The Pickwick Club sends Mr. Pickwick and a group of friends to travel across England and to report back on the interesting things they find...
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The Pickwick Club sends Mr. Pickwick and a group of friends to travel across England and to report back on the interesting things they find...
A small island community is overrun with creeping, blobbish, tentacled monsters which liquefy and digest the bones from living creatures. The community struggles to fight back.
Owen and Jamie are a pair of nobodies who prevent global disasters with the help of a time-transient civil servant.
This documentary examines the 1999 London bombings that targeted Black, Bangladeshi and gay communities, and the race to find the far-right perpetrator. He terrorized a city, seeking to ignite a race war but justice was served by those who wouldn't let his hate win.
After his last assignment ended with the death of an innocent woman, a hitman's new job in London is compromised when he is overcome with guilt, and ends up helping a desperate woman who is caught up in a human trafficking operation.
A producer makes a star of the cockney waif who tried to rob him.
Cul-de-sac is a middle-aged misadventure film from BAFTA-winner Colin O'Toole set in suburban Manchester during the mid-1980s. A couple finds that their lives are reaching a dead end. Stuck, they take a risk to save their relationship, but could this be a step too far? Cul-de-sac is a film about long-term relationships, communication, childhood memories, planning permission, pampas grass, and the refuge people place in distracting obsessions.
A penniless woman meets a strange girl who insists she is her long-lost mother and becomes enmeshed in a web of deception, and perhaps madness.
In 1995, drug suppliers and career criminals Tony Tucker, Patrick Tate and Craig Rolfe were blasted to death by a shot gun whilst waiting in a Range Rover in Rettendon, Essex. The film charts their rise to become the most prolific dealers and feared criminals in the south of England, maintaining the hold on their empire with fear and violence until their untimely death.
All-star cast glamorizes this lavish 1970 remake of the classic William Shakespeare play, which portrays the assassination of Julius Caesar on the Ides of March, and the resulting war between the faction led by the assassins and the faction led by Mark Anthony.
The workaday boredom and crushing hardships of London's East End in the 1950s, seen from the point of view of two deaf-mutes who share a strong bond of friendship.
With stunning views of eruptions and lava flows, Werner Herzog captures the raw power of volcanoes and their ties to indigenous spiritual practices.
Pat Tate embarks on a rampage to avenge his loyal and trusted footsoldier's violent death, venturing beyond his comfort zone of Essex into the dark side of 90s Soho to track down the villain responsible. Set to execute his revenge, Tate will stop at nothing even as the world around him starts to explode.
Frank and his brother Len meet on the day of their father's funeral. Together, with the help of Len's son Sean and Jean, a mysterious woman connected to the deceased, they will set off on a rather peculiar journey.
This Lost World is a splendid BBC TV dramatisation of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's famous adventure story. Bob Hoskins makes an unusually genial Professor Challenger, far less of a bully than Doyle's character, but his slightly stereotyped companions are nicely filled out by a solid cast. James Fox is Challenger's more timid but still covertly adventurous rival, Tom Ward is the moustachioed big game hunter who faces an Allosaurus with an elephant gun, and Matthew Rhys plays the tagalong reporter hoping to impress his faithless fiancée.
Nick and Cath head into the middle of nowhere, armed only with strange trinkets and a silver boombox. A journey of love, loss and destruction, all set to a mixtape cassette.
1984 was not a leap into the future-but a look at the dangers already present-in Orwell's lifetime. The Road to 1984 intertwines vision and reality. It displays the passion and chronicles the career of Orwell--who warned us of what could happen if we stayed on that road--his road to 1948 and ours to 1984.
What happened after Einstein fled Nazi Germany? Using archival footage and his own words, this docudrama dives into the mind of a tortured genius.
Captain Billy Flynn anticipates the revival of his crew. Split up years previous, he hopes to continue singing his shanties and living life to the fullest with the people closest to him. His crew. The Pirates of St Piran.
Because she dials the wrong number, an old lady hears information which enables the police to solve a robbery and murder.
Amy is taken on a impromptu camping trip by her Dad on her 15th Birthday. Along with her little brother, the endless summer turns into an inescapable future.
Adam McAdam is an old, dour sheepherder whose life is devoted to his faithful dog, the whiskey bottle and his daughter, Jeannie. And a conflict that arises when the other sheep-men of the district try every means within their power to have his dog, accused of being a sheep-killer, destroyed.
A prosecutor and her police officer boyfriend clash over a gruesome murder case.
A triptych of darkly funny character studies based on real amazon product reviews.
Bartholomew, an insecure, by-the-book perfectionist, is tasked with welcoming the recently deceased to heaven's waiting room. Peter, his first death, challenges him to face his fears, doubts and insecurities.
A man struggles to survive after being shipwrecked on a deserted island.
Wonderkid follows the inner turmoil of an unnamed football prodigy as he comes to terms with his own identity, struggling to reconcile his sexuality with his issues with alcohol and OCD.
The movie is of a Bocelli concert in Portofino, Italy, recorded in August 2012, with an ensemble of supporting artists, including violinist Caroline Campbell, German star Helene Fischer, Brazilian singer-songwriter Sandy, trumpeter Chris Botti, and Bocelli's partner Veronica Berti joining him for a duet of "Somethin' Stupid", all backed by a 40 piece orchestra.
With special guests and stories and from those who where there, see, hear and feel the music from first-hand accounts of the Glam Rock Kings of the 1970s: Slade.
Four children dream of escaping the tedium of a summer holiday with their mother. When finally given permission to camp on their own on an island in the middle of a vast lake, they are overjoyed. But when they get there they discover they may not be alone… The battle for ownership of a lonely island teaches them the skills of survival, the value of friendship and the importance of holding your nerve.
Detective Chief Superintendent Maurice Jobson is forced to remember the very similar disappearance of Clare Kemplay, who was found dead in 1974, and the subsequent imprisonment of local boy Michael Myshkin. Washed-up local solicitor John Piggott becomes convinced of Myshkin's innocence and begins to fight on his behalf, unwittingly providing a catalyst for Jobson to start to right some wrongs.
Liam, an aspiring and ambitious young writer, eagerly accepts a tutoring position at the family estate of his idol, renowned author J.M. Sinclair. But soon, Liam realizes that he is ensnared in a web of family secrets, resentment, and retribution. Sinclair, his wife Hélène, and their son Bertie all guard a dark past, one that threatens Liam’s future as well as their own.
A drama by Meic Povey based on the story of three Welshmen - Emyr Llewelyn, Owain Williams and John Albert Jones - who tried to block the plans of the Liverpool Corporation to flood the village of Capel Celyn in the Tryweryn Valley in the Sixties.
Smiley Greevins is a cheeky, mischievous, imaginative little boy who lives in the small town of Murrumbilla in the Australian outback. His father Bill is a poor drover who is often away from home. Much to the exasperation of his overworked wife, Ma Greevins, Bill is also very fond of the drink. Smiley is determined to buy himself a push bike and so he takes on odd jobs in an effort to save up enough money. But Smiley always seems to get caught up in some sort of misadventure. Smiley is a classic Australian film that will delight audiences of all ages.
Belfast police conduct a door-to-door manhunt for an IRA gunman wounded in a daring robbery.
An mysterious man donning a decrepit rabbit mask sets up a less than desirable 'Easter Egg Hunt' to trap unsuspecting victims.
A craft full of Space Rats,glamorous extra-terrestrials from the planet Sex,arrive on Earth desperate to find men with whom they can procreate in order to ensure the continuity of their race and whom they imprison in their sex factory. Fortunately for the world the secret agent James Blond,a decidedly non-feminist secret agent,sets out to rescue the men and see off the Space Rats in his own inimitable way.
Debbie and Jo are identical twins. After Jo is killed in a car accident, Debbie starts to act increasingly like Jo. Mysterious circumstances lead Jo's widower Sam to suspect that the accident wasn't an accident at all.
Chantal Akerman was commissioned by Visions to make this short film for £20,000. It was first shown on 21 November 1984, on Channel 4. Akerman herself plays the role of a director visiting Hollywood to find financing from an uncle she hardly knows. Very little goes to plan… Also stars Aurore Clement and Colleen Camp.
Escaping school bullies in Jerusalem, reconnecting with Dad in Indonesia, a missing baby at a drag show in Taiwan. All around the world, the language of telling lies and keeping secrets is common practice, but sometimes people's reasons for doing so may surprise you.
What appears to be a cut-and-dried case of murder of an aging one time showgirl on Hampstead Heath by her lover is complicated by several factors, including a far more respectable paramour, and her insistence that a great inheritance was due her that nobody can verify.
John and his 'Cameraman' are aspiring Youtubers, hoping to make it big by narrating the spooky-tales synonymous with a local woodland. But their day within SHINING CLIFF WOODS unfolds to reveal that the folklore and legends that they're documenting, are perhaps not as 'mythical' as they first thought.
In a small English village, circa 1952, a young farm girl sees a painting of the sea in a shop window, and falls in love with it. Her efforts to buy it lead to an unforeseen and heart-warming encounter with a famous artist.
The boys of Melbury Primary School are plunged into turmoil when the new French Master turns out to be a Mistress! Madelin Leforge's (the French Mistress) effect on the boys is swift and amazing. Suddenly everyone wants extra French Lessons just to glimpse the teacher in revealing shorts and bikinis. As discipline crumbles, a scandal explodes when the Head discovers the mademoiselle's mother was an old flame. Madeline must be dismissed to save further embarrassments.
(History Channel) A marauding barbarian with a reputation as one of history's monsters, even today Attila's name is a synonym for savagery.
A man tries to reconnect with his teenage son by unearthing the mystery of who killed the Ship Ahoy Dog.
Chris and Lucy are cut adrift in their thirties struggling to remember what initially attracted them to one another and wondering where do they go from here. Cue an impulsive decision to spend a fortnight interrailing around Europe's most romantic destinations, in the hope that this might save their seemingly doomed relationship.
In 1971 Salford fish-and-chip shop owner George Khan expects his family to follow his strict Pakistani Muslim ways. But his children, with an English mother and having been born and brought up in Britain, increasingly see themselves as British and start to reject their father's rules on dress, food, religion, and living in general.
Keratin is a collaboration with the London Sinfionetta, visually responding to Gavin Higgins' Seven Welsh Folk Songs: I. Dacw 'Nghariad i. The film tells the journey of a mating of elements, two bodies grieve over a lost third: a child separated from their womb. The three bodies bound by their keratin, regain connection in a wombic journey which spiritually networks the three into a fused collective body.
A long time ago in a TV studio not so far away, the stars of the original Star Wars film came to the BBC to promote their then-unknown movie. Want to see a Wookie on Blue Peter, or Luke Skywalker meet Michael Aspel? Then take a look through archive BBC footage – much of which has not been shown since the 70s – to see how UK viewers were introduced to the idea of ‘the force’, protocol droids and galactic princesses. Did Mark Hamill really appear on Coronation Street? Peter Serafinowicz, the voice of Darth Maul himself, will reveal the answer.
Macbeth story When three witches tell Macbeth that he is destined to occupy the throne of Scotland, he and his wife choose to become the instruments of their fate and to kill the first man standing in their path, the virtuous King Duncan. But to maintain his position, Macbeth must keep on killing – first Banquo, his old comrade-in-arms; then, as the atmosphere of guilt and paranoia thickens, anyone who seems to threaten his tyrant’s crown.
An absurdist comedy about a man whose life turns upside down when he becomes feverishly obsessed with a mysterious stain.
Carl and Franz are all ready to get off work and watch the big match against Austria when they make an unwelcome discovery. So, deal with it, or make it someone Else's problem?
A celebration of self-pleasure and the joys of objectophilia.
An epic story of adventure, starring some of the most magnificent and courageous creatures alive, awaits you in EARTH. Disneynature brings you a remarkable story of three animal families on a journey across our planet – polar bears, elephants and humpback whales.
The second film of Greta Gerwig’s adaptation of C.S. Lewis’s The Chronicles of Narnia.
'Lord poses as workman to win dancer who works as waitress in her mother's tea garden.' (British Film Catalogue)
When a couple decides to adopt a stray cat their perspective on life changes radically, literally altering the course of time and space and testing their faith in each other and themselves.
Rich bachelor B.G. Bruno, the head of a successful greeting-card company in Scotland, is essentially a kind man but respectable to the point of stodginess and extreme stuffiness. An American troupe visiting Edinburgh wants to produce a musical in town but has trouble getting financiers. Bruno meets several leading ladies; through a misunderstanding, he doesn't correct their impression that he's a newspaper reporter.
Hector is trying to direct the play of his life, from farm boy to film director, whilst surrounded by a cast and crew of unique personalities. As the play unfolds, it starts to take on a life of its own, mixing comedy and musical elements, leading up to a chaotic finale.