Patrick Magee

A two-part biography of the Irish writer Samuel Beckett. The first part covers the traumas of his formative years: his ill-fated love affair with his first cousin, the death of his father, and his decorated service with the French Resistance. He had settled in France before the Second World War, met fellow Irishman James Joyce, and begun writing. Patrick Magee's television performance of `Krapp's Last Tape' (1972) is interwoven with key landscapes and personalities from Beckett's life. The second part concludes the story of how Beckett finally began to connect with his audience, principally through `Waiting for Godot'. Includes an interview with the actress Billie Whitelaw, a celebrated interpreter of his work.

Now a respected teacher of temporal observers, Dominick has not visited the past for several years. He is content with his lot, resigned to the idea that he will never again see Jane, the lover he left in 1980, or their son. Then his boss gives him a new mission: to find out what has become of one of Dominick's students, Pyrus Bonnington, who has gone missing in 1982.

In 19th century London, a sex maniac sneaks into the engagement party of Dr. Henry Jekyll and Miss Fanny Osbourne, turning the event into a nightmarish whirlpool of murder and debauchery

Na Inglaterra dos anos 1920, dois rapazes treinam para disputar as provas de atletismo das Olimpíadas de 1924. Harold é um estudante judeu e Eric filho de um missionário escocês e ambos lutam por razões diferentes pelo título de homem mais veloz do mundo. Oscar de melhor filme, roteiro, música e figurino.

A vampire attacks a horror author on the street and then invites him to a nearby club as a gesture of gratitude, which turns out to be a meeting place for assorted creatures of the night. The vampire then regales him with three stories, each interspersed with musical performances at the club.

When a young couple goes missing in a sleepy English village, Scotland Yard Inspector Gorley is brought in to assist on the case. But what starts off as routine investigation turns into a murder inquiry when the couple are found dead in mysterious circumstances.

Dominick Hide, a time traveller from the year 2130, is studying the London transport system of 1980. Time travellers are supposed to be observers, and are strictly forbidden to land their flying saucers. One time traveller who broke this rule accidentally killed a dog, changing history and causing many future people to disappear. Inspired by his Great Aunt Mavis, Dominick decides to find his great great grandfather. He begins to land in 1980, where his strange clothes and speech make him seem an eccentric oddball. His quest brings him into contact with beautiful boutique owner Jane, and they fall in love. As Dominick's visits become more frequent and more prolonged, he increasingly risks his indiscretion being discovered by his boss, Caleb Line, and every moment he spends in the past increases the danger that he will catastrophically change the future

Sir Henry Rawlinson attempts to exorcise the ghost of his brother Humbert, who was accidentally killed in a drunken duck-shooting incident.

Set in 1815, a young Englishman touring Europe encounters more than he bargained for. His pursuit of the beautiful Countess St. Alyre brings him into contact with the Marquis D'Armanville and other odd characters. A series of bizarre murders occur, bringing our hero to the borderland of nightmare.

Hawk the Slayer, after seeing both his father and bride die at the hands of his malevolent brother, Voltan, sets out for revenge and the chance to live up to his title. Tooling himself up with the "mind-sword" and recruiting a motley band of warriors: a giant, a dwarf, a one-armed man with a machine-crossbow and an elf with the fastest bow in the land; Hawk leads the battle against Voltan to free the land from the forces of evil and avenge his loved ones.

A romantic comedy with action and suspense. Two sophisticated jewel thieves join forces to steal $30 million in uncut jewels. Despite a continuous exchange of quips they eventually become romantically involved.

The complicated relationship between Winston Churchill and the leaders of the British army during World War II.

Na Inglaterra do século XIX, as irmãs Brontë - Charlotte, Emily e Anne - moram no campo de Yorkshire com o pai e o irmão Branwell, pintor e escritor. Elas enganam o isolamento através da escrita, disciplina pela qual demonstram grande disposição.

When DC Denis Deacey finds himself surprisingly transferred to Belfast he gets digs in a most unusual boarding house called The Crumlin View where no one is what they seem and everyone has been living with 'the troubles' for far too long...

Um agente da KGB é enviado aos Estados Unidos para deter um agente russo da antiga linha dura, que pretende ativar por mensagens telefônicas espiões hipnotizados. Os agentes, que foram submetidos a lavagem cerebral, estão prontos a destruir bases militares nos Estados Unidos, em missões suicidas.

An RSPCA officer is horrified when he discovers a pet shop owner has been conducting experiments on a wolf, searching for proof of lycanthropy. Created as an episode of Nigel Kneale’s “Beasts” horror anthology miniseries.

Um trapaceiro irlandês conquista o coração de uma viúva rica e assume a posição aristocrárica do seu falecido marido na Inglaterra do século 18.

Challenged by a new student, tutor and theorist Galileo co-opts emerging telescope technology and discovers irrefutable proof of the heretical notion that the earth is not the center of the universe. But in a rigid society ruled by an uneasy alliance of aristocracy and clergy already undermined by the Plague and the Reformation, science is a threat and enlightenment is a luxury. Faced with either death at the hands of the Inquisition or recantation to a hypocritical but all-powerful Papacy, Galileo must choose between his own life and the restless scientific curiosity that he has spurned family, friends, and wealth to pursue.

A criminal psychologist invites three psychology students to his English countryside home to view some of his research on the criminal mind. Unbeknownst to the students, they are actually guinea pigs in a mind-control experiment he is conducting and the servants of the house are not what they appear to be.

When England's aging King Lear renounces his throne to divide his kingdom among his three daughters, treachery, madness and murder soon follow. After banishing Cordelia, his most loyal daughter, Lear is betrayed and cast out by her elder sisters Regan and Goneril. Meanwhile, evil brews at the Gloucester castle as Edgar falls victim to his brother's deception. As battle lines are drawn and backs are stabbed, Lear rages against a fearsome storm. Can a man undo his wrongs? Will Cordelia be saved? Or will the wheels of fate crush all in its way?

While at a bullfight Simona begins flashing back to a torrid sexual relationship she had with George. Her relationship with George was one of open sexual discoveries which eventually led to revenge and murder.

One sixteenth-century clergyman's view breaks the Catholic Church apart.

After the death of his Nobel Prize-winning father, billionaire physicist Jerry Cornelius becomes embroiled in the search for the mysterious "Final Programme", developed by his father. The programme, a design for a perfect, self-replicating human being, is contained on microfilm. A group of scientists, led by the formidable Miss Brunner (who consumes her lovers), has sought Cornelius's help in obtaining it. After a chase across a war-torn Europe on the verge of anarchy, Brunner and Cornelius obtain the microfilm from Jerry's loathsome brother Frank. They proceed to an abandoned underground Nazi fortress in the Arctic to run the programme, with Jerry and Miss Brunner as the subjects.

An insurance investigator romances a wealthy young beauty when he suspects she may be involved in fencing stolen jewels.

In the late 18th century, two newlyweds move into the stately mansion of husband Charles Fengriffen. The bride, Catherine, falls victim to a curse placed by a wronged servant on the Fengriffen family and all its descendants.

A 69-year-old man sits alone on his birthday and listens to his past through the form of tape reels he has recorded throughout his life.

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.

Barão extremamente religioso tenta encontrar uma cura para seus filhos incestuosos, sucessivamente, assassinatos misteriosos ocorrem no vilarejo local, todas as vítimas morrem em um bosque.

Based on the medieval legend of Pope Joan, who was made Pope for a brief period around 855 A.D. The movie presents her existence as fact, though it is questionable that Pope Joan really did exist, and portrays her relationships with other notables of the time.

This historical drama is an account of the early life of British politician Winston Churchill, including his childhood years, his time as a war correspondent in Africa, and culminating with his first election to Parliament.

Led by a sinister minister, a controlling religious sect called the Brethren has taken control of widow Birdy Wemys, sending her unstable son, Kenny, into a spiraling descent into madness and murder. No woman is safe when Kenny's religious mania overpowers him and leads to a rampage of carnage and chaos!

Cinco estranhos vão a uma excursão para ver cavernas antigas e se perdem do grupo, mas encontram o sinistro guardião de uma cripta que conta como cada um deles morreu através de cinco histórias.

Em uma Inglaterra do futuro, um membro de uma gangue de delinquentes tenta desligar-se, mas é espancado pelos demais e deixado ao abandono para ser apanhado pela polícia. Na prisão, ele é submetido a um tratamento experimental para recuperar criminosos, expondo-os às mazelas que eles mesmos infligiam à sociedade.

In the aftermath of the Trojan Wars, Queen Hecuba takes stock of the defeated kingdom. Her son has been killed, and his widow, Andromache, is left to raise their son, Astyanax, alone. Hecuba's daughter, Cassandra, fears being enslaved by her Greek masters, while Helen of Troy risks being executed. Astyanax also becomes the focus of the Greeks' attention as the last male heir of the Trojan royal family.

O filme narra os feitos de Oliver Cromwell que liderou as forças do Parlamento de Inglaterra durante a Guerra Civil Inglesa e, mais tarde com o título de Lord Protetor, dirigiu a Grã Bretanha e Irlanda em meados do século XVII. Um elenco cheio estrelas cinematográficas, com Richard Harris como Cromwell e Alec Guinness como o Rei Carlos I da Inglaterra.

Dois ex-soldados do Exército dos EUA, Adam Dyer e Josh Corey, se juntam a um bando de mercenários turcos em 1922 que quais são contratados por Osman Bey, um governador local, para escoltar suas três filhas para Esmirna e também para proteger um carregamento de ouro que vai junto com elas . Ninguém sabe que Elci, um coronel local, planeja ficar com o ouro para si mesmo. Enquanto isso um general rebelde persegue todas as partes envolvidas.

A veteran Russian spy is brought out of retirement to be sent to the West to do an important sabotage job. However, he finds himself falling in love with an attractive British double agent.

A cold hearted American hit man goes to Europe for "one last score". His encounter with a beautiful young woman casts self doubt on his lifeblood, and influences him to resist carrying out the contract.

Based on Harold Pinter's enigmatic play about a boarder in a British seaside dwelling who is visited by two strangers. They torment him verbally, ask him idiotic unanswerable questions, force him to sit down and stand up, and give him a "party". Then, eventually, they take him away, a tongue-tied idiot. The trivial becomes the terrible, and with it a certain wonder, a certain pity.

A young man's attempts at seduction and social climbing lead to mayhem.

Um das batalhas mais sangrentas da WW2 com os Aliados rompendo as linhas alemãs que tinham se fechado na cabeça de peaia de Anzio. Quatro meses e 30.000 mortes depois os Aliados finalmente marcham para Roma. As Forças Aliadas desembarcam em Anzio sem oposição, mas em vez de avançar em linha reta para o interior seu comandante decide cavar, se entrincheirar. Um correspondente de guerra aguerrido pega emprestado um jipe, vai até Roma e volta sem encontrar quaisquer forças alemãs, mas o seu relatório sobre esta ausência do inimigo é desconsiderado. No momento em que os generais finalmente resolvem fazer algum movimento de avanço os alemães já tinham conseguido montar a sua defesa e uma luta prolongada e sangrenta se inicia.

In Charenton Asylum, the Marquis de Sade directs a play about Jean Paul Marat's death, using the patients as actors. Based on 'The Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat as Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum of Charenton Under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade', a 1963 play by Peter Weiss.

A painter of morbid art, who becomes a murderous vampire by night and kills young women, attempts a daytime relationship with a woman who resembles a former love and is also the sister of one of his victims.

A young man visits his fiancé's estate to discover that her wheelchair-bound scientist father has discovered a meteorite that emits mutating radiation rays that have turned the plants in his greenhouse to giants. When his own wife falls victim to this mysterious power, the old man takes it upon himself to destroy the glowing object with disastrous results.

An occult investigator buys the 150-year-old skull of the Marquis de Sade, which turns out to be possessed by evil spirits.

A plan to steal a valuable work of art leads to murder.

The first broadcast of the radio play in English on the BBC on 6th October 1964. The play opens with a familiar Beckettian theme, the search to put an end to language: “—story . . . if you could finish it . . . you could rest . . . sleep . . . not before”. “The shape of the narrative itself is indicative of the mind already in the process of degenerating towards an impasse. Voice alternates between talking about the story-telling itself, or the need to find the story to end all stories, and narrating [what it hopes will be that final] story." (Wiki) The term ‘cascando’ (‘cascades’) involves the decrease of volume and the deceleration of tempo.

No Século XIII, o sinistro príncipe Prospero (Vincent Price) vive afastado do mundo, enclausurado em seu castelo, enquanto a temível Peste Vermelha toma conta do resto da cidade. As injustiças do monarca serão vingadas durante um baile à fantasia realizado no interior do seu castelo, quando uma misteriosa figura vestida com uma máscara vermelha revela sua identidade.

Working-class British housewife Myra Savage reinvents herself as a medium, holding seances in the sitting room of her home with the hidden assistance of her under-employed, asthmatic husband, Billy. In an attempt to enhance her credibility as a psychic, Myra hatches an elaborate, ill-conceived plot to kidnap a wealthy couple's young daughter so that she can then help the police "find" the missing girl.

Em Natal, África do Sul, em 1879, um pequeno regimento britânico de apenas 105 soldados se recusa a abandonar sua posição e resiste bravamente ao ataque de 4000 guerreiros zulus. Baseado em fatos verídicos.

Neste drama histórico de luta de classe e decadência moral, um mulherengo mimado compra uma casa elegante na cidade e contrata um criado dedicado. Passam a surgir problemas quando a namorada do jovem começa a suspeitar do criado.

Quando seu marido, John, sofre um ataque cardíaco em um barco a remo no lago, Louise Haloran joga seu corpo ao mar e depois diz à família que ele partiu em uma viagem de negócios urgente. Sua principal preocupação é que ela só pode herdar uma parte da fortuna da família se o marido estiver vivo. Os haloranos são uma família estranha, ainda sofrendo com a morte da filha mais nova Kathleen, que se afogou em um lago quando era criança. Eles realizam uma cerimônia anual de lembrança todos os anos no aniversário de sua morte. Este ano, no entanto, alguém está usando um machado com intenção de matar.

Tracey Lawrence is assautled in her home and is so affected by the traumatic event she now finds all men totally repulsive, including her husband. Her attitude does not change with time, and to make matters worse her husband has got romantically involved with his secretary. Also, the police still have not tracked down Tracey's attacker and there is no guarantee that she is safe.

Solicitor Alan Phipps formulates a plan to blackmail his wealthy and unfaithful wife, Yvonne, and at the same time, get revenge against her boyfriend, John Brodie, by setting him up to appear that he is the blackmailer and for Yvonne to kill him.

A film constructed around footage shot of actual Grand Prix races in Europe.

In a small seaside town in the middle of tourist season, an old eccentric, Ugo Bonacic, is murdered. The homicide inspector leads the investigation, which directs him to a strange foreigner dressed in white, who came to town with an American diving representation. During the investigation, he finds out that old Ugo had a copy of one Titian paintings, for which unusual legend is bind. Finally, a new version of an old Titian painting legend is cleared up.

A criminal gang sets out to pull off the heist of a large army payroll.

A night watchman at a garage is found murdered, and four teddy boys are put on trial for the crime. Witnesses and suspects give differing accounts of the lead-up to the crime, and the truth emerges.

Two rival gangs are trying to fix horse races and a jockey is attacked and left for dead in a stage-managed car crash. An insurance investigator makes routine enquiries into the "accident" and one of the gang leaders feels threatened by this and takes counter measures.

A British drama about a girl becoming a woman after she relocates to London. She and her young boyfriend become tempted by one of her older admirers money.

When a robbery at a racetrack goes wrong ex-con Johnny Bannion is caught and sent back to prison. He won't tell the rest of the gang where he has stashed the loot leading to violent consequences.

Embers is a radio play written by Samuel Beckett first broadcast on the BBC Third Programme on 24th June 1959. Henry's father ended his life in the sea and for the rest of his life Henry is doomed to the sound of the waves roaring in his ears. For twenty years he has talked incessantly to drown the tempest of his father's watery grave. His wife, Ada, chatters and listens and endures; his child goes through the incidents of a child's life and still the sea roars in the background. (Concord Theatricals)

Embers is a radio play written by Samuel Beckett first broadcast on the BBC Third Programme on 24th June 1959. Henry's father ended his life in the sea and for the rest of his life Henry is doomed to the sound of the waves roaring in his ears. For twenty years he has talked incessantly to drown the tempest of his father's watery grave. His wife, Ada, chatters and listens and endures; his child goes through the incidents of a child's life and still the sea roars in the background. (Concord Theatricals)