Timothy West

An elderly man with dementia continues to speak with his late wife to keep her alive. When his daughter sees his decline she tries her best to make him comfortable and the memories they share embolden their relationship. An exploration of the highs-and-lows of memories fading through illness and natural inclinations.

Jack, on the run for attempted murder, hides in the house of a deaf and mute man. A power struggle forms between the two.

International composer Peter Pilger faces the challenge of his life: to deliver a Requiem for his former college St Jude’s in time for the Memorial Celebrations while facing down revelations about his past and living up to his new authority as High Master

On 7 May, churches, school halls, and back rooms of community centres will be turned into polling stations, staffed by council workers and volunteers. A church polling station is the backdrop for a real-time play for theatre and TV, called The Vote, staged at the exact moment in which the action is set - the last 90 minutes before polls close.

John Smith has been happily involved in a bigamous marriage for five years. He lives with Stephanie in Finsbury and Michelle in Stockwell. Fortunately, for John, he's a taxi driver which involves varying shift work! Simple? Well, when John unwittingly becomes a have-a-go hero and the Finsbury and Stockwell police forces discover something suspicious in their paperwork, John's happy bubble is about to be burst. The action of the movie takes place during the next hectic 24 hours as John, with the assistance of his gullible neighbor Gary, rush between North and South London attempting to thwart the police and prevent the two loving wives coming face to face!

Going Postal é a história do vigarista Moist Von Lipwig e da bela e vingativa Adora Belle Dearheart. Os crimes de Lipwig alcançaram na cidade de Ankh-Morpork. Prestes a enfrentar o enforcamento, Lorde Vetinari poupa Lipwig, vendo nele o homem perfeito para administrar os Correios da decrépita Ankh-Morpork. Diante de uma tarefa quase impossível, o primeiro instinto de Lipwig é correr. Isto até o momento em que ele encontra a fascinante Adora. Encantado por ela, Lipwig vai tentar de tudo para ganhar sua atenção... sem saber o papel que ele desempenhou na ruína de sua família. Será seu romance para sempre condenado?

Catastrophe is the fruit of boredom when a man with too much time on his hands becomes involved in an unexpected surprise.

A África do Sul em tempos de regime do apartheid é invadida por diversas manifestações públicas que levam a uma onda de violência. Fica claro que uma guerra civil está prestes a irromper entre uma minoria branca governante do sistema e uma maioria negra. No meio disso, há o interesse de inúmeras companhias estrangeiras, especialmente da inglesa Consolidated Gold. O presidente da empresa decide enviar em segredo seu relações públicas para espionar as conversas entre os rebeldes e os representantes brancos. Esse RP é Michael Young (Johny Lee Miller) que além de colocar sua integridade física e moral em risco, também envolve a todos numa trama de intrigas e mentiras.

Lucy Honeychurch and her nervous chaperone embark on a grand tour of Italy. Alongside sweeping landscapes, Lucy encounters a suspect group of characters — socialist Mr. Emerson and his working-class son George, in particular — who both surprise and intrigue her. When piqued interest turns to potential romance, Lucy is whisked home to England, where her attention turns to Cecil Vyse. But now, with a well-developed appetite for adventure, will Lucy make the daring choice when it comes to love?

Sarah Jordan (Angelina Jolie) é uma socialite casada com Henry Bauford (Linus Roache), filho de um influente empresário americano. Após conhecer Nick Callahan (Clive Owen), um médico que se dedica a causas humanitárias na África, Sarah se dispõe a ajudá-lo. Ela arrecada fundos para comprar medicamentos e comida para refugiados na Etiópia, aonde vai para entregá-los à equpe de Nick. Ver o sofrimento e a miséria do povo etíope de perto faz com que Sarah decida mudar de vida ao retornar a Londres, passando a trabalhar para uma ONG que ajuda causas humanitárias.

Learn how one man reluctantly took on the most powerful institution of his day and won. Martin Luther is credited with expounding a new vision of man's relationship with God and, by extension, a redefinition of man's relationship with authority. Filmed across Europe -- from the rustic rural Germany to the opulence of the Vatican City -- you'll witness the collapse of the medieval world and the birth of the modern age.

Sinbad é um marujo que vive farreando pelos sete mares, sempre em busca de aventura e diversão. Em uma de suas jornadas, Sinbad rouba o Livro da Paz, um valioso tesouro que incita a ira dos poderosos deuses do Olimpo.

In 1913, a young woman starts work as a maid in a seedy Parisian boarding house full of eccentrics. When she falls in love with one of the guests, she must choose between her son and her new romance.

At a rural railway station in Victorian England, Jim is a spunky Jack Russell Terrier who escapes his mean master at the circus, and is soon befriended by station porter Bob and lonely orphan Henry. His performing feats soon become a local attraction, and before long he's in the middle of a battle to save the local orphanage.

A história de amor entre a novelista e filósofa Iris Murdoch e seu marido, o professor John Bayley, contada em duas épocas distintas: na juventude, quando se conheceram, e na velhice, quando Iris sofre do mal de Alzheimer.

O inglês Jack Elgin (Jeremy Irons) é um famoso jornalista de economia que conhece o inferno durante uma viagem com a família à Índia. Lá, sua mulher e filhos são assassinados na sua frente, depois de terem sido seqüestrados por terroristas. De volta para Londres, ele tenta entender sua tragédia pessoal. Utilizando seus contatos jornalísticos e políticos, tenta levar os homens que mataram sua família para a cadeia. Desesperado, Elgin começa a investigação e acaba se deparando frente a frente com três dos assassinos. Com a ajuda de Jules Bernard (Forest Whitaker) - um agente do FBI - Elgin começa uma nova guerra.

Após uma terapia por hipnose e acreditando estar curada, Cruella de Vil é libertada da prisão e se propõe a começar uma nova vida. As coisas estão indo bem para Cruella que está ocupada ajudando cães desabrigados da rua. Porem, quando o relógio Big Ben bate as horas, as coisas ficam ruins. A cura hipnótica é revertida e Cruella está de volta. E desta vez ela está determinada a fazer seu casaco com pele malhada que ela sempre quis.

O ano é 1429, a França está em convulsão política e religiosa, com os membros da família real em luta pelo domínio do trono. Mas uma camponesa de uma aldeia remota dá ao seu país o milagre que ele estava procurando. Milla Jovovich é Joana D Arc, uma jovem que inspira e lidera seus conterrâneos até sua execução aos 19 anos. Criada em uma família religiosa, Joana testemunha o estupro e morte da irmã pelas mãos de um exército invasor. Anos depois, com a guerra ainda em curso, Joana vai até seu rei levando uma mensagem que ela atribui a Deus: dar-lhe um exército e, em nome de Deus, ela reclamará seu reino de volta. Mas seria uma mensagem real ou delírio de uma garota traumatizada? Este emocionante épico de Luc Besson explora a vida de Joana D Arc, suas impressionantes vitórias, o relacionamento com Deus e a trágica morte. Co-estrelando John Malkovich e os vencedores do Oscar Dustin Hoffman e Faye Dunaway, Joana D Arc é uma visão moderna de uma santa medieval que cativa as pessoas até hoje.

O clássico conto da Gata Borralheira ganha uma nova versão, mostrando o que seria a “verdadeira” história da Cinderela. Danielle perde seu pai muito nova e é criada por uma madrasta muito má. Já crescida, ela se apaixona pelo Príncipe Henry, o que pode estragar os planos ambiciosos da madrasta.

Adaptation of Shakespeare's play.

Swords fly as Beowulf battles the evil Grendel in this exciting animated adaptation of the epic poem. Incorporating fascinating sketch art and featuring the voice of Joseph Fiennes as Beowulf. found.

It was one of the last unexplored places on Earth; a terrifyingly deep gully in the heart of the Borneo jungle. It was the ultimate challenge – to climb down into it and explore what the locals call, "The Place of the Dead." Based on a true story that made headlines around the world, this adventure drama is the tale of men pushed to their limits and beyond, battling against forces that they could not comprehend.

A curtain raiser for the 1995-6 football season and a state of the Premiership comedy drama about the corrupt world of football. Sir Bob is a football club chairman and megalomaniac. As the season draws to a climax his club are staring into the abyss of relegation. Can new manager Ted save City from the drop?

Molly Cowper is a wilful 80-year-old widow who firmly believes the world is there for her convenience. Her mild-mannered son Geoffrey does his best to help her keep her independence, but Molly keeps trampling on people.

March/April 1917. The first world war is already a couple year to pace. A sealed train with Russian emigrants keeps on driving from Zürich Germany and Sweden to Sint-Petersburg. The outlaws stand under the guidance of Vladimir J. Lenin. Two senior officers support the revolutionary bomb "to ensure that everything runs smoothly. Yet there are some unpleasant clashes between Socialists and enthusiastic workers who are worried about the war. During train travel there comes an end to Lenin's affair with the gracious Inessa, and his wife Nadja is prepared take back him. The triumphant entrance in St. Petersburg will exceed all expectations....

Six of the best-loved nursery rhymes retold, with some extremely amusing twists, by the master of the comic and blood-curdling, Roald Dahl.

Roald Dahl, that master of wicked humour, has created a ghastly menagerie of dirty beasts - all doing the most extraordinary and unmentionable things, in irreverent and absurdly comic verse. Including Crocky-Wock, the crocodile, who every Saturday has six young children for his lunch and how Miss Milky Daisy, the cow, punished a very rude man.

Examination of the events that led to the 1988 bombing of Pan Am flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland.

1990 TV adaptation of a 1979 biographical play by Ned Sherrin & Caryl Brahms, based on the life of conductor and impresario Sir Thomas Beecham. With Timothy West as Beecham.

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.

Adapted from a play written by two Monty Python vets, this toothy satire launches with a tragic accident at Chumley's chocolate factory when hapless manager Ian Littleton (Tyler Butterworth) accidentally knocks several employees into a huge chocolate vat. The tragic mishap at the chocolate factory results in candy lovers getting an unexpected 'extra' in their sweets.

Three married couples discover that, through a legal technicality, they are, in fact, not actually married in the eyes of the law. This was the fifth television film version of this play by J.B. Priestley made by the BBC.

Political drama about the Gorbachev-Reagan summit at Reykjavik

Na África do Sul dos anos 70, Donald Woods, um jornalista branco, faz amizade com Stephen Biko, um corajoso ativista negro contra o apartheid. Biko é executado em 1977 e Donald, exilado, dedica-se a divulgar a luta do amigo pela liberdade.

White golliwogs, cross-dressing coppers, bellboy rapists, insanity, incest, and Winston Churchill’s giant member all play their part in this BBC production of Joe Orton’s farcical, bitingly satirical 1969 play, in which the head psychiatrist of a lunatic asylum, when trying to conceal the attempted molestation of his new secretary from his wife, only succeeds in making himself (and everyone else) look completely round the bend.

In 1956, the ultra-respectable seaside resort of Eastbourne was shocked when a local doctor, John Bodkin Adams, was arrested for murdering one of his elderly patients.

This is the fact-based story of an aristocratic woman who defies Victorian society to reform hospital sanitation and to define the nursing profession as it is known today. After volunteering to travel to Scutari to care for the wounded soldiers, who are victims of the Crimean war, she finds herself very unwelcome and faces great opposition for her new way of thinking. However through her selfless acts of caring, she quickly becomes known as 'The Lady with the Lamp', the caring nurse whose shadow soldiers kiss.

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.

American computer whiz Luke Williams meets elderly Lavinia Fullerton on a London-bound train. She reveals she's discovered the identity of a serial killer in her village and is going to report it to Scotland Yard. When she's murdered after disembarking the train. Williams vows to pursue the case himself

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.

Henry is a proud monarch who flies in the face of the church in seeking to divorce Queen Katherine and marry Anne Bullen. As cardinal Wolsey, the powerful Lord Chancellor of England, attempts to bend Rome to the King's wishes, the court reverbates with political intrigue and accusations of treachery.

Um repórter americano ajuda nas buscas pela escritora Agatha Christie, desaparecida misteriosamente há 11 dias. Ele encontra a autora morando em um resort com um nome falso e quer descobrir sua motivação antes da polícia chegar até ela.

The year is 1914 and Richard Hannay, Mining Engineer who is visiting Britain for a short time before returning to South Africa, is shocked when one of his neighbours, Colonel Scudder, bursts into his rooms one night and tells him a story that Prussian 'sleeper' agents are planning to pre-start World War I by murdering a visiting foreign minister. However, Scudder is murdered and Hannay is framed for the death by the 'sleepers'. Fleeing to Scotland Hannay attempts to clear his name and to stop the agents with the aid of Alex Mackenzie but not only is he is chased by Chief Supt Lomas for Scudder's death but by the agents who are headed by Appleton who has managed to hide himself in a high-placed position in the British Government...

A dying priest is commissioned to investigate the deeds of Giacomo Nerone, a dead wartime partisan, and find out if he truly is worthy of being canonized.

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.

Vice-Chancellor Bartley Humbolt has problems. His young university is almost bankrupt, his wife is threatening to leave him, his protege professor from industry is threatening to overshadow him, and his prestigious professor of history is threatening to resign. But Bartley is a born manipulator. And when he gives a dinner party, he has something very special in mind - for afters.

Returning from her honeymoon with her husband, scholar Jorgen, the cold and manipulative Hedda Gabler is unmoved by the sacrifices he's made to provide her with an elegant home. But when she learns that Jorgen's rival for a university position, Ejlert, has made a surprising comeback with a recent publication, she's quick to push him back into his former alcoholism, steal the sequel to his book and even encourage the writer to kill himself.

Um assassino profissional conhecido pelo codinome "Chacal" é contratado para matar Charles de Gaulle, presidente da França. É o início dos anos 60 na França. Os sobreviventes restantes da extinta Legião Estrangeira Francesa, agora numa organização terrorista, a OAS, fizeram repetidas tentativas de matar o presidente francês Charles De Gaulle. O resultado é que ele se tornou o homem mais bem protegido do mundo. Em um ato de desespero eles contratam O Chacal, o codinome do assassino de aluguel que se compromete a matar De Gaulle em troca de meio milhão de dólares. Ele começa então a planejar a morte do famoso presidente francês para o dia 25 de agosto de 1963. Veremos os preparativos do assassino que são tão minuciosos que nos perguntaremos como ele poderia falhar, mesmo quando vemos a tentativa da polícia francesa de achar seu rastro. A situação é historicamente precisa. Houveram muitos desses atentados e o filme segue de perto o enredo do livro. (e 14 - Estimado 14 Anos)

Baseada em testemunhas oculares, o filme acompanha os últimos dias de Hitler (Alec Guinness) antes de ter cometido suicídio, percorrendo desde os momentos em que passou no bunker com seus capangas militares até sua relação conturbada com Eva Braun (Doris Kunstmann).

Alan Clarke's standalone film first appeared as an episode of the BBC series "The Edwardians" and concerns notorious bon vivant, swindler, MP, public speaker, founder of the Financial Times and publisher of John Bull magazine, Horatio Bottomley.

Tsar Nicholas II, the inept last monarch of Russia, insensitive to the needs of his people, is overthrown and exiled to Siberia with his family.

The reign of Edward II, King of England, is troubled from the start when he brings his male lover, hated by the nobles, out of exile.

The Tragedy of King Richard II, by William Shakespeare. The actions and repercussions of a proud King, whose vanity and selfishness lead to his downfall.

When a Polish sailor jumps ship in Britain, a couple of local intelligence operatives keep him under surveillance. Soon, he’s recruited to infiltrate a missile installation outside of East Berlin and bring back photos of the new rockets.