Peter Jessop

Agatha Christie’s agents propose that it’s time for her to publish the manuscript she wrote thirty-five years earlier, a novel in which she finally kills off her most famous creation. And it’s not an entirely sad occasion. “That wretched little man,” she says. “He’s always been so much trouble. How is it Miss Marple has never upset me at all, not ever?” That night, who should appear at her doorstep but the wretched little man himself, Hercule Poirot? The great fictional detective and his creator proceed to play a very Christie-like game of cat and mouse for the manuscript – and for their own lives.

An Aussie businessman is trying to find out why and by whom he was kidnapped and then later released with no explanation.

A Russian ballet dancer defects from the USSR, emigrates to England, and joins a ballet company run by a powerful, wealthy lady (Joan Collins).

Charthurst Green, Kent, 1966. Pauline Cox accompanies Mike Robins to a village cricket match in which he is playing, but becomes bored and wanders away. She fetches up at the local railway station, where she is first entertained to tea by the garrulous, hunchbacked station master, then upset by the intrusion of the latter's assistant Ewen, who proceeds to kill a rabbit in her presence. Making her way back to the match, Pauline is waylaid by the simple-minded Ewen as she crosses an apple orchard; when his advances become violent, she tries to fight him off and he strangles her. The station master helps in covering up the murder, burying the corpse in the orchard.

Писатель рассказов ужасов Рональд Четвинд-Хэйс приглашен вампиром Эрасмусом в Клуб монстров, где обитающие там чудовища рассказывают ему три истории...

A woman is menaced by a masked killer while waiting for a train at a railway station.

После того, как журнал, в котором он работает, переходит к одержимому сексом американцу, застенчивому астрологическому обозревателю приказывают оживить свою колонку, написав о сексе с женщиной из каждого знака зодиака. Поначалу неуверенный в себе, он начинает обретать уверенность после нескольких успехов, но ему все равно нужно спешить, чтобы заполнить все 12 столбцов до установленного срока.

A successful rock lyricist becomes romantically involved with a girl he picks up hitchhiking only to learn that she is only fourteen. Her parents take action against him.

A recently-married woman who has been labeled as mentally unstable, begins to suspect that someone close to her is the culprit in a sudden string of murders.

Also known as 'The Confessional', another of Pete Walkers's critiques of institutional hypocrisy, in which a troubled young girl goes to confession at the local church. Unfortunately, the sexually frustrated priest she confesses to becomes obsessed with her. At first, the priest stalks the girl, but later it is revealed that he will stop at nothing, including blackmail and murder, just to get close to her.

A BAFTA award winning documentary looking at the development of the BP Forties oil field in the North Sea.

Lonely housewife takes a young lover to ease the boredom and make her overbearing husband jealous. With unexpected and violent results.

In 1957, Dorothy and Edmund Yates were committed to an institution for the criminally insane, she for acts of murder and cannibalism and he for covering up her crimes. Fifteen years later, they are pronounced fit for society and released. However, in Dorothy's case the doctors may have jumped the gun a bit. Edmund and eldest daughter, Jackie, try to discover just how far Mother's bloodlust has taken her. Meanwhile, youngest daughter Debbie begins to explore the crazy roots of her family tree as fully as possible.

На гламурной вечеринке одного из «мужских журналов» некий Марк Десад знакомится с начинающей французской фотомоделью Энн-Мари Ди Верни, и приглашает ее погостить в загородном доме своей мамы. Девушка, очарованная симпатичным и воспитанным молодым человеком, соглашается, и вскоре попадает в огромное поместье, которое оказывается. .. частной тюрьмой! Под управлением полоумной семейки Марка, в ней молодых девушек «судили» за «аморальное поведение» (в случае Энн-Мари — позирование обнаженной), и кидали «исправляться» за решетку. Разумеется, за каждую провинность следовали жестокие наказания, а если оных провинностей «набегало» три, то девушка приговаривалась к смерти через повешение… Долго ли, коротко ли, но подруга Энн-Мари в конце концов выяснила, где находится девушка, и рискуя самой остаться в стенах «исправительного учреждения», вывела полоумных тюремщиков на чистую воду. Правда, для многих персонажей фильма это случилось уже слишком поздно…

A BAFTA award nominated documentary showing the origins of glass and its many uses throughout the last four thousand years.

Light-hearted and occasionally unclothed adaptation of a British comic strip in the over-the-top, on-beyond-Bond spy fantasy vein. Based on the Daily Mail comic strip.

Actors rehearsing a show at a mysterious seaside theater are being killed off by an unknown maniac.

Ivanhoe Martin arrives in Kingston, Jamaica, looking for work and, after some initial struggles, lands a recording contract as a reggae singer. He records his first song, "The Harder They Come," but after a bitter dispute with a manipulative producer named Hilton, soon finds himself resorting to petty crime in order to pay the bills. He deals marijuana, kills some abusive cops and earns local folk hero status. Meanwhile, his record is topping the charts.

Hans a young German journalist arrives in London to write an article about au-pair girls, but is requested by friends to investigate the whereabouts of their teenage daughter Greta.

A Nazi scientist and a woman known as a "spider goddess" attempt to develop a nerve gas made from spider venom.

A naive couple leave their small town for success in London's adult entertainment culture.

Jimi Hendrix: Experience

Co-directed by innovative British filmmakers David Gladwell and Derrick Knight, The Great Steam Fair is a beautifully crafted documentary filmed at Shottesbrooke Park, Berkshire in 1964 at a nostalgic event which brought together many traditional fairground rides and steam engines. The film skilfully combines the techniques of traditional sponsored documentary with the new approaches of the direct cinema movement.

A BAFTA award nominated documentary intended for secondary schools exploring the three distinct geographical regions of Germany from a British perspective.

A look at some of the 3000 men who go through miners' rehabilitation centres each year, of whom 19 out of every 20 go back to mining.