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During the course of one summer, a young Irish lad named Chris befriends an American boy named Joe. The two couldn't be more different, yet they become inseparable. Things turn horribly wrong however, when Chris discovers his new best friend isn't a he, but a she. The sadness only begins as Chris learns why Joe's gender must be kept a secret.
Uncle Wormsley is a grey, decaying old man with cobweb-like hair and rotten fingernails. A lone figure who keeps himself to himself, Wormsley's only friend is a monstrous crab called Crabsley, who lives in a dungeon under his house.
Born in Portugal, Paula Rego is one of Britain's leading artists. This intimate film follows the artist from her retrospective in Madrid to the privacy of her studio in London while she talks with humor and candor about her compulsion to produce works that, though accessible, deal with the most private themes.
A late-night glimpse into the private lives of four lonely residents of an old flat building in Glasgow.
Prey is a short story about a love-hate relationship. A young girl in her early twenties is faced with her mother’s sickness and impending death, which appears in the shape of a black lion. The girl goes through dramatic emotional transformations throughout the film – from loving care to frustration, unwanted feeling of hate and, finally, acceptance and peace.
A disgraced officer risks his life to help his childhood friends in battle.
The true story of a trans man and his remarkable struggle across genders and borders. Based on the acclaimed National Theatre of Scotland play, with Adam himself in the lead role.
When his young daughter disappears, her father refuses to accept that she is dead and sets out on a journey to find her.
In the early years of the 20th Century, two British yachtsmen (Michael York and Simon MacCorkindale) stumble upon a German plot to invade the east coast of England in a flotilla of specially designed barges. They set out to thwart this terrible scheme, but must outwit not only the cream of the German Navy, but the feared Kaiser Wilhelm himself.
A misunderstood woman must understand what it means to live with Type 1 Diabetes.
Lester Billings is a man tormented by an unseen entity destroying his family one by one, until he is forced to confront the evil taking over his soul. With the help of Dr.Harper, Lester relives his horrific past to save his own life.
A woman embarks on an unyielding and possibly hopeless search for her missing husband, a journey that strains her already fragile relationship with her daughter. Along the way, she also faces the unwelcome advances of her persistent brother-in-law.
Commemorates 100 years since the release of the German classic, Nosferatu, by FW Murnau, and explores the general fascination of Count Dracula, a figure who resonates with audiences across the literary, art, mythological and historical worlds.
Grab your partner by the hand - the BBC have raided their archive and brought to light glittering performances by country artists over the last four decades. Star appearances include Tammy Wynette, Kris Kristofferson, Johnny Cash and, of course, Dolly Parton. All the greats have performed for the BBC at some point - on entertainment shows, in concert and at the BBC studios. Some of the rhinestones revealed are Charley Pride's Crystal Chandeliers from the Lulu Show, Emmylou Harris singing Together Again on the Old Grey Whistle Test and Billie Jo Spears's Your Good Girl's Gonna Go Bad from the Val Doonican Music Show. We're brought up to date with modern country hits by kd lang, Garth Brooks, Alison Krauss and Taylor Swift, plus a special unbroadcasted performance from Later...with Jools Holland by Willie Nelson.
Since childhood, director Zara Meerza has been fascinated by the Olsen Twins and the near-mystical place that they occupy in pop culture. In this short film, through an excavation of clips of Mary-Kate & Ashley’s films, interviews with the women who grew up with them, and interviews with pairs of twins, Zara explores history’s fascination with twins and the unique way Mary-Kate and Ashley indelibly wove their way into culture.
For centuries Troy was believed to be a mythical city. Now, a leading team of American archaeologists have discovered an ancient thriving city, and evidence of a real Trojan War.
One of the most spectacular and renowned conductors of the 1930s, Wilhelm Furtwangler's reputation rivaled that of Toscanini's. After the war, he was investigated as part of the Allies' de-Nazification programme. In the bombed-out Berlin of the immediate post-war period, the Allies slowly bring law and order to bear on an occupied Germany. An American major is given the Furtwangler file, and is told to find everything he can and to prosecute the man ruthlessly. Tough and hard-nosed, Major Steve Arnold sets out to investigate a world of which he knows nothing.
When a small British owned island in the Caribbean is invaded and the world's most dangerous terrorist kidnaps a member of the Royal family, the countdown to World War 3 begins. If anyone can prevent the oncoming apocalypse it's the American President, but her closest ally the British Prime Minister appears to have gone stark raving mad.
After Elizabeth's husband dies, she begins to play her tenor saxophone again, and remembers when she was 15 and a member of the Blonde Bombshells, an all-girl (with one exception) swing band. Accompanied by the exception and urged on by her grand-daughter, Elizabeth hunts up all the old members of the band and urges them to perform, and in doing so, learns more than she knew about the band, its members, the roses on the drum set, and herself--the last of the Blonde Bombshells.
A hardworking insecure girl from a family fallen into poverty is forced to make an irreversible sacrifice to save her family, and her dreams of continuing education.
The ostensibly calm and courteous Gerald Ballantyne lives in and embodies modern suburbia. But he is haunted by the memory of a recent car crash and hounded by his estranged wife and her demands for divorce. Slowly, a festering insanity takes over and unwilling to face the outside world he embarks on a lunatic experiment. Confining himself to his middle-class home, he eschews contact with others and survives entirely off 'food' which he can find in his house. Based on JG Ballard's The Enormous Space.
John Cleese training video about teams.
Fontaine Khaled is the London wife of wealthy Arab businessman Benjamin, whose money she blows on partying and on her nightclub, "The Hobo". She hires handsome Tony to manage her club, but it's understood that his job security is dependent on his satisfying her nymphomaniacal demands. He soon loses interest, and turns his attention to her stepdaughter Alexandra, who uses him to get back at Fontaine for cheating on her father.
In A futuristic world, where everyone wears a lifetimer on their wrist, a 13-year-old girl's timer suddenly depletes to 1 hour left. With the world still moving indifferently around her, she must decide how to spend her final sixty minutes... before time runs out.
Seventeen and pregnant, Felicia travels to England in search of her lover and is found instead by Joseph Ambrose Hilditch, a helpful catering manager whose kindness masks an unsettling secret.
In this crime melodrama, a Swiss woman finds herself unwittingly involved in a plot to steal from her employer, a London diamond merchant. Her boyfriend is behind the scheme. First he sends two accomplices disguised as German jewelers to see the boss. He is not fooled by their ruse and is killed while the woman is knocked unconscious. She awakens with amnesia and begins aimlessly wandering the London streets. Thinking that his girl has squealed to the police, her boy friend begins scouring the town to find her. Meanwhile, she is taken in by a boxer who returns to the ring to win the money needed to get her out of the country. Trouble ensues when her lover finally finds her after the match and begins beating on the exhausted fighter.
A man gets trapped in his smart home by a masked stranger who forces him to play three games to survive, with viewers making choices that determine his fate.
Liverpool, 1995, the dockers are on strike. Nine-year-old Siobhan has only one thing on her mind: to see if Oasis will win the pop duel against Blur. But an argument breaks out with her older brother Rory, leading the little girl to run away at nightfall. As she wanders, the decaying city takes on an unreal allure.
Drifting through his gap year with its internships and travel plans, Jack has always suspected there was more to life than this. A chance encounter with the beautiful and ethereal Evelyn swerves his life radically off course.
John Cleese training video about employees.
Three Irish misfits come together and plan to cheat their way to Brazil.
This is the story of the shy Mongol boy Temujin who,during the 13th century, becomes the fearless Mongol leader Genghis Khan that unites all Mongol tribes and conquers India,China,Persia,Korea and parts of Rusia,Europe and Middle-East.
Docudrama following the downfall of BBC Presenter Huw Edwards.
1997: A village cricket team (complete with computerised Wisden Almanac with the voice of Brian Johnson) is suspected of moonlighting as a private guerilla arm, fighting the Forestry Commission.
A personal take on working with Harold Pinter via intimate conversations with actors, directors and writers who share their experiences of the man and his work.
Maggie’s from the West Country; Craig’s from the Future - and together they might just save the planet. But should she take a chance on the handsome man with the far-out backstory? Or is she just desperate for a connection? As their bond deepens, the danger escalates, smashing the boundaries between reality and delusion, science and possibility, betrayal and True Love.
Jewels, ballet in three parts choreographed by George Balanchine for the New York City Ballet, recorded in October / November 2005 at the Opéra National de Paris.
For want of a nail a shoe was lost, for want of a shoe... a young man's life is almost lost, which is exactly what this film is all about: a man barely twenty who wants desperately to pull out of London's drug world by taking a job as a waiter in a 'normal' restaurant. But to do this he must come up with a "sensible" pair of shoes, an item that his homeless meanderings hasn't provided him.
When Bastien has an affair with a woman, Matt finds it increasingly difficult to forget. And when they meet Florent, things take an unexpected turn.
A man is released from prison after 22 years. He tries to live a simple life as a farmer. At the same time, a company director is fighting a hostile takeover from a bigger corporation. Two different kind of journeys collide in sudden ways.
A little boy's desire to meet Santa Claus takes a dark turn.
It's Stacey's first day of her new job working as a PA for experienced actress Peggy. How will her first day go working with the film diva?
Documentary of the 1997 Footlights, the theatrical club of Cambridge University.
A young boy's life is changed by a chance encounter with an out-of-luck musician. When a gang of local criminals turns up, the day takes an unexpected turn.
Raymond's life is on pause - stuck in a job he hates and living with a bunch of middle class students he has nothing in common with. He's a man adrift, until a chance encounter on a night out reunites him with his charismatic but volatile former foster brother Jerdy.
When a nobleman is threatened by a family curse on his newly inherited estate, detective Sherlock Holmes is hired to investigate.
Erich Kästner’s beloved novel has been adapted for film or television six times since its publication in 1929; this 1935 British version was the first in English. Believed lost for decades, it was recently rediscovered by the BFI and has now been restored. The film moves the action from Berlin to London, where Emil goes to stay with his grandmother and cousin. Thereafter, the tale of Emil’s adventures with a gang of streetwise London children faithfully follows the original plot.
Ozzy Osbourne faces his identity and mortality after his world stops. Dealing with health issues and Parkinson's, he questions if he can perform again while music remains his life's cornerstone.
Justine is a nubile young virgin cast out of a French orphanage and thrust into a depraved world of prostitution, predatory lesbians, a fugitive murderess, bondage, branding, and one supremely sadistic monk. It's a twisted tale of strange desires, perverse pleasures and the ultimate corruption of innocence as told by the Marquis de Sade.
Drowning in depression, lifeguard Jeff Narkin hopes a career change will stop him feeling like human driftwood. Instead, he is thrown in at the deep end when he accidentally becomes a bodyguard to a Whistleblower hunted by her billionaire ex-boss.
Eleven-year-old Kirsty struggles to accept her looming womanhood as she learns that she will soon lose her position on the local boy's football team.
Years after fleeing his ancestral home with his mother, Jason returns home to claim his birthright, only to find his way blocked by his evil cousin Thomas. In order to reclaim his title, Jason must do battle with his cousin, who calls upon the members of the deadly Hellfire Club to stop him.
David is a successful city trader in London who is relentlessly focused on work. Beneath the confident facade, he is trapped by memories of the past and hostile to anyone who dares to help. Flashbacks reveal a childhood in South Africa at the mercy of an inadequate bully of a father Donald and an ineffectual mother Joanne. The physical and sexual abuse he suffered threatens any chance of happiness he might have now.
Animated film featuring the hand of Walter R. Booth drawing a coster and his donah who come to life and dance. The hand then crumples up the paper and dispenses it in the form of confetti. (BFI)
We all have pet peeves which make us say 'I could kill them'. Ava goes one step further and puts these thoughts into action.
A magic realist story of love, told through the memories of one person.
Locked away in a maximum security prison, the infamous killer clown Mary Beth Layton, a.k.a. Lil Miss Cleaver, is about to make a prison break that no one will forget.
At his brother's wedding, the best man attempts to deliver his speech after an encounter in the hotel bathroom with the father of the bride.
Phillip Calvert is a British Treasury secret service agent assigned to stop the ruthless pirating of millions in gold bullion off the western coast of the Scottish highlands. His search takes him to the small port town of Torbay on the Isle of Torbay where numerous fishing boats, yachts and people have been mysteriously disappearing. A trail of deceit and subterfuge leads him to Cypriot tycoon and shipping magnate Sir Anthony Skouras and his beautiful wife, Charlotte aboard their luxury yacht anchored off the coast, who may hold the answers to the truth.