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The McGuffin

From his window, film critic Paul Hatcher watches neighbour Mrs. Forbes-Duthie and her transvestite grandson, Gavin. He

The Silent Twins

Twins June and Jennifer Gibbons speak only to each other in a language of their own creation. As young teens, they commi

Time After Time

The aging Swift family of one brother, Jasper, and three sisters, April, May and June, are forced to live together in th

Frankie and Johnnie

When two teenagers commit suicide the police and the press assume the motive to be some kind of love pact. However, Alla

Honest, Decent and True

The launch of Chaser lager could be big for KFS if Alun shows some commitment; if Mike's lifestyle doesn't catch up with

Song of Experience

As the Lady Chatterley court case puts its seal on the 1950s, three boys set out for a day's train-spotting. They see mo

Insurance Man

Franz, a young man, works in a dye factory in Prague. One day he notices a skin-rash, like eczema, growing on his hands.

Hotel du Lac

An authoress, whose career is more successful than her private life, arrives at a Swiss hotel and finds her life changin

The Russian Soldier

What is it that Edgar Garrett sees, or thinks he sees, on his farm one morning in the mists of early spring? Whatever it

Blood Hunt

The Highlands of Scotland. A fight outside the village hall. Robert Menzies lies dead and Allan Innes flees to the hills

Shergar

Malachy: "Who do you kidnap? You can't touch children, women, no sons of Irish mothers. What's left?" When Frankie is re

Hard Travelling

Jessica's promising debut as a young artist is shattered by a sudden violent death. She escapes into a restless successi

Double Image

This film tells the true-life story of Yuri Nosenko, a top Soviet KGB agent who defected to the West at the height of th

Coast to Coast

Two guys meet, one American, a deserter from the US army, one Brit, and they are drawn together by their mutual love of

Blunt: The Fourth Man

The story of Anthony Blunt, the "fourth man" in a notorious 1951 spy scandal.

Will You Love Me Tomorrow

Freedom fascinates and frightens Jackie, encountering the real world for the first time in years, She clings to an ideal

After Pilkington

What's happened to Pilkington? James doesn't much care, he's far more interested in renewing acquaintance with the girl

East of Ipswich

Michael Palin's nostalgic comedy about a family holiday at a Suffolk seaside resort. Richard Burrill, a 17-year-old, is

Naming the Names

Finn's story seems to begin when Henry Kirk comes into the bookshop where she works. But it goes back a lot further than

Northanger Abbey

Teenage Catherine enjoys reading Gothic Novels. She visits Bath and meets Henry and his sister Eleanor. Upon returning h

Visitors

This production for the BBC-2's "Screen Two" series was the last of Dennis Potter's "one-shot, one-slot" plays for telev

Heaven on Earth

Heaven On Earth follows several children and teens as they are sent from their homes in Wales and England to Canada. Hos

Inappropriate Behaviour

Jo teaches 'difficult' children - American style. Young Helen, one of her most rebellious pupils, teaches horse-riding -

Going Home

After the Great War, thousands of Canadian troops were sent to Kinmel Park Camp in North Wales to await their return as

Quartermaine's Terms

St. John Quartermaine, a teacher in an English language college for foreign students, his life revolving around work, se

On the Palm

Fledge needs a job. He'll take anything. And when Dawlish gives him strange errands to run, for cash in hand, strictly '

Hedgehog Wedding

Mr and Mrs Desmond Howard Jones invite you to the wedding of their daughter Mariella to Dominic Frazer.

The Children of Dynmouth

Easter holidays in the charming seaside town of Dynmouth. The fair has come to town with roundabouts, the big wheel and

The Vision

Veteran broadcaster James Marriner is persuaded to front a new big budget national family TV channel. But he begins to s

Dead Lucky

Martin Urban, a young accountant, is gay but unwilling to own up to this fact because he desperately wants to be the ide

Sweet As You Are

A lecturer has an extra-marital one night stand and contracts HIV. The movie shows how he tells his wife and the way in

Stanley Spencer

The controversial English artist Stanley Spencer scandalised the art world when he painted the Resurrection taking place

Border

Czechoslovakia, 1952. For some, life under the post-war Stalinist regime is hardly worth living and although the escape

Love Birds

Barbara and Naseem are in the same hospital, having babies. They make friends. But the celebrations of their husbands, K

Shadow On The Earth

Two brothers growing up in a small Scottish mining town become convinced the albino man living in their street is an ali

Reasonable Force

In times of civil unrest, crack police units like Inspector Maclntyre's get the job of keeping order on the streets. But

The Temptation of Eileen Hughes

The McAuleys are local celebrities and Eileen Hughes, a young shop assistant, is flattered to be taken under their wing.

Lucky Sunil

Young, handsome and alone in London at the start of a great career. But will Sunil's luck hold out against the seduction

Run for the Lifeboat

Problems of a Welsh coastal village where the lifeboat crew is the main focus.

Death of a Son

In September 1982, Pauline and Ray Williams were woken with the news that their 19-year-old son John had been found dead

Angel Voices

It is the summer of 1963: the year of the Beatles and wild dances like the Hully Gully. Tommy Bray's choirboys set off o

Flying in the Branches

Sue hasn't seen her family in Prague since she became a refugee in London in 1968. When her younger sister, Dana, is all

Words of Love

2 February 1959. The Winter Dance party, Clear Lake, Iowa - another date on Buddy Holly's whistle-stop tour. Across the

Leaving

A moving, comic tale of three boys about to leave a grim Catholic School in Greenock, Scotland, who find they must each

Virtuoso

In 1962, the young pianist, John Ogdon wins international success in Moscow and embarks on a whirlwind career. Ten years

The Picnic

'I, Margie Starling, am perfectly, perfectly happy, right now!'... and why not? An adoring young husband, a grown-up dau

The Firm

This is the story of rival "Firms" of football (soccer) supporters, and how one man has a wish to team them up for the E

Here Is the News

Freelance journalist David Dunhill stumbles onto the biggest story of his career - but his personal eccentricities seem

Ice Dance

A pair of teenagers are determined to achieve their ambition and become professional ice skaters, alternately helped and

Sitting Targets

Who has bought the house which is the home for a dozen flat dwellers? When the heating fails and a flat is violently rep

Defrosting the Fridge

An American football coach takes over the running of a no-hope English soccer team.

Old Flames

Daniel is an obeying and high-flying barrister with the good life on his side. Nathaniel Quass is a rich and bizarre rec

The Man from the Pru

The story of a famous real-life murder case in which an employee of the Prudential Insurance Company was suspected of ki

Drowning in the Shallow End

A young man's personal and professional life falls apart.

Close Relations

At a family funeral, Trevor Orwin meets Jenny, the sister he never knew he had. The relationship that develops between t

The Impossible Spy

This is the true story of an Israeli civilian who was recruited into Israel's Secret Intelligence Agency to become a spy

He's Asking for Me

When the first call comes, Norah thinks it is just an average dirty breather. The next time he asks for her personally a

Sometime in August

'Nobody's going to force you to swim.' Neil's beach holiday with the Middleton family turns sour over his refusal to bat

Small Zones

Circles of Deceit

Philip, a painter who specialises as a copyist, has always been dominated by strong women with secrets.

The Lorelei

A lonely schoolteacher has a strange experience on her walking holiday. It haunts her and threatens to wreck her growing

Children Crossing

Is Joe really having an affair - or is Rosie imagining it all? A story of sexual jealousy, betrayal and vengeance - an e

The Kremlin Farewell

A drama of intrigue and betrayal in Stalin's Russia. Stepan grows up in an orphanage, learning to love Stalin as 'a fath

Heading Home

A story of a woman who is torn between two men in post World War II London.

Hallelujah Anyhow

When local pastor Adlyn meets and falls in love again with her old childhood sweetheart, she is forced to make an agonis

Korczak

The last days of life of the legendary Polish pedagogue Dr. Janusz Korczak and his heroic dedication to protecting Jewis

Fellow Traveller

1950s Hollywood: the McCarthy senate committee is conducting a witch-hunt for supposed communists in the entertainment i

102 Boulevard Haussmann

In 1916 author Marcel Proust is leading a reclusive life in Paris. He hires a quartet of musicians and befriends one of

A Private Life

Jack and Stella were unable to marry in South Africa because she was classified as coloured. They persevere by living to

The Laughter of God

Husband and wife are stuck in a loveless marriage because of their kids. They cheat and fantasize about murdering each-o

Morphine and Dolly Mixtures

A girl's childhood in the 1950s with her brutal alcoholic father.

Do Not Disturb

When Jenny and Bruce Coldfield bring a curious party of enthusiasts to a remote Norfolk village to visit the hidden worl

Dreaming

McIlvanney's reworking of his short story, from "Walking Wounded" (Hodder and Stoughton, 1989). Sammy Nelson envisions '

They Never Slept

When plucky Corporal Pru Merriman reports to her superiors, she is catapulted into the murky world of the French Resista

Aimée

A white Mercedes, the English countryside, a cathedral city, a haunted figure at the wheel with an overnight bag in the

The Grass Arena

Flea Bites

The Count of Solar

The Lost Language of Cranes

The Object of Beauty

My Sister-Wife

Truly Madly Deeply

Common Pursuit

British drama following the lives of a group of friends who met at university.

Utz

The Law Lord

The Last Romantics

A semi-fictionalized account of the life of writer F.R. Leavis, his mentor Arthur Quiller Couch, and Leavis's own studen

Enchanted April

Memento Mori

The Clothes in the Wardrobe

Margaret would really rather become a nun than a housewife, but the wedding is all arranged, the guests have begun to ar

Edward II

In this Derek Jarman version of Christopher Marlowe's Elizabethan drama, in modern costumes and settings, Plantagenet ki

The Long Roads

An elderly woman learns that she is dying of cancer. She and her husband leave their small farm on the Isle of Skye to v

Femme Fatale

The tantalizing beauty and vivacity of the irresistible Maddalena has a devastating effect on nearly every man she meets

Dead Romantic

Madeleine Severn is a teacher and a virgin in a small town searching for Mr. Right. She falls in love with Bernard, a fe

The Cormorant

Inheriting a remote house in Snowdonia seems like a dream come true. But the dream becomes a nightmare for a family who

Prague

Alexander (Alan Cumming) is a young, emotionally-repressed Scot who, upset by his Czechoslovakian mother's death, journe

Voices in the Garden

Sir Archie and Cuckoo Peveril have lived in elegant splendour on Cap Ferrat since the end of the war. But the heady days

Maria's Child

Maria is a dancer who becomes pregnant, unexpectedly, and has to decide whether or not to keep the baby. When her live-i

The Snapper

When 20 years old Sharon announces that she is pregnant but refuses to tell who the father is, her tight-knit Irish fami

The Trial

Harold Pinter's screen adaptation of Franz Kafka's enigmatic masterpiece. The story of a man who gets drawn into a world

The Railway Station Man

A Northern Irish artist, widowed by an IRA bomb, embarks on a new life on the coast with her teenaged son. Romance slowl

Delete

Genghis Cohn

A former SS officer is haunted by the ghost of a man he murdered during WWII.

Skallagrigg

Back in the 'bad old days' when the physically and mentally disabled were locked away in institutions a legend grew of s

All Things Bright and Beautiful

A young boy's innocent observations leads the local priest to believe he has borne witness to a manifestation of the Vir

The Reflecting Skin

In the 1950s, a young boy living with his troublesome family in rural USA fantasizes that a neighbouring widow is actual

O Mary This London

Three young Dubliners go to London in search of fun, fortune and, in the case of 17-year-old Mary Kelly, an abortion. Ho

Dirtysomething

A comedy that pits the hippy ideals of the New Age against the yuppy aspirations of suburbia. Dog and Becca meet at the

Return to Blood River

Douglas Livingstone has direct experience of the tensions in South Africa. On a research visit there in the summer of 19

Henri

A ten year old Protestant girl travels to Belfast to take part in a music festival, and is billetted with a Catholic fam

Zinky Boys Go Underground

In Moscow, veterans of the Afghanistan war live on the margin. Their leader is Andrei, their former sergeant, blind from

Ethan Frome

A new pastor arrives in a stark Vermont village and is intrigued by crippled, misshapen Ethan Frome living on an isolate

Hope in the Year Two

In April 1794, Georges Danton, the hero of the French Revolution, is imprisoned in a Paris jail, awaiting his morning ap

Sin Bin

When a psychiatric patient dies after a violent assault, a nurse is forced to choose between self-preservation and justi

Men of the Month

Tracey, a hyperactive, inarticulate bicycle courier who unsuccessfully woos his girlfriend, watches Star Trek (1966) vid

Sarafina

A Landing on the Sun

By special request of the Prime Minister, civil servant Stephen Summerchild and philosopher Elizabeth Serafin are given

In the Cold Light of Day

It is the late 1930s and some British households still eagerly await the arrival of electricity. When a pylon is erected

Criminal

Teenager Simon Willerton's suicide in 1990 brought to six the number of young prisoners who hanged themselves in British

Midnight Movie

American producer James Boyce and his airhead wife Amber rent an English country mansion where the British horror flick

The Blue Boy

A couple expecting their first baby spend a few days in the Highlands, hoping to make a fresh start to their relationshi

A Very Open Prison

Three prisoners ruin the Home Secretary's week, and provide the catalyst that threatens to topple the Government, by bre

Life After Life

Leo Doyle, in his mid-30s and single, is released into ceasefire Belfast after serving a life sentence for an IRA murder

Persuasion

Based on the novel by Jane Austen, this period movie tells the story of Anne Elliot, spinster daughter of a British nobl

Crazy for a Kiss

This movie tells the story of the life of a young boy in Kansas who is committed by his parents to a mental institution

The Absence of War

Political drama written by David Hare and starring John Thaw. Labour leader George Jones battles with his party on the c

Mrs. Hartley and the Growth Centre

When a shy young man arrives on her doorstep, Alice Hartley grabs the chance to escape from her loveless marriage. She a

Black Easter

Germany, March 2000: Detective Alex Fischer investigates the murder of a young Danish woman whose body has been slashed

Bliss

Life for shy, romantic civil servant Leslie would be pure bliss if only he could get together with Julia, the new love o

Nervous Energy

Great Moments in Aviation

Desire turns deadly as an intricate web of lies and betrayal unfolds on a voyage aboard a luxurious ocean liner. The jou

Priest

A homosexual Catholic priest finds out during confessional that a young girl is being sexually abused by her father, and

Streetlife

Single mother Jo, in the middle of a tempestuous love affair with a married man, is pregnant. When he starts to mess her

Nervous Energy

Tom is a young man with AIDS living in London with his lover Ira. The disease has exaggerated Toms nervous energy and in

Saigon Baby

A childless couple's obsession with becoming parents draws them into the shadowy world of baby trafficking.

The Hawk

A housewife with a history of mental illness grows increasingly suspicious that her husband may be a notorious serial ki

The Hour of the Pig

In medieval France, young lawyer Richard Courtois leaves Paris for the simpler life in the country. However, he is soon

Return of the Native

Set in 1842, it tells the turbulent story of mysterious Eustacia Vye, who longs for the excitement of a world beyond the

Half the Picture

A dramatized account of the Scott Inquiry about the sales of arms to Iraq.

Captives

A beautiful young dentist working in a tough British prison starts to become attracted to a violent inmate after the bre

A Man of No Importance

A friendly, poetry quoting bus conductor in 1963 Dublin wants to stage Oscar Wilde's play, Salome, with passengers on hi

The Cement Garden

Four children live with their terminally ill mother. After she dies, they try to hold things together. In their isolated

Bad Boy Blues

Two boyhood friends end up on different sides of the law. How will each react when they meet up for the first time since

The Precious Blood

Drama set in Belfast that asks if it is possible to have peace with justice. Rosie Williams is haunted by the murder of

Century

Paul Reisner, a young doctor, becomes a researcher in a prestigious medical institute. He feels he has a chance to be pa

Crossing the Floor

Political satire closely mirroring real-life British politics of the time - a self-serving Conservative minister "crosse

Deadly Voyage

When stowaways are found on board a Russian cargo ship, some of the officers and crew decide to dispose of them at sea.

Loving

An upper class English family owns a villa in the Irish countryside. When the man of the house leaves to fight in WW2, h

Flowers of the Forest

Two young children are brought to Janet Hinton, a social worker in the Scottish Highlands. When both she and an independ

Look Me in the Eye

A newlywed woman becomes embroiled in an erotic world of sexual fantasy.

Dallas Doll

Dallas Adair, an American golf guru, comes to live with a middle-class family in suburban Australia. With her riotous an

Burn Your Phone

During a normal day of answering calls, telephone operator Andy begins to hear from someone who knows things that only A

Stonewall

A group of homosexual people try to live with dignity and self-respect while events build to the opening battle in the m

I.D.

When a cop goes undercover to infiltrate a gang of hooligans, he finds himself being drawn to the other side.

Stone, Scissors, Paper

Jean moves to a riverside cottage in an effort to escape her violent husband. There she meets Redfern, a married stonema

Butterfly Kiss

Eunice searches for Judith, her love, at highway gas stations. Her dangerous behaviour frightens cashiers. Miriam, a har

Brothers in Trouble

A Pakistani immigrant works illegally in 1960s England, sharing cramped housing while sending money home. Movies offer e

Mothertime

A drunken woman's children lock her in the sauna in an attempt to cure her of her alcoholism.

Small Faces

Glaswegian teenager Lex is torn between the artistic life of middle brother Alan and the thuggish world of elder brother