Hugh Fraser

Eight short tales of ghostly encounters through the decades at the legendary Great White Horse Hotel in Ipswich. Since 1518, the premises have offered a night’s rest to such diverse luminaries as Charles Dickens, George II and the Beatles. The Haunted Hotel brings together eight tales of ghostly encounters, by turns spooky, comic, humorous and horrifying, all taking place among the rooms and corridors of this notoriously eerie establishment. 1924 – The Contraption. A ghost-hunter meets her match when she tries to use the latest technology to detect the presence of unquiet spirits. 1973 – The Writer. A novelist seeks inspiration for his next bestseller but finds his mind unravelling as his work turns into a dangerous obsession. 1836 – Watching. Charles Dickens has an unexpected encounter during a sleepless night in the regions, reporting for a newspaper on a local election. 1952 – Room 27B. Young lovers find their plans for tryst thrown into confusion when they take a wrong turn within…

A compendium of eight ghost stories, all set within an abandoned hotel in Suffolk.

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.

This film is the story of the last years of the life of T.E. Lawrence - Lawrence of Arabia - a scholar, writer, soldier and reluctant hero. Retiring to his cottage in Dorset he hopes to escape his past but is pulled into political intrigue. While he has powerful friends, with his uncompromising manner he has made dangerous enemies. As they plot against him he dies in a tragic motorcycle accident. However, with such enemies was his untimely death an assassination and cover up by the British Secret Service?

The film covers a period from 1984 to 1991 and tells about the rise of new independent states, including Kazakhstan. In addition, it features the role of the first President of Kazakhstan in the reforms carried out in the country, as well as the initiatives, which today have turned into global scale projects.

Um filantropo milionário coleciona as famosas Caveiras de Cristal tentando explorar seus antigos poderes. Cabe a uma equipe liderada por um professor universitário cujo pai desapareceu em busca do 13º crânio para salvar o mundo, quando os primeiros 12 crânios estão unidos e têm o caos na terra sem o controle do 13º crânio.

Nessa paródia alternativa dos acontecimentos da Segunda Guerra Mundial, os nazistas conseguem invadir a cidade de Londres e dominar toda a região. Em contrapartida, a Inglaterra vai ter que se unir com outras nações para tomar de volta o que é seu.

Sean Bean is back as the swashbuckling hero in Sharpe's Challenge, an action packed mini-series to be shot on location in Rajasthan, India. Two years after the Duke of Wellington crushes Napoleon at Waterloo, dispatches from India tell of a local Maharaja, Khande Rao, who is threatening British interests there. Wellington sends Sharpe to investigate on what turns out to be his most dangerous mission to date. When a beautiful general's daughter is kidnapped by the Indian warlord, the tension mounts, leaving Sharpe no option but to pursue the enemy right into its deadly lair. Deep in the heart of enemy territory he also has to keep at bay the beautiful but scheming Regent, Madhuvanthi, who is out to seduce him. The fate of an Empire and the life of a General's daughter lie in one man's hands...

Bernard Hill and Victoria Hamilton star in Alistair Beaton's wickedly funny feature-length drama inspired by David Blunkett's private affair held up for very public scrutiny.

A middle class London lad’s gangster fantasies go awry when his dodgy uncle puts them into debt to a real life crime boss. Still pulling strings from behind bars, the kingpin’s only desire is to conceive an heir by smuggling his sperm to his wife on the outside. There’s only one way the boys know how to raise the money fast … hijack the ‘baby juice express’. But kidnapping ‘baby juice’ turns out to be fraught with even more peril than the bumbling wannabes could possibly have imagined in this cheeky spin on the gangster genre. Starring Nick Moran (Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels), with Julian Clary (one of Britain’s funniest) and Joe Bugner (former boxing champion and one of Australia’s toughest!).

Durante a Primeira Guerra Mundial, o jovem advogado nova-iorquino Charles White é promovido a major e enviado ao combate à frente de um batalhão formado por quinhentos outros nova-iorquinos e caipiras do interior do país. O resultado foi a concessão de 3 medalhas de honra.

Based on the novel by Bernard Cornwell, "Sharpe's Waterloo" brings maverick British officer Lt. Col. Richard Sharpe to his last fight against the French, in June of 1815.

A designer de moda Anita e o programador de jogos para computador Roger se encontram, se apaixonam e se casam junto com seus dálmatas Perdita e Pongo. Mas os filhotinhos dos orgulhosos Perdita e Pongo são sequestrados pela chefe de Anita, a Cruella De Vil, que está roubando filhotes de dálmatas para fazer o casaco de peles que ela definiu como seu preferido. Com a ajuda do reino animal britânico, Pongo e Perdita partem para encontrar e resgatar seus filhotes de seus temíveis sequestradores, Jasper e Horácio. Acabam encontrando alguns mais.

Sharpe is teamed with a Colonel he helped promote and they are tasked to destroy a powder magazine, but an alliance with the French may threaten their success. Meanwhile, Jane is wearying of the army life and Harper and Ramona are at odds.

Sharpe, with his new commanding officer, is sent to capture a castle when news comes of locals who will rise against Bonaparte. However, he is somewhat distracted by thoughts of his wife whom he was forced to leave while stricken with fever.

When Sharpe is ordered to whip the King of Spain's Irish Royal Brigade into shape, he faces dissent from the men who believe the British are slaughtering their relatives in Ireland and a spy from within.

Sharpe is sent on a mission to exchange rifles for deserters with a strange band of Spanish guerillas. He also has to chaperone two women looking for their missing husband.

1813. Major Sharpe's old enemy, Major Ducos manipulates a beautiful young marquesa into falsely accusing Sharpe of rape. Her husband calls Sharpe out in a duel. But when the husband is found dead the next morning, Sharpe is arrested and brought before a court martial, and it seems not even Patrick Harper and the Chosen Men can save Sharpe from a hanging, or rescue his honour

Portugal 1813. A band of deserters, including Sharpe's old enemy, Obadiah Hakeswill, have captured two women, one the wife of a high-ranking English officer, and are holding them hostage for ransom. Sharpe is given the 60th Rifles and a Rocket troop, as well as his majority to rescue the women. But while Sharpe may be able to deal with his old enemy, he has yet to face a newer threat, the French Major Pierre Ducos.

Spain 1812 The Duke of Wellington plans to lay siege to Badajoz. A murderous figure from Sharpe's past uses a beautiful woman revenge himself on Sharpe, now the father of her child. Sharpe has reason to be happy, he holds his daughter for the first time and is given command of the Light Company again, together with his captaincy. But will his happiness be short lived?

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.

The painful memories of the tragedy that awaited the people of Drimaghleen on 2/11/88 have just begun to fade; Hetty Fortune and her TV documentary team travel there to piece those memories together into a story of horror.

A feisty 17th-century Scotswoman falls in love with a despised landowner, to the dismay of her father.

This "Play on One" story depicts Jack and his farming family in West Wales. They have built up their dairy herd with vast loans and are then told they must cut back on milk production and slaughter some of the herd. The community launches a campaign against the quotas, but Jack takes the law into his own hands.

At the height of the cold war, a known Russian spy ("Kyril") is sent to the UK under falsely reported pretenses in order to hopefully indirectly spark an unknown mole in the KGB to reveal himself; the endeavor eventually has repercussions which none of the initial players could have predicted.

Murder on the Bluebell Line features Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson investigating the mystery of the Piltdown Man, once thought to be the 'missing link' in the evolution of man, but revealed in the 1950s to be a fraud. - a QED film for the BBC, made in 1987

Franz, a young man, works in a dye factory in Prague. One day he notices a skin-rash, like eczema, growing on his hands. All attempts to treat it with ointment fail, and the rash gradually spreads over his body. After complaining to the management he is laid off work; his relationship with his fiancee is affected. In an attempt to get compensation from his former employers he goes to insurance firm Assicurazion Generali, where he encounters an enigmatic clerk called Kafka.

Geoffrey Carr is a wealthy, key player in Britain's emerging computer industry, and newly married to Frances , a much younger woman, with wilful daughter Clare from a previous marriage. He'll do anything to make them happy, including stretching his finances to buy a Georgian estate in County Wicklow, where Frances grew up. Frank Crossan is an Irish Republican hitman on the run from British authorities. Seeking refuge with old girlfriend Kate, he creates a plan to kidnap a wealthy Brit for a ransom to fund a major arms deal. Their two worlds collide when Frances and Clare are brutally snatched away to a bleak hideaway and taken hostage. Geoffrey initially wants to cave in to the kidnapper's demands “ but nothing is simple when a personal crisis plays out against the forces of political intrigue, high finance and with the eyes of the media on them.

Um desenhista emergente e ambicioso é empregado pela senhora de uma mansão campestre para que execute uma série de desenhos em troca de favores sexuais. Fábula sobre sexo e dominação, ambientado no fim do século XVII.

In 1905, after 10 years of missionary work in Africa, the Rev. Charles Fortesque is recalled to England, where his bishop gives him his new assignment - to minister to London's prostitutes.

The true story of the First world football competition, won by a team comprised of miners from Durham.

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.

Margaret é uma enfermeira na Inglaterra durante a Segunda Guerra Mundial e casada com um agente secreto. As coisas ficam complicadas quando ela se apaixona por David, um piloto americano.

Alan Bennett's play about the mid-life crisis of an estate agent.

1941 and the upper class Anna Seaton is hired as part of an allied radio propaganda project, creating disinformation about the Nazi war effort. But tensions between her and brilliant, working class writer Archie MacLean threaten to undermine her work.

Keith Carradine e Harvey Keitel estrelam este filme dirigido por Ridley Scott (Gladiador), sobre dois oficiais do exército de Napoleão, que se enfrentam violentamente numa série de duelos. Os duelos começam por causa de um incidente insignificante e se tornaram ferozmente compulsivos, passando a reger a vida dos dois homens, durante 15 anos. Baseado na história de Joseph Conrad, Os Duelistas explora os temas de obsessão, honra e violência. Este filme visualmente deslumbrante desenrola uma trama instigante até seu inesperado final. Foi premiado com Melhor Filme de Estréia em 1977, no Festival de Cannes.

Clássico de Alexandre Dumas sobre os irmãos gêmeos (um bom e o outro mau) herdeiros do trono francês: O homem prisioneiro sob uma máscara de ferro e seu afetado e elegante irmão gêmeo, o Rei Louis XIV. O homem fechado sob a máscara é Phillipe, considerado morto, irmão gêmeo do Rei, considerado herdeiro por direito ao trono, era mantido na obscuridade por motivos políticos. Seu destino é assumir o trono no lugar do irmão, Louis, que é manipulado por Fouquet. O capitão dos mosqueteiros, D´Artagnam, e Colbert, ministro do Rei para assuntos domésticos, planejam restaurar a desejada autonomia e prosperidade do reino ao substituir Phillipe pelo Rei. O plano tem sucesso e Phillipe assume o trono enquanto seu irmão é condenado na máscara de ferro.

No leito de morte, o pai de Carmine Vespucci diz para ele "buscar Proclo". Com "o golpe", Gaetano diz a um motorista de táxi para levá-lo onde Carmine não o encontra. Ele chega ao Ritz, um balneário gay, onde é perseguido amorosamente pelo "caçador gordinho" Paul B. Price e pelo artista Googie Gomez, que acredita que ele é um produtor da Broadway. Seus guias através do Ritz são o porteiro Abe, o habitual Chris e o mensageiro Tiger e Duff. O detetive Michael Brick e seu empregador Carmine localizam Gateano no Ritz, assim como sua esposa Vivian.

Kevin's wife walked out, and left him holding the baby. No sleep, dirty nappies - and a career in pop music at risk. And ahead lies a visit to the clinic. Will Kevin succeed as a mother?

Frightening events unfold that may or may not be figments of Marigold’s imagination.

After a nocturnal car accident on the English countryside, an unfortunate couple is invited to a mysterious manor occupied by a creepy embalmer who throws sexy drug parties there.