Unfair Exchanges
Jan 20, 1985Julie Walters stars as a single mother seemingly haunted by a sinister telephone system that seems to have become an evil intelligence in its own right.
Drama
Charles Pemberton
Recently added
Sir Norbert Smith, a Life
Nov 03, 1989a spoof TV documentary film (a "mockumentary") charting the life and career of the fictitious British actor Sir Norbert Smith.
Comedy
The Russian Soldier
Mar 09, 1986What is it that Edgar Garrett sees, or thinks he sees, on his farm one morning in the mists of early spring? Whatever it is, one thing is certain. Life will never be the same again for him and his family.
Drama
Les Chandelles noires
Oct 04, 1991Alors qu'il s'est provisoirement mis en congé de l'Intelligence Service, George Smiley est appelé à la rescousse par une amie, Ailsa Brimley. Celle-ci vient elle-même de recevoir un S.O.S. Stella Rode, dont le mari enseigne dans un très chic collège anglais, affirme que son digne époux projette de l'assassiner.
Mystery
Stainless Steel and the Star Spies
Jan 01, 1981The Metaliens, alien robots intent on galactic domination, encounter a major setback. Their enormous Space Saucer, 'Compromise', enters a black hole in a strange, uncharted region of Space, and collides with another craft – sending the Kleptonite Ball, their precious cargo and the key to Universal Conquest, hurtling to a planet inhabited by primitive life forms: Earth. Having materialised in a bar, the Ball variously functions as a Christmas tree decoration, a bathroom ornament, and a fortune-teller's prop. The Metaliens must retrieve the Kleptonite Ball if their mission is ever to succeed. And that's when their problems really begin…
Comedy
Brannigan
Mar 21, 1975Policier à Chicago, l’inspecteur Jim Brannigan se rend à Londres afin de gérer l’extradition vers les États-Unis de Ben Larkin, un criminel américain se trouvant sous la surveillance de Scotland Yard. Ce dernier se retrouve enlevé par une organisation réclamant une grosse rançon contre sa libération. Alors qu’il se trouve dans la ligne de mire d’un tueur chargé de le supprimer, Brannigan va devoir dès lors collaborer avec Sir Charles Swann de Scotland Yard. Tant bien que mal, leurs méthodes n’ayant que peu en commun, les deux hommes font équipe.
Action
Frères du désert
Sep 08, 2002En 1898, Harry Feverham, un officier de l'empire britannique, refuse d'aller se battre au Soudan et quitte l'armée. Synonyme de déshonneur, son acte l'exclut immédiatement de la haute société londonienne. Trois de ses amis, dont le lieutenant Jack Durrance et sa fiancée, lui envoient alors 4 plumes blanches symbolisant la lâcheté. Incompris et tourmenté, Harry apprend que son ancien régiment est tombé aux mains des rebelles soudanais. Il décide alors de regagner son honneur en allant sauver ses amis
Action
England, Summer, Sunday
Jan 31, 1976
Porridge
Aug 12, 1979Times are hard for habitual guest of Her Majesty Norman Stanley Fletcher. The new prison officer, Beale, makes MacKay look soft and what's more, an escape plan is hatching from the cell of prison godfather Grouty and Fletcher wants no part of it.
Comedy
On Giant's Shoulders
Mar 28, 1979The true story of Terry Wiles, born with no limbs in 1962 as a result of his mother's use of the drug thalidomide. This film tells the story of his childhood and adoption by the couple Len and Hazel Wiles who live on a remote farm, and the subsequent challenges and resistance to give Terry a 'normal' life.
Drama
Playing Away
Jan 02, 1987To mark the conclusion of their "Third World Week" celebration, a cricket team in a small English village invites a black cricket team from South London to a charity game with comical results.
TV Movie
King of Fridges
Sep 18, 2004A play about an ambitious young manager of a Dixons-style electrical warehouse who gets saddled with a 65-year-old re-trainee on a frenetic bank holiday.
Drama
Doctor Who: The Tomb of the Cybermen
Sep 23, 1967Aided by his two assistants Jamie and Victoria, the Doctor lands the TARDIS on Telos, last resting place of the infamous Cybermen. There he discovers a band of archaelogists on a secret expedition to unearth the reason for his old enemies' extinction. In the underground shadowy depths, they find the icy tomb. A whole army in hibernation. A threat to no one, if the temperature remains low. But if the traitor in their midst gets his way, things could really heat up.
Adventure
Black Joy
Nov 06, 1977An innocent and unsophisticated Guyanese immigrant is exposed to the hustlin' way of life in the Brixton ghetto.
Comedy
La Panthère noire
Dec 26, 1977La panthère noire relate l'histoire vraie de Donald Neilson, ennemi public n°1, braqueur, meurtrier et auteur d'un rapt qui choqua l'Angleterre dans le milieu des années 70...
Crime
L'homme que je suis
Dec 17, 1975Multi primée, cette adaptation de l'autobiographie à succès de Quentin Crisp, The Naked Civil Servant, présente un homme luttant pour vivre un style de vie ouvertement gay et flamboyant à une époque où l'homosexualité était illégale en Grande-Bretagne. Son comportement extravagant a choqué la société britannique intolérante d'avant la Seconde Guerre mondiale et a provoqué de fréquentes attaques homophobes, mais Crisp a catégoriquement refusé de faire des compromis et est devenu une célébrité culte et une icône gay internationale. Drôle, tragique et parfois réconfortante, cette histoire sans faille d’un homme non conventionnel, fortement mise en scène par Jack Gold, est devenue un classique instantané de la TV britannique.
Drama
Doctor Who: The War Games
Jun 21, 1969The Doctor, Jamie and Zoe arrive on an unnamed planet. At first believing themselves in the midst of World War I, they realise it to be one of many War Zones overseen by the War Lords, who have kidnapped large numbers of human soldiers to form the greatest army the universe has ever seen. At the helm of this plot is the War Chief, another renegade Time Lord like the Doctor. The creeping realisation sets in that the Doctor cannot solve this problem alone, and that his days of wandering may be at an end...
Science Fiction
Wayne and Albert
Mar 15, 1983When Wayne has to go and live with his grandfather Albert, they both initially resent the arrangement. Hostilities soften when they discover some common interests.
Drama
Pat and Margaret
Sep 11, 1994Unexpected events occur when Pat, a glamorous British-born star of American soaps, returns home to plug her auto-biography on television and meets, for the first time since they were teenagers, Margaret her plain and frumpy younger sister. The meeting is painful for both women highlighting the vast differences in their lives and resurrecting painful memories of their unhappy childhood with an uncaring, errant mother. The tabloid press smell a juicy story and a race ensues to trace the whereabouts of the long lost parent.
Drama
Dangerous Davies: The Last Detective
Jan 04, 1981When D. C. Dangerous Davies, not held in high regard by his superiors, is assigned to find a notorious criminal kingpin, he uncovers the details of 15-year-old cold case.
Crime
Adventures of a Taxi Driver
Apr 30, 1976Joe North is a London taxi driver who manages to get himself into any number of sexual situations with various women.
Comedy
The Chauffeur
Apr 30, 1976Joe, the chauffeur to an unnamed South American embassy, enjoys the small prks of privilege that his job provides him. When a coup in the country results in the ambassador's recall, his halycon life is upended.
Hammer La Maison de tous les Cauchemars
Dec 06, 1980Une anthologie d'histoires où des individus ordinaires sont placés dans un contexte fantastique ou d'horreur dans la tradition des productions du studio Hammer.
Mystery
Minder
Mar 10, 1994This comedy drama series featured Terry McCann, a former boxer with a conviction for G.B.H., and Arthur Daley, a second-hand car dealer with an eye for a nice little earner. Alongside his many business ventures, Arthur would regularly hire Terry out as a minder or bodyguard, later replaced by nephew, Ray Daley.
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
Le retour du Saint
Mar 11, 1979L'acteur Ian Ogilvy reprend le rôle de Simon Templar tenu naguère par Roger Moore dans ses nouvelles aventures du Saint, un véritable justicier des temps modernes.
Action & Adventure
Charters and Caldicott
Feb 14, 1985Charters and Caldicott is a 1985 BBC mystery series featuring the characters Charters and Caldicott from the film The Lady Vanishes. It featured six 50 minute episodes broadcast on BBC1 at 9.25pm on Thursdays from 10 January to 14 February 1985.
Drama
Hercule Poirot
Nov 13, 2013Hercule Poirot, policier belge retraité, à la moustache parfaite dont il est si fier. Il s'est exilé en Angleterre suite aux ravages de la Première Guerre mondiale. Désormais, il vit à Londres et exerce en tant que détective privé. Sa réputation d'enquêteur hors pair est internationale et de nombreuses personnes font appel à lui pour percer des mystères que la police ne pourra pas résoudre ou n'a pas su résoudre.
Crime
Hercule Poirot
Nov 13, 2013Hercule Poirot, policier belge retraité, à la moustache parfaite dont il est si fier. Il s'est exilé en Angleterre suite aux ravages de la Première Guerre mondiale. Désormais, il vit à Londres et exerce en tant que détective privé. Sa réputation d'enquêteur hors pair est internationale et de nombreuses personnes font appel à lui pour percer des mystères que la police ne pourra pas résoudre ou n'a pas su résoudre.
Crime
Miss Marple : Une poignée de seigle
Mar 08, 1985Lorsqu'une poignée de céréales est trouvée dans la poche d'un homme d'affaires assassiné, Mlle Marple cherche un meurtrier avec un penchant pour les comptines.
Crime
(All Quiet on the) Preston Front
Sep 08, 1997All Quiet on the Preston Front (or the shortened Preston Front as it became known for series two and three) was a BBC comedy drama about a group of friends in the fictional Lancashire town of Roker Bridge, and their links to the local Territorial Army infantry platoon. It was created by Tim Firth and ran from 1994 to 1997.
Comedy
The Paradise Club
Nov 27, 1990The Paradise Club is a BBC television drama starring Don Henderson and Leslie Grantham as Frank & Danny Kane. Two series were produced and were broadcast between 1989 and 1990.
The show focuses upon two brothers, Frank & Danny Kane. Their mother, Ma Kane, is the matriarch of a criminal gang in South London, helped by her son Danny. Frank has become a priest but leaves the church; he inherits The Paradise Club on the death of their mother and returns to London to try and steer Danny away from crime.
Drama
Bread
Nov 03, 1991Bread is a British television sitcom, written by Carla Lane, produced by the BBC and screened on BBC1 from 1 May 1986 to 3 November 1991.
The series focused on the devoutly-Catholic and extended Boswell family of Liverpool, in the district of Dingle, led by its matriarch Nellie through a number of ups and downs as they tried to make their way through life in Thatcher's Britain with no visible means of support. The street shown at the start of each programme is Elswick Street. A family called Boswell had also featured in Lane's earlier sitcom The Liver Birds and Lane admitted in interviews that the two families were probably related.
Nellie's feckless and estranged husband, Freddie, left her for another woman known as 'Lilo Lill'. Her children Joey, Jack, Adrian, Aveline and Billy continued to live in the family home in Kelsall Street and contributed money to the central family fund, largely through benefit fraud and the sale of stolen goods.
Comedy
All Creatures Great and Small
Nov 17, 1990Les aventures de James Herriot, un jeune vétérinaire de campagne, dans les années 1930, qui a quitté Glasgow pour le Yorkshire Dales, pour devenir l’assistant de Siegfried Farnon.
Adaptation des récits autobiographiques de James Herriot, des classiques de la littérature britannique.
Comedy
Terry and June
Aug 31, 1987Terry and June Medford are both middle aged and beginning to find the trials of life are more difficult as they try to succeed in their daily lives. The couple have just moved to Purley, south-east London... Aunt Lucy and the mynah bird had disappeared, as had the occasionally visiting daughters. Terry and June now mixed with a friendly next door neighbour, Beattie; Terry's chatty work colleague, Malcolm; and their gruff boss Sir Dennis Hodge. Otherwise, things were much as before, with Terry's pigheaded childishness causing no end of problems, usually thwarting June's attempts at leading a cosy life.
Comedy
Miss Marple
Feb 08, 1987Cette série met en scène les enquêtes de Miss Marple, la célèbre héroïne d'Agatha Christie.
Drama
Danger UXB
Apr 02, 1979Danger UXB is a 1979 British ITV television series about World War II developed by John Hawkesworth and starring Anthony Andrews as Lieutenant Brian Ash, an officer in the Royal Engineers.
The series chronicles the exploits of the fictional 97 Tunnelling Company which as a result of thousands of unexploded bombs in London during the Blitz has been made a bomb disposal unit. As with all his fellow officers, Ash must for the most part learn the techniques and procedures of disarming and destroying the UXBs through experience, repeatedly confronted with more cunning and deadlier technological advances in aerial bomb fusing. The series primarily featured military story lines, with a romantic thread featuring an inventor's married daughter, Susan Mount, with whom Ash falls in love, and other human interest vignettes.
The programme was titled and partly based on the memoirs of Major A. B. Hartley, M.B.E, RE, Unexploded Bomb - The Story of Bomb Disposal, with episodes written by Hawkesworth and four screenwriters. The series was filmed in 1978 in and around the Clapham, Streatham and Tooting areas of South London.
The programme appeared on the U.S. PBS as a segment of Masterpiece Theatre from January 4 to April 5, 1981. It was also screened in Australia on the public broadcaster ABC Television.
Drama
Sapphire & Steel
Aug 31, 1982Sapphire & Steel is a British television science-fiction fantasy series starring David McCallum as Steel and Joanna Lumley as Sapphire. Produced by ATV, it ran from 1979 to 1982 on the ITV network. The series was created by Peter J. Hammond who conceived the programme under the working title The Time Menders, after a stay in an allegedly haunted castle. Hammond also wrote all the stories except for the fifth, which was co-written by Don Houghton and Anthony Read.
In 2004, Sapphire and Steel returned in a series of audio dramas starring David Warner and Susannah Harker.
Drama
Les Professionnels
Feb 06, 1983Cette série met en scène les aventures de William Bodie et Raymond Doyle deux des meilleurs agents du CI5 (Criminal Intelligence 5), une organisation secrète chargée de maintenir la sécurité en Angleterre dont le patron est l'irascible George Cowley.
Action & Adventure
Les Professionnels
Feb 06, 1983Cette série met en scène les aventures de William Bodie et Raymond Doyle deux des meilleurs agents du CI5 (Criminal Intelligence 5), une organisation secrète chargée de maintenir la sécurité en Angleterre dont le patron est l'irascible George Cowley.
Action & Adventure
Le coffret magique
Dec 24, 1984Kay Harker revient du pensionnat pour Noël 1934 quand il se retrouve mêlé à une bataille pour posséder une boîte magique. Le propriétaire actuel de la boîte est un vieil homme appelé Cole Hawlings que Kay rencontre à la gare. Ils développent une amitié instantanée.
La boîte permet au propriétaire de réduire sa taille, de changer de forme, de voler, de voyager dans le passé et de découvrir diverses merveilles et créatures magiques. Cole confie la boîte à Kay. L'écolier va vivre de nombreuses aventures au fil du temps alors qu'il protège la boîte.
Sci-Fi & Fantasy
