Susan Wooldridge

Аун Сан Су Чжи из Бирмы предстоит сделать нелёгкий выбор: вернуться в Англию и ухаживать за мужем, умирающим от рака, или продолжать бороться за демократию в своей стране, находящейся под контролем военной хунты. Впервые Су Чжи была арестована в 1989 году, и провела часть из последующих 20 лет под домашним арестом несмотря на её победу на выборах.

Очаровательная журналистка и любительница флирта Тамара Дрю возвращается в родной городок и вызывает своим появлением среди местных жителей нешуточные страсти.

In June 2009, a group Britain's leading actors gathered for one night only to perform a celebration of the work of Harold Pinter at the National Theatre, directed by Ian Rickson. The team who made the acclaimed Harold Pinter documentaries for BBC's Arena was there to record this unique performance.

Колоссальное наводнение в Англии, Темза вышла из берегов, жизнь миллионов лондонцев находится в опасности. У морского инженера Роба, его бывшей жены и отца есть всего несколько часов, чтобы спасти город от разрушения.

In 1998 former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet visits Britain for medical treatment. On being tipped off, Amnesty International seize the chance to bring to justice a man they insist is guilty of multiple human rights violations. The newly-elected Labour government is initially amenable, and soon Pinochet is under house arrest (albeit in a detached house in leafy suburbia) and awaiting extradition to Spain. However, Amnesty are up against the complexities of British law, the vacillations of Home Secretary Jack Straw, Pinochet's former ally Margaret Thatcher - and the Senator's own vast reserves of cunning.

Jane has an eating problem. She has bought and prepared a feast for an unseen date who calls in sick and sends her spiraling round London, visiting friends and revisiting old habits.

Set in 1946 in Trinidad. Tells the story of the friendship between Alan, the 12-year-old son of well-off Catholic parents, and Jaillin and Kaiser, two local East Indian children.

Gerald is a smart, young, high-flying American banker. Everything is great until his wife finds another woman's underwear in their bedroom and subsequently throws him out. He finds lodgings with Monica, a recently divorced 50-year old housewife, who is smitten with Gerald. But after their first night of love, Gerald avoids her. Monica feels used and betrayed until Gerald confesses he likes to dress up as a woman. Monica learns to accept and eventually support Geraldine, Gerald's alter ego. Based on the novel by Monica Jay.

Впечатлительный и злой мальчик Лукас, у которого ухудшается зрение, ждет операции. В результате он может либо ослепнуть окончательно, либо зрение восстановится.

A man and his wife, who are proprietors of a struggling window-covering business, agree to install curtains in an exclusive club patronized by a wealthy friend of theirs. After completing the job, the shop owner has great difficulty collecting payment for the job. His "friend" becomes scarce and Spall finds he has no legal foot to stand on since there is no written record of the informal transaction. With the couple's business floundering due to mounting debts, and their former friend's crass attitude towards their predicament, anger and frustration reach the boiling point.

What would happen if the nation’s criminals decided to go on strike? A comedy drama based on an idea by Czech writer Jaroslav Hasek.

Spring 1917: the privileged world of Sorn Castle is upside down, its stately rooms full of amputees from the Western Front. While the local aristocracy makes a first attempt at nursing, a romance blossoms.

A TV Dante is an experimental mini-series directed by Tom Phillips and legendary filmmaker Peter Greenaway. It covers eight of the thirty-four cantos in Dante Alighieri's Inferno, part of his 14th century epic poem The Divine Comedy. The eight cantos of the film are not conventionally dramatised, rather they are illuminated with layered and juxtaposed imagery while the text is read entirely in "talking head" fashion, and punctuated with a kaleidoscopic blend of both newly shot and archival footage.

A very proper Englishman becomes saddled with youngsters that he has to help escape Nazi Germany. Adaptation of Nevil Shute's novel.

Story about a WWII wife & mother who joins a local dance band to provide for family while husband at war. Romantic involvement with one of the band members make her decisions difficult when husband returns from war. Story watches the progression of the band as it grows into a popular, successful recording and touring group. Excellent music and soundtrack.

Преуспевающий работник рекламного агентства на грани нервного истощения. Он должен придумать рекламу средства от прыщей. Огромный прыщ вырастает у него на шее и вскоре занимает место его головы. Однако никто из окружающих не видит этот говорящий прыщ.

Lily and her three youngest children join her husband David Sutton, a doctor in an isolated northern Alberta town. Their eleven-year-old son arrives later from boarding school. David conceals a dark secret which caused the family to leave England without telling anybody. They befriend a neighbor Rosanne, who throws out her boyfriend after he beats her up in a bar. Lily, who is very English and out of place in the town, hires the half-Native Rosanne as a housekeeper, and eventually the two women become good friends, until the secret emerges again.

Мемуары режиссёра о его детстве в охваченной войной Британии. Увиденные глазами мальчика ужасы и абсурд Второй мировой войны воспринимаются не как трагедия, а скорее как увлекательные приключения.

Shaw turned to the classic Victorian melodrama to focus on the insincerity of much that his audience held dear, especially family and marriage. In 1777 as the American War of Independence rages, Dick Dudgeon returns to the family he revolted against years ago. But his life is about to take another twist as the british arrive and seem set on an execution...

Известная писательница пригласила своего старого друга Эркюля Пуаро отдохнуть в богатом особняке, где гости должны были поиграть "в убийство" - разумеется, в шутку. Пуаро не зря согласился приехать: вместо игры ему предстояло расследовать настоящее убийство.

1919: the World War is over. Kay Conway celebrates her 21st birthday and all the family look forward with hope and confidence. Then Time begins to conjure with them and offers a dark glimpse of what the future could really bring.

A scientist who is obsessed with creating life finally does it, with tragic results.

Set in a British country house in the 1920s, Hay Fever follows the outlandish bevaiour of the Bliss family when they each invite a guest to spend the weekend. Best described as a cross between high farce and a comedy of manners, Hay Fever is one of Coward's most popular plays.

Фильм повествует о мужчине по имени Кроссли, который вторгается в жизнь семейной парочки в маленьком английском городе. Он рассказывает им, что прожил 18 лет в Австралии, где у местных жителей учился магии. Аборигены научили его убивать криком…

Биографический фильм о жизни Квентина Криспа – человека, сломавшего ханжескую мораль консервативной Британии, открыто признавшегося, что он гей, и заставившего в судебном порядке оправдать его. Только после этого прецедента в послевоенной Англии было упразднено уголовное преследование за гомосексуализм.

Butley is set in Queen Mary’s College, London and focuses on two English instructors, Ben Butley, a middle-aged former T. S. Eliot expert whose life is now in a shambles, and his protégé, Joey, a homosexual. With both Joey and his wife leaving, Butley faces a life alone, fighting back with wit, obscenity and booze.

A dramatization of the circumstances surrounding the murder of Carl Bridgewater and the subsequent trial and imprisonment of four men.