Juliet Stevenson

A Dowager prepares for her birthday party. A young couple are on the run. A mysterious man in black watches from the shadows. Four rooms. One evening. Nothing is quite as it seems.

A portmanteau exploration of disparate characters scattered across London, many of whose lives intersect unpredictably. A refreshing take on the complexities, contradictions and compromises of modern living in the greatest City on Earth.

Esta es una película sobre madres e hijas y sobre el impacto que dejan en el presente los fantasmas del pasado. Basada en la historia real de Helga Schneider, Let Me Go explora el efecto que causó en la vida de Helga el hecho de ser abandonada por su madre, Traudi, en 1941, cuando sólo tenía 4 años. El film está ambientado en el año 2000, y sigue, no sólo las vidas de Helga y Traudi; también la de sus dos siguientes generaciones: Beth, la hija de Helga, y Emily, su nieta, que aún tienen que lidiar con los efectos a largo plazo de la marcha de Traudi. Cuando Helga recibe una carta anunciando que Traudi pronto morirá, decide viajar hasta Viena junto a Emily para que conozca a la abuela que hasta ahora creía muerta. En este viaje, descubrirá los secretos más oscuros de su familia.

Hamlet captures the Almeida Theatre's 2017 acclaimed production of William Shakespeare's great play, recorded as-live in its West End transfer on the stage of London's Harold Pinter Theatre. Robert Icke's innovative modern-dress production, featuring Andrew Scott, Juliet Stevenson, Angus Wright and Jessica Brown Findlay, has been widely acclaimed as a dazzlingly intelligent, forcefully contemporary staging. The Evening Standard hailed Andrew Scott's 'career-defining performance... he makes the most famous speeches feel fresh and unpredictable.'

A very personal and dynamic meditation on the current global refugee crisis through the eyes and voices of campaigners, specially children, where past and present establish a dialogue. A reflection on the importance of human rights.

Russia, 1917. After the abdication of Czar Nicholas II Romanov, the struggle for power confronts allies, enemies, factions and ideas; a ruthless battle between democracy and authoritarianism that will end with the takeover of the government by Vladimir Lenin and the Bolsheviks.

Una versión moderna de "Romeo y Julieta". Vida y Arthur vienen de entornos totalmente diferentes pero se enamoran, aunque tendrán que luchar contra los choques entre familias.

Drama-Documentary in which historian Dan Snow explores the political intrigues and family betrayals between Vikings, Anglo-Saxons and Normans that led to the Battle of Hastings.

En un pueblo rural del sur de Francia, el joven de 16 años Elliot y su madre, Beatrice, recogen su casa de vacaciones para venderla antes de volver a Inglaterra. Mientras el chico experimenta el despertar sexual, la madre debe enfrentarse al declive de su matrimonio y a la relación cambiante con su hijo. Entonces la situación se complica cuando aparece en el pueblo el apuesto Clement, que se convierte en el objeto de deseo de ambos miembros de la familia.

“The Letters” narra de manera muy personal la historia de esta religiosa, quien encontró el valor para entrar en los paupérrimos barrios de Calcuta, India, con sólo cinco rupias en el bolsillo y enseñarle al mundo entero una de las lecciones de bondad más importantes de la historia.

The latest in British documentary filmmaker Phil Grabsky's In Search Of series, looking at the life of Polish pianist and composer: Frédéric François Chopin, whose grave in Paris remains a place of pilgrimage and whose music continues to sell out concert halls worldwide.

The film examines some complex dilemmas within three generations of one family. Through the painting of a portrait we are asked to consider: Is it ever better not to know some things than to know them? Does secrecy protect or damage those we love? Can all things be forgiven and forgotten?

Who is the new Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, or Gogol waiting to be discovered by the English-speaking world? Hosted by actor, author, and activist Stephen Fry, focuses on six authors whose vibrant, idiosyncratic work continues to gain traction with a global audience: Dmitry Bykov, Mariam Petrosyan, Zakhar Prilepin, Anna Starobinets, Vladimir Sorokin, and Lyudmila Ultiskaya. With contributions from their literary critics, publishers, and peers, the film features extensive interviews with each author.

Leonora is no ordinary orangutan, she is a pioneer. With her three year old son in her arms, she is about to set off on an epic journey back to the wild - the great ape escape. It is a long way from what she is used to. After being orphaned as a baby, she has spent the majority of her life in a rescue centre. She is leaving behind 600 other orangutans, all of whom are relying on her for their chance at freedom. If Leonora can make it, they could too.

Gira en torno a un romance secreto entre la princesa Lady Di y el doctor Hasnat Khan, de quien se dice que fue el amor de su vida; al parecer, Diana conoció a Hasnat en 1995 e iniciaron una relación de unos dos años, tan seria que la mujer incluso pensó en convertirse al Islam.

In his lifetime Haydn achieved a degree of fame that easily surpassed that of Mozart and Beethoven. In Search of Haydn is an intricate portrait of Haydn's life told through performances and interviews from today's most admired classical musicians.

Mark y David son amigos y experimentados fotógrafos de guerra y se encuentran capturando imágenes de un Kurdistán desgarrado por la guerra. Mark es muy ambicioso y quiere seguir los combates unos días más, buscando la foto del año, pero David está harto de polvo, desesperanza y violencia y le deja para regresar a casa con su mujer embarazada. Cuando Mark regresa a casa ensangrentado y lleno de hematomas, se sorprende, aunque en principio no se muestra preocupado al saber que David no ha logrado volver a casa. Elena, la mujer de Mark, está preocupada por los dos. Mark está exhausto, desorientado y es incapaz de reasumir su antigua vida en Dublín.

When Julia Reynolds talks her husband into a family vacation in Malta she has a secret agenda: a date made twenty-five years earlier with her first love.

Como en un cuento de hadas, Waris Dirie, nacida en Somalia entre pastores nómadas, se convirtió en una de las modelos más solicitadas de la época. Recorrió un camino fascinante hasta pisar las pasarelas más famosas y ser portada de las mejores revistas de moda. A los 13 años huyó de una boda de conveniencia y anduvo días por el desierto antes de llegar a Mogadiscio, capital de Somalia. Allí, sus parientes la mandaron a trabajar como criada a la Embajada de su país en Londres, donde pasó la adolescencia sin saber leer ni escribir.

In Search of Beethoven offers a comprehensive documentary about the life and works of the great composer. Over 65 performances by the world's finest musicians were recorded and 100 interviews conducted in the making of this beautifully crafted film. Eleven interviews are included in the Extras and Six complete movements.

The film follows the story of young teen April whose troubled life began in a dustbin - a new born baby, abandoned and alone, not celebrated, not wanted but discarded and left like so much rubbish in an industrial bin behind a pizza parlour. On the morning of her fourteenth birthday April has a devastating row with her foster mother, Marion and leaves the house determined to find out where she really comes from, who she really is and maybe, just maybe, find her real mother. Telling no-one what she's up to or where she's going, April skips school and begins the search she's dreamed about all her life. It's a blur of social workers, children's homes and special schools as April revisits and recalls the key scenes of her fragmented past. It's a painful journey, sometimes frightening but there's also friendship and love and laughter. And now she's started, there's no going back - April must find her mother.

Adaptación de la novela "El pequeño caballo blanco", de Elizabeth Coudge. En 1840, tras la muerte de su padre, Maria Merryweather, una niña de trece años, se traslada a la mansión de sir Benjamin, su excéntrico tío segundo, situada al sudoeste de Inglaterra. Para llegar a la casa, hay que atravesar un largo túnel, que desemboca en un mundo mágico, lleno de árboles que parecen de plata.

Dorjee Sun, a young Australian Entrepreneur, believes there's money to be made from protecting rainforests in Indonesia, saving the orangutan from extinction and making a real impact on climate change. Armed with a laptop and a backpack, he sets out across the globe to find investors in his carbon trading scheme. It is a battle against time. Achmadi, the palm oil farmer is ready to set fire to his land to plant more palm oil, and Lone's orangutan centre has reached crisis point with over 600 orangutans rescued from the fires. The Burning Season is an eco-thriller about a young man not afraid to confront the biggest challenge of our time.

Blake (Colin Firth) intenta recordar el pasado para encontrarle un sentido a su relación con su padre moribundo. Basada en las conocidas memorias de Blake Morrison.

Documentary about internationally-renowned author Ariel Dorfman, the third generation of his family to know exile. His father's leftwing beliefs saw the family uprooted from both Argentina and the US, before settling in Chile. When Allende came to power, Ariel was a prominent member of his circle, but the bloody 1973 coup saw many of his friends and colleagues killed or disappeared and Ariel forced into exile again. Peter Raymont journeys with Ariel as he looks back on his life. (Storyville)

On January 7th 2005, 29 year old Rick Rodriguez murdered his former nanny and then killed himself on a lonely desert highway. Hours earlier he had videoed his suicide note and this final message provided a remarkable insight into a deeply damaged life. It also lifted the lid on one of the most notorious religious cults to emerge out of the 1960s counter culture: The Children of God sect.

En Londres, Will (Jude Law) y su amigo Sandy (Martin Freeman) administran una floreciente empresa de paisajismo que recientemente se ha mudado a King’s Cross, el centro de la más ambiciosa regeneración urbana de Europa. La empresa sufre reiterados robos por parte de una banda de ladrones local. Will, harto de esta situación, persigue a uno de ellos hasta el apartamento que comparte con su madre Amira (Juliette Binoche), una refugiada bosnia. Por otra parte, Will vive con su bella novia Liv (Robin Wright Penn), que está permanentemente preocupada por Bea (Poppy Rogers), su problemática hija de 13 años. Inesperadamente, Will se hace amigo de Amira, pero su amistad toma un giro inesperado...

Mientras hacía trabajo de investigación para escribir su libro "A sangre fria", Truman Capote entabla una estrecha amistad con Dick Hickock y Perry Smith, dos asesinos convictos.

Cuando Gerda conoce al huérfano Kay, su amistad se hace muy profunda rápidamente hasta que un frío día de invierno, un fragmento de cristal hiere a Kay en el ojo y congela su corazón. Kay cae bajo el encantamiento de la Reina de las Nieves que se lo lleva en su carro a su castillo de hielo en el Polo Norte. Gerda se embarcará entonces en un mágico y peligroso viaje para llegar al palacio de la Reina y salvar a su amigo Kay...

Narra la historia de Albert Pierrepoint, el último hombre ejecutor de la horca en Gran Bretaña, en los años 30 del pasado siglo.

Endeavors to reveal who the reclusive writer John Wyndham Parkes Lucas Beynon Harris was, through interviews with colleagues, flatmates, family friends and scientists. His life, as can best be constructed, is revealed and his body of work, once settling on the name John Wyndham, is analyzed and discussed. An actor portrays him by quoting things he wrote that have survived, and the only piece of footage ever recorded of him is examined. The emphasis is on what his personality may have been, the scientific ramifications of his themes, and the influence of his writings and the film adaptations of those, on later generations.

Three young Muslim men, part of a terror cell, are making a bomb in a London flat, when they get a call to vacate immediately with their gear. The police have been alerted and they are under suspicion.

Londres, 1938. La bella y seductora Julia Lambert se encuentra en su apogeo físico y profesional. Sin embargo, tanto su brillante carrera teatral como su matrimonio con el atractivo empresario Michael Gosselyn empiezan a aburrirla y echa de menos la novedad, la emoción. Precisamente entonces entra en escena Tom Fennell, un apasionado admirador que resulta irresistible para la actriz. Julia piensa que quizá un romance pueda servirle para superar su crisis, y decide vivir una apasionada relación. Sin embargo, la relación con su joven amante no sale como esparaba.

The discovery of human body parts behind a pub in Camden over Christmas 2002 triggered one of the Metropolitan Police's largest man hunts and shocked the nation. The revelations that followed, about a man's brutal murder of three London women shocked a nation. But the story of the search for Anthony Hardy also revealed some painful truths about the anonymity of a city, and the complex challenges facing mental health units charged with protecting both the public and their patients.

En 1953, Katherine Watson (Julia Roberts) se traslada desde California al campus de la prestigiosa y estricta universidad de Wellesley en Nueva Inglaterra para enseñar historia del arte. En plena postguerra, Watson espera que sus estudiantes, las mejores y las más brillantes del país, aprovechen las oportunidades que se les presentan para emanciparse. Sin embargo, poco después de su llegada, descubre que la prestigiosa institución está anclada en la tradición y el conformismo.

The four-year-old Nicolas Shield leads a brash and peaceful life. An annual unpleasant day has arrived: he has to visit the doctor to get an injection against mumps, measles and rubella. This goes without any problem, because Nicolas - also called Nicky - is a good guy. However, after a few months, Nicolas's behavior begins to change. Mother Christine does everything to get the boy back on the right track. But then comes the dreaded diagnosis: Nicky suffers from autism.

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.

Documentary charting the Derek and Clive phenomenon. The two foul-mouthed toilet attendants were the creations of Peter Cook and Dudley Moore and were responsible for some of the filthiest comedy to come out of Britain. Despite being banned from radio and television the duo achieved great success and a cult status, but the act broke up one of the greatest comedy partnerships of recent years. Featuring excerpts from the actual records and video footage of Cook and Moore.

Basada en libro de Jody Picoud, este atenazador drama presenta a Megan Mullally como la madre de una chica que muere en un aparente pacto de suicidio con su novio... que logra sobrevivir. Pronto empieza a preguntarse si se trata de amor verdadero o si ha sido un asesinato.

Jess Bhamra, una joven de origen hindú, vive con su familia en Inglaterra. Sus padres desearían verla terminar sus estudios y casarse como es debido, respetando las tradiciones de su país de origen. Pero la chica sólo sueña con balones. Al igual que su ídolo, el campeón David Beckham, Jess pasa la mayor parte del tiempo jugando al fútbol. Cuando una joven inglesa, Jules, la invita a entrar en un equipo femenino, será el inicio de una bella amistad y de una gran aventura.

A young girl comes of age in the Australian bush amid natural disaster and family tragedy.

Paul, un joven y talentoso estudiante de música, es contratado en San Francisco para pasar las páginas de la partitura en un concierto de Richard Kennington, uno de los pianistas más famosos del mundo. A Richard, Paul le parece sumamente atractivo.

El Dr. Lambert está preocupado por la creciente deuda del centro sanitario. Belle, la enfermera, intenta tranquilizarle diciendo que hay gente buena que les ayudará con donativos.

Matthew Barnes, un joven ejecutivo, es enviado a Londres para supervisar la fusión de varias empresas. En este trabajo sustituye a John Gissing, que se encargará de que Barnes y su esposa Linda lo pasen lo peor posible. Cuando Matthew se da cuenta, pasa a la ofensiva para evitar un traslado a Detroit. Pero Gissing todavía guarda muchas cartas en la manga.

The land is filled with people in urns chattering at top speed, but only to themselves, not to one another. The focus goes to three people: a man, his mistress and his wife.

Juliet Stevenson stars as prosecutor Helen West from the popular crime novels by Frances Fyfield. Helen and her significant other, Chief Superintendent Geoffrey Bailey (Jim Carter), have recently moved to a sedate London suburb only to face a shocking murder. Bailey thinks he has the case wrapped up, but Helen punches holes in the evidence and his ego, and then proceeds to track down the real killer.

Made by Carlton Television for ITV (UK) , this adaptation of Laurie Lee's autobiographical novel follows a young man's maturation in the country town of Gloucestershire near the end of World War I. As young Laurie (Dashiell Reece) comes of age under the protective eye of his mother (Juliet Stevenson), he learns to live with an eccentric collection of friends, neighbours, and relatives. As he enters his teenage years, Laurie (now played by Joe Roberts) discovers women, specifically Rosie Burdock (Lia Barrow). Veteran screenwriter John Mortimer adapted Lee's book, with Lee narrating.

Documentary revealing the true character of those working behind and in front of the camera on Blue Peter - Britain's longest continuously running children's programme.

Jim Hawkins races to beat Long John Silver to the riches awaiting on Treasure Island. An animated retelling of Robert Louis Stevenson's classic novel, featured the main characters as animals.

Jean moves to a riverside cottage in an effort to escape her violent husband. There she meets Redfern, a married stonemason, with whom she forms a relationship.

Emma Woodhouse, una joven rica, atractiva, inteligente y presuntuosa, vive con su padre viudo en una pequeña población. Cuando su estimada institutriz, amiga y confidente, la señorita Taylor, decide casarse el señor Weston, la vida de Emma se queda vacía y sin sentido. Se plantea entonces una cuestión: cómo ayudar a los demás a llevar una vida tan perfecta como la suya.

Women (many of them lesbian) artists, writers, photographers, designers, and adventurers settled in Paris between the wars. They embraced France, some developed an ex-pat culture, and most cherished a way of life quite different than the one left behind.

Upon her father's death, a woman comes into emotional and psychological conflict with her young lover, her overbearing sister and her alcoholic stepmother.

The Very Hungry Caterpillar and Other Stories is a compilation of five of Eric Carle’s most popular stories. In The Very Hungry Caterpillar, a tiny caterpillar eats and eats... and eats his way through the week; Papa, Please Get The Moon For Me shows a young girl asking her father for the moon, but he discovers that the moon is very, very big. The Very Quiet Cricket is about a cricket who finally finds his voice and The Mixed-Up Chameleon learns an important lesson about being himself. Finally, I See A Song invites audiences on a magical musical journey. But can you really see a song?

Adaptación a la gran pantalla de "El proceso", la prestigiosa novela de Frank Kafka. (FILMAFFINITY)

One of Ibsen's best known plays, A Dolls House caused a sensation when first published, as it provided a critique on the conventions of Victorian marriage. Nora Helmer feels suffocated and belittled in her marriage to banker Torvald. When faced with blackmail as a result of an attempt to save her husband's life, Nora decides that the only way to discover the real world is to step outside the illusions within her doll's house.

A white Mercedes, the English countryside, a cathedral city, a haunted figure at the wheel with an overnight bag in the boot. Frank Summers has run away from a career as a fabulously successful rock promoter and an anguished private life. Now he's facing the hardest of all moral choices - a life or death decision which is to have a shattering impact on the lives of new friends who offer shelter, and on the new arrival on the seemingly tranquil scene.

A socially awkward young English boy deals with his fears about his unemployed artist father, his pregnant mother, and his asthma, with the help of his favorite doll, a stuffed dinosaur named Dog.

Nina y Jamie son una pareja muy enamorada. La muerte de Jamie es para Nina un auténtico drama. Así las cosas, el espíritu de Jamie decide intervenir, desde el Más Allá, para buscar a alguien que la consuele, ya que no puede soportar la idea de ver a su amada lamentándose el resto de su vida.

A group of several thousand Africans migrate westward across northern Africa and sail across the Strait of Gibraltar to Europe. Their message is: "We are poor because you are rich."

An escaped convict, pursued by an obsessive policeman, hides out in a travelling circus

Narra la historia de tres generaciones de mujeres que, además de compartir el mismo nombre, Cissie Colpitts, también tuvieron las tres que lidiar con sus problemas matrimoniales. La primera Cissie Colpitts decidió acabar con su adúltero marido ahogándolo en una bañera. El forense local la encubre certificando un suicidio a condición de que la mujer se case con él, pero ella no está dispuesta a acceder. Tiempo después, la acción de la abuela tendrá sus consecuencias en su hija y nieta.

The shy, hard-working farmer Thomas Price, whose life is dominated by his father Emrys, is strongly attracted to the independent Englishwoman Ruth and they become drawn into a passionate love affair.

The controversial English artist Stanley Spencer scandalised the art world when he painted the Resurrection taking place in the churchyard of Cookham, his home village by the River Thames; and further scandalised the village when he decided that to nourish his imagination he needed two wives.

Watson and Crick race to find the structure of DNA before Linus Pauling, Maurice Wilkins, or Rosalind Franklin can find the key to unlocking the secret.

In a final battle for the control of Thebes, Oedipus's two sons kill each other. Creon issues an order that no one is to bury Polynices upon pain of death. But Antigone is determined that her brother's body will have the proper rites of burial.

Oedipus's wanderings come to an end when he finds his final resting place, as foretold by the gods. But his brother-in-law and his son each try to take him away.

When Pericles discovers the dread answer to Antioch's riddle, he flees for his life straight into famine, shipwreck, love, fatherhood, and another shipwreck; he loses his wife and daughter, and doesn't find them again until the story moves us through resurrection, attempted murder, pirates, prostitution, and divine revelation.

The fourth and final instalment of the Mallen family saga. Barbara, rejected by Michael, enters into a loveless marriage with a son of the Benshams, who now own Squire Thomas' former home, High Banks. Meanwhile, Mr Bensham proposes to Anna Brigmore, Barbara's former governess, who has a burning ambition to become mistress of the house.

Ceres tells the story of a daughter seeking refuge from her emotionally abusive partner at the home of her estranged mother. It follows their attempt to reconnect, and move forward, despite the knowledge that their time together is limited; bound in a knot of silent agreement to the changing of the seasons.