William Boyd

Based on William Boyd's short story collection, The Dreams of Bethany Mellmoth follows 22-year-old Bethany as she flits from one possible career to another looking for answers to life's most important questions.

A novelist's life ricochets from 1920s Paris to '50s New York and '80s London. Along the way he meets Ernest Hemingway, Ian Fleming and the Duke and Duchess of Windsor - the exiled British king and his mistress Wallis Simpson.

In 1609, William Shakespeare published a collection of 154 sonnets, creating what is arguably the greatest lyric sequence in English literature - and at the center of this masterpiece lies a mystery that has endured for centuries. What are the identities of “the young man” and “the dark lady” to whom all but two of the sonnets allude? This moving performance brings to life the gritty reality of Shakespeare’s England, bits of the Bard’s plays and poems, and the consummate poet and dramatist himself as it exposes these personages unseen but so keenly felt in Shakespeare’s sonnets and in his life. Rupert Graves, Tom Sturridge, Indira Varma, Anna Chancellor, and Zoë Wanamaker star. Contains mature themes and explicit language. Some content may be objectionable. Produced by the Open University.

An epic about anthropologists who hunt and capture pygmies for study back in Europe, in an attempt to illustrate the link between man and ape.

Guy Crouchback joins the war effort during World War 2, an idealistic quest to join the forces of good in the fight against evil. But his efforts is not rewarded, he never has any chance to join any real fighting, circumstances always prevent it. Instead he finds himself in the middle of an army full of cowards, incompetents and a few outright evil men. They of course reap the fortunes of war, promotions and fame, but never Crouchback. His war is just an endless list of transfers and an hopeless but noble quest for righteousness.

Produced by Channel 4, Still Tickin´: The Return of A Clockwork Orange examines the controversy over Kubrick’s iconic film, explaining the film’s “demonic level of attention,” and its influence on culture, politics and society, which led to the director’s self-imposed ban.

1916년, 한 여름 프랑스 북부에서 영국군은 1차 대전 최대의 공격 준비를 하고 있었다. 수천명의 부대가 공격 명령을 기다리며 후방에 대기하고 있었고, 소수의 부대가 최전방 참호를 지키기 위해 배치되었다. 한편, 이 부대의 대원인 빌리와 에디 맥팔런 형제와 그의 동료들은 총공격의 날을 기다리며 하루하루 긴장의 나날을 보내고 있었다. 이들의 진격명령은 하루하루 늦춰지고, 그 와중에 동생인 에디는 독일군의 총에 맞아 후방으로 이송된다. 그리고 곧이어 다른 동료들도 차례차례 폭격 등으로 희생되는데….

1916년, 한 여름 프랑스 북부에서 영국군은 1차 대전 최대의 공격 준비를 하고 있었다. 수천명의 부대가 공격 명령을 기다리며 후방에 대기하고 있었고, 소수의 부대가 최전방 참호를 지키기 위해 배치되었다. 한편, 이 부대의 대원인 빌리와 에디 맥팔런 형제와 그의 동료들은 총공격의 날을 기다리며 하루하루 긴장의 나날을 보내고 있었다. 이들의 진격명령은 하루하루 늦춰지고, 그 와중에 동생인 에디는 독일군의 총에 맞아 후방으로 이송된다. 그리고 곧이어 다른 동료들도 차례차례 폭격 등으로 희생되는데….

Morgan Leafy is a secretary to the British High Commissioner to an Africa nation. Leafy is a man that makes himself useful to his boss, the snobbish Arthur Fanshawe, who has no clue about what's going on around him, but who wants to use his secretary to carry on his dirty work, which involves getting one of the most powerful men in the country to do business with his country.The young secretary has an eye for beautiful women around him, especially Hazel, a native beauty, with whom he is having an affair. Things get complicated because Sam Adekunle, a man running for president of the country, wants a favor from Leafy in return after he has accepted the invitation to visit London. The proposition involves swaying a prominent doctor's opposition to a plan that will make Adenkule filthy rich.

Morgan Leafy is a secretary to the British High Commissioner to an Africa nation. Leafy is a man that makes himself useful to his boss, the snobbish Arthur Fanshawe, who has no clue about what's going on around him, but who wants to use his secretary to carry on his dirty work, which involves getting one of the most powerful men in the country to do business with his country.The young secretary has an eye for beautiful women around him, especially Hazel, a native beauty, with whom he is having an affair. Things get complicated because Sam Adekunle, a man running for president of the country, wants a favor from Leafy in return after he has accepted the invitation to visit London. The proposition involves swaying a prominent doctor's opposition to a plan that will make Adenkule filthy rich.

Morgan Leafy is a secretary to the British High Commissioner to an Africa nation. Leafy is a man that makes himself useful to his boss, the snobbish Arthur Fanshawe, who has no clue about what's going on around him, but who wants to use his secretary to carry on his dirty work, which involves getting one of the most powerful men in the country to do business with his country.The young secretary has an eye for beautiful women around him, especially Hazel, a native beauty, with whom he is having an affair. Things get complicated because Sam Adekunle, a man running for president of the country, wants a favor from Leafy in return after he has accepted the invitation to visit London. The proposition involves swaying a prominent doctor's opposition to a plan that will make Adenkule filthy rich.

1962년, 73세의 찰리 채플린Charles Chaplin: 로버트 다우니 주니어 분)은 스위스의 자택에서 자신의 자서전 편집을 맡은 작가 조지 헤이든(가상의 인물, George Hayden: 안소니 홉킨스 분)에게 자신이 살아온 이야기를 들려준다. 영국 뮤직홀 배우 부부의 아들로 태어난 채플린은 건달이다시피한 아버지가 어려서 죽고, 어머니(Hannah Chaplin: 제랄딘 채플린 분) 마저 정신 이상으로 어려서 헤어지게 된다. 17세에 당시 영국에서 최고의 인기를 누리던 프레드 카노(Fred Karno: 존 토우 분) 극단에 입단, 인기를 끌면서 헤티 켈리(Hetty Kelly: 모이라 켈리 분)라는 극단 배우를 사랑하게 된다. 당시 헐리웃에는 단편 희극 영화를 주로 만들며 '코미디왕'으로 불리는 케스턴 영화사의 감독 겸 프로듀서 맷 세네트(Matt Sennett: 댄 애크로이드 분)가 단편 희극에 쓸 영국 배우를 찾다가 채플린을 스카웃하게 되어 미국으로 오게 된다. 채플린은 당시 흔하게 볼 수 있었던 영국인들 모습을 재미있게 분장하여 그의 전설이 시작된다. 1914년 그는 캐스턴 영화사에서 짧막한 희극 영화를 35편이나 찍으면서 대중의 우상으로 떠올랐고, 이듬해에는 형 시드니(Sydney Chaplin: 폴 라이스 분)가 영국에서 건너와 채플린의 메니저가 되면서 영화사로 옮겨 단편 영화들에 직접 감독까지 겸하게 된다. 1919년 채플린은 그리피스, 매리 픽포드(Mary Pickford: 마리아 핏틸로 분), 더글러스 페어뱅크스(Douglas Fairbanks: 케빈 클라인 분) 등과 함께 유나이티드 아티스트 사를 만든 뒤에 장편영화 제작에 착수하는데...

In 1923 British Colonial Nigeria, Mister Johnson is an oddity -- an educated black man who doesn't really fit in with the natives or the British. He works for the local British magistrate, and considers himself English, though he has never been to England. He is always scheming, trying to get ahead, which lands him in a lot of hot water.

A British art expert leaves New York to buy a long-lost Renoir from a Georgia eccentric.

A British art expert leaves New York to buy a long-lost Renoir from a Georgia eccentric.

In this sophomoric comedy, a lusty adolescent British hockey team heads for Holland where they find something far more interesting than tulips and windmills: gorgeous, lusty women. They are so busy pursuing romance that they forget all about their upcoming match.

The story, told partly in flashback to 1968, concerns a clique of English public schoolboys who bully and humiliate an unpopular younger pupil (Cox) who is 'bad at games'. Ten years later Cox uses the naive and equal outsider Niles, who is only included in the clique because he is 'good at games', to find out more about the lead persecutor (Mount), in order to exact revenge

Nobody’s Heart is a fascinating, twisted and sexually charged love story between two characters sharing a unique passion with the background of Portugal in the 1930s. The film follows Lily after the sudden and devastating death of her husband. She inherits his cork factory and begins to form an unexpected, highly charged relationship with his enigmatic co-worker, igniting repressed imagination and passion, and discovering unknown truths about both herself and her late husband.