David Threlfall

The Fantastic Francis Hardy travels the most remote corners of Wales, Scotland and Ireland attempting to heal those who wish to be healed. His wife Grace and manager Teddy complete this nomadic triptych, each with their own telling of the loss, love and struggle of life on the road with a seemingly predestined Faith Healer.

Krapp’s Last Tape: James Hayes uses his natural Irish accent to deliver the best known of these works, a meditation on ageing. He plays the eponymous Krapp, a sad, lonely man recollecting emotion in tranquility with the assistance of a reel to reel tape recorder. Now somewhere near 70, he is reminded of the past, as a recording of his 39-year-old self recalls life a dozen years before. As such, we are able to glimpse the hope of relative youth, the acceptance of middle age failure and the resignation of an old man. The Old Tune: It features two old men sitting on a park bench next to a hurdy-gurdy and almost inevitably brings to mind the song from Gigi, “I Remember It Well”. As cars pass, irritating the men who fondly remember the days of horse-drawn carriages, every statement delivered by either Niall Buggy or David Threlfall, playing the grumpy septuagenarians, is instantly contradicted by his fellow, often to great humorous effect.

Noah, a farmer and family man, is instructed by an angel to build an ark in the middle of a desert in order to save both his family and the faithful from a devastating flood. A seemingly impossible task, especially when his sons refuse to believe him and help, Noah risks ridicule and humiliation from the degenerate townsfolk as well as his loving but exasperated family, in his quest to carry out his God-given task.

O capitão Robinson (Jude Law) tem uma missão: encontrar um submarino naufragado, que carrega um valioso tesouro nazista. Para tanto ele conduz seu submarino em uma viagem tensa e claustrofóbica rumo às profundezas do Mar Negro.

The life and times of Tommy Cooper

A look at the life of John Cooper Clarke. From his rise as a 'punk poet', through his heroin addiction, and finally to his comeback.

John Lennon é um jovem que não aceita bem as regras impostas na escola e dentro de casa. Abandonado pela mãe quando tinha cinco anos, ele vive com seus tios George e Mimi. Quando George morre, Lennon é obrigado a viver com Mimi, extremamente austera e sisuda. No funeral do tio, ele vê sua mãe, que se mantém afastada. Seu primo consegue o endereço dela, o que faz com que Lennon resolva visitá-la. O reencontro do o filho é a realização de um sonho para Julia, que passa cada vez mais seu tempo com ele. Animada e um tanto quanto inconsequente, ela apresenta ao filho o rock’n’roll. Logo, desperta nele a vontade de montar uma banda de rock.

Há quase três décadas no comando da Inglaterra, a Rainha Elizabeth I enfrenta ameaças ao seu poder, impostas por governos estrangeiros e pelo seu próprio país. Simultaneamente, o Rei da Espanha Felipe II, apoiado pelo Vaticano, planeja destronar a rainha e restaurar o catolicismo na nação britânica. Elizabeth se prepara para entrar em guerra, ao mesmo tempo em que luta contra uma paixão inesperada.

Nicholas Angel (Simon Pegg) é um dos melhores policiais de Londres, sendo bom ao ponto de causar inveja nos demais homens da lei. Por causa disso, é transferido por seus superiores para a pequena cidade de Sandford, que possui o menor índice de criminalidade de toda Inglaterra. Chegado lá, forma parceria com o curioso Danny Butterman (Nick Frost) e começa a achar estranho o fato de acontecerem muitos acidentes na cidade.

Downtrodden wife and mother Nella's life takes an unexpected turn for the better after she joins the Women's Voluntary Service office in Barrow-in-Furness during the Second World War. However, her new-found happiness is shattered when her son Cliff leaves to join the troops - provoking a painful confrontation with her husband Will.

Uma psicóloga forense é encarregada da tarefa de determinar se um jovem adolescente, menor de idade e estudante num colégio privado de prestígio, deve ou não ser acusado de matar o seu companheiro de quarto.

O destino e a determinação pessoal levam um pai socialista (Brendan Fraser) a unir forças com um recluso pesquisador médico (Harrison Ford). Juntos esssa dupla improvável enfrenta dificuldades extremas em sua batalha contra toda a classe médica e contra o próprio tempo na tentativa de encontrar uma cura antes que seja tarde demais. Estrelado também por Keri Russel, 'Decisões Extremas' é uma história sobre o poder do amor e da fé contra o impossível. Inspirado no livro 'The cure', escrito pela escritora Geeta Anand, ganhadora do prêmio Pulitzer.

An in-depth biopic of Princess Margaret from the days following her father's death in 1952 until the 1970s. She was known to be a flamboyant royal but she remained a stickler for protocol. She had many controversial romances and also infamously kissed the daughter of the US ambassador. Also the film gives some focus on what others thought of Margaret, from normal people of the era to a backbench MP opposed to her 1961 wedding. Written by Reece Lloyd

Jack Aubrey é o capitão do H.M.S. Surprise, um dos principais navios de guerra da marinha britânica. Com seu país em guerra contra a França de Napoleão Bonaparte, Aubrey é atacado por um navio inimigo mais poderoso, que fere boa parte de sua tripulação e ainda danifica o navio. Aubrey então se sente dividido entre cumprir seu dever e tentar derrotar o inimigo ou retornar para cuidar dos feridos.

Fitness fanatic, Donald Leek, indulges in a monthly Chunky Monkey experience with, someone vaguely resembling movie-songstress, Julie Andrews, who he's expecting at 7:30pm. His obsession with Ms. Andrews (and her posterior) is somewhat disturbing to say the least. Before she arrives however, he has to dispose of the body parts of Mr Azam, manager of his favourite Indian restaurant, who has neglected to send him a Christmas card. He is interrupted by a peculiar assortment of unwelcome visitors, amongst them, Jesus Christ and a one-testicled self-made millionaire. Each one is as unhinged as their host, who retaliates to the intrusion in extreme fashion

A recriação da histórica Conferência de Wannsee de 1942, em que líderes nazistas e oficiais da SS se reuniram em um subúrbio de Berlim para discutir a "Solução Final para a Questão Judaica". Liderada pelo general da SS Reinhard Heydrich, este grupo de líderes e oficiais alemães de alto escalão chegou à decisão histórica e de grande alcance que os judeus da Europa deveriam ser exterminados no que viria a ser conhecido como o Holocausto.

Mary, Mother of Jesus is a 1999 made-for-television Biblical film that retells the story of Jesus through the eyes of Mary, his mother.

The BBC drama about growing up in the turbulent, tuneful '60s. Manchester, England, 1965. "You'll never meet anybody worth knowing working at the Chip Shop," says Ellie and Arden Brookes' overbearing granny. But that's where the sisters meet The Ice Cubes, a struggling rock trio that opens their eyes to the whole swingin' world beyond staid Manchester. Arden sees lead singer Dallas McCabe as her ticket out. Ellie has more practical plans, but she and Dallas get drawn together by the music and their irresistible attraction to each other. A story of twin sisters who are each other's best friend-and worst enemy.

Television film telling the story of Diana, Princess of Wales, based on the publication of the same name by Andrew Morton.

Margaret (Lena Headey) is a shy, pale, middle-class Englishwoman who is reluctantly engaged to her older, twittish neighbor Syl Monro (David Threlfall). Both bride- and groom-to-be still live with their mothers in the humdrum suburb of Croydon. However Margaret has been acting strangely ever since a vacation in Egypt, where she stayed with her mother's friend Marie-Claire (Catherine Schell). She secretly despises Syl, but does not resist when her mother Monica (Julie Walters), who has repressed the failure of her own matrimony, insists on marriage for the sake of social convention.

Jack Ryan, um ex-agente da CIA, frustra uma tentativa de assassinato, ficando sujeito à fúria de um maníaco. Depois de neutralizar os vilões e decidir celebrar a ocasião, tudo parece estar de volta ao normal, mas não é assim que as coisas acontecem.

At the request of his old war time colleague Ailsa Brimley, George Smiley agrees to look into the murder of Stella Rode. Brimley had only just received a letter from her saying she feared for her life at her husband's hand. The husband, Stanley Rode teaches at Carne School, but Smiley is doubtful that he had anything to do with his wife's death. As Smiley investigates, he learns that Stella was a nosy busybody who loved to learn other's little secrets and then gossip about them - or possibly blackmail them. When a student is killed and Smiley unearths a secret, he has the evidence to name the killer.Based on John Le Carré's 1962 thriller (his first) in which George Smiley is brought out of spy retirement to solve a murder in a British public school. The setting is based on Le Carre"s own schooldays in Sherborne and his brief experience teaching at Eton.

Katya (Michelle Pfeiffer), amiga e ex-amante de Dante (Klaus Maria Brandauer), um famoso cientista soviético, tenta entregar importantes obras do seu amigo a Bartholomew Blair (Sean Connery), um editor inglês, para estas serem publicadas no Ocidente. Mas o material é interceptado e vários espiões ocidentais mandam Blair ao encontro de Katya para descobrir quem é o autor destas obras e se há veracidade nas informações. Porém, a paixão de Blair por Katya pode criar situações imprevisíveis.

After a sheltered upbringing in St. Helena, Norah arrives in England and goes to live in London, taken under the wing of her Uncle and his business associate Andy. She works for the latter and falls in love with him, but he refuses to reciprocate her feelings. When she starts receiving a series of obscene phone calls and letters at home and work, she is determined to identify the caller, and strongly suspects Andy

David Threlfall stars as Tom Rowse, a retired British secret service agent turned thriller novelist who is brought back into the world of espionage for one last job. The mission - foiling a Libyan plot to supply the IRA with a massive shipment of high-tech weapons in order to wreak revenge upon the UK for their support and co-operation with the US during the 1986 bombing of Libya and the attempted assassination of Colonel Gaddafi .

Tony has begun to panic that life may be passing him by. As his friends forge ahead, he feels stuck in a dead end job and trapped by his relationship with Judith. One day, he starts to be plagued by a series of mysterious phone calls and letters. Tony becomes haunted by a growing premonition of catastrophe.

A biographical portrayal of Simon Wiesenthal, famous Nazi Hunter. From his imprisonment in a Nazi Concentration Camp, the film follows his liberation and his rise to become one of the leading Nazi hunters in the world, bringing such criminals to justice as Adolf Eichmann and Klaus Barbee. (Written by Anthony Hughes)

A pair of children befriend an eccentric old man, who lives isolated on the far shore of their island home. But it turns out that the old man knows a terrible secret about the island and the whales who sometimes come. Meanwhile WWI is making life hard in the village.

A clergyman noted for his support of left-wing causes, leaves his considerable estate to a Conservative member of parliament. Adaptation of the novel by John Mortimer.

A middle-aged man is feeling the strain of looking after his elderly grandfather, who is demanding and needs a lot of medical treatment. Then a neighbour suggests a painless way to be rid of him. This black comedy is set in the future, where euthanasia is lawful and increasingly common, but it should still, ideally, be voluntary.

British comedy satirising Stalin's inner circle as an absolute monarchs court. In the face of rampant abuse of power and poisonous distrust some still manage to keep faith with the Bolshevist creed until the very end. In front of the firing squad a stalwart bolshevist of the first hour exclaims: "Even in the best democracy errors are being made!"

An aging King invites disaster when he abdicates to his corrupt, toadying daughters and rejects his one loving, but honest one.

Writer and Director Mike Leigh discusses the techniques used to create his plays.

An RAF ground crew, having committed an offence, is punished to guard all night an who an East Anglian airfield in the depths of winter. Gaining frostbite as a result, he's sent to recuperate in the nearby cottage hospital which is used for aircrew who have mentally cracked under the strain of bombing Berlin.

A hard and shocking story of life in a British borstal for young offenders. [This is the original version scheduled for broadcast on 'Play for Today' on 8-Nov-1977 but withdrawn by the BBC because it was deemed too controversial. Director Alan Clarke edited the film and released it in cinemas in 1979 (See 'Scum (1979)'). The BBC would eventually broadcast the original on 27-Jul-1991.]

Trevor is an extremely shy undertaker's assistant. He always tags along with his good friend Ronnie, when he goes to the pub with his girlfriend Sandra. Sandra introduces Trevor to her more forward friend Linda. Linda has a difficult time getting Trevor to go out with her, but she finally gets him to go to a disco; he won't dance, so Linda dances with Ronnie.

A group of six friends, who have known each other since childhood, find their friendship tested when one of their number is found dead, leading to the question - were they murdered or did they commit suicide?