Annette Badland

This documentary explores the enduring popularity of one of Britain's best loved crime dramas, Midsomer Murders, as it celebrates its 25th anniversary.

In 1965 - the eve of decriminalization for acts of male homosexuality in the U.K. - Matthews, a young gay man at odds with the world, discovers love, sex, and a new family in the backstreets and underground bars of Soho.

The Winter’s Tale is Shakespeare’s great play of the irrational and inexplicable, illustrating how uncontrollable emotions can range across gender, country, class and age. Its universe is full of monsters, gods and natural disasters with a colossal sweep that takes audiences from the stifling atmosphere of the Sicilian court to the unbuttoned joy of a Bohemian festival. Staged at the beautiful and iconic Globe Theatre in London, this new production is directed by Blanche McIntyre and stars Will Keen (The Crown, Wolf Hall) as Leontes, Priyanga Burford (W1A, Marcella) as Hermione and Annette Badland (East Enders, Father Brown) as Old Shepherd.

A magical island, a stormy shipwreck and a royal mystery!

En 1843, a pesar de que Charles Dickens es un escritor de éxito, el fracaso de su último libro pone su carrera en una encrucijada, hasta el momento en que, luchando con la inspiración y enfrentando su realidad actual con sus recuerdos de infancia, nace un nuevo personaje en las profundidades de su atribulada mente: un hombre viejo, solitario, amargado, tan vívido, tan humano, que todo un mundo crece a su alrededor, una historia tan inspiradora que cambió el significado de la Navidad para siempre.

Biopic de la obra y vida de la gran Emily Dickinson, una poetisa que paso la mayor parte de su vida en casa de sus padres en Amherst, Massachusetts. La mansión en la que vivió sirve de telón de fondo al retrato de una mujer nada convencional de la que se sabe muy poco. Nacida en 1803, fue considerada una niña con talento, pero un trauma emocional la obligó a dejar los estudios. A partir de ese momento, se retiró de la sociedad y empezó a escribir poemas. A pesar de su vida solitaria, su obra transporta a sus lectores a su apasionante mundo. Esta es la historia de la poeta estadounidense Emily Dickinson, desde su infancia hasta convertirse en la famosa artista que conocemos.

In 1991 50-year old John Lennon, living on the dole in Birmingham and following the moderate success of the Beatles, recalls how he left the band in 1962 after they were persuaded to release 'How Do You Do It?' as a single, rather than 'Love Me Do'.

An English family is forced to come to terms with the imminent loss of their beloved holiday house in Provence.

This retrospective follows Sir Michael Caine's impressive career, featuring archive clips woven together with interviews from colleagues and critics. It covers his 50-year-long career with classic films like Zulu, The Ipcress File, The Italian Job, The Man Who Would Be King and Get Carter, plus the more recent controversial British film, Harry Brown.

A fifteen-year-old boy with only months to live is granted one wish from the Dreamscape Charity. But David doesn’t want to go to Disneyland or meet Gary Neville; what he really wants is an hour alone with a naked woman.

Sigue la historia de un conductor de metro que, tras dos accidentes en los que mató a personas, recibe la noticia de que si mata a una tercera será retirado de su puesto con una pensión vitalicia.

Summerhill, whose headmistress is Zoe Redhead, is a seventy year old progressive school, run on cooperative lines with pupils having an equal say in its constitution. However officious OFSTED inspector Wharton regards it as a waste of money and a means of teaching children disrespect - though his assistant Myrtle is charmed by its ambience. In a court hearing to decide the school's future barrister Geoffrey Robertson points to the many alumni from the school but also, thanks to a tip-off from a pupil, is able to reveal that Wharton had told Myrtle that the school was virtually due for closure and the inspection was purely a formality. Consequently Summerhill is saved, Myrtle gets to teach there and the children launch a pirate ship with the banner 'Freedom' to celebrate the victory. Two children whose future at the school looked uncertain are also given cause to celebrate.

Jessie Wallace stars in this BBC drama based on the turbulent life and times of Marie Lloyd, known as the 'Queen of the Music Hall', who was famous at the turn of the 20th century not just for her performances on stage but also for her riotous behaviour off it. Lloyd's love life and outrageous conduct made her a target for the rising tabloid newspapers of the time. The film includes some of Lloyd's most famous songs, including 'My Old Man Said Follow the Van' and her theme song 'A Little of What You Fancy Does You Good'.

Milo, un asesino a sueldo, al fallar por primera vez en un trabajo, decide esconderse en una remota ciudad rural donde los locales los confunden con el nuevo panadero. (FILMAFFINITY)

Two refugee teenage girls from Africa meet and become friends and help each other deal with the horrors in their past.

David (Timothy Hutton), un escritor de ciencia-ficción, es invitado a una isla para dar una conferencia. Allí conocerá a Silvia (Lucía Jiménez), una turista latinoamericana. Todo se complica cuando comienzan a producirse una serie de misteriosos suicidios. Sin embargo, pese a las apariencias, hay indicios de que algo o alguien está induciendo a las víctimas a quitarse la vida...

Documents the making of the Doctor Who Serial, "The Edge of Destruction". It was released on the DVD of the serial and hence in The Beginning box set.

Charlie Bucket (Freddie Highmore), un niño muy bueno de una familia muy pobre, gana un concurso, junto a otros cuatro niños de diferentes partes del mundo, para disfrutar de una visita durante todo un día a la gigantesca fábrica de chocolate dirigida por el excéntrico Willy Wonka (Johnny Depp) y su equipo de Oompa-Loompas. La fábrica se parece a un mundo fantástico y mágico lleno de diferentes sabores, todos muy dulces.

Historia de una pequeña pero valiente paloma llamada Valiant cuyo sueño es pertenecer al cuerpo de élite de las palomas mensajeras que sirven como correos para el ejército británico durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial. Las aves ayudaron a los Aliados transportando mensajes vitales por el Canal de La Mancha, superando múltiples obstáculos, entre ellos, los peligrosos ataques de la brigada de halcones enemigos.

After her husband's death, A woman starts looking for independence.

London, 1993: a wild range of clubbers get together to drink, drug, dance and waste the night away at one of city's most happening underground venues...Club Le Monde.

Daisy is the love of Ken's life - she is also large... and very pretty... and on the dole. But Ken is a dreamer, all his dreams to make a fast buck ending up where they started - as dreams. With the rent unpaid, the bailiffs at the door and Ken's dreams in tatters, Daisy sets out to bring home the bacon and gets a job in the local factory. There she meets Marlene and half a dozen other large women who are all united in a secret passion - Sumo wrestling! Ken doesn't know what's hit him.

The film is an edgy black comedy set in swinging London in the late 60s. The All Saints girls play three street wise sisters who head 'up West' to rob and generally cause trouble.

Adaptación televisiva del clásico cuento navideño de Charles Dickens. Durante una Navidad, Ebenezer Scrooge, un miserable y malhumorado anciano que no siente compasión por nada ni por nadie, recibe la visita de espíritus del pasado, del presente y del futuro que pretenden conmover su corazón para salvar su alma.

In London, during October 1993, England is playing Holland in the preliminaries of the World Cup. The Bosnian War is at its height, and refugees from the ex-Yugoslavia are arriving. Football rivals, and political adversaries from the Balkans all precipitate conflict and amusing situations. Meanwhile, the lives of four English families are affected in different ways by encounter with the refugees.

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.

In a typical English working-class town, the juveniles have nothing more to do than hang around in gangs. One day, Alan Darcy, a highly motivated man with the same kind of youth experience, starts trying to get the young people off the street and into doing something they can believe in: Boxing. Darcy opens a boxing club, aiming to bring the rival gangs together.

Lucinda goes on a trip away with her two friends Katherine and Amanda and convinces them to join her on form a variety act in order to impress her childhood crush Neville, a talent agent holding a gala night.

Tras un largo viaje por la selva amazónica y sin un penique en el bolsillo, el naturalista y explorador William Adamson conoce al aristócrata reverendo Alabaster. Al ser coleccionista de insectos, el reverendo queda fascinado por los relatos de William, e invita al joven a su mansión.

Una bella dentista que trabaja en una prisión británica comienza a sentir atracción por un violento convicto. Ella acaba de romper su matrimonio, y se embarca en una peligrosa aventura con el reo que quizá provoque terribles consecuencias para los dos...

A man's life changes when he gets a hairpiece. Oscar nominated short film

Enter the medieval world of Christine Carpenter, a visionary girl who is to become an Anchoress (walled-in recluse) so that she can "live in the Virgin's house forever." Based on actual letters that were written about such an Anchoress in 1325, the film follows Christine as she awakens to her own sensuality and explores her own female, earth-based spirituality.

A very proper Englishman becomes saddled with youngsters that he has to help escape Nazi Germany. Adaptation of Nevil Shute's novel.

Kenny's work as a nurse in a psychiatric hospital isn't just a job, it's a vocation. His special group of patients are his friends - his only friends. When a strange young man is introduced to the group, he threatens the love, discipline and respect that have been the very basis of Kenny's authority, and all that surrounds the institution is scant protection from the madness of the world beyond.

A white boy lives in a racially divided town. The only thing he cares about is playing his drums. A popular black band from school needs a drummer and he joins them, but being colour blind in this town makes life very difficult.

A tough nun (Anna Massey) demands belief and obedience from convent schoolgirls (Katrin Cartlidge, Oona Kirsch) in World War II England.

A young woman moves into a hippy commune and spends an idyllic summer with the young brother of one of the residents.

Michael Palin interpreta a un campesino del medievo que tratará de matar a un monstruo que está arrasando los pueblos allá por donde pasa.

Story of the life of Quentin Crisp, an Englishman who was brave enough to live his life according to his own style even in the hostile days of WW2.

Carver Valley's seventh comic festival is in full swing when the village is shocked by the murder of a former supermodel. With a scathing comic magazine shaming several villagers as the only lead, DCI Barnaby and DS Winter are left trying to separate fact from fiction. As nothing is what it seems.