Genres:Drama Countries:UK Directors:John Alexander Actors:Delroy Atkinson | Peter Brooke | Benedict Cumberbatch | Mark David | Damien Devaney | Michael Elwyn | Terence Frisch | Jonathan Harden | Karl Johnson | Bentley Kalu | Eoin Macken | David Oyelowo | Shaun Parkes | Teddy Price | Hugh Quarshie
As adapted from the bestselling 2004 novel of the same name by Andrea Levy, the miniseries Small Island observes the experiences of two very different married couples - one Jamaican, the other British - whose lives intersect at a point in post-WWII England when the relationship between their parent countries is about to irrevocably change. David Oyelowo and Naomie Harris star as Gilbert and Hortense, Jamaican immigrants who wed in a marriage of convenience and must battle bigotry and intense social rejection from the British on a daily basis. All that they really want is to be proud and happy subjects at the United Kingdom, when it would be easy to feel resentment and fury given the circumstances: many of their fellow countrymen are the descendants of Jamaicans who had been forcibly enslaved to the British Empire in an earlier era. Meanwhile, the couple's married English landlords, Bernard (Benedict Cumberbatch) and Queenie (Ruth Wilson) are still rebounding from the experience of a lengthy wartime separation. Queenie projects an unusual attitude toward Gilbert and Hortense, given her lack of bigotry and unquestioning acceptance, but this ironically threatens to create more problems than it solves.
Genres:Drama | Thriller Countries:France | UK Directors:Fred Zinnemann Actors:Edward Fox | Terence Alexander | Michel Auclair | Alan Badel | Tony Britton | Denis Carey | Adrien Cayla-Legrand | Cyril Cusack | Maurice Denham | Vernon Dobtcheff | Jacques François | Olga Georges-Picot | Raymond Gérôme | Barrie Ingham | Derek Jacobi
When President De Gaulle decides to grant independence to French Algeria, several of the soldiers, who fought in that campaign, feel that De Gaulle is belittling the lives of the men who died there. So they form a group and make attempts at De Gaulle and fail. When several of their key members are killed or caught and eventually executed, the three top members decide to hire a professional assassin to take out De Gaulle. The man that they chose agrees to do it on the condition that he be alllowed complete autonomy. He also advises them to go into hiding until the job is done. And they do. When the French Security force learns that they have shut themselves off from the rest of world are curious what they are doing. So they abduct their errand boy, and once interrogated all he says is the assassin's code name, "The Jackal", they hypothesize that they have hired an assassin to go after DE Gaulle. Once De Gaulle is informed he refuses to alter his plans and will not allow extra security added. So his ministry decides that they should find the Jackal before he makes his move. They appoint the best detective in France, Claude Lebel to find him. Lebel plan is to contact every police department in the world and see if the Jackal comes from their country and if so to provide him with a description and/or a photo. Now Scotland Yard has a small lead but unfortunately they miss him but they have his passport so assuming that he is out of the country, they try and find the passport that he is using. Now when they think that they have him, he discards the identity that he is using and assumes another one. Can they find him before he gets De Gaulle?
Genres:Drama | Horror | Thriller Countries:UK | USA Directors:William Wyler Actors:Terence Stamp | Samantha Eggar | Mona Washbourne | Maurice Dallimore | Gordon Barclay | William Bickley | David Haviland | Kenneth More | Allyson Ames | Edina Ronay
Freddie is an inept bank clerk with no future. His only hobby is collecting butterflies, which gives him a feeling of power and control that is otherwise totally missing from his life. He comes into a large sum of money, and buys himself a country house. Still unable to make himself at ease socially, he starts to plan on acquiring a girl friend - in the same manner as he collects butterflies. He prepares the cellar of the house to be a collecting jar, and stalks his victim over several days.
Genres:Drama Countries:UK Directors:Geoffrey Sax Actors:Rachael Stirling | Keeley Hawes | Anna Chancellor | Jodhi May | Hugh Bonneville | Johnny Vegas | Alexei Sayle | John Bowe | Sally Hawkins | Louis Alderton | Nick Bartlett | Carl Chase | Edward Clayton | Benedict Cumberbatch | Ray Donn
Dramatised from Sarah Waters' acclaimed debut novel, "Tipping the Velvet" tells the story of Nancy Astley (Rachael Stirling), a young girl who works as cook and waitress in her Father's seaside restaurant - that is until she witnesses the extraordinary performance of a new-to-town male impersonator - Kitty Butler (Keeley Hawes) - and begins to undergo a complete life transformation. Suddenly whipped up - and quickly flung down - by her love affair with Kitty, she experiences both euphoria and deep disillusion as she embarks on a seven-year journey of self-discovery - finally realizing that a life of sensation just isn't enough.
Genres:Comedy | Drama Countries:USA Directors:Lawrence Kasdan Actors:Tom Berenger | Glenn Close | Jeff Goldblum | William Hurt | Kevin Kline | Mary Kay Place | Meg Tilly | JoBeth Williams | Don Galloway | James Gillis | Ken Place | Jon Kasdan | Ira Stiltner | Jake Kasdan | Muriel Moore
A group of friends who attended the University of Michigan together in the 1960's convene for the funeral of one from their group, Alex, who committed suicide. The group, each now in their thirties, have kept in touch over the years, but have drifted somewhat apart as their respective lives changed. Their individual ideals have also changed from their socially conscious and radical days in college, to where they mostly now live outwardly comfortable and financially lucrative lives. With Alex's young and socially naive girlfriend, Chloe, added to the mix, the friends spend the weekend together at married couple Harold and Sarah's house in South Carolina following the funeral. Especially in light of Alex's suicide, the friends discuss their lives and collective relationships with each other, then and now.
Genres: Drama
