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A Kid for Two Farthings (1955) #1095 Remove Directed by Carol Reed. With Celia Johnson, Diana Dors, David Kossoff, Joe Robinson. In a lower-class London community of small shops, open-air vendors and flea-marketers, Joe, a small boy, lives with his mother, Joanne, who works in and rooms above the Kandinsky tailor shop. Joe is innocently and earnestly determined to help realize the wishes of his poor, hard-working neighbours. Hearing from Mr. Kandinsky the tale that a captured unicorn will grant any wish, Joe uses his accumulated pocket change to buy a kid with an emerging horn, believing it to be a unicorn. His subsequent efforts to make dreams come true exemplify the power of hope and will amidst hardship. |
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Hidden Figures (2016) #1064 Remove Directed by Theodore Melfi. With Taraji P. Henson, Octavia Spencer, Janelle Monáe, Kevin Costner. The story of a team of female African-American mathematicians who served a vital role in NASA during the early years of the U.S. space program. |
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Echelon Conspiracy (2009) #285 Remove Directed by Greg Marcks. With Shane West, Edward Burns, Ving Rhames, Jonathan Pryce. At first, the strange phone messages promised great wealth. Soon, though, government agents pursue the young engineer receiving them around the world. aka The Gift |
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The Silent Child (2017) #1102 Remove Directed by Chris Overton. With Rachel Fielding, Philip York, Rachel Shenton, Maisie Sly. A deaf 4-year-old girl named Libby lives in a world of silence until a caring social worker teaches her to use sign language to communicate. Short film - 20 mins. |
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The Dark Knight (2008) #72 Remove Directed by Christopher Nolan. With Christian Bale, Heath Ledger, Aaron Eckhart, Michael Caine. When the menace known as the Joker wreaks havoc and chaos on the people of Gotham, the caped crusader must come to terms with one of the greatest psychological tests of his ability to fight injustice. |
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Sea of Love (1989) #148 Remove Directed by Harold Becker. With Al Pacino, Ellen Barkin, John Goodman, Michael Rooker. A detective investigating a series of murders becomes involved with a woman who may be the culprit. |
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Maudie (2016) #1092 Remove Directed by Aisling Walsh. With Sally Hawkins, Ethan Hawke, Zachary Bennett, Gabrielle Rose. An arthritic Nova Scotia woman works as a housekeeper while she hones her skills as an artist and eventually becomes a beloved figure in the community. |
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Chronicle (2012) #93 Remove Directed by Josh Trank. With Dane DeHaan, Alex Russell, Michael B. Jordan, Michael Kelly. Whilst attending a party, three high school friends gain superpowers after making an incredible discovery underground. Soon, though, they find their lives spinning out of control and their bond tested as they embrace their darker sides. |
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The Road to Coronation Street (2010) #690 Remove Directed by Charles Sturridge. With Ann Aris, Lynda Baron, Steven Berkoff, David Dawson. The story of how the 22-year-old Tony Warren conceived, wrote and fought for the record breaking UK TV series Coronation Street (1960). |
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Harold and Maude (1971) #17 Remove Directed by Hal Ashby. With Ruth Gordon, Bud Cort, Vivian Pickles, Cyril Cusack. Young, rich, and obsessed with death, Harold finds himself changed forever when he meets lively septuagenarian Maude at a funeral. |
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Republic of Virtue (2010) #309 Remove Directed by Tim Dunn. With Richard Miles, Simon Russell Beale, Vittorio Colombo, Pierfrancesco Vecchio. How did an insignificant cluster of Latin hill villages on the edge of the civilised world become the greatest empire the world has known? Archaeologist and historian Richard Miles examines the phenomenon of the Roman Republic, from its fratricidal mythical beginnings, with the legend of Romulus and Remus, to the all too real violence of its end, dragged to destruction by war lords like Pompey ... |
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The Story of Gilbert and Sullivan (1953) #1454 Remove The Story of Gilbert and Sullivan: Directed by Sidney Gilliat. With Robert Morley, Maurice Evans, Eileen Herlie, Martyn Green. The common career of W.S. Gilbert,a barrister turned comic writer, and Arthur Sullivan, a classic composer turned converted against his will to light music, who wrote fourteen operettas between 1871 and 1896, to great public acclaim. Added 2nd December 2022 |
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Papillon (2017) #1213 Remove Directed by Michael Noer. With Charlie Hunnam, Rami Malek, Damijan Oklopdzic, Christopher Fairbank, Jason Ryan. Wrongfully convicted for murder, Henri Charriere forms an unlikely relationship with fellow inmate and quirky convicted counterfeiter Louis Dega, in an attempt to escape from the notorious penal colony on Devil's Island. |
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Taboo (2017) #979 Remove Created by Chips Hardy, Tom Hardy, Steven Knight. With Tom Hardy, David Hayman, Jonathan Pryce, Oona Chaplin. Adventurer James Keziah Delaney builds his own shipping empire in the early 1800s. 8x1 hour. BBC. 1814: James Keziah Delaney returns to London from Africa and is encircled by conspiracy, murder and betrayal. |
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Russian Ark (2002) #18 Remove Directed by Aleksandr Sokurov. With Sergey Dreyden, Mariya Kuznetsova, Leonid Mozgovoy, Mikhail Piotrovsky. A 19th century French aristocrat, notorious for his scathing memoirs about life in Russia, travels through the Russian State Hermitage Museum and encounters historical figures from the last 200+ years. |
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Ace in the Hole (1951) #274 Remove Directed by Billy Wilder. With Kirk Douglas, Jan Sterling, Robert Arthur, Porter Hall. A frustrated former big-city journalist now stuck working for an Albuquerque newspaper exploits a story about a man trapped in a cave to re-jump start his career, but the situation quickly escalates into an out-of-control circus. |
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Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time (2010) #35 Remove Directed by Mike Newell. With Jake Gyllenhaal, Gemma Arterton, Ben Kingsley, Alfred Molina. A young fugitive prince and princess must stop a villain who unknowingly threatens to destroy the world with a special dagger that enables the magic sand inside to reverse time. |
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Sunshine on Leith (2013) #267 Remove Directed by Dexter Fletcher. With Paul Brannigan, George MacKay, Kevin Guthrie, Jane Horrocks. Two soldiers return home to Edinburgh to resume their romantic and family lives. 'High' |
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Slumdog Millionaire (2008) #203 Remove Directed by Danny Boyle, Loveleen Tandan. With Dev Patel, Freida Pinto, Saurabh Shukla, Anil Kapoor. A Mumbai teen reflects on his upbringing in the slums when he is accused of cheating on the Indian Version of "Who Wants to be a Millionaire?" |
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Good Night, and Good Luck. (2005) #420 Remove Directed by George Clooney. With David Strathairn, George Clooney, Patricia Clarkson, Jeff Daniels. Broadcast journalist Edward R. Murrow looks to bring down Senator Joseph McCarthy. |
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Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980) #1232 Remove Directed by Irvin Kershner. With Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, Billy Dee Williams. After the Rebels are brutally overpowered by the Empire on the ice planet Hoth, Luke Skywalker begins Jedi training with Yoda, while his friends are pursued by Darth Vader and a bounty hunter named Boba Fett all over the galaxy. |
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Casablanca (1942) #1169 Remove Directed by Michael Curtiz. With Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, Paul Henreid, Claude Rains. A cynical nightclub owner protects an old flame and her husband from Nazis in Morocco. |
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Burke and Hare (2010) #94 Remove Directed by John Landis. With Bill Bailey, Tom Wilkinson, Michael Smiley, Tim Curry. A black comedy about two 19th century grave robbers who find a lucrative business providing cadavers for an Edinburgh medical school. |
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The Beauty of Diagrams (2010) #809 Remove 60mins. Marcus du Sautoy. Including Dark Side of the Moon cover design. | |
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Romeo and Juliet (1966) #620 Remove The Royal Ballet. Directed by Paul Czinner. With Margot Fonteyn, Rudolf Nureyev, David Blair, Desmond Doyle. Choreography by Kenneth MacMillan. |
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Il y a longtemps que je t'aime (2008) #326 Remove Directed by Philippe Claudel. With Kristin Scott Thomas, Elsa Zylberstein, Serge Hazanavicius, Laurent Grévill. A woman struggles to interact with her family and find her place in society after spending fifteen years in prison. aka I've Loved you so Long |
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The Twilight Saga: New Moon (2009) #314 Remove Directed by Chris Weitz. With Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson, Taylor Lautner, Christina Jastrzembska. Edward leaves Bella after an attack that nearly claimed her life, and in her depression she falls into yet another paranormal relationship - this time with werewolf Jacob Black. |
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National Theatre Live: Twelfth Night (2017) #1258 Remove Directed by Simon Godwin. With Adam Best, Oliver Chris, Claire Cordier, Imogen Doel. Tamsin Greig is Malvolia in a new twist on Shakespeare's classic comedy of mistaken identity. A ship is wrecked on the rocks. Viola is washed ashore but her twin brother Sebastian is lost. Determined to survive on her own, she steps out to explore a new land. So begins a whirlwind of mistaken identity and unrequited love. |
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The Pianist (2002) #2 Remove Directed by Roman Polanski. With Adrien Brody, Thomas Kretschmann, Frank Finlay, Emilia Fox. A Polish Jewish musician struggles to survive the destruction of the Warsaw ghetto of World War II. |
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Victor Frankenstein (2015) #1122 Remove Directed by Paul McGuigan. With Daniel Radcliffe, James McAvoy, Jessica Brown Findlay, Andrew Scott. Told from Igor's perspective, we see the troubled young assistant's dark origins, his redemptive friendship with the young medical student Viktor Von Frankenstein, and become eyewitnesses to the emergence of how Frankenstein became the man - and the legend - we know today. |
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La Luna (2011) #449 Remove Directed by Enrico Casarosa. With Krista Sheffler, Tony Fucile, Phil Sheridan. A fable of a young boy who is coming of age in the most peculiar of circumstances. Tonight is the very first time his Papa and Grandpa are taking him to work. In an old wooden boat they row far out to sea, and with no land in sight, they stop and wait. A big surprise awaits the little boy as he discovers his family's most unusual line of work. Should he follow the example of his Papa, or his ... |
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Sorry We Missed You (2019) #1398 Remove Sorry We Missed You: Directed by Ken Loach. With Kris Hitchen, Debbie Honeywood, Rhys Mcgowan, Katie Proctor. Hoping that self-employment through gig economy can solve their financial woes, a hard-up UK delivery driver and his wife struggling to raise a family end up trapped in the vicious circle of this modern-day form of labour exploitation |
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The Joy of Stats (2010) #309 Remove Directed by Dan Hillman. With Hans Rosling, Stephen Emmott, Sep Kamvar, Eileen Magnello. Professor Hans Rosling shares his excitement with statistics, and shows how researchers are handling the modern data deluge. |
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The Last Witness (2018) #1165 Remove Directed by Piotr Szkopiak. With Alex Pettyfer, Robert Wieckiewicz, Talulah Riley, Michael Gambon. An ambitious young journalist uncovers the horrific slaughter of 22,000 Polish officers during the Second World War. A secret that has been kept hidden for far too many years. |
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The Matrix Resurrections (2021) #1431 Remove The Matrix Resurrections: Directed by Lana Wachowski. With Keanu Reeves, Carrie-Anne Moss, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, Jonathan Groff. Return to a world of two realities: one, everyday life; the other, what lies behind it. To find out if his reality is a construct, to truly know himself, Mr. Anderson will have to choose to follow the white rabbit once more |
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Save the Cinema (2022) #1411 Remove Save the Cinema: Directed by Sara Sugarman. With Louisa Cliffe, Krrish Patel, Jonathan Pryce, Beatie Edney. The story of Liz Evans, who lives in Carmarthen South West Wales, who starts a campaign in the 90s to save the Lyric Cinema. |
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Jellyfish (2018) #1221 Remove Directed by James Gardner. With Liv Hill, Sinead Matthews, Cyril Nri, Angus Barnett. A young carer discovers an unlikely talent for stand-up comedy. |
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Now You See Me (2013) #1294 Remove Directed by Louis Leterrier. With Jesse Eisenberg, Common, Mark Ruffalo, Woody Harrelson. An F.B.I. Agent and an Interpol Detective track a team of illusionists who pull off bank heists during their performances, and reward their audiences with the money. |
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100 Feet (2008) #72 Remove Directed by Eric Red. With Famke Janssen, Bobby Cannavale, Ed Westwick, Michael Paré. After Marnie Watson kills her abusive husband in self-defense, she is condemned to house arrest... only to discover that the house is possessed by the enraged and violent spirit of her dead husband. |
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Star Trek (2009) #150 Remove Directed by Jeffrey Abrams. With Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto, Simon Pegg, Leonard Nimoy. The brash James T. Kirk tries to live up to his father's legacy with Commander Spock keeping him in check as a vengeful, time-traveling Romulan creates black holes to destroy the Federation one planet at a time. |
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The Surprise (2015) #986 Remove Directed by Mike van Diem. With Jeroen van Koningsbrugge, Georgina Verbaan, Jan Decleir, Henry Goodman. After both signing an agreement with a company that offers to end their lives when they least expect it, a dejected millionaire and a disheartened young woman fall in love and have to find a way to get out of their binding contracts. aka De surprise |
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La Fille du Regiment (2008) #638 Remove Directed by Gary Halvorson. With Natalie Dessay, Juan Diego Flórez, Felicity Palmer, Alessandro Corbelli. Marie, lost as a baby, was found and raised by the local regiment. Tonio loves her, she loves him, but when her aunt recognizes her, it seems they will never be allowed to be together. Thought to be a better copy than #637 |
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Russian Ark (2002) #18 Remove Directed by Aleksandr Sokurov. With Sergey Dreyden, Mariya Kuznetsova, Leonid Mozgovoy, Mikhail Piotrovsky. A 19th century French aristocrat, notorious for his scathing memoirs about life in Russia, travels through the Russian State Hermitage Museum and encounters historical figures from the last 200+ years. |
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Confessions of a Shopaholic (2009) #152 Remove Directed by Paul Hogan. With Isla Fisher, Hugh Dancy, Krysten Ritter, Joan Cusack. A college grad lands a job as a financial journalist in New York City to support where she nurtures her shopping addiction and falls for a wealthy entrepreneur. |
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The Informant! (2009) #310 Remove Directed by Steven Soderbergh. With Matt Damon, Tony Hale, Patton Oswalt, Lucas McHugh Carroll. The U.S. government decides to go after an agro-business giant with a price-fixing accusation, based on the evidence submitted by their star witness, vice president-turned-informant Mark Whitacre. |
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Watchmen (2009) #11 Remove Directed by Zack Snyder. With Jackie Earle Haley, Patrick Wilson, Carla Gugino, Malin Akerman. In 1985 where former superheroes exist, the murder of a colleague sends active vigilante Rorschach into his own sprawling investigation, uncovering something that could completely change the course of history as we know it. |
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Silver Linings Playbook (2012) #406 Remove Directed by David O. Russell. With Bradley Cooper, Jennifer Lawrence, Robert De Niro, Jacki Weaver. After a stint in a mental institution, former teacher Pat Solitano moves back in with his parents and tries to reconcile with his ex-wife. Things get more challenging when Pat meets Tiffany, a mysterious girl with problems of her own. |
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The Duellists (1977) #46 Remove Directed by Ridley Scott. With Keith Carradine, Harvey Keitel, Albert Finney, Edward Fox. A duel between two feuding Napoleonic officers eventually evolves into a decades-long series of duels, after each bout - for various reasons - ends unresolved. |
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West Side Story (1961) #513 Remove Directed by Jerome Robbins, Robert Wise. With Natalie Wood, George Chakiris, Richard Beymer, Russ Tamblyn. Two youngsters from rival New York City gangs fall in love, but tensions between their respective friends build toward tragedy. |
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The War You Don't See (2010) #296 Remove Directed by Alan Lowery, John Pilger. With Julian Assange, Tony Blair, Wilfred Burchett, George W. Bush. Thought-provoking documentary on war propaganda: how governments manipulate the facts and how most media let them get away with it. |
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Sightseers (2012) #381 Remove Directed by Ben Wheatley. With Alice Lowe, Kenneth Hadley, Steve Oram, Eileen Davies. Chris wants to show girlfriend Tina his world, but events soon conspire against the couple and their dream caravan holiday takes a very wrong turn. |
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The Eichmann Show (2015) #506 Remove Directed by Paul Andrew Williams. With Martin Freeman, Anthony LaPaglia, Rebecca Front, Andy Nyman. Dramatisation of the team hoping to televise the trial of Adolf Eichmann, an infamous nazi responsible for the deaths of millions of Jews. It focuses on Leo Hurwitz, a documentary film-maker and Milton Fruchtman, a producer. |
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FairyTale: A True Story (1997) #1448 Remove FairyTale: A True Story: Directed by Charles Sturridge. With Harvey Keitel, Jason Salkey, Peter O'Toole, Lara Morgan. In 1917, two children take a photograph, which is soon believed by some to be the first scientific evidence of the existence of fairies |
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A Late Quartet (2012) #630 Remove Directed by Yaron Zilberman. With Philip Seymour Hoffman, Christopher Walken, Catherine Keener, Mark Ivanir. Members of a world-renowned string quartet struggle to stay together in the face of death, competing egos and insuppressible lust. |
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Ace in the Hole (1951) #274 Remove Directed by Billy Wilder. With Kirk Douglas, Jan Sterling, Robert Arthur, Porter Hall. A frustrated former big-city journalist now stuck working for an Albuquerque newspaper exploits a story about a man trapped in a cave to re-jump start his career, but the situation quickly escalates into an out-of-control circus. |
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The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1988) #105 Remove Directed by Philip Kaufman. With Daniel Day-Lewis, Juliette Binoche, Lena Olin, Derek de Lint. In 1968, a Czech doctor with an active sex life meets a woman who wants monogamy, and then the Soviet invasion further disrupts their lives. |
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Inescapable (2012) #248 Remove Directed by Ruba Nadda. With Alexander Siddig, Joshua Jackson, Marisa Tomei, Oded Fehr. Years after he left Damascus under suspicious circumstances, Adib Abdel Kareem must confront what he left behind when his daughter goes missing. |
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Mongrels (2010) #367 Remove With Dan Tetsell, Rufus Jones, Katy Brand, Lucy Montgomery. A look into the dysfunctional lives of a group of friends, in a typical American sitcom. But, there's a twist. It is a sort-of spoof of The Muppets, with HBO, UNCENSORED humor, with a lot pop-culture references. If South Park had a kid with Friends and The Muppets, this is it. Season 2 Episode 5 |
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Night Crossing (1982) #443 Remove Directed by Delbert Mann. With John Hurt, Jane Alexander, Doug McKeon, Keith McKeon. Two men want to escape from East Germany (under Communist rule) but they will only go if they can take their families with them. Based on a true story. Disney |
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The Harmony Game (2011) #1389 Remove The Harmony Game: Directed by Jennifer Lebeau. With Paul Simon, Art Garfunkel, Mort Lewis, Roy Halee. 40 years after the release of Bridge Over Troubled Water, Simon, Garfunkel and the principles involved with it reflect on the making of the album | |
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The Oxford Murders (2008) #372 Remove Directed by Álex de la Iglesia. With Elijah Wood, John Hurt, Leonor Watling, Jim Carter. At Oxford University, a professor and a grad student work together to try to stop a potential series of murders seemingly linked by mathematical symbols. |
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Barry Lyndon (1975) #1191 Remove Directed by Stanley Kubrick. With Ryan O'Neal, Marisa Berenson, Patrick Magee, Hardy Krüger. An Irish rogue wins the heart of a rich widow and assumes her dead husband's aristocratic position in 18th-century England. On two disks. |
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David Gilmour at the Albert Hall (2006) #621 Remove *2nd of 3 items in 'single file' disk.* | |
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12 Rounds (2009) #142 Remove Directed by Renny Harlin. With John Cena, Ashley Scott, Aidan Gillen, Steve Harris. Detective Danny Fisher discovers his girlfriend has been kidnapped by a ex-con tied to Fisher's past, and he'll have to successfully complete 12 challenges in order to secure her safe release. |
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Waterloo (1970) #360 Remove Directed by Sergey Bondarchuk. With Rod Steiger, Christopher Plummer, Orson Welles, Jack Hawkins. Facing the decline of everything he has worked to obtain, conqueror Napoleon Bonaparte and his army confront the British at the Battle of Waterloo. |
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The Windermere Children (2020) #1239 Remove Directed by Michael Samuels. With Iain Glen, Romola Garai, Thomas Kretschmann, Tim McInnerny. This is the stark, moving ultimately redemptive story of the bonds these children make with one another, and of how the friendships forged at Windermere become a lifeline to a fruitful future. |
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On Expenses (2010) #677 Remove 1 hour. BBC. Drama about American journalist Heather Brooke's fight for the disclosure of MPs' expenses under the Freedom of Information Act, resulting in one of the defining political scandals of the decade. | |
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Animal Farm (1954) #1272 Remove Directed by Joy Batchelor, John Halas. With Gordon Heath, Maurice Denham. A successful farmyard revolution by the resident animals vs. the farmer goes horribly wrong as the victors create a new tyranny among themselves. |
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G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra (2009) #316 Remove Directed by Stephen Sommers. With Dennis Quaid, Channing Tatum, Marlon Wayans, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje. An elite military unit comprised of special operatives known as G.I. Joe, operating out of The Pit, takes on an evil organization led by a notorious arms dealer. |
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Antichrist (2009) #217 Remove Directed by Lars von Trier. With Willem Dafoe, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Storm Acheche Sahlstrøm. A grieving couple retreat to their cabin in the woods, hoping to repair their broken hearts and troubled marriage. But nature takes its course and things go from bad to worse. |
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Cold Comfort Farm (1995) #317 Remove Directed by John Schlesinger. With Eileen Atkins, Kate Beckinsale, Sheila Burrell, Stephen Fry. In England in the early 1930's, 20 year old Flora Poste, recently orphaned and left with only 100 pounds a year, goes to stay with distant relatives on Cold Comfort Farm. Everyone on the gloomy farm is completely around the twist, but Flora tries to sort everything out... |
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The Spirit of '45 (2013) #425 Remove Directed by Ken Loach. With Winston Churchill, Tony Benn, Clement Attlee, Aneurin Bevan. A documentary on how the spirit of unity, which buoyed Britain during the war years, carried through to create a vision of a fairer, united society. |
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Splinter (2008) #169 Remove Directed by Toby Wilkins. With Shea Whigham, Jill Wagner, Paulo Costanzo, Charles Baker. Trapped in an isolated gas station by a voracious Splinter parasite that transforms its still living victims into deadly hosts, a young couple and an escaped convict must find a way to work together to survive this primal terror. |
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Great Expectations (2011) #358 Remove With Douglas Booth, Jack Roth, Ray Winstone, David Suchet. The orphan Pip becomes a gentleman when his life is transformed by a mystery benefactor. 3x1hour BBC |
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Last of the Proms 2007 (2007) #621 Remove BBC | |
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Manchester by the Sea (2016) #1164 Remove Directed by Kenneth Lonergan. With Casey Affleck, Michelle Williams, Kyle Chandler, Lucas Hedges. A depressed uncle is asked to take care of his teenage nephew after the boy's father dies. |
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Nineteen Eighty-Four (1984) #47 Remove Directed by Michael Radford. With John Hurt, Richard Burton, Suzanna Hamilton, Cyril Cusack. In a totalitarian future society, a man whose daily work is rewriting history tries to rebel by falling in love. |
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The Guilt Trip (2012) #394 Remove Directed by Anne Fletcher. With Barbra Streisand, Seth Rogen, Julene Renee, Zabryna Guevara. As inventor Andy Brewster is about to embark on the road trip of a lifetime, a quick stop at his mom's house turns into an unexpected cross-country voyage with her along for the ride. |
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The Train (1964) #4 Remove Directed by John Frankenheimer, Arthur Penn. With Burt Lancaster, Paul Scofield, Jeanne Moreau, Suzanne Flon. In 1944, a German colonel loads a train with French art treasures to send to Germany. The Resistance must stop it without damaging the cargo. |
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Night Crossing (1982) #443 Remove Directed by Delbert Mann. With John Hurt, Jane Alexander, Doug McKeon, Keith McKeon. Two men want to escape from East Germany (under Communist rule) but they will only go if they can take their families with them. Based on a true story. Disney |
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The Eichmann Show (2015) #506 Remove Directed by Paul Andrew Williams. With Martin Freeman, Anthony LaPaglia, Rebecca Front, Andy Nyman. Dramatisation of the team hoping to televise the trial of Adolf Eichmann, an infamous nazi responsible for the deaths of millions of Jews. It focuses on Leo Hurwitz, a documentary film-maker and Milton Fruchtman, a producer. |
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The Return (2003) #138 Remove Directed by Andrey Zvyagintsev. With Vladimir Garin, Ivan Dobronravov, Konstantin Lavronenko, Nataliya Vdovina. In the Russian wilderness, two brothers face a range of new, conflicting emotions when their father - a man they know only through a single photograph - resurfaces. |
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West Side Story (1961) #1299 Remove Directed by Jerome Robbins, Robert Wise. With Natalie Wood, George Chakiris, Richard Beymer, Russ Tamblyn. Two youngsters from rival New York City gangs fall in love, but tensions between their respective friends build toward tragedy. Courtesy of The Daily Mail. |
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Jonathan Creek (2010) #162 Remove With Alan Davies, Caroline Quentin, Stuart Milligan, Julia Sawalha. Working from his home in a converted windmill, Jonathan Creek is a magician with a natural ability for solving puzzles. He soon puts this ability to the use of solving impossible crimes and mysterious murders. Easter Special |
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District 13: Ultimatum (2009) #141 Remove Directed by Patrick Alessandrin. With Cyril Raffaelli, David Belle, Philippe Torreton, Daniel Duval. Damien and Leito return to District 13 on a mission to bring peace to the troubled sector that is controlled by five different gang bosses, before the city's secret services take drastic measures to solve the problem. |
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1,000 Times Good Night (2013) #496 Remove Directed by Erik Poppe. With Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Juliette Binoche, Maria Doyle Kennedy, Eve Macklin. Rebecca is one of the world's top war photographers. She must weather a major emotional storm when her husband refuses to put up with her dangerous life any longer. He and their young daughters need Rebecca, who, however, loves both her family and her work... |
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Hanna (2011) #116 Remove Directed by Joe Wright. With Saoirse Ronan, Cate Blanchett, Eric Bana, Vicky Krieps. A sixteen-year-old girl who was raised by her father to be the perfect assassin is dispatched on a mission across Europe, tracked by a ruthless intelligence agent and her operatives. |
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The Marvellous World of Roald Dahl (2016) #576 Remove Directed by Andrew Thompson. With Robert Lindsay, Quentin Blake, Winston Churchill, Chantal Coady. Fighter pilot, inventor, spy - the life of Roald Dahl is often stranger than fiction. From crashing his plane over Africa to hobnobbing in Hollywood and his remarkable encounters with everyone from Walt Disney to President Roosevelt - this is the story of his greatest adventures and how his real-life escapades find expression in his most famous books, from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory to ... 60mins. |
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12 Rounds (2009) #142 Remove Directed by Renny Harlin. With John Cena, Ashley Scott, Aidan Gillen, Steve Harris. Detective Danny Fisher discovers his girlfriend has been kidnapped by a ex-con tied to Fisher's past, and he'll have to successfully complete 12 challenges in order to secure her safe release. |
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Zack and Miri Make a Porno (2008) #191 Remove Directed by Kevin Smith. With Seth Rogen, Elizabeth Banks, Craig Robinson, Gerry Bednob. Lifelong platonic friends Zack and Miri look to solve their respective cash-flow problems by making an adult film together. As the cameras roll, however, the duo begin to sense that they may have more feelings for each other than they previously thought. |
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Republic of Virtue (2010) #309 Remove Directed by Tim Dunn. With Richard Miles, Simon Russell Beale, Vittorio Colombo, Pierfrancesco Vecchio. How did an insignificant cluster of Latin hill villages on the edge of the civilised world become the greatest empire the world has known? Archaeologist and historian Richard Miles examines the phenomenon of the Roman Republic, from its fratricidal mythical beginnings, with the legend of Romulus and Remus, to the all too real violence of its end, dragged to destruction by war lords like Pompey ... |
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The White Crow (2018) #1345 Remove Directed by Ralph Fiennes. With Oleg Ivenko, Ralph Fiennes, Louis Hofmann, Adèle Exarchopoulos. The story of Rudolf Nureyev's defection to the West. |
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FairyTale: A True Story (1997) #1448 Remove FairyTale: A True Story: Directed by Charles Sturridge. With Harvey Keitel, Jason Salkey, Peter O'Toole, Lara Morgan. In 1917, two children take a photograph, which is soon believed by some to be the first scientific evidence of the existence of fairies |
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Flawless (2007) #222 Remove Directed by Michael Radford. With Demi Moore, Michael Caine, Lambert Wilson, Nathaniel Parker. Set in 1960 London, where a soon to retire caretaker convinces a glass-ceiling constrained American executive to help him steal a handful of diamonds from their employer, the London Diamond Corporation. |
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The Number 23 (2007) #66 Remove Directed by Joel Schumacher. With Jim Carrey, Virginia Madsen, Logan Lerman, Danny Huston. Walter Sparrow becomes obsessed with a novel that he believes was written about him. As his obsession increases, more and more similarities seem to arise. |
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The Final Destination (2009) #216 Remove Directed by David R. Ellis. With Nick Zano, Krista Allen, Andrew Fiscella, Bobby Campo. After a young man's premonition of a deadly race-car crash helps saves the lives of his peers, Death sets out to collect those who evaded their end. |
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Halloween II (2009) #316 Remove Directed by Rob Zombie. With Scout Taylor-Compton, Tyler Mane, Malcolm McDowell, Sheri Moon Zombie. Laurie Strode struggles to come to terms with her brother Michael's deadly return to Haddonfield, Illinois; meanwhile, Michael prepares for another reunion with his sister. |
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Tannhäuser (2008) #601 Remove Directed by Patrick Buttmann. With Robert Gambill, Camilla Nylund, Waltraud Meier, Roman Trekel. Opera. Wagner. Festspielhaus, Baden-Baden, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. | |
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The Train (1964) #4 Remove Directed by John Frankenheimer, Arthur Penn. With Burt Lancaster, Paul Scofield, Jeanne Moreau, Suzanne Flon. In 1944, a German colonel loads a train with French art treasures to send to Germany. The Resistance must stop it without damaging the cargo. |
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Royal Shakespeare Company: Hamlet (2016) #1284 Remove Directed by Simon Godwin. With Paapa Essiedu, Tanya Moodie, Clarence Smith, Ewart James Walters. Hamlet has the world at his feet. Young, wealthy and living a hedonistic life studying abroad. Then word reaches him that his father is dead. Returning home he finds his world is utterly changed, his certainties smashed and his home a foreign land. Struggling to understand his place in a new world order he faces a stark choice. Submit, or rage against the injustice of his new reality. Simon Godwin (The Two Gentlemen of Verona 2014) directs Paapa Essiedu as Hamlet in Shakespeare's searing tragedy. As relevant today as when it was written, Hamlet confronts each of us with the mirror of our own mortality in an imperfect world. |
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The Secret Life of Chaos (2010) #677 Remove 1 hour. BBC. Chaos theory has a bad name, conjuring up images of unpredictable weather, economic crashes and science gone wrong. But there is a fascinating and hidden side to Chaos, one that scientists are only now beginning to understand. | |
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Old Jews Telling Jokes (2009) #367 Remove An online TV show which features Jewish people over the age of 60 telling his or her favorite joke. episodes 1,2 |
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Hamlet (2009) #199 Remove Directed by Gregory Doran. With David Tennant, Patrick Stewart, Penny Downie, Oliver Ford Davies. The RSC puts a modern spin on Shakespeare's Hamlet in this filmed-for-television version of their stage production. The Prince of Denmark seeks vengeance after his father is murdered and his mother marries the murderer. |
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The Snowman (1982) #110 Remove Directed by Dianne Jackson, Jimmy T. Murakami. With David Bowie, Raymond Briggs. On Christmas Eve, a young boy builds a snowman that comes to life and takes him to the North Pole to meet Santa Clause. |
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The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas (1982) #130 Remove Directed by Colin Higgins. With Burt Reynolds, Dolly Parton, Dom DeLuise, Charles Durning. A town's sheriff and regular patron of a historical whorehouse fights to keep it running when a TV preacher targets it as the Devil's playhouse. |
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Kubo and the Two Strings (2016) #1020 Remove Directed by Travis Knight. With Charlize Theron, Art Parkinson, Matthew McConaughey, Ralph Fiennes. A young boy named Kubo must locate a magical suit of armour worn by his late father in order to defeat a vengeful spirit from the past. |
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Closed Circuit (2013) #259 Remove Directed by John Crowley. With Eric Bana, Rebecca Hall, Jim Broadbent, Ciarán Hinds. A high-profile terrorism case unexpectedly binds together two ex-lovers on the defense team - testing the limits of their loyalties and placing their lives in jeopardy. |
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World on Fire (2019) #1223 Remove With Jonah Hauer-King, Julia Brown, Helen Hunt, Sean Bean. WWII drama centered on the lives of ordinary people affected by the war. BBC. Series 1. 7x1 hour episodes. |
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The King's Choice (2016) #1074 Remove Directed by Erik Poppe. With Jesper Christensen, Anders Baasmo Christiansen, Karl Markovics, Tuva Novotny. On the 9th of April 1940, the German war machine arrives in the city of Oslo. The Norwegian King faces a choice that will change his country forever. aka Kongens nei |
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Mother and Child (2009) #123 Remove Directed by Rodrigo García. With Naomi Watts, Annette Bening, Kerry Washington, Alexandria M. Salling. A drama centered around three women: A 50-year-old woman, the daughter she gave up for adoption 35 years ago, and an African American woman looking to adopt a child of her own. |
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Brideshead Revisited (2008) #1111 Remove Directed by Julian Jarrold. With Matthew Goode, Patrick Malahide, Hayley Atwell, Thomas Morrison. A poignant story of forbidden love and the loss of innocence set in England prior to the Second World War. |
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Fame (2009) #215 Remove Directed by Kevin Tancharoen. With Kelsey Grammer, Bebe Neuwirth, Megan Mullally, Kay Panabaker. An updated version of the musical Fame (1980), which centered on the students of the New York Academy of Performing Arts. |
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The Pianist (2002) #2 Remove Directed by Roman Polanski. With Adrien Brody, Thomas Kretschmann, Frank Finlay, Emilia Fox. A Polish Jewish musician struggles to survive the destruction of the Warsaw ghetto of World War II. |
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Ida (2013) #1309 Remove Directed by Pawel Pawlikowski. With Agata Kulesza, Agata Trzebuchowska, Dawid Ogrodnik, Jerzy Trela. A novice nun about to take her vows uncovers a family secret dating back to the German occupation. |
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Great Expectations (2011) #358 Remove With Douglas Booth, Jack Roth, Ray Winstone, David Suchet. The orphan Pip becomes a gentleman when his life is transformed by a mystery benefactor. 3x1hour BBC |
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Ophelia (2018) #1388 Remove Ophelia: Directed by Claire McCarthy. With Daisy Ridley, Mia Quiney, Calum O'Rourke, Nathaniel Parker. A reimagining of Hamlet, told from Ophelia's perspective |
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The Return (2003) #138 Remove Directed by Andrey Zvyagintsev. With Vladimir Garin, Ivan Dobronravov, Konstantin Lavronenko, Nataliya Vdovina. In the Russian wilderness, two brothers face a range of new, conflicting emotions when their father - a man they know only through a single photograph - resurfaces. |
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Veronika Decides to Die (2009) #34 Remove Directed by Emily Young. With Sarah Michelle Gellar, Jonathan Tucker, Erika Christensen, Florencia Lozano. After a frantic suicide attempt, Veronika awakens inside a mysterious mental asylum. Under the supervision of an unorthodox psychiatrist who specializes in controversial treatment, Veronika learns that she has only weeks to live. |
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Cherry Tree Lane (2010) #376 Remove Directed by Paul Andrew Williams. With Rachael Blake, Tom Butcher, Jumayn Hunter, Ashley Chin. A couple is terrorized by a gang who is hunting their son. |
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The Mystery of Van Gogh's Ear (2016) #578 Remove Directed by Jack Macinnes. With Jeremy Paxman, Bernadette Murphy. Jeremy Paxman joins forces with 'art sleuth' Bernadette Murphy to try and solve one of the greatest and bloodiest mysteries of the art world - why did Vincent Van Gogh cut off his own ear in December 1888? 60mins. Jeremy Paxman. BBC. |
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Boychoir (2014) #1083 Remove Directed by François Girard. With Dustin Hoffman, Kathy Bates, Eddie Izzard, Kevin McHale. Stet, a troubled and angry 11-year-old orphan from a small Texas town, ends up at a Boy Choir school back East after the death of his single mom. Completely out of his element, he finds himself in a battle of wills with a demanding Choir Master who recognizes a unique talent in this young boy as he pushes him to discover his creative heart and soul in music. aka The Choir |
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The Mystery of Van Gogh's Ear (2016) #578 Remove Directed by Jack Macinnes. With Jeremy Paxman, Bernadette Murphy. Jeremy Paxman joins forces with 'art sleuth' Bernadette Murphy to try and solve one of the greatest and bloodiest mysteries of the art world - why did Vincent Van Gogh cut off his own ear in December 1888? 60mins. Jeremy Paxman. BBC. |
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Far Cry (2008) #147 Remove Directed by Uwe Boll. With Til Schweiger, Emmanuelle Vaugier, Natalia Avelon, Udo Kier. An ex-special forces soldier turned boatman is hired by a journalist to investigate a top-secret military base on a nearby island. |
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Peterloo (2018) #1371 Remove Peterloo: Directed by Mike Leigh. With Rory Kinnear, Maxine Peake, Pearce Quigley, David Moorst. The story of the 1819 Peterloo Massacre where British forces attacked a peaceful pro-democracy rally in Manchester |
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Abigail's Party (1977) #243 Remove Directed by Mike Leigh. With Alison Steadman, Tim Stern, Janine Duvitski, John Salthouse. A TV play based on the Hampstead Theatre production. Beverly has invited her new neighbours, Angela and Tony, over for drinks. She has also asked her divorced neighbour, Sue, because Sue's fifteen year-old daughter, Abigail, was holding a party in their house. Beverly's husband, Lawrence comes home late from work, just before the guests arrive. The gathering starts off in a stiff insensitive ... |
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The Harmony Game (2011) #1389 Remove The Harmony Game: Directed by Jennifer Lebeau. With Paul Simon, Art Garfunkel, Mort Lewis, Roy Halee. 40 years after the release of Bridge Over Troubled Water, Simon, Garfunkel and the principles involved with it reflect on the making of the album | |
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Finding Vivian Maier (2013) #487 Remove Directed by John Maloof, Charlie Siskel. With Vivian Maier, John Maloof, Daniel Arnaud, Simon Amédé. A documentary on the late Vivian Maier, a nanny whose previously unknown cache of 100,000 photographs earned her a posthumous reputation as one of the most accomplished street photographers. |
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The Reluctant Fundamentalist (2012) #264 Remove Directed by Mira Nair. With Riz Ahmed, Liev Schreiber, Kiefer Sutherland, Kate Hudson. A young Pakistani man is chasing corporate success on Wall Street. He finds himself embroiled in a conflict between his American Dream, a hostage crisis, and the enduring call of his family's homeland. |
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The Avengers (2012) #236 Remove Directed by Joss Whedon. With Robert Downey Jr., Chris Evans, Scarlett Johansson, Jeremy Renner. Earth's mightiest heroes must come together and learn to fight as a team if they are to stop the mischievous Loki and his alien army from enslaving humanity. aka Avengers Assemble |
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The Descent: Part 2 (2009) #308 Remove Directed by Jon Harris. With Michael J. Reynolds, Shauna Macdonald, Jessika Williams, Douglas Hodge. Refusing to believe her story about cave-dwelling monsters, the sole survivor of a spelunking exploration gone horribly wrong is forced to follow the authorities back into the caves where something awaits. |
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Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011) #386 Remove Directed by Tomas Alfredson. With Gary Oldman, Colin Firth, Tom Hardy, Mark Strong. In the bleak days of the Cold War, espionage veteran George Smiley is forced from semi-retirement to uncover a Soviet agent within MI6. |
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A Kid for Two Farthings (1955) #1095 Remove Directed by Carol Reed. With Celia Johnson, Diana Dors, David Kossoff, Joe Robinson. In a lower-class London community of small shops, open-air vendors and flea-marketers, Joe, a small boy, lives with his mother, Joanne, who works in and rooms above the Kandinsky tailor shop. Joe is innocently and earnestly determined to help realize the wishes of his poor, hard-working neighbours. Hearing from Mr. Kandinsky the tale that a captured unicorn will grant any wish, Joe uses his accumulated pocket change to buy a kid with an emerging horn, believing it to be a unicorn. His subsequent efforts to make dreams come true exemplify the power of hope and will amidst hardship. |
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Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones (2002) #1235 Remove Directed by George Lucas. With Hayden Christensen, Natalie Portman, Ewan McGregor, Christopher Lee. Ten years after initially meeting, Anakin Skywalker shares a forbidden romance with Padmé Amidala, while Obi-Wan Kenobi investigates an assassination attempt on the senator and discovers a secret clone army crafted for the Jedi. |
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A Christmas Special with Luciano Pavarotti (1980) #599 Remove With Luciano Pavarotti. The famed tenor performs holiday classics in this program at Notre Dame Cathedral in Montréal, joined by a boys choir, Les Petits Chanteur du Mont-Royal, and an adult choir, Les Disciples de Massenet. | |
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Animal Farm (1954) #1272 Remove Directed by Joy Batchelor, John Halas. With Gordon Heath, Maurice Denham. A successful farmyard revolution by the resident animals vs. the farmer goes horribly wrong as the victors create a new tyranny among themselves. |
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An American Werewolf in London (1981) #188 Remove Directed by John Landis. With David Naughton, Jenny Agutter, Joe Belcher, Griffin Dunne. Two American college students on a walking tour of Britain are attacked by a werewolf that none of the locals will admit exists. From TV. 4:3 Aspect ratio. |
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The Special Relationship (2010) #543 Remove Directed by Richard Loncraine. With Michael Sheen, Demetri Goritsas, Adam Godley, Marc Rioufol. A dramatization that traces former U.K. prime minister Tony Blair's relationships with Bill Clinton and George W. Bush. |
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Mamma Mia! (2008) #149 Remove Directed by Phyllida Lloyd. With Meryl Streep, Pierce Brosnan, Amanda Seyfried, Stellan Skarsgård. The story of a bride-to-be trying to find her real father told using hit songs by the popular '70s group ABBA. 4:3 |
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Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (1960) #1093 Remove Directed by Karel Reisz. With Albert Finney, Shirley Anne Field, Rachel Roberts, Hylda Baker. A rebellious, hard-living factory worker juggles relationships with two women, one of whom is married to another man but pregnant with his child. |
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The Railway Man (2013) #611 Remove Directed by Jonathan Teplitzky. With Colin Firth, Nicole Kidman, Stellan Skarsgård, Jeremy Irvine. A former British Army officer, who was tormented as a prisoner of war at a Japanese labour camp during World War II, discovers that the man responsible for much of his treatment is still alive and sets out to confront him. |
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The Man Who Knew Infinity (2015) #971 Remove Directed by Matt Brown. With Dev Patel, Jeremy Irons, Malcolm Sinclair, Raghuvir Joshi. The story of the life and academic career of the pioneer Indian mathematician, Srinivasa Ramanujan, and his friendship with his mentor, Professor G.H. Hardy. |
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Whip It (2009) #31 Remove Directed by Drew Barrymore. With Ellen Page, Drew Barrymore, Kristen Wiig, Sarah Habel. In Bodeen, Texas, an indie-rock loving misfit finds a way of dealing with her small-town misery after she discovers a roller derby league in nearby Austin. |
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PAW Patrol: The Movie (2021) #1412 Remove PAW Patrol: The Movie: Directed by Cal Brunker. With Tyler Perry, Ron Pardo, Will Brisbin, Kingsley Marshall. Ryder and the pups are called to Adventure City to stop Mayor Humdinger from turning the bustling metropolis into a state of chaos |
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Miliband of Brothers (2010) #690 Remove Directed by Richard Curson Smith. With Samantha Morton, Henry Lloyd-Hughes, Ben Lloyd-Hughes, Katherine Kanter. Charting the rise of the Miliband brothers, from their left-wing upbringing to their University days, using dramatized scenes and interviews with people who knew them. | |
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Panda Makers (2010) #309 Remove Directed by Andrew Graham-Brown. With David Attenborough. Giant Pandas were on the brink of extinction but now they are coming back, thanks to an extraordinary conservation project. The Chengdu Research Base in central China is at the heart of a project to breed 300 pandas, and then start introducing them back into the wild. It is the most ambitious and controversial conservation effort ever mounted. Shot over two years, this film follows the pandas and... |
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Vera Drake (2004) #25 Remove Directed by Mike Leigh. With Imelda Staunton, Jim Broadbent, Heather Craney, Richard Graham. Abortionist Vera Drake finds her beliefs and practices clash with the mores of 1950s Britain--a conflict that leads to tragedy for her family. |
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Awakenings (1990) #287 Remove Directed by Penny Marshall. With Robert De Niro, Robin Williams, Julie Kavner, Ruth Nelson. The victims of an encephalitis epidemic many years ago have been catatonic ever since, but now a new drug offers the prospect of reviving them. |