Philip Locke

Roger Moore presents the ten best sequences ever to have appeared in the James Bond series, and cast members recall their favourite moments.

El escritor irlandés Oscar Wilde fue un genio, un hombre que tuvo la osadía de enfrentarse a los tabúes, a la hipocresía y a la estupidez de la sociedad británica y, precisamente por ello, acabó siendo procesado y encarcelado. La suya fue una vida llena de escándalos y de éxitos en una época en la que ser diferente se consideraba un delito.

En la década de los 50, Marty Lakewood es un reportero obligado a dejar Chicago y su familia porque había descubierto demasiada corrupción policial. Regresa a su pequeña ciudad natal en la costa de California con su madre enferma y su hermana prostituta, con la que mantiene una ambigua relación, aparentemente incestuosa. Carente de dinero, seduce a una mujer policía para hacerse con su casa y venderla.

En la tierra de Canaán, Isaac, el hijo de Abraham, vive con su mujer Rebeca y sus hijos gemelos Esaú y Jacob. Esaú, el primogénito, es un cazador fuerte y valiente con un apetito voraz por los placeres sensuales. Jacob es pastor, y más tierno y compasivo que su hermano. Los dos son el orgullo de su padre, pero Jacob es el preferido de su madre, que está convencida de que él es el legítimo heredero de Isaac y de Abraham.

An adolescent girl, sexually abused as a child by her father, runs away from home.

En las calles de Londres una escurridiza figura ha despertado el temor de sus habitantes. Se le achacan varios asaltos a mujeres, incendios e incluso asesinatos. La policía cree haber identificado al sospechoso y lo persigue, pero en su huida empuja a un muchacho que cae bajo los cascos de un caballo y resulta gravemente herido.

(from AllMovie, written by Hal Erickson) "British character actor Alfred Molina contributes another top-rank characterization in Virtuoso. Molina essays the role of real-life concert pianist John Ogden. The film touches briefly upon Ogden's performing genius, then takes a dark turn by concentrating on his descent into mental illness. Alison Steadman co-stars in this made-for-British-TV production."

A couple of bored escorts find themselves suddenly involved with a hit-gang and an ax-murderer - Mr. Jolly. Gratuitous violence, rivers of blood and maximum hilarity, all rolled into one.

Keith Carradine, un actor que tanto se ha prodigado en cine ("Nashville") como en televisión ("Dexter") lidera esta película religiosa dirigida por el italiano Damiano Damiani ("Confesiones de un comisario", "El genio"). La casualidad quiso que su compañero de reparto fuera un viejo conocido suyo, un Harvey Keitel con el que ya había compartido cartel en "Los dualistas" (1977), de Ridley Scott. Y es que el golpe duro que recibió al ser sustituido por Martin Sheen en el papel protagonista de "Apocalypse Now", hizo que el actor de "Reservoir Dogs" se prodigara en aquellos años más en Europa.

Primera Guerra Mundial (1914-1918). En julio de 1914, un barco de lujo zarpa desde Italia con los restos mortales de la famosa cantante de ópera Tetua. En el barco van sus amigos, famosos cantantes de ópera, y todo tipo de gente exótica. La vida a bordo es dulce, pero el tercer día surge un problema: hay que salvar a unos refugiados serbios, que han huido de la guerra y se encuentran perdidos en el mar.

Ascendancy is a 1983 British film. It tells the story of a woman who is a member of the British landowning 'Ascendancy' in Ireland during World War I. Gradually, she learns about the Irish independence movement, and becomes involved with it.

Harry Webster (David Lyon) is an apparently normal husband and father who resides in contemporary Nottingham, England, which was once host to a flourishing textile industry. One day, Harry leaves his house and vanishes. A note he left behind alludes to a double life he no longer wishes to lead. His wife Liz (Annette Crosbie) conducts a search for her husband. Her findings raise a disturbing question: Did Harry have anything to do with a series of recent factory bombings?

Adaptación de la novela histórica de Sir Walter Scott. Ivanhoe es hijo de Sir Cedric, un caudillo sajón que se propone restaurar la estirpe sajona en el trono de Inglaterra, casando a su pupila Lady Rowena con Athelstane, el último sajón de sangre real. Pero Inglaterra está dominada por los normandos, y entre éstos y los sajones existe una gran rivalidad. Ivanhoe se enfrenta al príncipe Juan Sin Tierra, el pérfido hermano del rey Ricardo Corazón de León, que ha aprovechado la ausencia de Ricardo (prisionero del archiduque de Austria) para usurpar el trono.

The Doctor and his companions arrive on a spaceship headed for Earth, populated by natives of Earth from various different eras and commanded by the leaders of the Urbankan race. What are the Urbankans' intentions when they reach Earth?

After shore-leave in Lisbon for the crew of HMS Diana, Master-at-Arms 'Toby' Toberman makes an official complaint to the ship's Captain about the behaviour of an officer he saw in a casino. Following the ship's 'Sod's Opera' party, Toby is reported missing from the deck - presumed lost overboard. Was it an accident or suicide - or was he given the proverbial push?

Times are hard for habitual guest of Her Majesty Norman Stanley Fletcher. The new prison officer, Beale, makes MacKay look soft and what's more, an escape plan is hatching from the cell of prison godfather Grouty and Fletcher wants no part of it.

Grecia, Segunda Guerra Mundial (1939-1945). Con la ayuda de Zeno, el líder de la resistencia griega, un grupo de prisioneros planea escapar del campo que dirige el Mayor Otto Hecht, un militar alemán que no simpatiza con el nazismo. El objetivo del grupo no es sólo alcanzar la libertad, sino también apoderarse de un tesoro constituido por reliquias de la antigua Grecia que los nazis esconden en un recóndito monasterio.

"Whether priest or thespian, never once let yourself doubt that the role you're playing is real. Lead your little flock from childhood to the grave via God's sweet sacraments and let no doubts intrude -ever. Once you start to question - you're finished."

While on a Pyrenees vacation in 1922, upright English gentleman Richard Chandos (Malcolm McDowell, A Clockwork Orange, Heroes) encounters the villainous Vanity Fair (Eileen Atkins, Cold Mountain). Mistress of the turreted Chateau Jezreel and leader of a motley band of criminals, she will inherit millions if she can force her stepdaughter to marry. Pitting his wits against this formidable adversary, Chandos determines to rescue the beautiful young woman. But Vanity Fair keeps one step ahead of him, a trick forever up her sleeve and murder in her heart.

Adaptation of Shakespeare's play.

Biografía sobre Hitler que narra los últimos diez días del Führer en el poder

Alan Bennett's debut play for television follows the members of a Halifax cycling club, on an outing from Halifax to the ruins of Fountains Abbey. Set in the summer of 1911 and projects an idyllic vision of Edwardian England .

Simon Templar is hired by a friend in the book publishing trade to protect one of his stars, a secretive recluse named Amos Klein who writes a popular (and lucrative) series of adventure novels about a manly and suave spy.

La organización secreta Spectra se propone infiltrar en la base inglesa de la OTAN a un impostor llamado Angelo, y así lograr apoderarse de un bombardero Vulcan Vindicator equipado con dos bombas nucleares. Cuando logra su propósito, la organización amenaza con destruir una ciudad de EE.UU. o Inglaterra si no le dan 100 millones de libras esterlinas. El agente 007 es el encargado de seguir el caso, y en las Islas Bahamas conoce a Dominó, atractiva amante del misterioso Emilio Largo, que aparenta ser un ocioso millonario pero que en realidad es el número dos de Spectra. Mientras intenta localizar el avión secuestrado, James Bond debe enfrentarse con la cabecilla de los asesinos, Fiona Volpe, y con los secuaces de Emilio Largo.

A man released from prison falls in love with the blind wife of a cellmate, whom he promised, when inside, to visit. He poses as the real husband, planning to kill him, but finds the wife is not so innocent as he thought.

"Hamlet en Elsinor" fue una importante contribución de la BBC a las celebraciones del cuarto centenario del nacimiento de Shakespeare. Hasta entonces, las adaptaciones televisivas de Shakespeare eran exclusivamente reconstrucciones de estudio o transmisiones de producciones teatrales en vivo. Ésta fue la primera vez que una obra de larga duración fue grabada en un escenario natural: en el castillo de Kronborg, situado en en Elsinore, en Dinamarca.

When Dexter Munro and his new wife Juliet get married, they decide to escape Juliet's meddling father by buying a rundown cottage and doing it up themselves. But when the cottage proves to be more ramshackle than they thought, and the scale of the repairs needed far out of their budget, the newlyweds are forced into calling on Juliet's father after all. Before long he's employed incompetent builder Josh Wicks, and the situation goes from bad to worse.

Norman Wisdom does to P.G. Wodehouse in Girl on the Boat what Jerry Lewis did to Gore Vidal in Visit to a Small Planet. The zany Wisdom, put in charge of his aunt's cottage during an English summer in the roaring twenties, decides to invite several of his friends to his posh new digs. Among the invitees is the title character, played by the delightful comedienne Millicent Martin. All sorts of slapstick chaos ensues, but Wisdom manages to save the day before things get hopelessly out of hand. Like Jerry Lewis, Norman Wisdom is an acquired taste, but he's worth sampling at least once. ...The Girl on the Boat

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.

When Fred Watson's wife and landlady disappear, and he is seen papering over two cupboards in his bedroom, the police are called in.

Against the wishes of his domineering mother, Albert Stokes attends a work party. But the evening is not the escape he was hoping for.

A young boy goes to desperate lengths to save the family dog when his father agrees sell it to the local butcher.

A British Intelligence officer fails a mission during WW2. Years later whilst working in a hotel he bumps into an old flame who is desperate to discover what went wrong?