Sylvia Syms

An elderly couple face separation when one of them is admitted to a care home.

Sylvia Syms looks through the BBC archives to tell the story of one of Hollywood's greatest ever feuds - the rivalry between legendary actresses Bette Davis and Joan Crawford. Interviews from the 1960s and 70s reveal the mutual loathing that came to a head when, against all expectations, they starred together in the classic psychological thriller Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?. The programme looks in detail at the making of the film, examines the fallout when Bette and not Joan received an Oscar nomination for her performance, and shows how, despite the hatred, the pair had more in common than audiences appreciated.

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!

Ailidh (Mirren Burke) has two loves in this world: spying on her neighbours and writing graphic novels. The arrival of Jacob (Rollo Weeks - Girl with a Pearl Earring), inspires Ailidh and she soon begins conjuring up increasingly elaborate plans to bump into him. Upstairs, Mrs Nicholls (Sylvia Syms - The Queen) provides Ailidh with a perfect opportunity and she soon has Jacob teaching Mrs Nicholls dead husband French. Unfortunately, Ailidh's romantic endeavours are disrupted when she realises she isn't the only girl in Jacob's life. Featuring compelling performances from an exceptional cast of actors, the debut feature from Bryan O'Neil is a funny, unique and heart-warming story of love, life and moving on.

In all walk of life, there are challenges that lie ahead.

Um jovem fechado faz uma viagem imaginária por dentro de seu apartamento, com base em lembranças e lembranças de uma caminhada pela Europa de anos antes.

A young boy who lives in an old folks' home strikes up a friendship with a retired magician.

A notícia da morte da princesa Diana se espalha rapidamente pelo mundo. Incapaz de compreender a reação emocional do público britânico, a rainha Elizabeth II (Helen Mirren) se fecha com a família real no palácio Balmoral. Tony Blair (Michael Sheen), o recém-apontado primeiro-ministro britânico, percebe que os líderes do país precisam tomar medidas que os reaproximem da população e é com essa missão que ele procura a rainha.

Mike Rogo (Adam Baldwin) é um dos passageiros do S.S. Poseidon, uma verdadeira cidade flutuante. Mike é na verdade um agente a paisana, que está atrás de um terrorista que planeja um ataque surpresa. O Poseidon está atualmente navegando a toda velocidade, em uma tentativa de alcançar o porto mais próximo e tentar evitar uma forte tempestade que se aproxima. Porém logo após a virada do ano a bomba terrorista explode, fazendo com que o navio vire de cabeça para baixo. Os sobreviventes ficam presos entre os destroços, precisando encontrar um meio de sair do navio antes que ele afunde.

Após uma crise nervosa o gângster londrino Will Graham (Clive Owen) largou a "profissão" e se mudou para o campo. Paralelamente o irmão mais novo dele, Davey (Jonathan Rhys Meyers), aproveita a vida sendo um mulherengo e se sustenta fazendo tráfico de drogas. Mas numa noite tudo isto muda, pois um homem mais velho, Boad (Malcolm McDowell), o sodomiza com a ajuda de dois cúmplices. O traumatizado Davey volta para casa e comete suicídio. Will fica sabendo da morte do irmão e tenta juntar as peças sobre o ocorrido.

Depois de completar 17 anos, Daphne Reynolds decide tomar uma decisão radical: partir para a Inglaterra para encontrar seu pai, que ela conhece apenas por uma foto antiga e que não sabia da gravidez quando se separou de Libby, mãe de Daphne. Lá, ela encontra um pai amoroso, mas enfrenta problemas ao ver confrontada sua educação liberal com os rígidos costumes da educação britânica.

A small girl, who doesn't believe in fairytales, meets an old woman who claims she is a mermaid.

Comedy about 4 middle aged businessmen on a team building exercise in the lake district

A group of ex-university students reunite to perform a Shakespeare play in a quaint English village.

A dramatized account of the Scott Inquiry about the sales of arms to Iraq.

Very much in love, Neil's wedding plans are sabotaged, beginning when he is abandoned, naked, on a Scottish island. A road trip ensues, with Neil encountering many obstacles as he makes his way to London for what he believes is to be his wedding day. Or is it?

Shortly after she moves into her own flat in Brighton, Bella finds she is being spied on and generally harassed by a man living across from her. Finally driven to solving the problem with a hammer, she realises she is then ready for a crusade against other such problem males

An advertising executive investigating the death of an old girlfriend uncovers a conspiracy to cover up the spread of BSE in humans.

Uma secretária se apaixona por seu novo chefe misterioso e insiste em ir para a Alemanha como espiã da Segunda Guerra Mundial.

Amanda Donohoe and Peter Firth star in Tony Bicât’s unnerving thriller about a poisoned marriage in which both people are locked in passionate affairs and fantasizing about murder

The re-creation of events leading up to Margaret Thatcher's defeat as party leader and Britain's Prime Minister.

The Doctor takes Ace on an initiative test to a strange Victorian old house where she is forced to confront her darkest fears.

Dona-de-casa inglesa sente-se entediada com a rotina envolvendo os filhos e o marido. Resolve aceitar o convite de uma amiga e parte para uma excursão pelas ilhas Gregas. Lá ela desfruta da paisagem, da liberdade e conhece um novo amor.

Após a morte da esposa, viúvo é transferido para pequena cidade costeira, na Inglaterra, e se junta a um grupo de teatro amador. Ele se envolve com os excêntricos personagens locais e é disputado pelas mulheres, gerando confusões. Baseado na peça de Alan Ayckbourn.

A team of inept undertakers attempt to get a coffin to a funeral on time. An undertaker is in charge of moving a coffin from a home to the church. The home is on the 26th floor of a skyscraper; the stairs are narrow; the lift is small and prone to stop working. Chaos ensues.

Colin é um jovem fotógrafo à procura de seu lugar na efervescente Londres de 1958. Ele é apaixonado por Crepe Suzette, uma aspirante a designer de moda, que deixa o amor em segundo plano para perseguir com ambição seu sonho profissional. Quando um homem mais velho e rico a leva para longe, um devastado Colin lutará para tê-la de volta.

A silent slapstick comedy depicting the travails of young couple moving into a new home, who hire an accident-prone firm of house removers, headed by Sykes. It features an all-star cast including Tommy Cooper, Bernard Cribbins, Jimmy Edwards, Irene Handl, Bob Todd and Andrew Sachs.

A nervous ad executive creates havoc on his daughter's wedding day and becomes obsessed with a dream girl he keeps seeing everywhere but whom he can't catch.

Masked intruders take the family of a bank manager hostage in order to rob his bank.

Durante suas ferias no Caribe, uma funcionária pública britânica se apaixona por um agente russo.

A young psychiatrist applies for a job at a mental asylum, and must pass a test by interviewing four patients. He must figure out which of the patients, is in fact, the doctor that he would be replacing if hired.

A smart-mouthed junkie and a former hairdresser spends his days looking for just "one more fix".

Directed by Richard C. Sarafian, this 1969 British children's film stars Mark Lester as a young boy, unable to speak, who befriends both a wild colt with blue eyes and a falcon named "Lady". The cast also includes John Mills, Gordon Jackson and Sylvia Sims.

A Confederate and his sons become postwar marauders and face another son who left them, in Texas.

Simon Templar is hired by a friend in the book publishing trade to protect one of his stars, a secretive recluse named Amos Klein who writes a popular (and lucrative) series of adventure novels about a manly and suave spy.

Simon Crawford is a barrister whose daughter is killed in a hit-and-run accident. When his neighbor is also killed, evidence points to the barrister as the murderer.

Jonas Wilde, a British secret agent licensed to kill, wants to resign from his murderous work, but his superiors pressure him into taking on a new assignment-the assassination of a defecting Soviet scientist. In the course of the dangerous mission, he discovers a mole has infiltrated British intelligence.

Em um esforço para saber mais sobre os foguetes alemães V1 e V2, os aliados se infiltram como trabalhadores na fábrica de mísseis nazista em Peenemünde. Os agentes selecionados são todos engenheiros e eles assumem as identidades de indivíduos da vida real que estão mortos ou permitiram. O que eles não sabem é que a missão foi comprometida desde o início pelo fato de que um deles é procurado por assassinato e que um dos candidatos para a missão é na verdade um agente nazista. No final, os dois agentes restantes ajudam a RAF a localizar a fábrica durante uma campanha de bombardeio maciço.

This insightful documentary features some of the major and most beautiful actresses to grace the silver screen. It shows how the movie industry changed its depiction of sex and actresses' portrayal of sex from the silent movie era to the present. Classic scenes are shown from the silent movie 'True Heart Susie,' starring Lillian Gish, to 'Love Me Tonight' (1932), blending sex and sophistication, starring Jeanette MacDonald (pre-Nelson Eddy), and to Elizabeth Taylor in 'A Place in the Sun' (1951), plus much , much more.

A gang of hapless crooks, led by Sidney James, successfully perpetrate a robbery only to be caught after the fact. Fifteen years later they emerge from prison intent on retrieving their stolen loot - and discover a police station has been built over its hiding place.

A British soldier escapes from 1880s Khartoum and goes down the Nile river with a fellow soldier, a governess and the daughter of an emir.

Early 1960s realist drama following a day in the lives of two London flatmates. Sylvia Syms and June Ritchie star as Billa and Ginnie, two singletons sharing a London flat who both work as night club hostesses in the same Soho club. Tensions arise when Ginnie becomes romantically entangled with rich married businessman Bob Shelbourne (Edward Judd), causing Billa to become jealous of their relationship.

Walter Pinner is the titular Punch And Judy Man plying his trade in the seaside town of Piltdown. Unhappily married to his social climbing wife, who gets him to perform at the 60th Anniversary celebrations of the town in front of all the local dignitaries, his hatred of snobbery comes to a hilarious head.

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.

Um advogado proeminente enfrenta um chantagista que ameaça homens gays com divulgação de seus atos homossexuais (que ainda eram ilegais). Mas ele mesmo é gay. Um verdadeiro pedido de reforma dos estatutos anti-sodomia da Inglaterra, este filme coloca Melville Farr, um advogado casado, contra um chantagista que tem fotos de Farr e um jovem gay no carro de Farr. O jovem é chantageado e se suicida. Após o suicídio, Farr localiza outros homens gays sendo extorquidos pelo mesmo chantagista. O bem-educado policial Detetive Inspetor Harris considera a lei de sodomia nada mais do que um auxílio a chantagistas, e ajuda Farr em enfrentar o blefe de seu chantagista. O filme, muito à frente de seu tempo, termina com Farr e sua esposa chegando a um acordo com sua homossexualidade depois da exposição pública que ele enfrenta no julgamento do chantagista. (e 18 - Estimado 18 Anos)

Flame in the Streets is a 1961 British drama film directed by Roy Ward Baker. Racial tensions manifest themselves at home, work and on the streets during Bonfire Night in the burgeoning West Indian community of early 1960s Britain. Trades union leader (Mills) fights for the rights of a black worker but struggles with the news that his own daughter is planning to marry a West Indian, much against his own logic and the prejudice of his wife.

Marching down the Italian peninsula to sack ancient Rome, Etruscan warrior Drusco instead offers to hold back his onslaught if the Romans hand over hostages, including Clelia, the sexy leader of a clan of woman warriors. But before long, intrigue and betrayal unravel the fragile peace. Directors Carlo Ludovico Bragaglia and Vittorio Cottafavi helm this vintage sword-and-sandal epic.

Cansado do trabalho em escritório, um empresário se muda para Hong Kong para prosseguir uma carreira como artista pintando quadros e se apaixona por uma prostituta que ele contrata como modelo.

In wartime Italy nuns in a convent regularly smuggle Jewish children out of a nearby internment camp. The Italian army officer in charge suspects what may be going on but deliberately turns a blind eye. When the Germans take over the camp security the nuns' activities become far more dangerous.

A seedy London promoter turns a naive, working-class teenager into a pop singing sensation.

Mark Conrad, a habitual drunk and troublemaker with a shady past, is expelled by Hong Kong police after one too many bar fights. He's sent to Macao on the Fa Tsan, a ferry owned by Captain Hart. Conrad's papers are out of order and Macao refuses him entry. Unable to go ashore, Conrad is a permanent passenger on the ferry with Hart, who detests him. It's all one long, lazy voyage for Conrad until one fateful trip when an encounter with a typhoon and pirates forces Conrad to choose between an aimless drifter's life and becoming a man again.

Based on the play by Ted Willis, the film is set in the years just before World War II, when England hadn't completely dug itself out of the worldwide depression. Melvyn Hayes is featured as an aimless teenager, who tries to escape his squalid surroundings by entering a life of crime. He falls in with local hoodlum Herbert Lom, who holds the rest of the slum citizens in the grip of fear including Hayes' own family. No Trees in the Street chronicles Hayes' sordid progress from nickel-and-dime thefts to murder.

A German scholar has girl troubles while studying at Cambridge.

After the battle of Worcester at the end of the Civil War, the main aim of Oliver Cromwell's Commonwealth is to capture Charles Stuart. The future king's escape depends on the intrepid Earl of Dawlish, who as the Moonraker has already spirited away many Royalists. Dawlish travels to the Windwhistle Inn on the south coast to prepare the escape, where he meets Anne Wyndham, the fiancée of a top Roundhead colonel.

Durante a WW2 na África do Norte, uma Unidade de Campo Médica deve atravessar o deserto em sua ambulância a fim de alcançar as linhas britânicas em Alexandria. Um grupo de militares e enfermeiras tentam uma perigosa e árdua viagem através dos desertos do Norte de África durante a Segunda Guerra Mundial. O líder da equipe sonha com uma cerveja gelada quando chegar em Alexandria, mas os problemas simplesmente não desaparecem.

Returning from a business trip, toy salesman Simon Scott is caught attempting to smuggle a wristwatch bought for his wife's birthday through Customs. He is arrested and, due to a bungled defence by his solicitor, obliged to serve a three-month prison sentence. It is only the beginning of his woes; his employer, Colonel Wilson, is understanding, but he is ultimately forced to sack Simon, who discovers that finding another job under such circumstances is extremely difficult. But Colonel Wilson is determined to help his former employee find a solution.

No Time for Tears is a moving, sympathetic portrayal of the challenges faced by all those who enter this most demanding yet rewarding of professions – from routine operations to more serious conditions, from anxious, sometimes hostile parents to workplace romance. The lives of the staff and patients of Mayfield Children's Hospital are inextricably woven together with the laughter, tears and devotion that lie behind the work of restoring children to health and happiness.

A married, middle-aged woman is shocked to discover that her husband, who she thought was content in their marriage, has become infatuated with a beautiful younger woman and is planning to leave his family for her.

Magazine editor Valerie Carr lives in London with her two daughters Jan, aged seventeen, and Poppet, thirteen. When Jan is invited to a party at the Savoy, she meets dashing young Tony Ward Black mad about jive, owner of a Bentley, and supposedly running through a legacy. Attracted to the daring young man, she rejects Mark, a young farmer who is in love with her. But it soon becomes apparent to everyone but Jan that neither Tony's fortune nor even his name may be his own, and her association with him will lead her into delinquency and danger.

Upon awaking in the morning, a man finds his thoughts clouded by the possibility that he committed a murder.

A World War I widow loses her only child and spends the rest of her life as a children's nurse.