Struggling to make it in a big city, a young artist finds herself retreating into the rose-tinted memories of the village she left behind.
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Struggling to make it in a big city, a young artist finds herself retreating into the rose-tinted memories of the village she left behind.
The police, with the help of a baker, try to find the owner a loaf of bread accidentally poisoned with potassium cyanide.
Sir Philip Ashlow (Stewart Granger), his neglected wife, Lady Ashlow (Ava Gardner) and his best friend Henry Brittingham-Brett (David Niven) are shipwrecked on a desert island. This potential ménage à trois where the two men compete for the lady's attention is interrupted by the unexpected arrival of a fourth inhabitant of the island.
The NHS Hillcroft Medical Centre has a vacancy for a practise manager. The receptionist Beryl Oldham is the favourite for the job, but then pompous ex-Army officer Maurice Ribley arrives to vye for the position
Fin Taylor's 2025 Comedy Special. Recorded live at The Forge, Brighton.
As sisters, Gladys and Iris never agree about anything - but on one point they're clear: their old mam can't hear a word of their arguments, can she?
An epic love story: Olanna and Kainene are glamorous twins, living a privileged city life in newly independent 1960s Nigeria. The two women make very different choices of lovers, but rivalry and betrayal must be set aside as their lives are swept up in the turbulence of war.
It's the run up to prom night for Leila and her friends in the Garw Valley. With money tight, and the pressures of the cost of living weighing heavy on her shoulders, will it stop Leila's celebration?
Trust is weaponised in this obsessive love story that blurs the line between love and deceit.
A special documentary to mark the seventieth birthday of HRH the Prince of Wales. For this observational documentary, film-maker John Bridcut has had exclusive access to the prince over the past 12 months, both at work and behind the scenes, at home and abroad. He speaks to those who know him best, including HRH the Duchess of Cornwall and the Dukes of Cambridge and Sussex. His sons discuss their upbringing and their feelings about the prince's working life.
Before the war, a Fleet Air Arm pilot is dismissed for causing the death of a colleague. Working for a small Greek airline when the Germans invade Greece, he gets a chance to redeem himself and rejoin his old unit on a British carrier. This is regarded the last of the conventional, rather stiff 1930's style Ealing war films, to be succeeded by much more realism and better storytelling.
Story of Sir Thomas More, who refused to accept the spiritual leadership of Henry VIII, and faces death as he struggles to remain loyal to his integrity.
In a town where half the men die down the coalpit, Margaret MacNeil is quite happy being single in her small Cape Breton island town. Until she meets Neil Currie, a charming and sincere bagpipe-playing, Gaelic-speaking dishwasher. But no matter what you do, you can't avoid the spectre of the pit forever.
An anthology of short films inspired by the events of the September 11 World Trade Center attacks.
In search for the true story behind the alternate & extremely modified TV version in Merlin on BBC, the 2 lead actors went to Wales only to discover the origin of a worldwide legend of king Arthur & his older mentor Merlin, the greatest sorcerer ever to live.
Vic Mathews teaches a remedial class at the Blessed Edith Semple School in Scotland. Some at the school are trying to discover the two more miracles that would promote the late Edith Semple to sainthood; Mathews, a non-believer, wishes the school would concentrate on teaching the children. He becomes confused, however, when he is involved in possibly miraculous events himself! Written by George S. Davis
In 1939, Sir Robert Thorndyke takes aim at Adolf Hitler with a high powered rifle, but the shot misses its mark. Captured and tortured by the Gestapo and left for dead, Sir Robert makes his way back to England where he discovers the Gestapo has followed him. Knowing that his government would turn him over to German authorities, Sir Robert goes underground in his battle with his pursuers.
When a reluctant bride-to-be's fiancé drops dead, she insists on going ahead with the wedding anyway – vowing to overcome public opinion, the law of the land, and her loved ones' objections.
Virgin School follows the emotional and physical journey of 26-year-old virgin James as he embarks on a unique four-month course for sexually inexperienced men in Amsterdam
When three university friends turn up unexpectedly, twenty-something lawyer Lorna Johnston is led into a dangerous world.
A park. A woman. A man. Two benches. Two conversations. A cell phone.
OK/NOTOK is a genre-bending love story set in the very near future with a darkly comic edge. Loretta, a working-class British Asian woman, attempts to navigate a turbulent world, a new stranger in her life and unskippable adverts.
Documentary about the work of puppeteer Jim Henson and his team in creating The Muppet Show.
Featuring the voiceover of Sir Anthony Hopkins, this public information film from the Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society starts out rather innocently with beautiful hand-painted animation. It describes how once a year a large group of pilot whales swim to a small group of islands known as the Faroe Islands.
When the ailing husband of an adulterous wife is discovered bludgeoned to death and suspicions fall on the older woman's young lover, the newly widowed woman claims that it was she who was solely responsible for the death despite evidence that points to the contrary in this dramatic account of true-life 1935 trial that shocked all of England. Though notable evidence and strong suspicion suggests that the murder may have been of crime of passion perpetrated by the jealous lover only half her age, Alma Rattenbury (Helen Mirren) confesses to the murder of her husband and is soon brought to trial. Despite the fact that Alma is already being deemed guilty by the general public for her adulterous indiscretion alone, her lawyer, star attorney T.J. O'Connor (David Suchet), remains convinced that his client will eventually be cleared of all charges.
Ten people are invited to go on an African safari, only to find that an unseen person is killing them one by one. Could one of them be the killer?
During a train ride, a teenager recalls his upbringing in 1940s small-town Georgia and the events that have led to this point.
In a dreary North London flat, the site of perpetual psychological warfare, a philosophy professor visits his family after a nine-year absence and introduces the four men - father, uncle and two brothers - to his wife.
Jeremy Clarkson tells the story of what’s been called ‘the original Mission Impossible’ – the audacious Commando raid on the German occupied dry dock at St. Nazaire in France on March 28th 1942. Operation Chariot, as the raid was codenamed, had a simple aim – to destroy the dry dock and thus deny the German battleship Tirpitz a safe haven on the Atlantic coast of France. There were many who thought the mission too risky, but the Chief of Combined Operations, Louis Mountbatten, pushed forward. This programme explores the story around March 26th 1942, when Commandos in Cornwall boarded their floating bomb and set off to see if the element of surprise really could overcome all the odds.
A room in an anonymous hotel has a profoundly dark effect on all who stay there.
An unassuming young lawyer leads a fight against the Nazis near the end of the Second World War.
On location in Portugal, a film crew runs out of film while making their own version of Roger Corman's The Day the World Ended (1956). The producer is nowhere to be found and director Munro attempts to find him in hopes of being able to finish the film.
"Cuba!" is a live album by Simply Red, recorded at El Gran Teatro de La Habana in Havana, Cuba. The album features live versions of some of the band's biggest hits. It was released in 2006, following a trip the band took to Cuba in 2005.
'Prey' is a dark tale of late-night liaisons, nocturnal predators and terrifying revenge.
A tale of friendship between two men, one Jewish and the other Arab, as the state of Israel is being created.
Tells the story of five people from the last generation of Soviet children who were brought up behind the Iron Curtain. Just coming of age when the USSR collapsed, they witnessed the world of their childhood crumble and change beyond recognition. Through the lives of these former schoolmates, this intimate film reveals how they have adjusted to their post-Soviet reality in today's Moscow.
Cobb, Arthur and Nash are enlisted by Cobol Engineering.
With a pocketful of drugs, Nick West takes out his girlfriend Sammy, for a shag and a good time. When they explore an abandoned asylum, the discovery of a bizarre device - a cross between an electric chair and sadistic fetish machine - transforms drugged-out bliss into agony and despair
Sara and Is(Isaam) are fated to meet in advance of a possible marriage they don't want and end up having to the spend the day together to kill time.
A wife tries to prevent her husband, a miner, from gambling away the money he receives as an inheritance.
Sailor Albert gets a message from the Navy saying he can't marry for certain unexplained legal reasons. Everyone, including his domineering mother-in-law to be, jumps to the conclusion that there must be another woman involved.
A woman with an apparently happy and privileged life begins shoplifting
Whilst making a documentary on their friend, the crew uncover a dark secret which leads to friction, betrayal and puts their lives in danger. Can you ever truly know a ginger?
A mysterious stranger presents a boy with a VCR that can "play" the past...and the future. How it affects the boy and his struggling middle-class family is the central story.
After a funeral, three young men try to come to terms with the passing of their friend.
The dreary existence of middle-aged spinster Maura Prince takes an unexpected turn with the arrival of young handyman Billy Jarvis, but there may be more to him than meets the eye.
Part drama, part documentary, The Road to Guantánamo focuses on the Tipton Three, a trio of British Muslims who were held in Guantanamo Bay for two years until they were released without charge.
The Cure perform live in their triumphant and critically acclaimed return to Worthy Farm at Glastonbury on June, 30th 2019.
A middle aged couple, housekeeper and chauffeur sit in the huge bare kitchen of a country house pursuing their own thoughts aloud in a ghastly semblance of conversation. Doollee.com
Brilliant but arrogant scientist Victor Frankenstein builds a man from spare body parts, only for the monster to come alive and wreak havoc.
A character-driven documentary exploring the life and culture of the Sindhi, one of the oldest and least known civilisations in the world.
Follows a PE teacher, whose attempt to impress the need for self-control on his pupils verges on the sadistic.
The fifth filming of the adventure classic about a British soldier in the 1880s who fights to regain his honor after being given four white feathers, symbols of cowardice.
Step inside the remarkable journey of The Beatles, the band that reshaped music and revolutionised culture in the 20th century. From their early days in Liverpool and the raw energy of The Cavern Club, to their meteoric rise in the 1960s and the frenzy of Beatlemania, the film explores how four young men-John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr-captivated the world. Featuring archival footage, interviews, and timeless performances, it highlights their groundbreaking approach to songwriting, recording, and artistic experimentation that pushed the boundaries of rock and roll. Beyond the music, the film examines the personal challenges, creative tensions, and cultural shifts that shaped their journey, from the heights of fame to their eventual breakup. Ultimately, this is not only the story of a band, but of a movement that left an indelible mark on music, art, and society-one that still resonates across generations today.
Joanna is selling her country home, Steven is a prospective buyer. What should be a simple viewing becomes something else entirely...
In his delirium from his return from war, Francesco Bernardone goes back in his memories to the days when he lived for parties and carnal pleasures. He slowly recovers, but after the illness he is no longer the Francesco that everybody knew. Instead of spending hours in taverns, he meditates on the beauty of God's creatures, soon renouncing his riches and his family with plans to rebuild an abandoned church and his life.
Jeremy O'Reilly, the self-important presenter of a TV news show, returns to a clueless East End community where a prank leads to the murder of a beautiful local actress and a savage Press that demands to know, "Who killed Paige Boston?"
An elder brother who lived a life of crime but left to show his younger brother the lifestyle is not fit for anything. Years later his younger brother takes his footsteps in the life of drugs/crime, to a deal gone wrong his younger brother is murdered, his elder brother steps back into his crime ways and to find and avenge his younger brother's death.
While restoring a fifteenth-century painting Julia reveals a hidden Latin phrase. A series of murders begin to rock her small world of art experts, patrons and restorers, and she finds that the mystery of the painting is interwoven with the mystery of the deaths around her.
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