Philip Jackson

La escritora británica Agatha Christie (1890-1976) publicó su primera novela en 1920, en la que debutó el excéntrico detective privado belga Hércules Poirot. Más tarde, en 1927, apareció el primer relato corto protagonizado por la gentil solterona Miss Jane Marple. Un fascinante viaje por la cultura popular en busca de las huellas de dos de los personajes más carismáticos de la literatura de crimen y misterio.

La película narra los eventos sucedidos en la masacre de Peterloo. En 1819, las fuerzas británicas atacaron un movimiento pacífico pro-democracia en la ciudad de Manchester. En total murieron 18 manifestantes, además de producirse cientos de heridos.

On her 18th birthday, headstrong and artistic Charlie makes a startling discovery—the man married to her mother, isn't her father. Recruiting Oz, a rough sleeper whose only possession is his driving licence, she embarks on an epic road trip from Margate to the Isle of Skye to track down her biological father. On the journey they both learn more than they bargained for.

A young man with mental health issues becomes intimate with a suicidal air hostess but his obsessive mother enlists a dysfunctional cop to separate them.

A young, gifted soccer player who gets into trouble for a petty crime is brought to the attention of former Manchester United coach Matt Busby, who comes out of retirement to help the boy and his teammates.

In 1973 Ricky Tomilinson was imprisoned for unlawful assembly and conspiracy when picketing for support in Britain’s first National Building Strike a year earlier. During the course of Ricky’s sentence when he refused to conform, wear prison clothing, work and suffered on hunger strike he met a sympathetic and wise prison governor who introduced prisoner Tomlinson to Tressell’s great novel.

Virgil Oldman, un hombre solitario y excéntrico, es un experto en arte y un agente de subastas muy apreciado. Su vida transcurre al margen de cualquier sentimiento o emoción hasta que conoce a una hermosa y misteriosa joven que le encarga tasar y vender las obras de arte heredadas de sus padres. Esta joven, que sufre una extraña enfermedad psicológica que la mantiene aislada del mundo, transformará para siempre la vida de Virgil.

Los protagonistas son "The Stone Roses", un grupo inglés del movimiento Manchester. En 1990, la banda dio un mítico concierto en la isla de Spike, y hasta allí intentó llegar un grupo de adolescentes de Manchester, apasionados por su música.

Selección de cortometraje con algunos de los grandes actores del mundo.

Londres, 1956. El genial actor y director de cine Laurence Olivier está a punto de comenzar el rodaje de su próxima película, estrenada en 1957 como «El príncipe y la corista», protagonizada por Marilyn Monroe. El joven Colin Clark, que sueña con hacer carrera en el mundo del cine, consigue un trabajo en el plató como tercer ayudante de dirección.

Cuando la mafia foránea intenta hacerse con el mercado de la droga en Islandia, una serie de autodestructivos sucesos se desencadenarán para varios personajes: una violenta mujer policía, un mecánico que quiere vengar la muerte de su hijo, un criminal enfermo del corazón y un oficial corrupto enamorado de una prostituta.

FRIEND REQUEST PENDING is a short comedy drama about the mature generation dating in our modern social networking world. It's a tale of love but more importantly life long friendship. The twelve-minute tale tells the story of Mary (Judi Dench) and Linda (Penny Ryder) who spend an afternoon discussing the pleasures, pitfalls and problems with using social networking to try and woo the local choirmaster Trevor (Philip Jackson).

Adaptación de la novela de H.G. Wells. En 1909, un joven escritor llamado Julius Bedford y un excéntrico científico llamado Cavor viajan a la Luna décadas antes de la carrera espacial. El milagro lo consiguen gracias a la cavorita, una sustancia que elimina la gravedad y que los dos protagonistas usan para construir una esfera que los lleve hasta el satélite. Allí son capturados por los selenitas, criaturas con aspecto de hormiga e intenciones poco claras.

A detailed and compelling portrait of one of the most formidable characters in British politics as she faces her final days in power. The year is 1990 and Margaret Thatcher's support within the government is wavering - her hold on the premiership hangs in the balance. Then, long-serving politician Sir Geoffrey Howe resigns over Thatcher's attitude to Europe. His resignation speech sparks a chain of events that leads to the overthrow of Britain's first woman prime minister. This modern dramatic tragedy illustrates the strengths and fatal flaws of this iconic woman more clearly than ever before and reveals how the very aspects of her character that helped her secure power are the ones that ensured her downfall. Drama starring Lindsay Duncan.

A light hearted look at future Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's rise from research chemist in 1949 to becoming MP for Finchley in 1959, encompassing her early relationship and marriage to oil millionaire Denis Thatcher.

Huérfana a causa de la viruela, la joven Fanny Hill acepta alegremente la oferta de su amiga Esther Davies para unirse a un grupo de jóvenes que trabaja en Londres con la señora Brown.

A refugee family are given an allotment plot and are met with suspicion by the people who have worked the gardens for years

Dos estudiantes de cine frustrados, Joe y Baggy, tienen un gran guión para una película. Lamentablemente, su proyecto para fin de curso sólo puede durar dos minutos, así que deciden viajar a Londres para intentar vender su película entre los profesionales. Pero en la ciudad parece que se les cierran todas las puertas, hasta que conocen a un productor tan desesperado como ellos, que se muestra dispuesto a darles algo de dinero, siempre que consigan a la estrella que quiere. Sin embargo, hay un problema: la estrella es Candy, la mayor estrella porno del mundo.

Ambientada a comienzos de los años ochenta, narra la historia de Holt (Whitaker), un investigador de una agencia de seguros que viaja a un perdido pueblo de Minnesota para investigar la muerte de Kelvin, un consumador estafador, aparentemente fallecido en un accidente de coche cuando iba a visitar a su hermana (Stiles). La policía cree seguro que el cadáver es el de Kelvin, pero Holt parece no estar seguro...

Olly (Stuart Townsend) es un escritor al borde del fracaso. Después de cinco años sin verse, un amigo de la Universidad le pide que sea el padrino en su boda. A pesar de sus reticencias iniciales, Olly acaba aceptando, pero todo se complica cuando, en la fiesta de compromiso, conoce a su mujer ideal: la novia (Amy Smart). Murray (Seth Green), su mejor amigo de la infancia y actual compañero de piso, utilizará todos sus recursos para sabotear el enlace y conseguir que Olly supere su mala racha y consiga ser feliz. Pero no va a ser nada fácil... (FILMAFFINITY)

Hairdresser Maria is fixated by The Sound of Music - it was the film she saw the night she was jilted 18 years ago. In a bid to confront her demons, Maria decides to travel to Salzburg, but with her mother and teenage offspring in tow she gets more than she bargained for.

Video diary from behind the scenes of 2002's "Cruise of the Gods."

The former stars of a TV sci-fi series are reunited for a cruise with members of their fan club.

A period drama/thriller about a surveyor and his fiancée who arrive in a remote Malaysian trading post and encounter a closed-fisted ivory trader and her ill-meaning family.

John Simm stars in this adaptation of Dostoyevsky's tragic masterpiece - a profound drama of redemption and a thrilling detective story of the soul.

After England's football (soccer) manager has a heart attack, Mike Bassett is hired as the new manager and promptly announces the team will win the World Cup.

The comedienne stars in this festive sketch show, alongside a host of celebrity guests.

Marcada por la muerte de su padre y una madre que no le presta demasiada atención, una joven vive encerrada en su mundo interior y opta por el silencio. No pronuncia ni una sola palabra, pero, gracias a la inmensa colección de discos que le dejó su padre, es capaz de reproducir al cantar cualquier voz, desde Judy Garland a Marilyn Monroe, pasando por Marlene Dietrich. El nuevo novio de su madre, un buscador de talentos, descubre en ella una mina de oro y su gran oportunidad aunque, para conseguirlo, tenga que emplear las tácticas más rastreras... El oscarizado Michael Caine protagoniza esta comedia musical basada en una de las obras de teatro de mayor éxito en Londres.

Two British best friends and in-laws Dawn and Jackie work together at a factory. When Dawn is diagnosed with a brain tumor Jackie shares $100,000 she's got from her secret lover with Dawn to fulfil her dream - a visit to Las Vegas. They buy two tickets and fly there...

París, 1848. Tras la ruina de su familia, Bette Fisher vive con unos parientes, bajo la protección de su prima, la bella Adeline. Pero, al caer ésta gravemente enferma, la echan de casa y va a parar a un miserable barrio, en el que conoce al harapiento escultor Wenceslas Steinbach, con el que acaba contrayendo matrimonio.

A parent's grief has no bounds. Our Boy tells the moving and tragic story of one couple’s struggle to come to terms with the disappearance and death of their only son. Woody, Sonia and their son, Lee, live contentedly in West Ham, London. When Lee is killed in a hit-and-run everyone grieves but Woody’s grief has no limit. His best friend, Phil, counsels revenge, while in the view of the ambitious Detective Constable Spence, Woody himself is the prime suspect. Woody searches for a way to react with extraordinary and touching results. Features award-winning performances by Ray Winstone and Pauline Quirke.

Superproducción sobre el proceso de conquista y colonización de Hong Kong por los británicos. La historia comienza cuando el emperador ordena en 1839 combatir el tráfico de opio provocando con este gesto la ira de los comerciantes de Reino Unido.

Durante el gobierno de Margaret Thatcher, la mina de carbón de un pueblo del norte de Inglaterra está a punto de ser cerrada. La banda de música de los mineros, toda una institución con más de un siglo de historia, también corre el peligro de desaparecer. A pesar de ello, Danny, el líder de la banda, exhorta a sus compañeros para animarlos a seguir compitiendo en el concurso nacional.

Blackpool, a dancing contest, a dead woman. This is the opening scene of this movie, which then continues by telling us the story preceding this sad accident - or is it a murder? We will get to know the tensed relationship of the dancing contestant couple Tove and Claes, and see how there lives are affected by Liselott and Lennart, their opponents and friends.

A teen, jailed in an adult prison in Britain, takes his own life in July 1990.

The McAllister family house is the setting for Gerry and Ellie's grapples with work, children and how to get the bathroom fixed. Both have reached the stage where reason cannot be heard above the ticking clock of experience and ambition. When temptation comes, how will they react?

A Gothic comedy, featuring a distinguished cast, and starring Leslie Phillips and Margaret Tyzack. Retired colonial army officer George Thacker has high hopes of recapturing his memories of an idyllic English village life after a lifetime of meting out justice in the Far East. But instead of peace and quiet, he is greeted by violence, voodoo and a distressed damsel, brandishing a shotgun. Worst of all, the ghost of his old flame, Edith, still haunts him, threatening both his marriage and his life.

La vida de tres parejas, de diferentes clases sociales, que gira alrededor de una anciana de carácter irreductible, le sirve al director para realizar un fiel retrato de la sociedad británica de la época.

Fledge needs a job. He'll take anything. And when Dawlish gives him strange errands to run, for cash in hand, strictly 'on the palm', it's a welcome change from the dole. Until he finds himself digging dirt on an old friend....

Se basa en una novela de Frederick Forsyth. El gobierno británico busca a un implacable y frío oficial del ejército ruso que llega a Inglaterra con una identidad falsa y se instala cerca de una base militar norteamericana. Se trata de averiguar cuál es su misión para impedir que la lleve a cabo.

In a cell in a London police station, a suspected I.R.A. bomber, Roche, has been detained for questioning. To help them in the interrogation, the London coppers have summoned Nelson, a detective from Northern Ireland's predominantly Protestant police force, the Royal Ulster Constabulary.

Un doctor que realiza tétricos y horripilantes experimentos con difuntos contrata a un grupo de hombres para que roben cadáveres para sus investigaciones.

Habiendo escrito la música y el guión de esta película, Paul McCartney también es el protagonista. Cuando la cinta maestra del último álbum de McCartney se extravía, debe descubrir su paradero en menos de 24 horas o de lo contrario corre el riesgo de perder su compañía discográfica a manos del miserable Sr. Rath (John Bennett). McCartney interpreta tres nuevas canciones, junto con temas clásicos de los Beatles. Co-protagonizada por Ringo Starr, ex compañero de los Beatles, como baterista en la banda de Paul, Barbara Bach, esposa de Ringo en la vida real, Linda, entonces esposa de McCartney y Tracy Ullman.

While his parents are renovating a cottage in an English village, teenager Tim and his friend Rebecca uncover information about the mysterious death of a 15-year-old boy who lived in the house decades prior, and as they dig deeper, Tim begins to find events from the past being mirrored in his own life.

Colin Pasmore tests his strength against his family ties but finds them stronger than he ever imagined.

Carlin es trasladado de un reformatorio a otro tras haber dado una paliza a un funcionario. En éste se ejecuta un régimen brutal que hace aumentar la agresividad de los internos en lugar de mejorar su conducta. Los férreos funcionarios, apoyados por el director, animan a los veteranos más fuertes a oprimir a los débiles y que obedezcan todas las normas impuestas. Pocos se atreven a desafiar estas reglas.

Lee, a Chinese man, works as a waiter in a hotel in England, despite speaking very little English. Told that a girl called Iris might be interested in him, on his afternoon off work he buys a box of chocolates and sets off to find her.

Mam likes to make the weekly visit to Grandad into a proper little outing.

A British-born younger son of an immigrant family from Trinidad finds himself adrift between two cultures.

Early in 1939 Sir Robert Thorndyke takes aim at Adolf Hitler with a high powered rifle, but the shot misses its mark. Captured and tortured by the Gestapo and left for dead, Sir Robert makes his way back to England where he discovers the Gestapo has followed him. Knowing that his government would turn him over to German authorities, Sir Robert goes underground in his battle with his pursuers.

Miss Shepherd of the registry office is getting a new desk, but things don't go entirely as expected.

Pubs, pigeons, weight-lifting - that's Terry's life, and his wife Glenda feels neglected. But now Terry's best mate, Albert, is on leave from the Merchant Navy, and Albert knows how to treat a lady. 'Fireworks assured,' says the wrestling poster.

"Sling me in here? Nobody slings the King of the Kop anywhere. Not even the pigs." In a police special incidents room, a young soccer supporter meets his hero.

An improvised character piece, overseen by Les Blair and Tony Garnett set in the everyday life of a group of polytechnic students.

Three miners take a boat trip to Stratford-on-Avon.

When Len Shelton retires from a life of work in the coal mines, he turns to his first love - pigeons, which become a symbol of hope for him.

True Love (Once Removed) is a British drama directed by Director, Kevin Thomas. The film is about the belief in a fated destiny vs. the free will to form a future. Steven is a fish gutter who lives in an isolated fishing village. He appears at the docks every morning where gutters are selected according to the day's need. He spends what little money he has on viewing his future through time machines. These time machines have been banned by the government due to the unintended consequences they have. Steven lives alone, but by looking at the time machine he knows someday he will be loved and who that woman will be, a psychiatric nurse called Bryony in his future. However presently Bryony Lafferty is an 8-year old girl so Steven must wait for his future to come true.