T. P. McKenna

Em Londres, 1660, John Wilmot, o Conde de Rochester e amigo do Rei Charles II, é um gênio literário de comportamento irreverente. Ele escandaliza a sociedade londrina ao se dispor a transformar uma prostituta em artista famosa.

Uma competição de música irlandesa tradicional atrai os melhores músicos da Irlanda. Os dois principais rivais nessa disputa são John Joe (Bernard Hill) – que, com sua banda, interpreta temas folclóricos e representa o condado de Clare – e Jimmy (Colin Meaney). O detalhe é que, não bastando, os dois líderes são irmão que não se falam há muito tempo.

Documentary about the making of Sam Peckinpah's 1971 film "Straw Dogs."

From double BAFTA nominated Writer and Director John Walsh. Monarch is part fact, part fiction and unfolds around one night when the injured ruler arrives at a manor house closed for the season.

No século 18, depois de muitos desastres marítimos devido a erros de navegação por não conseguirem determinar a Longitude, o Parlamento Britânico estabeleceu um prêmio substancial para quem encontrasse uma solução. A história principal do filme é a do artesão John Harrison que construiu um relógio que faria o trabalho, o que agora chamaríamos de cronômetro marinho. Mas o Conselho de Longitude foi tendencioso contra essa solução e alegou que o prêmio não era uma questão tão simples. Em paralelo é contada a história do século 20 de Rupert Gould, para quem restaurar o funcionamento normal dos relógios de Harrison tornou-se primeiro um hobby e depois uma obsessão, o que ameaçava destruir sua vida. Duas versões de duração: - 200 min = USA - 250 min = Em 2 partes

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.

While on vacation at a resort hotel in the West Indies, Miss Marple correctly suspects that the apparently natural death of a retired British major is actually the work of a murderer planning yet another killing.

Na segunda metade do século XVIII na França, uma intrigante aristocrata aposta com seu amante se ele consegue seduzir uma mulher que se casou recentemente. O amante, Valmont, aposta que pode corrompê-la, embora ela seja uma mulher honrada. Se ele vencer a aposta, ele poderá fazer com sua amante o que bem entender. Porém, no processo de sedução, ele termina se apaixonando pela mulher casada.

Um agente russo da KGB é enviado para África para matar um revolucionário negro anti-comunista. Porém, ele muda de ideia quando vê como os russos e os seus aliados cubanos estão a matar e reprimir os locais, o que faz o trocar de lado e ajudar os rebeldes.

The Doctor and Ace head for the Psychic Circus on the planet Segonax, where they meet a disparate group of performers and visitors, including a self-centred explorer named Captain Cook, his companion Mags and a biker known as Nord.

1908: Pascali, a spy for the Sultan, sends reports to Istanbul that nobody reads. His suspicions are roused when a British archaeologist appears, who may not be quite what he seems.

TV Movie A woman starts working for a prestigious pharmaceutical company that's developing a new miraculous cure. Soon, she discovers what a devious and cut-throat business pharmaceutical industry can be.

In 1920s Turkey, a young peasant is smitten with a beautiful young girl, who has been promised in marriage to the fat, dullard cousin of the province's powerful and corrupt governor. When an assassination attempt is made against the official, the young man flees his village and joins up with a group of outlaws fighting against the wealthy and powerful landowners who control the lives of the locals and make life miserable for them. The outlaws' successes prompt the governor to call in the Turkish army to capture or kill them.

A woman in a state of personal crisis finds it hard to communicate with her husband and family.

A faithful dramatization of Virginia Woolf's novel. A lecturer, his family, the spinster Aunt Lily, an old friend, and a student, Charles Tansley, spend a summer in an isolated house in Cornwall just before World War I. The stern Mr. Ramsay scolds everybody, while Mrs. Ramsay is the linchpin in keeping the family together. Aunt Lily paints, and the family talk about sailing to the lighthouse, but the trip is always postponed.

O padre Hugh O'Flaherty (Gregory Peck) tomou para si uma missão corajosa e perigosa: ajudar a esconder refugiados durante a Segunda Guerra Mundial. Ele monta uma verdadeira rede de colaboradores em Roma, para evitar que as tropas alemãs prendam e matem ainda mais pessoas. Porém, quando o chefe da polícia nazista, coronel Kappler (Christopher Plummer), descobre, passa a perseguir o clérigo. Além disso, O'Flaherty tem de lidar com a indiferença do Papa Pio XII, que insiste numa suposta "neutralidade" da Igreja.

Britannia Hospital, an esteemed English institution, is marking its gala anniversary with a visit by the Queen Mother herself. But when investigative reporter Mick Travis arrives to cover the celebration, he finds the hospital under siege by striking workers, ruthless unions, violent demonstrators, racist aristocrats, an African cannibal dictator, and sinister human experiments.

2002: In a paranoid UK, with the threat of nuclear war ever closer and prisons full to bursting, four convicts tell of the ‘crimes’ they have committed, some seemingly innocuous by today’s standards… at least, at first.

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

David Essex stars as Nick Freeman, a motorcycle racer who, following the death of his brother, inherits a revolutionary prototype motorcycle, and is determined to race it at the British Grand Prix at Silverstone.

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.

A popular radio personality writes and broadcasts ghost stories over the air. He receives a strange call warning him not to finish his latest story, which is about a child who dies assisting in a magician's show.

Bosco Hogan plays Joyce's alter-ego, Stephen Daedelus, growing up in Ireland in the early part of the 20th century, and at odds with the strictures of his Catholic home and family. The film charts his search for knowledge and understanding, during a decline in his family's circumstances, that leads him to revelations on the nature of art, beauty and politics. However his personal renaissance makes him feel unwelcome in his own country, and forces him to make a choice between exile as artist or staying and facing personal defeat.

From BBC2 Playhouse's The Mind Beyond series. Professor Reeve wonders about strange events that seem to be connected to Stonehenge (Source: BBC).

James Herriot is a vet in Yorkshire, England, during the 1940's. He is assigned to the practice of Siegfried Farnon, who—together with his mischievous brother Tristan—already have a successful business. James undergoes a variety of adventures during his work, which are just as often caused by the characters of the county, including the Farnon brothers, as the animals in his care.

Percy, the man with the world's first penis transplant, discovers that there is a chemical in the world's water that makes men impotent.

Sexual passion breeds violence in the Thomas Middleton and William Rowley written tale of a beautiful woman who falls in love with a sea-captain. Filmed with lush production values and at a leisurely, very British pace, Helen Mirren is riveting as Beatrice-Joanna, a young lass already torn by love and commitment.Beatrice-Joanna (Helen Mirren) is betrothed to Lord Alonzo de Piraquo (Malcolm Reynolds) but is in love with Alsemero (Brian Cox). She hires her father's manservant, De Flores (Stanley Baker), to kill Alonzo but after he has done so, she realises De Flores wants her as a reward.The Changeling was an instalment of the BBC's Play of the Month series and is a production for television of a 1622 Jacobean tragedy of the same name, written by Thomas Middleton and William Rowley.

A shy, lonely American girl marries a charming man she meets while on vacation in England, unaware that he has sinister plans for her.

David Sumner (Dustin Hoffman) é um acadêmico americano muito calmo. Ele se casa com a inglesa Amy (Susan George) e, buscando fugir do estilo de vida da cidade grande, os dois se mudam para a zona rural da Cornualha, onde Amy cresceu. Ali, David não é bem acolhido pela população, sobretudo pelos homens. As provocações se tornam cada vez mais agressivas e um evento brutal poderá despertar o lado espantosamente violento de David.

O gângster implacável do East End, Vic Dakin, tem planos para uma invasão ambiciosa à van de uma fábrica de plásticos. Este é um desvio do modus operandi usual de Dakin, e o trabalho é ainda mais complicado por ter que trabalhar com a empresa do colega gangster Frank Fletcher. Enquanto Dakin trama, Wolfe negocia e negocia e o MP Draycott é pego em uma teia de sua própria iniquidade. (e 16 - Estimado 16 Anos)

Edwin Antony (Hywel Bennett) is emasculated in an accident which kills a young philanderer. Doctors successfully replace his member with that of the dead man, but refuse to tell him the full story of the organ's origin. So Edwin begins a search which takes him to the philanderer's wife - and also to his many, many girlfriends...

The deputy manager of a London bank has worked out a way to rob the branch of £200,000. When he becomes involved with the attractive Lady Dorset he decides to go ahead with his plan. He needs her help and that of her philandering spendthrift husband. It all comes down to a matter of trust.

Two German deserting soldiers Bruno Grauber and Reiner Schultz are trying to avoid capture by the Canadian and Yugoslavian armies entering Auschwitz at the end of World War II. They are captured. Their fellow German prisoners of war discover that they are deserters. They are put through a formal trial for cowardice organised by Von Bleicher. They are sentenced to death on the "fifth day of peace". A Canadian General persuades the Canadian officer in charge of the prisoner of war camp to allow the execution to be carried out for the higher purpose of preserving army discipline.

Two spinsters have kept their mad brother locked up in their cellar for 30 years. Then he escapes ...

1954. O capitão Louis Edward Nolan (David Hemmings) é um oficial do exército que está desapontado com seu comandante, o lorde Cardigan (Trevor Howard). Ele é enviado à Turquia juntamente com o lorde Raglan (John Gielgud), um oficial desastrado que tem problemas de memória. A missão deles é combater a invasão russa ao local, durante a Guerra da Criméia.

Dublin; June 16, 1904. Stephen Dedalus, who fancies himself as a poet, embarks on a day of wandering about the city during which he finds friendship and a father figure in Leopold Bloom, a middle-aged Jew. Meanwhile, Bloom's day, illuminated by a funeral and an evening of drinking and revelry that stirs paternal feelings toward Stephen, ends with a rapprochement with Molly, his earthy wife.

In Dublin circa 1911, John Cassidy (Rod Taylor), an impoverished idealist, whose ambitions are restricted by the demands of looking after his family, journeys through the social injustices of Dublin life, involving himself with the rowdy tramway-men strike, dawdling with prostitute Daisy Battles (Julie Christie), and seeking a better life. He falls in love with bookshop assistant Nora (Dame Maggie Smith) who encourages him toward a life of writing. Finding success at the Abbey Theatre, his unorthodox views estrange him from family, friends, and his own past.

The ancient story of the ill-fated Deirdre and the Sons of Usnach. Building on the many earlier literary retellings of the story, W. B. Yeats deliberately frames his 1906 play as an extension of the legend, writing a new death-tale for Deirdre that is also a personal statement about love, death, and the making of art. Goodreads

Catholic-Irish farm girl Kate, along with her gregarious best friend Baba, moves to Dublin to pursue a more exciting life.

Harold Crossley is a barrister and respected intellectual, but proves no match to his scheming young wife

Thomas Crimmins is a new warder, or guard, in an Irish prison. He is young, naive, and idealistic, determined to serve his country by his part in meting out justice to criminals. His superior, Regan, however, realizes that even prisoners are human beings, and Regan is sick of the eye-for-an-eye attitude that leads the state to execute condemned men, or "quare fellows." Crimmins begins to see that not all is black and white in his new world, and when he becomes involved with Kathleen, the wife of one of the condemned men, his attitude begins to change. When new evidence arises to suggest that Kathleen's husband may not deserve his fate, Crimmins is torn between his duty and his humanity.

Paul Maxwell plays Craig Owen, an incarcerated criminal whose cellmate holds the secret to the valuable contents within a safe deposit box. When the cellmate dies, Owen breaks out of jail in search of the stash. Unable to open the box, the fugitive abducts Linda (Felicity Young), the dead man's daughter. Tension mounts as the girl plays for time to prevent her own demise.

A police inspector (Donald Sinden) tracks down Russian anarchist Peter the Painter (Peter Wyngarde) and his gang in circa-1911 London.