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Roots (2016) #980 Remove With Herbert Cavalier Jr., Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Malachi Kirby, Forest Whitaker. An adaptation of Alex Haley's "Roots", chronicling the history of an African man sold to slavery in America, and his descendants. 4x90min episodes. |
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Death Warrior (2009) #314 Remove Directed by Bill Corcoran. With Hector Echavarria, Tanya Clarke, Nick Mancuso, Keith Jardine. Five of the best mixed martial arts champions from around the world are forced to play a deadly game, a game to the death. |
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Confessions of a Dangerous Mind (2002) #139 Remove Directed by George Clooney. With Sam Rockwell, Drew Barrymore, George Clooney, Julia Roberts. An adaptation of the cult memoir of game show impresario Chuck Barris, in which he purports to have been a CIA hitman. |
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Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009) #212 Remove Directed by Michael Bay. With Shia LaBeouf, Megan Fox, Josh Duhamel, Tyrese Gibson. Sam Witwicky leaves the Autobots behind for a normal life. But when his mind is filled with cryptic symbols, the Decepticons target him and he is dragged back into the Transformers' war. |
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Command Performance (2009) #24 Remove Directed by Dolph Lundgren. With Dolph Lundgren, Melissa Molinaro, Hristo Shopov, Dave Legeno. When the Russian Premier is taken hostage at a rock concert in Moscow, it's up to a drummer, an ex-biker, to save him. |
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Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi (1983) #1233 Remove Directed by Richard Marquand. With Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, Billy Dee Williams. After a daring mission to rescue Han Solo from Jabba the Hutt, the Rebels dispatch to Endor to destroy the second Death Star. Meanwhile, Luke struggles to help Darth Vader back from the dark side without falling into the Emperor's trap. |
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The Third Man (1949) #1424 Remove The Third Man: Directed by Carol Reed. With Joseph Cotten, Alida Valli, Orson Welles, Trevor Howard. Pulp novelist Holly Martins travels to shadowy, postwar Vienna, only to find himself investigating the mysterious death of an old friend, Harry Lime. |
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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 Shining (1980) #542 Remove Directed by Stanley Kubrick. With Jack Nicholson, Shelley Duvall, Danny Lloyd, Scatman Crothers. A family heads to an isolated hotel for the winter where an evil and spiritual presence influences the father into violence, while his psychic son sees horrific forebodings from the past and of the future. |
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Pawn Sacrifice (2014) #1267 Remove Directed by Edward Zwick. With Tobey Maguire, Liev Schreiber, Peter Sarsgaard, Michael Stuhlbarg. Set during the Cold War, American chess prodigy Bobby Fischer finds himself caught between two superpowers and his own struggles as he challenges the Soviet Empire. |
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Upside Down (2012) #1051 Remove Directed by Juan Solanas. With Jim Sturgess, Kirsten Dunst, Timothy Spall, Blu Mankuma. Adam and Eden fell in love as teens despite the fact that they live on twinned worlds with gravities that pull in opposite directions. Ten years after a forced separation, Adam sets out on a dangerous quest to reconnect with his love. |
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Paperman (2012) #557 Remove Directed by John Kahrs. With John Kahrs, Kari Wahlgren, Jack Goldenberg, Jeff Turley. After meeting the gal of his dreams on a commuter train, an office worker uses a fleet of paper airplanes to get her attention after spying her again in a skyscraper window. 7min |
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Remember Me (2010) #35 Remove Directed by Allen Coulter. With Robert Pattinson, Emilie de Ravin, Caitlyn Rund, Moisés Acevedo. A romantic drama centered on two new lovers: Tyler, whose parents have split in the wake of his brother's suicide, and Ally, who lives each day to the fullest since witnessing her mother's murder. |
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Catch a Fire (2006) #66 Remove Directed by Phillip Noyce. With Derek Luke, Tim Robbins, Bonnie Henna, Mncedisi Shabangu. A drama about terrorism in Apartheid-era South Africa, revolving around a policeman and a young man who carries out solo attacks against the regime. |
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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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Hodejegerne (2011) #230 Remove Directed by Morten Tyldum. With Aksel Hennie, Synnøve Macody Lund, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Julie R. Ølgaard. An accomplished headhunter risks everything to obtain a valuable painting owned by a former mercenary. aka Headhunters |
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What We Did on Our Holiday (2014) #962 Remove Directed by Andy Hamilton, Guy Jenkin. With Rosamund Pike, David Tennant, Billy Connolly, Ben Miller. Doug and Abi take their kids on a family vacation. Surrounded by relatives, the kids innocently reveal the ins and outs of their family life and many intimate details about their parents. It's soon clear that when it comes to keeping a big secret under wraps from the rest of the family, their children are their biggest liability... Find out how the rest of the family cope and see if the holiday will ever end. |
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The Wicker Man (2006) #40 Remove Directed by Neil LaBute. With Nicolas Cage, Ellen Burstyn, Leelee Sobieski, Kate Beahan. A sheriff investigating the disappearance of a young girl from a small island discovers there's a larger mystery to solve among the island's secretive, neo-pagan community. This is the second film on this disk - you need to fast forward '300' to get to it... |
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1917 (2019) #1429 Remove 1917: Directed by Sam Mendes. With Dean-Charles Chapman, George MacKay, Daniel Mays, Colin Firth. April 6th, 1917. As an infantry battalion assembles to wage war deep in enemy territory, two soldiers are assigned to race against time and deliver a message that will stop 1,600 men from walking straight into a deadly trap |
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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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Great British Railway Journeys: York to Frizinghall (2018) #1102 Remove 30 mins. BBC. Series 9. Armed with his Edwardian Bradshaw's guide, Michael Portillo conducts important research in an historic tea room, built by an Edwardian immigrant to the city of York. Research of a more sombre kind leads Michael to the roots of our modern welfare state in the work of an early 20th-century Quaker investigator, whose family manufactured chocolate. |
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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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Doctor Thorne (2016) #455 Remove With Tom Hollander, Stefanie Martini, Harry Richardson, Rebecca Front. The life of penniless Mary Thorne, who grows up with her Uncle, Dr Thorne, and her relationship with the family at nearby Greshamsbury Park estate. 3x1 hour |
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Mall Cop (2005) #160 Remove Directed by David Greenspan. With Derek Cecil, Kathleen Robertson, Nick Searcy, Jennifer Morrison. An indie comedy where a mall cop befriends her predecessor, who's back on the job after he failed to put the kibosh on a major burglary. |
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Mystic Pizza (1988) #25 Remove Directed by Donald Petrie. With Annabeth Gish, Julia Roberts, Lili Taylor, Vincent D'Onofrio. Three teenage girls come of age while working at a pizza parlor in the Connecticut town of Mystic. |
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Exit Through the Gift Shop (2010) #700 Remove Directed by Banksy. With Banksy, Space Invader, Mr. Brainwash, Debora Guetta. The story of how an eccentric French shop-keeper and amateur film-maker attempted to locate and befriend Banksy, only to have the artist turn the camera back on its owner. The film contains footage of Banksy, Shephard Fairey, Invader and many of the world's most infamous graffiti artists at work. |
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Leave No Trace (2018) #1175 Remove Directed by Debra Granik. With Thomasin McKenzie, Ben Foster, Jeffery Rifflard, Derek John Drescher. A father and his thirteen year-old daughter are living an ideal existence in a vast urban park in Portland, Oregon, when a small mistake derails their lives forever. |
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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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The Firm (2009) #228 Remove Directed by Nick Love. With Paul Anderson, Calum MacNab, Daniel Mays, Doug Allen. Football hooligans organize themselves into firms that represent their favorite team. |
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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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The Damned United (2009) #1314 Remove Directed by Tom Hooper. With Colm Meaney, Henry Goodman, David Roper, Jimmy Reddington. The story of the controversial Brian Clough's 44-day reign as the coach of the English football club Leeds United. |
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Mass (2021) #1395 Remove Mass: Directed by Fran Kranz. With Breeda Wool, Kagen Albright, Michelle N. Carter, Martha Plimpton. Aftermath of a violent tragedy that affects the lives of two couples in different ways |
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Ambassadors (2013) #558 Remove With David Mitchell, Robert Webb, Susan Lynch, Amara Karan. The adventures and politics of a British ambassador to a fictitious Asian country called Tajbekistan. 3x1hour. Episodes 1,2,3 |
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Denis Healey: The Best Prime Minister Labour Never Had? (2015) #547 Remove Directed by Simon Lloyd. With Michael Cockerell, Denis Healey, Peter Hennessy, Edna Healey. An intimate portrait of Labour politician Denis Healey by political journalist Michael Cockerill. Shown as an obituary and a tribute following his death at the age of 98 on 3 October 2015. | |
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Adulthood (2008) #72 Remove Directed by Noel Clarke. With Noel Clarke, Scarlett Alice Johnson, Adam Deacon, Raleigh Ritchie. Six years after KIdULTHOOD, Sam Peel is released from jail for killing Trife, he realizes that life is no easier on the outside than it was on the inside and he's forced to confront the people he hurt the most. Some have moved on, others are stuck with the repercussions of his actions that night, but one thing's for certain - everyone has been forced to grow up. Through his journey Sam struggles ... |
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Castles in the Sky (2014) #846 Remove Directed by Gillies MacKinnon. With Eddie Izzard, Laura Fraser, Arran Tulloch, Lesley Harcourt. It is the mid-1930s and the storm clouds of WWII are forming in Germany. This film charts the work of Robert Watson Watt, the pioneer of Radar, and his hand-picked team of eccentric yet brilliant meteorologists as they struggle to turn the concept of Radar into a workable reality. Hamstrung by a tiny budget, seemingly insurmountable technical problems and even a spy in the camp. 90 mins. BBC. This is the remarkable human drama behind the invention that was to prove pivotal in the Battle of Britain. It is also the thrilling story of the tenacity and courage of a most unlikely group of British heroes. |
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Rogue One: A Star Wars story (2016) #1243 Remove Directed by Gareth Edwards. With Felicity Jones, Diego Luna, Alan Tudyk, Donnie Yen. The daughter of an Imperial scientist joins the Rebel Alliance in a risky move to steal the Death Star plans. |
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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 Children Act (2017) #1328 Remove Directed by Richard Eyre. With Stanley Tucci, Emma Thompson, Jason Watkins, Ben Chaplin. As her marriage crumbles, a judge must decide a case involving a teenage boy who is refusing a blood transfusion on religious principle. |
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An American Werewolf in London (1981) #1399 Remove An American Werewolf in London: Directed by John Landis. With Joe Belcher, David Naughton, Griffin Dunne, David Schofield. Two American college students on a walking tour of Britain are attacked by a werewolf that none of the locals will admit exists 16:9 Good version. |
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2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) #539 Remove Directed by Stanley Kubrick. With Keir Dullea, Gary Lockwood, William Sylvester, Daniel Richter. Humanity finds a mysterious, obviously artificial object buried beneath the Lunar surface and, with the intelligent computer H.A.L. 9000, sets off on a quest. |
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Agora (2009) #30 Remove Directed by Alejandro Amenábar. With Rachel Weisz, Max Minghella, Oscar Isaac, Ashraf Barhom. A historical drama set in Roman Egypt, concerning a slave who turns to the rising tide of Christianity in the hope of pursuing freedom while falling in love with his mistress, the famous philosophy and mathematics professor Hypatia of Alexandria. |
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The Trouble with Tolstoy (2011) #701 Remove BBC 2 x 1 hour episodes: 1 At War with Himself, 2 In Search of Happiness. | |
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Carriers (2009) #312 Remove Directed by David Pastor, Àlex Pastor. With Chris Pine, Piper Perabo, Lou Taylor Pucci, Emily VanCamp. Four friends fleeing a viral pandemic soon learn they are more dangerous than any virus. |
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Antz (1998) #164 Remove Directed by Eric Darnell, Tim Johnson. With Woody Allen, Sharon Stone, Gene Hackman, Sylvester Stallone. A rather neurotic ant tries to break from his totalitarian society while trying to win the affection of the princess he loves. |
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Charlie St. Cloud (2010) #286 Remove Directed by Burr Steers. With Zac Efron, Kim Basinger, Charlie Tahan, Amanda Crew. Charlie's brother, Sam, dies in a car crash that Charlie survives. Charlie is given the gift of seeing his dead brother, but when the girl he falls in love with's life is at risk, he must choose between his girlfriend and his brother. |
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To Rome with Love (2012) #424 Remove Directed by Woody Allen. With Woody Allen, Penélope Cruz, Jesse Eisenberg, Ellen Page. The lives of some visitors and residents of Rome and the romances, adventures and predicaments they get into. |
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Aladdin (1992) #1077 Remove Directed by Ron Clements, John Musker. With Scott Weinger, Robin Williams, Linda Larkin, Jonathan Freeman. When a street urchin vies for the love of a beautiful princess, he uses a genie's magic power to make himself off as a prince in order to marry her. |