David Hexell
Pat Tate embarks on a rampage to avenge his loyal and trusted footsoldier's violent death, venturing beyond his comfort zone of Essex into the dark side of 90s Soho to track down the villain responsible. Set to execute his revenge, Tate will stop at nothing even as the world around him starts to explode.
Vance
Una misteriosa esfera negra es descubierta en la órbita de Marte. El Aquiles es enviado a investigar. Después de que la destartalada tripulación de seis personas se despertara de ocho meses de hibernación, la Esfera está transmitiendo una sola palabra en todos los idiomas de la Tierra jamás conocidos: Deus.
Old man
A short film for people who don’t like short films.
Happy
Cuando una fuerza especial de la policía abre las puertas de la guarida de lucha subterránea de élite, Club Knuckledust, encuentran siete niveles del infierno, llenos de los cadáveres de innumerables luchadores, asesinos y matones. Sólo un hombre, hecho polvo, que apenas respira, sigue vivo: Hard Eight. Con un oscuro funcionario del gobierno en camino para llevárselo, la inspectora jefe y su equipo tienen noventa minutos para interrogar a Hard Eight y averiguar si es el único superviviente o un asesino múltiple.
Jed
Terry and Gemma are forced to take refuge in a sinister and dilapidated caravan park after their coach breaks down. During the unplanned stay, visitors and residents begin to be bumped off one by one under grizzly circumstances.
Dave
A typical day in Brighton; two working-class couples are on a day trip to the beach. But Brighton is changing and the friends can’t keep up. A result is a vengeful act of violence that exposes the gaps and similarities between class, gender, and sexual orientations.
Narrator
With access to tapes hidden for over 40 years, this documentary goes behind the legend of 1963's Great Train Robbery to uncover the true story of the crime of the century
Mayor Terry Barton
Annie está atrapada en una relación a largo plazo con Duncan, un fanático obsesivo del oscuro rockero Tucker Crowe. Cuando surge la demostración acústica del exitoso disco de Tucker de hace 25 años, su descubrimiento lleva a un encuentro que cambiará su vida con el esquivo rockero.
Granddad Evans
Ben never knew his father; he was killed in 9/11 when Ben was just a baby. Eleven years later, Ben goes to spend the summer with his grandparents, hanging out with Priti, the girl next door, and his wayward cousin, Jed. Priti is a livewire and a Muslim who gradually begins to suspect her older brother is a terrorist. The trio set out to investigate and uncover more than they expected in this family film.
Fyfe
Emily Walters es una viuda que vive a las afueras de Hampstead Heath en Londres, incapaz de centrarse en cosas que requieren su atención, como su apartamento, sus finanzas o su hijo. Un día observa como un hombre que habita una destartalada cabaña es atacado por una banda profesional de matones, por lo que llama a la policía mientras sigue mirando. Después se adentra en el bosque para buscar al hombre, y así descubre que –aunque ha vivido en paz durante 17 años- ahora su existencia se ve amenazada por unos promotores inmobiliarios.
Brian
Fate, the pensions crisis and a steadfast refusal to accept the injustice of old age have contrived to force law abiding, retired couple, Arthur and Martha Goode into a life of crime.
Neumann
Ruth (Aimee-Ffion Edwards) wakes inside a featureless spaceship; she's no memory and is kept alive by a plastic tube connected to her lower back. Ruth removes the tube and as the searing pain subsides, her memory begins to return. She looks out of the window and sees hundreds of identical ships orbiting a green planet. Ruth remembers the pledge she made to begin a new life, light years away from the earth. Suddenly there's a noise from the other side of a dividing screen and Ruth realises that she's not alone.
Inspector Gilbert
En 1947, Holmes vive retirado en una remota granja de Sussex con un ama de llaves y el hijo de ésta. Cumplidos los 93 años, su memoria y su capacidad intelectual empiezan a deteriorarse. Su rutinaria vida se limita al cuidado de su colmena, a la escritura de su diario y a la lucha contra su pérdida de facultades. De repente, se le presenta un caso desconocido hasta el momento.
Bill Weybridge
A black ops sniper is blackmailed by a psychotic international terrorist into killing 6 unrelated people in 6 hours... but there is more to the victims than meets the eye.
Sam Cotton
Nat Dayan, un viejo panadero judío del este de Londres, se esfuerza por mantener la actividad de su tienda frente a la competencia de un supermercado cercano, que llega incluso a quitarle a su empleado. Sin mucho entusiasmo, contrata como aprendiz a un joven inmigrante musulmán originario de Darfur, que ocasionalmente es vendedor de cannabis. Su relación no es fácil hasta que un incidente fortuito hace reactivar las ventas.
Grandad
The death of his safe cracking grandfather has landed Johnny as the only one left alive who can open a safe for a degenerate crew of violent gangsters,but he's just a junkie with little more on his mind than getting that next fix.
Charles McMoran Wilson
Churchill: 100 Days That Saved Britain brings to life letters, diaries, speeches and personal testimony to depict the months of May, June and July 1940. This was a period when France was collapsing, the Nazis had the Allies on the run, the British Army was being defeated at Dunkirk, and - at any moment - Britain faced invasion by Hitler’s troops.
Himself
In a revealing documentary, Mike Leigh, director of Secrets & Lies, Vera Drake and Abigail's Party among many others, talks to Alan Yentob about a unique body of work and a lifelong struggle to make films on his own terms. On day one of a Mike Leigh film, there is no script, no story and the actors do not know if they will even be in the final film. It is a process that has yielded some of cinema's most celebrated performances, and Leigh's new film Mr Turner is already winning critical acclaim. Actors including Jim Broadbent, Eddie Marsan, Sally Hawkins, Lesley Manville and James Corden give fascinating insights into the director and his distinctive method of working.
Philip
La historia de dos figuras totalmente contrastantes que se reúnen en el más hostil de las circunstancias , sólo para formar una unión poco probable que les ayudará tanto encontrar una manera de salir de sus respectivos problemas. Se trata de una comedia agridulce sobre crecer y redescubrir la juventud en paralelo, unidos por el deseo subconsciente de buscar los elementos que faltan en sus vidas ..
Peter
Jack has finally managed to propose to his infertile girlfriend when his life is turned upside down by the arrival of an old one-night stand that introduces him to his seven year old son.
Brian
El filme muestra la forma en la que el equipo de atletas británicas, concretamente el de la modalidad de carrera por relevos, tiene la intención de superarse día a día para llegar a alcanzar la fama y el prestigio con los que sus integrantes han soñado durante tantos años.
Threads
A group of print workers in 1980s London club together to buy a race horse.
Ray
A satirical swipe at the phone-hacking scandal surrounding the British newspaper industry.
Jack
La familia y la amistad. Alegría y pena. Esperanza y desánimo. La soledad. Un nacimiento. Una muerte. Gerri (Ruth Sheen), terapeuta, y Tom (Jim Broadbent), geólogo, están felizmente casados, aunque algo preocupados de que su hijo Joe (Maltman), que es abogado, permanezca soltero. Esta preocupación les impide darse cuenta de cómo María (Lesley Manville), una frágil compañera de trabajo de Gerri, ha llegado a depender de su amistad con ellos.
Frank Spicer
Pinkie Brown es un matón de los bajos fondos que comprueba cómo su poder disminuye cuando se instala en Brighton un delincuente bastante más peligroso que él. Adaptación de la novela de Graham Greene “Brighton Rock”, pero ambientada en la década de los sesenta.
Sir David
Told through the eyes of Casper Harrison. The Rapture is a fast paced mystery thriller where good and evil collide in the quest to possess the most holiest of artifacts, The Spear Of Destiny.
Stubbs
A cruel twist of fate catapults small time crook Mickey Skinner into the big league, as head of a brutal London gang poised on the brink of a lucrative human-trafficking deal.
Johnny Sands
A loan shark gives ex-con Nick a period of 24 hours in order to pay back the money he owes. Up against it, Nick involves his best mate on a multi-part mission in order to raise the cash before it's too late for them both
Jack
La película trata de Little Vuk, el hijo del legendario zorro, que demuestra su excelente inteligencia y coraje.
Wilfrid Brambell
En la década de 1960, el actor de teatro Harry H. Corbett tiene la oportunidad de interpretar a Harold Steptoe en "Steptoe and Son", un espectáculo de comedia para televisión. Sin embargo, el éxito del programa resulta ser un regalo envenenado para el actor, que se ve encasillado y con sus ambiciones teatrales frustradas.
Martin Burns
La historia de dos hermanos con serios problemas financieros. Cuando su tío les propone una salidade su apuro, pero a cambio de infringir la ley, las cosas se ponen feas y los dos hermanos se enemistan
Rudi
Charlie es un pedófilo que, tras cumplir condena en prisión es puesto en libertad condicional. Charlie tendrá que luchar contra el rechazo de la sociedad y de las personas que en teoría le deben ayudar, así como contra sus propios deseos.
Brian Bangs
Barbara es una despótica y solitaria profesora que gobierna su aula con mano de hierro en una ruinosa escuela pública de secundaria londinense. Vive sola, con su gata Portia, no tiene amigos, pero su vida experimenta un cambio radical cuando conoce a Sheba Hart, la nueva y atractiva profesora de arte de la escuela. Barbara ve en ella al alma gemela y a la leal amiga que siempre ha estado buscando. Pero, cuando descubre que Sheba mantiene una tórrida relación con uno de sus jóvenes alumnos, la incipiente amistad da un ominoso giro, pues Barbara amenaza con contárselo todo al marido de Sheba y al mundo entero.
Two rival youth cults emerge - the mods and the rockers - with explosive consequences. For Jimmy (Phil Daniels) and his sharp-suited, pill-popping, scooter-riding mates, being a mod is a way of life, it's their generation. Together they head off to Brighton for an orgy of drugs, thrills, headline-making, and violent clashes with the rockers. Set to the music of The Who's seminal rock opera, Quadrophenia is still one of the most definitive films of its time, vividly capturing the youth culture of Britain in the 1960s. It's over 30 years since the film Quadrophenia hit the world's cinema screens. Jimmy the Mod's search for identity against the backdrop of the May Bank Holiday riots of the 1960s, is regarded as the finest example of a British "youth" movie and a warmly remembered timepiece for a generation.
Master Servant Robinson
This BBC historical drama stars James Purefoy as Beau Brummell, the original sharp-dressed dandy of 18th-century London. A socialite responsible for inventing the modern suit, Brummell befriends and restyles Prince Regent of Wales.
Himself
A documentary exploring Bill Douglas' struggle from childhood poverty to acclaimed filmmaker of Comrades and the Trilogy.
Guardi
Casanova, el seductor más famoso del mundo, el maestro del disfraz y del arte de la seducción, al que ninguna mujer se le resiste, conoce a Francesca, una bella veneciana, que lo rechaza sin contemplaciones. Por medio de una serie de estratagemas y cambios de identidad, consigue finalmente que Francesca se interese por él. Pero, en esta ocasión, no sólo está en juego su vida y su reputación, sino también su única oportunidad de alcanzar el amor.
Tim Perkins
Paralysed from the waist down after a car crash, Julie Hill struggles to get used to her disability and to save her marriage. It looks as if her husband will leave her. Then doctors try a revolutionary treatment which feeds electrical impulses to her leg muscles - allowing her to ride a bicycle once again and so go out for bike rides with her family. Her marriage survives and she and her husband end up closer together than before.
Paul Barker
Life for Dee Stanton is improving at every turn. Her legal career is blossoming and her boyfriend Dominic unexpectedly proposes to her. Things were very different 11 years ago when her husband Paul was jailed for the brutal murders of four girls and Dee was hounded from her home. Dee has kept all this a secret from her 15-year-old son Jamie. Now he has discovered the truth about his father and demands to see him.
Stan
Londres, 1950. Vera Drake es una humilde mujer que vive con su marido y sus hijos. Ella es limpiadora, y su marido es mecánico. No tienen dinero, pero son una familia unida y se sienten felices. Vera se dedica completamente a su familia, pero tiene un secreto: ayuda a jovencitas a practicar abortos, una actividad ilegal.
Frank O'Reilly
A middle class London lad’s gangster fantasies go awry when his dodgy uncle puts them into debt to a real life crime boss. Still pulling strings from behind bars, the kingpin’s only desire is to conceive an heir by smuggling his sperm to his wife on the outside. There’s only one way the boys know how to raise the money fast … hijack the ‘baby juice express’. But kidnapping ‘baby juice’ turns out to be fraught with even more peril than the bumbling wannabes could possibly have imagined in this cheeky spin on the gangster genre. Starring Nick Moran (Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels), with Julian Clary (one of Britain’s funniest) and Joe Bugner (former boxing champion and one of Australia’s toughest!).
The tale of a gang killing near a south-east London council estate.
Denis
Remake of the 1976 TV drama by Jack Rosenthal. An extra in a TV drama is finally given a line to say. He goes on to cause mounting chaos
Brooker
La familia de Nicholas lleva una vida muy confortable, pero cuando el padre muere se quedan sin un penique. Entonces la familia decide viajar a Londres para pedir ayuda a su tío Ralph; sin embargo, lo único que éste pretende es separar y explotar a la familia. Basada en una novela de Charles Dickens.
Det. Inspector Baird
El brutal asesinato de sus padres deja a su hija y solo a un testigo, Finn, herido y traumatizado. La policía la ubica en la casa remota del psicólogo del trauma, el Dr. Sam Graham. Cuando Finn comienza a recuperarse, el limpiador que había descubierto a la pareja asesinada muere sospechosamente. Cuando Finn y el novio de Sam, Danny, desaparecen, Sam debe poner en peligro a ella y a su pequeña hija para descubrir la verdad.
Archie
An adaptation of Zadie Smith's bestseller concerning the lives of two families from as far back as the 1800s and India to late 1990s Willesden.
Roy Lodge
A two-part conspiracy thriller starring Anna Friel. An eager young photographer and a bitter tabloid hack are sent to investigate mysterious deaths at a cottage hospital. But why is the new environment minister keeping tabs on their every move? The TV movie tackles controversial topics like genetically modified plants, the role of large pharmaceutical companies and the question of control of state and government
Philip
Tony works in an auction house, where he is surrounded by many valuable works of art. Enlisting the help of London gangster Brendan and his associates, Tony hatches a plan to steal a priceless Goya painting. Things get complicated when the heist leaves Tony concussed and Brendan with no painting. When Brendan takes Tony to a Harley Street hypnotherapist to try to cure his amnesia and remember what he did with the painting, the hypnotherapist realises she's onto something, and uses her considerable skill to manipulate minds and memories to her own advantage..
Director
A young woman joins a group of protesters trying to stop the construction of a highway through a forest with the purpose of having sex with their leader. But when morning comes and the authorities show up to disband the protesters, she hits a man with a log. This causes the two to have to go on the run. With the help of a sickly, but sympathetic woman, the two slip through police roadblocks. Traveling with her, they learn she is an ex-army lesbian who just wants to see a final sunrise at the Orkney Islands before her death.
Graham
"All dressed up in dark suits and shades, looking remarkably like the characters in Tarantino's 'Reservoir Dogs', Alan, Graham and Terry set out on a marathon stag day. Friends since primary school, the trio are celebrating the impending marriage of Terry to his pregnant girlfriend Pat.All is going well, with a stretch limo at their disposal, copious amounts of champagne and old times lovingly mulled over. But, as the night progresses, the three friends make a decision that is to rebound across the rest of their lives. Stylishly shot and distinctly strange in tone, this serial, written by Tony 'Our Boy' Grounds, showcases the considerable talents of Ray Winstone and Mark Strong. Grounds is billing it as a 'serious comedy'. Viewers who are tired of formulaic drama should welcome the challenge that this presents.
Limo Driver
Según la revista Rolling Stone, una magnífica pieza de entretenimiento que captura la vitalidad y la locura del rock de los años sesenta.
Julian
Un grupo de hombres sólo ha encontrado una manera de salir adelante: los robos a mano armada. Su último trabajo les va a traer más problemas de los previstos. El botín es una decepción. Muy poco para repartir. Cuando el dinero desaparece está claro que alguien ha decidido quedárselo todo para él. La banda no está dispuesta a dejar escapar al traidor, aunque primero han de averiguar quién es.
Roy
El dolor que siente un fotógrafo tras la desaparición de su joven amada y su necesidad de encontrar respuestas, lo lleva a interesarse por el "Más Allá". Cuando una mujer misteriosa le muestra una fotografía en la que aparecen hadas, la sigue hasta un pequeño pueblo.
Cabbie
Paul reunites with his schoolmate Kim, and finds out she's actually a woman who has transitioned since they last met. She has no desire to stir up the past and they start to fall in love, but Paul's immaturity gets them in trouble.
Simon
"La hora del crimen" es un programa de televisión que solicita la colaboración de los espectadores para denunciar delitos. Llega un momento en que tienen que enfrentarse a un caso de asesinato: una mujer ha muerto apuñalada. Bobby, un joven actor, ha sido seleccionado por el programa para encarnar al criminal durante la reconstrucción de los hechos.
Man in Suit
Al morir sus padres adoptivos, Hortense, una joven negra que vive en Londres, siente la necesidad de conocer a su madre biológica, la cual la dio en adopción nada más nacer. Cuando por fin la encuentra, resulta ser una mujer soltera que trabaja en una fábrica.
Custody Sergeant
Cuatro policías se infiltran en una banda de hooligans para llegar hasta sus líderes y evitar así los numerosos actos vandálicos que llevan a cabo. Sin embargo, uno de ellos se identifica tanto con los hinchas violentos que poco a poco se convierte en uno de ellos.
Director
Cuatro policías se infiltran en una banda de hooligans para llegar hasta sus líderes y evitar así los numerosos actos vandálicos que llevan a cabo. Sin embargo, uno de ellos se identifica tanto con los hinchas violentos que poco a poco se convierte en uno de ellos.
Detective
Belfast, años 70. Gerry es un gamberro que sólo sabe beber e ir de juerga, para disgusto de su padre Giuseppe, un hombre tranquilo y educado. Cuando Gerry se enfrenta al IRA, su padre lo manda a Inglaterra. Una vez allí, por caprichos del azar, es acusado de participar en un atentado terrorista y condenado a cadena perpetua junto con los "cuatro de Guildford". También su padre es arrestado y encarcelado. En la cárcel Gerry descubre que la aparente fragilidad de su padre esconde en realidad una gran fuerza interior. Con la ayuda de una abogada entregada a la causa, Gerry se propone demostrar su inocencia, limpiar el nombre de su padre y hacer pública la verdad sobre uno de los más lamentables errores legales de la historia reciente de Irlanda.
Westy
Un agente secreto británico, se ha jubilado y lleva una vida tranquila como propietario de un famoso club de jazz. Cuando conoce a la esposa de un importante diplomático norteamericano (Sean Young) y se enamora locamente de ella, la mujer aprovecha la situación para convencerlo de que localice a un antiguo amante que pretende perjudicar a su marido. Esta operación le obliga a recurrir a toda su experiencia y a sus antiguos contactos.
Kevin Dodd
Tras conseguir escapar con Newt y Bishop de un planeta alienígena, la teniente Ellen Ripley (Sigourney Weaver) recala accidentalmente en Fiorna 161, una remota cárcel galáctica cuyos peligrosos reclusos están absolutamente abandonados a su suerte.
Writer
Four lads decide to meet up and do a robbery planned by Sweeny, an angry, agressive but small young man who is like a time bomb waiting to go off. The robbery never happens because the boys soon realise Sweeny hasn't put enough thought into the job. His closest friend Tel has a more gentle side to him and falls for a girl at a party called Kak. Gombo is released from a young offenders, and along with Tony finds Sweeny to give him a kicking which actually ends up with Sweeny giving Gombo a kicking! In the end they find an empty house where the owners are away on holiday so they decide to break in. This doesn't quite go to plan either.
Director
Four lads decide to meet up and do a robbery planned by Sweeny, an angry, agressive but small young man who is like a time bomb waiting to go off. The robbery never happens because the boys soon realise Sweeny hasn't put enough thought into the job. His closest friend Tel has a more gentle side to him and falls for a girl at a party called Kak. Gombo is released from a young offenders, and along with Tony finds Sweeny to give him a kicking which actually ends up with Sweeny giving Gombo a kicking! In the end they find an empty house where the owners are away on holiday so they decide to break in. This doesn't quite go to plan either.
Yeti
A seemingly respectable estate agent leads a double life as the head of a vicious, well-organised gang of football hooligans.
Cyril Bender
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.
Count Istvan
Un grupo de turistas en Budapest va de visita a un castillo que se reabre después de 500 años de permanecer cerrado. El castillo era la guarida de una familia de hombres lobo que se exterminó, aunque no del todo porque el hijo pequeño consiguió salvarse.
Young John Stanfield
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.
Lazarus
Un antiguo espía es sacado de su retiro a la fuerza por su antiguo jefe, para que busque a una chica desaparecida. La investigación parece algo de rutina, pero todo se complica con la aparición de una serie de mutantes que viven en el subsuelo, y que deben su estado a una misteriosa droga proporcionada por un científico loco.
Billy Bedlam
Un doctor que realiza tétricos y horripilantes experimentos con difuntos contrata a un grupo de hombres para que roben cadáveres para sus investigaciones.
Edward Young
La conocida historia del teniente Bligh, cuya crueldad conduce a un motín en su barco. Esta versión sigue los esfuerzos tanto de Fletcher Christian para llevar a sus hombres más allá del alcance de la flota británica, y el épico viaje del teniente Bligh para llegar con los que se mantienen leales a Timor Oriental en un pequeño bote salvavidas.
Himself
Writer and Director Mike Leigh discusses the techniques used to create his plays.
Roadie
Película visualmente evocativa, basada en la música del disco homónimo y las visiones del grupo de rock psicodélico "Pink Floyd". Narra la vida de una estrella de rock ficticia: "Pink". Una mezcla de relaciones humanas, abuso de drogas, sexo, infancia, la Segunda Guerra Mundial y fascismo se combinan en un relato que alterna cine en vivo con animación creada por el caricaturista británico Gerald Scarfe.
2nd Youth (as Philip Davis)
Dominick Hide, a time traveller from the year 2130, is studying the London transport system of 1980. Time travellers are supposed to be observers, and are strictly forbidden to land their flying saucers. One time traveller who broke this rule accidentally killed a dog, changing history and causing many future people to disappear. Inspired by his Great Aunt Mavis, Dominick decides to find his great great grandfather. He begins to land in 1980, where his strange clothes and speech make him seem an eccentric oddball. His quest brings him into contact with beautiful boutique owner Jane, and they fall in love. As Dominick's visits become more frequent and more prolonged, he increasingly risks his indiscretion being discovered by his boss, Caleb Line, and every moment he spends in the past increases the danger that he will catastrophically change the future
Dick
Dick and Mandy, a young working class couple, move into a council house in Canterbury, and find Mr. Butcher, one of their former teachers, living next door. Mandy's unmarried sister, Gloria, is constantly dropping in, and will not take any hints that the couple would prefer to be left alone, until her presence finally goads them to action.
Post office clerk
Colin Pasmore tests his strength against his family ties but finds them stronger than he ever imagined.
Crow's Nest Lookout (uncredited)
Trata sobre el trágico viaje del Titanic en 1912. La historia está contada desde la perspectiva de tres grupos de pasajeros de Primera, Segunda y Tercera clase. (FILMAFFINITY)
Eddie
In order to enjoy a romantic private swim together, Jo and Eddie hide when their local swimming pool is closing for the evening. But unknown to them, a killer is on the loose - and in the building with them.
Chalky
Londres, 1964. El nacimiento de dos sectas juveniles rivales (los "mods" y los "rockers") tiene consecuencias devastadoras. Para Jimmy y sus compinches, una pandilla bien trajeada, adicta a las pastillas y siempre a lomos de sus scooters, ser un mod es una forma de vida, es pertenecer a su generación. La cuadrilla de Jimmy se va a Brighton, dispuesta a vivir una salvaje aventura de drogas, emociones y batallas campales contra los rockers.
Kevin
Slice-of-life look at class divisions among employees of a brokerage house. Alan, with his portrait of the Queen and love of the peerage; his wife April, who raises cats; youthful and pretentious friends Nigel, Giles, and Anthony, who gather for a wine-soaked dinner party with the chatty and risque Samantha and the mousy Caroline; the plummy Lord and Lady Crouchurst, in a spot of bother needing the help of Francis, a senior partner, to assist with the family's cash flow. Alan comes home from work to find Mr. Shakespeare doing a photo shoot of one of April's cats and a wealthy stranger, Miss Hunt, waiting to purchase one. His instincts for sycophantic palaver kick in.
Mr. Destry
Olive Major is determined that her year of office as Mayor will be a happy and successful one. But her appointment of Ex-Warrant Officer Higham as Attendant and Mace-bearer causes the storm-clouds to gather over Medburgh Town Hall.
Kid
Two stories about school. Gotcha by Barrie Keeffe: On his last day at school, a 'no hope' 16-year-old pupil holds his teachers hostage using a motor-bike petrol tank as a bomb. Campion's Interview by Brian Clark: A headmaster takes on the Education Authorities on behalf on his pupils, exposing the political pressures behind the creation of a comprehensive school.
Tom Scott
A kindly shop owner whose overwhelming gambling debts allow a greedy landlord to seize his shop of dusty treasures. Evicted and with no way to pay his debts, he and his granddaughter flee.
2nd Homosexual Lover (uncredited)
Un grupo de peregrinos que van a Canterbury se entretienen narrando cuentos: el joven Nicola conquista a la mujer de un rico leñador aprovechando su superstición; dos estudiantes se vengan de un molinero que roba harina a sus clientes; el inocente Perkin es expulsado de su pueblo y acaba arruinado; una insaciable viuda de Bath destruye con su fogosidad a sus maridos para heredar sus bienes; un rico y anciano solterón decide casarse con la jovencísima Maggio, que lo traiciona con un hermoso joven. Mientras tanto, un escribiente toma nota de los sucesos, analizando con humor e ironía las debilidades humanas.
General Bernard L. Montgomery
Funding ceased due to Brexit pullout by backers.
In the early hours of the 6th of June 1944 Allied Airborne Forces launched one of most daring assaults in history. 181 men in 6 gliders landed at night to capture two bridges vital to the success of the D-Day landings, one of these would become known as Pegasus Bridge.