Action and excitement beckon as popular sleuth Mick Cardby goes on the trail of a missing girl, and finds himself in the clutches of a gang of blackmailers.
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Action and excitement beckon as popular sleuth Mick Cardby goes on the trail of a missing girl, and finds himself in the clutches of a gang of blackmailers.
The first documentary feature to explore the tragic and bizarre life of the late chess master Bobby Fischer.
When the young founder of a collapsing cryptocurrency exchange dies unexpectedly, irate investors suspect there's more to his death than meets the eye.
An offbeat observation of refugees waiting to be granted asylum on a fictional remote Scottish island. It focuses on Omar, a young Syrian musician who is burdened by the weight of his grandfather’s oud, which he has carried all the way from his homeland.
Tells the story of the greatest natural disaster of the ancient world, an event that experts believe inspired the legend of Atlantis.
Three suitors try to impress a girl by chasing her all over the place. Finally she makes her choice.
Contemplates the filmmaker’s relationship to the painter Howard Hodgkin. The highly personalised domestic interior of Hodgkin’s London home becomes a container to explore this relationship: as objects and belongings draw out themes of personal loss, memory and identity.
An aging King invites disaster, when he abdicates to his corrupt, toadying daughters, and rejects his loving and honest one.
Roy leaves his abusive father's house and starts life anew as a woman, named Wendy. Through trial and error, she learns the skills and consequences of being a woman.
Lady Sannox is one of the most beautiful and richest women in London. She becomes a mistress of Douglas Stone, an eminent surgeon. Her husband Lord Sannox watches this affair and seeks his swift revenge.
A comedy-horror film about the triple threat of Welsh folklore, English tourists and being hungover.
An enigmatic narcissist befriends a despondent loner from Book Club and drags her on a gruesome misadventure.
Another of Dennis Potter's "visitation dramas": Adultery by John disturbs Janet, so she flirts with the simple, mistreated Billy during the middle of giving him a reading lesson. Unfortunately, it triggers aggressive behavior in Billy which he directs toward John.
A young mother, Lil, struggles to connect with her newborn baby. Ashamed and exhausted, she tells no one. An ancient creature, that is drawn to mothers who are struggling, begins to circle, with a primal battle begins between the mother and the force.
This documentary offers an honest look at our fraught, complex relationship to video games from the perspectives of gamers and their concerned parents.
A documentary that chronicles Jennifer Lopez's life on and off-stage during her first ever world tour. Throughout the majority of her music career, beginning in 1999, a world tour by Lopez was anticipated, though it never materialized. Following the release of her seventh studio album Love? (2011), she was more intent on touring than ever. However, it was not until March 2012 when the tour came into the works. As rumors began to circulate, Lopez later confirmed that April that she would be embarking on her first world tour. It commenced on June 14, 2012, in Panama City, Panama, and concluded on December 22, 2012, in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
Sexual passion breeds violence in the Thomas Middleton and William Rowley written tale of a beautiful woman who falls in love with a sea-captain. Filmed with lush production values and at a leisurely, very British pace, Helen Mirren is riveting as Beatrice-Joanna, a young lass already torn by love and commitment.Beatrice-Joanna (Helen Mirren) is betrothed to Lord Alonzo de Piraquo (Malcolm Reynolds) but is in love with Alsemero (Brian Cox). She hires her father's manservant, De Flores (Stanley Baker), to kill Alonzo but after he has done so, she realises De Flores wants her as a reward.The Changeling was an instalment of the BBC's Play of the Month series and is a production for television of a 1622 Jacobean tragedy of the same name, written by Thomas Middleton and William Rowley.
Exploring the complicated depths of mental illness, the film unravels the unassuming figure of 55-year-old David as his actions diverge from the word of God.
Focuses on the Kwame Nkrumah era in Ghanaian history and paints a portrait of a female African government minister forced into exile after a coup d'état in 1966. Two decades later, she returns to confront the country she left behind.
When a star, bored of its endless existence, hears music coming from a distant speck, it shoots down to find itself on planet Earth. On their quest to find music, they are helped by an ex-dance champion and a jaded musician, and faced with the impermanence of living a mortal life.
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.
Thirty years after the release of his film JFK (1991), filmmaker Oliver Stone reviews recently declassified evidence related to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, which took place in Dallas on November 22, 1963.
Government officials discover a horrible plot: the Chinese are tunneling their way to the United States.
Brand's a bleak and desolate play that challenges the notion of a stern and stoic faith in the will of God. The title character is a pastor who returns to his ancestral home to find the villagers on the verge of starvation. He believes ministering to these poor people to be his calling. Over the course of the play, however, he faces many difficult choices. The decisions he makes, based on his stark and idealistic view of morality, have dire consequences for all the people he touches and, ultimately, for his own embattled soul.
A man lives in an asteroid belt carrying out a lonely mission.
On the opening night of a group exhibition, Nora, a young female artist is hacked by an ominous troll. What follows is a descent into sexual trauma, as she and her friend Kyra search for the perpetrator in a night-long odyssey.
The life of King Henry the Sixth, in three parts.
Gentle Colin 'Col' Lawes happily lead a quiet life, running a news agency with his soiled-rotten wife Sandra and playing competition darts in the Atletic Arms team. Colin catches her committing adultery with team captain Geoff, a cop, who pretends Colin abused her. Col is thrown off the team just after it qualified for the league finals in Blackpool. He decides to travel there alone, hoping to win her back.
Malcolm Lyons is back, and this time he’s got a vengeance! Working with hitman Hugh Rafferty, they begin to take hostages, and the clock is ticking for the team to find them and take down Lyons, or he’ll begin to execute them one by one. Will they rescue the hostages in time, or will they just be another addition to Mad Malkie’s death toll?
The discovery of human remains at a churchyard connects to the hardships faced by a German woman and her son 40 years earlier as they tried to build a new life in 1950s Britain.
The Lover's Guide offers details on how to expand one's physical approach to lovemaking. Over 60 positions for lovers to try are presented including advanced positions that help to increase the adventure within any sexual relationship.
A man teaches mindfulness, hoping it will bring both his pupils and himself inner peace. But when his anger gets the better of him, his inner turmoil is broadcast to the world.
A meeting of two world famous climbers, one an experienced mountaineer the other a sport climber, and a journalist (Ivan) results in a bet on which of the two is the best climber. Roger (the mountaineering expert) states that Martin (the sport climber) wouldn't survive a day on a 'real' climbing expedition, although he is considered to be the world's best sport climber (having just won an indoor 'world championship,' an event depicted in the opening scene). They plan to climb 'Cerro Torre,' in the Patagonia region of South America, near the Argentinian/Chilean border, one of the world's most difficult mountains, especially considering the extreme weather conditions common to the area.
Six friends from New York City vacationing at a historic mansion in Europe release an ancient witch from her slumber, awakening her centuries old thirst for blood, turning their trip into a fight for survival.
This documentary will cover all aspects of his life, from the Jackson 5 to This Is It, from his humble beginnings to Neverland, and from his abusive father to his alleged abuse cases.
Enid Lamb is lost in the woods until she is taken for dinner by the Forest King
The legendary actress Sarah Bernhardt's unconventional life and career are examined in this biopic. At an audition in 1860, the teenage Bernhardt proclaims herself the greatest actress of her time. Her career blossoms, as does her private life. But art and life don't stay balanced, much to the frustration of her lovers. The eccentric Bernhardt eventually does marry another actor, but it's her life on stage that ultimately gives her the most satisfaction.
A group of cooks at an asylum for the criminally insane get locked in with the inmates during a massive thunderstorm
Our story begins with our heroine breaking up with her obnoxious boyfriend; what should be a moment of liberation instead transforms her from a regular thirty-something into a hag with snakes for hair. Hag battles society pressures, inner longings, and the tick of her own biological clock. She searches for love and meaning in a hellscape of waning fertility, dating apps and the rotten stench of the patriarchy. In this surreal South London, Hag's journey becomes mythical as her despair crystallises into a quest for answers, and she must face the ultimate test! In a world where being true to yourself makes you monstrous, what is the cost of compromise and repressing your authentic self?
An anxious woman navigates the bustle of modern day Cairo to find her missing lover, a young adult strives for an authentic connection in a future society numbed by alcohol, and two Cold War-era lovers face the consequences of finding romance across political borders. A vibrant collection of short films - by turns gritty and dreamlike - exploring the changes and complexities of a Love Evolving.
After six years of being locked away at 'Easton Detention Centre' after brutally murdering one of his classmates, Jackson Pickering (Carson Queen) breaks out of captivity and hunts down his old friend group lead by Craig Forester (Marcus Curran) and Bradley Banks (Nathan McCurley) for sweet, bloody vengeance. All the while being on the run from officers Stanley Adams and Jimmy Reynolds (Logan Smith & Jordan Boyd respectively). 'Break Out' is a black-comedic slasher made to be a tribute to both the spirit of old slasher horror flicks and the edge and violence of Troma Entertainment.
A global lockdown might feel like the perfect time to write a piece of reflective drama, but for one bickering couple the creative process leads to nothing but disagreement.
The story is set in late 19th century rural corner of South England. The daughter of timber merchant Melbury, Grace, returns to the town after finishing school. Her father now believes she can find a better husband than her childhood sweetheart, woodsman Giles. She marries handsome young doctor Fitzpiers, but soon finds out he's not the man of her dreams and she still loves Giles.
In this diverse and inventive autobiography, painter and author John Byrne travels from his youth, through his art school years to the period of his stage and TV plays, and on to his death, sometime in the future. With him is Robbie Coltrane as himself and as a shamus invented by Byrne, who discovers there are as many aspects to the author as there are actors playing him.
Master baker, owner of Duffryn Bakery, Onllwyn, turns his hand to film-making and captures community events in glorious colour.
A 17 year-old girl attends a party where she encounters her first flirtatious love. A film about friendship and exploring sexuality.
A knight returns home from the Crusades to find his village devastated by disease and his family gone. He roams the forest searching for them, until he finds a mysterious maiden who is being held prisoner by a black knight. In order to free her, he must confront her captor.
An autocratic Director (Harold Pinter) and his Assistant (Rebecca Pidgeon) put the final touches to the last scene of some kind of dramatic presentation, which consists entirely of a man (John Gielgud) standing still onstage.
Everything that Shaun knows and loves comes into question as he impulsively makes a wish and must face up to some unexpected consequences.
William Shakespeare is back on CBeebies with an adaptation of one of his most famous plays, Romeo and Juliet. With the help of a host of CBeebies stars and actors, Rebecca the Librarian and William Shakespeare put on a performance of the play in a magical library. The story twists and turns as the Montague and Capulet families squabble, and Romeo and Juliet meet and fall in love. There are songs and dances to join in with as the greatest love story ever told comes to life in CBeebies’ latest stage show performance.
Air Disasters exposes some painful truths behind the world of flight, using actual footage of real incidents to look at why planes crash; in aerodynamic and technical terms and in the way the industry is run.
In rural Norfolk, villagers are spurred to action when it is announced that the nearby RAF station is taking over the Island of Children, a much-loved and untouched bird sanctuary, for rocket practice.
A tale of cat and mouse that acks a punch through the very heart of the European Criminal underworld. From the dark sophisticated alleys of Paris to the depressing Birmingham ghetto, Chin Shui plays it hard and heavy to survive the savage streets.
Join McFly for an explosive night featuring all their hits and exclusive behind-the-scenes access as they celebrate their incredible 21st anniversary at The O2 Arena.
Simon's first time in a sauna, how much trouble can one boy get into, or out of?
Follows the early years of two unknown 18 year old amateur boxers who quickly fought their way to become the most feared and respected villains in London. Told through the eyes of a close friend that survived them, we see them rise to infamy through drugs, sex and murder.
Funny how we think of the loutish behaviour of some of today's teens as a modern-day phenomenon. Here, in a short film more than one hundred years old, we see two tearaways terrorising a bed-ridden old lady, sabotaging a number of honest workmen as they go about their daily work, vandalising a bakery and taking a vehicle without consent - all in the space of six frenetic minutes.
Mickey and Thomas, stars on the rise, and their friends and crew find themselves trapped in a deadly game by a killer who has dubbed himself 'The Auteur'.
On a day much like any other, Mick and Carmen, two hard-drinking lovers down on their luck, set out to satisfy their hunger. But food is not their only need. As the day progresses, tensions rise and their stormy relationship is put to the ultimate test.
Rowan, a sarcastic layabout, hosts a disastrous speed-dating night - only to wake up cursed by Aphrodite and forced to relive it on repeat. To escape the loop, he has to play Cupid (properly this time) and match four fated couples… or stay stuck forever.