Pauline Quirke

A Headmistress steals from her own school. As a young girl Colleen McCabe asks a priest in confessional "What is sin?" Thirty years later she is found out for practising it. An ex-nun,she leaves the convent because she becomes disillusioned with spiritual matters and goes into teaching, being appointed headmistress of the John Rigby School in London. Along with a small coterie of chosen staff members to act as her spies,she misappropriates half a million pounds from school funds which she spends on luxury goods and a trip on the Orient Express. Meanwhile the school suffers,having to use ancient text books and pupils as cleaners. She is tried,although admitted to hospital for depression on the trial day, and sentenced to five years in jail, later reduced to four. The film alternates dramatized scenes of Colleen's misbehaviour with interviews with those who knew her.

Carrie's War is an adaptation of a 1973 children's novel by Nina Bawden, set during the Second World War and following two evacuees, Carrie and her younger brother Nick.

Двадцать лет назад трое мужчин отправились в самый длинный путь в своей жизни по "Дамбе Оффы". Они поклялись повторить поход, но на этот раз к ним присоединились сорокалетняя жена и мать, которая переживает кризис среднего возраста.

A young boy's dream of finding his dead father comes true when his father visits him as an angel. But things turn sour when he discovers that his father was not the hero he imagined him to be.

A parent's grief has no bounds. Our Boy tells the moving and tragic story of one couple’s struggle to come to terms with the disappearance and death of their only son. Woody, Sonia and their son, Lee, live contentedly in West Ham, London. When Lee is killed in a hit-and-run everyone grieves but Woody’s grief has no limit. His best friend, Phil, counsels revenge, while in the view of the ambitious Detective Constable Spence, Woody himself is the prime suspect. Woody searches for a way to react with extraordinary and touching results. Features award-winning performances by Ray Winstone and Pauline Quirke.

'The Canterville Ghost' is one of the most popular choice for making a film in Oscar Wilde's works, and the original short story deserves the popularity. It is a witty spoof about a ghost and the 'haunted' mansion where a rich American family start to live. In this story, the family are not annoyed by the presence of the ghost; no, it is the ghost who is annoyed by the family who just refuse to be terrified. After all, why should we be scared by an old man wearing rusty coat of mail, whose best trick is to walk in the middle of night making big noises?

The late, great comedian Bob Monkhouse entertains a celebrity audience that includes Stephen Fry, Mandy Smith and Eamonn Holmes in this 1994 special. Watch him answer questions, tell funny tales and crack jokes.

Ливерпуль 40—50-х. В день свадьбы невеста сожалеет, что отец не дожил до этого дня. Папа был алкоголиком-психопатом с необъяснимыми приступами нежности мог избить детей, а потом трепетно оберегать их сон. Простая и недоступная пониманию жизнь, просеянная через старые фотографии. Все становится загадочным без нажима красноречиво немые вещи и пустяковые песни о главном.

Экранизация одноименного романа Диккенса о судьбе семейства слабого и тщеславного банкрота Уильяма Доррита, 20 лет проведшего в лондонской долговой тюрьме Маршалси. Его младшая дочь Эми, родившаяся и выросшая в тюрьме, сохраняет скромность, преданность и доброту во всех жизненных ситуациях: и когда приходится работать за кусок хлеба, и когда судьба посылает семье неожиданное богатство.

Первая мировая война. Крис Болдри после тяжелого ранения возвращается в родной дом. Он был контужен и абсолютно не помнит события последних двадцати лет своей жизни. Криса встречают две любящие его женщины — кузина Дженни и жена Китти, Первую Крис узнает, потому что они росли вместе, вторая для него — чужой, незнакомый человек....А ему нужна только Маргарет, в которую он был страстно влюблен в молодости, и чувство к ней вспыхивает с новой силой, несмотря на то, что вместо юной девушки он видит даму средних лет. Только Маргарет может излечить его и вернуть в реальную жизнь.

"We were so close, we loved each other, we made a whole together. I feel cut in half." Meg struggles with the sudden death of her husband.

It's such a simple, natural thing to have a baby, thinks Mary. But she and husband Paul are preoccupied with their careers. Can their young neighbour Tessa help, or are the emotions around a new baby more complex than anyone had expected?

Clive decides he will go mad. Stark raving mad. His wife doesn't take him seriously, until Clive does something that makes her realise he means it.

Это правдивая и печальная история жизни реально существовавшего в 19 веке человека, Джона Меррика, страдавшего редчайшей болезнью, вызывавшей чудовищные деформации тела. Молодой хирург Тривес, увидев это несчастное и забитое существо в балагане, выкупает его у хозяина из чисто научного интереса, но с удивлением обнаруживает в нем человека интеллектуально развитого и духовного. Профессиональный интерес сменяется состраданием, феномен становится моден в высшем свете, сама королева благословляет оставить его в больнице навсегда…

Comedy drama written by Brian Clark.

Sixteen-year-old Otis loathes school. He wants to be a professional footballer, but is good at drawing, so his mother wants him to be a draughtsman. Then, a new sports teacher appears at his South London comprehensive school, and life starts to look a little more hopeful...

Eleanor seems normal enough to her parents and teachers. Why then has she disappeared?

A tough young girl lives with her aging grandfather near a cove on the coast of Cornwall. She supports herself and him by gathering seaweed to sell as fertilizer. A cocky young neighboring boy decides to help her with the work.

A series of six short films concerning the adventures of form 2B and their inventive science master, Mr Potter

A series of six short films concerning the adventures of form 2B and their inventive science master, Mr Potter

A series of six short films concerning the adventures of form 2B and their inventive science master, Mr Potter

A series of six short films concerning the adventures of form 2B and their inventive science master, Mr Potter

A series of six short films concerning the adventures of form 2B and their inventive science master, Mr Potter

It isn't really the fault of the children in 2B that their efforts to be helpful end in disaster.

Science-fiction comedy: Junket, a schoolboy, borrows an apparatus invented by the absent-minded science master for transporting matter - and, by accident, makes it work...