Gypsy's Kiss
May 08, 2017An elderly widow reasserts her own sense of independence with an unconventional yearly pilgrimage to her late husband's grave.
Drama
Graham Seed
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Petits meurtres à l'Anglaise
Jun 17, 2010Victor Maynard , un assassin vieux et solitaire, vit pour satisfaire sa formidable mère Louisa. Sa routine professionnelle est interrompue quand il se trouve attiré par l'une de ses prochaines victimes, Rose. Il épargne sa vie et obtient inopinément un jeune apprenti dans le processus, Tony.
Remake du film français "Cible émouvante" de Pierre Salvadori (1993)
Action
Good and Bad at Games
Dec 18, 1983The story, told partly in flashback to 1968, concerns a clique of English public schoolboys who bully and humiliate an unpopular younger pupil (Cox) who is 'bad at games'. Ten years later Cox uses the naive and equal outsider Niles, who is only included in the clique because he is 'good at games', to find out more about the lead persecutor (Mount), in order to exact revenge
Drama
Gandhi
Dec 01, 1982Reconstitution historique à grand spectacle de la vie de celui que l'on surnomma le "mahatma". La carrière de Gandhi comme avocat débute en Afrique du Sud où il défend les droits de la minorité indienne, ce qui a un grand retentissement dans son pays. Plus tard, dans ses luttes contre les Anglais, il prônera toujours la non-violence et usera essentiellement de l'arme de la grève de la faim.
Drama
Who's Who
Feb 05, 1979Slice-of-life look at class divisions among employees of a brokerage house. Alan, with his portrait of the Queen and love of the peerage; his wife April, who raises cats; youthful and pretentious friends Nigel, Giles, and Anthony, who gather for a wine-soaked dinner party with the chatty and risque Samantha and the mousy Caroline; the plummy Lord and Lady Crouchurst, in a spot of bother needing the help of Francis, a senior partner, to assist with the family's cash flow. Alan comes home from work to find Mr. Shakespeare doing a photo shoot of one of April's cats and a wealthy stranger, Miss Hunt, waiting to purchase one. His instincts for sycophantic palaver kick in.
Drama
These Foolish Things
Mar 10, 2006À l'aube de la Seconde Guerre mondiale, une jeune actrice se retrouve au cœur d'une joute sentimentale entre un dramaturge et un metteur en scène.
Comedy
The Fool
Dec 07, 1990A costume drama / satire about financial skull-duggery, and confidence tricksters in both the upper and lower classes in Victorian London. A working class man impersonates a lord who is supposedly very rich and a financial wizard. As such he is invited to all the best peoples' parties.
Drama
Resnick: Lonely Hearts
Mar 31, 1992Shirley Peters is dead. Murdered. Her body is found twelve hours later in her own home. Just one of the many sordid domestic crimes hitting the city. Tony Macliesh, her rejected boyfriend, is the obvious prime suspect and he’s just been picked off the Aberdeen train and put straight into custody. But then another woman is sexually abused and throttled to death. And suddenly there appears to be one too many connections between these seemingly unrelated crimes. Detective Inspector Resnick is sure that the two murders are the work of one sadistic killer – two lonely hearts broken by one maniac. And it’s up to Resnick to put the record straight – and put the bastard where he belongs
Crime
Station Jim
Dec 30, 2001At a rural railway station in Victorian England, Jim is a spunky Jack Russell Terrier who escapes his mean master at the circus, and is soon befriended by station porter Bob and lonely orphan Henry. His performing feats soon become a local attraction, and before long he's in the middle of a battle to save the local orphanage.
Drama
After the Dance
Dec 05, 1992David and Joan's life has been one continuous party, but their marriage is loveless. Suddenly a young girl appears in their world and announces that she's in love with David and wants to change his life for ever. Adaptation of Terence Rattigan's play.
Drama
Mike Leigh: Making Plays
Sep 04, 1982Writer and Director Mike Leigh discusses the techniques used to create his plays.
Documentary
Honest
May 26, 2000The film is an edgy black comedy set in swinging London in the late 60s. The All Saints girls play three street wise sisters who head 'up West' to rob and generally cause trouble.
Comedy
Old Flames
Jan 14, 1990Daniel is an obeying and high-flying barrister with the good life on his side. Nathaniel Quass is a rich and bizarre recluse, generous, obsessed and sad. This reluctant pair are caught up in an alliance againstu an ingenious conspiracy which threatens both of their lives.
Comedy
Work Experience
Jan 01, 1970Work Experience is a 1989 short film directed by James Hendrie. It follows Terence who is caught in a vicious circle. He cannot get a job because he has no experience, but he cannot gain experience without getting a job! The film won an Oscar for Best Live Action Short Film.
Comedy
Peterloo
Nov 01, 2018Le tristement célèbre massacre de Peterloo eut lieu en 1819, lorsqu’un rassemblement pacifique en faveur de la démocratie à St. Peter’s Field à Manchester. Il reste l’un des épisodes les plus sanglants de l’histoire britannique. Ce jour-là, la police chargea une foule de plus de 60 000 personnes réunies pour exiger des réformes politiques et protester contre la montée de la pauvreté. De nombreux manifestants furent tués et des centaines d’autres blessés, provoquant des manifestations dans tout le pays, mais aussi de nouvelles répressions du gouvernement. Ce moment déterminant de l’histoire britannique mena à la création du journal The Guardian.
History
AKA
Jan 19, 2002L'action commence en 1978, elle est située en Grande-Bretagne et à Paris. C'est l'histoire de Dean Page, un garçon des classes populaires qui veut échapper à sa condition sociale et pour cela finit par se faire passer pour un jeune aristocrate. Il croise le parcours d'un jeune Américain qui se prostitue pour pouvoir s'insérer dans la haute société. Dean a été victime de viols répétés de la part de son père.
Drama
Sky Lark
Mar 27, 1981PETER: What can I do? PHYLLIDA: Surprise me. Faced with that challenge, Peter's imagination takes off in a way which surprises everyone.
Jeeves and Wooster
Jun 20, 1993Jeeves and Wooster is a British comedy-drama series adapted by Clive Exton from P.G. Wodehouse's "Jeeves" stories.
It aired on the ITV network from 1990 to 1993, starring Hugh Laurie as Bertie Wooster, a young gentleman with a "distinctive blend of airy nonchalance and refined gormlessness", and Stephen Fry as Jeeves, his improbably well-informed and talented valet. Wooster is a bachelor, a minor aristocrat and member of the idle rich. He and his friends, who are mainly members of The Drones Club, are extricated from all manner of societal misadventures by the indispensable valet, Jeeves. The stories are set in the United Kingdom and the United States in the 1930s.
Comedy
Brookside
Nov 03, 2003
Bergerac
Mar 09, 1991Bergerac is a British television show set on Jersey. Produced by the BBC in association with the Seven Network, and first screened on BBC1, it stars John Nettles as the title character Detective Sergeant Jim Bergerac, a detective in Le Bureau des Étrangers, part of the States of Jersey Police.
Drama
The Bill
Aug 31, 2010The daily lives of the men and women at Sun Hill Police Station as they fight crime on the streets of London. From bomb threats to armed robbery and drug raids to the routine demands of policing this ground-breaking series focuses as much on crime as it does on the personal lives of its characters.
Crime
Crossroads
Jun 09, 1967Crossroads is a British television soap opera set in a fictional motel near Birmingham, England. Created by Hazel Adair and Peter Ling, the commercial ITV network originally broadcast the series between 1964 and 1988. Produced by ATV and later by Central it became a byword for cheap production values, particularly in the 1970s and early 1980s. The series was revived in a glossier version by Carlton Television in 2001, but was again cancelled in 2003.
The original theme tune was composed by Tony Hatch, and notably covered by Paul McCartney & Wings on their 1975 album Venus and Mars. A new version, which was first aired in 1987 when the series was relaunched as Crossroads, Kings Oak, was composed by Raf Ravenscroft and Max Early.
Drama
Suspect numéro 1
Oct 22, 2006Cette série met en scène les enquêtes de l'inspecteur principal Jane Tennison qui doit se battre au quotidien pour s'imposer et se faire respecter dans un milieu essentiellement masculin.
Crime
Retour au château
Dec 22, 1981Une famille anglaise aristocratique est représentée dans les années entre la Grande Guerre et la Seconde Guerre mondiale, souvent au domaine familial en ruine, le Brideshead Manor, essayant de faire face aux problèmes familiaux comme l'alcoolisme, l'homosexualité, la manie religieuse et le dysfonctionnement sexuel et de trouver le "bonheur".
Drama
Les Rivaux de Sherlock Holmes
May 07, 1973Sherlock Holmes n'était pas le seul détective au travail à la fin de l'Angleterre victorienne. D'autres, parfois honnêtes, parfois peu dignes de confiance, mais tous très compétents, étaient à l'œuvre dans toute l'Angleterre, et aussi dans la vieille Europe. Dans chacun des 26 épisodes de cette série, un nouveau crime est mis en scène et un nouveau détective (rival de Sherlock Holmes) est chargé de le résoudre.
Crime
The Cleopatras
Feb 23, 1983Eight-part drama covering the lives of the queens of Egypt from Cleopatra II in 145 BC to the death of the famous Cleopatra VII in 30 BC.
Drama
C.A.B
Aug 15, 1989
The Kenny Everett Television Show
Jan 18, 1988
Agatha Christie - Dix brèves rencontres
Nov 16, 1982Dix brèves rencontres est un recueil de dix drames basés sur des nouvelles de la romancière la plus populaire de l'histoire. Mettant en vedette un mélange enivrant de romance, d'aventure surnaturelle et passionnante, les épisodes mettent tous en valeur le flair inégalé de Christie pour le dramatique. Avec des stars invitées telles que John Nettles, Roy Kinnear, Amanda Redman, Rupert Everett et Cherie Lunghi, les épisodes de cet ensemble sont:
Action & Adventure
'Allo 'Allo!
Dec 14, 1992Cette série comique met en scène René Artois, propriétaire d'un café dans un village (Nouvion, Picardie) de la France occupée. Engagé malgré lui dans la Résistance, il doit faire face à deux officiers allemands avec lesquels il traficote pour obtenir quelques denrées (et qui en contrepartie détournent des objets de valeur qu'ils lui confient en éveillant les soupçons d'un officier zélé de la Gestapo), à son épouse Édith (qui s'obstine à imposer ses concerts en chantant faux au grand désespoir de la clientèle du café), à sa belle-mère acariâtre et sourde (chez qui il a caché l'émetteur de radio) et enfin à ses deux serveuses et à un lieutenant allemand qui tous trois le trouvent irrésistible !
Comedy
Victoria Wood
Nov 30, 1989Victoria Wood was a series of six one-off situation comedies written by and starring Victoria Wood in 1989, who took a break from sketches, two years after her very successful and award winning series Victoria Wood As Seen on TV. Wood appeared as "Victoria", a fictionalised version of herself, in all six episodes - in The Library it was said that she "worked in TV" and in Over To Pam characters appeared to recognise her celebrity and in the final episode, Staying In, she was taken to a party to perform as a comedienne and was expected to go through her stand-up 'routine'. Her character often broke the 'fourth wall' of TV and spoke directly to the camera, but not in every episode.
Bored with the sketch format and with a yearning to recapture previous success as a playwright, Wood came up with six individual sitcoms as a compromise. She admitted to finding the writing difficult. Though Wood was written as the central character, other lead parts were written with specific actresses in mind, like Julie Walters and Una Stubbs. "I want people to like me and the people who play my friends, and not everybody else" she said. Screenonline says of the shows "Modest in ambition and scale but rich in wit and acuity, the six playlets showcase Wood's eye for human foibles and her distinctively eccentric characters.".
Comedy
Edward the Seventh
Jul 01, 1975Edward the Seventh is a 1975 television drama series, made by ATV in 13 episodes.
Based on the biography of Edward VII by Philip Magnus, it starred Timothy West as the elder Edward VII and Simon Gipps-Kent and Charles Sturridge as Edward in his youth, Annette Crosbie as Queen Victoria, Deborah Grant and Helen Ryan as Queen Alexandra, Robert Hardy as the Prince Consort, Alison Leggatt as the Duchess of Kent, and Felicity Kendal as Princess Vicky. It was directed by John Gorrie, who wrote episodes 7-10 with David Butler writing the remainder of the series.
The series also featured John Gielgud as Benjamin Disraeli, Michael Hordern as William Ewart Gladstone, Harry Andrews as young Edward's tutor Colonel Bruce, Jane Lapotaire as Empress Marie of Russia, Christopher Neame as Kaiser Wilhelm II and, in one of his earliest roles, Charles Dance as Edward's eldest son Eddy, who died at the age of 28. Gielgud previously played Disraeli in the 1941 film The Prime Minister.
The actresses playing Edward's mistresses include Moira Redmond as Alice Keppel and Carolyn Seymour as Daisy Greville. Francesca Annis was featured in two episodes as Lillie Langtry which led to Butler writing a full series about Mrs Langtry's life for Annis to star in, Lillie.
Drama
Dinnerladies
Jan 27, 2000Dinnerladies is a BBC sitcom written by and starring Victoria Wood that chronicles the antics of a group of workers in a canteen in the north of England. Bren tries to maintain a semblance of order in amongst the chaos, while dealing with the canteen supervisor, slightly sex-obsessed cancer sufferer Tony. Dolly and Jean are the bickering menopausal older women, always at odds but best friends beneath it all. Then there's thick-as-two-short-planks Anita, and the terminally uninterested Twinkle, more concerned with having a good time than anything else. Making up the motley crew are military man handyman Stan, all rules and regulations, and ditzy Philippa, who never seems to get anything right.
Comedy
The Upper Hand
Oct 14, 1996The Upper Hand is a British television sitcom, produced by Central Independent Television and Columbia Pictures Television and broadcast by ITV from 1990 to 1996. The programme was adapted from the American sitcom Who's the Boss?.
As in the former series, an affluent single woman, raising a son with the help of her mother, hires a housekeeper only to have a man apply for the job.
Comedy
Inspecteur Barnaby
Jul 23, 2024L'inspecteur Barnaby, accompagné de son adjoint, enquêtent sur les crimes commis dans la région anglaise fictive du Midsomer...
Crime
Public Eye
Apr 07, 1975Public Eye is a British television series that ran from 1965 to 1975. It was produced by ABC Television for three series, and Thames Television for a further four series. The series depicted the investigations and cases handled by the unglamorous enquiry agent Frank Marker, an unmarried loner who is in his early forties when the series begins. In the words of an ABC trailer for the third series: "Marker isn't a glamorous detective and he doesn't get glamorous cases—he doesn't even get glamorous girls. What he does get is people who are in trouble—the sort of trouble you can't go to the police about, even if you are innocent."
Crime
Inspecteur Barnaby
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Crime
La folle aventure des Durrell
May 12, 2019Louisa Durrell, dont le mari est mort il y a quelques années déjà, est bientôt sans le sou. Mère de 4 enfants qui lui compliquent bien l’existence, elle décide de quitter la Grande-Bretagne et emmène sa famille à Corfou, en Grèce.
Drama
Bizarre, bizarre
May 13, 1988Cette série est une anthologie d'histoires horrifiques et fantastiques inspirées de l'oeuvre de Roald Dahl.
Drama
