Discover Movies

A disturbing docu-drama re-telling the story of the horrific case of Beverley Allitt, a children's nurse, accused in 1991 of killing four children in her care and harming nine others over a short period of just 59 days. The judge gave her a sentence of 30 years imprisonment, one of the longest sentences given to a woman in this country - exceeded only by those of Rosemary West and Myra Hindley. In the role of Allitt herself, giving an excellently controlled performance, is former "EastEnders" actress Charlie Brooks.

Cupid is an embittered alcoholic and the world has fallen apart.

After the death of their mother, three middle-aged siblings in west Wales must decide how to plan their futures and what to do with the family farm, which they still live on and which she has left equally between them in her will. The stress and uncertainty that arises from this huge change is exacerbated by the fact that Jac’s brash and pushy girlfriend Judy is eager to wed and move in immediately, and seems to not have the best interests of his down-to-earth sister Martha and learning-impaired brother Sianco at heart.

Comedy icon Joanna Lumley pursues a life-long dream to track down the elusive and beautiful Northern Lights. She travels North across the Arctic Circle, up through Norway and finally to Svalbard, the most northerly permanently inhabited place on Earth, where she has to cope with temperatures approaching minus 30° C. Joanna’s journey takes her from train to boat and huskysled to snowmobile as she is pulled ever northwards and finally, in a breathtaking climax to the film, Joanna gets to see with her own eyes the spectacular beauty of the Northern Lights. As seen on ABC1.

Boyzone frontman Ronan Keating goes solo for this live show recorded at the Royal Albert Hall. Includes performances of 'Rollercoaster', 'The Way You Make Me Feel' and 'When You Say Nothing At All', along with a behind-the-scenes documentary and the promo videos for Ronan's first three singles.

A mother relives being 7 years old in a town destroyed by firestorm on September 11th, sixty years ago.

A retrospective of Colin Baker's turbulent three-years as the Sixth Doctor in Doctor Who (1963), covering his casting, the 1985 hiatus, and his sacking on the orders of BBC One controller Michael Grade.

A single mum looks for love in the lonely-hearts pages, but someone has already decided to play cupid - her eight year-old son…

Documentary following Olly Williams and Suzi Winstanley, two unique wildlife artists who simultaneously work on the same painting of exotic and endangered animals while on location in the wildest corners of the world. The film shows how they work and why what they do is so important.

A small girl, who doesn't believe in fairytales, meets an old woman who claims she is a mermaid.

Eliza Doolittle is a young flower seller with an unmistakable Cockney accent which keeps her in the lower rungs of Edwardian society. When Professor Henry Higgins tries to teach her how to speak like a proper lady, an unlikely friendship begins to flourish.

The History of Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso U.F.O., told through a collection of rare live performances. Disk 1 tracks the band through their first decade from 1998 to 2007 telling the ongoing story through rare live videos including the very early rare footage. Featuring many special guests appearances from Mani Neumeier (Guru Guru), Afrirampo, Yoshida Tatsuya (Ruins), Yamazaki Maso (Masonna), Kuriyama Jun (ex Ox), etc. Disk 2 includes a historic performance of "La Novia" with Occitan queen of song Rosina De Peira, "Pink Lady Lemonade" medley of the many different versions from 1999 to 2007, the 2004 version of "Dark Star Blues", the 1999 version of "Dark Stars In The Dazzling Sky (a.k.a. Blue Velvet Blues)" and exclusive interview with Kawabata Makoto. Also live clips of other AMT-related units like Acid Mothers Temple & The Cosmic Inferno, Acid Mothers Temple SWR, Acid Mothers Gong, Acid Mothers Guru Guru, etc.

A collection of interviews and footage of the band detailing how their sound progressed and how their albums were made.

Punishment in Capitals is a live CD and DVD-release by the band Napalm Death. It was recorded at the London ULU on 12 April 2002 at an animal rights benefit gig.

16-year-old Emma has a dream - her boyfriend Tommy, has a completely different one. Emma is less at the slow small town life; Tommy wants to get married and buy houses like everyone else.

With approximately 150 million albums sold worldwide, Genesis are one of the highest selling recording groups of all time. From being one of the most revered bands of the 1970s led by Peter Gabriel, they went on to achieve massive commercial success in the Phil Collins era and have made a lasting impression on musical history. Combining extensive archive footage of performances with penetrating interviews with the band and the critics, this film offers a comprehensive review of the changing face of Genesis, and provides key insights to the music which shaped their career.

A young man cannot stop his boyhood quest for the truth - the truth behind the death of his parents and the truth behind his Grandfather's ancient, incredible, fearful stories. A quest that leads him to one of Scotland's most treacherous mountains, The Inaccessible Pinnacle.

Peter Watkins recounts the short-lived, happy period making his classic documentary Culloden and discusses, as he sees it, the tragic decline television has taken since it was made.

Programme which shows the best parts of past series of Celebrity Big Brother, plus interviews from celebrity fans and past housemates.

Ellie and Joe Farrelly are a busy couple bringing up a teenage son while running a large building company. When they suddenly have twins, a stranger comes into their life at just the time when they need help the most.

High-octane romance set in the recognizable - and sometimes gritty - world of Brighton's homegrown youth, as Boy Racer gangs uneasily coexist with the Indie scene.

Faux-Documentary exploring the back story of Dr. Hannibal Lector.

Supertramp was one of the last major progressive-rock bands to enjoy an international commercial breakthrough; the band had cultivated a devoted following with their witty and intelligent music since their debut in 1970, but it was 1979's Breakfast in America album which made them a household name in America and Europe. Inside Supertramp 1974-1978 - A Critical Review features rare performance footage of the band along side a panel discussion in which musicians and music writers offer their insights on this especially fruitful period in the group's history

Jack is losing his sight and his faith in life along with it, while his young daughter Bella believes her family is protected by fairies. After an argument she runs away. So Jack needs to rediscover his faith in order to find his daughter.

Britain’s most outrageous comedian, bar none! Tackling subjects from motorway pile-ups to marriage counsellors & cancer-causing sausages this recording of another of Chubby's live performances will shock & offend those of a sensitive disposition.

Spectreman flies out to destroy Russ Abbott. In his disco lair, Abbott detects Spectreman and Prepares horrible weapon. Mayhem ensues!

The background to, events of and consequences of the Battle of Mers-El-Kebir on 3 July 1940. In that battle, Royal Navy ships fired on the French Fleet in order to prevent it from falling into German hands. A French battleship was sunk and several other ships damaged. Nearly 1,300 French sailors were killed.

Grateful Dead: Bird Song

The story of America's rise to power starting with 1959, using archival footage and US pop music to highlight the consequences to the rest of the world and in the peoples' minds.

A car accident leads a health food store employee to make a life-changing discovery.

See Ricky Martin as you have never seen him before: up close and personal. Travel with him on his sold-out European concert tour. Feel like you're a part of the exuberant crowds that dance and sway to his mesmerizing rhythms and gyrations as he performs his songs in different venues across Europe. Swoon to his sultry songs and sensual charisma in this exhilarating production featuring eight great performances and a bonus video clip. A must-have collector's video! Songs: No Puedo Mas, Bombom De Azucar, Nada Es Imposible, A Medio Vivir, Susana, Dime Que Quieres, Maria, Te Extrano 2. 70 minutes.

Filmed at the Thwaites Empire Theatre, Blackburn. Jim's stand-up is a rollercoaster of side-splitting gags and riotous tales.

Michael Fassbender stars in this 'day in the life' of a London motorcycle courier at breaking point in his profession and his life.

West Lake Restaurant in South China's Changsha can safely call itself the biggest Chinese restaurant in the world, with its staff of 1,000 working 5,000 tables and serving no fewer than 150 ducks per day and 200 snakes per week. The words of the restaurant's staff and guests are used in the film to paint a picture of modern China: the proprietress, one of the city's 20 self-made millionaires, speaks candidly about her failed marriage; a bridegroom-to-be who is celebrating at the restaurant explains the modern Chinese customs associated with the wedding party; and a waitress visits her poor parents in the countryside. Through these scenes, we gain insight into the unique combination of the ancient religious values and the new capitalist values with which China is stepping into the 21st century.

With Scotland in the World Cup in 1974, Stephen is more into Glam Rock than football.

Welcome to the Generation Gap: an area with an often stormy climate and some interesting inhabitants - parents, for instance... and teenagers...

Part concert footage, part fly-on-the-wall video documentary of the ups and downs of a road tour, Lamb of God: Killadelphia deals with rental truck breakdowns, show delays, radio interviews, in-store appearances, late arrivals of equipment. The members of Lamb of God and their handful of assistants keep their cool with fluent wit, easygoing camaraderie, and unabashed romanticism.

Scrabble is experiencing a renaissance. The younger generation have rediscovered the game online - through the copyright busting Scrabulous - and they're having night after night on the tiles. Alan Yentob sets out to discover why the word game leaves us spellbound, tracing its surprising history, meeting the American tournament Word Freaks, and paying a visit to the SAS-style training camp that the Nigerian government trains their players at.

A straight 8 film by Ben Richardson, Nick Rutter & Noah Rutter

A young English banker has a curious encounter with a young homeless woman.

Summertime in suburbia and Emma is bored. Dad is no help and neither are the local kids. With the arrival of a new neighbour she finds friendship in a world of magic, music and milkshakes.

Live performance from the reformed punk pioneers, recorded at the Manchester Academy in 2004 and featuring classic tracks such as 'New Rose' and 'Smash It Up'. Setlist celebrates the 25th anniversary of the 1979 release of the seminal Damned album, Machine Gun Etiquette.

Can the time travelling community of Damanhur prevent human extinction? Could Nosebleed, an unmade movie by Jackie Chan, have prevented the 9/11 attacks? Can we defeat the Enemy of Mankind armed only with copies of Anne of Green Gables and Dr Xavier Crement's Asshole trilogy? All is revealed in Ken Campbell's brilliant one-man comedy show. In this, the penultimate one-man show by maverick comedian, playwright and director Ken Campbell (1941-2008), Ken talks about the mysteries of quantum physics, the multiverse and time travel, the significance of Jackie Chan and Anne of Green Gables, and why he doesn't believe in anything but supposes lots. And why everybody you know is some kind of arsehole. This unique film was made in 2004 at his home and environs in Loughton and Epping Forest, Essex. Written and performed by Ken Campbell, filmed by Leon Hatcher, edited by John Cattle, produced and (sort of) directed by James Nye.

The epic plot saw Sandra fall into a coma, prompting the rest of the original team (joined by George and Sandra’s children) to set off to Azerbaijan to fulfill her dream of helping an orphanage there.

Dangerous investigates the arson murder of a former lotto winner who is burned to death while drunk in a locked room.

Petra Joy was a feminist pornographer, charging a movement in Europe as women gained directorial power and perspectives in adult cinema. She documented the moment with interviews, behind the scenes, and also gave a platform to other alternative directors through the “HerPorn” DVD compilations.

15-year-old Davie Balfour is poised to receive a vast inheritance when he's lured onto a cargo ship, knocked unconscious, and kidnapped by his malevolent uncle Ebenezer, who devises a scheme to sell him into slavery. But Davie's unforeseen rescue at the hands of a Scottish rogue, Alan Breck, leaves them racing across the Scottish moors, with English bounty hunters in hot pursuit.

The film follows the travels and accounts of Mark Chapman (Jonas Ball) and gives the watcher an insight into his mind. It starts with him in Hawaii and how he does not fit in with anyone including his job; family; friends etc. He says he is searching for a purpose in his life and that it has no direction. He seeks refuge in the public library where he finds the book, 'The Catcher in the Rye'. He becomes obsessed with the book and believes that he himself is the protaganist in the book, Holden Caulfield. He believes the ideas in the book reflect his own personal life and how he does not fit in anywhere and he reads it constantly. He then finds another book in the library about The Beatles singer John Lennon and begins a personal hatred for him.

John, lonely and living in London, unexpectedly meets outlandish druggie skinhead Byron, and suddenly, John's life turns to wacky. When Byron takes him to Boys Galore, a gay escort agency, John is introduced to wealthy American Bad Daddy, who hires John on the spot. But the hovering presence of a strange and sinister Ripper, another rent boy, threatens derail the evening of fun in this gay thriller comedy.

Alan Sinclair aspires to be a human popsicle, literally. For this film is about the weird and wacky world of cryonics. Instead of burial or cremation get yourself put in a freezer, wait a few hundred years, get defrosted and off you go. Just keep your fingers crossed there's not a power cut.

An independent feature, 12 years in the making, by Pieter Van Deusen in the mill towns and on the moorlands of northern England. Tom, a playwright whose wife has locked him out of the house, now lives in his garden shed. He has been trying to finish a play that is opening that very night, a play about a cowardly knight of local legend--Old Lord Netherby--whose spirit resides in Purgatory.

A group of historians and archaeologists prepare a Tudor feast as it would have been over 400 years ago, including the use of period clothes, recipes from the era, food sourced from the land and the absence of modern conveniences.

A wind turbine development threatens a hunting estate in the Scottish Highlands.

Documentary on Tim Wynde made by a British television company shortly after the first broadcast of 'AD/BC.' However, owing to a lengthy legal dispute between Wynde and his lyricist Soloman Homerton, it was never shown on UK TV. This cut down version was aired in Spain in the mid-80s.

Plagued by endless visions and nightmares, Jenny Adams suspects that, as a child, she was responsible for the brutal murder of her own mother.

The popular Arnold Wesker play filmed at the Bristol Old Vic.

Front man Dee Snider and the hair-metal brood known as Twisted Sister rock a packed house full of faithful fans with this 2004 London performance, delivering headbanging renditions of all of their biggest hits and fan favorites. The set list includes "What You Don't Know (Sure Can Hurt You)," "The Kids Are Back," "Like a Knife in the Back," "The Fire Still Burns," "I Wanna Rock" and, of course, the unforgettable anthem "We're Not Gonna Take It."

A documentary on "The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp."

Reporters Mariusz Pilis and Marcin Mamon travel to neighboring Chechnya, one of the most dangerous places on earth, to report on what life is like after more than a decade of Chechen terrorism and Russian repression. Filmed over the course of nine months, the film reveals that what started as a separatist movement in 1994 has now become synonymous with terrorism.