Father Michael
In the war-struck country of Belgium, one man puts up a last fight.
Sir David King
The Trick tells the story of world-renowned Professor Philip Jones; Director of Climate Research at the University of East Anglia, who back in 2009 found himself at the eye of an international media storm and the victim of cyberterrorism. With time running out against an unseen enemy, The Trick looks at the potentially devastating consequences to humanity from climate change denial; how a media storm undermined public confidence in the science and how the concept of ‘truth’ took a back seat causing us to lose a decade of action.
Archbishop George Carey
Peter Ball was a bishop, serial rapist, and friend of the establishment and Price Charles. This is the story about how the Anglican church tried to cover up the whole scandal and help him let off punishment.
Julius Caesar
Caesar returns in triumph to Rome and the people pour out of their homes to celebrate. Alarmed by the autocrat’s popularity, the educated élite conspire to bring him down. After his assassination, civil war erupts on the streets of the capital. Nicholas Hytner’s production will thrust the audience into the street party that greets Caesar’s return, the congress that witnesses his murder, the rally that assembles for his funeral and the chaos that explodes in its wake.
Terry Perkins
Brian Reader (Larry Lamb) e um homem misterioso (Matthew Goode) juntam um grupo de veteranos criminosos para assaltar a Hatton Garden Safe Deposit Company, uma empresa de cofres subterrâneos de alta segurança localizada no centro de Londres. Com desde a Scotland Yard, até as piores organizações ilegais do país em seu encalço, eles organizam o que ficou conhecido como o maior roubo da história da Inglaterra.
Secretary Bryce
A incrível história real do explorador britânico Percy Fawcett (Charlie Hunnam), que viaja para a Amazônia no século XX e descobre evidências de uma civilização avançada desconhecida que pode ter habitado a região. Depois de ter sido ridicularizado pelo corpo científico que considera as populações indígenas como "selvagens", Fawcett está determinado a retornar à sua amada selva e provar seu caso.
Mr. Fairchild
Escritor forma uma ligação inesperada com uma mulher que vive em um carro que está estacionado em frente a sua garagem.
Hugh Bell
Gertrude Bell (Nicole Kidman) nasceu na Inglaterra, mas fez fama devido ao seu trabalho no Oriente Médio. Escritora, arqueóloga, cartógrafa e exploradora, ela passa também a trabalhar para o governo britânico como seu representante na região. Logo faz amizade com T.E. Lawrence (Robert Pattinson), mais conhecido como Lawrence da Arábia, que também tem presença marcante no local. Com o tempo, Gertrude acaba participando da criação dos estados da Jordânia e do Iraque.
Lord Chief Justice Mansfield
A gripping 18th century drama details the scandalous life of Lady Seymour Worsley, who dared to leave her husband and elope with his best friend, Captain George Bisset. Lady Seymour Worsley escapes her troubled marriage only to find herself at the centre of a very public trial brought by her powerful husband Sir Richard Worsley.
Louis Stanley
Anos 1970. O mundo sexy e glamouroso da Fórmula 1 é mobilizado principalmente pela rivalidade existente entre os pilotos Niki Lauda e James Hunt. Eles possuíam características bem distintas: enquanto Lauda era metódico e brilhante, Hunt adotava um estilo mais despojado, típico de um playboy. A disputa entre os dois chegou ao seu auge em 1976, quando ambos correram vários riscos dentro do cockpit para que pudessem se sagrar campeão mundial de Fórmula 1.
Cosmo Gordon Lang
Ever since King Edward VIII abdicated in 1936, the official explanation had been simply that the government disapproved of his marriage to a twice-divorced woman. However newly-released documents, embargoed until recently, suggest that Archbishop of Canterbury, Cosmo Gordon Lang, played a large part in a plan to make certain that Edward VIII abdicated, not only because of his marriage to a divorcee but also because the archbishop disapproved of the King's whole lifestyle and modern attitudes to life.
Harold Hardman
United é baseado na história real dos lendários "Busby Babes" do Manchester United, o time mais jovem a vencer a Football League e o Munich Air Crash de 1958, que levou oito de seus números. O filme baseia-se em entrevistas em primeira mão com os sobreviventes e suas famílias para contar a história inspiradora de uma equipe e comunidade superando uma terrível tragédia.
Polonius
National Theatre Live’s 2010 broadcast of Hamlet returns to cinemas as part of the National Theatre's 50th anniversary celebrations. Following his celebrated performances at the National Theatre in Burnt by the Sun, The Revenger's Tragedy, Philistines and The Man of Mode, Rory Kinnear plays Hamlet in a dynamic new production of Shakespeare’s complex and profound play about the human condition, directed by Nicholas Hytner. He is joined by Clare Higgins (Gertrude), Patrick Malahide (Claudius), David Calder (Polonius), James Laurenson (Ghost/Player King) and Ruth Negga (Ophelia).
Drama about journalist Heather Brooke's fight for the disclosure of MPs' expenses.
Sir John Marsden
Para o investigador Peter Hunter, a onda de crimes realizados há anos em uma cidade tinham algo em comum: todas envolviam o departamento de polícia. O que ele não esperava era o fato de ser uma das vítimas desta conspiração. Agora existem duas opções: abandonar o caso ou perder a vida.
Roger Wilson
Rick O'Connell, Alex e Evelyn, estão de volta, desta feita para combater a múmia ressuscitada do Imperador Han, num épico combate da China até aos Himalaias para impedir o cruel imperador chinês de lançar uma maldição sobre o mundo e colocá-lo, de modo impiedoso, à sua mercê.
Monk 1
Nos primeiros anos do século XIX, em meio ao radicalismo da Inquisição e à iminente invasão da Espanha pelas tropas de Napoleão Bonaparte (Craig Stevenson), o gênio artístico do pintor espanhol Francisco Goya (Stellan Skarsgård) é reconhecido na corte do Rei Carlos IV (Randy Quaid). Inés (Natalie Portman), a jovem modelo e musa do pintor, é presa sob a falsa acusação de heresia. Nem as intervenções do influente Frei Lorenzo (Javier Bardem), também retratado por Goya, conseguem evitar que ela seja brutalmente torturada nos porões da Igreja. Estes personagens e os horrores da guerra, com os seus fantasmas, alimentam a pintura de Goya, testemunha atormentada de uma época turbulenta.
Bishop of Grasse
Jean-Baptiste Grenouille nasceu com o olfacto mais apurado do mundo e encontrou a carreira certa para o usar ao tornar-se perfumista. Mas o que poderia ter sido uma história de sucesso toma contornos macabros quando a sua busca incessante para captar o aroma mais perfeito e fugaz o leva a cometer as maiores atrocidades.
Winston Churchill
Em 1936, Edward VIII, então príncipe de Gales, renuncia à Coroa para casar-se com Wallis Simpson, uma americana divorciada. O fato causa um escândalo que repercute no mundo todo e Wallis é vista como a mulher que tirou da Inglaterra o seu rei.
Peter von Braun
A three-part BBC dramatized documentary series taking a look at the life and work of Ludwig van Beethoven.
DCI Pete Chambers
Crime drama in which policeman John Paxton is framed for murder after he is caught up in the plans of colleagues to take drastic action after a killer is set free on a legal technicality.
Anthony Glass QC
Based on the true story of Shelia Bowler, accused of murdering her elderly aunt.
Tattooed Man
Jon Bennet (Andrew Howard) é o empregado que todo patrão deseja ter: eficiente, responsável, extremamente profissional... e um assassino frio e calculista. Mais do que simplesmente um matador, Jon é considerado um verdadeiro mestre de sua "arte". Um estilista do crime, o respeitado Sr. Morte. Jon trabalha para o misterioso e cruel Tattooed Man (David Calder) e ambos nutrem uma relação de dependência humana e respeito profissional. Até o dia em que o "Sr. Morte" se reencontra com Andy (Andrew Tiernan) e Cathy (Geraldine O´Rawe) velhos amigos da época de escola que agora estão casados e levam uma vida normal. Este encontro perturba profundamente a vida do assassino, que passa a questionar seus valores e sua vida de crimes. Mais do que isso: Jon passa a desenvolver uma atração profundamente doentia por Cathy. Indignado, Tattoed Man não aceita o comportamento de seu "protegido". A situação se torna um barril de pólvora de luxúria e violência, pronto para explodir a qualquer momento.
Charles
Onze passageiros de um ônibus se abrigam em meio às ruínas de uma cidade fantasma. À medida que o resgate se torna cada vez mais remoto surge entre eles a idéia de montar em pleno deserto a peça Rei Lear, de William Shakespeare, como forma de passar o tempo e atenuar as tensões crescentes. "Não demorará muito para que estejamos brigando uns contra os outros por um gole de água" vaticina um personagem no filme. As malditas interrelações humanas encenadas com o texto shakespeariano não superam a incapacidade de conviver em grupo harmonicamente. "O estupendo streap tease das necessidades humanas" diz um personagem em certa altura.
Sir Robert King
James Bond deve proteger Elektra King, filha de um magnata do petróleo que foi brutalmente assassinado. O agente secreto é encarregado de manter Elektra longe do lunático terrorista Renard, que deseja assumir o controle do petróleo de todo o mundo.
Sir Paul Condon
Stephen Lawrence was a black London teenager murdered by white racists in 1993. His parents fought to have the crime properly investigated, culminating in a judicial enquiry into the event itself and also the inadequacies of the ensuing investigation by the London Metropolitan Police.
Harold Snelling
FairyTale: A True Story é um longa-metragem do gênero fantasia lançado em 1997 e baseado no famoso caso das Fadas de Cottingley ocorrido na Inglaterra durante o período da Primeira Guerra Mundial.
Falstaff
An adaptation of the two parts of Henry IV.
No one thinks a seventeen-year-old girl can take on the hard men of London's gangland, but it's a mistake to underestimate Maura Ryan: she's tough, clever and beautiful - which makes her one very dangerous lady. Together, she and her brother Michael are unbeatable but notoriety has its price. The police are determined to put Maura away once and for all - and not everyone in the family think that's such a bad idea. When it comes to the crunch, Maura has to face the pain of lost love in her past - and the dangerous lady discovers her heart is not make entirely of stone.
Nils Krogstad
One of Ibsen's best known plays, A Dolls House caused a sensation when first published, as it provided a critique on the conventions of Victorian marriage. Nora Helmer feels suffocated and belittled in her marriage to banker Torvald. When faced with blackmail as a result of an attempt to save her husband's life, Nora decides that the only way to discover the real world is to step outside the illusions within her doll's house.
Abbé de L'Epée
The true story of mysterious deaf-mute boy Joseph in France just before the revolution.
Chubb
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.
Victor Chekhov
Amidst the thaw of glasnost, the Kremlin discovers that two Soviet agents, sent to England under deep cover in 1965, have been “lost.” A beautiful and ambitious Russian agent, sent to London to track them down, becomes embroiled in a tangle of CIA, KGB and MI-5 plots and counterplots as the two lost agents, now utterly assimilated, try to avoid detection.
Pollitt
Francis Ashby, a senior Oxford don on holiday alone in the Alps, meets holidaying American Caroline and her companion Elinor, the blossoming Irish-American girl she adopted many years before. Ashby finds he enjoys their company, particularly that of Elinor, and both the women are drawn to him. Back at Oxford he is nevertheless taken aback when they arrive unannounced. Women are not allowed in the College grounds, let alone the rooms. Indeed any liaison, however innocent, is frowned on by the upstanding Fellows.
DCS John Thorburn
Shoot to Kill is a four-hour drama documentary reconstruction of the events that led to the 1984–86 Stalker Inquiry into the shooting of six terrorist suspects in Northern Ireland in 1982 by a specialist unit of the Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC), allegedly without warning (the so-called shoot-to-kill policy); the organised fabrication of false accounts of the events; and the difficulties created for the inquiry team in their investigation.
John Lawrence
The film centres on the experiences of Robert Lawrence MC (played by Colin Firth), an officer of the Scots Guards during the Falklands War of 1982. While fighting at the Battle of Mount Tumbledown, Lawrence is shot in the head by an Argentine sniper, and left paralysed on his left side. He then must learn to adjust to his new disability.
Douglas
Jack Lawrence and Jimmy Dunne were once, briefly, enemies at opposite ends of a gun on the Irish border; now their lives have become inextricably mixed. They are together on a chat show whose host wants a sob story with a happy ending, but gets something entirely different.
Maitre Verges
Decades after the end of World War II, escaped war criminal Klaus Barbie is brought to justice.
Harry Champion
A reporter named Mullen 'stumbles' onto a story linking a prominent Member of Parliament to a KGB agent and a near-nuclear disaster involving a teenage runaway and a U.S. Air Force base. Has there been a Government cover-up? Mullen teams up with Vernon Bayliss, an old hack, and Nina Beckam, the MP's assistant, to find out the truth.
Bracey
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?
Supermarket Manager
A Polish contractor, Nowak, leads a group of workmen to London so they can provide cheap labor for a government official based there. Nowak has to manage the project and the men as they encounter the tempations of the West and loneliness and separation from their families. Nowak is the only one of the group who speaks English, and he uses this as a tool over his team. When the unrest in Poland leads to a military takeover, Nowak is faced with a much more difficult situation than he expected.
Benson
Between April and May 1816, "Bread or Blood" riots erupted across East Anglia as the price of bread surpassed the wages of agricultural and industrial laborers. While food riots had a long history in Britain, industrialization, enclosure, and globalization increasingly safeguarded the nation's food supply by the early nineteenth century
Detective Inspector Davin
The thirteen-part series recounted the lives of the titular Fox family, who lived in Clapham in South London and had gangland connections.
McKenna
A Liverpool tarmac gang set off for a contract in Middlesborough. After a day of work, the group are approached by two gypsies who offer them a lucrative side job.
General Von Heldorff
The events around the signing of The Armistice at the end of the First World War.
John Marriott
Like NIGHT OF THE DEMON, this adaptation is based only very loosely on the original ghost story by M.R. James. However, it does feature eerie scenic views and is directed by Lawrence 'Ghost Story for Christmas' Gordon Clark.
3rd Crewman (uncredited)
Jor-El, um renomado cientista, prevê a destruição do seu planeta e alerta o governo, que não lhe dá credito. Assim, decide salvar seu filho, mandando-o ao planeta Terra, onde terá superpoderes. Na Terra, ele usa o nome de Clark Kent e, já adulto, trabalha como repórter em um jornal, não demonstra ter superpoderes. Mas quando uma situação inesperada põe em risco a vida de Lois Lane, uma colega de trabalho, ele é obrigado a se revelar para o público, ficando conhecido popularmente como Superman. Descontente com o surgimento de um super-herói na cidade, Lex Luthor, um gênio do mal, o obriga a se desdobrar para evitar a morte de milhões de pessoas.
Music
O recluso Smith (Sam Neill) se vê em meio a uma luta revolucionária entre guerrilhas e direitistas na Nova Zelândia. Envolvido em um assassinato e incriminado como um conspirador revolucionário, Smith tenta manter uma atitude de não-violência enquanto se vê preso entre duas facções rivais.
Young Spencer
The reign of Edward II, King of England, is troubled from the start when he brings his male lover, hated by the nobles, out of exile.
Lord Ross / Groom
The Tragedy of King Richard II, by William Shakespeare. The actions and repercussions of a proud King, whose vanity and selfishness lead to his downfall.