Eileen Atkins

Based on a true story. Fiery Rose Gooding has little in common with the pious Edith Swan aside from them being neighbours in the seaside town of Littlehampton in the 1920s. But one day, Edith and others in the town start receiving scandalous letters written with foul language as eccentric as it is obscene, and the finger of suspicion immediately falls on Rose. As Rose stands to lose her freedom and the custody of her daughter, and outrageous letters continue to blight the town, police officer Gladys Moss begins to suspect something is amiss. Together with a group of resourceful women, Gladys endeavours to solve the mystery, liberate Rose, and catch the real culprit…

Doc Martin, one of UK's iconic TV characters, hangs up his stethoscope for the final time as the long-running titular series comes to an end. This one-hour retrospective spotlights the longevity and impact locally and around the world of Doc Martin over the years, as well as offering behind the scenes of the final season with the cast and crew. From scripting and pre-production to shooting and delivery, meet the regular characters that live and work in the picturesque Cornish town of Portwenn, the key crew behind the camera, the residents of Port Isaac, the show's real-life setting, and the visitors who come solely because Doc Martin films there.

A história não contada do fascinante envolvimento amoroso entre a lendária escritora Virginia Woolf e a socialite e autora popular Vita Sackville-West.

BBC Arena's documentary on the Dames of British Theatre and film featuring Maggie Smith, Elieen Atkins, Judi Dench and Joan Plowright on screen together for the first time as they reminisce over a long summer weekend in a house Joan once shared with Sir Laurence Olivier.

It's 2067, the UK is vegan, but older generations are suffering the guilt of their carnivorous past. Simon Amstell asks us to forgive them for the horrors of what they swallowed.

ChickLit is a comedy drama about four guys trying to save their local pub from closing down. They group write a chick lit, or more specifically a 'mummy porn' novel in the style of 'Fifty Shades of Grey' and it gets snapped up. The only snag is that the publisher insists that the young woman 'author' does press and publicity. The guys have to keep their involvement a secret and so engage an out of work actress to 'role play' the part of the author. This leads to her becoming the star in the film of the book, the tables are turned on the guys and she is in control - leaving them with the awful prospect of having to secretly churn out sex novels for the foreseeable future.

Stanley (Colin Firth), um talentoso mágico, é contratado para desmascarar uma simpática jovem que afirma ser médium. Inicialmente cético, ele aos poucos começa a duvidar de suas certezas e se vê cada vez mais encantado pela jovem Sophie (Emma Stone).

Ethan conhece a mulher dos seus sonhos quando Lena aparece em sua cidade, e os dois acabam se apaixonando. Mas, para salvar o romance, eles precisam descobrir os segredos obscuros de suas famílias, guardados a sete chaves.

Set in 1952, as England prepares for the coronation, The Scapegoat tells the story of two very different men who have one thing in common - a face.

Long-forgotten scandals from the Aird clan's ancestral history continue to be exposed, and the chain of revelations reaches a shocking conclusion.

Laura Aird becomes a successful publishing executive, returning from America and moving to London. However, when her grandmother Violet dies, she leaves her share of the family company to a woman named Olivia Thorpe.

In a flashback, Laura Aird is seen withdrawing totally from society after tragedy strikes. Hamish Balmerino is concerned about her state of mind, and the forthcoming ball does nothing to improve matters, so her father decides to make her sister Alexa's husband the head of the family business.

American executive Conrad Tucker sees a photograph in a magazine of the wealthy Aird family's youngest daughter, and begins a quest to discover if she is the result of his affair with her mother Virginia. Determined to learn the truth, he sets out to uncover the family's long-kept secrets along the way.

Rose (Emily Blunt) é uma encantadora golpista que se envolve com um assassino internacional chamado Victor (Bill Nighy). Mas quando Victor poupa a vida de Rose, seu coração solitário deflagra uma inusitada cadeia de eventos que vira o mundo de ambos de ponta-cabeça. Seguido pelo aprendiz de atirador (Rupert Grint), o improvável trio se une para frustrar as intenções homicidas do insatisfeito cliente de Victor.

Robin Longstride (Russell Crowe) integra o exército do rei Ricardo Coração de Leão (Danny Huston), que está em plenas cruzadas. Após a morte do rei, ele consegue escapar juntamente com alguns companheiros. Em sua tentativa de fuga eles encontram Sir Robert Loxley (Douglas Hodge), que tinha por missão levar a coroa do rei a Londres. Loxley foi atacado por Godfrey (Mark Strong), um inglês que serve secretamente aos interesses do rei Filipe, da França. À beira da morte, Loxley pede a Robin que entregue a seu pai uma espada tradicional da família. Ele aceita a missão e, vestido como se fosse um cavaleiro real, parte para Londres. Após entregar a coroa ao príncipe João (Oscar Isaac), que é nomeado rei, Robin parte para Nottingham. Lá conhece Sir Walter (Max von Sydow) e Marion (Cate Blanchett), respectivamente pai e esposa de Loxley.

Em Londres para o casamento de sua filha, um compositor de jingles perde o avião para Nova York e, assim, perde o emprego. Enquanto afoga suas mágoas no bar do aeroporto, Harvey conhece Kate, uma funcionária do governo britânico que está presa em um ciclo interminável de trabalho, chamadas de telefone de sua mãe e encontros com homens desconhecidos. A ligação se forma entre o casal infeliz, que em breve se apaixonam.

Baseado em obra homônima de Noel Streatfeild, é ambientado na década de 1930 em Londres. É a história das órfãs Pauline, Petrova e Posy Fossil, que são adotadas pelo excêntrico explorador Professor Matthew Brown, e criadas por Sylvia, sua sobrinha altruísta. Quando o Professor desaparece, Sylvia tenta dar conta das despesas alugando quartos para hóspedes cujos atos mudarão suas vidas para sempre. As garotas são matriculadas na escola de teatro e começam a trabalhar nos palcos. Isso combina com os desejos da ambiciosa Pauline, que está ansiosa para atuar, e com a vontade de Posy, uma dançarina nata, mas Petrova, que deseja ser aviadora, sofre com a frustração e o desapontamento. As irmãs juram “colocar seus nomes nos livros de história” e esse desejo mantém a família unida a qualquer preço. A vida no mundo do show business é bem-sucedida, mas corações são partidos e lições aprendidas nesta encantadora história.

Ann Lord (Vanessa Redgrave) decide revelar às suas filhas Constance (Natasha Richardson) e Nina (Toni Collette) um segredo há muito guardado: que amou um homem chamado Harris (Patrick Wilson) mais do que tudo em sua vida. Desnorteadas, as irmãs passam a analisar a vida da mãe e delas mesmas a fim de descobrir quem é Harris. Enquanto isso Ann relembra um final de semana ocorrido 50 anos antes, quando veio de Nova York para ser a madrinha de casamento de sua melhor amiga da escola, Lila (Mamie Gummer). Lá ela conhece Harris Arden, amigo íntimo da família de Lila, por quem Ann se apaixona.

Amor e sexo. Alguns andam à procura, outros precisam. Uns rejeitam, outros compram. Mas estamos todos envolvidos. A única coisa que realmente nos une é a nossa tentativa de nos ligarmos uns aos outros. Seja emocional, física, subliminar ou sexualmente, como seres humanos precisamos de contactar uns com os outros. Mas quais são as regras? Como sabemos que alguém gosta ou está apaixonado por nós? Como é que decidimos ligar-nos a uma pessoa, por um momento ou para a vida inteira?

Urania Cabral é uma advogada de Manhattan que retorna à República Dominicana, depois de 30 anos. Em busca do passado, ela se reencontra com o pai, um homem que um dia foi o Presidente do Senado e o braço direito do ditador Ramfis Trujillo.

Los Angeles, década de 30. No auge da depressão, Arturo Bandini (Colin Farrell) sonha se tornar um escritor famoso. Na tentativa de escrever algo ele se hospeda em um quarto barato de hotel, mas logo o plano se mostra um fracasso: o dinheiro de Arturo está acabando e ele ainda não conseguiu escrever. É quando ele conhece Camilla Lopez (Salma Hayek), uma garçonete mexicana que sonha conseguir um bom marido e deixar o emprego. Juntos eles vivem uma relação conturbada, baseada em desejo, ciúmes e desprezo.

Reese Witherspoon, vencedora do Oscar de Melhor Atriz, é Becky, uma órfã que sonha fazer parte da alta sociedade de Londres. Depois de trabalhar como governanta numa propriedade rural, ela é convidada a viver na cidade por Matilda, uma tia da família a quem serve. Unida com uma amiga que nasceu em berço de ouro, ela tenta a todo custo se integrar na alta sociedade. Acaba se envolvendo com um membro da família de Matilda e se casa secretamente com ele. Mas Matilda descobre e expulsa os recém-casados de sua casa. Grávida, Becky vai morar com sua amiga enquanto seus maridos vão para a guerra. Quando seu marido volta, a situação está difícil para todos por causa da guerra. É quando Becky conhece um benfeitor que pode realizar seu maior sonho, mas pode custar-lhe muito, muito caro.

Após o término da Guerra Civil Americana, o soldado Inman Balis inicia o percurso para retornar à sua casa, na vila de Cold Mountain. Lá está à sua espera Ada, sua namorada, que luta para administrar uma grande fazenda após a morte de seu pai. Para ajudá-la na tarefa chega Ruby, enviada por sua vizinha Sally, que cria uma grande amizade com Ada. No caminho de volta, Inman encontra diversos outros soldados, feridos como ele, com quem divide suas experiências da guerra.

Iván is living in exile from Hungary when he receives word that an old flame is ill. His return to Budapest rekindles old memories and reopens old wounds.

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.

No começo do século 20, Virginia Woolf lida com a depressão e tenta finalizar o romance "Mrs. Dalloway". Seu texto afeta profundamente uma dona de casa dos anos 1950 e uma mulher nos dias atuais, que parece viver os eventos do livro.

The duke of York, nicknamed Bertie, was born as royal 'spare heir', younger brother to the prince of Wales, and thus expected to spend a relatively private life with his Scottish wife Elisabeth Bowes-Lyon and their daughters, in the shadow of their reigning father, George V, and next that of his elder brother who succeeded to the British throne as Edward VIII. However Edward decides to put his love for a divorced American, Wallis Simpson, above dynastic duty, and ends up abdicating the throne, which now falls to Bertie, who reigns as George VI.

A documentary giving film fans a behind-the-scenes look at the making this Robert Altman film about a murder at an English country estate. Includes interviews with the cast and crew, who relate some of their experiences with making the film, as well as giving their views on all the work that went into it.

After the death of his father and a second wedding of his mother, David Copperfield suffers from his tyrannical stepfather, Mr. Murdstone. The mother dies shortly after the death of another child, whereupon Mr. Murdstone sends David to London, where he has to work for a starvation wage.Here he makes some new friends, but soon flees from the capital of England to his aunt Traddles in Canterbury, where he is adopted by her.

A lively, outspoken single mother develops an unlikely friendship with a shy cartoonist.

Na década de 1930, Sir William McCordle e família recebem ricos e famosos para um relaxante fim de semana em uma suntuosa casa de campo. Mas um assassinato ocorre na propriedade, e todos os convidados e serventes viram suspeitos do crime.

Uma renomada professora é forçada a reavaliar sua vida quando é diagnosticada com câncer de ovário terminal. Durante a história, ela reflete sobre suas reações ao ciclo que o câncer leva, os tratamentos e sua vida. As pessoas que cuidam dela são Jason Posner, que só encontra fé em ser médico; Susie Monahan, uma enfermeira com um lado humano; e o Dr. Kelekian, o médico-chefe que apenas quer resultados, não importa o que eles sejam.

Interior da França, 1ª metade do século XIX. Emma Rouault (Frances O'Connor) estava em um convento quando seu pai a visita e comunica que a mãe dela tinha morrido. Logo ela comete propositadamente pequenas falhas, o suficiente para sair do convento, e passa a viver na propriedade de seu pai. Emma precisa administrar a fazenda quando seu pai cai de uma árvore e fratura o fêmur. Paralelamente ela aceita se casar com o médico que cuidou dele, Charles Bovary (Hugh Bonneville), e assim se torna a Madame Bovary. Emma se entedia com sua pacata vida e ocupa a mente com fantasias eróticas retiradas dos romances que lê. O inevitável acontece e ela quebra o juramento de fidelidade com Rodolphe e depois com Leon (Hugh Dancy). Para pagar seu estilo de vida ela começa a dilapidar o patrimônio de Charles.

Set inside the crumbling walls of a dilapidated Victorian sanatorium, eight mysterious characters reveal their secret stories to the visiting camera. The eight are linked by one unifying and crucial event in their lives: each of them has had an encounter with Jesus of Nazareth in some way — an experience that has left an indelible mark.

A series of monologues.

O espião John Steed foi chamado pelo Ministério, uma agência britânica ultra-secreta, para investigar alguns estranhos acontecimentos. O clima aparenta estar fora de controle, com a ocorrência de fortes tempestades de neve, chuvas de granizo e mudanças drásticas de temperatura. O maior suspeito de ser o autor destes eventos é Sir August de Wynter, um ex-membro do Ministério que é muito rico e também bizarro. Juntamente com Emma Peel, uma expert em jiu-jitsu e em meteorologia, Steed precisa eliminar a ameaça.

Clarissa Dalloway looks back on her youth as she readies for a gathering at her house. The wife of a legislator and a doyenne of London's upper-crust party scene, Clarissa finds that the plight of ailing war veteran Septimus Warren Smith reminds her of a past romance with Peter Walsh. In flashbacks, young Clarissa explores her possibilities with Peter.

Jack always lands on his feet. He lands on his feet when he marries the beautiful Sarah. He lands on his feet when he buys a luxurious new home. However, when Sarah goes into labour, he takes a tumble down the stairs and lands on his head. When he comes around he discovers he is the proud father of a baby girl, but deficient in the spouse department to the tune of 1.

In this adaptation of the satirical British novel, Flora Poste, a plucky London society girl orphaned at age 19, finds a new home with some rough relatives, the Starkadders of Cold Comfort Farm. With a take-charge attitude and some encouragement from her mischievous friend, Mary, Flora changes the Starkadders' lives forever when she settles into their rustic estate, bringing the backward clan up to date and finding inspiration for her novel in the process.

Editor de livros é mordido por um lobo na zona rural de Vermont. Já um senhor, ele de repente se sente jovem e cheio de vida depois do estranho incidente e precisa se controlar para não ser dominado pelo novo instinto animal.

There is a strained atmosphere in the Maitland household which has fallen on hard times.

When a young gay man comes out of the closet, his friends support him, but when he comes out to his parents, he stirs up a wealth of hidden feelings and secrets in their relationship.

In 1950s England, slow-witted Derek Bentley falls in with a group of petty criminals led by Chris Craig, a teenager with a fondness for American gangster films. Chris and Derek's friendship leads to their involvement in the true case which would forever shake England's belief in capital punishment.

A Room of One's Own is based on two lectures which Virginia Woolf gave at Cambridge University in 1928 to the women students there. It is performed here by the British actress Eileen Atkins.

Harold Pinter play starring Michael Gambon. 'Your language is forbidden. It is dead. No one is allowed to speak your language. Your language no longer exists. Any questions?'

Remake of the 1953 original. Princess Elysa is touring Rome, and decides to get "out and about" away from her normal life. She meets with an American reporter and his photographer, who show her the sites. The reporter is initially more interested in a story than the Princess, but begins to fall for her.

When compulsive gambler Sir Giles Staverley has lost his estate and all his money playing dice, he realises that he only has one thing left of value: his daughter Serena. In a final game, he stakes his daughter's hand in marriage, convinced that this time he will not lose. Unfortunately, however, he does lose; to the evil Lord Wrotham. Unable to return home and tell his daughter that he has lost her in a game of dice, Sir Giles kills himself there and then. Lord Vulcan, who has witnessed the events, takes pity on Serena Staverley, although they have never met. He challenges Lord Wrotham to a game of dice in which the winner takes both Staverley Court and Miss Serena.

Veteran broadcaster James Marriner is persuaded to front a new big budget national family TV channel. But he begins to suspect that the channel is a front for something much more sinister and political.

Having subdued the Goths, warrior Titus Andronicus returns to Rome to bury his sons, with Gothic Queen Tamora and her retinue as captives. The newly-dead Roman Emperor's two sons, Saturninus and Bassianus, are competing for their father's title. According to Roman custom, Titus sacrifices Tamora's eldest son to the Gods; having the deciding vote, he also chooses Saturninus as Emperor. Both acts have tragic consequences.

Drama reconstructing the events of a strike by the schoolchildren of a Norfolk school in 1914, who refused to accept the dismissal of their teachers, Tom and Annie Higdon, who were both socialists.

Autobiographical look at growing up in wartime suburbia.

In a touring Shakespearean theater group, a backstage hand - the dresser, is devoted to the brilliant but tyrannical head of the company. He struggles to support the deteriorating star as the company struggles to carry on during the London blitz. The pathos of his backstage efforts rival the pathos in the story of Lear and the Fool that is being presented on-stage, as the situation comes to a crisis.

The story is set in a small English coastal town, around the turn of the century. A young woman, thought by many in the village to be a witch, dies suddenly one day. Not long after she's buried, the villagers begin to see her walking around the area and especially along the shoreline. The village minister begins to look into her life and her death, hoping to lay the spirit to rest.

People claim to know an amnesiac who finds herself in a hotel with a suitcase full of cash.

The classic Dickens tale of an orphan boy who escapes the horrors of the orphanage only to be taken in by a band of thieves and pickpockets.

An adaptation for television by Trevor Griffiths of DH Lawrence's classic novel

While on a Pyrenees vacation in 1922, upright English gentleman Richard Chandos (Malcolm McDowell, A Clockwork Orange, Heroes) encounters the villainous Vanity Fair (Eileen Atkins, Cold Mountain). Mistress of the turreted Chateau Jezreel and leader of a motley band of criminals, she will inherit millions if she can force her stepdaughter to marry. Pitting his wits against this formidable adversary, Chandos determines to rescue the beautiful young woman. But Vanity Fair keeps one step ahead of him, a trick forever up her sleeve and murder in her heart.

Martin Dysart (Richard Burton), um psiquiatra de meia-idade, investiga os motivos que levaram Alan Strang (Peter Firth), um jovem de 17 anos de idade empregado de um estábulo, a furar os olhos de seis cavalos sem razão aparente. Martin mergulha fundo na mente de Alan e depara-se com enigmas de fúria sexual e ira, mas acaba se vendo obrigado a confrontar os sombrios demônios escondidos em sua própria alma. Adaptação cinematográfica da peça teatral vencedora do Prêmio Tony, de autoria do mundialmente consagrado dramaturgo Peter Shaffer.

A woman gives birth to a baby, but this is no ordinary little tyke. The child is seemingly possessed by the spirit of a freak dwarf who the mother once spurned. Cue a spate of strange deaths, the one common factor being the presence of a baby in pram at the scene...

A war-weary soldier who wants to die tries to convince a zealous cleric to accuse him of witchcraft and hang him instead of a beautiful condemned woman already accused of witchcraft who wants to live.

The Duchess of Malfi is recently widowed and her greedy brothers are determined she will not marry again, so they employ Daniel De Bosola, a murderer in their pay to spy on her.

In a small Russian town at the turn of the century, three sisters (Olga, Irina, and Masha) and their brother Andrei live but dream daily of their return to their former home in Moscow, where life is charming and stimulating meaningful. But for now they exist in a malaise of dissatisfaction. Soldiers from the local military post provide them some companionship and society, but nothing can suffice to replace Moscow in their hopes. Andrei marries a provincial girl, Natasha, and begins to settle into a life of much less meaning than he had hoped. Natasha begins to run the family her way. Masha, though married, yearns for the sophisticated life and begins a dalliance with Vershinin, an army officer with a sick and suicidal wife. Even Irina, the freshest, most optimistic of the sisters, begins to waver in her dreams until, finally, tragedy strikes.

In the first part, The Compartment, an insane man boards a quiet railway coach and starts to annoy a patient man trying to read a paper with incessant small talk in an increasingly menacing manner until he finally pulls out a gun and screaming class hatred bile, humiliates the man until his stop is reached. In part two, Playmates, he breaks into a lonely house and proceeds to terrorise a spinster woman who lives there.

A lawyer's agonizing journey to the breaking point of his private and professional lives as he becomes more and more alienated from everyone connected with him.

In Great Britain a reversal of African apartheid comes into place, and the country is governed by black people with whites as the subservients.