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Antonia Bird: From EastEnders to Hollywood

May 12, 2016

Antonia Bird: From EastEnders to Hollywood

2016 93 min 1 vues

In this new documentary, Susan Kemp explores the life and work of the great British director Antonia Bird, who died in 2013. Bird blazed a trail from the radical hotbed of the Royal Court Theatre in the 70s, via the groundbreaking early days of EastEnders and Casualty in the 80s, all the way to Hollywood in the 90s and back again. She always had something urgent to say, but her career was a long struggle to get her voice heard. Featuring many of her close collaborators, including Robert Carlyle, Irvine Welsh, Kate Hardie and Mark Cousins, this documentary is the first to examine Bird’s legacy, and to place her where she belongs – among the most important British film, TV and theatre directors of her era.

Documentary

1

A Call for Peace

Jan 01, 1970

A Call for Peace

1970 55 min 1 vues

The latest world success in peace agreements is the Colombian peace process. “A Call For Peace” uncovers behind-the-scenes secrets of this historic, high-stakes negotiation through a series of in-depth interviews with leading global peace negotiators, foreign ministers, and world-renowned diplomats. The film is not only a moving and revealing view into the work that helped end more than 50 years of war in Colombia but also a striking story of reconciliation in the 21st-century Americas.

Documentary

6.6

A Christmas Carol

Dec 24, 1977

A Christmas Carol

1977 58 min 17 vues

Miser Ebenezer Scrooge is awakened on Christmas Eve by spirits who reveal to him his own miserable existence, what opportunities he wasted in his youth, his current cruelties, and the dire fate that awaits him if he does not change his ways. Scrooge is faced with his own story of growing bitterness and meanness, and must decide what his own future will hold: death or redemption.

Family

1

Sons and Lovers

Jan 14, 1981

Sons and Lovers

1981 385 min 1 vues

An adaptation for television by Trevor Griffiths of DH Lawrence's classic novel

Drama

1

The Eagle Has Landed

Apr 04, 1973

The Eagle Has Landed

1973 26 min 1 vues

A mission takes off for the moon. But this is a space probe with a difference. Its purpose is to stage the first-ever live variety show from the lunar surface.

Drama

6.3

Element of Doubt

Dec 30, 1996

Element of Doubt

1996 102 min 3 vues

A woman has doubts about the intentions of her husband, even to the point where she thinks he might kill her.

Thriller

5.6

Bertie and Elizabeth

Jun 04, 2002

Bertie and Elizabeth

2002 108 min 7 vues

The duke of York, nicknamed Bertie, was born as royal 'spare heir', younger brother to the prince of Wales, and thus expected to spend a relatively private life with his Scottish wife Elisabeth Bowes-Lyon and their daughters, in the shadow of their reigning father, George V, and next that of his elder brother who succeeded to the British throne as Edward VIII. However Edward decides to put his love for a divorced American, Wallis Simpson, above dynastic duty, and ends up abdicating the throne, which now falls to Bertie, who reigns as George VI.

Drama

6.7

The Woman In White

Jan 01, 1997

The Woman In White

1997 125 min 23 vues

Based upon Wilkie Collins Victorian mystery, the gothic tale tells of a pair of half sisters whose lives end up caught in a grand conspiracy revolving around a mentally ill woman dressed in white. As the story unfolds, murder, love, marriage, and greed stand between the two women and happy lives. Their only hope is the secret the woman in white waits to tell them.

Thriller

5.7

Frenchman's Creek

Dec 19, 1998

Frenchman's Creek

1998 120 min 6 vues

Seeking to escape the stifling London court society, the beautiful headstrong Lady Dona St. Columb flees to her family estate on the Cornish coast. Her new freedom swiftly brings her into contact with the dashingly handsome French privateer Jean Aubrey who sweeps her off her feet and into a world of adventure on the high seas very different from her dull and boring life at court with her husband Sir Harry. Together with Jean Aubrey and her enigmatic servant William, Lady Dona conceives a daring plan to steal a ship right from under the noses of the English authorities. The theft enrages the authorities who make every effort to trap the French Pirate. However, as the noose begins to tighten around the lovers, Lady Dona is faced with the dilemma of duty and children with Sir Harry or freedom and excitement with Jean Aubrey

Drama

4.7

A Thief Of Time

Jul 11, 2004

A Thief Of Time

2004 94 min 3 vues

Officers Leaphorn and Chee search for a missing anthropologist suspected of stealing artifacts from a burial site.

Crime

6.1

Cider with Rosie

Dec 26, 1998

Cider with Rosie

1998 102 min 7 vues

Made by Carlton Television for ITV (UK) , this adaptation of Laurie Lee's autobiographical novel follows a young man's maturation in the country town of Gloucestershire near the end of World War I. As young Laurie (Dashiell Reece) comes of age under the protective eye of his mother (Juliet Stevenson), he learns to live with an eccentric collection of friends, neighbours, and relatives. As he enters his teenage years, Laurie (now played by Joe Roberts) discovers women, specifically Rosie Burdock (Lia Barrow). Veteran screenwriter John Mortimer adapted Lee's book, with Lee narrating.

Drama

1

Lloyd & Hill

Jul 01, 2003

Lloyd & Hill

2003 120 min 1 vues

Just transferring into a squad run by her ex-Lover, DI Judy Hill is assigned to the case of a strangled schoolgirl.

Drama

5.7

Dirty Tricks

Sep 24, 2000

Dirty Tricks

2000 162 min 7 vues

Martin Clunes plays Edward, an English tutor at an Oxford language school. Seemingly charming and thoughtful, Edward is really a calculating liar and manipulator. A series of events triggered at a dinner party leads Edward down a very precarious and hilarious path.

Comedy

5.5

Dr. Jekyll et Mr. Hyde

Nov 20, 1980

Dr. Jekyll et Mr. Hyde

1980 115 min 2 vues

Martin Clunes plays Edward, an English tutor at an Oxford language school. Seemingly charming and thoughtful, Edward is really a calculating liar and manipulator. A series of events triggered at a dinner party leads Edward down a very precarious and hilarious path.

Horror

1

Occupations

Sep 01, 1974

Occupations

1974 90 min 1 vues

In an attempt to win better conditions for the workers in 1920s Turin, Gramsci leads a takeover of the factories by the workers. He is offered assistance by Kabak (who has just arrived from Moscow) but Gramsci soon realizes Kabak is not motivated by ideology, as he has other motives.

Drama

6

May 29, 1985

1985 min 7 vues

Bleak House is BBC television drama first broadcast in 1985. The serial was adapted by Arthur Hopcraft from Charles Dickens' novel Bleak House and it was the second adaptation by the BBC.

Drama

6.5

Dec 16, 1987

1987 min 13 vues

The life of British MI6 spy Magnus Pym, from his school days to his mysterious disappearance.

Drama

7.558

Oct 22, 1979

1979 min 112 vues

George Smiley, the aging master spy of the Cold War and once heir apparent to Control, is brought back out of retirement to flush out a top level mole within the Circus. Smiley must travel back through his life and murky workings of the Circus to unravel the net spun by his nemesis Karla 'The Sandman' of the KGB and reveal the identity of the mole before he disappears.

War & Politics

7

Dec 02, 1979

1979 min 2 vues

A dramatization of Vera Brittain's 1933 autobiography Testament of Youth—a memorial to a generation devastated by WWI—chronicles her experiences as a nurse in London and Malta and at the front lines in France. It opens with 18-year-old Vera, the genteel daughter of a paper-mill owner, nurturing 'hopes of escaping from provincial young ladyhood.' Her plan is to attend Oxford.

Drama

7.7

Oct 25, 1982

1982 min 46 vues

Called out of retirement to settle the affairs of a friend, Smiley finds his old organization, the Circus, so overwhelmed by political considerations that it doesn't want to know what happened. He begins to follow up the clues of his friends past days, discovering that the clues lead to a high person in the Russian Secret service, and a secret important enough to kill for.

Drama

5.9

Mar 26, 1980

1980 min 8 vues

Therese, an attractive young woman married to her sickly cousin Camille, leads an extremely monotonous life until Camille brings home Laurent, an old schoolmate.

Drama

6.4

Oct 28, 1985

1985 min 6 vues

Dennis Potter adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel about how the rich languoring on the Riviera in the 1920s are slowly drawn into the coming depression is once again filmed with Peter Strauss, Mary Steenburgen, and John Heard in the leads.

Drama

5

Oct 22, 1978

1978 min 2 vues

A five-part adapation of the infamous book, which stars Ken Hutchison and Kay Adshead as tortured lovers Heathcliff and Cathy.

Drama

5.7

Mar 05, 1978

1978 min 3 vues

Michael Henchard, an out-of-work hay-trusser, gets drunk at a fair and for five guineas sells his wife and child to a sailor. When the horror of his act finally sets in, Henchard swears he will not touch alcohol for twenty-one years. Through hard work and acumen, he becomes rich, respected, and eventually the mayor of Casterbridge. But eighteen years after his fateful oath, his wife and daughter, Elizabeth-Jane, return to Casterbridge, and his fortunes steadily decline.

Drama

6.8

Feb 10, 1980

1980 min 22 vues

The arrival of a young, well-off, eligible man named Mr. Bingley sends the Bennet household--with five girls of a marrying age--into a tizzy. But it's the introduction of Mr. Bingley's friend, Mr. Darcy, that sets in motion the fate of Elizabeth Bennet, resolved only after a labyrinth of social and personal complexities.

Drama

5.9

Jan 06, 1997

1997 min 16 vues

Maxim De Winter se marie avec une jeune femme qui a la moitié de son âge. Elle se retrouve alors dans un monde aristocratique dont elle ne possède pas les codes.

Drama

1

Feb 03, 1982

1982 min 1 vues

7.3

Jun 05, 1979

1979 min 3 vues

A three-part adaptation of Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment, where a young student commits a murder and is forced into incriminating himself.

Drama

7

Dec 22, 1982

1982 min 5 vues

Against the sumptuous background of Peterborough Cathedral and its environs, one is carried into Trollope's world of the intriguing machinations of the clerical establishment of Barchester. Backed by the authenticity of the period detail, the portrayal of all the characters accurately conveys the whole range of human emotions within the stories.

Drama

7.5

May 12, 1982

1982 min 2 vues

In Victorian England, Laura and her half-sister Marian are entwined in a terrifying web of deceit. Laura's doppelganger, a mysterious woman dressed all in white, may hold the key to unlock the mystery.

Drama

7

Dec 02, 1979

1979 min 2 vues

A dramatization of Vera Brittain's 1933 autobiography Testament of Youth—a memorial to a generation devastated by WWI—chronicles her experiences as a nurse in London and Malta and at the front lines in France. It opens with 18-year-old Vera, the genteel daughter of a paper-mill owner, nurturing 'hopes of escaping from provincial young ladyhood.' Her plan is to attend Oxford.

Drama