George Faber

A woman moves to live with her new husband in 17th century Amsterdam, but soon discovers that not everything is what it seems.

Весной 1914 года Европа находится на пороге войны и никто еще не слышал о немецком физике Альберте Эйнштейне. Тем временем британский астроном Артур Эддингтон осознает, что теории Эйнштейна могут открыть новые пути к пониманию времени и пространства. Несмотря на угрозу быть объявленными изменниками, двое мужчин начинают переписку. Затмение в Африке дает шанс доказать теории Эйнштейна, и Эддингтон отправляется в путешествие, которое навсегда изменит понимание Вселенной.

In Mansfield Park, poverty-stricken Fanny Price is sent away to live with her wealthy uncle and aunt at Mansfield Park. As she struggles to adapt to her new lifestyle she begins to attract the attentions of suitors, learning about the sexual politics of high society along the way.

A gripping story of love, deceit, betrayal and survival set against the backdrop of the Miners' Strike of 1984-85. Michelle is married to Gary, a young miner who goes on strike as soon as the dispute between the Thatcher government and the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) begins. Meanwhile, her sister Linda's husband Paul is a local policeman. Paul becomes more and more voluble in his opposition to the strike, while Linda looks around her and witnesses the women of her community suddenly find a voice and independence. The scene is set for political and personal conflicts which would change their lives forever.

Забавный на экране, в жизни актер доставлял массу хлопот близким своим эгоцентризмом и инфантилизмом, которые никак не вязались с его внешностью солидного очкарика. Персонажи и ситуации, с которыми сталкивается Селлерс основаны на действительных фактах. Питер Селлерс — один из самых прославленных комедийных актеров в истории кино. Необыкновенный талант к перевоплощению, способности неузнаваемо менять голос и внешность закрепили на целое десятилетие за Селлерсом статус комика Великобритании N1. Середина 60-х стала временем расцвета его актерского таланта.

Filmmaker Stephen Whittaker adapts author D.H. Lawrence's simmering tale of sex, love, and family. In the years leading up to World War I, the problems faced by many families were uncannily similar to the issues that mankind would still be struggling with nearly a century later. Human relationships remain as fragile as ever, and the only constant in life seems to be a humbling sense of uncertainty. Sarah Lancashire stars in a drama detailing the anguish of first love, and the awkward confusion of first sex.

Экранизация по произведению Алена Уорнера. Девушка просыпается рядом со своим бойфрендом и понимает, что, пока она спала под новогодней елкой, он покончил с собой. Оставил прощальную записку, деньги и свой неопубликованный роман. Дальше интереснее... Девица оставляет труп дома, а сама берет деньги и идет веселиться. Роман погибшего юноши она подписывает своим именем, продает за бешеные фунты стерлингов и уходит в светлую даль. Объяснить такое поведение, видимо, можно только шоковым состоянием героини....

Dramatisation of the love affair between Sidney James and Barbara Windsor, played out against the backdrop of the 'Carry On' films during the 1960s and 1970s.

Two twelve-year-old boys, Romeo and Gavin, undergo an extraordinary test of character and friendship when Morell, a naive but eccentric and dangerous stranger, comes between them. Morell befriends with the two boys and later asks them to help him pursue Romeo's beautiful elder sister. He gradually becomes more violent after she rejects him.

Серб Славко и боснийский мусульманин Владо с самого детства были близкими друзьями. Ближе, чем братья. Они вместе выступали за сборную Югославии по стрельбе и готовились ехать на Олимпийские игры в Барселону. Но начавшаяся в Боснии гражданская война перечеркнула все планы и развела Славко и Владо по разные стороны линии фронта. Теперь они могут видеть друг друга только через оптический прицел. Славко стал снайпером, а Владо вступил в специальный антиснайперский отряд. Поединок двух мужчин, двух искусных стрелков неизбежно закончится смертью одного из них. И кто получит пулю, а кому суждено убить друга, которого всю жизнь считал братом, рассудит война…

Belfast 1972: The politically naive Bernie is trying to bring up a normal family in less than normal surroundings. Her best friend is accidentally shot dead by the IRA, and her neighbours are constantly raided by the army. In this climate of fear she stands up and condemns the murders. Criticising both factions, her call for a ceasefire is interpreted as an attack against the IRA, and as her peace movement takes momentum, she and her family are placed in the frontline.

Property developer Jamie has to evict some weird, post-modern hippies from a building. But they slowly drag him into their dark underworld of bizarre rituals and dangerous liaisons.

Вадик оказывается случайным свидетелем взрыва троллейбуса. Сделав видеозапись происшествия, он пытается предложить свой «сенсационный» материал западным телекомпаниям. В офисе одной из них он знакомится с Хелен и понимает, что новым поводом встречи с девушкой может стать действительно интересный материал. Вооружившись видеокамерой, Вадик превращается в стрингера: он записывает, а иногда даже сам создает видео сюжеты на темы, которые по его мнению, могут подойти иностранной телекомпании в качестве горячих новостей из России. В поисках очередной сенсации Вадик знакомится с лидером широко известной партии Яворским, прототипом которого стал видный российский политик. Новое знакомство позволяет Вадику сделать видеозапись попытки наемного убийства этого политического деятеля.

Pakistani taxi-driver Parvez and prostitute Bettina find themselves trapped in the middle when Islamic fundamentalists decide to clean up their local town.

The sexual rivalries over a new, potentially great rock'n'roll singer between a nightclub owner and a local gangster cause unrest and eventually lead to murder.

In a typical English working-class town, the juveniles have nothing more to do than hang around in gangs. One day, Alan Darcy, a highly motivated man with the same kind of youth experience, starts trying to get the young people off the street and into doing something they can believe in: Boxing. Darcy opens a boxing club, aiming to bring the rival gangs together.

Father Greg Pilkington is torn between his call as a conservative Catholic priest and his secret life as a homosexual with a gay lover, frowned upon by the Church. Upon hearing the confession of a young girl of her incestuous father, Greg enters an intensely emotional spiritual struggle deciding between choosing morals over religion and one life over another.

In wartime England, a railway official learns that the chairman of the line had sexually abused his wife as a child, then given him the job so he could continue having sexual access to her. The husband and wife kill him together, but are seen by a train driver, who also has problems of his own. The wife tries to divert suspicion by implicating another driver and befriending the witness, but it doesn't go that smoothly.

Using a blend of magic realism and realist drama, Memsahib Rita looks at the physical and emotional violence of racism. Shanti is haunted by both the racist taunts of nationalist white youths and the memory of her white mother.

Antonia Bird's first feature length film; "Safe" from 1993, focused on the plight of the homeless in London.

Kenneth Cranham and Rachel Davies star as the parents of 19-year-old Marian Fairley, who finds a pair of women's knickers in her husband's laundry. Outraged to think he is havingan affair, she takes the TV, the microwave and the baby, and moves in with her parents down the road. But an even bigger shock awaits her.

A short film in which an innocent northern girl discovers her sexual identity on a trip to London, where she goes into a lesbian bar/club, and considers revealing her gayness to her mother.

A husband drives throughout the night on a voyage of self-discovery, while his wife waits at home, raking over the ashes of their marriage as their child sleeps in the next room.

When Marjorie's husband of 20 years dies of a brain tumour, she's hit financially as well as emotionally. The money she makes packing tights in a factory isn't enough to cover her rent, and her TV is repossessed. Soon after the funeral she meets Arnold, a wealthy pub landlord, who squires her to the local Conservative Club ball in an effort to cheer her up. Life with Arnold promises not only companionship but undreamt-of luxury, but Marjorie's friends and family do not necessarily approve.

Tony has begun to panic that life may be passing him by. As his friends forge ahead, he feels stuck in a dead end job and trapped by his relationship with Judith. One day, he starts to be plagued by a series of mysterious phone calls and letters. Tony becomes haunted by a growing premonition of catastrophe.

Mike and his ex-wife have an 8-year-old daughter, Hazel. She calls her new mother's boyfriend 'daddy', which Mike goes along with until his access to Hazel is limited.

When the luckless Martin and Renato have the bright idea of starting up a guided coach tour of the M25, London's orbital motorway, they think they're on to a winner - but they soon discover they're on course for disaster.