Stephen Frears directs this biographical drama focusing on controversial British playwright Joe Orton, revealed in flashback after his murder by lover Kenneth Halliwell. Born in 1933 in Leicester, in the English Midlands, John 'Joe' Orton moves to London in 1951, to study at RADA, and enjoys an openly gay relationship with Halliwell in their famous Islington flat in the 1960s. However, when Orton achieves spectacular success with such plays as 'What the Butler Saw' and 'Loot', Halliwell begins to feel alienated and the pair's future looks increasingly uncertain.
This is a dramatisation of the events surrounding the opening night of British television on November 2, 1936 at Alexandra Place in London. It was produced to commemorate its 50th anniversary.
Harry Webster (David Lyon) is an apparently normal husband and father who resides in contemporary Nottingham, England, which was once host to a flourishing textile industry. One day, Harry leaves his house and vanishes. A note he left behind alludes to a double life he no longer wishes to lead. His wife Liz (Annette Crosbie) conducts a search for her husband. Her findings raise a disturbing question: Did Harry have anything to do with a series of recent factory bombings?
1800년대 나폴레옹이 프랑스를 지배하던 때, 프랑스군의 청년 장교인 알몬드 듀베르(키이스 캐러딘 분)은 시장의 조카를 상대로 결투를 벌여 큰 상처를 입힌 프랑스군의 청년 장교 가브리엘 페로(하비 케이틀 분)를 체포하라는 명령을 받는다. 공교롭게 페로는 듀베르가 자신을 모욕했다며 결투를 신청하지만 손놀림이 좀 더 빠른 듀베르에게 부상을 입어 승부를 가리지 못한다. 페로는 자신의 실추된 명예를 되찾겠다는 일념으로 전쟁 중에는 결투를 금지한다는 프랑스 법으로 인해 반년을 기다려 다시 결투를 신청한다. 이렇게 시작된 두 사람의 결투는 나폴레옹이 폴란드를 침공하고, 러시아로 진격해가는 과정에서도 그치지 않고 15년간이나 계속된다. 듀베르는 사랑하는 사람과 결혼을 하고 가정을 꾸려 평범한 삶을 살아가고자 하지만 명예를 되찾기 위해 혈안이 된 페로가 계속 방해를 한다. 처음엔 페로의 끊임없는 결투 신청을 피해보려던 듀베르도 차츰 결투에 집착하게 되고, 정권이 바뀌어 페로가 반역자 명단에 오르기도 하지만 결투를 계속하기 위해 그의 사건을 중재하는 일까지 벌어진다. 결국 15년간이나 계속된 두 사람의 결투는 차츰 '왜 싸우는가?'에 대한 이유조차 잊어버린 채 서로에 대한 증오와 집착으로 변해버린 채, 폐허가 된 성에서 서로 총을 겨누며 마지막 결전을 벌이게 된다.
Who would you be if you could choose? Princess Anne? Linda Lovelace? The Prime Minister? Since things are already so bad for Trevor – rotten job, bitchy wife – he decides to answer a "life-swapping" ad in the local paper. But once the swapping starts, who knows where it could end?
A long-distance lorry driver; a spaceman; a volunteer under reduced environmental conditions; a man in solitary confinement: the discomfort of these people is shared by Doran - when he can't put his finger on the panic button.
Sexual passion breeds violence in the Thomas Middleton and William Rowley written tale of a beautiful woman who falls in love with a sea-captain. Filmed with lush production values and at a leisurely, very British pace, Helen Mirren is riveting as Beatrice-Joanna, a young lass already torn by love and commitment.Beatrice-Joanna (Helen Mirren) is betrothed to Lord Alonzo de Piraquo (Malcolm Reynolds) but is in love with Alsemero (Brian Cox). She hires her father's manservant, De Flores (Stanley Baker), to kill Alonzo but after he has done so, she realises De Flores wants her as a reward.The Changeling was an instalment of the BBC's Play of the Month series and is a production for television of a 1622 Jacobean tragedy of the same name, written by Thomas Middleton and William Rowley.
