In Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason, we find Bridget (Renee Zellweger) where we left her - in the arms of gorgeous human rights lawyer Mark Darcy (Colin Firth). But what happens after the happy ending?
Based upon a series of true stories Cargo is the intense tale of four refugees escaping from Croatia to the UK in the back of a truck in the early 1990s. It was shot in only ten days in January 2003 at Pinewood Studios and emphasises that refugees, regardless of where they have come from or from what economic scenario they are escaping, are desperate people resorting to desperate measures.
The near future. While investigating the creation of fraudulent 'papelles' (a form of insurance cover, passport and visa rolled into one) at the sphinx insurance company in Shanghai, husband and father, William falls in love with chief suspect Maria. He does not report her. They spend the night together. William returns to his wife and son in Seattle. When one of Maria's clients dies while using fake papelles, William is sent back to Shanghai. Torn between his professional duty and his powerful love for Maria, William must decide whether to risk his career and marriage to be with her.
As the sun sets on a busy day in the Welsh capital, Nia and Meredydd return home to prop-up their relationship and cosy, metropolitan lifestyle with another evening of evasive conversation, each fearing a truth that may, in fact, set them both free and revive their once happy marriage.
Set over the course of a single day in June 1804, Beethoven arrives at the Viennese palace of his patron, Prince Lobokowitz, to hear his radical, new masterpiece, the 3rd Symphony for the first time.
With music by the acclaimed Orchestre Revolutionaire et Romantique, conducted by Sir John Eliot Gardiner, and starring Ian Hart.
Fakers is an off-beat, comedy crime caper set in the London art world. Nick Edwards (Matthew Rhys) owes £50,000 and has no way of paying-off wannabe crime lord Foster Wright (Art Malik). This is until he stumbles across a lost sketch by legendary Italian artist Antonio Fraccini. Problem is it's only worth £15,000. A plan is hatched; to forge the drawing and sell it to five Mayfair galleries within an hour before anyone cottons onto the fact that there's a scam going down.
Fakers is a high-spirited and overtly optimistiv romp through the territory of trust, love, ingenuity and the desperation involved in trying to survive.
After committing an unspecified act of violence, a young prostitute, frightened and desperate, turns to her mini-cab driver for help. A relaxed but cautious man he wants to help out but is concerned about the risks involved. The ending is deliberately open-ended and the audience can only speculate about the final outcome.
Killing time is a dark, tense, noirish encounter about divided loyalties, morality, race and unspoken desire between two very different individuals struggling to survive on the margins of society. Compelling, stylish and intriguing, killing time is an unusual take on the comfort of strangers.
Set in 1936, Ladies in Lavender is the charming and sweetly melancholic story about two ageing spinster sisters whose peaceable Cornwall existence is disrupted when they take a young man into their care - and their hearts.
Hull 1955; Philip Larkin arrives at Hull University to take up the post of Head Librarian. His love affair with Monica Jones is already five years old and, with the publication of The Less Deceived, he is about to be catapulted into the public eye. But while Monica enjoys the reflected glory of their relationship, Larkin is terrified of the extra commitment she wants. In response, he begins a secret affair with one of his library staff, Maeve Brennan. While this relationship draws form Larkin some of his most romantic insights, it flounders on Maeve's Catholic faith; she doesn't believe in sex before marriage. And marriage is something Larkin cannot face.
Over the next fifteen years Larkin juggles Maeve and Monica, all the time playing faithful son to his mother Eva, while writing some of his greatest poems. But with Eva's death and the ending of his relationship with Maeve, the poems dry up. Not even a brief affair with his loyal secretary Betty provides any inspiration. Having sacrificed his life for his writing, Larkin is left with nothing. Until, haunted by impending death and his failed talent, Larkin in old age returns to his soul mate Monica.
An enigmatic traveller seeks shelter from a religious hermit after an accident. The hermit appears mad or dangerous, but the traveller may not be what he appears.
