Blackly comic music-infused biopic about the life - and tragic death - of maverick British songwriter and record producer Joe Meek. Flamboyantly gay in a time when homosexuality remained outlawed tone deaf drug addicted ...

Well-received drama based on the childhood memories of director Franco Zeffirelli. It is Florence 1934. A diverse group of women meet each afternoon for tea. There is Lady Hester Ransom (Maggie Smith) widow of the Britis...

Groundbreaking drama of urban alienation from director Martin Scorsese and writer Paul Schrader. Vietnam veteran Travis Bickle (Robert De Niro) works as a New York City taxi driver and is consumed with disgust by the 'fi...

Political thriller unfolding against the intrigues and corruption of the global oil industry. As a career CIA operative (George Clooney) begins to uncover the disturbing truth about the work he has devoted his life to an...

This much admired cult classic stars Burt Lancaster as Ned Merrill who decides to swim across the country using a chain of swimming pools in his friends' gardens. Along the way he meets a host of women from his past face...

Ray Winstone stars as the sinister 'demon barber of Fleet Street' in this BBC dramatisation of the legend. In 18th century London the emotionally damaged Sweeney Todd has managed to put his brutal upbringing behind him i...

Natural history documentary presented by famed wildlife broadcaster David Attenborough which retraces the existence of prehistoric flying reptiles known as pterosaurs. In order to discover more the naturalist travels to ...

Natural history documentary presented by famed wildlife broadcaster David Attenborough which retraces the existence of prehistoric flying reptiles known as pterosaurs. In order to discover more the naturalist travels to ...

Australian coming-of-age family drama based on the novel by Colin Thiele. Twelve-year-old Mike (Greg Rowe) becomes involved in looking after a group of orphaned pelicans on the desolate Southern coast of Australia. With ...

Comedienne Victoria Wood is joined by long-term collaborator Julie Walters for this compendium of seasonal silliness. The festive special includes such delights as the Midlife Olympics the world's unlikeliest sporting ev...

Stanley Kubrick's star-studded historical epic concerns the efforts of the slave-gladiator Spartacus (Kirk Douglas) to lead the slaves of the Roman Empire in a rebellion against their masters. The ranks quickly swell as ...

Keith Nelson (Eric Stoltz) is a young man with woman trouble. He's lucky enough to have got a date with High School princess Amanda Jones (Lea Thompson) but does she really like him? Or is he just a way of getting back a...

All seven series of the popular British television drama following the fortunes of the men in the King's Own Fusiliers regiment as they face peacekeeping duties in Northern Ireland and around the world rivalries with oth...

Guy Ritchie writer/director of Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels delivers another awe-inspiring directorial masterpiece. Snatch is an edgy and hilarious film about a diamond heist gone wrong a colourful Irish gypsy turn...

All twenty-six episodes of the swashbuckling British television series starring Terence Morgan as the great adventurer explorer and defender of the Queen as he wages his war against the Spanish Empire. Episodes are: 'The...

Entire first series of the programme based on dating and relationships among a disparate group of young British people. The narrator Nathan is a womanising Mancunian web designer working for a porno outfit. His best mate...

An eighties BBC adaptation of George Eliot's novel. In 18th century England a Scrooge-like weaver named Silas Marner (Ben Kingsley) hordes his gold and steers clear of all human contact. His whole world is subsequently t...

The true story of pianist David Helfgott. In Australia in the 1950s child prodigy David (an Oscar-winning Geoffrey Rush) is pushed hard by his father Peter and catches the attention of music tutor Ben Rosen who teaches D...

Three-part BBC mini-series offering a fast-paced modernised adaptation of the classic detective novels by Arthur Conan Doyle. Laptops mobile phones and the internet are the new tools for crime in a modern London under th...

Accountant Andy Dufresne (Tim Robbins) is sent to prison in the Forties for the murder of his unfaithful wife and her lover despite protesting his innocence. He slowly comes to terms with the injustices of the corrupt pr...