Terry Wogan presents a compilation programme celebrating the unique talent of Arthur Lowe. Featuring interviews with those who knew him, and footage from both his classic comedy performances and his many straight roles.
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Terry Wogan presents a compilation programme celebrating the unique talent of Arthur Lowe. Featuring interviews with those who knew him, and footage from both his classic comedy performances and his many straight roles.
A documentary about the decisions parents made in evacuating their children out of harm's way (the Nazis), and being forced to stay behind, the parents realize that this may possibly be the last time they will see their loved ones.
The sudden death of a rich woman's son paves way for her relatives to exploit her. However, when a young man enters her life, she finds a ray of hope as he vows to protect her.
Three drama students revive three witches, who want to open a gate to hell; Will Spanner and Kelly get involved, while Detectives Lutz and Garner investigate.
An American attack submarine on patrol in the South China Sea intercepts an SOS from a Russian freighter. The freighter was attacked by unidentified frogmen on the high seas and high grade plutonium was stolen. The FBI suspects this attack is the work of Darian Cain, a former Russian Commando turned terrorist. When a special anti-terrorist team is formed, Special Operations (SPECOP) Commander Webb Buckley and navy seal Bone Conn are chosen to join their FBI counterparts special agent William Murphy and special agent Morgan Daniels and an uneasy alliance is struck between the military and the FBI. Their mission: to capture Darian Cain and bring him back to the U.S. to face justice and to recover the high grade plutonium.
Mafioso Michele Verrio has both a wife and a long-suffering mistress, Lunetta.
After a year of separation, Antoine decides to go to his former girlfriend Julie, as if they had never left. Antoine will do everything to seduce Julie again, despite their breakup.
Belinda Douglas is a famous politician who is attacking the government on not being transparent enough. She's married to Jack, but has not always been faithful. Today she can't resist the urge either and picks up Jenna as one-night-stand. The next day Belinda has to leave early and tells Jenna where to find the keys. But the keys accidentally fall behind the door and Jenna is locked inside. As time is running out, she decides to check some personal belongings of Belinda. Then fate strikes.
This European take on twenty-something woe introduces viewers to Jorge, a self-help author suffering from writer's block who thinks he may be gay. Living with Jorge is Marta, a bisexual who wants to have a baby. Included in their circle are Eva, Jorge's ex, and Alberto, a gay man Jorge meets at a New Age healing session presided over by Ines. A number of encounters ensue, Marta moves in with the piggish Mario, and Jorge decides to write a book based on his own experiences.
The body of a local teenage girl named Annie was found by an idyllic pond in the woods. The suspect list grows indefinitely. However, as Inspector Sejer and his partner Jacob Skarre question the girl's family, and others, they realize she has a shocking secret she shared with no one.
Mary is convinced that her husband Henry is trying to kill her! For the last few days he changed a lot and became aggressive, shouting obscenities and menacing her. Mary found comfort in the hands of Carl, the husband of her friend Dolores who happens to be out on vacation. After Henry leaves for god knows where, Mary calls Carl and asks him to come by, which he agreed to do as he was aware that she is frightened. A few minutes later the door bell rings but its not Carl but his wife Dolores. It looks like she decided to come back sooner...
Steven Spielberg and Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation present interviews with survivors of the Nazi death camps in Hungary. Their tragic testimonies are illustrated through newsreels from the era and archival photos.
A busy businessman encounters a solitary traffic light in the middle of nowhere. As his temper and technology fail him, he sees red and enters a battle of wits with the mysterious light.
After the death of his sister, Periyakaruppu vows not to marry and raise his niece, Poomayil. When Poomayil grows up, she finds out about her uncle's sacrifices for her and decides to marry him.
At its first performance outside of the U.K., Coldplay plays an intimate, understated set — approximately one month before the release of its smash "Parachutes" debut album in June 2000. It’s a rare, valuable look at the band moments before it became a global phenomenon.
A behind-the-scenes documentary on the popular ITV firefighting drama series, London's Burning. Including the best moments from the first 11 series, and a sneak peak on the set of some of the 12th with interviews from the cast and crew.
A tragicomic short film imbued with magical realism that revolves around the theme of death, focusing specifically on the Mexican people's bond with the departed.
Part of the puppet film trilogy "Gabbage Head," the film features the main character - the stubborn and selfish peasant Saamuel - and his loyal partner Pink Piglet. The actions take place in Internet, into where Saamuel and his Piglet get by accident. Saamuel understands the importance of information and starts do deal with it.
An innovative docu-drama short revealing intimate tales of the many romantic encounters that blossomed amongst scholars during their study in the famous old British Library. This film is shot in the stunning circular reading room, and the production is given unique access to the dramatic closing of the room while removal men briskly pack away the antiquated books once thumbed by the likes of George Bernard Shaw and Karl Marx.
Threshold to the Kingdom sees artist Mark Wallinger play with the symbolism signalling a change in being. Slow motion footage of people arriving at London City Airport shows them delivered from the stateless limbo of international airspace to the sovereignty of UK soil and all it represents.
Sexy Sunita, who hails from a rich family, is mesmerised by Gopal's music. Their interactions over time compel them to believe they were lovers in their past lives.
This short video uses surveillance-type images of men standing on an anonymous street corner as the conceptual foreground for an examination of the relationship between fathers and sons.
What stops two people from being together? A third one. What stops one person from fighting for another? Nothing. Pedro lives in the suburbs, where he works with his father in a garage. Everyday he takes the bus downtown where he goes to school and meets his friends. It's summertime and they all go down to the river where they spend their free time or even their school time. Among joints, motorbike riding and swimming, everything seems to go well with this group of friends, until the moment when Pedro and his best friend find out that both of them like the same girl. Pedro finds himself inside a downward spiral, where everything around him seems to fall apart. Like a magnet attracts the iron, Pedro seems to attract problems, from the school until his relationship with his parents. This is the story of Pedro, who by having his head being pushed down so much learned how to breathe under water.
Emma and Louise meet at a nightclub. They enjoy each other, have a drink and end their evening in bed. This is when the question of protected sex arises...
An erotic horror film about a "corpse" that can only be seen by couple Kenichi and Mayumi, who have just moved into a new house. The married couple are troubled by the strange smell of the garbage bags left behind by the previous occupant. However, Mayumi is somehow drawn to it...
Short film by Marian Dora
A dramatized approach to the Argentinian writer Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986) through the recreation of some of his works and the staging of various aspects of his thought and his life.
BBC Choice documentary the story of The Stranglers, charting the band's rise to fame in the 1980s to present day. Despite the departure of lead singer and frontman Hugh Cornwell in 1990, the band continue to perform successfully to thousands of fans all over the world. Interviews with members of The Stranglers. Presented by jazz singer and art critic, George Melly.
A film student making a documentary about Hollywood prostitutes accidentally kills her first interviewee and creates a fake serial killer to cover up the murder.
A somewhat complex story, several characters from the town, the man who has animals, a jealous man who is a father and has a shepherd who falls in love with his daughter, and in the middle of a party, Andean things are shown that we often don't know, such as the way of making chicha de jora, patasca, mondongo, etc.
Bára and Luboš's marriage has long been dead, and her husband is living with another woman. Nevertheless, Barbora wants to adopt a child from a children's home. She asks her husband to support her and go through the adoption process with her. That is the only thing she still asks of him. But her husband hesitates, still remembering how Bára once had an abortion against his will. Nevertheless, he eventually agrees, and so the couple arrives at the children's home to pick up their son. Bohoušek is cute and spontaneous. The grandmother immediately takes to the boy, but Bára struggles with her emotional problems. Despite everything, she still loves her husband. The question remains whether she wants to use the child mainly to solve her loneliness...
November, 1999, Margaret Cho is home in San Francisco at the Warfield Theater. Cho structures her monologue loosely on her professional life's trajectory: doing stand-up, cast in an ABC-TV sitcom, losing 30 pounds in two weeks for the part, the show's cancellation, a descent into booze, pills, and self-loathing, and a resurrection into her own voice, her own shape, and being the one she wants.
01 (sic) 02 Eyeless 03 No Life 04 Eeyore 05 Liberate 06 Me Inside 07 Purity 08 Prosthetics 09 Wait and Bleed 10 Spit It Out 11 Get This 12 Surfacing
Bone tells the story of four friends who get caught up in a crooked venture to transport illegally-obtained genetic material across national borders.
The second installment in the horror series directed and written by Junji Inagawa, the "preacher of the spirit world. The latest true ghost story, experienced by Inagawa Junji himself, is recreated in this drama.
Ernst Busch, singer and actor, was a political artist. For the 20th anniversary of his death on June 8, 2000, Peter Voigt embarked on an unusual search for clues. The focus of his film about the idiosyncratic artist is not biographical details, but the central conflicts in the field of tension between politics and culture that determined Busch's life.
Three stories set on Brazil countryside. In Foice, a weeder becomes head of his group and awakes the envy of his best friend. In Veneno, a cowboy cannot sleep, waiting for the revenge from a enemy of the past. And in Machado, a quiet and rude rose maker decides to end his wife's joy of living.
After twenty years of happy marriage, a devoted housewife is determined to get something off her chest.
Hong Kong movie
To earn money for her daughter’s education, Kei throws herself into her regular delivery runs. When she learns that the driver who did this job before her was Yuta, an old gang buddy, she decides to pay him a visit. Misaki, jealous of their reunion, challenges Kei to a showdown on the road. Before long, the two find themselves caught up in a major incident…
Two young girls find out, in the hard way, that climb mountains isn't all that fun that people often say it is.
Family tension runs high when four grown siblings reunite at their elderly mother’s home. When the mother reveals that she might sell off the estate, the announcement stirs up painful memories and uncovers a long-buried secret.
A troubled teenager joins a group of rock climbers and is quickly forced into a death-defying adventure.
After 5 years, a man returns to his hometown with the intention of taking revenge on those who drove him out and running a recovering shipyard.
Based on Yotsuya Kaidan, a classic japanese ghost story.
A comic mastermind who influenced generations of comedians, Jonathan Winters has been making audiences laugh for nearly half a century. This retrospective presents rare footage of Winters -- from his first TV series ("The Jonathan Winters Show" in 1956) to appearances on dozens of talk and variety shows and in numerous feature films. Those interviewed include Robin Williams and singer Andy Williams, on whose show Winters was a frequent guest.
Take a thrilling journey to four of the greatest national treasures of Europe and Africa. Walk along the misty shores of Ireland's rocky northern coast to experience the legendary Giant's Causeway. Search for elusive mountain gorillas in Uganda's lush Impenetrable Forest. Climb the stunning snow-capped peaks of Italy's timeless Alps to discover the regal ibex in Gran Paradiso National Park. Behold the spectacle of thundering herds of migrating wildebeest, zebra and gazelle on Africa's fabled Serengeti Plains.
A story about the story of the poor man (Hassan) who learns about the beautiful girl (toy) by coming to his house, imagining that she is her uncle's house, and was surprised at his presence in the house where he rented it. A love story and get married, but lucky enough to be discovered by a film producer and become a famous star, so everything changes.
Crude animation by Bill Plympton. How the expressionist painter met his demise.
The elderly millionaire Shaker feels that his end is near during his treatment in Germany, and he tries to search for his daughter, whom he had from an illegitimate relationship. Hamido takes advantage of this opportunity and introduces Manal as his lost daughter.
Shot at the Atlantis Hotel in the Bahamas, Gloria Estefan's Live in Atlantis features the hits "Coming Out of the Dark," "Oye," and "Mi Tierra." The DVD also contains medleys of such hits as "Conga/1-2-3/Get on Your Feet/Rhythm Is Gonna Get You" and songs from the Grammy Award-winning CD "Alma Caribeña," featuring performances by Celia Cruz, Marc Anthony, and José Feliciano. Also included are Gloria's bio, discography, and a photo gallery.
Film adaptation of Junji Inagawa's novel of the same title. A series of nightmares, the mysterious death of a pet, and other terrifying events occur to a beautiful young girl. They were triggered by a gruesome murder that took place 15 years ago.