The Face of Darkness
Nov 01, 1976An MP arranges a bomb in a school playground as a pretext to bring back the death penalty.
Thriller
Jonathan Elsom
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Le lion sort ses griffes
Jun 19, 1980Une cleptomane est chargée par un inspecteur de Scotland Yard d'espionner un voleur de diamants connus de tous les services…
Adventure
A Private Enterprise
Jan 23, 1975An ambitious Indian university graduate has to struggle to live his entrepreneurial dreams against both the British social structure and his own family's stubborn traditional values.
Drama
Les yeux du mal
Jan 25, 1980Une femme étrange accouche par accident dans une charmante famille. La mère disparaît le lendemain sans laisser de traces. L'enfant sera adopté par la jeune famille dont la vie paisible se trouve curieusement contrariée.
Horror
Ping Pong
Jul 17, 1987After restaurateur Sam Wong dies in a telephone booth after making a call, law clerk Elaine Choi is tasked with executing his will. In order for the will to be valid, it needs to be signed by its recipients, but Choi finds that each of them are reluctant to do so.
Mystery
To the Manor Born: Britain's Best Loved Comedy
Jan 27, 2024A feature-length special retrospective of one of Britain's most beloved sitcoms, with new and archival interviews and footage examining the production and enduring cultural impact of the BBC's 'To the Manor Born'.
Documentary
The Death of Adolf Hitler
Jan 07, 1973The final days in the Bunker, with Hitler becoming more and more paranoid, plumbing the depths of his madness and reaching his well deserved fate.
Busted
Jan 28, 1983A ringing phone after midnight can be a disturbing experience but until Simon, a successful barrister, hears from Macy, his friend from university days, he doesn't know just how disturbing.
TV Movie
Across the Lake
Jan 01, 1988Starring Anthony Hopkins as speed king Donald Campbell. This 1988 film set In 1967 when Campbell broke the 300mph water speed barrier in his beloved BlueBird k7. Unfortunately Campbell never survived the record as his boat hydroplaned out of the water and disintegrated on landing. Campbell's body was never found until 2001.
Drama
The Life and Times of David Lloyd George
Mar 04, 1981The Life and Times of David Lloyd George charts the life of the controversial Liberal politician with Philip Madoc in the titular role. The title theme, Chi Mai, was by Ennio Morricone
Drama
Pirates des Caraïbes : La Vengeance de Salazar
May 23, 2017Jack Sparrow et ses compagnons se lancent dans la quête du Trident de Poséidon, sur lequel le Capitaine Teague détient des informations précieuses. Cet artefact légendaire, qui donne tous les pouvoirs sur les océans, est leur seul moyen d'échapper aux fantômes du redoutable Capitaine Salazar, échappés du Triangle des Bermudes pour éliminer tous les pirates des océans.
Adventure
The Great Riviera Bank Robbery
May 13, 1980A group of fervent right wing French nationalists plan to finance a government coup and smash communists by pulling off a daring bank robbery.
Thriller
Regan
Jun 04, 1974Rough, tough and politically incorrect in the way that only the best 70's dramas can be, Regan was a pilot film for The Sweeney - one of the major television successes of the last fifty years. Featuring John Thaw as the irascible Detective Inspector Regan and Dennis Waterman as his loyal 'oppo' Detective Sergeant Carter, Regan was an immediate critical and ratings hit, resulting in four series of The Sweeney and two successful feature films. Jack Regan is a good copper, but his tough, intuitive style is becoming unfashionable in a Scotland Yard seeking a new image. When a policeman is mysteriously murdered, Regan breaks all the rules to find the killer - but he finds there are men in the Flying Squad prepared to break him.
Action
Love in the First Degree
Feb 10, 2004An actor takes a temporary job working as a secretary at a law firm, and is attracted to a female attorney. She is reluctant to start a relationship out of fear of her fellow attorneys believing that she is dating below her position.
Comedy
Mesmerized
Nov 18, 1985An orphan weds an older man in circa-1900 New Zealand, then finds out he's a miser who spies on her.
Drama
The Sweeney
Dec 28, 1978Jack Regan, an unethical officer of the Flying Squad, uses unorthodox methods to pursue criminals with the help of his partner, George Carter.
Action & Adventure
Crown Court
Feb 02, 1984Crown Court is an afternoon television courtroom drama produced by Granada Television for the ITV network that ran from 1972, when the Crown Court system replaced Assize courts and Quarter sessions in the legal system of England and Wales, to 1984.
Drama
The Mind of Mr. J.G. Reeder
Jun 14, 1971The Mind of Mr. J.G. Reeder is based on a character created by Edgar Wallace in a series of 1925 short stories of the same name, Hugh Burden played the titular character – A mild-mannered investigator with the Department of Public Prosecutions.
Drama
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
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
Rogues' Gallery
Jun 09, 1969Rogues' Gallery was a British television series which first aired on ITV between 1968 and 1969. It was set around London's Newgate Prison in the 18th century.
Drama
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
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
Chapeau melon et Bottes de cuir
May 21, 1969John Steed, un agent des services secrets britanniques, flanqué d'accortes acolytes nommées Cathy Gale, Emma Peel ou Tara King, combat le crime et résout des mystères souvent mâtinés d'énigmes surnaturelles. Sans se départir de son flegme et ponctuant ses actions de citations tirées de Shakespeare ou Wilde, il affronte des criminels plus flamboyants et mégalomaniaques les uns que les autres...
Action & Adventure
Le Saint
Feb 09, 1969Surnommé « le Saint » en raison de ses initiales, Simon Templar est un détective amateur au charme irrésistible qui traque les criminels à travers le monde.
Action & Adventure
The Feds
Oct 23, 1996The Feds is a series of Australian television films starring Robert Taylor, which were first broadcast on the Nine Network 1993-1996.
The Feds revolves around the activities of the Australian Federal Police, who protect the national interests from crime in Australia and overseas. Nine telemovies were produced in the series.
Drama
Catweazle
Apr 04, 1971A medieval wizard (though not a very good one) Catweazle is transported to the modern age...
A British television series, created and written by Richard Carpenter which was produced and directed by Quentin Lawrence for London Weekend Television under the LWI banner, and screened in the UK on ITV in 1970. A second season in 1971 was directed by David Reid and David Lane. Both series had thirteen episodes each, with Geoffrey Bayldon playing the leading role.
The series was broadcast in Ireland, Britain, Gibraltar, New Zealand, The Netherlands, Germany, Australia, Sweden, Norway, Iceland, Czechoslovakia, Nicaragua and Quebec. The first episode is available to view in full at the BFI Screenonline site.
Sci-Fi & Fantasy
Rising Damp
May 09, 1978Set in a seedy bedsit, the cowardly landlord Rigsby has his conceits debunked by his long suffering tenants.
Comedy
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
Lady Killers
Aug 21, 1981Compelling crime anthology looks at some of Britain's most notorious murder trials, in which both male and female defendants stood accused of the murder of women. Introduced by Robert Morley, seven hour-long dramas reconstruct sensational trials which shocked Britain, offering in-depth analyses of individuals' motives and methods.
Lady Killers
Aug 21, 1981Compelling crime anthology looks at some of Britain's most notorious murder trials, in which both male and female defendants stood accused of the murder of women. Introduced by Robert Morley, seven hour-long dramas reconstruct sensational trials which shocked Britain, offering in-depth analyses of individuals' motives and methods.
Thriller
May 22, 1976Cette série est une anthologie d'histoires dans le registre de l’horreur, sur des thèmes très divers comme la sorcellerie, la maladie mentale, la possession, la télépathie...
Drama
Chapeau melon et Bottes de cuir
May 21, 1969John Steed, un agent des services secrets britanniques, flanqué d'accortes acolytes nommées Cathy Gale, Emma Peel ou Tara King, combat le crime et résout des mystères souvent mâtinés d'énigmes surnaturelles. Sans se départir de son flegme et ponctuant ses actions de citations tirées de Shakespeare ou Wilde, il affronte des criminels plus flamboyants et mégalomaniaques les uns que les autres...
Action & Adventure
To the Manor Born
Nov 29, 1981Sitcom about the love-hate relationship between upper-class Audrey fforbes Hamilton and Richard DeVere, the nouveau rich businessman who buys her manor house when she can no longer afford to keep it.
Comedy
All Saints
Oct 27, 2009Medical drama focusing on the working and personal lives of the doctors and nurses working on the front line of a busy inner city Emergency Department at All Saints Hospital.
Drama
Worzel Gummidge Down Under
Apr 16, 1989Worzel Gummidge Down Under, adapted from the books written by Barbara Euphan Todd and the children's television programme produced and broadcast in the United Kingdom named Worzel Gummidge, starring Jon Pertwee. The story continued in New Zealand when Aunt Sally was sold to a Museum owner.
Kids
