Anchoress
Sep 10, 1993A 16th-century peasant becomes transfixed by a statue of the Virgin Mary, and petitions to be walled into a cell attached to the church as a religious hermit.
Drama
Veronica Quilligan
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La Course au trésor
Dec 16, 1977Casey Brown (Jodie Foster) est une jeune orpheline qui vit de petits larcins. Véritable garçon manqué, à l'éducation plus que légère, elle fait un jour la connaissance d'Harry Bundage (Leo McKern), petit escroc minable, qui l'embarque dans une de ses arnaques. Celui-ci s'est en effet mis en tête de mettre la main sur le fabuleux trésor caché au cœur du Manoir de Candleshoe. Pour arriver à ses fins, il compte utiliser l'enfant pour duper la propriétaire, Lady St. Esmund (Helen Hayes), une vieille femme à la recherche de sa petite-fille disparue des années auparavant. Usurpatrice involontaire, Casey doit alors chercher les indices menant à la fortune, tout en veillant à ne pas éveiller les soupçons des autres habitants des lieux, des orphelins recueillis par Lady St. Edmund, au majordome Priory (David Niven)...
Family
Lisztomania
Oct 10, 1975Franz Liszt est un virtuose du piano reconnu dans le monde entier. Sa vie sentimentale, jusqu'à présent très rangée auprès de sa femme et ses deux filles, va basculer du jour au lendemain. En effet, il va tout quitter pour entamer une relation avec la princesse Caroline. L'histoire va se répéter avec la fille du musicien, Cosima, car elle va aussi embrasser une carrière de pianiste et laisser son mari pour partir avec un autre homme, en la personne de Richard Wagner.
Music
Angel
May 14, 1982Danny, un saxophoniste, est témoin du meurtre de son manager et d'une jeune fille sourde et muette. Pour venger ce double meurtre, il décide de mener l'enquête...
Drama
Red Shift
Jan 17, 1978Three men at three different times in history come to Mow Top hill in search of sanctuary from their troubles. A Roman soldier, a medieval rebel and a 1970s young man. Somehow they seem linked through an energy within the hill and an axe. Is history doomed to repeat itself or can loving another person free them?
Drama
Leaving Stockholm
Nov 23, 2014Helen was abducted as a child and kept in a basement for eight years. As a young adult, she invites a television crew to document her recovery, which threatens the fragile emotional balance between herself and her estranged mother.
My Zinc Bed
Aug 27, 2008A recovering alcoholic becomes involved with his boss's wife, a former cocaine addict.
TV Movie
The Raggedy Rawney
Sep 20, 1988During WWII a youth deserts his country's army after a combat experience, but not before wounding his commanding officer with a knife in order to escape. The young man, now very emotionally distraught, dresses in women's clothes and eventually joins a passing gypsy caravan, who think him a young girl... as well as a kind of seer, or 'rawney'. In time, however, he regains some composure and becomes attracted to one of the gypsy girls, which only leads to problems within the gypsy band, especially when the wounded commanding officer finds him.
Drama
The Wildcats of St. Trinian's
Sep 10, 1980The girls of St. Trinian's decide they are being asked to do too much work so they go on strike.
Comedy
Ex Memoria
Aug 26, 2006A film about memory, loss and survival; Eva Lipszyc is a survivor, but she is now locked away in the twilight world of Alzheimer's disease. We see the world from her point of view, at her eye level, and we see how a chance encounter with a caring young nurse breaks through the barrier
Drama
La Rose et la Flèche
Mar 11, 1976Après des années d'exil, Robin des Bois revient avec son fidèle ami Petit Jean à Sherwood. Dame Marianne est entrée au couvent, le Roi Richard et son frère Jean sont devenus fous, le temps de l'aventure semble définitivement terminé pour le valeureux cambrioleur. Mais le shérif de Nottingham revient troubler la paix de Sherwood. Afin de se battre contre l'opression et la terreur qu'inspire le shérif aux habitants, Robin rassemble ses vieux amis.
Adventure
The Vanishing Army
Nov 29, 1978"Why don't you keep that missus o' yours under control? She ain't exactly doin' you a packet o' good, is she? If she was mine I'd bloody put 'er right, I'll tell yer." The marriage of an introverted Scottish army sergeant and his loving, but independent wife is threatened by military life.
Drama
Hostage
Sep 10, 1985Against the backdrop of the bombing campaign in Britain and the Northern Ireland Hunger Strike, a young woman joins a terrorist operation which takes three people hostage. Over the days of their captivity, she questions her own involvement and the history of Ireland which has brought her to this point.
Drama
The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne
Dec 23, 1987Judith Hearne, un professeur de piano timide, tombe amoureuse de l'un des ses élèves, l'entrepreneur James Madden. Mais celui-ci, dans le besoin, décide de jouer le jeu de l'amour pour récupérer l'argent de Judith...
Drama
Papillon
Sep 07, 2017Paris 1930, Henri Charrière dit "Papillon", est condamné à la prison à vie pour un meurtre qu'il n'a pas commis. Il est envoyé au bagne de Cayenne, en Guyane, où il y fera la connaissance de Louis Dega, un célèbre faussaire. Déterminé à s’évader par tous les moyens, Papillon fera équipe avec Louis, pour trouver le moyen de s’échapper de cet enfer.
Drama
La Crique de Malachi
Oct 01, 1973La jeune Mally gagne sa vie en ramassant des algues sur la côte des Cornouailles. Quand un jeune du coin débarque sur sa plage, elle craint de perdre son gagne-pain.
Drama
Paul Bowles – Halbmond
Sep 14, 1995Three short films based on short stories by expatriate American novelist Paul Bowles capture the sense of loss and alienation so common in his works. "Merkala Beach" follows the dissolution of a friendship after a pretty face enters the picture; "Call at Corazon" traces a newlywed couple's challenges while cruising up the Amazon River; and "Allal" chronicles the extraordinary transformation of an Indian boy who befriends a cobra.
Drama
Peak Practice
Jan 31, 2002Peak Practice is a British drama series about a GP surgery in Cardale — a small fictional town in the Derbyshire Peak District — and the doctors who worked there. It ran on ITV from 10 May 1993 to 30 January 2002 and was one of their most successful series at the time. It originally starred Kevin Whately as Dr Jack Kerruish, Amanda Burton as Dr Beth Glover and Simon Shepherd as Dr Will Preston, though the roster of doctors would change many times over the course of the series.
Cardale was based on the Staffordshire village of Longnor for the final series, but was previously based in the Derbyshire village of Crich, although certain scenes were filmed at other nearby Derbyshire towns and villages, most notably Matlock, Belper and Ashover.
Drama
Centrepoint
Oct 29, 1990A young man is reunited with his father, who has been presumed dead for ten years, and then tries to unravel the truth behind his disappearance.
The History Man
Jan 25, 1981Ardently left-wing, or so it seems, Howard Kirk (Antony Sher) subtly extends his power over students and colleagues alike at a redbrick university.
Comedy
Tears Before Bedtime
Jan 29, 1995A story of middle-class professional couples who employ full-time live-in nannies to look after their children. The nannies meet up as a collective group, and often discuss their employers' habits in sordid detail. As the plot develops, it becomes clear that most of the nannies are usually stuck in the middle of domestic unsettlement, affairs, neurotic partners, and manipulation.
