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Night nurse Elaine Dobbs may be overworked and underpaid, but she has created a very special atmosphere in her ward and is extremely attentive to her patients. However, rather too many of them are dying.Inspired by the real-life case of four nurses in Austria who were tried for the murder of 42 patients in their care, this chilling drama stars comedian Dawn French in her first serious role, as an apparently irreproachable carer.
Jack Prince, a British renegade, joins a rebellion and becomes one of the most feared pirates in the Caribbean.
A young man discovers he's dying but doesn't know who to turn to for help
"A magnificent picture of the launching of the 'Oceanic,' which up to that time was the largest vessel ever floated. The view is taken from a pier out over the water; the vessel coming stern on towards the camera and passing it by. A tremendous wave is thrown among the spectators crowded at the side of the pier, and the great excitement prevailing is very evident in the picture." (Belfast)
East is a 1975 verse play by Steven Berkoff, dealing with growing up and rites of passage in London's rough East End. The play was premiered at the Edinburgh Festival at the Traverse in 1975. The 25th anniversary production, produced by Steven Berkoff's East Productions and Marc Sinden and starring Tanya Franks, started at the Churchill Theatre, Bromley. The tour included the Edinburgh Festival and the Théâtre de Silvia Monfort, Paris. It opened at London's Vaudeville Theatre on 15 November 1999 where the DVD of the production was filmed in front of a live audience.
When the union in his factory walks out on strike, a family man refuses to participate, risking the wrath — and retaliation — of his fellow workers.
When a mysterious Stranger approaches Tom with an unusual offer, the struggling dad faces a life-altering decision.
Stephen Dwoskin’s final film is a meditation on the subjective experience and cultural concepts of ageing. The film is an ode to the texture, the beauty, the singularity of aging faces and silhouettes, a hypnotic poem in the Dwoskin meaning of the term which is long observations of very tiny details. A gesture, a pause, a look, a moment. Throughout his films intimacy has always played a leading role and this is also true for Age is..., all the faces being close friends, or close friends relatives and sometimes even Stephen himself.
A quirky love triangle comedy set in Glasgow in the weird, wonderful world of fantasy role-playing games.
A German submarine is sent to the Orkney Isles in 1917 to sink the British fleet.
Michael Wolfe is finally directing his first feature film, a zombie flick with the world's biggest rising star, but unless he can control his lead actor's exploding ego the project of his dreams may soon become his worst nightmare.
A quirky, satirical seduction into the glorious world of prostitution and pornography from Piccadilly, Manchester to Piccadilly, London. Teenager Jake sets off for London with the promise of making easy money as a rent boy. But difficulties arise as he breaches another boy's patch, is pimped by a pro and is tempted into the sleazy world of gender-bending pornography.
An architect, a security chief, a parapsychologist and an exorcist face evil in a Barcelona skyscraper.
1920. Jean Rezeau and his elder brother were living happily in their family estate in Brittany, until the death of their grandmother. The return of their mother, a worthy descendant of fairytales' witches, brings an all new atmosphere to their home.
A young couple encounter a weird man trying to warn them of impending doom!
'Lord poses as workman to win dancer who works as waitress in her mother's tea garden.' (British Film Catalogue)
When a young man brings an unexpected new partner home for dinner, the underlying prejudices of his straitlaced, middle-class parents are brought to the fore.
In the quiet calm of the Welsh foothills, Danny Jones reaches the age of seventeen with a strong desire to break away from the strict influence of his father.
After his best friend dies, Charlie hits the road and stumbles into Lighthouse Hill, a village where residents seem to know a lot more about him than they should.
Shot on location in Jerusalem, the United States, and throughout Europe, this documentary explores the Easter story as seen through art, from the early Christians to the modern era. Through centuries of artistic interpretation, it reveals not only the story of Easter, but the story of humanity itself.
Mean, gritty, dirty and low, and that's just the policeman Gary Keltie, out for retribution for the horrendous crimes against the helpless people of Edinburgh during the 1970s, by notorious, torturous, and killer, debt collector Nickie Dryden.
6 year old Sarah has started to notice that her parents arguing has escalated. With her mother suffering from Obsessive Personality Disorder, and her father struggling with pressure from work, tensions build up over dinner one night causing revelations to spill out.
Pelicans being released for feeding into their enclosure at London Zoological Gardens.
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.
Janey Godley takes centre stage in this engaging and insightful documentary about the fearless and funny comic. Janey found fame for her sweary anti-Trump placards and became a social media sensation as she revoiced First Minister Nicola Sturgeon’s Covid briefings. 'First I was cancelled, then I got cancer,' Janey notes as she recalls being called out for racist historic tweets, apologising and then trying to rebuild her career before receiving her diagnosis. That didn’t stop her from going on tour and director John Archer interweaves fly-on-the-wall footage with interviews from people such as Jimmy Carr, Nicola Sturgeon, and Janey's daughter, Ashley, that reveal details of a difficult Glasgow childhood.
England, while the storm clouds of Nazism menace Germany. Robert Watson Watt and a team of eccentric and brilliant meteorologists struggle to turn the mere idea of radar into a functional reality.
Wannabe gangster living alone in a caravan gets a visit from a born again Christian.
Accents and dialects provoke strong prejudices and reactions. In a film that examines why this should be, broadcaster Janet Street -Porter, Scottish announcer Susan Rae and actor Peter Bowles are among those who have suffered because of the way they speak. Meet the Queen's English Society, which keeps a candle burning for the purity of the spoken word, and the Devon Dialect Society, which has very different ideas about how vowels should sound. Eavesdrop on an elocution class, hear from Scottish schoolchildren whose accents might affect their job prospects, and go behind the scenes at the BBC Pronunciation Unit and the northern auditions for the Speaking Clock. See how fashions have changed over the years, and how trends are likely to develop in the future as we enter a world of talking robots and computers....
Grim Places is 3 horrific tales from Jason Impey featuring lust, deceit & murder. Lustful Desires This tale is a journey into the mind of Freddi, a comple x troubled soul dealing with his mental issues while unintentionally dragging Lustful - a call girl into his spiraling out of control world, in which sexual desires are pushed to the limit and beyond. Poison lover Mina is suffering a mysterious illness while her husband Jonathan tries his best to look after her, or is he? Not all is what it seems in this dried up marriage, and Jonathan may have just reached breaking point! Exploited Jack Hess is a frustrated and depressed filmmaker who has tried to make many erotic and hard core films with no results to show for it. He now pushes his filmmaking into a much darker place as he embarks on making snuff movies, a new low for Hess in which he crosses a line in which there is no going back!
Two losers try to lift themselves out of the mire by letting their fantasy world take over their lives.
In the remote and forgotten wilderness of Lake Natron, in northern Tanzania, one of nature's last great mysteries unfolds: the birth, life and death of a million crimson-winged flamingos.
In 2007, Yahya works at his friend Osama’s falafel shop in Gaza, which doubles as a drug dealing front. His entanglement leads him to witness a terrible crime. A couple years later, Gaza’s Ministry of Culture randomly chooses Yahya to star in a TV series that highlights martyrs and heroes of the resistance. As conflict simmers in the distance, Yahya unexpectedly receives real weapons, heightening the stakes as the show provides him with an opportunity to confront the perpetrator of the offense that changed his life.
The venomous and amoral wife of a wealthy architect tries, any way she can, to break up the blossoming romance between her husband and his new mistress; a good-natured young widow who holds a dark past.
A hotshot defence attorney determined to free a teenage client accused of killing his sister, manipulates the courtroom so well that he begins to question whether justice was ever the goal.
In the wake of the death of her closest friend, a teenager searches for a new ally: cold water.
Journeying through the symbolic landscape of the subconscious mind, the story follows an unbreakable bond between father and son. A bond that transcends space and time.
Amanda is a student obsessed with all things French. Holed up with the flu in her Brixton flat, she is awoken in the dead of night by a burglar who's broken into the wrong house. Amanda falls in love with the intruder but as their love blooms, her flat starts to fill up with stolen goods.
A scientist working with genetics creates a horrifying flying creature that feeds on human blood. Following a gruesome trail of dead bodies, Scotland Yard investigators must scramble to halt its ravenous rampage.
In London, aware of her husband's longstanding affair and feeling neglected, a woman flirts with a former flame in a plot to teach her husband a lesson without endangering their marriage.
Film version of Shakespeare's comedy of a young woman who disguises herself as a man to win the attention of the one she loves.
After the death of their birth mother, two young children are placed in the care of prospective adopter parents, however, it's not long before the new family begin to question if something more sinister is at play.
A disturbed telepathic man is able to transmit his dreams and visions into the minds of the people around him.
A behind-the-scenes documentary of the making of 1983's Yellowbeard
Tomboy Heidi and her beloved, grumpy, old pony Gripper take on a snooty little madam and her haughty thoroughbreds.
A series of stories about the lives and loves of men in a Prisoner of War camp over five years. The main story is of Hasek (Redgrave) a Czech soldier who needs to keep his identity a secret from the Nazis. To do this, he poses as a dead English Officer and corresponds with the man's wife. Other inmates’ stories are also revealed. Location shooting in the British occupied part of Germany adds believability.
Eva and Edward love one another, but can they get past the complications of how they first meet and survive being the alien in the other's home? A tale of modern love, this zero-budget indie film provides a slow-burn squeeze at the heart.
A body is found face down in a tank. Detective Inspector Iverson, investigating what seems like a routine case of suicide, becomes involved with the mesmerizing psychotherapist who was helping the dead woman find her true self. Gradually their roles are reversed as her probing uncovers the detective's own deeper motives and needs, until the knife-edge between suicide and murder is exposed.
Loosely bases on Samuel Richardson's novel Pamela or Virtue Rewarded, this is the story of Pamela who goes to work in the kitchen of Lord Devenish who is determined to rape her.
After the breakdown of his marriage Gil struggles to bring up his two daughters, but his care is not enough to ward off the all-pervading power of the White Lady, a symbol of the chemicals used in food production in Britain.
A former district officer is assigned to work on a team of diamond prospectors, who are busy double crossing each other until they are blown up having found bullion.
An Urban Fairy Tale set in Manchester. A story of how a series of tragic events, that blight a young boy's life on Christmas Eve, take him on a journey where a chance meeting with a mysterious stranger may have the key to help and give him a perfect Christmas.
Love, and how not to lose it.
In a cabin in the woods, a nun discovers an ancient text that releases a love demon. Possessed by the incubus, the nun is pulled towards the pleasures of her flesh. The Madonna and whore battle within her and, as her pleasure grows, the whore looks to win out. But the difference between purity and depravity is a myth, and her body’s rapture brings the nun closer to God than all the prayers could in the world.
The problem of slum dwellings in the 1930s.
Christmas 1975. David Niven and his beautiful wife host a party in their luxury Swiss ski chalet. However, Niven's plans for a comeback movie soon turns into a comical, would-be murder mystery.
21st century legal prostitution through the frank stories of Amsterdam red-light district sex workers at a time when tighter regulation threatens their livelihood.
Faustus is a scholar at the University of Wittenberg when he earns his doctorate degree. His insatiable appetite for knowledge and power leads him to employ necromancy to conjure Mephistopheles out of hell. He bargains away his soul to Lucifer in exchange for living 24 years during which Mephistopheles will be his slave. Faustus signs the pact in his own blood and Mephistopheles reveals the works of the devil to Faustus.
In a Japanese coastal town haunted by the 2011 tsunami, the filmmaker installs her camera inside the city's taxis to capture conversations between the living and, it turns out, the dead.
A spirited young woman persuades a hyena from London Zoo to take her place at a dinner dance held in her honour. Their plan requires a surprising amount of artistry and violence.
Two versions of Dylan Thomas' classic play "Under Milk Wood" were shot, with the same cast, one in Welsh, "Dan y Wenallt", and one in English. Directed by Kevin Allen, narrated by and starring Rhys Ifans, the films were shot largely in the Pembrokeshire village of Solfa during the summer of 2014. This surreal and erotic interpretation of Dylan Thomas' work is the first theatrical production of the brilliant, haunting radio play since Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton's 1972 film. Certain to astonish and excite in equal measures, this production reunites director Kevin Allen with actor Rhys Ifans over 15 years after the release of their cult classic "Twin Town". An ensemble Welsh speaking cast of familiar faces is led by Ifans as First Voice and Captain Cat, with Charlotte Church as Polly Garter.