Geoffrey Palmer

Em 1962, Patricia Neal e Roald Dahl retiraram-se para o interior da Inglaterra para criar sua jovem família. O par aparentemente improvável vê seu relacionamento posto à prova por uma perda trágica.

Na trama, Paddington, que é um dos personagens mais conhecidos da Inglaterra, chega do Peru e é detido na estação de mesmo nome em Londres. Perseguido por uma perversa taxidermista, ele conhece a família Brown, que lhe oferece carinho e abrigo.

Sivuqaq is an 18-year-old, larger than life captive pacific walrus. By now he should be a dad but things have not worked out. This is where reproduction scientist Holley Muraco comes in. Holley is taking on the biggest challenge of her career - trying to help Sivuqaq become a parent. Yet walrus love is a mystery - even pandas have been bred more successfully than walruses. Holley hopes the clues lie in in exploring the lives of Sivuqaq's wild cousins and that she can find the answers by journeying to their breeding grounds in Northern Alaska.

In the years before the First World War, three Britons are drawn into fraught and ultimately tragic relations: Anglican Christopher Tietjens, second son of the lord of the manor of Groby, Yorkshire, who is a disconsolate, Tory statistician in London; Catholic Sylvia Satterthwaite, his promiscuous and self-centered socialite wife who has married him only to hide the fact that their son is not really his; and freethinking Valentine Wannop, a young suffragette and daughter of a lady novelist, who is torn between her idealism and her attraction to "Chrissy". As the war works a profound change on Europe, and Chrissy is badly wounded in France, the conflict shatters and rearranges the lives of all three principals, as well as virtually everyone else in their elite circle.

Thrown together just five weeks before the final of the 1948 London Olympics, Bert Bushnell (Doctor Who's Matt Smith) and Dickie Burnell (Sam Hoare) defied all the odds and made history in the double sculls. This is the story of how they did it - not only by pushing physical and emotional limits, but also by overcoming their vast professional and personal differences.

John Smith has been happily involved in a bigamous marriage for five years. He lives with Stephanie in Finsbury and Michelle in Stockwell. Fortunately, for John, he's a taxi driver which involves varying shift work! Simple? Well, when John unwittingly becomes a have-a-go hero and the Finsbury and Stockwell police forces discover something suspicious in their paperwork, John's happy bubble is about to be burst. The action of the movie takes place during the next hectic 24 hours as John, with the assistance of his gullible neighbor Gary, rush between North and South London attempting to thwart the police and prevent the two loving wives coming face to face!

In 1897 Queen Victoria antagonized family and court with her relationship with Indian servant Abdul Karim. Originally a waiter the devious and arrogant young man won over the queen by playing on her love of Indian cuisine and romantic view of the country,teaching her Hindistani,whilst she signed letters to him 'Mother',bestowing houses and gifts on him and his family. Already shocked that a Muslim should be at the heart of the court the Royal family stepped in when Victoria announced her desire to knight him and they threatened to have her declared insane if she went ahead. It worked. And in 1901 after the queen's death Karim was banished from Royal circles,returning to India where he died.

Na véspera de Natal, Goose, um pequeno órfão, se encontra com Anthony, um homem enigmático com um poder muito especial. Agora Goose lhe pedirá ajuda para encontrar algo muito valioso, sem imaginar que esse estranho mudará sua vida para sempre.

Duas histórias de amor. Uma tem como centro o conturbado romance entre o Rei Edward VIII e a americana divorciada Wallis Simpson. A outra, contemporânea, reúne uma mulher casada e um guarda de segurança russo

Quando famosos tesouros ao redor do mundo são roubados, entre eles o lendário diamante Pantera Cor-de-Rosa, o inspetor-chefe Dreyfus (John Cleese) é obrigado a convocar o inspetor Jacques Clouseau (Steve Martin) para integrar uma equipe internacional de investigação. Para realizar o trabalho Clouseau conta com a ajuda de seu parceiro Ponton (Jean Reno) e de Nicole (Emily Mortimer), por quem sente-se atraído.

A light hearted look at future Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's rise from research chemist in 1949 to becoming MP for Finchley in 1959, encompassing her early relationship and marriage to oil millionaire Denis Thatcher.

When disaster hits the Titanic, the Doctor uncovers a threat to the whole human race. Battling alongside aliens, saboteurs, robot Angels and a new friend called Astrid, can he stop the Christmas inferno?

Set in Colonial India in 1925, the hunt for the most notorious man-eating leopard of all time.

This is a BBC commemoration of the life and times of one of the most beloved pontiffs in history. Narrated by Geoffrey Palmer, it is a fitting tribute to a man whose mission above all was to proclaim the joy of faith in a troubled world. He arrived at the Vatican an unknown Polish cardinal and became one of the most towering figures in modern history. All the triumphs and trials of his extraordinary Papacy are here: from his election to the Holy See through his exhaustive world travels, from the shocking attempt on his life and his heroic role in ending Communism. Includes exclusive footage from the only television interview granted after Pope John Paul II was elected to the papacy.

Set in the 1930s, an American with a scandalous reputation on both sides of the Atlantic must do an about-face in order to win back the woman of his dreams.

The Young Visiters, written in twelve days by nine-year-old Daisy Ashford in 1890, is a surreal blend of naiveté, precocious perception and inadvertent social satire.

Peter (Levi Miller) é um garoto de 12 anos que vive em um orfanato em Londres, no período da Segunda Guerra Mundial. Um dia, ele e várias crianças são sequestradas por piratas em um navio voador, que logo é perseguido por caças do exército britânico. O navio escapa e logo ruma para a Terra do Nunca, um lugar mágico e distante onde o capitão Barba Negra (Hugh Jackman) escraviza crianças e adultos para que encontrem pixum, uma pedra preciosa que concentra pó de fada. Em pleno garimpo, Peter conhece James Hook (Garreth Hedlund), que tem planos para fugir do local.

After a night of drinking Guiness at the local watering hole, an ordinary, working-class, family man in Dublin's life is turned upside-down when he wakes up as a rat.

Anna foi contratada para ensinar os 58 filhos do Rei de Sião sobre o mundo ocidental. A professora britânica, que é viúva, logo percebe as diferenças entre as duas culturas, e acaba educando o próprio Rei sobre a modernidade.

Alice (Kate Beckinsale) cai no sono após ler uma história de ninar para a filha. Caminhando através do espelho, ela entra em um novo e mágico mundo, onde encontra figuras muito estranhas e divertidas, como as Rainhas Branca e Vermelha. Adaptação moderna do livro "Alice através de espelho", continuação de "Alice no País das Maravilhas", de Lewis Carroll.

Jack can't sent out his letter to Father Christmas...will the Mr. Happy help him ??

Stiff Upper Lips is a broad parody of British period films, especially the lavish Merchant-Ivory productions of the 'eighties and early 'nineties. Although it specifically targets A Room with a View, Chariots of Fire, Maurice, A Passage to India, and many other films, in a more general way Stiff Upper Lips satirises popular perceptions of certain Edwardian traits: propriety, sexual repression, xenophobia, and class snobbery.

James Bond descobre que o magnata da mídia Elliot Carver colocou em prática um plano para manipular as superpotências e expandir seus negócios. O agente deve impedir que essa ideia doentia provoque uma nova guerra mundial.

A morte do príncipe Alberto faz a Rainha Vitória ficar arrasada. John, o mais fiel serviçal do finado príncipe, consegue trazer a soberana de volta à vida. Mas a amizade que surge entre os dois cria um escândalo e gera diversas fofocas na corte, que não admite que um homem do povo (principalmente um escocês considerado arrogante) tenha tanta influência. Ele é obsessivamente preocupado com a segurança da soberana e, em virtude de tudo isto, ela é maldosamente chamada de Sra. Brown.

Um monarca britânico do século 18 ama sua devotada rainha, mas uma doença afeta gravemente sua mente.

Few wartime prisoners have attempted escape quite as many times as bumbling RAF Officer James Forrester. Though Officer Forrester has twenty-three escape attempts to his name, each successive attempt he makes to break free somehow seems to go worse than the last. But this time there's a difference, because Officer Forrester isn't just plotting his own escape, but the escape of all 327 of his fellow prisoners as well - and all at once. In fact even the Germans want to escape!

Sir Anthony Blunt, who was a Soviet agent for 25 years, is routinely questioned and gives no answers, but is knighted and works as Director of the Courtauld Institute, and presents his interrogator with a puzzle in the shape of a doubtful Titian painting. He also does art restoration work in Buckingham Palace, where he gets into an interesting conversation with HMQ.

Two terminally ill patients in a hospital yearn for relief from their predicament. With little or no friends, they form an uneasy alliance and plot an escape for one last wild time.

Com o intuito de seduzir Archie para descobrir o esconderijo das jóias roubadas por um de seus clientes, Wanda está pronta para agir! Infelizmente para ambos, o namorado e parceiro da moça (Kline) também está pronto para agir, mas contra Archie! Quem ficará com as jóias? Quem ficará com Wanda? Fica aqui o suspense, mas uma coisa é certa: "Um Peixe Chamado Wanda" é um filme que com certeza vai fisgar você!

Eight people attend a Christmas party in hope of having a pleasant celebration, however it takes various awkward turns and ends with one of the guests leaving sooner than they thought. Alan Ayckbourn's stage play adapted for BBC TV, 1986

An uncompromising British school headmaster finds himself beset by one thing going wrong after another.

Franz, a young man, works in a dye factory in Prague. One day he notices a skin-rash, like eczema, growing on his hands. All attempts to treat it with ointment fail, and the rash gradually spreads over his body. After complaining to the management he is laid off work; his relationship with his fiancee is affected. In an attempt to get compensation from his former employers he goes to insurance firm Assicurazion Generali, where he encounters an enigmatic clerk called Kafka.

A movie in three acts following three couples who, over three years, each host a Christmas party. The camera stays in the kitchen and we are treated to Ayckbourn's beautifully detailed look at middle class life.

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

Greenaway's short documentary shows 26 bathrooms, each representing a letter of the alphabet.

Set in a small politically unstable Latin American country, the story follows the half English and half Latino Dr. Eduardo Plarr, who left his home to find a better life. Along the way he meets an array of people, including British Consul Charley Fortnum, a representative in Latin America who is trying to keep Revolution from occurring. He is also a remorseful alcoholic. Another person the doctor meets is Clara, whom he immediately falls in love with, but there is a problem: Clara is Charley's wife.

Four Athenians run away to the forest only to have Puck the fairy make both of the boys fall in love with the same girl. The four run through the forest pursuing each other while Puck helps his master play a trick on the fairy queen. In the end, Puck reverses the magic, and the two couples reconcile and marry.

Craig Wasson é Michael Flaherty, um veterano da Guerra do Vietnã que vive sua vida confortável em Detroit para lutar pelo IRA na Irlanda, apenas para descobrir que sua decisão de fazê-lo pode ter sido enganada de maneira importante.

The story of a brutal crime in a high-rise estate; a girl walking home at night is raped and murdered, and the attitude of some is not always sympathetic.

A huge chemical company pays illegal dumpers for disposal of chemical waste dangerous to the environment.

"All I said was the gramophone's too loud." Tony and Zoe Lyle 's silly row starts like any other, but Tony finds that Zoe means it this time. She's walking out and he's got a week to save a marriage that he hasn't looked at in 18 years, and with it all the trappings of a good life in Maida Vale.

This sprawling, surrealist comedy serves as an allegory for the pitfalls of capitalism, as it follows the adventures of a young coffee salesman in modern Britain.

Playwright Christopher Hudson finds his medical problem hinders his writing. He employs secretary Sandra George and dictates his new play to her, but tensions soon develop between the two. As Hudson creates, scenes from his play are dramatized and interpolated. The play being created is Dennis Potter's Angels Are So Few, seen with a totally different cast from the 1970 BBC production.

Under stress, Irish tenant farmer Michael Regan, suddenly snaps one day and locks himself in his home, threatening the lives of his wife and child.

Investigating mysterious power failures and a death at an underground research centre, The Doctor discovers a colony of Silurians - prehistoric, intelligent reptiles who went into hibernation before man evolved. But now they have woken up, and they are prepared to wipe out mankind with a killer plague to get their planet back.

A British woman faces a downward social climb thanks to her country's rigid and problem-ridden welfare system.

The film is based on the actual events of the Portland Spy Ring trial in the U.K. A disgruntled Navy Clerk is transferred to a secret research establishment and is subsequently black-mailed/paid by Czech intelligence to procure secrets for them. He seduces the secretary who controls the most secret documents, and they enjoy the fruits of their treachery until the British authorities begin to close in on them.

A criminal gang sets out to pull off the heist of a large army payroll.