The Lorelei
Mar 18, 1990A lonely schoolteacher has a strange experience on her walking holiday. It haunts her and threatens to wreck her growing romance with a colleague.
Drama
Barbara Keogh
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One Last Chance
Oct 07, 1990Nick, a Greek Cypriot living in London, hits on the idea of marriage to raise some cash - the bride, according to custom, coming complete with dowry. He is forced to enlist the help of a childhood adversary, Maria. Soon realising she is giving him the runaround, Nick retaliates by wooing her.
Romance
L'Abominable docteur Phibes
May 18, 1971Le docteur Phibes ne peut pardonner la mort de sa femme, survenue au cours d'une opération chirurgicale. Reproduisant les plaies d'Égypte, relatées dans la Bible, il commence à supprimer les chirurgiens qu'il juge responsables. Piqûres d'insectes, morsures de chauve-souris opèrent leur oeuvre macabre...
Horror
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
My Sister-Wife
Feb 23, 1992Farah is an independent young British woman who manages to reconcile her modern lifestyle with her Pakistani heritage. As a Muslim in love with a married man, she can become his second wife - especially as his first marriage to Maryam seems to exist in name only. But with all three under one roof, Farah becomes increasingly insecure.
Drama
Wendy
Aug 21, 1991Russell, who has a penchant for rubber, thinks he's in for a good time. Wendy has other ideas.
A Passage to India
Nov 16, 1965The BBC's 1965 adaptation of E.M. Forster's novel, screened as part of their Play of the Month strand, adapted by Santha Ramu Rau and John Maynard, and directed by Waris Hussein.
Road
Oct 07, 1987A view of the inhabitants of a derelict road in Manchester, unsatisfied with their lives and routines. A young man locks himself away from the world. An older woman flirts with a soldier on leave. Two men invite two girls into an empty house.
TV Movie
Your Name's Not God, It's Edgar
Dec 09, 1968Edgar Lunt lives his life by scientific principles, that is, for every action there is a reaction. He believes that any pleasure he might have, will mean, somebody will suffer somewhere else. The result is he is not very happy at all, until Trevor, a young student,tries to show him a fresh outlook on life.
Drama
Cold Enough for Snow
Dec 31, 1997Doting parents (Maureen Lipman, David Ross, Tom Wilkinson) must adjust to life without their children as their offspring leave for college and form relationships. Sequel to Eskimo Day.
Comedy
Last Video and Testament
Sep 12, 1984Rich old businessman suspects his much younger wife of cheating on him. When his weak heart forces him to have a risky surgery he leaves a videotaped last will and testament - with a sadistic twist.
Drama
Tough Love
Oct 01, 2000DC Lenny Milton (Winstone) is not as ambitious as his best friend and popular boss DCI Michael Love (Dunbar), but the pair are drinking partners and their wives and children are close. However, this goes very wrong over the space of 7 days, when Milton is approached by the police complaints division asking him to go undercover and investigate allegations of corruption against his friend. Milton finds this difficult at first and tries to dismiss the evidence building up. But as his suspicions begin to take shape his position appears to be in danger.
Drama
Brazen Hussies
Nov 30, 1996After meeting her old school friend Sandra Delaney, who now works as a stripper, pub owner Maureen Hardcastle decides to spice up her flagging business by turning it into a male stripper club, with the help of untrustworthy businessman Billy Bowman.
Comedy
The Virgin Soldiers
Oct 14, 1969The core of the plot is the romantic triangle formed by the protagonist, a conscripted soldier named Private Brigg, a worldly professional soldier named Sergeant Driscoll, and Phillipa Raskin, the daughter of the Regimental Sergeant Major. The location is a British army base in Singapore during the Malayan Emergency.
War
Tai-Pan
Nov 07, 1986Canton 1839: Dirk Struan, vieux pirate, s'est converti à une profession toute aussi dangereuse mais plus lucrative: la contrebande d'opium. Il est Tai-Pan, le chef suprême de la Noble Maison, la plus puissante société commerciale d'Extrême-Orient. Mais la Chine réprime sévèrement le trafic de drogue. Dirk Struan s'établit alors à Hong-Kong où quelques années plus tard arrive son plus puissant ennemi, le capitaine Brock qui s'est jure de lui ravir son titre.
Adventure
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
Stand Up, Nigel Barton
Dec 08, 1965Semi-autobiographical TV play by Dennis Potter, from the BBC's 'Wednesday Play' series. It deals with the experiences of Nigel Barton, a young man from a poor mining community who wins a scholarship to Oxford University. The villagers accuse him of snobbery, while the rich University students treat him like a peasant. Uncertain of which sphere he should be moving in, Nigel tries to reconcile himself with his proud but stubborn father, and also succeed at University, despite its pretentions which apall him.
TV Movie
Jane Eyre
Mar 09, 1997Nouvelle adaptation de l'histoire de Jane Eyre, gouvernante de la petite Adèle chez le riche Edward Rochester, homme ombrageux qui ne tarde pas à être sensible aux charmes de la jeune fille. C'est le début d'une folle passion...
Drama
1984
Mar 06, 1956Dans le monde futuriste de 1984 - manipulant et contrôlant les moindres détails de la vie de ses sujets - Big Brother est le chef spirituel d'Océania, l'un des trois États dont la capitale est Londres. Le bureaucrate Winston Smith travaille dans l'un des départements. Mais un jour, il tombe amoureux de Julia, ce qui est un crime. Tous les deux vont tenter de s'échapper, mais dans ce monde cauchemardesque divisé en trois, tout être qui se révolte est brisé.
Science Fiction
Black Joy
Nov 06, 1977An innocent and unsophisticated Guyanese immigrant is exposed to the hustlin' way of life in the Brixton ghetto.
Comedy
Paperhouse
Sep 10, 1988Petite fille solitaire, Anna découvre qu'elle peut entrer dans un monde parallèle, plus précisément dans une maison qu'elle a dessiné sur une feuille de papier.
Drama
Whoops Apocalypse
May 06, 1986When a small British owned island in the Caribbean is invaded and the world's most dangerous terrorist kidnaps a member of the Royal family, the countdown to World War 3 begins. If anyone can prevent the oncoming apocalypse it's the American President, but her closest ally the British Prime Minister appears to have gone stark raving mad.
Comedy
A Nice Girl Like Me
Nov 23, 1969Candy is a fetching unwed young lady with a penchant for pregnancy. Her adventures begin when she leaves her sheltered boarding school background for Paris. The result is the birth of Valentine nine months later.
Comedy
Princesse Caraboo
Sep 16, 1994Bristol, Angleterre, au début du 19ème siècle. Une étrangère est jugée pour avoir mendié. Mais lorsqu'un homme prétend parler sa langue, on comprend qu'il s'agit d'une princesse d'un pays lointain. Elle est alors accueillie par une famille d'aristocrates qui ne voient en elle qu'une manière d'augmenter leur prestige. Mais un reporter local, pas convaincu de son rang de princesse, mène l'enquête.
Comedy
EastEnders
Sep 12, 2024La vie quotidienne des habitants de la classe ouvrière de la place Albert, une traditionnelle place victorienne de maisons mitoyennes entourant un parc dans le quartier de Walford, à l'est de Londres.
Soap
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
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
Heartbeat
Sep 05, 2010Set during the 1960s in the fictional North Yorkshire village of Aidensfield, this enduringly popular series interweaves crime and medical storylines.
Crime
Queenie's Castle
Sep 05, 1972The lives and, often illegal, activities of the residents of a tower block in early 1970s Leeds, West Yorkshire, with the brassy matriarch, Queenie Shepherd, ruling the roost over her neighbours.
Comedy
No Hiding Place
Jun 22, 1967No Hiding Place is a British television series that was produced at Wembley Studios by Associated-Rediffusion for the ITV network between 16 September 1959 and 22 June 1967.
It was the sequel to the series Murder Bag and Crime Sheet, all starring Raymond Francis as Detective Superintendent, later Detective Chief Superintendent Tom Lockhart.
Crime
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
Never A Cross Word
Jan 31, 1970Gentle comedy about domestic bliss. A wedded couple clash over over everyday problem like getting the car fixed.
Histoires Singulières
May 09, 1986Une anthologie d'histoires fantastiques et horrifiques, mêlant exorcisme, parapsychologie et satanisme.
Mystery
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
Hetty Wainthropp Investigates
Sep 04, 1998Instead of spending her golden years lying down, the indomitable Hetty Wainthropp found her calling late in life. Combining common sense, her husband, and her pocketbook, this senior sleuth takes on all the cases the police deem too minor.
Drama
Making Out
Nov 12, 1991Making Out is a British television series, shown by the BBC between 1989 and 1991.
The series, created by Franc Roddam, written by Debbie Horsfield, mixed comedy and drama in its portrayal of the women who worked on the factory floor at New Lyne Electronics in Manchester, tackling the personal lives of the characters as well as wider issues of recession, redundancy and retrenchment as the factory goes through various crises and take-overs.
The music for the series was composed by New Order. The main theme for the show is an adaptation of the song "Vanishing Point". There is a specific mix of this song called the Making Out Mix.
Drama
The Detectives
Feb 18, 1997The absurd adventures of two defective detectives, who - despite unbelievable incompetence - somehow manage to solve their cases (or be nearby when the cases are solved) and retain their jobs.
Comedy
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
Game On
Feb 06, 1998Following the lives of three 20-somethings sharing a flat in Battersea. They're young, bright and sexy - so why aren't they having a good time ? Join Matthew (the agoraphobic, self-obsessed, macho man); Martin (the wimpish, sex-starved underdog) and Mandy (the gorgeous blonde, who always ends up with the wrong men), in this outrageously funny flat-share comedy that is anything but politically correct.
Comedy
Wuthering Heights
Oct 22, 1978Wuthering Heights is a 1978 British film adaptation of Emily Brontë's novel Wuthering Heights, starring Ken Hutchison, Kay Adshead, Pat Heywood, and John Duttine that was originally broadcast on BBC-TV as a 5-part mini-series.
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
Highlander
May 16, 1998Duncan MacLeod est un immortel issu du même clan que Connor MacLeod, le héros des films. Il a plus de quatre cents ans et travaille comme antiquaire avec sa compagne Tessa Noël entre la ville fictive de Seacouver (contraction de Vancouver, ville de Colombie-Britannique, où a été partiellement tournée la série, et Seattle, ville au Nord-Ouest des États-Unis), et Paris. Il protège également un jeune voyou prénommé Richie. La vie quotidienne de Duncan est ponctuée de duels à l'épée avec d'autres immortels qui veulent l'éliminer. En effet, chaque immortel qui en décapite un autre libère son « quickening », et s'approprie ainsi ses connaissances et ses pouvoirs.
MacLeod va donc devoir affronter des ennemis de plus en plus puissants, qu'il connaît souvent depuis plusieurs siècles (la série, comme les films, a souvent recours aux flashbacks).
Sci-Fi & Fantasy
Lost In France
Jul 12, 1998This brief series (12 episodes of 10 or 15 minutes each screened over a three week period) followed the adventures of a family pursuing the English football team around France during the World Cup. The series was written during filming to acknowledge the success or failure of the team in the competition.
Comedy
The House of Eliott
Mar 06, 1993Two sisters who set up a London fashion house for society of the early 1920s.
Drama
Out
Aug 28, 1978Frank Ross returns from an eight-year prison sentence for a robbery that was thwarted because somebody 'grassed' the gang. Nobody knows who put the finger on him, but Ross is determined to find out and seeks revenge on those who betrayed him. Little by little, Ross pieces together the trail that leads to a dramatic conclusion.
Drama
Birds of a Feather
Feb 25, 2016Birds of a Feather is a British sitcom that was broadcast on BBC One from 1989 until 1998 and on ITV from 2013. Starring Pauline Quirke, Linda Robson and Lesley Joseph, it was created by Laurence Marks and Maurice Gran, who also wrote some of the episodes along with many other writers.
The first episode sees sisters Tracey Stubbs and Sharon Theodopolopodos brought together when their husbands are sent to prison for armed robbery. Sharon, who lived in an Edmonton council flat, moves into Tracey's expensive house in Chigwell, Essex. Their next-door neighbour, and later friend, Dorien Green is a middle-aged married woman who is constantly having affairs with younger men. In the later series the location is changed to Hainault. The series ended on Christmas Eve 1998 after a 9-year-run.
Comedy
Quatermass
Nov 14, 1979In the near future, a now-elderly Bernard Quatermass investigates the disappearance of his granddaughter and a mysterious cult.
Drama
