Tess is a young actress performing the role of the Great Reaper in a small, local play. After a night on stage, she's home alone, relaxing in a warm bath and unaware of an electric appliance that is on the verge of falling into the bath, holding her life by a string. Meanwhile, her boyfriend Sam, is on his way to see her. Will Sam get there on time to save his beloved? Will Tess meet the Great Reaper for real? In a wold of love and darkness, which of the two will prevail?
The banker is efficient at his job - obsessively collecting, storing and delivering deposits at the sperm bank. Donors file into their booths, fill their cups and collect their payment - while women at the fertility clinic wait in anticipation and hope for the miracle of creation.
Each day the banker delivers the donations to his beloved nurse at the fertility clinic - proud to see her satisfied with the daily quota.
Crippled by fear, he lacks the courage to ask her out. Surely there is a way he can express his devotion?
A tale of unrequited love on a grand scale.
A woman in a stale relationship has her life transformed when she discovers a red box in the cellar.
The Box is a horror film that has its roots in the time-resistant syntax of ritual and myth, blood sisterhood and the lunar rhythms of the menstrual cycle.
It provides the antidote to Pandora's Box, which wrongly castigates women as the source of all evil in the world.
Frustrated by the lack of respect shown by managers, players and club directors, football referee Jim Harris's vanity succumbs to subtle bribery: he arranges the outcome of football matches in exchange for positive media coverage from the press tycoons who also own the football clubs that he bestows his favours upon. Jim's deceitful image is uncovered by a duplicitous Italian hack who tries to use his new 'headline scoop' to his own advantage, but it backfires. In this saga of corruption we see how devious men do prosper in the real world of big business.
C.S. Lewis’s classic adventure follows the exploits of the four Pevensie siblings - Lucy, Edmund, Susan and Peter - in World War II England who enter the world of Narnia through a magical wardrobe while playing a game of ‘hide-and-seek’ in the rural country home of an elderly professor. Once there, the children discover a charming, peaceful land inhabited by talking beasts, dwarfs, fauns, centaurs and giants that has become a world cursed to eternal winter by the evil White Witch, Jadis. Under the guidance of a noble and mystical ruler, the lion Aslan, the children fight to overcome the White Witch’s powerful hold over Narnia in a spectacular, climactic battle that will free Narnia from Jadis’s icy spell forever.
The story of hard-core villain Danny "The Dealer" Dempsey, who awakes one morning, in his heavily secured home, to find a letter resting on his pillow. The dealer is totally bewildered how it got there, as there are no signs of an intruder or a break in. The mystery of who the letter is from (and what it contains) is something the dealer will not share, even with his closest friends or his very dear sister Sally .
The Dealer, normally a clear headed lateral thinker, is suddenly behaving totally out of character, and so begins the strangest 24 hours any one has ever witnessed from him. A crazy day unfolds in which he succeeds in ruining his sister's wedding, disrupting other gangland leaders and turning his hand to gambling on ludicrous bets. Slowly but surely, the dealer is dangerously offending and taunting everyone around him.
Could The Dealer be on the brink of self-destruction? Or will he somehow succeed in saving his own skin at the final hour, while revealing to all the secrets of the letter that has clearly been dictating his bizarre behaviour?
Searing, visceral, real-time drama following the aftermath of a shooting on an inner-London estate. Angela is the victim and her boyfriend, Jaybee, sets out to avenge her death. But who was really the gunman?
Abdul is desperate for the perfect family portrait. All he wants is to capture one moment in time when his family appear happy with his new wife, Michelle; even if it is just a 35th of a second.
An Englishwoman wakes up in the middle of the night in a small hotel in a poverty-stricken foreign city where a civil war is being fought. She has a fever, and tries to remember why she has returned to this frightening country.
During the night, she starts to retrace her happy childhood and her relatively happy adult existence as a kind, hard-working professional woman who loved her family and friends, appreciated music and the arts. But she is also retracing the unusual events that have led her to this place, and how the people she has met on that journey began to change her understanding of the world. Now, in this lonely hotel room she is struggling with a new and unpleasant perception of herself and her life.
As the dawn breaks, her fever subsides and with it comes an honest appraisal of herself. With gut-wrenching clarity she has come to understand her responsibility for the violence of poverty and exploitation she sees in the world.
Love. Loneliness. London.
Sacha is the favourite young gigolo of the over-50s of Mayfair and Piccadilly. His clients are wealthy, successful - and pay for sex. Behind the closed doors of late-night London, he works to give pleasure to lonely women. His clients savour one night of male attention; Sacha finds comfort in the darkness.
At dawn, Trevor (the valet) starts work. He collects the dry cleaning, sources clients, books hotel rooms. He takes pride in a job well done.
Across town, Sacha leaves a hotel room, his client sleeping and satisfied. He drives home to Trevor in the early morning light, loneliness creeping over him like a fever.
With Anna Massey, Sian Phillips and Susannah York playing the clients, The Gigolos provokes, stimulates and arouses. With absolute discretion guaranteed.
In 1938 two producers hire hell-raising Hollywood star Leslie Grangely (Ewan McGregor) to play Bonnie Prince Charlie (also McGregor) in a movie about the 18th-century Jacobite Rebellion in Scotland. Soon after, a drunk Grangely disappears and the producers are forced to find a replacment. They trick a gullible, goofy extra with an uncanny resemblance for Grangely into playing the role of Bonnie Prince Charlie, 'The Great Pretender'.
A hilarious comedy and a paradox of epic proportions, The Great Pretender reconfirms Ewan McGregor's deft comic genius as he stars, doubles and extras in this riotous role-switching farce of a movie within a movie.
Based on Alan Bennett's hit National Theatre comedy-drama. An unruly bunch of bright, funny sixth-form boys in 1980s Yorkshire are in pursuit of sex, sport and a place at Oxford or Cambridge. A maverick English teacher, a facts-orientated history teacher and a young and shrewd supply teacher are trying to help them, albeit with completely different teaching methods. The school is run by a slightly crazed headmaster obsessed with results and getting his school up the league tables. Given all this, can the boys achieve their Oxbridge goal and what can they learn about life, love, history, and film-endings along the way?
