Clive Merrison

Juliet Ashton é uma jovem escritora, com falta de inspiração, que logo após a Segunda Guerra Mundial recebe uma carta de um membro da misteriosa Sociedade Literária de Guernsey, uma organização formada durante o período de ocupação nazi. Curiosa, Juliet decide ir até às ilhas de Guernsey e encontra-se com os excêntricos membros da Sociedade Literária da Tarte de Casca de Batata, entre os quais se encontra Dawsey, o charmoso e intrigante agricultor que esteve na origem da carta. As suas confidências, a sua ligação à ilha e aos seus habitantes e a crescente afeição que nutre por Dawsey irão para sempre mudar o curso da vida de Juliet.

Thrown together just five weeks before the final of the 1948 London Olympics, Bert Bushnell (Doctor Who's Matt Smith) and Dickie Burnell (Sam Hoare) defied all the odds and made history in the double sculls. This is the story of how they did it - not only by pushing physical and emotional limits, but also by overcoming their vast professional and personal differences.

Em 1980, um grupo de jovens britânicos estuda para as melhores universidades do país, como Oxford e Cambridge. Apesar de ter ótimos professores, o diretor da escola não está satisfeito. Ele decide contratar Irwin (Stephen Campbell Moore) para ajudar os estudantes em sua preparação, garantindo a melhor chance possível para todos.

Documentary that gives background on Trollope's life from childhood, adolescence, adulthood and death.

Descubra como a vida pessoal de Mary Shelley influiu em sua obra mais famosa. Quase 200 anos depois que Frankenstein fora publicado, ainda estamos fascinados e tememos os alcances que tem a ciência nos mistérios da vida.

The Falklands Play is a dramatic account of the political events leading up to, and including, the 1982 Falklands War. The play was written by Ian Curteis, an experienced writer who had started his television career in drama, but had increasingly come to specialise in dramatic reconstructions of history. It was originally commissioned by the BBC in 1983, for production and broadcast in 1986, but was subsequently shelved by Controller of BBC One Michael Grade due to its alleged pro-Margaret Thatcher stance and jingoistic tone. This prompted a press furore over media bias and censorship.The play was not staged until 2002, when it was broadcast in separate adaptations on BBC Television and Radio.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge, an unstable but brilliant poet, becomes friends with the unknown William Wordsworth, and together they set out to recreate English poetry in the spirt of liberty and democracy. As time goes by, cracks begin to appear in the relationship. Sam becomes addicted to opium, while William's ego and ambition distance him further from his friend.

A man struggles to piece together his life after suffering years of abuse in a children's home - a personal battle made doubly difficult by crusading reporters determined to expose the scandal.

Em plena Florença de 1938, a viúva britânica Mary Panton (Kristin Scott Thomas) viaja por uma vila italiana, onde se vê envolvida num triângulo amoroso e em intrigas políticas. Quando seu velho amigo Sir Edgar (James Fox) pede sua mão em casamento, Mary pede alguns dias para pensar na proposta. Durante este tempo, Mary conhece num jantar um americano (Sean Penn) com quem acaba se envolvendo romanticamente e para quem revela seu terrível segredo.

Grace Trevethan (Brenda Blethyn) é uma viúva que está em sérios apuros financeiros. Seu marido (Bill Weston) se suicidou recentemente e deixou para ela uma série de dívidas que podem fazer com que ela perca a casa onde sua família vive há mais de 200 anos. Sabendo de suas dificuldades financeiras e também de sua habilidade como jardineira, seu empregado Matthew acaba lhe fazendo uma proposta insólita: que ela cuide em sua estufa de suas mudas de maconha para que eles, juntos, possam revender a plantação a traficantes.

Janice Beard is a dreamer who can't seem to quite make it big. She is working in an auto design company and falls for the mailboy, but he is hiding secrets.

European philosophers: Friedrich Nietzsche, Martin Heidegger and Jean-Paul Sartre. The theme revolves heavily around the school of philosophical thought known as Existentialism, although the term had not been coined at the time of Nietzsche's writing and Heidegger declaimed the label. The documentary is named after the 1878 book written by Nietzsche, titled Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits.

Photographer Charles Castle is numbed with grief following the death of his beautiful bride. He goes off to war, working in the trenches as a photographer. Following the war and still in grief Charles is given some photographs purporting to be of fairies. His search for the truth leads him to Burkinwell, a seemingly peaceful village seething with secrets

The story of the year the Oxford and Cambridge boat race changed from a gentleman's race to one where winning was everything.

Numa villa italiana, arruinada após o fim da Segunda Guerra Mundial, uma enfermeira militar do exército canadiano cuida de um aviador britânico desconhecido, que teve queimaduras generalizadas quando o seu avião foi abatido. Assim, aos poucos, ele começa a narrar o grande envolvimento que teve com a mulher do seu melhor amigo e de como este amor, fortemente correspondido, acabou da pior maneira.

Liverpool. 1947. Right after World War II, a star struck naive teenage girl joins a shabby theatre troupe in Liverpool. During a winter production of Peter Pan, the play quickly turns into a dark metaphor for youth as she becomes drawn into a web of sexual politics and intrigue and learns about the grown-up world of the theater.

Durante os anos 50, Pauline Parker (Melanie Lynskey) e Juliet Hulme (Kate Winslet) se conheceram na escola e na mesma hora se tornaran grandes amigas passando juntas, todo o tempo possível. Criativas, escreviam sobre uma terra cheia de sonhos e fantasias. Cada vez mais essa estranha ligação entre as duas adolescentes se tornava uma obsessão, a ponto de se afastarem da realidade e de suas próprias famílias. Com o tempo, a duas perceberam que eram muito diferentes das demais pessoas e concordaram em assumir qualquer risco para que nada no mundo pudesse separá-las. Em uma época extremamente moralista, as duas famílias aumentavam suas preocupações pois esse universo de sonhos e fantasias está prestes a se transformar em um assassinato cruel que chocou toda uma nação.

A bright, pretty and determined young girl named Anna Lee quits the police department in search of adventure, and joins a small and somewhat stuffy detective agency, whose members don't look particularly kindly on her short skirts, somewhat cavalier attitude toward agency rules--like showing up for work on time--and her overall demeanor. However, the agency's owner takes a shine to her and assigns her to what seems to be a relatively straightforward case: finding a young girl who's gone missing and whose family is worried about her. As it turns out, the case involves quite a bit more than just a missing girl

Shakespeare: The Animated Tales (also known as The Animated Shakespeare) is a series of twelve half-hour animated television adaptations of the plays of William Shakespeare, originally broadcast on BBC2 between 1992 and 1994. Macbeth was a cel animation directed by Nikolai Serebryakov

Ao longo de três décadas, Stalin assume o poder da Rússia, trata a esposa terrivelmente e ordena atos de agressão contra seu próprio povo. Sem confiar em ninguém, o ditador age cruelmente até sua eventual queda e morte.

Young aristocrat Anthony Raine returns home from India to find the farmers of Pembrokeshire protesting about the rates of a tollgate run by The Whitman Turnpike Trust, headed by the drunken Lord Sarn. So Raine dons a mask and, calling himself Rebecca, instructs his followers to dress as women as they attack the tolls, leading the common people to victory over their masters.

In pursuit of faith, God and the Devil, spells are cast, buckets of water thrown and men with black beards dance and sing.

Set in a commercial radio station in an enterprise zone called ‘Riverside’, Thin Air involved property development on a massive scale, the disruption and forced exodus of a local community, the stripping away of local authority powers, left-wing activism, designer drugs, media hacks.

The Doctor and Mel visit Paradise Towers, a residential complex that promises a peaceful life to its residents. However, the establishment is far from what its name suggests: A conflict persists among the Kangs, humanesque multicolour beings who gather in opposing gangs based on which colour of the rainbow they bear; killer cleaning robots prowl the halls, and a secret in the complex's basement poses the greatest threat of all.

When Cariani the painter falls in love with the beautiful girl who receives mysterious visitors in the rooms below, he is drawn into a web of danger and deceit.

Sir Alec Guiness stars with Leo McKern in the story of a friendship between a Catholic priest and a Communist Mayor. Together they travel from their remote village to Madrid and back exploring their friendship, the demands of belief and constancy of faith. This lavish production filmed entirely on location captures the wit, warmth, and vitality that make the original novel by Graham Greene a unique work of literature.

Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson try to track down the Great Mogul, the second-largest diamond in the world.

Play by Tom McClenaghan, about a routine patrol in the submarine HMS Superior. Strange, near-farcical take on tensions, eccentricities and sexuality among the crew of a Polaris submarine, on a six-week tour of duty off the coast of Faslane in Scotland. Among their number, Neil Pearson is the wily, mascara-wearing, cross-dressing messhand AB Seaman ‘Cock’ Roach, using his Bilko-esque charm to scale the naval pecking order and positively thrive in this tiny, cloistered world

Is there nothing new under the sun? 1770. The South Atlantic. A fleet sets sail from Buenos Aires to expel the British forces and reconquer the Falkland Islands. A major international crisis explodes. What follows may sound strangely familiar, but is firmly based on the historical record and the actual speeches and writings of the time.

Jane is the illegitimate daughter of a Scottish landowner. She is disowned and expelled from his estates, but although she settles down to a new life in London, she is still haunted by the memory of her childhood and her mother's mysterious death. In a trance, she sets out on dreamlike journeys in search of freedom and revenge.

Mitchell Gant (Clint Eastwood) é um piloto americano aposentado, que foi abatido e se tornou prisioneiro na Guerra do Vietnã, lhe gerando traumas de guerra. Por ser filho de russos recebe como missão roubar o “Firefox”, o mais avançado caça já fabricado e criado pelos soviéticos. Ele é enviado para a Rússia, mas há um problema: as ordens para comandar a aeronave são dadas por pensamento, mas é necessário que se pense em russo.

Em um campo alemão de prisioneiros de guerra, o major Karl von Steiner (Max Von Sydow), que já tinha pertencido à seleção alemã de futebol, tem a idéia de fazer um jogo entre uma seleção dos prisioneiros aliados, liderados pelo capitão John Colby (Michael Caine), um inglês que era um conhecido jogador de futebol. Colby também teria a tarefa de selecionar e treinar o time, para enfrentar o time alemão no Estádio Colombes, em Paris. Enquanto os nazistas, com exceção de Steiner, planejam fazer de tudo para vencer o jogo e assim usar ao máximo a propaganda de guerra nazista, os jogadores aliados planejam uma arriscada fuga durante a partida.

"I wish I could write ... about what Spain was like - a real cause. Not just Cornford, Hemingway and Orwell, but the ordinary blokes who went." A confused industrial dispute at a London hospital triggers off in trade unionist George Harley 's mind memories of his days fighting in the Spanish Civil War, when the issues seemed so much clearer.

Kate works in the nuclear industry. She is concerned about the way things are being run. So she smuggles out some Plutonium to prove how easy it is. She tries to pass it on to protest groups, but nobody is interested as they have their own agendas.

A comic extravaganza about a young woman's adventures in the world of big business charity.

"If I could work my will, every idiot that goes about with ‘Merry Christmas’ on his lips would be boiled with his own pudding and buried with a stake of holly in his heart" So spoke the immortal words of Christmas’ most famous miser, Charles Dicken’s Ebenezer Scrooge. Too mean to join in with the festivities; he sits alone on Christmas Eve. The scene is set for a visitation by the ghost of his late business partner, Marley, now bound to earth by eternal chains and his introduction to the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present and Future. For it is they who will take him through his life to face the truth about himself…

Mulvey's readings of the myth of Oedipus and the sphinx are layered atop 360º panning shots of various locales; the protagonist appears in elliptically-edited sequences.

1547, King Henry VIII's life has taken a turn for the worse and he is forced to look back over his life and the many loves which had brought him his three children, only one of which was the desired male heir to secure the Tudor dynasty.

Celebrated filmmaker Bill Douglas’s early student short follows two men who meet in a cafe on a Southend pier. Glances, body language and very brief snatches of lewd dialogue suggest a pick-up, but the atmosphere soon darkens and events take an unexpected twist.

Aided by his two assistants Jamie and Victoria, the Doctor lands the TARDIS on Telos, last resting place of the infamous Cybermen. There he discovers a band of archaelogists on a secret expedition to unearth the reason for his old enemies' extinction. In the underground shadowy depths, they find the icy tomb. A whole army in hibernation. A threat to no one, if the temperature remains low. But if the traitor in their midst gets his way, things could really heat up.