Maureen Lipman

"Rose" is a filmed one-woman theatrical performance. A moving reminder of some of the harrowing events that shaped the century. It remains sadly relevant today as racial tensions escalate, and allegations of antisemitism are rife.

When Lydia's grandma bestows a precious gift upon her, she knows it's going to be memorable - 'This is something to treasure your whole life. Happy 21st birthday bubelah.' Grandma hands her a cheque - for a nose job.

A dark and delicious foray into Angela Carter's extraordinary life with animation by Peepshow Collective, rare archive and family photos, and contributions from Angela's friends, family, students and admirers.

Hull is the UK's City of Culture for 2017. In this BBC Arts documentary, the wonderful Hull-born comedian Lucy Beaumont, writer and star of the Radio 4 sitcom To Hull and Back, looks at the cultural treats that will be taking place in her home town - and whether being City of Culture will transform Hull forever. Lucy talks to key figures in this historic year for her home city, including the writer Richard Bean and actress Maureen Lipman, as well as discovering the rich cultural life that already exists in Hull. She will also explore the more avant-garde side of Hull with the performance artist Cosey Fanni Tutti, who invented industrial music with the band Throbbing Gristle.

Documentary celebrating the British sitcom and taking a look at the social and political context from which our favourite sitcoms grew. We enjoy a trip through the comedy archive in the company of the people who made some of the very best British sitcoms. From The Likely Lads to I'm Alan Partridge, we find out the inspiration behind some of the most-loved characters and how they reflect the times they were living in.

Gregor Samsa, a traveling salesman, wakes up in his bed to find himself transformed into a large insect. After the metamorphosis, he becomes confined to his room and neglected by his family.

John Smith has been happily involved in a bigamous marriage for five years. He lives with Stephanie in Finsbury and Michelle in Stockwell. Fortunately, for John, he's a taxi driver which involves varying shift work! Simple? Well, when John unwittingly becomes a have-a-go hero and the Finsbury and Stockwell police forces discover something suspicious in their paperwork, John's happy bubble is about to be burst. The action of the movie takes place during the next hectic 24 hours as John, with the assistance of his gullible neighbor Gary, rush between North and South London attempting to thwart the police and prevent the two loving wives coming face to face!

It's all in a day's work for high-flying literary agent Alexander; manuscripts to read, deals to be done, celebrity clients to be taken out to lunch, but first there is an author to deal with whose latest book the agent thinks is, frankly, not up to scratch. However he hadn't counted on the author's resourcefulness.

A corrupt parish council embezzle EU money to pay for their decadent lifestyles instead of funding the cultural development of their town. They soon find themselves having to perform the unimaginable task of producing one of the great Shakespearean plays for the most important festival in the EU cultural calendar.

Película dividida en siete episodios. Unos tipos algo desquiciados descubrirán hasta qué punto están preparados para escapar de situaciones desesperadas. "Supermarket": una cajera (Douglas) trabaja en un supermercado al que acude continuamente una chica (Daryl Hannah) que trae de cabeza a todos los hombres. "New Year’s Eve" (Nochevieja): durante una fiesta de Nochevieja, una bella adolescente seducirá a un hombre adulto ante la desaprobación de sus esnobs amigos. "Bangers" (Cacharros): algo extraño ocurre cuando una mujer con una imaginación prodigiosa cocina puré de patatas para su madre. "A Whole New Day" (Un Nuevo Día): un hombre, que se despierta ebrio en una casa vacía, cree que su mujer y sus hijos lo han abandonado..

After his best friend dies, Charlie hits the road and stumbles into Lighthouse Hill, a village where residents seem to know a lot more about him than they should.

When Elfrida Philips abandons London for a country village, she settles in quickly. She is very poor, but has a tiny cottage, her four-legged friend Horace, and friendships of good neighbors. Tragedy upsets her newfound tranquillity, and she takes refuge in a rambling house with a new gentleman friend in Corrydale. But the group proves to be greater than the sum of its ill-fitting parts, and as the solstice passes, and as Christmas approaches, the healing power of love, begins to work its magic. (Filmed at Dunrobin Castle, Golspie, Sutherland)

Born Mary Ann Evans in 1819, the novelist George Eliot was a woman ahead of her time: a proud and determined individual who continually broke the sexual, religious and social rules of Victorian society. George Eliot: A Scandalous Life explores how the scandals and rumours that plagued her life, never defeated her will or her literary genius; and how, against all odds, she went on to write some of the world's greatest novels including Middlemarch, The Mill on the Floss, and Silas Marner.

Varsovia, 1939. El pianista polaco de origen judío Wladyslaw Szpilman (Adrien Brody) interpreta un tema de Chopin en la radio nacional de Polonia mientras la aviación alemana bombardea la capital. El régimen nazi ha invadido el país, y como hace en otros países invadidos, lleva a cabo la misma política con respecto a los judíos. Así Szpilman y toda su familia -sus padres, su hermano y sus dos hermanas- se ven obligados a dejar su casa y todo lo que les pertenece para trasladarse con miles de personas de origen judío al ghetto de Varsovia. Mientras Wladyslaw trabaja como pianista en un restaurante propiedad de un judío que colabora con los nazis, su hermano Henryk (Ed Stoppard) prefiere luchar contra los nazis. Pero tres años más tarde, los habitantes del ghetto son trasladados en trenes hacia campos de concentración.

This star-studded gala celebrates the centenary of the birth of legendary Broadway composer Richard Rodgers. Rodgers' contribution to musical theatre was extraordinary, including 900 published songs, 40 Broadway musicals and several film scores. Rodgers, together with lyricists Lorenz Hart and later Oscar Hammerstein II, wrote many of the best known musicals of the 20th Century, including Babes In Arms, Oklahoma!, Carousel, South Pacific, The King and I and The Sound of Music. This performance at London's Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, directed for the stage by Simon Callow, includes songs, dance, staged numbers and anecdotes featuring leading stars from both Broadway and London's West End. The cast comprises luminaries drawn from Oklahoma!, Kiss Me Kate, Chicago, The King and I and other recent productions as well as from television. This musical extravaganza features many of Rodgers' best-loved classics.

Oklahoma! is a 1999 musical film directed by Trevor Nunn, choreographed by Susan Stroman, and starring Hugh Jackman as Curly McLain, Josefina Gabrielle as Laurey Williams, and Maureen Lipman as Aunt Eller. The production featured the entire 1998 London revival cast at the Royal National Theatre.

A sea captain with a vessel not deemed sea worthy by the ship inspectors assembles a motley crew to sail along the path of Captain Scoresby, a sea captain who sailed from Whitby in northern England to the Arctic in 1791. His crew includes bickering sisters, an Australian hitchhiker who is hiding from his girl friends, and the seaman's confidante who runs a local trailer park. Putting the ship to sea, the group is pursued by the authorities.

A young Jew in 1911 Wales tries to make his living by selling fabrics door to door, but to do so he must hide his nationality. On one of his sales he meets and falls in love with a demure young woman with a strong-willed father and a Jew-hating brother. The two fall in love and she becomes pregnant, but only then does she learn of his ethnic background. When anti-Jewish riots break out, the two are forced to flee and become separated.

Doting parents (Maureen Lipman, David Ross, Tom Wilkinson) must adjust to life without their children as their offspring leave for college and form relationships. Sequel to Eskimo Day.

Comedy drama about the trials and tribulations of three sets of parents as they finally realise that their children have grown up and reluctantly they have to let them enroll at Cambridge University.

El Gran Abdul está preocupado. Sus espías le han comunicado que un tal Cristóbal Colón prepara un viaje para descubrir nuevas rutas a las indias, lo que arruinará sus negocios. Por lo tanto decide enviar su mejor espía para intentar sabotear el viaje.

A tribute to the work of monologist and comedienne Joyce Grenfell, performed by Maureen Lipman.

British comedy legend Victoria Wood entertains a star-studded audience including Julie Walters, Judi Dench and Dawn French in this 1988 special. Watch her crack jokes, play the piano and answer light-hearted questions.

It's Julie's last night as a mini-cab driver and it's a night full of adventures she'll never forget.

A movie in three acts following three couples who, over three years, each host a Christmas party. The camera stays in the kitchen and we are treated to Ayckbourn's beautifully detailed look at middle class life.

Adaptation of the play by Alan Ayckbourn.

Clark tiene la idea de volver a pasar unas vacaciones con su familia. Para ello ha trabajado duro y ha conseguido un viaje a Europa. Gran Bretaña, Alemania, Francia e Italia serán las damnificadas.

When the King of Navarre and three of his cronies swear to spend all their days in study and not to look at any girls, they've forgotten that the daughter of the King of France is coming on a diplomatic visit. And the lady herself and her attendants play merry havoc with their intentions.

Biopic of Arthur Lucan, who portrayed Old Mother Riley for over twenty years on stage and screen.

La idílica existencia de un diplomático en una nación de las islas antillanas se transforma en el caos, cuando una empresa de perforación encuentra una enorme fuente de agua mineral natural.

Comedia basada en un gran éxito del teatro londinense. Rita (Julie Walters), una peluquera insatisfecha que lleva una vida anodina, decide apuntarse a un curso de literatura en la universidad para intentar escapar a sus frustraciones. La extraordinaria transformación que experimenta afecta también a su profesor (Michael Caine), que se enamora de ella.

The local social cricket team are up to bat and sometimes it seems they are one batsman short of of an eleven. There are good secrets and not so good secrets that come to light during the course of the day. Roger is the ultimate captain rallying his troops whilst ignoring his greatest strength, Miriam, who makes the 'fantastic' teas with or without the 'non-compulsory' help. The days builds to a climax where it seems that everything must change forever. But will it?

Summer, 1948. 14-year-old Alan has just three wishes: that there will be lasting peace, that England will win the Ashes, and that he will finally kiss classmate Ann. So when he's cast opposite her in a play that requires a kiss and England seem to be doing well in cricket, life couldn't be better.

When D. C. Dangerous Davies, not held in high regard by his superiors, is assigned to find a notorious criminal kingpin, he uncovers the details of 15-year-old cold case.

The girls of St. Trinian's decide they are being asked to do too much work so they go on strike.

Four men attempt "The Knowledge" examination to qualify as London taxi drivers.

John Thaw plays Vinny Mathews a small time boxing promoter who struggles with his conscience as to whether or not to provide a fighter for a Sporting Club promotion, a fighter he knows is unfit against an opponent who is way out of his league. However Mathews needs sponsorship and this would be the ideal opportunity to mix with the "frilly shirted" sportsmen who enjoy their lavish lifestyle as fighters slug it out as the steak is served!

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.

Segunda Guerra Mundial (1939-1945). Durante los intensos bombardeos de la aviación alemana (la Luftwaffe) sobre las principales ciudades inglesas, una madre judía envía a sus dos hijos de Manchester a Blackpool para ponerlos a salvo. Pero los niños se sienten desgraciados en su nuevo hogar.

Rough, tough and politically incorrect in the way that only the best 70's dramas can be, Regan was a pilot film for The Sweeney - one of the major television successes of the last fifty years. Featuring John Thaw as the irascible Detective Inspector Regan and Dennis Waterman as his loyal 'oppo' Detective Sergeant Carter, Regan was an immediate critical and ratings hit, resulting in four series of The Sweeney and two successful feature films. Jack Regan is a good copper, but his tough, intuitive style is becoming unfashionable in a Scotland Yard seeking a new image. When a policeman is mysteriously murdered, Regan breaks all the rules to find the killer - but he finds there are men in the Flying Squad prepared to break him.

File It Under Fear takes place in an outwardly normal rural British community. The tranquility is shattered by a series of brutal murders, all of them occurring in the library.

On a day in the summer of 1912, the family of retired matinee idol James Tyrone grapples with the morphine addiction of Tyrone's wife Mary, the illness of their youngest son Edmund, and the alcoholism and debauchery of the older son Jamie. As day turns into night, guilt, anger, despair, and regret threaten to destroy the family.

Eddie Ginley (Albert Finney), un presentador y animador de veladas de cabaret, es un apasionado de la literatura policiaca que vive obsesionado con la idea de convertirse en un personaje de Dashiell Hammett. Así, un día, publica un anuncio ofreciéndose como detective privado. Pronto se le presenta el primer caso: un desconocido se pone en contacto con él y le envía una importante suma de dinero, una pistola y una fotografía para que haga desaparecer a una joven universitaria, hija de un militar. Ginley se ve entonces involucrado en una serie de turbios asuntos ligados a la política, a las drogas y al tráfico de armas. (FILMAFFINITY)

A musical version of the life of the 17th Century English radical politician, John Wilkes, who campaigned for the right for voters to determine their representatives, not the House of Commons.

A traumatized and troubled teenager is sent to an all-girls detention home where she strikes up an unlikely friendship with a fellow inmate.

Aburrida por la vida cómoda que lleva en Chelsea, Polly se muda al monótono barrio obrero de Battersea, en Londres, cerca de la estación de ferrocarril Clapham Junction, y toma un puesto en una fábrica de caramelos, en donde se hace amiga de dos hermanas, Rube y Sylvie. Después de mudarse a un piso sucio, Polly va a comprar muebles a una tienda de chatarra y se encuentra con Peter, un joven empleado del lugar. Él la invita a salir y ella acepta. A pesar de que Polly está fascinada por su nuevo entorno, Peter sólo ve en él pobreza y fealdad. Algún tiempo después, Polly se entera de que Rube está embarazada de su novio Terry, y la acompaña a un abortista de mala reputación. Rube finalmente anuncia su compromiso con Terry, pero en la noche de la celebración, Terry muere en un accidente de motocicleta. Angustiada por los problemas de sus amigas,