Esther
Mar 29, 1999Après avoir répudié son épouse, le roi des Perses cherche une nouvelle compagne. Une jeune juive à la beauté renversante conquiert son coeur et devient reine.
Adventure
Bruce Purchase
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David
Mar 23, 1997La liaison de David avec une femme mariée lui attire les foudres de Dieu et l'entraîne dans le malheur. Devenu roi, il est accablé par ses enfants.
Adventure
The Quatermass Conclusion
Oct 24, 1979Influenced by the social and geopolitical situation of the early nineteen-seventies and the hippie youth movement of the late nineteen-sixties, Quatermass is set in a near future in which large numbers of young people are joining a cult, the “Planet People”, and gathering at ancient sites, believing they will be transported to a better life on another planet.
Drama
Marie Stuart, reine d'Ecosse
Dec 22, 1971Chassée de France par Catherine de Medicis, Marie Stuart tente de reconquerir son trône d'Ecosse. Trahie par ses vassaux, elle sera emprisonnee dix-huit ans par les anglais, avant d'être executée.
Drama
The Sea Change
May 19, 1998Arrogant businessman Rupert Granger is used to getting everything he wants... everything except Alison. Rupert is determined to win her over, only Alison is not the kind who can be bought. He promises to change, but promises will not rescue him when a cancelled flight leaves him stranded at the airport in Spain. Now his only hope to win her back lies in Chas, an airline passenger stuck at the airport with him. Chas doesn't tolerate any nonsense, while Rupert complains about everything... but Chas is about to give Rupert the personality makeover of a lifetime, one to put Rupert Granger on the right track to winning Alison back.
Romance
Rencontres avec des Hommes Remarquables
Aug 05, 1979Les rencontres de voyage du philosophe Gurdjieff a la recherche de la confrerie sarmoung fondee il y a plusieurs millenaires a Babylone. Sa quete, de Russie en Anatolie, transformera sa vie.
Drama
Pope John Paul II
Apr 22, 1984Bio-drama tracing the life and career of Polish cardinal Karol Wojtyla from his days as a young activist in Poland to his rise and installation in 1978 as Pope of the Catholic world.
Drama
The Tripods
Sep 15, 1984La Terre est sous le joug d'aliens se déplaçant dans des véhicules à trois pattes : les tripodes. Ces derniers asservissent l'humanité grâce à un appareil que chacun reçoit le jour de son initiation par les aliens. Will et Henry Parker, deux cousins, refusent l'initiation devenant alors des intouchables. Ils décident de fuir vers un lieu où des rebelles comme eux se sont réfugiés ; les Montagnes Blanches situées en France.
Science Fiction
Other Halves
Oct 01, 1984A Polynesian street-kid and a much older middle-class housewife are both incarcerated in the same mental hospital - she for attempted suicide and he for habitual crime. A friendship grows between them such that she offers him a place to stay upon his release. However, difficulties arise with his continued criminal activities and dependence on her for support - then his gang moves in with them. The film is based upon Sue McCauley's award winning autobiographical novel.
Drama
Les optimistes
Oct 17, 1973n artiste à la retraite gagne sa vie en tant que musicien de rue dans les rues de Londres. Deux jeunes enfants se lient d'amitié avec le vieux musicien, illuminant sa vie autrement incolore.
Drama
Exiles
Sep 28, 1977In the 1920s, Michael Arlen was one of the most popular and acclaimed writers in the world, but he mysteriously stopped writing altogether. His son tries to work out why this was.
À l'ouest, rien de nouveau
Nov 14, 1979L'histoire de Paul Baumer pendant la Première Guerre mondiale qui s'engage dans l'armée impériale allemande avec plusieurs de ses amis de lycée suite à leur endoctrinement à la gloire et à la supériorité de la culture allemande. Après avoir survécu à un camp d'entraînement sous la coupe d'un caporal sadique, ils sont envoyés sur le front…
War
Doctor Who: The Pirate Planet
Oct 21, 1978The Doctor and Romana learn the second segment of the Key to Time is on the planet Calufrax. Yet they arrive on a planet called Zanak, which has been hollowed out and fitted with hyperspace engines, allowing its insane, half-robot Captain to materialise it around smaller planets and plunder their resources.
Action
En voiture, Simone
Jan 24, 1974En France, sous l'occupation nazie, une maison close est le lieu de plaisir des officiers allemands venus se divertir et le centre d'attention de la Gestapo tandis que la Résistance s'organise par le biais de la mère-maquerelle et de ses filles.
Comedy
Cœur de lion
Aug 14, 1987Un jeune chevalier part pour rejoindre les croisés du roi Richard. En chemin, il rencontre le Prince Noir, qui capture des enfants et les vend comme esclaves aux musulmans.
Adventure
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
Henry IV Part 2
Dec 16, 1979The death of King Henry the Fourth and the coronation of King Henry the Fifth.
Drama
Les folles aventures de Robin des Bois
May 22, 1984Robin des Bois et ses joyeux compagnons doivent tenter de rassembler l'argent de la rançon nécessaire pour libérer le roi Richard d'un méchant duc.
Comedy
Even Solomon
Nov 01, 1979Stephen (Paul Henley) works in a bank. A virgin, he shows no interest in sex, and is cruelly scorned by an aggressive female neighbour when he rebuffs her advances. He lives with his mother, an overbearing woman who mocks him for being wet. But Stephen has a secret – he likes to wear women’s clothing. When his horrified mother finds out, she takes him to meet a fellow cross-dresser to ‘solve’ the problem. But the meeting ends unexpectedly, when the other man realises that Stephen is not transvestite, but transsexual.
Drama
Richard III
Dec 29, 1995Dans les années 1930, la guerre civile britannique débouche sur la mort du roi. Son successeur, Edward V, monte sur le trône d'Angleterre au détriment de son frère Richard, duc de Gloucester. Ce dernier, né difforme et bossu, ne manque néanmoins pas d'ambition et entreprend d'accéder à la couronne par tous les moyens possibles.
Drama
Macbeth
Dec 20, 1971Poussé par sa jeune femme dévorée d'ambition, et pas la prophétie de 3 sorcières rencontrées sur la lande avec son ami Banquo, le jeune général Macbeth orchestre massacre et assassinats éhontés pour se hisser sur le trône d'Ecosse.
War
Another Life
Jun 15, 2001A woman is wrongly accused of murdering her husband in Edwardian London. Just before the outbreak of World War I, Edith Graydon married her boyfriend Percy Thomson. He survives the war but theirs is not a happy marriage. She doesn't really love him and he feels it every day. He's also possessive and their daily life is a constant battle. She meets and falls in love with Frederick Bywaters, her sister's one-time boyfriend. They have a long affair and her desperate attempts to get either a formal separation of divorce from her husband falls on deaf ears. They are at their wits end and Bywaters decides to do something about it. On a dark evening when Edith is walking with her husband, Bywaters stabs him to death. Edith is charged with murder along with Bywaters and both are found guilty. She claims her innocence right up until the day they are both executed by hanging in 1923. Based on a true story.
Crime
Othello
Dec 15, 1965
Henry IV Part 1
Dec 09, 1979Henry Bolingbroke has now been crowned King of England, but faces a rebellion headed by the embittered Earl of Northumberland and his son (nicknamed 'Hotspur'). Henry's son Hal, the Prince of Wales, has thrown over life at court in favour of heavy drinking and petty theft in the company of a debauched elderly knight, Sir John Falstaff. Hal must extricate himself from some legal problems, regain his father's good opinions and help suppress the uprising.
Drama
Atlantis
Mar 29, 1983Goff and Lytton have a dream - a canal boat of their own on which to cruise the inland waterways: The reality is the boatyard of Josh Adkins and a rusting hulk called Atlantis.
Comedy
Doctor Who: Logopolis
Mar 21, 1981After an encounter with the Master, an airline stewardess named Tegan Jovanka becomes an unwitting stowaway aboard the TARDIS as it travels to the planet Logopolis. There, the Doctor discovers that the Master's interference with the Logopolitans' advanced mathematics has unleashed a wave of entropy which threatens to consume the entire universe.
Science Fiction
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Dec 30, 1976
Freddie la grenouille
Aug 14, 1992Dans un lointain royaume, le jeune prince Frédéric vit heureux avec son père, le grand roi magicien. Malheureusement, la redoutable et cruelle sorcière Messina tue le roi et jette un sort sur le prince qu'elle transforme en grenouille. Traqué jusque dans les profondeurs des océans, il sera sauvé par Nessie, une charmante dragonne. Les années passent et Freddie décide de quitter les marais pour parcourir le monde...
Adventure
Doctor Who
Dec 06, 1989Les aventures du Docteur, un extraterrestre, un Seigneur du Temps originaire de la planète Gallifrey, qui voyage à bord d'un TARDIS (Temps À Relativité Dimensionnelle Inter-Spatiale), une machine pouvant voyager dans l'espace et dans le temps. Le TARDIS a l'apparence d'une cabine de police (construction typiquement britannique ressemblant à une cabine téléphonique), le système de camouflage étant resté bloqué. Comme tous les Seigneur du Temps, le Docteur possède treize vies, ce qui explique sa capacité à changer de corps lorsqu'il est proche de la mort.
Drama
Kidnapped
Jun 30, 1979Lorsque le jeune David Balfour arrive dans la sombre maison écossaise de son oncle pour réclamer son héritage, son parent tente de le tuer, puis le fait embarquer pour être vendu comme esclave dans les colonies. Heureusement pour le garçon, il se lie d'amitié avec Alan Breck Stewart, qui est en fuite après la défaite de Bonnie Prince Charlie à Culloden. Lorsqu'un capitaine de navire tente de tuer Breck pour son argent, les deux parviennent à atteindre la terre ferme et se dirigent vers Édimbourg, évitant les impitoyables soldats Redcoats en cours de route.
Drama
Callan
May 17, 1972Callan is the title of a British television series set in the murky world of espionage. Originally produced by ABC Weekend Television and later Thames Television, it was aired on the ITV network over four seasons spread out between 1967 and 1972. The series starred Edward Woodward as David Callan, a reluctant professional killer for a shadowy branch of the British Government's intelligence services known as 'the Section'.
Action & Adventure
Moi, Claude empereur
Dec 06, 1976Claude raconte sa vie dans une énorme autobiographie qui devrait, selon la Sibylle, être découverte dans 2000 ans. Il commence par le règne d'Auguste et par les manigances criminelles de l'impératrice Livia, prête à tout pour que son fils Tibère hérite de l'Empire. Puis, c'est au tour de l'empereur Tibère, qui laisse Séjanus, ambitieux sans scrupules, gouverner à sa place. Caligula, un fou sanguinaire qui se prend pour un dieu, lui succède. Enfin, Claude raconte son règne personnel, caractérisé par les débauches de sa femme Messaline et les intrigues de sa dernière épouse, Agrippine la Jeune.
Drama
Doomwatch
Dec 16, 1999Doomwatch is a British science fiction television programme produced by the BBC, which ran on BBC 1 between 1970 and 1972. The series was set in the then present-day, and dealt with a scientific government agency led by Doctor Spencer Quist, responsible for investigating and combating various ecological and technological dangers.
The series was followed by a film adaptation produced by Tigon British Film Productions and released in 1972, and a revival TV film was broadcast on Channel 5 in 1999.
Drama
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Nov 27, 2011Hallmark Hall of Fame is an anthology program on American television, sponsored by Hallmark Cards, a Kansas City based greeting card company. The longest-running primetime series in the history of television, it has a historically long run, beginning during 1951 and continuing into 2013. From 1954 onward, all of its productions have been shown in color, although color television video productions were extremely rare in 1954. Many television movies have been shown on the program since its debut, though the program began with live telecasts of dramas and then changed to videotaped productions before finally changing to filmed ones.
The series has received eighty Emmy Awards, twenty-four Christopher Awards, eleven Peabody Awards, nine Golden Globes, and four Humanitas Prizes. Once a common practice in American television, it is the last remaining television program such that the title includes the name of the sponsor. Unlike other long-running TV series still on the air, it differs in that it broadcasts only occasionally and not on a weekly broadcast programming schedule.
Drama
Chapeau melon et Bottes de cuir
Dec 17, 1977John Steed, agent secret britannique, s'est entouré de deux nouveaux agents : Purdey et Gambit. Ensemble, ils doivent contrer les plans élaborés d'ennemis toujours plus diaboliques, partout dans le monde.
Drama
Play for Today
Aug 28, 1984Play for Today is a British television anthology drama series, produced by the BBC and transmitted on BBC1 from 1970 to 1984. During the run, more than three hundred programmes, featuring original television plays, and adaptations of stage plays and novels, were transmitted. The individual episodes were between fifty and a hundred minutes in duration.
Drama
The First Churchills
Dec 13, 1969The lives of the Duke of Marlborough and his wife Sarah, from their meeting in 1673 to the duke's death in 1722.
Drama
Fall of Eagles
Jun 19, 1974"Fall of Eagles" is a 13-part British television drama aired by the BBC in 1974. The series portrays historical events from 1848 to 1918, dealing with the collapse of the ruling dynasties of Austria-Hungary (the Habsburgs), Germany (the Hohenzollerns) and Russia (the Romanovs).
Drama
La couronne du diable
Jul 23, 1978Feuilleton en 13 épisodes qui retrace les grands épisodes de la conquête de la couronne britannique au 12ème siècle par les Plantagenêt et les conflits entre les souverains anglais et français.
Drama
Killer Net
May 26, 1998Students get involved in a violent Internet-based game, around the same time as a series of murders - is there a connection?
Drama
BBC Play of the Month
Sep 12, 1983Play of the Month is a BBC television anthology series featuring productions of classic and contemporary stage plays which were usually broadcast on BBC1. Each production featured a different work, often using prominent British stage actors in the leading roles. The series was transmitted from October 1965 to September 1983; the producer most associated with the Play of the Month was Cedric Messina.
Some of the 121 episodes are missing from the archives, having been junked in the 1960s and 1970s. Unless stated otherwise, the indication that the play is "lost" is taken from the lostshows.com website page as of 25 May 2013.
Drama
The BBC Television Shakespeare
Apr 27, 1985La BBC Television Shakespeare est une série d'adaptations télévisées britanniques des pièces de théâtre de William Shakespeare. Elle a été créée par Cedric Messina et produite par la BBC Television. Elle a été diffusée au Royaume-Uni du 3 décembre 1978 au 27 avril 1985 et s'est étendue sur sept saisons. Le développement de la série a commencé en 1975 lorsque Messina a remarqué que le château de Glamis serait un lieu parfait pour une adaptation de la pièce de Shakespeare "Comme il vous plaira". De retour à Londres, il a imaginé une série entière consacrée exclusivement aux œuvres dramatiques de Shakespeare. Après avoir rencontré de nombreux problèmes pour produire la série, Messina a finalement présenté l'idée aux responsables de la BBC et la série a été approuvée. Dans l'ensemble, la série a reçu des critiques généralement négatives de la part des critiques.
Drama
Blake's 7
Dec 21, 1981A group of convicts and outcasts fight a guerrilla war against the totalitarian Terran Federation from a highly advanced alien spaceship.
Drama
Les Tripodes
Nov 23, 1985En l'an 2089, une race extraterrestre arpente la terre dans des machines imposantes connues sous le nom de Tripodes. Ils ont conquis la terre et asservi l'humanité avec un dispositif de contrôle de l'esprit, cérémonieusement implanté à l'adolescence. Will Parker, désespéré d'échapper à ce rituel, quitte le village avec son cousin Henry et tente de rejoindre le mouvement de résistance humaine.
Sci-Fi & Fantasy
Doctor Who
Dec 06, 1989Les aventures du Docteur, un extraterrestre, un Seigneur du Temps originaire de la planète Gallifrey, qui voyage à bord d'un TARDIS (Temps À Relativité Dimensionnelle Inter-Spatiale), une machine pouvant voyager dans l'espace et dans le temps. Le TARDIS a l'apparence d'une cabine de police (construction typiquement britannique ressemblant à une cabine téléphonique), le système de camouflage étant resté bloqué. Comme tous les Seigneur du Temps, le Docteur possède treize vies, ce qui explique sa capacité à changer de corps lorsqu'il est proche de la mort.
Drama
Play for Today
Aug 28, 1984Play for Today is a British television anthology drama series, produced by the BBC and transmitted on BBC1 from 1970 to 1984. During the run, more than three hundred programmes, featuring original television plays, and adaptations of stage plays and novels, were transmitted. The individual episodes were between fifty and a hundred minutes in duration.
Drama
Quatermass
Nov 14, 1979In the near future, a now-elderly Bernard Quatermass investigates the disappearance of his granddaughter and a mysterious cult.
Drama
A Picture of Katherine Mansfield
Jun 05, 1973A Picture of Katherine Mansfield is a 1973 BBC television drama series starring Vanessa Redgrave as the title character. The series included dramatizations of Mansfield's life as well as adaptations of her short stories.
Drama
