Angels And Insects
(1995) [R]

Penniless naturalist William Adamson (Mark Rylance) is taken into the home of rich philanthropist Rev. Harold Alabaster (Jeremy Kemp) where he falls in love with Eugenia (Patsy Kensit), Alabaster's youngest daughter, as soon as his sets eyes on her. Soon married to Eugenia, William's life within...  More

Prince Of Jutland
(1994) [M]

The 6th Century story which inspired William Shakespeare to write Hamlet. An all-star cast bring to life murder, madness and revenge in the Danish royal court.  More

Stealing Heaven
(1988) [M]

Based on the story of Abelard and Heloise, a brilliant professor and his captivating young student who surrender to their passion, but know that it is forbidden. They re-main unaware of the sacrifices they will have to make.....  More

Haunted
(1995) [M]

David Ash, Professor of Para-Psychology, is called in to investigate the strange hauntings at Edbrook House and there meets the beautiful Christina and immediately falls in love. As he begins his investigation he becomes aware of a presence in the house which slowly but surely starts to wear him...  More

August
(1995) [PG]

In a series of tragi-comic episodes, the ordered Victorian calm of the Blathwaite household begins to crumble over the course of one weekend.  More

Secrets And Lies
(1996) [M]

Nominated for 5 Oscars and winner of 3 BAFTA awards, Mike Leigh’s hilarious, bittersweet comedy is an unmissable and moving slice of real life. Secrets and Lies centres around Cynthia, a sad, unmarried mother who works in a factory and lives in a shabby terraced house with a confrontational...  More

Brothers In Trouble
(1995) [M]

When Amir arrives illegally into Britain searching for streets paved in gold, he is shocked to discover a dismal house in the North of England crammed with other men in the same situation as himself...  More

The Winter's Tale (BBC)
(1981) [PG]

King Leontes of Bohemia suspects his wife, Hermione, and his friend, Polixenes, of betraying him. When he forces Polixenes to flee for his life, Leontes sets in motion a chain of events that lead to death, a ferocious bear, an infant left in the snow, young love, and a statue coming to life.  More

Withnail And I
(1987) [M]

London. The 60s. Two unemployed actors - acerbic, elegantly wasted Withnail (Richard E Grant) and the anxiety-ridden I (Paul McGann) drown their frustrations in booze, pills and lighter fluid. When Withnail`s Uncle Monty (Richard Griffiths) offers them his country cottage for a week, they escape...  More

Jude
(1996) [M]

Jude Fawley is a stonemason who loves learning. Inspired by his teacher he longs to go to University. After a brief but unhappy marriage to the daughter of a local pig farmer, he moves to Christminster to be closer to his beloved scholars. There, he meets and falls totally in love with his cousin...  More

Beautiful Thing
(1996) [MA]

A long hot summer on a housing estate in South London. Jamie is bunking off school, whilst his mother Sandra juggles job promotion and her relationship with her hippy-dippy boyfriend Tony. Next door lives sassy Leah, who spends her days listening to Mama Cass records. In the same block, Jamie's...  More

Drowning By Numbers
(1988) [M]

3 generations of women share a name and an aversion to marriage. 3 husbands have reason to be afraid of water. Add to the equation 1 amorous coroner and 1 inventive little boy, and so begins the game. Drowning By Numbers is a sharp and witty tale of female camaraderie with Joan Plowright, Juliet...  More

Guiltrip
(1995) [MA]

Army corporal Liam and his wife live on a housing estate at the edge of a small Irish town. Late one night Liam arrives home drunk, and the bitter arguments that develop between them result in a series of flashbacks from which life-changing secrets emerge.  More

Margaret's Museum
(1995) [M]

In a poor Canadian mining village after the Second World War, fragile dreamer Margaret McNeill (Helena Bonham Carter) finds a kindred spirit when a tall, Celtic miner serenades her one night in a diner and follows her home...  More

Michael Collins
(1996) [M]

The life and times of Michael Collins, the man who inspired passion in a nation and changed the history of Ireland.  More

Surviving Picasso
(1996) [M]

The life of one of this century's greatest painters, Picasso, seen through the eyes of the woman who loved him, then left him.  More

Dancing In The Street: Volume 1
(1996) [M]

Dancing in the street tells the story of rock and roll: the truth behind the great songs, the myths, scandals, betrayals, accidents and talent that made it a billion dollar industry. This definitive story is told by the stars and musicians themselves and is illustrated by classic performances,...  More

Dancing In The Street: Volume 3
(1996) [M]

Dancing in the street tells the story of rock and roll: the truth behind the great songs, the myths, scandals, betrayals, accidents and talent that made it a billion dollar industry. This definitive story is told by the stars and musicians themselves and is illustrated by classic performances,...  More

Fierce Creatures
(1997) [M]

Jamie Lee Curtis, John Cleese, Michael Palin and Academy Award winner Kevin Kline - the stars of the smash hit comedy A Fish Called Wanda - return for another hysterically funny farce. The outrageous fun begins when ruthless media mogul Rod McCain (Kline) acquires England's Marwood Zoo....  More

Memoirs Of A Survivor
(1981) [R]

Set in a bleak future where roving gangs of children terrorize city streets, and reality is often an illusion...  More

Distant Voices, Still Lives
(1989) [M]

On her wedding Day, Eileen along with her younger brother and sister, remembers her overbearing father with mixed feelings of regret and compassion. The recollections of this domineering and irrational man are played against music and radio programmes of the period to create an evocative and...  More

Castaway
(1987) [M]

This true life story tells of Lucy Irvine who answered a personal ad in Time Out to live on a desert island with an eccentric middle aged divorced man. This visually splendid adaptation is a shocking and visceral experience, as the relationship has to struggle against the elements and the...  More

Some Mother's Son
(1996) [M]

A widowed teacher and life-long pacifist, Kathless Quickley (Helen Mirren), is shaken out of her comfortable existence when her son is captured after a shoot-out with the British Army. Along with Annie Higgins (Fionnula Flanagan), mother of another prisoner, Kathleen finds herself suddenly...  More

Twelfth Night (1996)
(1996) [G]

Identical mixed-sex twins, separated during a shipwreck, both believe the other dead. When Viola dresses as her 'dead' brother for better protection, little does she realise that her living brother will be on the scene as well. Based on the William Shakespeare play, adapted for the screen by...  More

The English Patient
(1996) [M]

THE ENGLISH PATIENT is an epic film of adventure, intrigue, betrayal and love about four strangers whose diverse lives become inextricably connected. The story is told largely through the eno of an unknown English patient, the sole survivor of a plane shot down near the beginning of World War II,...  More

People's Century: Vol 2 of 4
(1997) [G]

Episodes 4-7 of the acclaimed BBC TV series. No chronicle of the 20th century has ever come so close to the true spirit of the age. People's Century is a unique combination of rare archival footage and personal testimony. Through fascinating eyewitness accounts this acclaimed series examines how...  More

The Secret Agent
(1996) [M]

London of the late 19th century is a haven for political exiles of all sorts - refugees, partisans, anarchists. Verloc has made his living spying for the Russian government, an agent provocateur of sorts, while simultaneously providing information to the London police, specifically Chief...  More

Comic Strip 1 : Five Go Mad In Dorset / War / The Beat Generation / Bad News Tour / Summer School / Five Go Mad On Mescalin
(1982) [MA]

The ground-shaking impact of The Comic Strip's anarchic humour rattled the televisions of the 1980s, and when the smoke cleared they left a gaping crater that lesser comics are still falling into today. Now, for the first time all 39 rarely seen episodes of The Comic Strip Presents, totalling...  More

Brassed Off
(1996) [M]

It's 1992 and the miners of Grimley Colliery are facing uncertainty. Not only is their pit under threat, but the Grimley Colliery Band is on the verge of breaking up - that is, until Gloria (Tara Fitzgerald) arrives. As the only female member of the band, she somehow manages to rekindle their...  More

Carla's Song
(1996) [M]

1987, love in time of war. A bus driver George Lennox meets Carla, a Nicaraguan exile living a precarious, profoundly sad life in Glasgow. Her back is scarred, her boyfriend missing, her family dispersed; she's suicidal. George takes her to Nicaragua to find out what has happened to them and to...  More