Tony Pierce-Roberts

Merchant Ivory is the longest running partnership in the history of cinema. As a film production entity, Merchant Ivory was founded in 1961 by producer Ismail Merchant (1936–2005) and director James Ivory (b. 1928). Merchant and Ivory were life and business partners from 1961 until Merchant's death in 2005. During their time together they made 43 films.

Leeds born filmmaker David Nicholas Wilkinson's thirty three year quest to prove that the worlds film industry started in Leeds, Yorkshire, England in 1888.

若いヴァンパイアたちが学ぶ聖ウラジーミル学園、通称ヴァンパイア・アカデミー。そこに通う人間とヴァンパイアのハーフであるローズは、親友であり、命に限りあるヴァンパイアの一族・モロイの王位継承者でもあるリサとかつて窮屈な学園を脱走し、ある不思議な絆で彼女と結ばれていた。ローズは、敵対するヴァンパイア一族・ストリゴイからリサを守るため、モロイを守護する“ガーディアン”となるべく特訓を重ねていたが…。

Tom and Hannah have been platonic friends for 10 years. He's a serial dater, while she wants marriage but hasn't found Mr. Right. Just as Tom is starting to think that he is relationship material after all, Hannah gets engaged. When she asks Tom to be her 'maid' of honor, he reluctantly agrees just so he can attempt to stop the wedding and woo her.

The day after they get the word they'll go home in two weeks, a group of soldiers from Spokane are ambushed in an Iraqi city. Back stateside we follow four of them - a surgeon who saw too much, a teacher who's a single mom and who lost a hand in the ambush, an infantry man whose best friend died that day, and a soldier who keeps reliving the moment he killed a civilian woman.

ある日、火星にあるユニオン宇宙社オルドゥヴァイ研究所から“極秘研究の被験者が脱出、至急ここを封鎖しろ”との救援要請が入る。早速、カリフォルニア海兵隊特殊作戦本部ＲＲＴＳ＜緊急対応戦略部隊＞の精鋭８人が選ばれ、火星へと送り込まれる。そして捜索を開始した彼らの前に、到底人間とは思えない巨大な影が出現、ついにはメンバーから犠牲者が出てしまう。この未曾有の事態を前にして、リーダーを務める冷徹な軍人サージと隊員の一人リーパーとの間で作戦をめぐって対立が深まっていく…。

From Paris to Venice to Broadway to Hollywood, the lives of Cole Porter and his wife, Linda were never less than glamorous and wildly unconventional. And though Cole's thirst for life strained their marriage, Linda never stopped being his muse, inspiring some of the greatest sons of the twentieth century.

ブラックレザーのロングコートに身を包み、夜の街を見下ろす一人の美女。ビルの屋上からコートをはためかせ、静かに地上に着地した彼女の正体は、ヴァンパイアの女戦士セリーン。彼女は長年戦い続けてきた宿敵、ライカンが、マイケルという若い人間の医師を執拗に追いかけていることに気付き不審に思う。セリーンは一族の現リーダー、クレイヴンにライカンの不穏な動きを報告したが、彼はたいした問題ではないと片付ける。しかし彼女は、ライカンが良からぬ陰謀を画策していると直感し、マイケルを追いかけるのだった。同時に彼女は、いつしか自分がマイケル自身に興味を抱いていると感じ、戸惑いを覚えていた……。...

Two young gentlemen living in 1890s England use the same pseudonym ("Ernest") on the sly, which is fine until they both fall in love with women using that name, which leads to a comedy of mistaken identities...

An intricately plotted tale of thwarted love and betrayal, "The Golden Bowl" tells the story of an extravagantly rich American widower and his sheltered daughter, both of whom marry only to discover that their respective mates, a beautiful American expatriate and an impoverished Italian aristocrat, are entangled with one another in a romantic intrigue of seduction and deceit.

ニューヨークで深夜、トンネルの工事現場で明らかに他殺とみられる遺体が発見され、辣腕の科学捜査官リンカーン・ライムが派遣された。リンカーンは重要な証拠を採取する前に現場を荒らされたくないがために自分以外の捜査官を全て遺体発見現場から遠ざけ、一人狭いトンネルの奥に潜り込んで行った。瓦礫の下敷きになっていた遺体の顔を見ると、リンカーンは驚愕した。そこに横たわっていたのは自分の遺体で、驚愕のあまり硬直している間にトンネルの上から重い金属製のパイプが降ってきた。

The Trench tells the story of a group of young British soldiers on the eve of the Battle of the Somme in the summer of 1916, the worst defeat in British military history. Against this ill-fated backdrop, the movie depicts the soldiers' experience as a mixture of boredom, fear, panic, and restlessness, confined to a trench on the front lines.

Set in 50 B.C., Asterix and Obelix are living in a small but well-protected village in Gaul, where a magic potion concocted by Druids turns the townsfolk into mighty soldiers. When Roman troops carve a path through Gaul to reach the English Channel, Caesar and his aide de camp Detritus discover the secret elixir and capture the Druid leader who knows its formula, and Asterix and Obelix are sent off to rescue them.

Reports of a weeping Madonna in Italy reach Las Vegas, where blackjack dealer Maggie has just learnt she has only weeks to live. With a massive leap of faith she convinces herself that seeing the Madonna with her own eyes could lead to her salvation, and travels to Europe to find it. Hitching through Italy, she meets pianist Mike, who is also en route to what he believes could be a life-changing event - a performance at the Barbarina concert in Naples.

幼いマリーのもと、おじいちゃんがオウムのひな、ポーリーを連れてきた。ポーリーは人間の言葉を理解し、人間の言葉をしゃべる不思議なオウム。思うように言葉を話せない飼い主マリーのことを想ったポーリーは、彼女の言葉の先生になる。しかし、ポーリーとしか遊ばない娘を心配した両親は、ポーリーをカゴに入れて遠くへ連れていってしまった・・・。ポーリーは愛しいマリーのもとへ帰るため、旅へ出る決意をした。だが、そこにはいくつもの試練が待ちうけていた・・・。

Clarissa Dalloway looks back on her youth as she readies for a gathering at her house. The wife of a legislator and a doyenne of London's upper-crust party scene, Clarissa finds that the plight of ailing war veteran Septimus Warren Smith reminds her of a past romance with Peter Walsh. In flashbacks, young Clarissa explores her possibilities with Peter.

Sought by police and criminals, a small-time huckster makes a deal with a TV newsman for protection.

Uptight New York City executive, Michael Cromwell, pursues his soon-to-be ex-wife to South America and returns home with the son he never knew he had—a boy raised in a tribal village in Brazil. Armed with only his blowgun, the 13-year-old Mimi-Siku discovers that the world outside his jungle home is indeed a strange place.

The passionate Merchant-Ivory drama tells the story of Francoise Gilot, the only lover of Pablo Picasso who was strong enough to withstand his ferocious cruelty and move on with her life.

Professor David Ash exposes false spiritulists and mediums. He is invited to Edbrook to resolve the fears and torments within its secretive family. Soon after arriving Ash begins to doubt his own senses, and watching the strange behaviour of its residents does not make his task any easier. In time, he finds there's more to Edbrook than even he can debunk.

An agoraphobic psychologist and a female detective must work together to take down a serial killer who copies serial killers from the past.

上院議員殺しの真相を知る弁護士が自殺した。検事局は、目撃者の11歳の少年マークの口を割ろうと執拗な接触を図る。頼る者のないマークは、わずか1ドルで女弁護士を雇うが……。

かつての恋人に呼び出されたトムは、社内で誘惑される。断って部屋を出たトムを彼女がセクハラで訴えたことからゲームに巻き込まれる……。ハイテク企業を舞台にしたセクシャル・サスペンス。

日系の英国作家K・イシグロのブッカー賞受賞作を基に、侯爵に忠実な執事として徹底的にストイックに生きた一人の男の悲哀を描いた物語。恋を知らぬ彼は安っぽい恋愛小説に慰めを得、それを女中頭に見つかり頬を赤らめる。互いに愛情を感じながらもその感情を抑えこんでしまう彼に、彼女は待ちきれず、彼の友人と結婚し町を去る。戦後、侯爵がこの世を去り、ようやく自由を感じた彼は女中頭を訪ねるのだが……。

Thad Beaumont is the author of a highly successful series of violent pulp thrillers written under the pseudonym of ‘George Stark’, but when he decides to ‘kill-off’ his alter-ego in a mock ceremony, it precipitates a string of sadistic murders matching those in his pulp novels, which are soon discovered to be the work of Stark himself. Looking like a maniacal version of his counterpart, Stark is not so willing to quit the writing game – even if it means coming after Thad's wife and their baby.

A member of the English upper class dies, leaving his estate and his business to an American, whom he thinks is his son who was lost as a baby and then found again. An Englishman who thinks he is an Indian comes to believe that he is actually the heir. He comes to hate the American who is his boss, his friend, and the man who has stolen the woman after whom he lusts.

旅行中に親しくなった上流階級の二つの家。両家から恋におちたヘレンとポールだったが、別れることに。だがやがて両家は隣同士として住むことに……。閉塞的な英階級社会に生きる人々の愛憎。

Jack London's classic adventure story about the friendship developed between a Yukon gold hunter and the mixed dog-wolf he rescues from the hands of a man who mistreats him.

Set during World War II, an upper-class family begins to fall apart due to the conservative nature of the patriarch and the progressive values of his children.

A Pittsburgh apartment superintendent loses his job and home when the apartment building where he lives and works at is suddenly destroyed by fire. Daniel and his family moves in with his brother but that doesn't last for long due to the two families not getting along with each other. The family moves from rundown hotels to homeless shelters as Daniel searches work as a electrician while his wife takes waitress jobs to try to make ends meet.

Meet the denizens of New York City: artists, prostitutes, saints, and seers. All are aspiring toward either fame or oblivion, and hoping for love and acceptance. Instead they find high rents, faithless partners, and dead-end careers.

Sunny is married to the butcher, Ernie, and their marriage is about to end as both of them have affairs. Thus Sunny hires Lester Atlas as private investigator in order to collect proof for the divorce. One evening drunken Ernie and his partner Dave have a fight in the butcher shop with Ernie getting knocked out in the fridge where he dies during the night. But it was not Dave's fault but intentional murder by Sunny. Only Lester has proof so Sunny kills him, too. Thus she only has to kill Dave to get rid of all witnesses, but he can free himself out of the fridge and wants to take revenge.

A young man falls for his girlfriend's mother.

まだ封建的であった20世紀初頭のイギリス。良家の令嬢ルーシーは、旅先のフィレンツェで労働者階級の青年と出会う。情熱的な彼にルーシーは強く惹かれるが……。格調高い様式美の中で綴られるラヴ・ロマンス。

In the summer of 1947, Britain prepares to commemorate the wedding of Princess Elizabeth and Prince Phillip. To get around food-rationing laws, Dr. Charles Swaby, accountant Henry Allardyce and solicitor Frank Lockwood are fattening a black-market pig for the big day. Egged on by his wife, meek Gilbert Chilvers steals the swine, but the couple must conceal it from inspector Morris Wormold.

A girl visiting modern day East Germany with her estranged father begins reliving the horrifying events that happened to a young girl living there during World War II.

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.

A Polish contractor, Nowak, leads a group of workmen to London so they can provide cheap labor for a government official based there. Nowak has to manage the project and the men as they encounter the tempations of the West and loneliness and separation from their families. Nowak is the only one of the group who speaks English, and he uses this as a tool over his team. When the unrest in Poland leads to a military takeover, Nowak is faced with a much more difficult situation than he expected.

A two-hour investigation presented by Don Cupitt of Emmanuel College, Cambridge There can be little doubt that Jesus is in fashion. Even in a secular century, he seems to exercise as strong a grip as ever on our imagination. But is there any basis in history for the Jesus of television and cinema or the Christ of the Christian Church? Did such a man ever live and if so can we discover what he was like? Don Cupitt follows a trail of manuscripts and archaeological discoveries back to the time of Jesus. He consults John Fenton, Principal of St Chad's College, Durham, about the miracles and myths. George Caird, Professor-Elect of New Testament at Oxford, challenges the idea that Jesus thought of himself as the divine ' Son of God'. Other contributions and reactions from Professor Anthony Birley, Professor David Flusser, Bishop Christopher Butler, Canon Michael Green, songwriter Sydney Carter, and archaeologists Nahman Avigad and L. Y. Rahmani.

A biography of Antonio Vivaldi's early life, when the young priest became the music teacher at a school for the illegitimate daughters of Venice's courtesans.