Rosemary Martin
Nascimento : 1936-12-17, Birmingham, England, UK
Morte : 1998-08-14
Bev Bodger is a married teacher tempted by an old school boyfriend to enjoy a little sex and chocolate in Paris.
Janet Pearce
Political satire closely mirroring real-life British politics of the time - a self-serving Conservative minister "crosses the floor" to join the opposition Labour Party, at a time when the Conservative Party has a majority in Parliament of just one seat. Sequel to A Very Open Prison.
Mrs Doughty
Jake (John Malkovich, de "Ligações Perigosas") e Tina (Andie McDowell, de "Quatro Casamentos e um Funeral"), são um casal americano que vive uma vida de luxo num hotel em Londres, consumindo tudo do bom e do melhor. As coisas começam a complicar quando uma greve de trabalhadores acaba com um negócio milionário que Jake fechava com produtores de cacau. O dinheiro da dupla rapidamente desaparece e as contas se acumulam. Até que ele vê uma possível solução nas mãos de Tina: uma raríssima escultura de Henry Moore, única lembrança que ela guarda de seu ex-marido. Quando o "objeto do desejo" desaparece, a confusão está formada e, entre divertidos altos e baixos, Jake e Tina vão ter que reavaliar sua relação - enquanto a misteriosa camareira surda parece esconder um segredo...
Pam Sangster
Derek Blore, MP, enjoys both a happy successful political career and a sideline in the suburbs. When his two political lives become confused, with an added Russian complication, he finds a national scandal engulfing him.
Mrs Beachley
África do Sul, 1976. Ben du Toit (Donald Sutherland) é um professor que, gradativamente, toma consciência da terrível realidade do seu país, na qual os negros são assassinados sem o menor motivo e os assassinos são protegidos pelo regime dominante. Diante deste quadro, ele resolve enfrentar o sistema.
Mrs Manders
In England during World War II, a repressed dressmaker and her sister struggle looking after their 17-year-old niece, who is having a delusional affair with an American soldier.
Mrs Bardsley
Jo teaches ‘difficult’ children—American style. Young Helen, one of her most rebellious pupils, teaches horse-riding—Cotswold style. Who is going to learn the most?
Miss Weber
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.
Dolly Winthrop
Adaption of George Eliot's novel. When a respectable weaver is wrongfully accused of theft, he becomes a virtual hermit until his own fortune is stolen and an orphaned child is found on his doorstep.
Sylvia, The Continuity Girl
A farmer becomes an unintentional celebrity when, because of a strike, he has to walk his 5000 geese 100 miles to market.
Donna Hewitt
A bored and frustrated suburban housewife follows her dream of becoming a racing driver
Dr King
Stone (Peter Coyote) hits an armored truck without his usual driver. The ensuing getaway leads to the death of an innocent. The payback is swift and brutal. The wronged father hires a twisted, sociopathic assassin to avenge his loss. One by one the offenders are punished through grisly executions. Stone uses his wits to find a reclusive friend Terry (Mel Smith) just in time for a psychedelic funhouse showdown with his stalker.
Mrs Atkins
A teenage girl takes care of a former soldier suffering from the effects of being gassed in the First World War.
Christine
Christine takes up an unusual line of work and proves she is not just another bored housewife.
Barbara Sullivan MP
Incendiary 1981 Play for Today, written by Jim Allen and directed by Roland Joffé that tells the story of a group of housing estate residents who attempt to organise against persistent rent rises.
Renie Fox
The thirteen-part series recounted the lives of the titular Fox family, who lived in Clapham in South London and had gangland connections.
Mrs. Durbeyfield
Na Inglaterra do século 19, a bela Tess, filha de um fazendeiro, é enviada para viver com parentes nobres. Ela é seduzida e abandonada por seu primo distante, Alec. De volta à fazenda de seu pai, ela dá à luz um bebê natimorto e enfrenta a hipocrisia da sociedade. Baseado no romance de Thomas Hardy.
Based on James Herriot's books about life as a 1930s' veterinarian in Yorkshire, John Alderson plays the kindly doctor who ministers to animals in this enjoyable family film. Sequel to the 1975 film All Creatures Great and Small.
Alison
An author writes to his old schoolmate, telling him he is going to reveal a secret they have shared since the 1950s.
Freda Bass
Terry and his family fight against a planned eviction when the council decides on a road building programme and their house is in its path.
Pretentious Princess
Nápoles, século XVII. O Príncipe Rodrigo Ferrante y Davalos (Omar Sharif) nobre
espanhol de grande encanto e coragem, está a viver em Itália. Ele tem de encontrar
uma esposa e a corte impõe-lhe a escolha entre sete belas princesas. Mas ele apaixona-se por uma camponesa simples, altiva e temperamental, de rara beleza e de
enormes virtudes, chamada Isabella (Sophia Loren). O amor deles, fulminante e repentino, vai, no entanto, deparar-se com muitos obstáculos... mas a bela e destemida jovem do povo vai derrotar as delambidas e inexperientes princesas, desmascarar os seus truques e fraquezas e acaba por casar com o príncipe Rodrigo.