Hans Matheson

前作で100万もの兵を率いてギリシャ侵攻を図るペルシャ帝国を相手に、300人の精鋭と共に戦いを繰り広げた果てに命を落としたスパルタのレオニダス王。今回の物語は灼熱の門で全滅したレオニダス達と同じ時間の別の戦い、エーゲ海での海戦を軸にしている。 アテナイのテミストクレス将軍は、パン屋、陶工、詩人といった一般市民から成るギリシャ連合軍を率いてペルシャ帝国海軍に立ち向かっていく。 ペルシャ帝国の海軍指揮官アルテミシアらと拮抗する中、ついに大海原を舞台にした最終決戦を迎えることに。

Deep in the heart of the English countryside lies the enchanting village of Gladbury. Legend has it every 25 years an angel visits the village candlemaker and touches a single candle. Whoever lights this candle receives a miracle on Christmas Eve. But in 1890, at the dawn of the electric age, this centuries old legend may come to an end.

星座が誕生する以前の古代ギリシア時代。世界を支配していたのはクロノスが率いるタイタンの神々だった。しかし、クロノスの息子の神であるゼウス、ポセイドン、ハデスらオリンポスの神が台頭した。ゼウスはハデスに「父を倒す為の怪物」を創る様に頼んだ。ハデスは自身の肉体を削り恐ろしい怪物クラーケンを創った。クロノスを打ち倒したゼウスたちはそれぞれの支配地を決めたゼウスは天界と神々の王にポセイドンは海洋の王になった。しかし、ハデスはゼウスに騙されて長兄でありながら暗黒の冥界の王となっていた。やがて神々は人間を創り、彼らからの崇拝と愛を糧に不老不死を保っていた。しかし、傲慢の限りを尽くす神々に対し、ついに人間たちは反旗を翻す。

1891年のロンドン。若い女性が次々と誘拐され、儀式を思わせる不気味な手口で殺されてしまう。私立探偵ホームズと相棒ワトソンはスコットランド・ヤードと連携し、邪悪な黒魔術を操る犯人、ブラックウッド卿を逮捕。だがブラックウッド卿は死刑の直前、すぐに復活すると言い残す。その後ブラックウッド卿が甦ったとの報せがホームズたちに届いたのに続き、世界征服をめざすブラックウッド卿は、ある秘密組織を乗っ取っていた。

Bathory is based on the legends surrounding the life and deeds of Countess Elizabeth Bathory known as the greatest murderess in the history of mankind. Contrary to popular belief, Elizabeth Bathory was a modern Renaissance woman who ultimately fell victim to men’s aspirations for power and wealth.

Rachel Carson, a best-selling crime novelist, is devastated and filled with guilt over the accidental death of her son. Hoping that a change of scenery will help alleviate her suffering, she leaves her home in the city and moves into a vacant country house owned by a friend and begins a relationship with charming local Angus. But, just as her life is taking a turn for the better, Rachel realizes she's being romanced by a ghost, leading her to doubt her own sanity.

As a young boy, future emperor Nero witnesses the mad Emperor Caligula kill his father and exile his mother. While in exile in the pontine islands, Agrippina, his mother, sees a vision telling her that her son can become emperor, but she will have to die first. She accepts the proposal. Back in Rome, Nero, now being raised by emperor Claudius after Caligula's death, Agrippina returns. She poisons Claudius' food and Nero becomes emperor. At first, Nero cuts taxes and introduces successful programs and invades Brittania. Soon he meets a beautiful slave named Claudia Acte, and marries her, throwing off his engagement with Claudius' daughter, Claudia Octavia, telling her she can marry someone she will be happy with. Heartbroken, she arrives at an island and kills herself. Nero enjoys being married to Claudia Acte, but soon he gradually goes mad with power and sets fire to Rome.

Comfortably Numb shows us Jake's struggle to overcome his alcoholism in a rehab center, Promis. After early difficulties, he starts to make progress when he forms a relationship with a fellow patient, Emma. But they are forbidden to see each other after Jake is confronted about his "sex and love" addiction in a group counselling session. This creates more problems, as Jake doesn't understand that his dependence on the relationship with Emma is actually a barrier to his rehabilitation. A night of excess sparked by drugs makes things get out of hand. Jake decides to leave the center and fight his addiction on his own terms. But almost immediately he goes into a pub. It seems as though Jake will fall back into being an alcoholic, but as the film ends, we see that he has returned to Promis, and is determined to make a full recovery this time.

In the brutal trench fighting of the First World War, a British Infantry Company is separated from their regiment after a fierce battle. Attempting to return to their lines, the British soldiers discover what appears to be a bombed out German trench, abandoned except for a few dazed German soldiers. After killing most of the Germans, and taking one prisoner, the British company fortifies to hold the trench until reinforcements can arrive. Soon, however, strange things being to happen as a sense of evil descends on the trench and the British begin turn on each other.

In Northern Norway during the 1860s, a little girl named Dina accidentally causes her mother's death. Overcome with grief, her father refuses to raise her, leaving her in the care of the household servants. Dina grows up wild and unmanageable, with her only friend being the stable boy, Tomas. She summons her mother's ghost and develops a strange fascination with death as well as a passion for living.

Virgil Guppy buys a sleek-looking used Jaguar, but the car turns out to be a lemon. Unfortunately, that's just the start of his problems; a dead prostitute is discovered in the trunk, and Virgil is accused of her murder. Aided by a dysfunctional family of thieves, unorthodox police procedure and some clever body work of his own, he sets out to clear his name.

Costanza is drinking a beer in a Prague pub, a summer night in 1968, while a violinist enters and starts playing a "canone inverso" for her. It is not a case, that music and that violin have a story behind that could concern her. It is the love story between Jeno Varga and the music, between Jeno and Sophie.

Nine short stories based on the true experiences of London Underground passengers.

In the seventies Strange Fruit were it. They lived the rock lifestyle to the max, groupies, drugs, internal tension and an ex front man dead from an overdose. Even their demise was glamorous; when lightning struck the stage during an outdoor festival. 20 years on and these former rock gods they have now sunk deep into obscurity when the idea of a reunion tour is lodged in the head of Tony, former keyboard player of the Fruits. Tony sets out to find his former bandmates with the help of former manager Karen to see if they can recapture the magic and give themselves a second chance.

ひと切れのパンを盗んだ罪で、19年の獄中生活を強いられたジャン・バルジャン。仮出獄した彼は改心し、やがて市長にまでなって尊敬を集めていたが……。時代を超えて心を打つ、人間ドラマの名作。

A young Glaswegian prostitute in London tries to start a new life.

The sexual rivalries over a new, potentially great rock'n'roll singer between a nightclub owner and a local gangster cause unrest and eventually lead to murder.

The Cornish military captain, now a member of Parliament, is drawn into the war with France while his son falls in with smugglers. Historical drama, starring John Bowe and Mel Martin, and featuring a young Ioan Gruffudd in one of his earliest roles.

Dream-like short film starring Samantha Morton, in one of her earliest screen credits, as one of a couple on the run who hide out in the Fens.