Frances Barber

Charts six interlinked narratives after the cast and crew of a film are sent home from set.

1923. In the heart of an old English college, Edward Williams receives an engraving of of an unknown country house with an imposing facade, a sweeping lawn - and, just perhaps, something else.

With exclusive interviews and outtakes, this anniversary special celebrates a decade of Robert Popper's iconic comedy, from celebrity fans to Paul Ritter's infamous squirrel-based catchphrase

Greg Kielty's life is turned upside down when his estranged brother Dan turns up, claiming to have drunkenly run someone over. But has Dan just murdered a gangster's son? Or maybe there's an even more sinister explanation.

A new republican prime minister strips the British monarch and her family of their money and assets, and forces them to live on a rundown council estate.

He's a low level criminal with no future and just out of prison. She's a low level lawyer never noticed by others, a lost soul without a life. Their anger and hostility makes them serious criminals. Love happens in the strangest of places.

In An Ideal Husband, an ambitious government minister, Sir Robert Chiltern, is on an assured smooth ascent to the top. Until Mrs Cheveley appears in London with damning proof of his previous financial chicanery, that is.

반지의 제왕 시리즈 '간달프'역에 이안 맥켈런에 관한 다큐멘터리로 전설적인 배우와 14시간정도의 인터뷰를 통해 제작되었으며 영화 및 무대 뒤에서 촬영한 장면을 포함하여 이전에 볼 수 없었던 자료와 일기장, 비공개 사진앨범, 연기경력, 동성애자의 권리원동에 대한 그의 역할에 접근할 수 있는 그의 어린시절을 다루고 있다

An ordinary woman makes an extraordinary decision which will change her life forever.

1978년, 리버풀에서 우연히 만나 사랑에 빠진 필름스타 ‘글로리아’와 배우 지망생 ‘피터’ 너무나도 달랐지만 함께라서 특별했던 두 사람은 어쩌면 마지막이 될 시간을 위해 가장 뜨겁게 사랑했던 리버풀로 돌아온다. 우리의 사랑은 이곳에 기억된다.

플로렌스는 남편과 처음 만나 사랑에 빠진 특별한 장소이기도 했던 작은 바닷가 마을 하드버러에서 영리한 소녀 크리스틴을 채용해 서점을 운영하기 시작한다. 작고 외진 마을에서 서점을 운영한다는 사실이 알려지자 마을 최고 권력자인 가맛 부인은 서점 자리에 문화센터를 세운다는 핑계로 온갖 경제력과 인맥을 동원해 방해하기 시작하는데…

Spain, 1937. Ramón Mercader, a young communist combatant, is recruited and trained by the Soviet intelligence service to participate in a top secret mission ordered by the ruthless dictator Joseph Stalin: the assassination of his former political rival, Leon Trotsky, who is living in exile in Mexico.

1947년 전설의 명탐정 셜록 홈즈는 은퇴 후 고즈넉한 시골 마을에서 황혼기를 보낸다. 가정부 먼로 부인과 그녀의 호기심 많은 아들 로저만이 그의 곁을 지키는 가운데, 홈즈는 자신의 기억 속에 남은 사건을 정리하는 글을 쓰기 시작한다. 30년 전, 그의 인생을 송두리째 바꿔 놓은 마지막 사건과 한 여인. 해결하지 못하고 이제는 과거가 되어버린 그 사건은 여전히 홈즈의 기억을 사로잡고, 결국, 미궁 속 사건의 진실을 밝히기 위해 그는 인생의 마지막 추리를 시작하는데… 셜록 홈즈가 남긴 마지막 사건의 비밀이 밝혀진다!

A story seen from the eyes of a five-year-old boy who, through no fault of his own, comes face to face with disaster.

This behind-the-scenes documentary features interviews with the creators and cast of the cult comedy "The IT Crowd", plus chats with celebrity fans.

Funny, passionate, exciting, and smart: ‘Muse Of Fire’ will change the way you feel about Shakespeare forever. This unique feature documentary follows two actors, Giles Terera and Dan Poole, as they travel the world to find out everything they can about tackling the greatest writer of them all. Together they have directed and produced an inspiring film that aims to demystify and illuminate Shakespeare’s work for everyone: from actors, directors and students of all disciplines, right through to the? man on the street? Denmark with Jude Law, Baz Luhrmann in Hollywood, Prison in Berlin, and on the street with Mark Rylance. Think Shakespeare is boring? Think again!

A PC becomes a vigilante after a head trauma.

We’ll Take Manhattan explores the explosive love affair between sixties supermodel Jean Shrimpton and photographer David Bailey. Focusing on a wild and unpredictable 1962 Vogue photo shoot in New York, the drama brings to life the story of two young people falling in love, misbehaving and inadvertently defining the style of the Sixties along the way.

Georgie Godwin is the fattest man in Britain. A tourist attraction, thanks to greedy 'agent, cabbie Morris. Devoted neighbour Janice is Georgie's only other regular outside contact until he meets Amy, a pregnant teenager fleeing a violent boyfriend ,whom he takes in as a lodger. Amy tries to help Georgie change his lifestyle, but Morris is more than keen to stop her ruining his tourist attraction.

King Lear, old and tired, divides his kingdom among his daughters, giving great importance to their protestations of love for him. When Cordelia, youngest and most honest, refuses to idly flatter the old man in return for favor, he banishes her and turns for support to his remaining daughters. But Goneril and Regan have no love for him and instead plot to take all his power from him. In a parallel, Lear's loyal courtier Gloucester favors his illegitimate son Edmund after being told lies about his faithful son Edgar. Madness and tragedy befall both ill-starred fathers.

레알 마드리드는 뉴캐슬 구단 팬들인 툰 아미의 최고 인기 선수, 산티아고 뮤네즈 (쿠노 베커)에게 유혹의 손짓을 보낸다. 산티아고는 약혼녀인 로즈 (안나 프리엘)와 뉴캐슬에서의 결혼을 계획하고 있었다. 그러던 중 모든 축구 선수의 꿈과 데이비드 베컴과 지네딘 지단, 라울과 나란히 전설적인 흰색 유니폼을 입게 되는 것이라는 점을 깨닫는다. 산티아고 앞에 높여진 수많은 축구 전설의 길을 비춰보면서 3부작 중에 2번째 부분은 영광과 찬사, 돈, 부서져버릴 행복의 환영을 위해, 그의 삶은 파괴되는 모습을 보여준다. 명성에 굶주린 탐욕스럽지만 아름다운 조르다나는 승승장구하고 있는 칼라티코를 유혹하고 그의 과거는 비극적인 대단원을 맞는다. 레알 마드리드를 배경으로 산티아고는 성공의 추악한 단면을 발견하고 자신의 경력과 친구들, 그리고 무엇보다도 가장 중요한 로즈를 잃기 시작한다.

Gary Oldman is Lynch, a strangely charming hit man in this explosively funny dark comedy in the tradition of Snatch and Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels. With an all-star cast including Terence Stamp, Elena Anaya, Robert Carlyle and Billy Zane, Dead Fish is a chaotic tale of criminals looking for love, money and revenge that will have you falling out of your chair laughing!

다른 아이들처럼 산티아고 뮤네즈(쿠노 베커)도 큰 꿈을 가지고 있다. 그러나 다른 아이들과 다른 점이 있다면, 그에게는 그러한 꿈을 이룰 수 있는 기회가 거의 보이지 않는다는 것이다. -두려움을 제쳐 놓고 집으로부터 수천 마일을 기꺼이 떨어져 나올 마음가짐이 있건만, 그리고 세계 최고의 선수들과 함께 축구경기를 할 각오가 되어 있건만. - 산티아고의 이런 집념과 목표("Goal")의식은 엄청난 궁핍함과 개인적인 희생을 감내하고 고향에서 수천마일 떨어진 곳에서 세계 최고들과 당당하게 어깨를 겨룰 수 있는 흔치 않은 기회를 가능하게 했다. 열 살 나이에 산티아고가 미국 국경을 넘을 때, 수중에 가지고 있던 것은 단 두 가지, 축구공과 낡은 월드컵 사진이었다. 이후 닥치는 대로 일을 하면서 성장한 산티아고가 관심을 쏟는 유일한 대상은 축구였다. 그리고 그에게 남은 또 하나의 과제는 그의 아버지에게 그가 장래 유명한 축구스타가 될 수 있을 거라고 확신을 시키는 일이었다. ("이 세상에는 두 가지 종류의 사람들이 있다. 큰 집들에서 사는 사람들, 그리고 우리처럼 그들의 잔디를 깎아 주고 자동차를 세차해 주는 사람들..."이라고 말하는 아버지에게) 그러나 마침내 사람 좋은 전직 축구 선수이자 스카우트 담당인 영국인 글렌 포이 (스테판 딜레인)가 로스앤젤레스 지역 시합에서 산티아고를 발견하게 된다. 그는 영국 프리미어 리그 클럽 뉴캐슬 유나이티드가 찾고 있는, 뛰어난 재질과 기량 그리고 스피드와 대담함을 고루 갖춘 산티아고를 한눈에 알아본 것이다. 이제 축구의 성지나 다름없는 뉴캐슬의 세인트 제임스 파크 구장에서 어린 산티아고는 그의 기량을 입증해서 세계에서 가장 명망 있는 축구클럽과 계약을 맺어야 하는 게임을 앞두게 된다. 인간적 고뇌와 육체적 부상 그리고 성공에 따른 세속적인 유혹은 말할 것도 없고, 진흙 구장과 매서운 바람 그리고 팀 동료들로부터의 심리적 견제를 견뎌내야만 이 화려하고 가슴 벅찬 국제 축구 무대에서 산티아고가 살아남을 수 있는 것이다.

Adrian Savage will have to marry if he wants to inherit his father's estate and he plans to marry Lola. However Lola loves Russell; a man she met in a night of passion who went off to become a war photographer where he was shot and lost a leg. When the two meet at the engagement party, Lola remembers how much she cares for him; but now Russell has a mistress (Elizabeth) who jealously spies Lola's flickering of lust.

For years, Andrei Evilenko eluded the obsessive Detective Lesiev and the psychiatric profiler Aron Richter. Spurred on by his rabid fury at the gradual crumbling of his precious Soviet Union, Evilenko is a man who will live, die and kill as a communist.

Based on a true story, the movie tells the story of two pigs, named Butch and Sundance, who staged a dramatic escape from an abattoir in January 1998 and remained at large for a week ...

At a spa where talking is forbidden, an emotionally distraught woman finds solace in the company of a kind man and the two of them gradually fall in love.

Good-looking, well-spoken Phil is broke and cannot understand how flatmate James has recently acquired a lot of extra cash and a permanent grin on his face. James's secret? Adonis Escorts - 40 pounds an hour, 150 for the night. Faced with imminent eviction, a reluctant Phil is persuaded to join the agency and soon the two gigolos have a loyal following including bored housewife, Frances. In fact business is booming until love rears its ugly head. And then chaos reigns as James falls in love with Phil, Phil falls in love with Helen, Helen takes Phil home to her mother - Frances, Frances goes crazy because she had fallen for her daughter's new boyfriend Phil, and Darren just wants to make it alright - by settling down with James. Who is definitely not gay. Just confused!

이른 아침, 앨리스라는 한 소녀가 아니타 스타로 경위를 찾는다. 자신의 엄마가 살인을 했다며 이를 신고하겠다는 앨리스. 앨리스의 엄마가 보모를 끔찍하게 죽이는 영상이 담긴 CD를 받은 스타로 경위는 수사를 진행하려고 하지만 앨리스의 엄마인 에바 크리스텐슨은 마약 밀매와 연관이 있는 위험한 여성으로 함부로 건드릴 수 없는 거물이다. 결국, 앨리스를 에바에게 돌려보내야 하는 상황에 직면한 스타로 경위. 하지만, 이를 눈치챈 앨리스는 경찰서를 빠져나와 도망치고 이때 우연히 만난 휴고 덕분에 위기를 모면한다. 어딘가 비밀을 간직한 듯한 전직 군인 휴고는 앨리스를 돕기 위해 그녀의 친아버지가 있다는 포르투갈에 함께 가게 되고, 에바는 이들을 뒤쫓는다. 스타로 경위 역시 상부의 지시로 포르투갈로 향하게 되는데…

19 year old babysitter aupair Julie is accused of murder when the bed of the sheltered baby inflames. Is seems as if Julie possesses rare telepathic skills, that she cannot control. Her young lawyer fights for her in court and against the public opinion in Italy, who take her for a witch.

A Jewish girl in 19th century London dreams of becoming a stage actress.

The past catches up with a ruthlessly ambitious boxing promoter.

A movie about a middle aged french man who after a family crisis travels on the spur of the moment to London only to get caught up in the male prostitution business and eventually drugs.

A seemingly happily married, successful plastic surgeon embarks on a torrid affair with tragic consequences for his marriage and those close to him.

Middle-class parents face difficult decisions if they want their sons to go to the “right” school.

1977년 위즈벡, 전설적인 야외 록 페프티발, '이상한 과일'이라는 이름의 유명한 록 그룹은 무대 뒤에서 벌어진 사소한 다툼과, 공연 도중 벼락이 무대위로 떨어지는 사고로 그 자리에 모인 대중 앞에서 전격적인 해산을 선언한다. 20년이 지난 후, 키보드 주자였던 토니(Tony Costello: 스티븐 리아 분)와 밴드의 매니저였던 카렌(Karen Knowles: 줄리엣 오브리 분)은 1998년 위즈벡에서 열릴 록 페스티발에서 대대적인 재결함 콘서트를 갖기 위해 옛 멤버들을 찾아 나선다. 드럼을 쳤던 비노(David 'Beano' Baggot: 티모시 스팔 분)는 세무원을 피해 어머니 집의 정원에 숨어지내고, 리드 싱어였던 레이(Ray Simms: 빌 니기 분)는 두번째 부인과 함께 자신의 녹음실을 운영하며 살고 있다. 베이스 기타리스트 레스(Les Wickes: 지미 네일 분)는 행복한 가정생활에 푹 빠져 추운 북 잉글랜드에서 지붕 수선하는 일을 하며 살고, 로드매니저였던 휴이(Hughie: 빌리 코넬리 분)는 길거리 시장에서 일한다. 리드 기타리스트 브라이언(Brian Lovell: 브루스 로빈슨 분)은 살았는지 죽었는지 행방이 묘연하고, 그의 자리를 대신 채우기 위해 들어온 젊은 신인 루크(Luke Shand: 한스 매더슨 분)는 팀의 연령을 낮춰줄 뿐 아니라 새로운 활력소가 되어주는데...

The doomed marriage of the Prince Regent and Caroline of Brunswick.

Photographer Charles Castle is numbed with grief following the death of his beautiful bride. He goes off to war, working in the trenches as a photographer. Following the war and still in grief Charles is given some photographs purporting to be of fairies. His search for the truth leads him to Burkinwell, a seemingly peaceful village seething with secrets

A tramp called Raymond finds his life changes radically when he gets his hands on a sought-after film script.

A bereaved woman adopts multiple disguises to track down the last three people to see her boyfriend before he died.

A boozy barmaid (Frances Barber) and her newly found gay friend (Con O’Neill) quit London and hightail it to northeast England on the lookout for sex and excitement in this multi-award-winning film based on Tennessee Williams’ short story Two on a Party. This sensitive and finally very moving film both celebrates and challenges the unusual relationship between the two characters.

October 1918: After returning to the civil life, the young Doctor Giorgino Volli searches for a group of children, which he had been the care-taker of before the first world war began. However, soon the searching becomes a part of hide-and-seek with death. Giorgino finds a village bordered with a treacherous marsh and rumours of wolves. There he also meets the mysterious Catherine....

It is the late 1930s and some British households still eagerly await the arrival of electricity. When a pylon is erected in the garden, Morris's mother can't wait to show off her Swedish lumbago belt and toaster. But Morris is gripped by a deeper passion that will change his life - one that will not be illuminated for 50 years.

Douglas Livingstone has direct experience of the tensions in South Africa. On a research visit there in the summer of 1993, he was mugged within 24 hours of arriving in Johannesburg. Over the following week. the East Rand riots claimed 600 lives.

Eight years ago, Gavin, artistic son of an Scots/Italian ice-cream dynasty, turned his back on Glasgow and moved south to London to make his name illustrating children's books. Now, frustrated and broke, his Uncle Sal appears with an offer. Gavin's father has sold the family business and to get his share of the proceeds, Gavin must return home for his father's birthday party. Swayed by the money, he sets off north and picks up a hitchicker with a secret. Their journey is difficult but ultimately rewarding.

A poignant and forceful saga which traces the fortunes of two English children uprooted from their beloved Liverpool dockside to the alien environment of Australia in the years following World War Two.

Screen One biopic detailing the final eight years in the life of comedian Tony Hancock, from the peak of his powers as Britain's number one comedian to his eventual mental, alcoholic decline and suicide in Australia.

Two disc jockeys have a friend's murder to solve in the fringe-group melting pot of 1977 London.

During a train ride, an anxiety attack leads middle-aged illustrator John into an identity crisis. As his marital problems merge and blur into his fantasy life with prostitutes and call girls, a long-dormant secret friend of his childhood surfaces in his delusions.

When Jenny and Bruce Coldfield bring a curious party of literary enthusiasts to a remote Norfolk village to visit the hidden world of ghost story writer Eleanor Mont other forces start to stir.

An Ulster Volunteer Force vigilante, turned police informer, is sent by the British government to New Zealand to start a new life, leaving behind his eldest son. Although his wife and two young boys are also in New Zealand, they are no longer together, and he has a new love interest. After some eight years his past catches up with him when former comrades show up, intent on extracting revenge. After two nearly successful attempts by them (in Dunedin), the action moves to a final confrontation and shootout in the hills above Queenstown.

Martin and Gert lead a very quiet life, until the day when their path crosses that of Marie and Francis. Martin, the shy one, lets himself be seduced by Marie. Gert wasted no time in understanding and dropped into Francis' arms.

The tale begins when a brother and sister are separated in a shipwreck, but survive to be washed up on the shore of Illyria. The sister, Viola, disguises herself as a man and takes service with Duke Orsino, who has fallen in love with Lady Olivia. Entrusted with pleading on her master's behalf, Viola is utterly disconcerted to find that Olivia has fallen in love with her. Thus begins the confusion of this delightful comedy.

An aimless young man, Johnny, is sent prison. He entrusts his beloved dog, Evie, to the care of his former lover and best friend, Frank. When he gets out of prison, he has to face difficulties at home. Added to this, is the fact that he may have to give up Evie to Frank.

Sammy and Rosie are an unconventional middle-class London married couple. They live in the midst of inner-city chaos, surround themselves with intellectual street people, and sleep with everybody - except each other! Things become interesting when Sammy's father, Rafi, who is a former Indian government minister, comes to London for a visit. Sammy, Rosie, and Rafi try to find meaning through their lives and loves.

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.

Middle-aged Gerald Kingsland advertises in a London paper for a female companion to spend a year with him on a desert island. The young Lucy Irving takes a chance on contacting him and after a couple of meetings they decide to go ahead. Once on the island things prove a lot less idyllic than in the movies, and gradually it becomes clear that it is Lucy who has the desire and the strength to try and see the year through.

Twin zoologists lose their wives in a car accident and become obsessed with decomposing animals.

A film based on Townshend's album "White City: A Novel". The story is based on the area where Townshend was raised. The drama is directed by Richard Lowenstein.

Brixton in the early 80s. Viv presides over a cheerfully immoral and variously under-employed bunch of ex-Oxford playmates in her parents' gentrified home. But when Jane's boyfriend introduces a discordant note of reality from the streets, Viv plots her retribution. And behind her double-locked doors there are some hard feelings to contend with.

A countess and her military sons prepare for the German invasion of Poland in 1939 as World War II begins.

Girls growing up in 1960-61 London develop a passion for Tottenham Hotspur Football Club, the first British team in the 20th century to win the English league and FA Cup "double". Twenty years later, one of the girls tracks down players of the '60-'61 Spurs for a documentary.

A BBC film crew is interviewing a ‘typical Catholic family’ in the Divis Flats area of Belfast, when news comes in that a child, known to the family, has been hit by a stray plastic bullet fired by a British soldier – a version of events contested by the army. Back in London, editing the footage, the producer and researcher on the project wrestle with how to present the incident, and with their responsibility to the people in the film.

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.

Three postal workers and their dysfunctional families interact over cups of tea and Sunday dinner.

A group of six friends, who have known each other since childhood, find their friendship tested when one of their number is found dead, leading to the question - were they murdered or did they commit suicide?