Helen McCrory

The true story of Charlotte Salomon, a young German-Jewish painter who comes of age in Berlin on the eve of the Second World War. Fiercely imaginative and deeply gifted, she dreams of becoming an artist. Her first love applauds her talent, which emboldens her resolve. When anti-Semitic policies inspire violent mobs, she escapes to the safety of the South of France. There she begins to paint again, and finds new love. But her work is interrupted, this time by a family tragedy that reveals an even darker secret. Believing that only an extraordinary act will save her, she embarks on the monumental adventure of painting her life story.

Since 2017, Letters Live has produced 11 shows at the Union Chapel, with no two shows being the same.

In a tale of double agents and decoys, this documentary reveals, for the first time, the story of King George VI's elaborate ruse to divert German attention away from the Normandy landings in 1944.

ゴッホの友人で郵便配達人であった父から、弟テオ宛てのゴッホの手紙を届けてほしいと頼まれたアルマン。テオ探しに出た彼が、ゴッホの死の真相を探ることになり……。全編動く油絵で構成されるアート・サスペンス。

During the Blitz of World War II, a female screenwriter works on a film celebrating England's resilience as a way to buoy a weary populace's spirits. Her efforts to dramatise the true story of two sisters who undertook their own maritime mission to rescue wounded soldiers are met with mixed feelings by a dismissive all-male staff.

A flat in Ladbroke Grove, West London. 1952. When Hester Collyer is found by her neighbours in the aftermath of a failed suicide attempt, the story of her tempestuous affair with a former RAF pilot and the breakdown of her marriage to a High Court judge begins to emerge. With it comes a portrait of need, loneliness and long-repressed passion. Behind the fragile veneer of post-war civility burns a brutal sense of loss and longing.

What really happened during Shakespeare's 'Lost Years'? Hopeless lute player Bill Shakespeare leaves his home to follow his dream.

1682年フランス。国王のルイ14世は、国の栄華を象徴するヴェルサイユ宮殿の増改築を計画する。国王の庭園建築家アンドレ・ル・ノートルは、庭園の建設をサビーヌという無名の女性庭師との共同で任されることに。自由な発想で仕事に臨む彼女と伝統と秩序を大切にしてきたアンドレは、事あるごとに衝突してしまう。その後、徐々に彼女の唯一無二であるセンスを認め、彼女の魅力に惹かれていく。

40 years after the first haunting at Eel Marsh House, a group of children evacuated from WWII London arrive, awakening the house's darkest inhabitant.

Medea is a wife and a mother. For the sake of her husband, Jason, she’s left her home and borne two sons in exile. But when he abandons his family for a new life, Medea faces banishment and separation from her children. Cornered, she begs for one day’s grace. It’s time enough. She exacts an appalling revenge and destroys everything she holds dear.

The life and times of Tommy Cooper

Funny, passionate, exciting, and smart: ‘Muse Of Fire’ will change the way you feel about Shakespeare forever. This unique feature documentary follows two actors, Giles Terera and Dan Poole, as they travel the world to find out everything they can about tackling the greatest writer of them all. Together they have directed and produced an inspiring film that aims to demystify and illuminate Shakespeare’s work for everyone: from actors, directors and students of all disciplines, right through to the? man on the street? Denmark with Jude Law, Baz Luhrmann in Hollywood, Prison in Berlin, and on the street with Mark Rylance. Think Shakespeare is boring? Think again!

Frankie is in her forties, ambitious and successful. She works in the aerospace industry at Filton, designing surveillance drones for the military. Shes never married, and is completely in control of every part of her life. Her closest relationship is with her father, who worked as an engineer on Concorde. But her life changes forever when she embarks on a passionate affair with Kahil, a French/Algerian aerospace student, twenty years younger than her. One day, she arrives at work and is detained by the security services: Kahil is a person of interest to MI5. Her well-ordered life starts to unravel in a welter of suspicion and prejudice, as Frankie no longer knows whether to follow her passion or listen to the doubts that increasingly overwhelm her.

「007」をコードネームに持つMI6のエージェント、ジェームズ・ボンドは新人女性エージェントのイヴとともにトルコでの作戦に参加していた。その最中、MI6の工作員が殺され、各国のテロ組織に潜入している全てのNATOの工作員の情報が収められたハードディスクが奪われた。ボンドはディスクを取り戻すべく、実行犯であるフランス人傭兵パトリスを追跡する。MI6部長・Mの指令により、ボンドと列車の上で格闘しているパトリスを狙ってイヴが撃った銃弾はボンドに当たり、ボンドは峡谷に落下し行方不明となる。 数ヶ月後。ボンドは公式に死亡が認定され、Mは情報漏洩の責任を問われ情報国防委員会の新委員長であるギャレス・マロリーから引退を勧められる。それは事実上の更迭勧告だった。その提案を拒絶するMだったが、その直後にMのコンピュータが何者かによってハックされる。さらにMI6本部も爆破され、多くの職員が犠牲となった。このニュースは僻地で秘かに過ごしていたボンドも目にするところとなり、ボンドはロンドンに戻る。00（ダブルオー）要員への復帰テストに臨むボンドだったが、成績は惨憺たるものであった。復帰に懐疑的なマロリーの意見を一蹴し、Mはボンドの職務復帰を承認する。ボンドは自身の肩に残っていた弾丸の破片からパトリスを特定し、新任の兵器開発課長・Qから装備を受け取ってパトリスの向かう上海へ赴く。

We’ll Take Manhattan explores the explosive love affair between sixties supermodel Jean Shrimpton and photographer David Bailey. Focusing on a wild and unpredictable 1962 Vogue photo shoot in New York, the drama brings to life the story of two young people falling in love, misbehaving and inadvertently defining the style of the Sixties along the way.

1931年、パリ。身寄りのない少年ヒューゴはリヨン駅の時計台の中に隠れ住み、孤独な毎日を送る。そんな彼に大切なのは、亡くなった父親が残した、壊れた“機械人形”。その修理に悪戦苦闘していたヒューゴは駅の構内にあるおもちゃ店で万引きを働き、店主の老人に、人形について書かれた大切な父のノートを取り上げられてしまう。そんなヒューゴだが、老人の養女イザベルと仲良くなり、一緒に機械人形の秘密を探る。

魔法界における善と悪の間で起こる戦いは本格的な交戦へとエスカレートする。この争いは今までで最も危険なものであり、もはや誰の身も安全ではない。しかしながらヴォルデモートとの最終決戦の時、最後の犠牲を払わなければならないのはハリー・ポッターなのである。 そして、ここに全てが終結する。

物語はハリー、ロン、ハーマイオニーに課せられた使命であるヴォルデモート抹殺の鍵を握る“分霊箱”を見つけ出すところから始まる。今や守ってくれる人も、導いてくれる師も失い、これまで以上に固い結束を求められるハリーたち。しかし、闇の力が、しっかりと結ばれたはずの3人の絆を引き裂いていく・・・・・。 一方、かつてないほど危険な場所となった魔法界。長いあいだ恐れられてきたヴォルデモート卿の復活が現実のものとなり、魔法省ばかりか、ホグワーツ魔法魔術学校までもが死喰い人の支配下に置かれた今、安全な場所はもはやどこにもなくなった。ヴォルデモート卿の命令により、ハリーを生け捕りにしようとする死喰い人の魔の手が迫る。 そして、分霊箱の手がかりを探すうちに出会った「死の秘宝」の伝説。ほとんど忘れられた古い物語に記されたその伝説が本当なら、ヴォルデモートは、分霊箱を上回る究極の力を手に入れてしまうかもしれない・・・・・。 ハリーはまったく知らないが、彼の未来は、彼自身の過去によってすでに決められているのだ。“生き残った男の子”になった日に、ハリーの運命は決まった。 初めてホグワーツの門をくぐったあの日からずっと積み重ねてきた準備―――それらはすべて、このヴォルデモートとの決着の日のために・・・・・。

Jo is chained down in a dead end supermarket job while all her friends are all out on their own separate adventures. But a chance encounter with some diamond thieves sends their separate worlds on a collision course with not only each other, but fate itself.

A dramatisation that follows Tony Blair's journey from political understudy waiting in the wings of the world arena to accomplished prime minister standing confidently in the spotlight of centre stage. It is a story about relationships, between two powerful men (Blair and Bill Clinton), two powerful couples, and husbands and wives.

かつては泥棒だったが、子どもが生まれてからまっとうになり、妻と息子の3匹で平穏な穴暮らしをしてきた、キツネのMr．FOX。だが、窮屈な穴ぐら生活を疑問に感じ、心機一転とばかりに丘の上の大木の家に引っ越す。実は丘の反対側には悪名高い人間の農場主3人が住んでいた。農場を見て野性の本能に目覚めたMr．FOXと動物仲間たちは、思わず農場から家畜を盗みだすように。怒った農場主たちはキツネ狩りを始める。

ヴォルデモート卿の支配力が強大になっていくなか、ハリーとダンブルドア校長は、ヴォルデモートの防御を解く手がかりを探るため、極めて重要な情報を握っているダンブルドアの旧友で元同僚ホラス・スラグホーンを学校に迎え入れる。

An aging Hollywood star, Joe Scott, lives a life of narcissistic hedonism, observed by his laconic personal assistant, Ophelia. The death of his childhood best friend, Boots, takes our protagonist, and the movie, into an extended flashback to a sea-side town in 1970's Britain.

Frankenstein is a 2007 British television film produced by Impossible Pictures for ITV. It was written and directed by Jed Mercurio, adapted from Mary Shelley's original novel to a present-day setting. Dr. Victoria Frankenstein, a female geneticist, accidentally creates a monster while growing her son's clone from stem cells as an organ donor in an effort to prevent his imminent death.

A biographical portrait of a pre-fame Jane Austen and her romance with a young Irishman.

1997年。パリでパパラッチの追跡を振り切ろうとした車が事故を起こし、車に乗っていたダイアナ元皇太子妃は命を落としてしまう。英国民の関心は、生前からたびたびダイアナとの不仲説が取り沙汰されていたエリザベス女王に向くが、チャールズ皇太子と離婚して民間人に戻っていたダイアナの死に対し、女王など王室の人々は静観を決め、大衆の不信感が募る。そこで首相に選ばれたばかりのトニー・ブレアが事態収拾に臨むが……。

With a reputation for seducing members of the opposite sex, regardless of their marital status, a notorious womanizer discovers a beauty who seems impervious to his charms. However, as he continues to pursue the indifferent lady, he finds himself falling in love.

The corpse of a shabbily dressed young woman has been discovered in the mud flats of the Thames at low tide. Police assume she's a prostitute, but Dr. Watson suspects something more and goes to his old friend Holmes, now retired and at very loose ends.

ロンドンに住むジョーとクレアは、ある日衝撃的な事故を目の当たりにし、その場に居合わせたジェッドという男と知り合いになる。

An endearing tale of faith and fate, with the odd miracle thrown in, set in the 1960's, Tommy is a 7-year-old boy without a dad who fills in the emotional gaps in his life by believing he is Jesus Christ.

The meeting of the quiet Helen North and the charismatic Carla on a beautiful Greek island leads to tragic consequences.

A rollicking adaptation of Kingsley Amis's first novel, Lucky Jim stars Stephen Tompkinson as Jim Dixon, a luckless lecturer at a provincial British university, trying to make a splash with his pompous boss, Professor Neddy Welch (Robert Hardy). Jim is also trying to make it with the woman of his dreams, Christine Callaghan (Keeley Hawes, Othello and Wives and Daughters), while simultaneously being pursued by the woman of his nightmares, fellow lecturer Margaret Peel (Helen McCrory, Anna Karenina). One (of many) complications is that Christine is the girlfriend of Professor Welch's egotistical artist son, Bertrand. Another is that Margaret keeps attempting suicide to get Jim's attention. But despite his misadventures, Jim keeps his eyes on the prize: a leg up on the ladder to a professorship in medieval history.

Rose and Antonia are two old friends who meet up again after the second world war. Unhappy in their relationships, they plan to 'accidentally' murder each others husbands.

１８１４年。港町マルセイユに住む航海士のエドモンは伯爵の子息フェルナンと幼馴染み。貧しいエドモンには裕福なフェルナンも羨む魅力的な婚約者メルセデスがいた。エドモンはやがて船長になり、晴れて結婚式を挙げることになった。しかしその矢先、エドモンは何者かの陰謀で罪人として牢獄に幽閉されてしまうのだった。やがて獄中でファリア司祭と出会い、彼のおかげで脱獄に成功したうえ巨額の財産を手にしたエドモンはモンテ・クリスト伯として社交界に華々しくデビューするのだった。この時、エドモンの真の目的に気づく者は誰一人居なかった。

This is a drama set in Nazi-occupied France at the height of World War II. Charlotte Gray tells the compelling story of a young Scottish woman working with the French Resistance in the hope of rescuing her lover, a missing RAF pilot. Based on the best-selling novel by Sebastian Faulks.

The film tells the story of the Blanche family who run a dark and dismal health resort on a remote island which is only accessible by ferry. The spa program consists of feeding the guests seaweed and eel-based meals, then administering liberal colonic irrigation. The spa is run by the family matriarch Dame Blanche until her death. Things continue on with her children running the resort until Kath, the resort's former sous chef and love interest of one of the sons, comes back to the island unannounced. Stranded between monthly ferries, she is a catalyst for a series of events that turns life as it is known at Hotel Splendide on its ear.

A split-second decision made in a fit of rage drives attorney and family man Michael Anderson to desperate measures.The stressed-out lawyer hits his melting point one fateful day, when he runs away from the consequences of his actions.

A wealthy, successful, East-Anglian tulip grower, Dad Savage is also something of a godfather in the local criminal fraternity but doesn't trust banks to take care of his money. On recommendation from his son, Sav, Dad hires two of Sav's unemployed school friends, Bob and Vic, to help with the business and the crime. After some careless talk from Harold, just known as 'H', about Dad's pension fund, Vic and Bob decide to steal the money from Dad if they can find it. The plans to liberate the money go awry and Sav is killed requiring Bob to call upon his sister Chris to rescue them. Dad intercepts their escape and forces a showdown to try to determine exactly the events of the night in order to identify his son's killer.

Television film version of Lee Hall's award-winning radio play. Spoonface is seven years old, Jewish, autistic - and terminally ill with cancer. As she tries to come to terms with the meaning of life and death, she draws inspiration from the prisoners in the Nazi concentration camps who died with dignity and their spirit unbowed.

Alun arrives in Glasgow to play a gig at The Edge, a comedy club run by would-be promoter Max T. Max T should be looking after Alun, but he already has his hands full trying to keep Sandy Cervi, his second cousin and business partner, from taking over the club. In a bid to sort out some 'poontang' for himself and Alun, Max invites Eva, a psychiatric nurse and her photographer friend Christina along to the gig.

After an audacious jewellery robbery the whole James family heads for home on the run with the obsessive detective Julia Armstrong in hot pursuit.

The true story of a Prussian aristocrat working for German military intelligence during World War II, who, with a group of fellow devout Christians, plotted to assassinate Hitler with a bomb in his briefcase.

The rough urban life in a Welsh valley that focuses on Jo, a single mother who has just become pregnant by her married boyfriend Kevin.

A tramp called Raymond finds his life changes radically when he gets his hands on a sought-after film script.

While restoring a fifteenth-century painting Julia reveals a hidden Latin phrase. A series of murders begin to rock her small world of art experts, patrons and restorers, and she finds that the mystery of the painting is interwoven with the mystery of the deaths around her.

現代のサンフランシスコ。とある部屋で、マスコミでのし上がろうとする野心的な若者クリスが、漆黒の髪の美青年ルイへインタビューを始めたが、その内容は驚くべきものだった。18世紀末の米ニューオリンズ。フランス移民のルイは当時25歳。最愛の妻と娘を亡くして絶望する彼に、美貌の吸血鬼レスタトが近づく。彼は、人間らしく揺れ動く繊細な魂のルイに興味を覚え、永遠の命を共にする伴侶として彼を選ぶ。

Adaptation of John Osborne's play.

Documentary feature about the shooting of season 3 of the british tv show Peaky Blinders.