Virginia McKenna

A heartwarming love story that spans over six decades, between two Land Army girls during World War II.

Eve's husband has been killed in Afghanistan. She takes her young son to a Suffolk beach house on the edge of the North Sea to grieve. But someone else is in the house grieving her loss from another war.

This hand drawn animated film, based on the award winning graphic novel by Raymond Briggs, is an intimate and affectionate depiction of the life and times of his parents, two ordinary Londoners living through extraordinary events.

Fate, the pensions crisis and a steadfast refusal to accept the injustice of old age have contrived to force law abiding, retired couple, Arthur and Martha Goode into a life of crime.

A Portrait Of Leslie Phillips takes a look at the life of Leslie Phillips; the legendary actor, writer and veritable British institution. Leslie's frank and open conversations combine with personal interviews from some of the greats who have worked with him.

Leona Calderon is a retiring altruistic music lover earning her living cleaning establishments and private homes. Having a fun loving nature she is fancied by her landlord who dreams of dancing with her to her favorite tune. Another admirer is a homeless man who gets endears by her jolly disposition and not by her loose pennies for a can of lager. She befriends an isolated elderly English lady, a migrant worker with no visa and a charitable middle age woman. As a breadwinner she looks forward to her much awaited retirement which is now doomed following a diagnoses of cancer. The island where she comes from where she plans to spend her life with her family becomes just a dream. She now faces a dilemma between losing her hard earned savings to medical expenses or losing the time with her family if she spends her retirement in a country where her treatment is free. Leona's wit and fun nature will make you smile, laugh and cry. What happens to this happy lady in this funny world?

A chance meeting reunites Mary and Joe, childhood sweethearts from the 1940s. But after 60 years apart, is there still love between them? How have their separate experiences shaped their lives over this long period apart, and is there still time for them to share the happiness that has so long been denied? As Mary and Joe confront the mistakes of their past and share memories of a previously unspoken love, their reunion appears to take them on a path to happiness. But the gentle narrative hides a twist that will challenge any preconceptions of love and loss.

A bank employee, Laura Tracey, places herself and her family in mortal danger after reporting irregularities in the firm's overseas accounts to the National Criminal Intelligence Service. She learns that the money belongs to South American drug cartels, and her family are immediately taken into the Witness Protection Program and relocated.

Две вариативные истории о молодой англичанке Хелен Куилли, чья судьба резко меняется в зависимости от того, успеет она на поезд или нет. Сначала она опоздает, и ей придется взять такси, а после нападения грабителя оказаться в больнице и по возвращению домой не застать в постели жениха его любовницу. А затем Хелен вовремя окажется и в поезде, и дома, после чего ее отношения с женихом будут разрушены, а на горизонте появится совсем другой мужчина…

Detective Cooper investigates the bizarre circumstances surrounding the murder of Matilda who was found dead in her bath wearing the Scold's Bridle.

Verena Steynton is holding a party for her daughter. All the aristocratic families of Strathcroy in the Scottish Highlands are attending, with all their guilty secrets...

Молодой парень, работающий в детской секции супермаркета демонстратором игрушек, собрался жениться. По традиции друзья устроили мальчишник. Один из приятелей подсыпал чего-то в кружку пива. И жених отрубился… В лондонском кабаке… А проснулся в неизвестном месте, на берегу океана, в холодных волнах прибоя, совершенно голым, в абсолютно безлюдной местности. Впрочем, одну фигурку на горизонте наш герой все-таки заприметил: старушка стояла на холме… Она и объяснила жениху, что он — на окраине какого-то шотландского островка… Долог же будет путь парня на собственную свадьбу! Как бы ему не опоздать!..

In 1970s New York, a drag queen and elderly woman meet during a blackout. The film was nominated for an Oscar for Best Live Action Short Film.

Lady Caroline Faye meets Lord Vane Brecon and is attracted to him. When she finds out that he is being accused of a murder he did not commit, she sets out to prove him innocent

In Torre del Lago, by Lake Massaciuccoli, Puccini is writing "The Girl of the Golden West" when his wife Elvira accuses him of a dalliance with their maid, Doria Manfredi, a young women from town. Although the maestro is frequently unfaithful, he denies the affair; Elvira insists she's right and publicly hounds Doria. Between scenes in this domestic drama that turns tragic, we watch a Scottish company rehearse and stage "Turandot," Puccini's last opera. The film finds parallels between the two stories and suggests that in the opera, Puccini expresses love for his wife and guilt in Doria's fate. Three local gentlemen provide a spoken chorus as Puccini's score plays throughout.

Ночь в монастыре Маркс, одиноком загородном доме дворянской семьи Леван. Незнакомец идёт по темному парку. В замке всё тихо, но Аисла Крейн, племянница властной леди Леван, спит беспокойно. Внезапно раздаётся пронзительный крик. Чуть позже Уильям Стадд, шофер молодого лорда Вилли, был найден мёртвым в парке. Мотив убийства неясен, тем более что изначально всё выглядит так, как будто мертвец был человеком не имеющим врагов. Однако, как выясняет главный суперинтендант Таннер, улики говорят против этого: это индийский шарф, который использовался для убийства врагов в его стране происхождения.

A man who has been having psychic visions of himself killing naked women soon discovers that it's not himself he's seeing, it's his Siamese twin. (yes, they've been separated) So he travels to Hamburg, where the things he's seen start to come to pass…

The assassination of the would be ruler of Rome at the hands of Brutus and company has tragic consequences for Brutus and the republic.

The wife of contract killer disappears. When he is hired by an international organisation to carry out a hit, he suspects they are connected with her disappearance.

Идеалистически настроенный президент крупной атомной корпорации Роберт Кейн терпит поражение в борьбе с собственным сыном Энджелом за право руководить предприятием. Энджел стремится быстрее осуществить варварский проект, ибо он — пришедший на землю Антихрист.

Peter Pan is a 1976 musical adaptation of J. M. Barrie's Peter Pan, or the Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up, produced for television as part of the Hallmark Hall of Fame, starring Mia Farrow as Peter Pan and Danny Kaye as Captain Hook, and with Sir John Gielgud narrating. Julie Andrews sang one of the songs, "Once Upon a Bedtime", off-camera over the opening credits. It aired on NBC at 7:30pm on Sunday, December 12, 1976, capping off the program's 25th year on the air. The program did not use the score written for the highly successful Mary Martin version which had previously been televised many times on NBC. Instead, it featured 14 new and now forgotten songs, written for the production by Anthony Newley and Leslie Bricusse.

A beautiful girl agrees to marry a hideous, deformed beast and live in his castle in order to save her father's life.

Winston Churchill's life in the years leading up to World War II.

On holiday with their mother in the Lake District in 1929 four children are allowed to sail over to the nearby island in their boat Swallow and set up camp for a few days. They soon realise this has been the territory of two other girls who sail the Amazon, and the scene is set for serious rivalry.

The astonishing true story of a zoo-born lion who found himself in the pet department of Harrods, then the cellar of an antique shop in London and, ultimately the wilds of Africa.

Масштабный исторический фильм, основное содержание которого сводится к событиям, предшествующим сражению при Ватерлоо, и самому сражению.

Кто сказал, что лучшим другом человека является собака? Для одинокого лондонского клерка Грэхема лучшим другом стала купленная в зоомагазине выдра, ради которой он даже бросил неплохую работу и уехал в холодную Шотландию.

The true life sequel to the movie classic Born Free. The actors from the movie Born Free, Bill Travers and Virginia McKenna, with the help of their friend legendary conservationist George Adamson, reveal what became of the lions used in the filming of the popular movie classic Born Free.

Bill and Ginny are invited by a naturalist friend to take care of his home in Africa while he is away, and they find themselves adopted by three orphan elephants.

A group of people are shipwrecked when their yacht runs around on a South Pacific island. The usable hierarchy in a upper-class British family breaks down quickly when it becomes apparent that only the servant Crichton is capable of surviving on his own and he becomes the communities leader.

Фильм был снят в Африканской саванне по одноименному бестселлеру известной писательницы и натуралиста Джой Адамсон. Картина рассказывает о судьбе львицы Эльсы, еще детенышем попавшей к супругам Адамсон. Они не только спасают малышку от неминуемой гибели, но и, вырастив ее, возвращают назад в дикую природу потому, что она была рождена свободной. Авторам удалось превосходно запечатлеть и передать с помощью средств кино красоту природы и животного мира Кении.

Three Post Office employees are at work when the facility is held up. The robber kills the supervisor and knocks out another employee. The third one offers no resistance and survives unscathed. Afterwards he begins to wonder if his refusal to resist was a prudent move to preserve his family, or an act of cowardice, as many in the town believe. The resulting conflict begins to tear apart his family.

Тайна корабля-призрака, вышедшего из ночной тьмы только с обезумевшим и пьяным капитаном на борту.

A British schoolteacher moves to Jamaica to teach after a tumultuous divorce and meets an exciting new woman.

London, England, during World War II. After living a tragic life experience, young Violette Szabo joins the Special Operations Executive and crosses the German enemy lines as a secret agent to aid a French Resistance group.

Jean and Bill are a married couple trying to scrape a living. Out of the blue they receive a telegram informing them Bill's long-lost uncle has died and left them his business—a cinema in the town of Sloughborough. Unfortunately they can't sell it for the fortune they hoped as they discover it is falling down and almost worthless.

Director Sidney Franklin's 1957 remake of his own 1934 film, about the romance of poets Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning.

In 1941, The advancing Japanese army captures a lot of British territory very quickly. The men are sent off to labor camps, but they have no plan on what to do with the women and children of the British.

After World War II the crew of a motor gunboat join together to buy their old vessel and go into business for themselves. This may sound like a laudable scheme, but the business they choose to go into is smuggling.

A European family in East Africa finds itself caught up in an uprising by local black Africans against their white colonial masters. Based on the Mau-Mau rebellion in Kenya in the early 1950s.

An Irish "oracle" foretells the next day's track results to a newspaperman, resulting in a national uproar.

Это длинный и правдивый рассказ об океане и двух кораблях. Этот рассказ описывает долгое и яростное сражение. Здесь пойдет речь о двух кораблях потому, что один был потоплен и его пришлось заменить другим. Здесь пойдет речь о двухстах пятидесяти моряках. И наконец, самое главное - это правдивый рассказ. Место действия - океан, Северная Атлантика. Карта поведает вам, как он выглядит, но не откроет, что с ним могут сделать люди и что сам он может сделать с людьми... Сначала о корабле. Первом из двух. О том, который обречен. Это корвет. Новый тип конвойных кораблей. Опытный образец, созданный для того, чтобы хоть как-то встретить отчаянную ситуацию, возникшую на горизонте. Время действия - ноябрь 1939 года. Название корабля - Его Королевского Величества корвет «Компас Роуз». И, наконец, о людях. Некоторые, как и сам этот прекрасный корабль, обречены. Герои этого рассказа — мужчины и их корабли. И единственный злодей среди них — жестокое море.

Lady Buckering, an English widow, has four daughters; Doreen, married to Dougall and about to give birth at home, and Gerda, Bicky and Catherine. The story revolves around the impending birth and the love affairs of the other three daughters; Bicky, with eccentric student Roly; Gerda, married to artist Wilfred; and Catherine, in love with the landlord's son, Clifford Magill. In addition, the impoverished Lady Buckering is being courted by Dr. Drew. Written by Les Adams