Pauline Quirke

A Headmistress steals from her own school. As a young girl Colleen McCabe asks a priest in confessional "What is sin?" Thirty years later she is found out for practising it. An ex-nun,she leaves the convent because she becomes disillusioned with spiritual matters and goes into teaching, being appointed headmistress of the John Rigby School in London. Along with a small coterie of chosen staff members to act as her spies,she misappropriates half a million pounds from school funds which she spends on luxury goods and a trip on the Orient Express. Meanwhile the school suffers,having to use ancient text books and pupils as cleaners. She is tried,although admitted to hospital for depression on the trial day, and sentenced to five years in jail, later reduced to four. The film alternates dramatized scenes of Colleen's misbehaviour with interviews with those who knew her.

Carrie's War is an adaptation of a 1973 children's novel by Nina Bawden, set during the Second World War and following two evacuees, Carrie and her younger brother Nick.

Twenty years ago, three men set out on the longest walk of their lives. They vowed to repeat the walk, but this time they are joined by a forty year old wife and mother who is in the midst of a mid-life crisis.

A young boy's dream of finding his dead father comes true when his father visits him as an angel. But things turn sour when he discovers that his father was not the hero he imagined him to be.

A parent's grief has no bounds. Our Boy tells the moving and tragic story of one couple’s struggle to come to terms with the disappearance and death of their only son. Woody, Sonia and their son, Lee, live contentedly in West Ham, London. When Lee is killed in a hit-and-run everyone grieves but Woody’s grief has no limit. His best friend, Phil, counsels revenge, while in the view of the ambitious Detective Constable Spence, Woody himself is the prime suspect. Woody searches for a way to react with extraordinary and touching results. Features award-winning performances by Ray Winstone and Pauline Quirke.

'The Canterville Ghost' is one of the most popular choice for making a film in Oscar Wilde's works, and the original short story deserves the popularity. It is a witty spoof about a ghost and the 'haunted' mansion where a rich American family start to live. In this story, the family are not annoyed by the presence of the ghost; no, it is the ghost who is annoyed by the family who just refuse to be terrified. After all, why should we be scared by an old man wearing rusty coat of mail, whose best trick is to walk in the middle of night making big noises?

The late, great comedian Bob Monkhouse entertains a celebrity audience that includes Stephen Fry, Mandy Smith and Eamonn Holmes in this 1994 special. Watch him answer questions, tell funny tales and crack jokes.

영국 리버풀을 배경으로 한 테렌스 데이비스 감독의 자전적인 영화. 남다를 것 없는 평범한 가정의 세 남매 중 장녀인 아일린은 결혼식을 준비하며 세상을 떠난 아버지를 추억한다. 기억 속의 아버지는 폭력적이고 억압적이었지만 동시에 약한 모습을 숨기고 있다. 1988년 칸영화제 국제비평가연맹상, 1988년 로카르노영화제 대상 수상

A drama based on the novel by Charles Dickens which tells the story of Arthur Clennam who is thrown into a debtor's prison. There he meets a young seamstress whose father has been imprisoned for twenty-five years. A film in originally released in two parts.

세 여인이 한 남자를 사랑한다. 교양있고 아름다운 그의 부인 키티(Kitty Baldry: 줄리 크리스티 분), 사촌지간인 제니(Jenny Baldry: 앤-마가렛 분), 그리고 젊은 날 사랑했던 마가렛(Margaret Grey: 글렌다 잭슨 분). 크리스 대위(Chris Baldry: 알란 베이츠 분)는 끔찍한 전쟁터에서 멀쩡히 살아 돌아오지만 지난 15년간의 모든 기억은 제로인 상태가 된다. 병원에 있다는 소식을 받고는 키티와 제니가 달려가지만 그는 부인을 전혀 알아보지 못하고 그의 사촌인 제니만을 알아본다. 제니가 그에게 그의 부인 키티를 상기시키려 하지만 오히려 그는 젊은 날의 애인 마가렛만을 찾는다. 이에 키티는 크게 상심하지만 그의 기억을 되찾게 해주려고 노력을 한다. 그러나 그러한 그녀의 노력에는 아랑곳없이 그의 사촌 제니에게 마가렛을 만나게 해달라고 부탁을 한다. 한편 제니도 마음속 깊이 그를 사랑하는 마음을 간직한 채 연민의 정으로 바라본다. 그리고 크리스가 마가렛을 만나도록 도와 준다. 크리스는 이제는 초라한 중녀의 여인이 되어 남의 아내가 되었지만 그녀에게 사랑을 느낀다. 또한 마가렛도 크리스에 대해 연민의 정을 느끼고 그의 기억을 되살려 주려고 노력한다. 비록 15년간의 기억은 상실되었지만 그 어느때보다도 행복한 모습으로 그의 생을 즐기는데... 제1차 세계대전을 겪으면서 지난 20여년간의 기억을 상실한 남자와 그를 둘러싼 세 여인(부인 사촌 여동생 젊은 날의 애인) 간의 미묘한 사랑의 심리를 다룬 영화. 잔잔한 영상 속에서 전개되는 심리 묘사와 섬세하게 그려지는 사랑의 여러 유형이 볼 만하고 출연 배우들의 연기가 뛰어나다.

"We were so close, we loved each other, we made a whole together. I feel cut in half." Meg struggles with the sudden death of her husband.

It's such a simple, natural thing to have a baby, thinks Mary. But she and husband Paul are preoccupied with their careers. Can their young neighbour Tessa help, or are the emotions around a new baby more complex than anyone had expected?

Clive decides he will go mad. Stark raving mad. His wife doesn't take him seriously, until Clive does something that makes her realise he means it.

차마 보기 힘들 만큼의 선천적인 기형을 가지고 태어나 시장에서 사람들에게 비인간적인 학대를 받으며 살아가는 '엘리펀트 맨', 존을 발견한 의사 프레디는 그를 병원으로 데려와 보살펴준다. 존은 흉측한 외모와는 달리 지적이고 선한 마음을 지닌 인물이였다. 그에 대한 기사와 연구논문이 세상에 알려지자 사람들은 그를 보기 위해 찾아오기 시작한다.

Comedy drama written by Brian Clark.

Sixteen-year-old Otis loathes school. He wants to be a professional footballer, but is good at drawing, so his mother wants him to be a draughtsman. Then, a new sports teacher appears at his South London comprehensive school, and life starts to look a little more hopeful...

Eleanor seems normal enough to her parents and teachers. Why then has she disappeared?

A tough young girl lives with her aging grandfather near a cove on the coast of Cornwall. She supports herself and him by gathering seaweed to sell as fertilizer. A cocky young neighboring boy decides to help her with the work.

A series of six short films concerning the adventures of form 2B and their inventive science master, Mr Potter

A series of six short films concerning the adventures of form 2B and their inventive science master, Mr Potter

A series of six short films concerning the adventures of form 2B and their inventive science master, Mr Potter

A series of six short films concerning the adventures of form 2B and their inventive science master, Mr Potter

A series of six short films concerning the adventures of form 2B and their inventive science master, Mr Potter

It isn't really the fault of the children in 2B that their efforts to be helpful end in disaster.

Science-fiction comedy: Junket, a schoolboy, borrows an apparatus invented by the absent-minded science master for transporting matter - and, by accident, makes it work...