Erik Chitty

A BAFTA award winning short tribute to the artist Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849), which explores a small number of the thousands of drawings he is reputed to have produced during his lifetime

En septiembre de 1944, alentados por el éxito de la invasión de Normandía, los aliados emprendieron con determinación la operación "Market Garden", un arriesgado plan para poner fin lo antes posible a la guerra, invadiendo Alemania y destruyendo la industria bélica de Hitler. La clave era conquistar varios puentes por los que pasarían las tropas. No obstante, las estrategias en el campo de batalla, combinadas con los errores del servicio de información, la mala suerte y un clima, si cabe, peor, condujeron la operación a un desenlace inesperado.

Summoned back to Gallifrey, the Doctor is framed for the assassination of the Time Lord President. To prove his innocence, he must stand for election himself, uncover the traitor in the Time Lord High Council, fight a hooded killer in a nightmare cyberspace world of his enemy's devising and battle against an old foe now out to destroy the Time Lords: The Master.

En 1890, el famoso detective Sherlock Holmes malvive en Londres convertido en un cocainómano. Tras una larga ausencia, su inseparable compañero, el Doctor Watson, va a visitarlo. Al encontrarlo en semejante estado, decide llevarlo a Viena, a la consulta del joven psicólogo Sigmund Freud, con la esperanza de que éste le ayude a superar su adicción a las drogas. A través del psicoanálisis y la hipnosis, Freud consigue adentrarse en el subconsciente del detective. Durante su convalecencia, Holmes conoce a una paciente de Freud: Lola Devereaux, una actriz de teatro que sufre un gravísimo trauma que le impide articular palabra. Poco después, Freud y Holmes se ocupan de resolver un caso de secuestro en el que está involucrada la actriz.

Scatterbrained but imaginative Robbie Henegouwen de Boer has only worked for a tour operator for two months, when a colleague is suddenly fired and he is tasked with showing an international coach party around. The newly-minted tour guide is faced with a plethora of problems...

Cinco historias terroríficas: 1) Un hombre busca a su hermana para asesinarla, pues ella es la beneficiaria de la herencia de su padre. Despues del crimen, el asesino entra en un macabro restaurante para celebrarlo. 2) Unos recién casados se instalan en una nueva casa, pero, muy pronto, el marido empieza a enfadarse porque su esposa Cambia todas las cosas de lugar. 3) Un mago está interesado en comprar una soga encantada de la India, pero la dueña, se niega a venderla. El mago asesina a la mujer y consigue la soga, pero este será el principio de una amarga venganza. 4) Un hombre simula su propia muerte con el objeto de estafar a una compañía de seguros, pero dos estudiantes, que buscan cuerpos para aprobar Anatomía, se encuentran con ese 'cadáver' que no huele a muerto. 5) Un artista trata de vengarse de sus representantes. Para ello se sirve de magia negra y vudú, de manera que pinta cuadros de personas que, al destruírlos, matan también a las personas.

Mysterious old solicitor Mr. Blunden visits Mrs. Allen and her young children in their squalid, tiny Camden Town flat and makes her an offer she cannot refuse. The family become the housekeepers to a derelict country mansion in the charge of the solicitors. One day the children meet the spirits of two other children who died in the mansion nearly a hundred years prior. The children prepare a magic potion that allows them to travel backwards in time to the era of the ghost children. Will the children be able to help their new friends and what will happen to them if they do?

Scholar Dr. Black's seemingly mundane assignment of sorting through the assets of the Barchester Cathedral library takes an eerie turn when he comes across the papers of the late Archdeacon, who plotted to gain his position through murder. However, he soon comes to discover something truly horrific about the wooden choir stalls in the church, which are tied to a famous local tree and a sinister local legend.

Mr. Hedges, the somewhat naive and idealistc teacher of the rebellious Class 5C, lobbies to have them allowed on the school camping trip despite much precedent to the contrary. Once on the camping trip Mr. Hedges pursues the local barmaid and the class indulge in their usual activities. A small feud with some stereotypical upper class children in red blazers is resolved with a false rape allegation. A case of some stolen money is resolved through Mr. Hedges trusting the class. At the final dance Mr. Hedges is ensnared in the romantic clutches of Miss Cutforth, contrary to his wishes.

Alex Bolt ha sido galardonado con el premio Nobel por haber creado el "unispeak", un idioma concebido para que sea adoptado a nivel internacional. El gobierno decide financiar una estatua de Bolt que esculpirá su esposa, escultora prestigiosa. Pero ésta se encuentra dolida porque su esposo la tiene abandonada, así que decide vengarse realizando una estatua de su marido desnudo.

Un escritor visita un colegio de señoritas en el siglo XIX, allí descubre que una libidinosa estudiante es realmente una vampiresa que acecha y ataca a sus compañeras.

A principios del siglo XX, una familia tiene que mudarse a Londres desde la campiña inglesa donde siempre han residido, debido a que el padre es falsamente acusado de vender secretos de estado a los rusos, y es encarcelado durante 5 años. Sus tres hijos, Roberta, Peter y Phyllis, pasan el tiempo viendo ir y venir los trenes y saludando a los pasajeros con la mano. Así es como traban amistad con un anciano señor que siempre toma el tren de las 09:45, y que ayudará a la familia a probar la inocencia del padre.

This neat, intense drama, labelled “a fable for television”, stars Tom Bell as the scruffy, childlike Michael Biddle, who is invited in from the cold of a suburban street by sexually frustrated, bored housewife Cynthia, played by Christine Hargreaves. He declares that he’s an angel, and Cynthia needs an angel, but in a way Michael fears...

Like the play from which it derived, the film tells of the early struggles of composer Edvard Grieg and his attempts to develop an authentic Norwegian national music. It stars Toralv Maurstad as Grieg and features an international cast including Florence Henderson, Christina Schollin, Robert Morley, Harry Secombe, Oskar Homolka, Edward G. Robinson and Frank Porretta (as Rikard Nordraak). Filmed in Super Panavision 70 by Davis Boulton and presented in single-camera Cinerama in some countries, it was an attempt to capitalise on the success of The Sound of Music.

Stanley Moon, un joven cocinero, tímido y con poca confianza en sí mismo, está enamorado sin esperanzas de la guapa Margaret Spencer, su compañera de trabajo. Tras un fallido intento de suicidio, Stanley recibe la visita de George Spiggott, un caballero desconocido que le ofrece la solución a todos sus problemas: lo único que le pide a cambio es que firme un contrato vendiéndole su alma. Stanley lo toma por un lunático, pero George le da pruebas convincentes de que él es el Diablo. Tras llevarlo a su “club”, donde trabaja con los Siete Pecados Capitales, George obtiene el alma de Stanley a cambio de siete deseos.

James Bond, en su dorado retiro, se deja convencer por una delegación de las grandes potencias para participar en una investigación sobre la SMERSH, una misteriosa organización internacional que pretende acabar con la estabilidad mundial.

The TARDIS materialises in Paris in the year 1572 and the Doctor decides to visit the famous apothecary Charles Preslin. Steven, meanwhile, is befriended by a group of Huguenots from the household of the Protestant Admiral de Coligny. Having rescued a young serving girl, Anne Chaplet, from some pursuing guards, the Huguenots gain their first inkling of a heinous plan being hatched at the command of the Catholic Queen Mother, Catherine de Medici.

Rusia, revolución bolchevique (1917). La guerra produce una convulsión general en un país dividido. En medio del conflicto, asistimos al drama íntimo de un hombre que lucha por sobrevivir. Este hombre es Zhivago, poeta y cirujano, marido y amante, cuya vida trastornada por la guerra afecta a las vidas de otros, incluida Tonya, su mujer, y Lara, la mujer de la que se enamora.

In this dark comedy, a Yankee goes to visit a family of British eccentrics to ask for the hand of one of their daughters in marriage. He soon finds himself in the midst of a really odd family. One of them talks like Bela Lugosi, another believes herself to be a vampire, while a third is locked away in a padded cell. Another family member is thrilled when he finally invents a horseless carriage (50 years after Ford), and the family grandfather is found reading Playboy just before he dies. Trouble begins when members of the family begin to be mysteriously murdered. The American suitor must then discover which member of the strange family is in line to inherit the family fortune.

Un equipo de astronautas estadounidenses que están inmersos en los preparativos de un viaje a la Luna se quedan confundidos y muy intrigados cuando un hombre asegura que él, su novia y un científico viajaron a la luna 65 años antes y fueron atacados por los “selenitas”, unas criaturas extrañas mitad hombre, mitad hormiga que viven en enormes cavernas de cristal.

After 10 years of failure a bumbling vet finally graduates and takes on his own practice.

'Carry On' director Gerald Thomas helms this comedy caper featuring early appearances by James Robertson Justice, Sid James, Leslie Phillips, Kenneth Williams, Liz Fraser and Eric Barker. The film follows the hi-jinks of a group of music students who move into a shared flat in order to cut costs and have somewhere to practice their instruments. Things get tricky when Mervyn Hughes (Phillips) accidentally sells one of his compositions to an advertising agency and risks losing his scholarship. Can he and his friends find a way to raise the money to buy back the song rights?

A farcical comedy about a con-man and a girl reporter who find romance while the former is planning a coup at a Swedish dowager's expense.

Adaptación de una conocida obra teatral de Bernard Shaw basada en ciertos hechos ocurridos en 1777. Durante la Guerra de Independencia de los Estados Unidos (1775-1783), en la que los colonos de Nueva Inglaterra se sublevaron contra la metrópoli, surgió una estrecha amistad entre un colono americano y un pastor protestante inglés.

At the Earndale by-election natural history expert and TV personality Bob Wilcot for the Conservatives finds himself up against Billingsgate girl Stella Stoker for the socialists. Amateur politician against committed activist. But could it become boy-who-fancies-girl against girl-who-fancies-boy? The party agents are soon colluding against such a disaster.

The demonic Nicholas Diabolus is put on trial accused of interfering with people's lives.

Un norteamericano (Ray Milland) marcha a Escocia para realizar una investigación y averiguar así las causas de la muerte de su hermano, un piloto aéreo, durante la II Guerra Mundial.

The workers in a small plough factory take over the firm, but when a large order falls through, the old management come back to help out.

Adam Hayward is a successful New York City defense lawyer. One day he receives a cable that the British war buddy who saved his life at Anzio Beach is now in trouble with the law in England. Taking the advice of his secretary to go to England rather than wire money, Adam arrives in his friend's village to find him about to stand trial for the murder of the hired stable-hand, Lawrence.

Set on Blackpool’s Golden Mile, Jim (Douglass Montgomery), a once promising scientist, sets up in business as a patent medicine man selling hair tonic at the fair with his ex-army colleague Dan (Ronald Shiner). Following a fight with local hoods over pitch spaces, Jim falls for Jane (Hazel Court), the girl on a nearby candy floss stall. The two begin dating but Jim fails to mention he is already married.

Inglaterra, siglo XIX. Famosa adaptación de la novela homónima de Charles Dickens. Oliver es un niño huérfano al que su madre, una joven soltera, abandonó a las puertas de un orfanato. Para librarse de él, el malvado director de la institución, decide venderlo a un empresario como aprendiz de su taller. Cansado de los malos tratos que recibe, huye y acaba uniéndose a un grupo de pequeños rateros que viven bajo la férula de un viejo tiránico.

When a neutral Danish merchant ship is forced to put into port after trying to evade British wartime contraband control, its captain becomes involved in a beautiful British Naval Intelligent agent's efforts to capture a group of German spies operating from a London cinema.