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- DirectorDavid Hugh JonesStarsAnne BancroftAnthony HopkinsJudi DenchTrue story of a transatlantic business correspondence about used books that developed into a close friendship.
- DirectorPat O'ConnorStarsColin FirthKenneth BranaghJohn AtkinsonTwo soldiers (Colin Firth, Kenneth Branagh) recover from World War I while spending a summer in a Yorkshire village.
- DirectorMike HodgesStarsMickey RourkeBob HoskinsAlan BatesMartin, an I.R.A. hitman, is seen by a Catholic priest while carrying out a hit. He grows a bond with the priest and his niece. But his past and his former employers put all their lives in danger.
- DirectorJohn HoughStarsSarah TorgovTerence KellyMark EricksonA group of travellers make emergency landing on an island in the Pacific Northwest after their seaplane malfunctioned, and stumble across an isolated and psychopathic family.
- DirectorAlan ParkerStarsMickey RourkeRobert De NiroLisa BonetA private investigator is hired by a man who calls himself Louis Cyphre to track down a singer named Johnny Favorite. But the investigation takes an unexpected and somber turn.
- DirectorClaude ZaccaïStarsDavid BidermanAssi DayanWilliam Del ViscoA man walks across the desert. He does not know where he comes from. Suddenly, six cars appear on the horizon and drive close to him. The people who get out of the cars surround him. Who are they? What do they want from him?
- DirectorRobert AltmanBruce BeresfordBill BrydenStarsJohn HurtTheresa RussellStephanie Lane10 short films by 10 different directors, set to arias by different composers.
- DirectorGilbert CatesStarsKaren AllenKeith CarradineJeff FaheyDisgruntled wife cheats on her well off husband, who's been suffering from PTSD ever since he came home from the Vietnam War. After an incident he ends up in a catatonic state. Soon, she begins to suspect that someone is after her.
- DirectorRichard LoncraineStarsBernard HillDerek NewarkRichard HopeHiller, a computer expert, was bribed by group of bank robbers to obtain details of the security system at a newly-built bank. Having obtained the information, he thought he'd seen the last of the robbers. But now they've traced him and his son to London. They hold the son hostage and force Hiller to decode the information about the alarm and then to take part in the robbery.
- DirectorAlan ClarkeStarsPhil DanielsAlun ArmstrongBruce PayneCocky, flatulent, cockney snooker player Billy Kid accepts the challenge of a grudge match from Maxwell Randall ( the Green Baize Vampire ) , six times world champion. The loser will never play professional snooker again. Oh, the humanity..
- DirectorNorman J. WarrenStarsSuzy AitchisonNikki BrooksColin HeywoodA group of friends take refuge in an island hotel that is decorated for New Years. The problem is, it's early summer, and soon enough, even the walls themselves are striking out against them.
- DirectorBernard RoseStarsEwen CumminsJohn DairGlen DallasRock musical set in the future, around Tottenham and Hackney. Taxi driver, Smiley, helps beautiful Dominique Renoir, who is on the run from her violent Mafia boyfriend.
- DirectorJamil DehlaviStarsPeter FirthSuzan CrowleyStefan KaliphaA musician searches for the Master Flautist, a supernatural creature who is planning to blow up the world.
- DirectorPeter JefferiesStarsDelyth WynStaffan MorganCadfan RobertsDrama about a child caught between his warring parents.
- DirectorJohn StewartStarsNiamh MahonNikki McKayDarren FuryIn the aftermath of a car crash, Maggie awaits rescue. When help arrives, matters take a turn for the worse.
- DirectorRichard AttenboroughStarsDenzel WashingtonKevin KlineJosette SimonSouth African journalist Donald Woods is forced to flee the country after attempting to investigate the death in custody of his friend, the Black anti-Apartheid activist Steve Biko.
- DirectorAntonio PeláezStarsFrank GrimesKamlesh GuptaLaura GoodwinDeserted by their father and with their mother dead, nine-year-old Pablo and his little sister Maria refuse to be separated from each other by their caretaker aunt. With a cross as their guide, they embark on a perilous, but ultimately rewarding adventure in search of a mystical gem that holds the key to happiness. They escape the fearsome metal hook of a pirate and are helped by a delightfully drunken Captain in their quest for the magic stone.
- DirectorMichael J. MurphyStarsRob BartlettDebbi StevensEddie KirbyA scientist places her son and his girlfriend into a cryogenic sleep so they can survive the coming apocalypse. They wake 25 years later in a world dominated by neo-Nazi like ruler, called the Messiah who holds the "Death Run".
- DirectorArne MattssonStarsDebra BeaumontNorman BowlerFiona CurzonA bitter married couple are planning to divorce, but the husband decides he wants to get rid of his wife, so he hires a hitman. However, the wife also has the same planned for her hubby, while their daughter plots her own lethal intrigue.
- DirectorGérard KikoïneStarsOliver ReedEartha KittAnnabel SchofieldOn an 18th century Caribbean island run by debauched colonial plantation owners, an enslaved Scotsman joins a slave revolt.
- DirectorPeter RichardsonStarsNosher PowellAl PillayRonald AllenTerrorists and a rude waiter attack a politician and take over an exclusive London club.
- DirectorRon PeckStarsCathryn HarrisonJason HogansonGlen MurphyIn London's yuppie-dominated docklands of the 1980s Paul tries to make a deal with an American businessman However, he underestimates the clout of his old boss, a powerful Eastender.
- DirectorTony BillStarsJodie FosterTim RobbinsTodd GraffA psychotic young man returns to his old neighborhood after release from prison. He seeks out the woman he previously tried to rape and the man who protected her, with twisted ideas of love for her and hate for him.
- DirectorStephen Gibbons
- DirectorPeter WollenStarsTilda SwintonPatrick BauchauBill PatersonIn the 1970s, aliens send a female android diplomat to Earth on a mission of peace. She lands in war-torn Palestine instead of MIT by mistake and meets a friendly UK journalist there. They begin a series of insightful conversations.
- DirectorStanley KubrickStarsMatthew ModineR. Lee ErmeyVincent D'OnofrioA pragmatic U.S. Marine observes the dehumanizing effects the Vietnam War has on his fellow recruits from their brutal boot camp training to the bloody street fighting in Hue.
- DirectorRoland KenyonRod MacDonaldStarsTricia HitchcockMelanie RevellRichard SpaulHamlet suspects his uncle has murdered his father to claim the throne of Denmark and the hand of Hamlet's mother, but the prince cannot decide whether or not he should take vengeance.
- DirectorClive BarkerStarsAndrew RobinsonClare HigginsAshley LaurenceA woman discovers the newly resurrected, partially formed, body of her brother-in-law and lover. She starts killing for him to revitalize his body and escape the demonic beings that are pursuing him after he escaped their underworld.
- DirectorStephen PoliakoffStarsCharles DanceCassie StuartBill PatersonSharon Newton (Cassie Stuart) leads the uncooperative James Richards (Charles Dance) into a world of misplaced government secrets, capitalistic artists and bungling secret agents.
- DirectorClare PeploeStarsJacqueline BissetJames FoxIrene PapasThe lives of an English expat photographer, her daughter, her player ex, a commie spy, a "00" agent and other English in Lindos, Rhodes, Greece.
- DirectorJohn BoormanStarsSarah MilesDavid HaymanSebastian Rice-EdwardsBill, a young boy living on the outskirts of London experiences the exhilaration of World War II. During this period, Bill learns about sex, death, love, hypocrisy, and the faults of adults as he prowls the ruins of bombed houses.
- DirectorJana BokovaStarsCarola RegnierFernando ReyMarika Rivera
- DirectorTimothy ForderStarsPeter ChelsomShelagh McLeodAshalataMarried film director has affair with leading lady.
- DirectorJack BondStarsNeil TennantChris LoweJoss AcklandA young boy's holiday at a seaside resort includes a crazy blind priest, nuns in suspenders and a whole bunch of fat ladies.
- DirectorTerry MarcelStarsSam J. JonesMaud AdamsJasper CarrottJane and the colonel must journey to Africa to the lost city to retrieve the diamonds before the Germans do. Based on the classic adult UK comic strip "Jane," especially popular during World War II for its strong pin-up elements.
- DirectorChristine EdzardStarsDerek JacobiAlec GuinnessJoan GreenwoodArthur returns to London after working abroad for many years with his now deceased father. Almost at once he becomes involved in the problems of his mother's seamstress Amy and of her father residing in the Marshalsea debtors' prison.
- DirectorJulian DoyleStarsNancy PaulJohn RoweRobert AshbyDelaware, a female drug addict, joins a drugs rehabilitation program in a special clinic where the doctors' methods seem to be too unorthodox.
- DirectorAnne WheelerStarsKenneth WelshTantoo CardinalSusan WooldridgeLily and her three youngest children join her husband David Sutton, a doctor in an isolated northern Alberta town. Their eleven-year-old son arrives later from boarding school. David conceals a dark secret which caused the family to leave England without telling anybody. They befriend a neighbor Rosanne, who throws out her boyfriend after he beats her up in a bar. Lily, who is very English and out of place in the town, hires the half-Native Rosanne as a housekeeper, and eventually the two women become good friends, until the secret emerges again.
- DirectorJohn EyresStarsEmma Burdon-SuttonFrank Rozelaar-GreenJared MorganA psychotic killer is embarked on a murder spree, and the authorities begin to suspect that he may have been sent from Hell.
- DirectorJohn GoldschmidtStarsIrina BrookCary ElwesSunnyi MellesA story about true love, set in the Berlin of the 1920s. In a shabby lodging-house inhabited by a number of faintly ludicrous characters, the young Russian exile Ganin is unexpectedly confronted with his past.
- DirectorJames IvoryStarsJames WilbyRupert GravesHugh GrantTwo English school chums find themselves falling in love at Cambridge. To regain his place in society, Clive gives up Maurice and marries. While staying with Clive and his wife, Maurice discovers romance in the arms of the gamekeeper Alec.
- DirectorKarl FrancisStarsJames DonnellyBernard LathamRobert PughA young Welsh soldier on duty in northern Ireland shoots a terrorist in self defense and is used as scapegoat by the political system.
- DirectorKetan MehtaStarsSmita PatilNaseeruddin ShahOm PuriIn colonial India, subedars (tax collectors) went from village to village with soldiers, often demanding more than taxes. A subedar commands Sonbai, a beautiful and confident woman whose husband is away in the city, to sleep with him. She slaps him and flees for safety to a spice factory where women grind chillies into fine powder. The aged factory guard, Abu Mian, locks the door behind her, refusing to open it to the soldiers, to the cowardly village men led by the mayor, and to the subedar himself. The town's teacher, who follows Gandhi, and a few women, led by the mayor's wife, protest ineffectually against this village-approved rape. The stage is set for a final confrontation.
- DirectorGodfrey HoStarsRichard HarrisonAlphonse BeniStuart SmithWhen police officer Alvin loses both his star witness and his wife to drug kingpin (and ninja assassin) Rudolph, he vows to get revenge. Travelling to Hong Kong, hot on Rudolph's trail, he teams up with local investigators Gordon, Vivian and Jackie. Meanwhile, a young street punk named Edmund is hunting for the man who killed his father. Could they all possibly be searching for the same person?
- DirectorPaul ChartStarsRowe David McClelland
- DirectorSias OdendaalMichael PakleppaStarsGlynis JohnsSteve RailsbackRonald FranceAn alien called Nukie searches for his brother Miko, who has been captured by the U.S. government.
- DirectorJonnie TurpieStarsSharon FryerPete Lee-WilsonNatasha WilliamsUnemployed Anthony announces he is joining the police, much to the horror of his girlfriend and friends.
- DirectorKen McMullenStarsBhasker PatelSaeed JaffreyHarmage Singh KaliraiLunatics in an asylum see the horror of India's partition with a lucidity that seems to escape the seemingly sane political players directing it on the outside.
- DirectorTerry JonesStarsJulie WaltersAlec McCowenShirley StelfoxThe story of the rise of a madame of a suburban brothel catering to older men, inspired by the real experiences of Cynthia Payne.
- DirectorPo-Chih LeongStarsDavid YipLucy SheenRobert LeeA Chinese lawyer tries to execute the will of Sam Wong.
- DirectorHorace OvéStarsNorman BeatonRobert UrquhartHelen LindsayTo mark the conclusion of their "Third World Week" celebration, a cricket team in a small English village invites a black cricket team from South London to a charity game with comical results.
- DirectorAlex ClarkeStarsCyril AppletonPeter AubreyFrank CodaWhen a detective is found with head injuries near a cafe in Zeebrugge, maverick Belgian police Inspector Pretorius is assigned the case. His enquiries lead him to suspect that the injured policeman was involved in a cocaine ring.
- DirectorStephen FrearsStarsGary OldmanAlfred MolinaVanessa RedgraveBiographer John Lahr is writing a book about playwright Joe Orton. Joe and Kenneth meet at drama school and live together for ten years as lovers and collaborators. Both want to be writers, but only one of them is successful.
- DirectorMichael HoffmanStarsJason GedrickKiefer SutherlandMeg RyanGritty drama that follows two high school acquaintances, Hancock, a basketball star, and Danny, a geek turned drifter, after they graduate.
- DirectorAlan ClarkeStarsSiobhan FinneranMichelle HolmesGeorge CostiganRealistic story of working-class Yorkshire life, alternately serious and light-hearted, as two schoolgirls have a sexual fling with a married man.
- DirectorStephen FrearsStarsShashi KapoorClaire BloomFrances BarberSammy and Rosie are an unconventional couple. They live amid chaos, surround themselves with intellectual street people, and sleep with everybody except each other. Things become interesting when Sammy's father visits.
- DirectorWayne WangStarsTom HulceMary Elizabeth MastrantonioVirginia MadsenAn artist, framed for the murder of a woman, is drawn into a web of corruption, blackmail and deceit.
- DirectorRidley ScottStarsTom BerengerMimi RogersLorraine BraccoA married New York cop falls for the socialite murder witness he's been assigned to protect.
- DirectorAlex CoxStarsSy RichardsonJoe StrummerDick RudeA gang of bank robbers with a suitcase full of money go to the desert to hide out. After burying the loot, they find their way to a surreal town full of cowboys who drink an awful lot of coffee. The townspeople are hostile to the outsiders at first, but seem to accept them once they've killed a couple of people. After a while, a mysterious man named Dade arrives, who seems to have unpleasant business to settle with the robbers. A free-for-all shoot-em-up ensues.
- DirectorSidney J. FurieStarsChristopher ReeveGene HackmanMargot KidderThe Man of Steel crusades for nuclear disarmament and meets Lex Luthor's latest creation, Nuclear Man.
- DirectorTony PalmerStarsBen KingsleySherry BainesMagdalen AsquithThe story of the great Soviet composer Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975) and his life and career during the rule of Stalin.
- DirectorPeter GreenawayStarsBrian DennehyChloe WebbLambert WilsonAn architect supervising an exhibition starts to have mysterious stomach pains while his life slowly falls apart.
- DirectorJohn HustonStarsAnjelica HustonDonal McCannHelena CarrollGabriel Conroy and wife Gretta attend an early January dinner with friends at the home of his spinster aunts, an evening which results in an epiphany for both of them.
- DirectorJohn MackenzieStarsMichael CainePierce BrosnanNed BeattyJohn Preston is a British Agent with the task of preventing the Russians detonating a nuclear explosion next to an American base in the UK. The Russians are hoping this will shatter the "special relationship" between the two countries.
- DirectorArne MattssonStarsFranco NeroBernice StegersClare PowneyA chance encounter on the street brings a young schoolgirl and a wealthy middle-aged attorney together. Thus begins an affair that will lift him into the heights of a passionate love and plunge him into the depths of deception and murder.
- DirectorMike BattStarsMike BattBilly ConnollyRoger DaltreyThis is a musical by Mike Batt based on Lewis Carroll's nonsense poem. Mike Batt conducts the London Symphony Orchestra.
- DirectorHarry HookStarsBob PeckEdwin MahindaPhyllis LoganThe son of a priest slain by the Mau Mau moves in with a police officer and his wife in 1950 Kenya.
- DirectorBernardo BertolucciStarsJohn LoneJoan ChenPeter O'TooleBernardo Bertolucci's Oscar-winning dramatisation of the life story of China's last emperor, Pu Yi.
- DirectorDerek JarmanStarsTilda SwintonSpencer Leigh'Spring' Mark AdleyThe artist's personal commentary on the decline of his country in a language closer to poetry than prose. A dark meditation on London under Thatcher.
- DirectorJohn GlenStarsTimothy DaltonMaryam d'AboJeroen KrabbéJames Bond is sent to investigate a KGB policy to kill all enemy spies, and uncovers an arms deal that potentially has major global ramifications.
- DirectorJack ClaytonStarsMaggie SmithBob HoskinsWendy HillerA middle-aged spinster falls in love with a fellow resident of her boardinghouse, who mistakenly believes she has the money to help him start a new business.
- DirectorRobert SmithStarsSheila HancockPeter CapaldiPercy HerbertWhen he was a little boy, Dillon's rock musician father and hippie mother died in a traffic accident. Now in his twenties, Dillon wants nothing more than a normal, responsible life, working in an office and taking care of the grandmother who raised him. But his grandmother has other ideas, and Dillon finds himself lured into an alternate lifestyle of art, pleasure and rebellion.
- DirectorDavid WheatleyStarsCaroline MilmoeTom BellKilian McKennaAfter her parents are killed in a plane crash over the Grand Canyon, Melanie, a teenager girl and her younger brother and sister are sent to London to live with their uncle, Philip. There, she meets his mute wife Margaret, who is mistreated by and terrified of her husband and only converses through notes. She also meets Margaret's younger brothers Francie, a fiddler, and the rakish Finn. Her uncle is a toy maker, secretly has the power to make his toys come to life, but he also maintains dictatorial control over his family and intends to exercise the same control over the new arrival.
- DirectorGordon HesslerStarsBruce DavisonDavid Patrick KellyD.W. MoffettWar story of the 27th Panzers, Hitler's heavy-duty combat regiment composed of prisoners. In 1943, this motley tank crew is sent on a suicide mission behind enemy lines to destroy a Soviet train that's carrying fuel for the Red Army.
- DirectorGerald ThomasStarsAnthony AndrewsMax von SydowHelmut GriemAfter the end of WW2, a lone elusive skier from the German Mountain Troops continues to kill British Occupation Forces personnel, prompting a joint British-German manhunt operation to capture him.
- DirectorJoseph RubenStarsTerry O'QuinnJill SchoelenShelley HackAfter murdering his entire family, a man marries a widow with a teenage daughter in another town and prepares to do it all over again.
- DirectorBarrie GavinStarsGeorge Benjamin
- DirectorGoran MarkovicStarsMustafa NadarevicAnica DobraMilorad Mandic-MandaPiano teacher is deeply traumatised by the events of his childhood, as well as by political oppression in his youth. Decades later, all those traumas lead to carnage.
- DirectorMichael RadfordStarsSarah MilesJoss AcklandJohn HurtIn 1940s Kenya, a married couple join other affluent British expatriates in a lifestyle of recklessness and excess, but soon find themselves in a troubling situation.
- DirectorDonald CammellStarsDavid KeithCathy MoriartyAlan RosenbergSomebody's killing rich married women in their homes - latest in a rich desert community outside Tucson. A married sound expert is prime suspect.
- DirectorDavid LelandStarsEmily LloydTrudi CavanaghClare CliffordIn a staid English seaside town after the Second World War, young Lynda grows up with her widowed father and younger sister. She eventually becomes pregnant by an acquaintance of her father.
- DirectorBruce RobinsonStarsRichard E. GrantPaul McGannRichard GriffithsIn 1969, two substance-abusing, unemployed actors retreat to the countryside for a holiday that proves disastrous.
- DirectorStanley AppelStarsGary Daviesa-haElkie Brooks
- DirectorGarth TuckerStarsLetitia DeanAnita DobsonPeter Dean
- DirectorRobin CarrDavid CroftStarsGorden KayeCarmen SilveraVicki MichelleThe airmen are disguised as waitresses at the café. However, von Klinkerhoffen recognizes a Van Gogh, behind which René has hidden The Fallen Madonna, and he requisitions it to be taken to the chateau, along with the two 'waitresses'. To thwart this an elaborate pantomime is staged, whereby the two men dress as tarts out to seduce René. A supposedly enraged Edith then 'shoots' them with a gun loaded with blanks. The 'corpses' are taken to Alfonse's funeral parlour under which a tunnel has been dug, connecting to the prisoner-of-war camp across the road, in which it is planned to hide the two fugitives.
- StarsNigel ReesRegional quiz in which contestants are quizzed on three areas of knowledge: general, local and specialist.
- StarsGloria HunnifordA short-lived version of the US quiz show, where couples compete to answer questions about one another. Presented by Gloria Hunniford, despite reasonable ratings, it lasted just one series.
- DirectorMark ChapmanStarsRoyce MillsClassic BBC comedic documentary from 1987 comparing and contrasting a group of novice British skiers at Söll with a group of more experienced British skiers in Wengen. The commentary is minimalist, allowing the participants and the situations to speak for themselves. The film is all the more entertaining for that. For many, Kevin is the star of the show.
- StarsJasper CarrottSteve PuntHugh DennisJasper Carrott takes a comedic look at the week's news and ponders the absurdities of life in general, with topical sketch comedy from Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis.
- DirectorGraeme HarperStarsJohn NettlesTerence AlexanderJeremy ClydeAfter a man is found wandering Jersey nude and suffering from memory loss, Susan's eccentric aunt, yachtswoman Belle is asked to make a no questions asked trip to France but refuses. Jim discovers that the mystery man, Smythe, has actually murdered his wife, though Smythe genuinely cannot recall it. His friends, however, are extremely dangerous and will stop at nothing to get him off the island. Jim calls on Belle's help to stop them.
- DirectorBob FranklinStarsAlan Dobie
- StarsClive James
- DirectorSandy JohnsonStarsLenny HenryJohn SheaPeter VaughanTwo guys meet, one American, a deserter from the US army, one Brit, and they are drawn together by their mutual love of Soul music. Neither being gainfully employed they decide to start a mobile disco service for fellow soul lovers, which leads them to buy an ice cream van, and the adventure begins. Before long they find themselves on the run from the bad guys and the police.
- StarsKatharine SchlesingerEmrys JamesElizabeth BellDuring World War II, a teenage Jewish girl named Anne Frank and her family are forced into hiding in the Nazi-occupied Netherlands.
- 1973–201033mTV-148.0 (54)TV EpisodeDirectorAlan J.W. BellStarsMichael AldridgeBill OwenPeter SallisClegg is roped in to helping Howard and Marina's budding romance, against his will and better judgement.
- StarsRoy WalkerRoy Walker hosts this game show in which contestants have to guess a common phrase just by looking at a picture. The contestant with the most points goes on for a grand prize.
- DirectorBill GilmourStarsJean AlexanderMichael Le VellWilliam TarmeyTerry covers his tracks upon realising that he broke into the Corner Shop. Rita suspects Jenny of hiding facts about the crash. Hilda takes offence at Alf's questioning.
- StarsGian SammarcoSteven MackintoshLuluContinuation of the rites of passage comedy drama about spotty teenager Adrian Mole. Set in the early 1980s, Adrian's mother and father are back together but while they are trying for a baby, they discover that his dad's ex-lover is also pregnant.