Movies

Captain Crowther's lot is not a happy one! Five of his crew have to be replaced and at such short notice before the voyage begins there isn't much to...

Four television critics gather in a Wardour Street preview theatre to see a documentary and get the surprise of their lives.

In 1948, a new British governor takes over a Far Eastern colony after his predecessor is murdered by terrorists.

Adapted from the play by the British playwright Arthur Wing Pinero, as part of BBC Play of the Month. It depicts the vicissitudes of a reformed...

A portrait of Lord Longford, a tireless British campaigner whose controversial beliefs often resulted in furious political debate and personal...

Robert and Jane are a middle-aged couple grieving over a dead daughter. Michael and Zonny are a young couple with a bright future ahead of them. The...

Readers and fans worldwide know the land of Narnia and the magical beings who dwell there. But few know the genius who created this beloved fantasy....

Isabel and Clara are growing up in a time of terror. It is 1492, and Spain has decreed that all Jews must either convert to Catholicism, go into...

David and Joan's life has been one continuous party, but their marriage is loveless. Suddenly a young girl appears in their world and announces that...

An elderly spinster plans a perfect robbery in Soho.

Stoker Charlie (the diminutive Drake) helps 150 Wrens under Superintendent Maxine Audley, who've hijacked a frigate, HMS 'Huntress', to prove they're...

A bomb-throwing incident in 1905 sets off a train of events which ends in a murder and a suicide.

A blossoming friendship between a businessman and one of his flatmate's ex-girlfriends is challenged when she answers a phone call and inadvertently...

Lewis, a gay writer of romantic novels, writes an article on gay issues under the pseudonym of "Zippy Grimes." The reason for this is that he hasn't...

When stones begin miraculously arranging themselves on the edge of one young man's private land, he and his friend begin trying to decipher them in...

A man and a woman (both married to other people) are found dead in a show home in what appears to have been double suicide. Their respective children...

Insurance salesman Tom and his wife Jenny are struggling through the first years of marriage in a modest flat, on Tom's even more modest salary. By...

When former Russian spy Max Stein is murdered, private investigator McGill inherits a key to a safe deposit box in a Lisbon bank – a box that...

A married couple treat themselves to a day out just by themselves. But the occasion is ruined by the husband's roving eye.

Two contrasting stories: one couple dream of leaving the city; another have left the countryside.