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Four families embark on the ever-crucial-in-Britain school entrance exam.

Terence is a butcher, his wife Eden a vegetarian. At their last supper together before their divorce, he tries to fathom why she has left him. After all, he is a reasonable man.

Lots of familiar beautiful faces, and gorgeous bodies, are to be found in this terrific Czech erotica including a very young Kristian Jensen (yes, thats him on the cover who could resist?). An alpine ski resort provides the atmospheric backdrop for the randy activities of this perfect pack of Bel Ami hunks.

Primetime documentary looking at the legal, cultural and social legacies of Oscar Wilde’s imprisonment, broadcast to commemorate the centenary of his conviction.

A documentary examining the experiences and lives of swimmers at Brockwell Lido, in south London.

A black busker helps helps two homeless kids.

Documentary about naturism in Canada.

“Where I come from we don’t worry about where we come from”. So says Latifah to her cousin Himli in Alnoor Dewshi's illuminating film about two cousins who discuss ideas of culture and history while wandering through London.

In this spell-binding story brave Jack climbs the Beanstalk to the magical world of Beanland. He and his new friends Dilly (the small but fearless Bean girl) and Ambrose (the nervous donkey) are drawn into all sorts of exciting adventures as they attempt to rid the Beanland of the wicked Giant. This exciting and beautifully animated re-telling of the classic tale is filled with fun, humour and wonderful music to delight children of all ages time and time again.

In 1991, comedy legend John Cleese was asked by Video Arts to speak about his experiences with Creativity and the importance of creativity in management and business. Filmed in the Grosvenor House Hotel on 23rd January 1991. At the time it was transmitted via Satellite link to a global audience.

Two friends search for a quality sausage at an open air meat festival.

A biographical tale of an eight millimeter auteur; Jonny Real reflects on his career in art movies.

Simon and Mark live together in London. When Mark dies of AIDS, Simon gets on with his life rather quickly, too quickly to suit the ghost of Mark, who reappears to disrupt Simon's cruising and then moves back into their flat to prompt Simon to experience and express feelings. Simon is adamant that feelings, especially love, are not for him. Subplots develop as Mark and Simon observe their neighbor Siobhan's love life and as Simon spends his days as a satellite-TV installer partnered with Dogger, a homophobe ignorant that Simon is gay. Is there any key that can unlock Simon's feelings and allow Mark to rest in peace?

Join the Spice Girls live in Istanbul for their first ever concert! Plus: GIRLS TALK! An exclusive interview with the Girls! Find out what it's really, really like to be a Spice Girl!

Tom and the monsters discover a sinister plot to hijack the Easter Bunny and steal all the Easter Eggs. Getting the Easter Eggs back to their rightful owners proves to be not as simple as they first thought.

Black comedy play about two pensioners struggling to manage on an old-age pension and living in a high-rise block of flats.

Animated short set in the dressing room of several drag artists.

The documentary examines the rising popularity of camcorders and surveillance cameras, and uses a compilation of footage to demonstrate the consequences that they have on society.

An examination of why the James Bond films have proved so popular including a discussion between the four actors who have played Bond, an interview with Cubby Broccoli and contributions from the directors, production designers, special effects and stuntmen.

A young man in prison is interviewed and talks about his life, how he got into prison, and what it's like doing time.

This documentary explores whether we can use mathematics to describe the observable universe in order to reveal the potential connection to the mysteries of consciousness.

Theatrical packaging of three comic shorts: Dean Parisot & Steven Wright's comedy "The Appointments of Dennis Jennings" (1988), Michael Moore's documentary "Pets or Meat" (1992), and Mike Leigh & Jim Broadbent's satirical mockumentary "A Sense of History" (1992).

The story of the hijacking of the Italian luxury liner Achille Lauro by four Palestinians.

Tylluan Wen is a Welsh language film produced in Wales in 1997 by Ffilmiau'r Nant and directed by Angharad Jones. It an adaptation of Angharad Jones' novel Y Dylluan Wen (The White Owl) and follows the story of a woman returning to her home town after many years away, determined to avenge her father's death.

Jim Broadbent wrote and starred in this short film directed by none other than Mike Leigh. As a member of the landed gentry, the 23rd Earl of Leete has a duty to maintain and expand his lands. Shot in the style and manner of a BBC documentary, Broadbent tells his family history to the crew, who slowly come to realise - as do we - that things are not what they seem.

An upper class English family owns a villa in the Irish countryside. When the man of the house leaves to fight in WW2, his mother, wife, dying butler, maid and other staff's life becomes a bit hectic and some love affairs start to bloom.

Violently arrested and thrown in jail, Bryan narrates his bizarre life story from the confines of his prison cell. Some kids suck their thumbs or stroke a comforter; this four year old Bryan, however, was into pockets... Spoiled by his parents, his curious obsession leads to an unnatural infatuation with other people's pockets. That's when the trouble really began.

Nick, a Greek Cypriot living in London, hits on the idea of marriage to raise some cash - the bride, according to custom, coming complete with dowry. He is forced to enlist the help of a childhood adversary, Maria. Soon realising she is giving him the runaround, Nick retaliates by wooing her.

A modern-day retelling of the Arthurian legend with the Lady of the Lake as a reporter and Pendragon as an evil businessman. Merlin's immortal apprentice is trying to protect a powerful sword forged by Merin from the clutches of Pendragon.

An animated anthology, 20 shorts featuring characters from The Beano comic strips.

A woman, plastered in blood, is arrested by a grave, and a tale of loss, lust and jealousy slowly unfolds.

The Irish entry in the BFI's "Century of Cinema" documentary series examines Irish filmmaking in a decade when the country is going through a highly significant period of creativity and growth in cultural self-confidence. The film makes connections and contrasts, illuminates parallels and continuities, as it weaves through 100 years of cinema in Ireland.

A period film, set around an English country house whose owners want to arrange a marriage of convenience between their elder daughter and an aristocratic heir of a hard-up noble family.

Doting parents must adjust to life without their children as their offspring leave for college and form relationships.

‘Reeling’ is made of backstage tour footage filmed over a 3 week period out of PJ Harvey’s 1993 European and American Tour. This is constructed around live footage taken from 2 dates at the ‘Forum’, London.

In this experimental film conceived by Sylvie Guillem, the choreographers become dancers or photographers: William Forsythe dances a superb solo and Mats Ek films his brother and Sylvie Guillem in Smoke, an oniric and sensual duet.

A cube-shaped creature, who can’t get into a cinema only equipped to cater to sphere-shaped patrons, wants to check out that awesome triple feature of The Sound of Music, Driving Miss Daisy and Total Recall.

A report on Pedophilia

BBC 2 produced this documentary on the Oz books of L. Frank Baum and the films and fantasies that they inspired, particularly the first book `The Wonderful Wizard of Oz'. Includes clips from the several silent film versions of the stories produced by Baum that have survived as well as the 1939 film with Judy Garland, and interviews with such enthusiasts as Salman Rushdie, Gore Vidal, Ray Bradbury, Geoffrey Ryman and Nora Ephron.

Bonfires, thieving and love in Halifax. An award-winning hybrid of documentary and drama that lets teenagers act out their lives in a West Yorkshire council estate. Trevor is a typical seventeen year old dosser living on a housing estate in the North of England. He smokes ‘blow’, joyrides and burgles houses, and also writes poetry. His muse is his next door neighbour, sixteen year old Amie. Every morning he works on a poem that will express his feelings and maybe win Amie’s heart.

In this art-film, a famous multimedia artist abandons his former life for a new one in a hermetically sealed room filled with living portraits. His new space becomes a haven for the terminally dysfunctional. Trouble ensues when two strangers, the world-weary Col. Hardy and the handsome son of an aspiring presidential candidate, come to collect on a commissioned work of art.

Craig Ferguson tells jokes and introduces filmed skits.

The Black Audio Film Collective’s seventh film envisioned the death and life of the African American revolutionary as a seven part study in iconography as narrated by novelist Toni Cade Bambara and actor Giancarlo Espesito. The stylized tableaux vivants that memorialise Malcolm’s life referenced the early 20th century funeral photography of James Van der Zee’s The Harlem Book of the Dead and the elemental static cinematography of Sergei Paradjanov’s The Colour of Pomegranates.

The film centers around Peter Camaron who works at Left Luggage at a train station.

A slightly ironical description of the colony of German artists in Los Angeles, who had to leave their country during the Nazi-regime. A young playwriter (von Horvath) joins them and finds out, that there are gaps between the artistical attitudes and the real live behavior of authors like Thomas or Heinrich Mann, Lion Feuchtwanger or Bertold Brecht.

Intertwined story of the lives of two women; an Englishwoman suffering abuse from her violent husband, and a Russian poet serving hard labour because of her subversive work.

The Let's Get to It Tour was the third tour by Australian pop singer Kylie Minogue. The tour was a continuation of the previous Rhythm of Love Tour which had already visited Australia and Asia. Together with five dancers, Minogue staged the tour in support of the album Let's Get to It. The show comprised an all-new wardrobe created exclusively by John Galliano and several new additions to the set list, many of which were written by Minogue herself.

Alan Bleasdale's star-studded comedy/drama about the lives of five plane crash survivors stranded together on a deserted island. Starring Jane Horrocks, John Gordon Sinclair, Jennifer Ehle, Noreen Kershaw and Andrew Schofield. When a plane crashes, five very different survivors find themselves trapped together on an apparently deserted, idyllic island. Everyone else has been killed except for the five survivors that emerge from the wreckage, one unconscious. One of these people, a dedicated film-lover, makes light of their perilous situation by comparing it to countless movie plots. This leads the survivors to start their lives afresh, taking on the names and personalities of famous movie stars to cope in their interactions with each other, which leads to many hilarious and erotic encounters.

A local council worker inspects three homes.

Recorded live at The Queens Theatre, London in 1995.

Daniel Petrie scripted and directed this Canadian-British film, an adaptation of the memorable 1957 Brooklyn-based novel by Brooklyn-born Bernard Malamud, author of The Natural. During the Depression, drifter Frank Alpine (Gil Bellows) and hobo Ward Minogue (Jaimz Woolvett) rob the small Bober family grocery. Minogue attacks frail Morris Bober (Armin Mueller-Stahl) because he has little money. Later, guilt sends Alpine back to the store, where he goes unrecognized and is hired by Bober as an assistant, despite the objections of Ida Bober (Joan Plowright). While Frank works the store, receiving miniscule wages, he falls for Bober's daughter, Helen (Kate Greenhouse), and Morris eventually learns who Frank really is.

Here’s the Sex Pistols – the original Sex Pistols, with Glen Matlock on bass – in an intense, non-stop onslaught of pure punk rock in a 1996 reunion tour, shot at the fabled Nippon Budokan in Tokyo. John Lydon returns as Johnny Rotten, with two-tone hair, red shorts, and no letup from the famous raw, shouted vocals with which he helped invent UK punk in the 1970’s. Steve Jones, Glen Matlock and Paul Cook blast out the music in the Pistols’ trademark fast, tight, loud style, reviving a host of Sex Pistols favourites. While the great punk-rock moment that the Sex Pistols created and owned in the mid-1970’s was brief and fleeting, this concert shows that punk rock – and the band that made it famous – will never die. A searing evening of wild music.

The secret history of the negotiations that led to Mandela's release from prison, the ANC becoming the government of South Africa, and the end of apartheid.

A golden floppy disk becomes a prophetic device through which a young Ghanaian girl living in England, Ama, rediscovers her African identity. She learns its contents at the office where her mother cleans. The disk, through magic realism and by way of ancestors, warns her of the dangers of forgetting one's heritage.

Psychological thriller about an obsessive love affair between Ruth, a recently married school teacher, and Thomas, a brilliant photographer.

The story revolves around a young boy who later becomes an outlaw and dacoit, but remains a hero to the poor, after his father is killed by a crooked politician.

Britain in the very near future. In an abandoned hotel, a young female doctor and a middle-aged scientist are interrogated separately. The question they are both asked is 'Where is Martin Pitt?'

An investigation into the making of Adrian Lyne's 1997 film Lolita.

The Secret Life of Ian Fleming follows the exciting life of a dashing young Ian Fleming, the mastermind behind the highly successful James Bond books and movies.

A live performance of the comedienne from 1991. Starting out on the working mens' club circuit, Victoria Wood graduated to performing her one-woman act in the country's biggest theatres. This show at the Mayflower Theatre in Southampton features her usual mix of observational comedy and songs.