Gwen Nelson

Scoop is a 1987 TV film directed by Gavin Millar, adapted by William Boyd from the 1938 satirical novel Scoop by Evelyn Waugh. It was produced by Sue Birtwistle with executive producers Nick Elliott and Patrick Garland. Original music was made by Stanley Myers. The story is about a reporter sent to Ishmaelia (a fictional African state) by accident.

가난한 작가인 헬레인 헨프는 대단한 독서광으로 읽고 싶은 고전들을 싸게 사보기 위해 영국 런던 84번지에 있는 중고책방에 편지로 책을 주문한다. 이를 계기로 서점 직원 프랭크 도엘과 평생을 정신적 교류를 나누는 정신적 연인이 되어 편지로만 희노애락을 함께 한다. 때론 귀한 책 한 권에 함께 감동하고 때론 분노하면서 사소한 주변 얘기도 곁들며 가며 인생을 논할수 있었던 건 프랭크, 헬레인 두 사람다 따뜻한 인간애와 문학과 예술을 사랑하는 정신적 여유에 유모가 풍부한 점에서 비슷하기 때문이다. 프랭크가 죽기까지 영국엔 한 번도 가보지 못했던 헬레인 프랭크가 죽고 난 후 어느날 문득 그토록 동경했던 그 서점에 가서 감상에 젖는데...

On a weekend trip to the seaside town of Lyme Regis, two seventeen-year-old boys - Sam with an interest in ecology and Martin with an interest in girls - are the youngest residents (ever) at a guest house run by a highly eccentric old lady.

A BAFTA award nominated black comedy about life and death in a London tower block.

"They're nice affable gobblers and we're in the nice affable gobbling business." But Tom and Gwen soon find that their gastronomical retreat from the rat race is anything but an escape when the Porters come to dine.

Digby Geste joins his brother, Beau, in the Foreign Legion following the theft of a priceless family heirloom.

An aging actress and socialite, Jessica Medlicott has ended her engagement with a younger man and is now being sued by her former fiancé. Esteemed barrister Sir Arthur Glanville-Jones is assigned to represent Jessica in the lawsuit, and he also happens to be an old suitor of hers from decades earlier. While Jessica claims not to remember him, and Arthur still smarts from her earlier rejection, the two form a close bond during the case.

Approaching middle-age and stuck in an unfulfilled marriage, a suburban British housewife allows herself a sexual fling with a brash young hunk she meets on a commuter train.

Michael Marler, a successful business man in London, is about to make his way to the top. The death of his father brings him - after 37 years - back to his hometown Liverpool, where he is confronted with his lost Irish roots. He finds out that his father died because of a fight with some anglo-saxon teddy boys. It becomes "a matter of honour" for him, to take his revenge without involving the British police

An aging gay couple owns a barber shop in the East End of London. One of them is a part-time actor about to go on trial for propositioning a police officer. The action takes place over the course of one night as they discuss their loving but often volatile past together and possible future without each other.

Albert lives with his Grandma, who he thinks is cramping his style. However an incident reveals to him that he is as much dependent on her as she is of him.

A politically-active couple's involvement in an election campaign threatens their marriage through personal entanglements with the candidate and other campaigners.

고아 유리 지바고(오마 샤리프)는 그로메코가(家)에 입양되어 성장한다. 그는 크렘린 궁성 앞에서 노동자와 학생들이 기마병에게 살해되는 것을 보고 큰 충격을 받고, 의학을 공부해 빈곤한 사람들을 돕고자 꿈꾼다. 열심히 의학실습에 몰두하던 중 운명의 여인 라라(줄리 크리스티)와 마주친다. 1차대전에 군의관으로 참전한 그는 우연히 종군간호부로 변신한 라라와 재회한다. 1917년 혁명정부가 수립된 러시아에서 유리는 숙청을 피해 우랄 산맥의 오지로 숨어든다. 궁핍하지만 평화가 감도는 전원 생활을 보내던 그는 우연히 그 근처로 이주해온 라라와 다시 운명적으로 만나게 되는데...

When developer John Goggin plans to build a civic center, only Emma Mannering's corset shop stands in the way, and she refuses to sell, so he sends his unscrupulous assistant Ed Crayshaw to "fix" things, but instead, he's double-crossed.

An innocent girl is "groomed" over the telephone, and nearly becomes the victim of an attacker.

영국 북부에 사는 노동 계급 청년 빅 브라운은 심심풀이로 타자수인 잉그릿을 만나다, 그녀가 임신을 하자 가족과 친구들로부터 애정 없는 결혼을 할 것을 강요받는다. 폭군 같은 장모의 횡포에 두 사람의 관계는 더욱 힘들어지는데...

In the business end of a kitchen, a polyglot staff strives to cope with a superhuman task. A microcosm of the world, the kitchen looms around and encloses its workers; they include Peter, the German cook, who is in love with waitress Monica, and constantly asks her to leave her husband. The pressure of the day becomes unendurable, and when Peter realises that Monica does not mean to divorce her husband his grief and pain cause him to run berserk!

Archie Rice, an old-time British vaudeville performer sinking into final defeat, schemes to stay in show business.

A fiction writer begins working on a biography of a pilot who went down during the test flight of a new plane and finds himself soon involved in a series of murders.