Philip Jackson

British writer Agatha Christie (1890-1976) published her first novel in 1920, in which the eccentric Belgian private sleuth Hercule Poirot made his debut. Later, in 1927, the first short story starring the gentle spinster Miss Jane Marple appeared. A fascinating journey through popular culture in search of the footprints of two of the most charismatic characters in crime and mystery literature.

Um drama sobre o infame massacre de Manchester em 1819, que matou cerca de 18 manifestantes e feriu até 700.

On her 18th birthday, headstrong and artistic Charlie makes a startling discovery—the man married to her mother, isn't her father. Recruiting Oz, a rough sleeper whose only possession is his driving licence, she embarks on an epic road trip from Margate to the Isle of Skye to track down her biological father. On the journey they both learn more than they bargained for.

A young man with mental health issues becomes intimate with a suicidal air hostess but his obsessive mother enlists a dysfunctional cop to separate them.

A young, gifted soccer player who gets into trouble for a petty crime is brought to the attention of former Manchester United coach Matt Busby, who comes out of retirement to help the boy and his teammates.

In 1973 Ricky Tomilinson was imprisoned for unlawful assembly and conspiracy when picketing for support in Britain’s first National Building Strike a year earlier. During the course of Ricky’s sentence when he refused to conform, wear prison clothing, work and suffered on hunger strike he met a sympathetic and wise prison governor who introduced prisoner Tomlinson to Tressell’s great novel.

No universo da arte, Virgil Oldman é um nome reconhecido e apreciado. Contratado por uma jovem herdeira para leiloar sua coleção de artes, ele se depara com um mistério quando ela se recusa a vê-lo pessoalmente. Conforme tenta desvendá-la, Virgil começa a nutrir sentimentos pela moça.

Teenage musicians travel to England's Spike Island in the hope of attending an outdoor performance by their favorite band, the Stone Roses.

Uma compilação de sete curta-metragens, entre elas "The Procession," "Sexting" e "Friend Request Pending."

A musa Marilyn Monroe (Michelle Williams) está em Londres pela primeira vez para filmar “O Príncipe Encantado” ao lado de Laurence Olivier (Kenneth Branagh). A história adapta o livro homônimo de Colin Clark, que na época trabalhava como assistente nas filmagens. Durante uma semana, ele teve a oportunidade de ciceronear a diva - desesperada para escapar das pressões da rotina hollywoodiana - e mostrar-lhe o melhor da vida britânica.

A police woman lost in violence, a mechanic revenging for his lost son, a crime kingpin with a heart condition, a corrupt officer in love with a prostitute will destroy each other.

FRIEND REQUEST PENDING is a short comedy drama about the mature generation dating in our modern social networking world. It's a tale of love but more importantly life long friendship. The twelve-minute tale tells the story of Mary (Judi Dench) and Linda (Penny Ryder) who spend an afternoon discussing the pleasures, pitfalls and problems with using social networking to try and woo the local choirmaster Trevor (Philip Jackson).

Mark Gatiss's adaptation of HG Wells's science fiction classic. July 1969, and as the world waits with bated breath for the Apollo astronauts to land on the Moon, a young boy meets 90-year-old Julius Bedford. He's a man with an extraordinary story of how, way back in 1909, he got to the Moon first, and, together with the eccentric Professor Cavor, discovered a terrifying secret deep beneath its seemingly-barren surface.

A detailed and compelling portrait of one of the most formidable characters in British politics as she faces her final days in power. The year is 1990 and Margaret Thatcher's support within the government is wavering - her hold on the premiership hangs in the balance. Then, long-serving politician Sir Geoffrey Howe resigns over Thatcher's attitude to Europe. His resignation speech sparks a chain of events that leads to the overthrow of Britain's first woman prime minister. This modern dramatic tragedy illustrates the strengths and fatal flaws of this iconic woman more clearly than ever before and reveals how the very aspects of her character that helped her secure power are the ones that ensured her downfall. Drama starring Lindsay Duncan.

A light hearted look at future Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's rise from research chemist in 1949 to becoming MP for Finchley in 1959, encompassing her early relationship and marriage to oil millionaire Denis Thatcher.

Orphaned by smallpox, young Lancashire country lady Fanny Hill cheerfully accepts her friend Esther Davies's offer to join the London 'working girls' with Mrs. Brown, a madam who recruits her as charmingly fresh enough to wait, in-living, on gentlemen.

A refugee family are given an allotment plot and are met with suspicion by the people who have worked the gardens for years

Joe (Tom Riley) e seu amigo Baggy (Tom Burke) são dois estudantes de cinema frustados que não têm dinheiro para financiar o projeto de formatura e descidem viajar para Londres na busca de algum financiador para o filme. Ao chegarem á capital inglesa eles conseguem encontrar um produtor deseperado disposto a gastar dinheiro com eles. Tudo isto porém comuma condição. A dupla deverá rodar um filme pornô e contratar comoprotagonista a bela Candy Fiveways (Carmen Electra), a grande estrela do cinema adulto. Após diversas tentativas frustadas, eles consegue, contrata-lá, mas seus problemas estão longe de acabar, já que eles terão que usar a casa de seus pais para rodar todas as cenas quentes do filme.

O investigador de uma seguradora, Abraham Holt, viaja para uma cidadezinha do interior de Minnesota, a fim de investigar se eles realmente devem pagar o alto prêmio de uma apólice de seguro de vida que está em processo de entrega. Ao chegar ao local onde estão os destroços do terrível acidente de carros que ele tem que investigar, Holt logo começa a suspeitar que algo está errado.

Olly Pickering (Stuart Townsend) é um talentoso escritor que está à beira do fracasso total. Até que reencontra um velho amigo da faculdade que não via há 5 anos, que o convida a ser seu padrinho de casamento. Olly decide ir à festa de noivado, onde conhece a mulher dos seus sonhos. O problema é que ela é Sarah Marie Barker (Amy Smart), a noiva de seu amigo. Incentivado por Murray (Seth Green), seu companheiro de baladas, Olly decide lutar por Sarah e mostrar a ela o mulherengo que é seu noivo.

Hairdresser Maria is fixated by The Sound of Music - it was the film she saw the night she was jilted 18 years ago. In a bid to confront her demons, Maria decides to travel to Salzburg, but with her mother and teenage offspring in tow she gets more than she bargained for.

Video diary from behind the scenes of 2002's "Cruise of the Gods."

The former stars of a TV sci-fi series are reunited for a cruise with members of their fan club.

A period drama/thriller about a surveyor and his fiancée who arrive in a remote Malaysian trading post and encounter a closed-fisted ivory trader and her ill-meaning family.

John Simm stars in this adaptation of Dostoyevsky's tragic masterpiece - a profound drama of redemption and a thrilling detective story of the soul.

O popular ator britânico Ricky Tomlinson estrela essa fantástica comédia em que interpreta Mike Bassett, um humilde treinador de futebol que por acaso é designado para ser técnico oficial da equipe nacional britânica. O filme relata as façanhas da equipe e a disputa de um campeonato no Brasil. Com a participação do astro Pelé.

The comedienne stars in this festive sketch show, alongside a host of celebrity guests.

After the death of her father, Little Voice or LV becomes a virtual recluse, never going out and hardly ever saying a word. She just sits in her bedroom listening to her father's collection of old records of Shirley Bassey, Marilyn Monroe and various other famous female singers. But at night time, LV sings, imitating these great singers with surprising accuracy. One night she is overheard by one of her mother's boyfriends, who happens to be a talent agent. He manages to convince her that her talent is special and arranges for her to perform at the local night club, but several problems arise.

Two British best friends and in-laws Dawn and Jackie work together at a factory. When Dawn is diagnosed with a brain tumor Jackie shares $100,000 she's got from her secret lover with Dawn to fulfil her dream - a visit to Las Vegas. They buy two tickets and fly there...

Em 1840 na França, uma solteirona amarga e empobrecida planeja arruinar sua familia com ajuda da amante de seu primo.

A parent's grief has no bounds. Our Boy tells the moving and tragic story of one couple’s struggle to come to terms with the disappearance and death of their only son. Woody, Sonia and their son, Lee, live contentedly in West Ham, London. When Lee is killed in a hit-and-run everyone grieves but Woody’s grief has no limit. His best friend, Phil, counsels revenge, while in the view of the ambitious Detective Constable Spence, Woody himself is the prime suspect. Woody searches for a way to react with extraordinary and touching results. Features award-winning performances by Ray Winstone and Pauline Quirke.

The story of the Opium War between China, in the waning days of the Qing Dynasty, and the British Empire, in the 1830s, and the subsequent takeover of Hong Kong by Britain; through the eyes of the key figures, fiercely nationalistic Lin Zexu, and opportunistic British naval diplomat Charles Elliot.

A notícia de que a mina de carvão de uma cidade inglesa irá fechar deixa os moradores apreensivos. Eles temem o desemprego, pois a mina é a principal empregadora da região. Mas todos encontram na banda de música local a motivação que faltava para continuar lutando por seus ideais.

Blackpool, a dancing contest, a dead woman. This is the opening scene of this movie, which then continues by telling us the story preceding this sad accident - or is it a murder? We will get to know the tensed relationship of the dancing contestant couple Tove and Claes, and see how there lives are affected by Liselott and Lennart, their opponents and friends.

A teen, jailed in an adult prison in Britain, takes his own life in July 1990.

The McAllister family house is the setting for Gerry and Ellie's grapples with work, children and how to get the bathroom fixed. Both have reached the stage where reason cannot be heard above the ticking clock of experience and ambition. When temptation comes, how will they react?

A Gothic comedy, featuring a distinguished cast, and starring Leslie Phillips and Margaret Tyzack. Retired colonial army officer George Thacker has high hopes of recapturing his memories of an idyllic English village life after a lifetime of meting out justice in the Far East. But instead of peace and quiet, he is greeted by violence, voodoo and a distressed damsel, brandishing a shotgun. Worst of all, the ghost of his old flame, Edith, still haunts him, threatening both his marriage and his life.

Slice-of-life look at a sweet working-class couple in London, Shirley and Cyril, his mother, who's aging quickly and becoming forgetful, mum's ghastly upper-middle-class neighbors, and Cyril's pretentious sister and philandering husband. Shirley wants a baby, but Cyril, who reads Marx and wants the world to be perfect, is reluctant. Cyril's mum locks herself out and must ask her snooty neighbors for help. Then Cyril's sister Valerie stages a surprise party for mum's 70th birthday, a disaster from start to finish. Shirley holds things together, and she and Cyril may put aside her Dutch cap after all.

Fledge needs a job. He'll take anything. And when Dawlish gives him strange errands to run, for cash in hand, strictly 'on the palm', it's a welcome change from the dole. Until he finds himself digging dirt on an old friend....

John Preston é um agente britânico com a tarefa de impedir que os russos detonem uma bomba nuclear ao lado de uma base americana no Reino Unido. Os russos esperam que isso quebre o "relacionamento especial" entre UK e USA.

In a cell in a London police station, a suspected I.R.A. bomber, Roche, has been detained for questioning. To help them in the interrogation, the London coppers have summoned Nelson, a detective from Northern Ireland's predominantly Protestant police force, the Royal Ulster Constabulary.

In Victorian England, two grave robbers supply a wealthy doctor with bodies to research anatomy on, but greed causes them to look for a more simple way to get the job done.

When the mastertape of McCartney's latest album is misplaced, he must discover its whereabouts in less than 24 hours or else risk losing his recording company to the lowlife Mr. Rath.

While his parents are renovating a cottage in an English village, teenager Tim and his friend Rebecca uncover information about the mysterious death of a 15-year-old boy who lived in the house decades prior, and as they dig deeper, Tim begins to find events from the past being mirrored in his own life.

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

Powerful, uncompromising drama about two boys' struggle for survival in the nightmare world of Britain's notorious Borstal Reformatory. [This is the feature film version Alan Clarke made after the BBC banned the original before its scheduled TV broadcast (see Scum (1977)].

Lee, a Chinese man, works as a waiter in a hotel in England, despite speaking very little English. Told that a girl called Iris might be interested in him, on his afternoon off work he buys a box of chocolates and sets off to find her.

Mam likes to make the weekly visit to Grandad into a proper little outing.

A British-born younger son of an immigrant family from Trinidad finds himself adrift between two cultures.

No início de 1939 Sir Robert Hunter (Peter O'Toole) mirou em Adolf Hitler (Michael Sheard) com um rifle de alta potência, mas o tiro errou o alvo. Capturado e torturado pela Gestapo e deixado para morrer, Sir Robert faz o caminho de volta para a Inglaterra, onde descobre que a Gestapo o seguiu. Sabendo que seu governo o entregaria às autoridades alemãs, Sir Robert vai à clandestinidade em sua batalha contra seus perseguidores. (e 16 - Estimado 16 Anos)

Miss Shepherd of the registry office is getting a new desk, but things don't go entirely as expected.

Pubs, pigeons, weight-lifting - that's Terry's life, and his wife Glenda feels neglected. But now Terry's best mate, Albert, is on leave from the Merchant Navy, and Albert knows how to treat a lady. 'Fireworks assured,' says the wrestling poster.

"Sling me in here? Nobody slings the King of the Kop anywhere. Not even the pigs." In a police special incidents room, a young soccer supporter meets his hero.

An improvised character piece, overseen by Les Blair and Tony Garnett set in the everyday life of a group of polytechnic students.

Three miners take a boat trip to Stratford-on-Avon.

When Len Shelton retires from a life of work in the coal mines, he turns to his first love - pigeons, which become a symbol of hope for him.

True Love (Once Removed) is a British drama directed by Director, Kevin Thomas. The film is about the belief in a fated destiny vs. the free will to form a future. Steven is a fish gutter who lives in an isolated fishing village. He appears at the docks every morning where gutters are selected according to the day's need. He spends what little money he has on viewing his future through time machines. These time machines have been banned by the government due to the unintended consequences they have. Steven lives alone, but by looking at the time machine he knows someday he will be loved and who that woman will be, a psychiatric nurse called Bryony in his future. However presently Bryony Lafferty is an 8-year old girl so Steven must wait for his future to come true.