Self
The gathered memories and warm recollections of the cast and crew of the 1985 Walt Disney Pictures film, RETURN TO OZ. For the first time, we get intimate details about the production of the cult classic fantasy, from such names as director Walter Murch, producers Paul Maslansky and Colin Michael Kitchens, the late Gary Kurtz, and actors Fairuza Balk, Emma Ridley, Justin Case, Pons Marr, Deep Roy and Sophie Ward.
Pauline
On the day before Mother's Day 1993, Colin and Wendy Parry's lives are torn apart when their youngest son Tim is killed in a terrorist attack by the IRA in Warrington's town centre. The attack shocks ordinary people on both sides of the Irish Sea. Sue McHugh, an unassuming and normally shy Dublin housewife, is deeply affected by the tragedy. Spurred into action by the events in Warrington and the hope that she can make a difference, Sue urges people across Ireland to demonstrate that the killings on all sides must stop. But has Sue underestimated the challenge of brokering peace in a community that has known only conflict? As the grieving Parrys search desperately for answers to their son's senseless killing, they form an alliance with Sue, her husband Arthur, and her Peace '93 movement, travelling to Dublin in a bid to bring about peace and ensure Tim's enduring legacy is one of hope and tolerance. Based on real events.
Mrs. Smith
Costa de Inglaterra, 1888. Amy Foster es una joven sirvienta, bella pero introvertida, sin apenas relacion con sus padres y marginada por el resto del pueblo pues creen que tiene poderes de brujería. La única relación especial de Amy es la que tiene con el mar. Un día, a la casa donde ella sirve llega Yanko, el único superviviente de un barco de emigrantes rusos que naufragó cuando viajaba hacia América.
Rachel Chaplin
Shirley Peters is dead. Murdered. Her body is found twelve hours later in her own home. Just one of the many sordid domestic crimes hitting the city. Tony Macliesh, her rejected boyfriend, is the obvious prime suspect and he’s just been picked off the Aberdeen train and put straight into custody. But then another woman is sexually abused and throttled to death. And suddenly there appears to be one too many connections between these seemingly unrelated crimes. Detective Inspector Resnick is sure that the two murders are the work of one sadistic killer – two lonely hearts broken by one maniac. And it’s up to Resnick to put the record straight – and put the bastard where he belongs
Dear Rosie is a 1990 British short film directed by Peter Cattaneo from a script by Peter Morgan and Mark Wadlow. The plot follows Rosie, an unsuccessful novelist who begins receiving letters from overweight people after her agent publishes her diet tips. The film was nominated for an Oscar for Best Live Action Short Film.
Scheherazade
A Channel Four special presentation of the Royal Court Theatre 1989 production, London. with Paul Bhattacharjee, Nabil Shaban and Fiona Victory. "Iranian Nights" was a play written and produced as a direct response by writers and artists to the notorious Feb 14 1989 Fatwa (a sentence of death) from Iran's leader, Ayatollah Khomeini, placed on Salman Rushdie for his novel "The Satanic Verses", regarded by fundamentalist Muslims as blasphemous.
Mombi III
Continuación de la conocida historia de "El mago de Oz", en la que Dorothy (Fairuza Balk), de vuelta en Kansas, echa de menos sus aventuras en Oz. Su tía la lleva a un famoso doctor que dice hacer milagros con la electricidad. El azar hace que el tratamiento salga al revés, y Dorothy regresa a Oz. Allí intentará encontrar a sus antiguos amigos en la ciudad Esmeralda, pero el malvado rey Nome los ha transformado...
Alice Dax
While researching the work of author D.H. Lawrence (Kenneth Branagh), Kate (Alison Steadman) begins a romance with a fellow academic, and learns about Lawrence's love affair with the married aristocrat Frieda Von Richthofen (Helen Mirren) in this made-for-television drama. As Lawrence and Von Richthofen fall deeper into their forbidden relationship, Kate grows more familiar with Lawrence's work, such as the sensuous Lady Chatterly's Lover.
Helen
Melodrama deportivo que narra la historia de Bob Champion, un jockey que consiguió ganar el Grand National pese a sufrir un grave cáncer.
Giulia Barucci
A través de la voz en off de un narrador y en tono de comedia sexy y desenfadada, esta especie de falso documental muestra la historia de la prostitución, en sucesivos episodios, desde tiempos remotos hasta la actualidad. (FILMAFFINITY)