홀로 죽음을 맞이한 사람들의 장례를 치르고, 지인들을 찾아 초대하는 직업을 가진 존 메이. 런던 케닝턴 구청 소속 22년차 공무원인 그의 주 업무는 잊혀진 의뢰인의 유품을 단서 삼아 아무도 듣지 못할 추도문을 작성하는 것이다. 매일 같은 옷을 입고, 같은 길로 출근하고, 같은 일을 반복하며 혼자 살던 그에게 어느 날 예상하지 못한 의뢰인이 나타난다. 존의 아파트 바로 맞은편에서 살던 ‘빌리 스토크’가 죽은 채 발견된 것. 같은 날 회사로부터 정리해고를 통보 받은 존은 자신의 마지막 의뢰인인 ‘빌리 스토크’를 위해, 처음으로 사무실에서 벗어나 전국을 돌아다니며 그의 삶을 뒤쫓기 시작한다. 비록 알코올중독자로 홀로 생을 마감했지만 풍부한 역사를 가졌던 빌리 스토크의 인생은 단조롭던 존의 일상에 변화를 가져오는데...
Dramatisation of the Stephen Downing case which involved the conviction and imprisonment in 1974 of a 17-year-old council worker, Stephen Downing, for the murder of a 32 year old legal secretary, Wendy Sewell, in the town of Bakewell in the Peak District in central England. Following a campaign by a local newspaper, his conviction was overturned in 2002, after Downing had served 27 years in prison. The case is thought to be the longest miscarriage of justice in British legal history, and attracted worldwide media attention.
A man signs up as a driver for a group of criminals on a dangerous job. On the way to the hit the man hears the lottery numbers and realises he's got the winning ticket on him. However the job goes badly and the lottery ticket is collected as litter by a street cleaner. The leader of the gang goes after the cleaner while on a picnic with his daughter to get the ticket back.
D.H, Lawrence's early play about a married woman who wishes her husband dead after falling in love with another man comes to the screen in this adaptation starring Zoe Wannamaker and Colin Firth. When her wish becomes a horrifying reality, her life begins to change in ways she could have never anticipated.
A Gothic comedy, featuring a distinguished cast, and starring Leslie Phillips and Margaret Tyzack. Retired colonial army officer George Thacker has high hopes of recapturing his memories of an idyllic English village life after a lifetime of meting out justice in the Far East. But instead of peace and quiet, he is greeted by violence, voodoo and a distressed damsel, brandishing a shotgun. Worst of all, the ghost of his old flame, Edith, still haunts him, threatening both his marriage and his life.
