Penelope Wilton

England, 1954. On a train to London, Fitzwilliam (David Jonsson) meets Miss Pinkerton (Penelope Wilton), who tells him that a killer is on the loose in the sleepy English village of Wychwood under Ashe. The villagers believe the deaths are mere accidents, but Miss Pinkerton knows otherwise – and when she's later found dead on her way to Scotland Yard, Fitzwilliam feels he must find the killer before they can strike again. Because for a certain kind of person, murder is easy…

Harold Fry is an unremarkable man who has made mistakes with all the important things: being a husband, a father and a friend. And now, well into his 60s, he is content to fade quietly into the background of life. Until, one day – Harold learns his old friend Queenie is dying. Harold leaves home, walking to his post office to send her a letter. And out of the blue, Harold decides to keep walking, all the way to her hospice, 450 miles away.

A profile of the actress from a strict Quaker upbringing in Yorkshire, through her staunch determination to make it as a thespian. There's also a look at her work in TV favourites such as A Fine Romance and As Time Goes By, where Judi's performances won her four BAFTA awards, and her tenure in the James Bond franchise.

Em uma grande jornada ao sul da França, os Crawleys buscam desvendar o mistério da villa recém-herdada da Condessa Viúva.

Dois agentes britânicos criam uma estratégia bizarra para enganar os nazistas e alterar o curso da Segunda Guerra Mundial.

When Jane is rejected by life, she spirals into a chaotic, schizophrenic world where love and normality collide with humorous consequences.

Com Gemma Arterton. Durante a II Guerra Mundial, uma pesquisadora durona e solitária abriga um menino fugindo dos bombardeios em Londres. Aos poucos, ela acaba por abrir seu coração em uma emocionante jornada de amizade e imaginação.

A história da família Crawley, proprietários de uma grande propriedade no interior da Inglaterra no início do século 20.

Durante a Segunda Guerra Mundial, animais do zoológico de Belfast são ameaçados. O garoto Tom e seus amigos desafiam as autoridades e se aventuram para manter Buster, um bebê elefante, a salvo. Baseado em fatos reais.

Juliet Ashton é uma jovem escritora, com falta de inspiração, que logo após a Segunda Guerra Mundial recebe uma carta de um membro da misteriosa Sociedade Literária de Guernsey, uma organização formada durante o período de ocupação nazi. Curiosa, Juliet decide ir até às ilhas de Guernsey e encontra-se com os excêntricos membros da Sociedade Literária da Tarte de Casca de Batata, entre os quais se encontra Dawsey, o charmoso e intrigante agricultor que esteve na origem da carta. As suas confidências, a sua ligação à ilha e aos seus habitantes e a crescente afeição que nutre por Dawsey irão para sempre mudar o curso da vida de Juliet.

After 43 years together, Helen finds out her husband is leaving.

Sofia é uma menina órfã que vive em um orfanato. Uma noite, em plena Hora das Bruxas, ela é raptada por um gigante orelhudo que a descobriu espiando pela janela. Mas Sofia logo descobriu que ela não precisava ter medo daquele gigante, que era amigável e tinha como função soprar sonhos nas janelas das crianças. Ao lado dele, ela bola um plano para acabar com os gigantes maus, que adoram devorar "serumanos". Um plano que envolve pesadelos terríveis e a rainha da Inglaterra.

Sonny Kapoor tenta encontrar tempo para expandir os negócios enquanto se prepara para o casamento com Sunaina. O Hotel Marigold tem lotação praticamente esgotada e ele precisa de uma nova propriedade para receber novos hóspedes.

To celebrate its 50th anniversary, the National Theatre of Great Britain presents National Theatre: 50 Years on Stage, bringing together the best British actors for a unique evening of unforgettable performances, broadcast live from London to cinemas around the world.

A história verídica de Dido Elizabeth Belle, que cumpriu importante papel na abolição da escravatura na Inglaterra no século 18. Filha ilegítima de um capitão britânico da Marinha Real com uma escrava africana, após a morte de sua mãe, ela vai morar na Inglaterra para ser criada pelo tio e tornar-se uma dama da aristocracia. A jovem se apaixona por um advogado e acaba tendo que enfrentar os preconceitos da sociedade inglesa.

Director Alfred Hitchcock is revered as one of the greatest creative minds in the history of cinema. Known for his psychological thrillers, Hitchcock’s leading ladies were cool, beautiful and preferably blonde. One such actress was Tippi Hedren, an unknown fashion model given her big break when Hitchcock’s wife saw her on a TV commercial. Brought to Universal Studios, Hedren was shocked when the director, at the peak of his career, quickly cast her to star in his next feature, 1963’s The Birds. Little did Hedren know that as ambitious and terrifying as the production would be to shoot, the most daunting aspect of the film ended up coming from behind the camera.

Os aposentados Muriel, Douglas, Evelyn, Graham e mais três amigos decidem curtir a aposentadoria em lugar diferente e o destino é a Índia. Encantados com o exotismo do local e com imagens do recém restaurado Hotel Marigold, a trupe parte para lá sem pestanejar e são recebidos pelo jovem sonhador Sonny. O único detalhe é que nada era muito bem como parecia ser, mas as experiências que eles irão viver mudarão para sempre o futuro de todos.

In June 2009, a group Britain's leading actors gathered for one night only to perform a celebration of the work of Harold Pinter at the National Theatre, directed by Ian Rickson. The team who made the acclaimed Harold Pinter documentaries for BBC's Arena was there to record this unique performance.

At the age of forty Dame Margot Fonteyn is considered to be past her best as a prima ballerina and Ninette de Valois is reducing her roles at the Royal Ballet. Then the exciting young Russian dancer Rudolf Nureyev, a recent defector to the West, comes into her life and her bed and revitalizes her career. Frederick Aashton creates a new ballet for them and they become the golden couple of the ballet world. However, Margot is married to Roberto 'Tito' Arias, a Panamanian politician of dubious repute who is not sympathetic to her calling and is probably faithless. When he is shot and paralyzed for life Margot must carry on dancing well into her sixties in order to pay for his costly treatment though she still collaborates with Rudolf in the occasional ballet.

A middle aged house-sitter meets two tearaways, and together they form a surrogate family

All the action takes place in a swish London restaurant where two coarse-grained strategy consultants are dining with their respective wives. At an adjacent table a banker and his wife banter over his recently discovered affair. But while Pinter gets a lot of laughs out of these gold-plated philistines, he also suggests they are displaced people. Shorn of any inherited values, they live in an eternal present of sex, food and conspicuous consumption. - Michael Billington, Guardian

Em 1980, um grupo de jovens britânicos estuda para as melhores universidades do país, como Oxford e Cambridge. Apesar de ter ótimos professores, o diretor da escola não está satisfeito. Ele decide contratar Irwin (Stephen Campbell Moore) para ajudar os estudantes em sua preparação, garantindo a melhor chance possível para todos.

O instrutor de tênis Chris Wilton se casa com a jovem Chloé para conseguir um cargo na empresa do sogro milionário, mas começa a traí-la com Nola Rice, a sensual noiva americana do cunhado, que ameaça expor o romance.

Elizabeth Bennet vive com sua mãe, pai e irmãs no campo, na Inglaterra. Por ser a filha mais velha, ela enfrenta uma crescente pressão de seus pais para se casar. Quando Elizabeth é apresentada ao belo e rico Darcy, faíscas voam. Embora haja uma química óbvia entre os dois, a natureza excessivamente reservada de Darcy ameaça a relação.

Henry Kent meets writer Daisy Langrish and offers to take care of her overgrown garden. The relationship develops but Mr. Kent is fooling no one but Daisy!

Numa vida sem rumo, Shaun passa os dias entre o bar da zona, o The Winchester, com o seu maior amigo Ed, e os problemas com a sua mãe, além de pouco ligar à namorada Liz. Quando esta o deixa, Shaun decide finalmente organizar a vida: é preciso reconquistá-la, reparar os danos causados na relação com a mãe e enfrentar as responsabilidades da idade adulta. Infelizmente, porém, os mortos estão de volta à vida e à tentativa de consumir os vivos. Para o recém-inspirado Shaun isto é só mais um obstáculo. Perante uma epidemia zombie a larga escala, com Ed a reboque, um bastão de críquete numa mão e uma pá na outra, Shaun prepara-se para salvar a sua mãe e, com pouca vontade, o seu padrasto, a sua namorada e, com menos vontade ainda, os seus amigos David e Dianne levando-os a todos para o lugar mais seguro que conhece, The Winchester.

Mulheres maduras de Yorkshire posam nuas para um calendário com o intuito de arrecadar dinheiro para um hospital. Elas acabam se transformando em uma grande sensação mundial.

A rollicking adaptation of Kingsley Amis's first novel, Lucky Jim stars Stephen Tompkinson as Jim Dixon, a luckless lecturer at a provincial British university, trying to make a splash with his pompous boss, Professor Neddy Welch (Robert Hardy). Jim is also trying to make it with the woman of his dreams, Christine Callaghan (Keeley Hawes, Othello and Wives and Daughters), while simultaneously being pursued by the woman of his nightmares, fellow lecturer Margaret Peel (Helen McCrory, Anna Karenina). One (of many) complications is that Christine is the girlfriend of Professor Welch's egotistical artist son, Bertrand. Another is that Margaret keeps attempting suicide to get Jim's attention. But despite his misadventures, Jim keeps his eyes on the prize: a leg up on the ladder to a professorship in medieval history.

A história de amor entre a novelista e filósofa Iris Murdoch e seu marido, o professor John Bayley, contada em duas épocas distintas: na juventude, quando se conheceram, e na velhice, quando Iris sofre do mal de Alzheimer.

The passionate love story that was Queen Victoria and Prince Albert's lengthy marriage. Beginning in 1837, the year of King William IV's death and 18-year-old Victoria's ascension to the throne, the series charts the tumultuous period in 19th Century England where Victoria comes to terms with the enormous duties that lay ahead of her, while also falling deeply in love with her beloved Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha. The marriage and birth of their nine children are featured, as is Albert's frustration by the inactivity he experienced in the early years of his role as Prince Consort.

A bank employee, Laura Tracey, places herself and her family in mortal danger after reporting irregularities in the firm's overseas accounts to the National Criminal Intelligence Service. She learns that the money belongs to South American drug cartels, and her family are immediately taken into the Witness Protection Program and relocated.

The comedienne stars in this festive sketch show, alongside a host of celebrity guests.

An old woman in a rocking chair listens to a disembodied voice (her own) that recounts her life and that of her mother's. When the voice stops, she calls for more.

When Tom's brother Peter gets measles, he is sent to stay with his Uncle Alan and Aunt Gwen in a flat with no garden and an elderly landlady, Mrs Bartholomew, living upstairs. Because he may be infectious, he is not allowed to play outside and feels lonely. Without exercise he is less sleepy at night and when he hears the communal grandfather clock strangely strike 13, he investigates and finds the small back yard is now a large sunlit garden.

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.

A series of monologues.

A middle aged couple, housekeeper and chauffeur sit in the huge bare kitchen of a country house pursuing their own thoughts aloud in a ghastly semblance of conversation. Doollee.com

Painter Dora Carrington develops an intimate but extremely complex bond with writer Lytton Strachey. Though Lytton is a homosexual, he is enchanted by the mysterious Dora and they begin a lifelong friendship that has strangely romantic undertones. Eventually, Lytton and Dora decide to live together, despite the fact that the latter has fallen in love with military man Ralph Partridge, whom she plans to marry.

Hester Collyer is rescued by a neighbor after attempting suicide in the flat she shares with her young lover, ex-RAF pilot Freddie Page. The neighbors alert her husband, who arrives at the flat only to find her fully recovered...

The Borrowers are small, fifteen-centimeter-high humans, who live in the English hinterland. They live out their lives in mouse-hole sized nooks in human houses, and survive by "borrowing" all they need from the house and its inhabitants. This series follows young girl Arriety (Rebecca Callard), and her parents Pod (Sir Ian Holm) and Homily (Dame Penelope Wilton), as they are displaced from their house, and try to find a new one, with the help of a human boy, George (Paul Cross).

Upon her father's death, a woman comes into emotional and psychological conflict with her young lover, her overbearing sister and her alcoholic stepmother.

Hotel Gabriella, Veneza. Uma confusão de identidades atinge o prefeito de uma pequena cidade, Melvyn Orton (Dudley Moore), com um corretor imobiliário, Maurice Horton (Richard Griffiths), e um pistoleiro da máfia, Mike Lawton (Bryan Brown), que espera ordens para executar seu próximo serviço. Esta semelhança nos nomes faz o mensageiro do hotel trocar as mensagens, o que causa uma enorme confusão.

Na África do Sul dos anos 70, Donald Woods, um jornalista branco, faz amizade com Stephen Biko, um corajoso ativista negro contra o apartheid. Biko é executado em 1977 e Donald, exilado, dedica-se a divulgar a luta do amigo pela liberdade.

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

A farmer becomes an unintentional celebrity when, because of a strike, he has to walk his 5000 geese 100 miles to market.

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.

In 1945, the Carlions assemble at an English country house for a family gathering. During the event, they must determine who is to take over the family brewing empire, since the present head of the business, Sir Frederick, is getting old. The results of the 1945 general election causes a major stir, and some angry farmers occupy a barn.

Iago and a comrade-in-arms are outside the Venice home of Desdemona's father, who does not yet know that she has eloped with Othello. Iago confides to his friend -- who had hoped to marry Desdemona -- that he serves Othello to further his own ends. Venice needs Othello to protect its commercial interests in Cyprus where the Turkish fleet is headed. Desdemona insists on going to Cyprus, too. In Cyprus, Iago plots to convince Othello that Desdemona has betrayed him with Cassio. A lot more than political ambition seems to be motivating Iago.

Duas histórias, em épocas diferentes, porém muito semelhantes. Os atores Mike e Ana vivem um conturbado relacionamento, em que a insegurança dela impede que os dois se entendam. Ao mesmo tempo, os personagens que interpretam em um filme se afastam após uma forte consequência social da época.

Colin Pasmore tests his strength against his family ties but finds them stronger than he ever imagined.

Lady Booby alias 'Belle', the lively wife of the fat landed squire Sir Thomas Booby, has a lusty eye on the attractive, intelligent villager Joseph Andrews, a Latin pupil and protégé of parson Adams, and makes him their footman. Joseph's heart belongs to a country girl, foundling Fanny Goodwill, but his masters take him on a fashionable trip to Bath, where the spoiled society comes mainly to see and be seen, but drowns in the famous Roman baths. When the all but grieving lady finds Joseph's Christian virtue and true love resist her lusting passes just as well as the many ladies who fancy her footman, she fires the boy. He's found and nursed by an innkeeper's maid, which stirs lusts there, again besides his honorable conduct, but is found by the good parson.

Performed in 1902, after being banned by the censor for eight years, Shaw's indictment of the hypocrisy surrounding prostitution still shocked its audiences. Mrs. Warren has graduated from prostitution to opening and operating a chain of brothels throughout Europe. When her educated daughter Vivie discovers the truth about her mother's profession her reactions affect everyone around her.

14-year-old Maria is sent to live with Catholic nuns as her mother is dying. Her arrival at the convent turns sinister when one of her caretakers becomes enamored with her for all the wrong reasons.