Murray Melvin

A meek undertaker becomes trapped in a violent world when a gangster enlists him to dispose of a growing number of corpses.

Born James Henry Miller in 1915, MacColl became prominent on the folk scene in the 1950s and was also a labour activist and actor. This affectionate documentary offers insights into all these aspects of his life and features new versions of some of his songs, including The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face. Contributors include Billy Bragg and his widow, Peggy Seeger.

A incrível história sobre Peter Sellers e a loucura de um filme quando ele se desfaz.

A incrível história real do explorador britânico Percy Fawcett (Charlie Hunnam), que viaja para a Amazônia no século XX e descobre evidências de uma civilização avançada desconhecida que pode ter habitado a região. Depois de ter sido ridicularizado pelo corpo científico que considera as populações indígenas como "selvagens", Fawcett está determinado a retornar à sua amada selva e provar seu caso.

Terry 'The Taxman' Tempest, the greatest bank robber there ever was, whose true identity was never discovered, finds himself languishing in a dilapidated care home with only elderly confidence trickster Professor Humboldt Worth for company. When Terry and The Professor discover all is not right in the care home, the bickering pair are forced to put their differences aside, dust off their criminals skills, step onto the other side of the law and save the day.

A mysterious series of suicides fills the people of a small town with anxiety. Shortly before her eighteenth birthday, Kirsten sets out to solve the mystery.

A documentary exploring Bill Douglas' struggle from childhood poverty to acclaimed filmmaker of Comrades and the Trilogy.

La Carlotta (Minnie Driver) é a diva de uma conceituada companhia teatral, que é responsável pelas óperas realizadas em um imponente teatro. Temperamental, La Carlotta se irrita pela ausência de um solo na nova produção da companhia e decide abandonar os ensaios. Com a estréia marcada para o mesmo dia, os novos donos do teatro não têm outra alternativa senão aceitar a sugestão de Madame Giry (Miranda Richardson) e escalar em seu lugar a jovem Christine Daae (Emmy Rossum), que fazia parte do coral. Christine faz sucesso em sua estréia, chamando a atenção do Visconde de Chagny (Patrick Wilson), o novo patrocinador da companhia. O Visconde e Christine se conheceram ainda crianças, mas ele apenas a reconhece na encenação da ópera. Porém o que nem ele nem ninguém da companhia, com exceção de Madame Giry, sabem é que Christine tem um tutor misterioso, que acompanha nas sombras tudo o que acontece no teatro: o Fantasma da Ópera (Gérard Butler).

Hell on Earth is an hour-long documentary presented by Mark Kermode. It's about Ken Russell's 1971 film, The Devils which is one of the most controversial films ever made. Kermode chats to Russell as well as two of the films stars Georgina Hale and Murray Melvin. Also included are scenes that were cut from the released film for being too controversial.

Após a derrota em Waterloo, Napoleão Bonaparte (Ian Holm) é exilado na ilha de Santa Helena. Ali, os seus correligionários descobrem a existência de Eugene (Ian Holm), um sósia perfeito de Napoleão. Numa conspiração para reconquistar o poder, Eugene toma o lugar de Napoleão, enquanto o verdadeiro imperador regressa a Paris para recuperar o trono. Só que as coisas não ocorrem como planeado. Em Paris, onde é forçado a viver como um cidadão comum, Napoleão apaixona-se por uma bela viúva e ajuda-a na reconstrução dos seus negócios. Enquanto isso, Eugene, seduzido pelo poder, começa a gostar da sua nova e glamorosa personagem e não parece muito disposto a revelar a sua verdadeira identidade, como havia sido combinado.

Three hapless directors arrive in England from Italy to make a documentary on their idol. The funny thing is, they have no interviews lined up! Not to worry, these guys have a miracle or two that they call in.

A heroína Alice é uma jovem curiosa que, ao seguir um coelho, cai num buraco e vai parar num mundo fantástico, o País das Maravilhas

Bristol, England, early 19th century. A beautiful young stranger who speaks a weird language is tried for the crime of begging. But when a man claims that he can translate her dialect, it is understood that the woman is a princess from a far away land. She is then welcomed by a family of haughty aristocrats that only wants to heighten their prestige. However, the local reporter is not at all convinced she is what she claims to be and investigates. Is Caraboo really a princess?

Dr Gerald Bull was a genius at designing and building superguns (very large long range guns capable of shooting at ranges more than 100 miles). When an operational plan by the CIA to export sanctioned arms to apartheid-South Africa through him was exposed, the CIA denied all knowledge and he went to jail. He was later released, and moved to Belgium to start a subsidiary, of which a major project was to help Saddam Hussein build a new supergun capable of firing over 500 miles.

Hiding out in an industrial wasteland from the murderous wrath of a regional ruler, a woman, disguised as a boy, gives wooing lessons to the edgy lad who proclaims he loves her.

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.

Thomas Wilkins has faithfully worked his entire life on Saville Row. Suddenly he is fired by his boss Mr Gerald, who wants a younger man with new ideas. Thomas advertise under "Lonely Hearts" and receives an answer.

The Krays is a film based on the lives and crimes of the British gangsters Ronald and Reginald Kray, twins who are often referred to as The Krays and were active in London in the 1960s.

Slipstream is a 1989 post-apocalyptic science fiction adventure film. The plot has an emphasis on aviation and contains many common science-fiction themes, such as taking place in a dystopian future in which the landscape of the Earth itself has been changed and is windswept by storms of great power. There are also numerous sub-plots, such as free will and humanity amongst artificial intelligence.

The story of "The Tolpuddle Martyrs". A group of 19th century English farm labourers who formed one of the first trade unions and started a campaign to receive fair wages.

A tough nun (Anna Massey) demands belief and obedience from convent schoolgirls (Katrin Cartlidge, Oona Kirsch) in World War II England.

A Russian ballet dancer defects from the USSR, emigrates to England, and joins a ballet company run by a powerful, wealthy lady (Joan Collins).

Tom Canty is a poor English boy who bears a remarkable resemblance to Edward, Prince of Wales and son of King Henry VIII. The two boys meet and decide to play a joke on the court by dressing in each other's clothes, but the plan goes awry when they are separated and each must live the other's life.

Lady Booby alias 'Belle', the lively wife of the fat landed squire Sir Thomas Booby, has a lusty eye on the attractive, intelligent villager Joseph Andrews, a Latin pupil and protégé of parson Adams, and makes him their footman. Joseph's heart belongs to a country girl, foundling Fanny Goodwill, but his masters take him on a fashionable trip to Bath, where the spoiled society comes mainly to see and be seen, but drowns in the famous Roman baths. When the all but grieving lady finds Joseph's Christian virtue and true love resist her lusting passes just as well as the many ladies who fancy her footman, she fires the boy. He's found and nursed by an innkeeper's maid, which stirs lusts there, again besides his honorable conduct, but is found by the good parson.

Tom Jones, filho de empregada doméstica adotado pelo nobre para quem ela trabalhava, agora todo adulto deve fugir de casa quando é escalado por seu primo ciumento. Ele tem várias aventuras e mulheres a caminho da cidade, onde sua possível salvação o aguarda.

Aventureiro americano e rico inglês que se juntam para destruir um navio de guerra alemão antes da Primeira Guerra Mundial.

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

Roger Daltrey of The Who stars as 19th century genius pianist Franz Liszt in this brash, loud and free-wheeling rock 'n' roll fantasia centered around an imagined rivalry between Liszt and composer Richard Wagner-- painted here as a vampiric harbinger of doom and destruction.

Several old college friends converge at a mansion, ostensibly for a pleasant reunion. Larry Dann, the most easygoing of the bunch, comes to the conclusion that all is not well in the old dark house. For one thing, he's run across several people whom he's never met. For another, they all seem to be of a different time and place.

A pirate crewman kills his captain after learning where he has hidden his buried treasure. However, as he begins to lose his memory, he relies more and more on the ghost of the man he just murdered to help him find the loot.

The medieval legend of a supernatural knight who challenges the king's men to kill him.

A couple uses extremely black comedy to survive taking care of a daughter who is nearly completely brain dead. They take turns doing the daughter's voice and stare into the eyes of death and emotional trauma with a humour that hides their pain.

Um assistente de diretor de palco de uma pequena companhia teatral é forçado a ser o Duble de Corpo de uma atriz principal numa apresentação de matinê, na qual um ilustre diretor de Hollywood estará na plateia procurando por atores para participarem em sua mais recente extravagância musical.

Ambientado durante o violento regime católico que tomava conta da França nos idos de 1631, parte da suposta possessão de uma madre-superiora cujas fantasias sexuais com o mais proeminente padre do vilarejo de Loudon resulta num dos mais sangrentos episódios daquela era.

An account of the adventures of two sets of identical twins, badly scrambled at birth, on the eve of the French Revolution. One set is haughty and aristocratic, the other poor and somewhat dim. They find themselves involved in palace intrigues as history happens around them. Based, very loosely, on Dickens's "A Tale of Two Cities," Dumas's "The Corsican Brothers," etc.

Set in tsarist Russia around the turn of the century and based on a true story of a Russian Jewish peasant Yakov Bog who was wrongly imprisoned for a most unlikely crime - the “ritual murder” of a Gentile child in Kiev. We witness the unrelenting detail of the peasant handyman's life in prison and see him gain in dignity as the efforts to humiliate him and make him confess fail.

Two young women arrive in London to make it big in show business, and become corrupted by money and fame in the process.

Barney Lincoln is a rambling gambling man who scores sensational wins at poker and chemin de fer because he has succeeded in marking the original plates for the backs of all the playing cards manufactured in a plant in Geneva and used in all the gambling joints in Europe. In his gambling depredation, Barney is spotted by Angel McGinnis, the daughter of a Scotland Yard Inspector 'Manny' McGinnis on the lookout for a man to do a job. The inspector enlists Barney's help in playing poker with a shady London character whom Scotland Yard wants to force to financial ruin.

Alfie é um charmoso conquistador que vive em Londres. Ele tem várias aventuras amorosas, pois sempre quer mais mulheres na sua "coleção". Ele as usa, pois não tem nenhum tipo de censura e pula de uma cama para outra sem nenhum remorso. Porém Alfie não é tão despreocupado ou indiferente como tenta passar para a audiência, para quem fala diretamente diversas vezes. Tentando ser livre como um pássaro, ele ignora quem realmente o ama e seu filho acaba sendo criado por outro homem. Somente após várias conquistas e vitórias dúbias ele começa a questionar sua vida.

The outrageous life of the American dancer of the 1920s, Isadora Duncan, whom Ken Russell described as "part genius and part charlatan".

Ken Russell's silent film treatment of the 19th century comic novel by the Brothers Grossmith - George and Weedon. Starring Bryan Pringle, Avril Elgar and Murray Melvin. Adapted by Ken Russell and John McGrath. First shown on BBC2 at 10.10pm on Saturday 12th December 1964 - as part of the 'Six' strand.

A man has an affair with his condemned brother's girlfriend while plotting his escape in Tangier.

Charlie returns to the East End after two years at sea to find his house demolished and wife Maggie gone. Everyone else knows she is now shacked up with married bus driver Bert and a toddler, and they all watch with more than a little interest at the trail of mayhem Charlie leaves as he goes about sorting things out.

A group of crooks accidentally kill an elderly shop assistant while stealing the keys to the jewellery shop where she works. When his superiors think that the case is better handed over to Scotland Yard, the local detective inspector, Sparrow (Glyn Houston), decides to go solo to investigate the crime himself.

Defiant's crew is part of a fleet-wide movement to present a petition of grievances to the Admiralty. Violence must be no part of it. The continual sadism of Defiant's first officer makes this difficult, and when the captain is disabled, the chance for violence increases.

Undistinguished British farce (in Technicolor and CinemaScope). Stoker Charlie (the diminutive Drake) helps 150 Wrens under Superintendent Maxine Audley, who've hijacked a frigate, HMS 'Huntress', to prove they're the equal of their male counterparts. Hardly a feminist masterpiece, but fans will relish the nightmare court-martial in which Drake plays all the parts

A emocionante história de uma jovem que tem uma mãe relapsa. Apaixona-se por um marinheiro negro, mas ele a deixa por conta do trabalho. Grávida e sem apoio, encontra seu porto seguro na amizade com garoto gay que estará ao lado dela nas horas mais difíceis.

A government team researching cures for plague find their results put on the Official Secrets list. One of their number is so incensed by this that he lets the maimed and jealous companion of a female colleague draw him into what, technically, could be a treasonable act.

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.