Hugh Fraser

Eight short tales of ghostly encounters through the decades at the legendary Great White Horse Hotel in Ipswich. Since 1518, the premises have offered a night’s rest to such diverse luminaries as Charles Dickens, George II and the Beatles. The Haunted Hotel brings together eight tales of ghostly encounters, by turns spooky, comic, humorous and horrifying, all taking place among the rooms and corridors of this notoriously eerie establishment. 1924 – The Contraption. A ghost-hunter meets her match when she tries to use the latest technology to detect the presence of unquiet spirits. 1973 – The Writer. A novelist seeks inspiration for his next bestseller but finds his mind unravelling as his work turns into a dangerous obsession. 1836 – Watching. Charles Dickens has an unexpected encounter during a sleepless night in the regions, reporting for a newspaper on a local election. 1952 – Room 27B. Young lovers find their plans for tryst thrown into confusion when they take a wrong turn within…

A compendium of eight ghost stories, all set within an abandoned hotel in Suffolk.

British writer Agatha Christie (1890-1976) published her first novel in 1920, in which the eccentric Belgian private sleuth Hercule Poirot made his debut. Later, in 1927, the first short story starring the gentle spinster Miss Jane Marple appeared. A fascinating journey through popular culture in search of the footprints of two of the most charismatic characters in crime and mystery literature.

This film is the story of the last years of the life of T.E. Lawrence - Lawrence of Arabia - a scholar, writer, soldier and reluctant hero. Retiring to his cottage in Dorset he hopes to escape his past but is pulled into political intrigue. While he has powerful friends, with his uncompromising manner he has made dangerous enemies. As they plot against him he dies in a tragic motorcycle accident. However, with such enemies was his untimely death an assassination and cover up by the British Secret Service?

The film covers a period from 1984 to 1991 and tells about the rise of new independent states, including Kazakhstan. In addition, it features the role of the first President of Kazakhstan in the reforms carried out in the country, as well as the initiatives, which today have turned into global scale projects.

A millionaire philanthropist collects the famous Crystal Skulls trying to tap into their ancient powers. It is up to a team lead by a college professor whose father disappeared searching for the 13th skull to save the world when the first 12 skulls are united and reek havoc on the earth without the control of the 13th skull.

A satirical alternative history of World War II where the Nazis seize London and England must band together to prevent a full on invasion.

Sean Bean is back as the swashbuckling hero in Sharpe's Challenge, an action packed mini-series to be shot on location in Rajasthan, India. Two years after the Duke of Wellington crushes Napoleon at Waterloo, dispatches from India tell of a local Maharaja, Khande Rao, who is threatening British interests there. Wellington sends Sharpe to investigate on what turns out to be his most dangerous mission to date. When a beautiful general's daughter is kidnapped by the Indian warlord, the tension mounts, leaving Sharpe no option but to pursue the enemy right into its deadly lair. Deep in the heart of enemy territory he also has to keep at bay the beautiful but scheming Regent, Madhuvanthi, who is out to seduce him. The fate of an Empire and the life of a General's daughter lie in one man's hands...

Bernard Hill and Victoria Hamilton star in Alistair Beaton's wickedly funny feature-length drama inspired by David Blunkett's private affair held up for very public scrutiny.

A middle class London lad’s gangster fantasies go awry when his dodgy uncle puts them into debt to a real life crime boss. Still pulling strings from behind bars, the kingpin’s only desire is to conceive an heir by smuggling his sperm to his wife on the outside. There’s only one way the boys know how to raise the money fast … hijack the ‘baby juice express’. But kidnapping ‘baby juice’ turns out to be fraught with even more peril than the bumbling wannabes could possibly have imagined in this cheeky spin on the gangster genre. Starring Nick Moran (Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels), with Julian Clary (one of Britain’s funniest) and Joe Bugner (former boxing champion and one of Australia’s toughest!).

Fact-based war drama about an American battalion of over 500 men which gets trapped behind enemy lines in the Argonne Forest in October 1918 France during the closing weeks of World War I.

Based on the novel by Bernard Cornwell, "Sharpe's Waterloo" brings maverick British officer Lt. Col. Richard Sharpe to his last fight against the French, in June of 1815.

ゲーム・デザイナーのロジャーは愛犬ポンゴとロンドンに暮らしていた。ある日、散歩の途中で二人はアニタと彼女の愛犬パーディタに出会い、ロジャーはアニタと、ポンゴはパーディタと恋に落ちる。 ポンゴとパーディタには15匹の子犬が生まれるがアニタの上司であるクルエラはその子犬たちの毛皮でコートを作ろうと企んでいた。

Sharpe is teamed with a Colonel he helped promote and they are tasked to destroy a powder magazine, but an alliance with the French may threaten their success. Meanwhile, Jane is wearying of the army life and Harper and Ramona are at odds.

Sharpe, with his new commanding officer, is sent to capture a castle when news comes of locals who will rise against Bonaparte. However, he is somewhat distracted by thoughts of his wife whom he was forced to leave while stricken with fever.

When Sharpe is ordered to whip the King of Spain's Irish Royal Brigade into shape, he faces dissent from the men who believe the British are slaughtering their relatives in Ireland and a spy from within.

Sharpe is sent on a mission to exchange rifles for deserters with a strange band of Spanish guerillas. He also has to chaperone two women looking for their missing husband.

1813. Major Sharpe's old enemy, Major Ducos manipulates a beautiful young marquesa into falsely accusing Sharpe of rape. Her husband calls Sharpe out in a duel. But when the husband is found dead the next morning, Sharpe is arrested and brought before a court martial, and it seems not even Patrick Harper and the Chosen Men can save Sharpe from a hanging, or rescue his honour

Portugal 1813. A band of deserters, including Sharpe's old enemy, Obadiah Hakeswill, have captured two women, one the wife of a high-ranking English officer, and are holding them hostage for ransom. Sharpe is given the 60th Rifles and a Rocket troop, as well as his majority to rescue the women. But while Sharpe may be able to deal with his old enemy, he has yet to face a newer threat, the French Major Pierre Ducos.

Spain 1812 The Duke of Wellington plans to lay siege to Badajoz. A murderous figure from Sharpe's past uses a beautiful woman revenge himself on Sharpe, now the father of her child. Sharpe has reason to be happy, he holds his daughter for the first time and is given command of the Light Company again, together with his captaincy. But will his happiness be short lived?

CIA分析官を辞職し、アメリカ海軍兵学校の教官となったジャック・ライアンは仕事を兼ねて妻と娘の三人でロンドンに来ていた。 ライアンが講演の仕事を終えて家族との待ち合わせ場所であるバッキンガム宮殿の広場に着いた時、イギリス王室のホームズ卿がIRAの過激派グループに襲撃される。持ち前の正義感から襲撃犯と撃ち合いになりホームズ卿を助け、ショーンの逮捕に協力、彼の弟を射殺する。 だが、今度は護送中に脱走し弟の復讐に燃えるショーンのターゲットになってしまい、なおもホームズ卿の命を狙うケビンのIRAグループの事件にも巻き込まれていく。

The painful memories of the tragedy that awaited the people of Drimaghleen on 2/11/88 have just begun to fade; Hetty Fortune and her TV documentary team travel there to piece those memories together into a story of horror.

A feisty 17th-century Scotswoman falls in love with a despised landowner, to the dismay of her father.

This "Play on One" story depicts Jack and his farming family in West Wales. They have built up their dairy herd with vast loans and are then told they must cut back on milk production and slaughter some of the herd. The community launches a campaign against the quotas, but Jack takes the law into his own hands.

At the height of the cold war, a known Russian spy ("Kyril") is sent to the UK under falsely reported pretenses in order to hopefully indirectly spark an unknown mole in the KGB to reveal himself; the endeavor eventually has repercussions which none of the initial players could have predicted.

Murder on the Bluebell Line features Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson investigating the mystery of the Piltdown Man, once thought to be the 'missing link' in the evolution of man, but revealed in the 1950s to be a fraud. - a QED film for the BBC, made in 1987

Franz, a young man, works in a dye factory in Prague. One day he notices a skin-rash, like eczema, growing on his hands. All attempts to treat it with ointment fail, and the rash gradually spreads over his body. After complaining to the management he is laid off work; his relationship with his fiancee is affected. In an attempt to get compensation from his former employers he goes to insurance firm Assicurazion Generali, where he encounters an enigmatic clerk called Kafka.

Geoffrey Carr is a wealthy, key player in Britain's emerging computer industry, and newly married to Frances , a much younger woman, with wilful daughter Clare from a previous marriage. He'll do anything to make them happy, including stretching his finances to buy a Georgian estate in County Wicklow, where Frances grew up. Frank Crossan is an Irish Republican hitman on the run from British authorities. Seeking refuge with old girlfriend Kate, he creates a plan to kidnap a wealthy Brit for a ransom to fund a major arms deal. Their two worlds collide when Frances and Clare are brutally snatched away to a bleak hideaway and taken hostage. Geoffrey initially wants to cave in to the kidnapper's demands “ but nothing is simple when a personal crisis plays out against the forces of political intrigue, high finance and with the eyes of the media on them.

82年発表のグリーナウェイ長編劇映画第1作。名誉革命後、1694年の夏、英国南部のウィルトシャー。才能豊かだが傲慢さでも評判の画家ネヴィルが、コンプトン・アンスティのハーバート家の夜宴に招かれる。そこでハーバート夫人はネヴィルを別室に招じ入れ、ノイズ氏を立会人にして、夫が旅行から戻るまでに屋敷の画を12点描いてくれるように依頼し、契約を結ぶ。どこを描くかは自分が決めるという夫人。彼女は、1点につき8ポンドという高額の報酬を約束し、そして彼が望むがままに密会に応じることを約束するが……。

In 1905, after 10 years of missionary work in Africa, the Rev. Charles Fortesque is recalled to England, where his bishop gives him his new assignment - to minister to London's prostitutes.

The true story of the First world football competition, won by a team comprised of miners from Durham.

ソビエト連邦が、それまでの戦闘機を凌駕する高性能な新型戦闘機「MiG-31 ファイヤーフォックス」を開発したとの情報がNATOにもたらされる。これに衝撃を受け、軍事バランスが崩れることを恐れたNATO各国は対抗すべく戦闘機の開発を検討するが、間に合いそうもない。そのため、その技術を機体もろとも盗み出すことを決定し、ロシア語をネイティブで話し、考えることができる元米空軍パイロット、ミッチェル・ガントに白羽の矢を立てたのであった。

Margaret is a nurse in England during WW2, and married to a secret agent. Things get complicated when she falls for David, an American pilot.

Alan Bennett's play about the mid-life crisis of an estate agent.

1941 and the upper class Anna Seaton is hired as part of an allied radio propaganda project, creating disinformation about the Nazi war effort. But tensions between her and brilliant, working class writer Archie MacLean threaten to undermine her work.

1800年。フランスのストラスブール。軽騎兵のフェロー中尉（ハーヴェイ・カイテル）が町の有力者の甥を決闘で傷つけた。“名誉のため”という名目だったが、軍の命令はフェローに厳しかった。その命令を単に伝える使命でフェローのもとを訪れた軽騎兵デュベール中尉（キース・キャラダイン）は、理由もなくフェローに決闘を申し込まれ、名誉のために受けてたち、彼に傷を与えた。この日から二人の宿命的な対決の人生がはじまった。フェローはデュベールとの決闘に執念を燃やし、彼の行く先々に姿を現わした。二度目の対決は、デュベールがアウグスブルグに駐屯していた時だった。決闘で負傷したデュベールに、将軍はこれ以上決闘を続ければ除隊させると告げた。しかし、1806年、リューべックではデュベールがフェローを傷つけて終わるが、1812年ロシア遠征では、奇妙な友情のような感情が芽ばえだし、凍るような寒さの中で互いに手をさしのべあうのだった。そして1814年、ルイ18世が即位したフランス。デュベールは、姉のすすめでアデル（クリスティーナ・レインズ）と結婚し、しあわせで平穏な生活を送っていた。そこにまたしてもフェローが現われ、決闘を申し込んだ。最後の決闘はピストルで行なわれることになった。廃虚に銃声が轟いた。しかし、優勢に立ったデュベールは、フェローから的をはずして発砲し、その場を去っていた。

The story of Louis XIV of France and his attempts to keep his identical twin brother Philippe imprisoned away from sight and knowledge of the public, and Philippe's rescue by the aging Musketeers, led by D'Artagnan.

On his deathbed Carmine Vespucci's father tells him to "get Proclo". With "the hit" on, Gaetano tells a cab driver to take him where Carmine can't find him. He arrives at the Ritz, a gay bathhouse.

Kevin's wife walked out, and left him holding the baby. No sleep, dirty nappies - and a career in pop music at risk. And ahead lies a visit to the clinic. Will Kevin succeed as a mother?

Frightening events unfold that may or may not be figments of Marigold’s imagination.

After a nocturnal car accident on the English countryside, an unfortunate couple is invited to a mysterious manor occupied by a creepy embalmer who throws sexy drug parties there.