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Cotton Mary (1999)

A British family is trapped between culture, tradition, and the colonial sins of the past.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Madhur Jaffrey  •  Ismail Merchant
CAST:  Greta Scacchi  •  Madhur Jaffrey  •  James Wilby  •  Sarah Badel

A British family is trapped between culture, tradition, and the colonial sins of the past.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Madhur Jaffrey  •  Ismail Merchant
CAST:  Greta Scacchi  •  Madhur Jaffrey  •  James Wilby  •  Sarah Badel

Anna Karenina (1985)

Tragic Anna leaves her cold husband for dashing Count Vronsky in 19th-century Russia.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Simon Langton
CAST:  Jacqueline Bisset  •  Christopher Reeve  •  Paul Scofield  •  Ian Ogilvy

Tragic Anna leaves her cold husband for dashing Count Vronsky in 19th-century Russia.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Simon Langton
CAST:  Jacqueline Bisset  •  Christopher Reeve  •  Paul Scofield  •  Ian Ogilvy

Sympathy for the Devil (1968)

An exhilarating, provocative motion picture. The Rolling Stones rehearse their latest song, "Sympathy For the Devil," in a London studio. Beginning as a ballad, the track gradually acquires a pulsating groove, which gets Jagger into a rousing vocal display of ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Jean-Luc Godard
CAST:  Sean Lynch  •  Mick Jagger  •  Brian Jones  •  Keith Richards

An exhilarating, provocative motion picture. The Rolling Stones rehearse their latest song, "Sympathy For the Devil," in a London studio. Beginning as a ballad, the track gradually acquires a pulsating groove, which gets Jagger into a rousing vocal display of ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Jean-Luc Godard
CAST:  Sean Lynch  •  Mick Jagger  •  Brian Jones  •  Keith Richards

The Dark Room (1999)

In hospital, photographer Jinx Kingsley wakes from a coma after a car crash - a failed suicide attempt, prompted by her fiance Leo jilting her to elope with Jinx's lifelong best friend, Meg. The discovery of Leo and Meg's bodies - brutally murdered in the same ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Graham Theakston
CAST:  Dervla Kirwan  •  James Wilby  •  Joseph Bennett  •  Joanna David

In hospital, photographer Jinx Kingsley wakes from a coma after a car crash - a failed suicide attempt, prompted by her fiance Leo jilting her to elope with Jinx's lifelong best friend, Meg. The discovery of Leo and Meg's bodies - brutally murdered in the same ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Graham Theakston
CAST:  Dervla Kirwan  •  James Wilby  •  Joseph Bennett  •  Joanna David

You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger (2010)

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Two married couples find only trouble and heartache as their complicated lives unfold. After 40 years of marriage, Alfie leaves his wife to pursue what he thinks is happiness with a call girl. His wife, Helena, reeling from abandonment, decides to follow the advice ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Woody Allen
CAST:  Naomi Watts  •  Josh Brolin  •  Antonio Banderas  •  Ewen Bremner

Two married couples find only trouble and heartache as their complicated lives unfold. After 40 years of marriage, Alfie leaves his wife to pursue what he thinks is happiness with a call girl. His wife, Helena, reeling from abandonment, decides to follow the advice ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Woody Allen
CAST:  Naomi Watts  •  Josh Brolin  •  Antonio Banderas  •  Ewen Bremner

Comrades (1987)

The story of "The Tolpuddle Martyrs". A group of 19th century English farm labourers who formed one of the first trade unions and started a campaign to receive fair wages.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Bill Douglas
CAST:  Keith Allen  •  Robin Soans  •  Dave Atkins  •  Stephen Bateman

The story of "The Tolpuddle Martyrs". A group of 19th century English farm labourers who formed one of the first trade unions and started a campaign to receive fair wages.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Bill Douglas
CAST:  Keith Allen  •  Robin Soans  •  Dave Atkins  •  Stephen Bateman

The Smashing Bird I Used to Know (1969)

A traumatized and troubled teenager is sent to an all-girls detention home where she strikes up an unlikely friendship with a fellow inmate.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Robert Hartford-Davis
CAST:  Madeleine Hinde  •  Renée Asherson  •  Dennis Waterman  •  Patrick Mower

A traumatized and troubled teenager is sent to an all-girls detention home where she strikes up an unlikely friendship with a fellow inmate.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Robert Hartford-Davis
CAST:  Madeleine Hinde  •  Renée Asherson  •  Dennis Waterman  •  Patrick Mower

One of Those Days (2008)

We've all had "one of those days" - when nothing seems to go right, when life just seems to be dealing you one poor hand after another. Unfortunately for Howard Whittam, that day is Judgment Day.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Hattie Dalton
CAST:  Derek Jacobi  •  Joanna David  •  Deborah Findlay  •  Joe Absolom

We've all had "one of those days" - when nothing seems to go right, when life just seems to be dealing you one poor hand after another. Unfortunately for Howard Whittam, that day is Judgment Day.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Hattie Dalton
CAST:  Derek Jacobi  •  Joanna David  •  Deborah Findlay  •  Joe Absolom

Belonging (2004)

Jess (Brenda Blethyn) and town handyman Jacob (Kevin Whately) have been happily married 20 years, recently taking in a trio of Jacob's elderly relatives, including his mother (Rosemary Harris). Though the relations are demanding, kindhearted Jess -- who selflessly ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Christopher Menaul
CAST:  Brenda Blethyn  •  Kevin Whately  •  Rosemary Harris  •  Anna Massey

Jess (Brenda Blethyn) and town handyman Jacob (Kevin Whately) have been happily married 20 years, recently taking in a trio of Jacob's elderly relatives, including his mother (Rosemary Harris). Though the relations are demanding, kindhearted Jess -- who selflessly ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Christopher Menaul
CAST:  Brenda Blethyn  •  Kevin Whately  •  Rosemary Harris  •  Anna Massey

Falling (2005)

Television drama based on the novel by Elizabeth Jane Howard. Author Daisy Langrish buys a tranquil country cottage as a bolt-hole from the pressures of her busy London life, but doesn't expect her new home to come complete with a would-be suitor. The day she moves ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Tristram Powell
CAST:  Michael Kitchen  •  Penelope Wilton  •  Micaiah Dring  •  Sylvestra Le Touzel

Television drama based on the novel by Elizabeth Jane Howard. Author Daisy Langrish buys a tranquil country cottage as a bolt-hole from the pressures of her busy London life, but doesn't expect her new home to come complete with a would-be suitor. The day she moves ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Tristram Powell
CAST:  Michael Kitchen  •  Penelope Wilton  •  Micaiah Dring  •  Sylvestra Le Touzel

The Soul Keeper (2003)

Zurich, 1905. 19-year-old Russian Sabina Spielrein is put by her parents in a psychiatric hospital, suffering from a severe form of hysteria and refusing to eat. A compassionate doctor, Carl Gustav Jung, takes her under his care and, for the first time, experiments ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Roberto Faenza
CAST:  Iain Glen  •  Emilia Fox  •  Craig Ferguson  •  Caroline Ducey

Zurich, 1905. 19-year-old Russian Sabina Spielrein is put by her parents in a psychiatric hospital, suffering from a severe form of hysteria and refusing to eat. A compassionate doctor, Carl Gustav Jung, takes her under his care and, for the first time, experiments ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Roberto Faenza
CAST:  Iain Glen  •  Emilia Fox  •  Craig Ferguson  •  Caroline Ducey

The Mill on the Floss (1997)

Lawyer Wakem takes the mill on the river Floss away from Edward Tulliver (whose ancestors have owned it for 300 years) and becomes the worst enemy of Tulliver's family. When Edward's daughter, Maggie, grows up, she falls in love with Wakem's son Philip. However, ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Graham Theakston
CAST:  Emily Watson  •  James Frain  •  Cheryl Campbell  •  Bernard Hill

Lawyer Wakem takes the mill on the river Floss away from Edward Tulliver (whose ancestors have owned it for 300 years) and becomes the worst enemy of Tulliver's family. When Edward's daughter, Maggie, grows up, she falls in love with Wakem's son Philip. However, ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Graham Theakston
CAST:  Emily Watson  •  James Frain  •  Cheryl Campbell  •  Bernard Hill

The Brides in the Bath (2003)

Dramatisation of the real-life case of George Joseph Smith who was hanged in 1915 for the murder of his three wives, each of whom he killed in turn by drowning them in the bath while trying to make the deaths look like accidents.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Harry Bradbeer
CAST:  Martin Kemp  •  Tracey Wilkinson  •  Richard Griffiths  •  Joanna David

Dramatisation of the real-life case of George Joseph Smith who was hanged in 1915 for the murder of his three wives, each of whom he killed in turn by drowning them in the bath while trying to make the deaths look like accidents.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Harry Bradbeer
CAST:  Martin Kemp  •  Tracey Wilkinson  •  Richard Griffiths  •  Joanna David

Secret Friends (1991)

During a train ride, an anxiety attack leads middle-aged illustrator John into an identity crisis. As his marital problems merge and blur into his fantasy life with prostitutes and call girls, a long-dormant secret friend of his childhood surfaces in his delusions.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Dennis Potter
CAST:  Alan Bates  •  Gina Bellman  •  Frances Barber  •  Tony Doyle

During a train ride, an anxiety attack leads middle-aged illustrator John into an identity crisis. As his marital problems merge and blur into his fantasy life with prostitutes and call girls, a long-dormant secret friend of his childhood surfaces in his delusions.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Dennis Potter
CAST:  Alan Bates  •  Gina Bellman  •  Frances Barber  •  Tony Doyle

Letters from Baghdad (2016)

Gertrude Bell, the most powerful woman in the British Empire in her day, shaped the destiny of Iraq after WWI in ways that still reverberate today.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Sabine Krayenbühl  •  Zeva Oelbaum
CAST:  Tilda Swinton  •  Adam Astill  •  Tom Chadbon  •  Simon Chandler

Gertrude Bell, the most powerful woman in the British Empire in her day, shaped the destiny of Iraq after WWI in ways that still reverberate today.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Sabine Krayenbühl  •  Zeva Oelbaum
CAST:  Tilda Swinton  •  Adam Astill  •  Tom Chadbon  •  Simon Chandler

The Boy with the Topknot (2017)

Born to traditional Punjabi parents and growing up in Wolverhampton, Sathnam Sanghera moves to London after graduating from Cambridge University. Now in his late 20s he is planning to reveal to his family that he will defy expectations of an arranged marriage - but ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Lynsey Miller
CAST:  Sacha Dhawan  •  Joanna Vanderham  •  Deepti Naval  •  Anupam Kher

Born to traditional Punjabi parents and growing up in Wolverhampton, Sathnam Sanghera moves to London after graduating from Cambridge University. Now in his late 20s he is planning to reveal to his family that he will defy expectations of an arranged marriage - but ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Lynsey Miller
CAST:  Sacha Dhawan  •  Joanna Vanderham  •  Deepti Naval  •  Anupam Kher

Another Mother's Son (2017)

The true story of Louisa Gould, a widow living in Nazi occupied Jersey, who takes in a Russian prisoner of war.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Christopher Menaul
CAST:  Jenny Seagrove  •  Julian Kostov  •  John Hannah  •  Amanda Abbington

The true story of Louisa Gould, a widow living in Nazi occupied Jersey, who takes in a Russian prisoner of war.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Christopher Menaul
CAST:  Jenny Seagrove  •  Julian Kostov  •  John Hannah  •  Amanda Abbington

The Cleansing Hour (2020)

Two millennial entrepreneurs stage elaborate fake exorcisms on social media until one of their girlfriends becomes possessed by a demon.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Damien LeVeck
CAST:  Kyle Gallner  •  Ryan Guzman  •  Joanna David  •  Emma Holzer

Two millennial entrepreneurs stage elaborate fake exorcisms on social media until one of their girlfriends becomes possessed by a demon.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Damien LeVeck
CAST:  Kyle Gallner  •  Ryan Guzman  •  Joanna David  •  Emma Holzer

Sleepwalker (1984)

Saxon Logan's extraordinary 49 minute featurette pitches four people into a class war situation with a vicious sting in the tale.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Saxon Logan
CAST:  Joanna David  •  Bill Douglas  •  Fulton Mackay  •  Nickolas Grace

Saxon Logan's extraordinary 49 minute featurette pitches four people into a class war situation with a vicious sting in the tale.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Saxon Logan
CAST:  Joanna David  •  Bill Douglas  •  Fulton Mackay  •  Nickolas Grace

These Foolish Things (2006)

The world's on the brink of World War II, but a young actress is caught in a sentimental contest between a playwright and a director.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Julia Taylor-Stanley
CAST:  Anjelica Huston  •  Lauren Bacall  •  Terence Stamp  •  Andrew Lincoln

The world's on the brink of World War II, but a young actress is caught in a sentimental contest between a playwright and a director.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Julia Taylor-Stanley
CAST:  Anjelica Huston  •  Lauren Bacall  •  Terence Stamp  •  Andrew Lincoln
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