for a documentary that was never completed. In 2022, he decided to revisit this unique footage, which takes him back to his adventurous youth.
Cissie Colpitts drowns her cheating husband and, in the ensuing cover-up, enlists the help of lonely coroner Henry Madgett, an old friend with a longstanding weakness for her charms. But when Cissie's daughter and granddaughter—both also named Cissie Colpitts—decide to resort to the same methods for solving conflicts with their own frustrating husbands, the women and their repeated appeals for help begin to wear on Madgett's conscience.
A demonstration of the Friese-Greene biocolour process.
Five young people apply to live in an isolated house together for six months whilst their every move is filmed by numerous cameras.
Despite his disembodied companion housed in a red rotary phone Kim is in for a lonely Christmas until a chance knock at his door on a cold Christmas eve might just change all that…
An irreverent take on ageing, following a rebellious woman forced to start over in a deceptively peaceful retirement village. This darkly comic drama follows sharp-tonged, fiercely independent Cynthia as she’s reluctantly moved in to a retirement village by her daughter. Cynthia clashes with eccentric residents, oppressive rules, and the surprise reappearance of her old rockstar fling from the 1970s. What begins as a mission to get kicked out becomes something more complicated, as she’s forced to confront long-buried secrets, strained family ties, and the unexpected possibility of starting over. It’s a story about second chances, unlikely friendships, and how the messy, defiant reality that life – and love – don’t end with retirement.
A dark figure appears in the night, bringing with him a virus that turns people into monsters. Hoping to gather stories to take back with him to the other side, he meets his opposite, a light figure prepared to do battle with the dark man in order to save the human race...
During the Russo-Japanese War, an English officer on the ship of the Japanese falls in love with the wife of the commander.
An underworld drama set in the early 1980s, about a lonely factory worker whose life is transformed when he becomes a nightclub doorman.
After World War II service changes them, a married couple dread their postwar reunion.
Cas and Anna run into each other at a coffee shop long after they broke up. They miss each other, they regret everthing, but do they have the courage to tell each other?
A kind-hearted deed for an old friend leads Dodger to break into 10 Downing Street.
A folk dance staged in the ruins of Pompeii. With the Arch of Tiberius in the near distance and Arch of Caligula in far distance. A troop of soldiers, or possibly more performers, march past. W K L Dickson who is directing the action can apparently be seen on far right of picture.
Trapped in a sex trafficking network, Baby’s guilt over her complicity compels her to save someone else’s future.
Sarah and Martin seek a new housemate to move into their spare room. They conduct 23 interviews with a game of scrabble on the go, each word placed being inspired by the quirky odd balls they encounter.
Cumbria, 1998. Terrified he's turned his son queer, closeted dad Rich plots to rig his local pub's Christmas turkey draw to prove what it means to be a real man.
War between two Irish youth gangs consists of removing and retrieving buttons from each other's clothing.
The SS 'St. Louis' departs from Southampton Docks
The true story of Edith Stein, a German Jewish philosopher and feminist who converted to Christianity and became a nun, and died in Auschwitz to became Saint and Martyr, the Patron of Europe with the name Saint Theresa Benedicta of the Cross.
A dysfunctional couple remember a better time.
Unable to recall the past 24 hours, a British bank clerk is the prime suspect for a robbery/murder.
Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun is a daughter of the lower-middle classes who uses her skills as a portrait painter to hustle her way into the royal court of Versailles. She has an affair with the left-leaning, impoverished Count Alexis de Ligne, a handsome aristocrat who makes his living as a toy-boy for wealthy older women, to get a commission to paint the naive young Queen Marie Antoinette.
A family battles adversity in defending their home turf from those bent on destroying them for their own personal gain. They must fight together....or perish.
A group of Welsh rugby union fans go over to see Wales play France in the final match of the Six Nations tournament.
After a 7 year wait, director Michael Apted revisits the same group of British-born children from Seven Up! The subjects are interviewed as to the changes that have occurred in their lives during the last seven years.
Biographer Margaret Lea travels to the isolated rural mansion of the famous writer Vida Winter, who asks her to write her biography. Although initially she is reluctant, as Vida is known for constantly distorting the facts of her life, Margaret soon becomes fascinated with the story of a dark childhood, a disturbing tale that leads her to finally confront the traumas of her own past.