Carlotta's Seamstress
Таинственный голос взывает к молодой оперной певице Кристине из мрачных недр величественной Парижской оперы. Лишь один человек в труппе знает, что невидимый покровитель и наставник Кристины, наводящий ужас на артистов, — обезображенный гений музыки, влюблённый в юную красавицу. Призрак в маске сделает всё, чтобы она стала примадонной сцены, однако у него есть властный соперник — богатый виконт Рауль де Шаньи. Став пленницей любовного треугольника, Кристина должна сделать выбор. Но страсти, что вскружили голову, свирепая ревность и безумная любовь уже вынесли возлюбленным свой немилосердный приговор…
Self
Hell on Earth is an hour-long documentary presented by Mark Kermode. It's about Ken Russell's 1971 film, The Devils which is one of the most controversial films ever made. Kermode chats to Russell as well as two of the films stars Georgina Hale and Murray Melvin. Also included are scenes that were cut from the released film for being too controversial.
Mrs. Churchill
Yowler, the last dragon on Earth is in terrible danger. His arch enemy, the Dark Knight, has returned. Only young John McGowen can save him...
Spinster 2
Made by Carlton Television for ITV (UK) , this adaptation of Laurie Lee's autobiographical novel follows a young man's maturation in the country town of Gloucestershire near the end of World War I. As young Laurie (Dashiell Reece) comes of age under the protective eye of his mother (Juliet Stevenson), he learns to live with an eccentric collection of friends, neighbours, and relatives. As he enters his teenage years, Laurie (now played by Joe Roberts) discovers women, specifically Rosie Burdock (Lia Barrow). Veteran screenwriter John Mortimer adapted Lee's book, with Lee narrating.
La Patronne
Alan Bleasdale's modern re-telling of Madame Bovary. A tale of passion, greed, revenge, and of course pleasure, set in France. Starring Line of Duty's Adrian Dunbar, Jennifer Ehle and James Larkin. In the French city of Rouen, the beautiful, young but bored Emma seeks to escape her dull married life. Her dreams are answered, and her comfortable, peaceful existence soon tarnished when she answers a lonely-hearts ad. She meets Gustave, a unsuccessful toy salesman, and potential con man. Together they begin a passionate affair, where they indulge in illicit sex and illegal scams. But parallel to their exhilarating affair, the police are on the hunt for a mysterious masked robber known only as Le Terroriste. As the stakes rise, and a betrayal means Emma finding herself alone, her own talents for deception develop into an overwhelming and obsessive desire for her to get her revenge.
Miss Harby
Когда у юной девушки вопреки всем предрассудкам, свойственным ее богатой и консервативной семье, пробуждаются первые чувственные желания, она стремится получить от жизни все. Урсула познает горечь несчастной любви, неприятие собственной семьи, но не теряет стремления к тому прекрасному идеалу пылкой и нежной страсти, который живет в ее воображении.
Eldrad (female form)
When the TARDIS lands in a quarry on Earth, Sarah unearths what appears to be a fossilised hand, buried in one-hundred-fifty-million-year-old strata. Analysis shows the hand to be silicon-based and inert, but when Sarah begins to act as if possessed, the Doctor suspects that it may still be alive...
Kate
Вольная биография французкого скульптора Анри Годье и его жены полячки Софи Бжешка.
Sister Agnes (miscredited as Sister Judith)
Франция XVII века, времени войны католиков с гугенотами. Кардинал Ришелье хочет разрушить белые стены города Людон. Но Людовик XIII благоволит городу и отцу Грандье, в руки которого перешла власть после смерти губернатора. Тем временем в Людоне горбатая настоятельница монастыря, сходящая с ума по Грандье, объявляет, что в нее вселился дьявол.
Russell's composer biopics were usually labours of love. This was the opposite: he regarded Strauss's music as "bombastic, sham and hollow", and despised the composer for claiming to be apolitical while cosying up to the Nazi regime. The film depicts Strauss in a variety of grotesquely caricatured situations: attacked by nuns after adopting Nietzsche's philosophy, he fights duels with jealous husbands, literally batters his critics into submission with his music and glorifies the women in his life and fantasies. (BFI Screenonline)
Elizabeth Siddal
The story of the influential 19th century British poet Dante Gabriel Rossetti and his troubled and somewhat morbid relationship with his wife and his art.
