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The Dog It Was That Died 1989 In Stoppards LeCarrecature, Rupert Purvis jumps off a bridge onto a dog, and causes problems for Blair, his superior at MI5 And Blair must convince Hogbin, the agent whos been tailing Purvis, of which side Purvis is really on once he finds out what it is

Mr Bates vs the Post Office: The Real Story 2024, In the early 2000's The Post Office rolled out a new IT system called Horizon. It was meant to make the lives of Subpostmasters easier. But Horizon had hidden faults. Subpostmasters (SPMs) using it discovered losses in their accounts. SPMs would ca

An Englishman Abroad 1983 The actress Coral Browne travels to Moscow and meets a mysterious Englishman It turns out that hes the notorious spy Guy Burgess

Butley 1974 A day in the life of Ben Butley But definitely not a day to remember for this T S Eliot scholar at the University of London Lets take for example Anne, his already estranged wife today is the day she has chosen to tell him she is leaving him for good, and for a man Butley despises, and w

The Prince and the Pauper 2000 The King and a poor boy swap places

We Think the World of You 1988 An aimless young man, Johnny Gary Oldman, is sent to prison He entrusts his beloved dog, Evie, to the care of his former lover and best friend, Frank Sir Alan Bates When he gets out of prison, he has to face difficulties at home Added to this, is the fact that he may h

The Statement 2003 1992 The French government has passed a law punishing crimes against humanity allowing them to prosecute Nazi collaborators from WWII Magistrate Annemarie Livi has been assigned the case of Pierre Brossard, a police officer in Dombey, France in June, 1944, when he helped round up

King of Hearts (1966) During the latter part of World War I, Private Charles Plumpick is chosen to go into the French town of Marville and disconnect a bomb that the German army has planted. However, Charles is chased by some Germans and finds himself holed up at the local insane asylum, where the i

At the memorial for his father, WWII hero Major James Prentis, John confesses a dark family secret buried twenty five years to his own son Shuttlecock explores heroism, betrayal, and father son relationships

Whistle Down the Wind (1961) Little Kathy discovers a man wanted for murder hiding in her family's barn. When she asks him who he is, he says Jesus Christ just before he goes unconscious. Kathy and her siblings are convinced that he is Jesus and try to hide him from grown-ups.

Royal Flash (1975) Captain Harry Flashman of the British army is a cad, a coward, and a lecher who always seems to come off inadvertently heroic. While romancing renowned courtesan Lola Montes, Harry is recruited against his will by Otto von Bismarck to substitute for a lookalike Prussian prince ost

Nothing But the Best (1964) Success has James Brewster's name written all over it, and he also has his heart set on his boss's daughter. A con artist hires him to help out on a bank scheme, but then again, James will do anything to get rich and be the most successful businessman in Britian-even if i

A Day in the Death of Joe Egg (1972) A couple uses extremely black comedy to survive taking care of a daughter who is nearly completely brain dead. They take turns doing the daughter's voice and stare into the eyes of death and emotional trauma with a humor that hides their pain.

Secret Friends (1991) During a train ride, an anxiety attack leads middle-aged illustrator John into an identity crisis. As his marital problems merge and blur into his fantasy life with prostitutes and call girls, a long-dormant secret friend of his childhood surfaces in his delusions. Potter viewe

The GoBetween (1971) Summer 1900: Queen Victoria's last and the summer Leo turns 13. He's the guest of Marcus, a wealthy classmate, at a grand home in rural Norfolk. Leo is befriended by Marian, Marcus's twenty-something sister, a beauty about to be engaged to Hugh, a viscount and good fellow. Maria

The Running Man (1963) Hard up and with a grudge against insurance companies, Rex Black feigns his death and meets up with his wife and the money in Malaga when things seemed to have quietened down. But when the insurance investigator from the claim also turns up Rex starts a game of cat-and-mouse.

Nijinsky (1980) Set in the early 1910s at a time of passionate artistic experimentalism, and based on biographical fact, this is the story of Vaslav Nijinsky, the young and brilliant but headstrong premier danseur and aspiring choreographer of the Ballets Russes. The company is managed by the famous

The Guest (1963) Aston (Robert Shaw), a quiet, reserved man, lives alone in a top-floor cluttered room of a small abandoned house in a poor London district. He befriends and takes in Mac Davies (Donald Pleasence), an old derelict who has been fired from a menial job in a café. In time Aston offers

A Kind of Loving (1962) After his girlfriend's pregnancy forces him to marry her, a young man must adjust to his new life and contend with his domineering mother-in-law.

Zorba the Greek (1964) An aimless English writer finds he has a small inheritance on a Greek island. His joyless existence is disturbed when he meets Zorba, a middle aged Greek with a real lust for life. As he discovers the earthy pleasures of Greece, the Englishman finds his view on life changing.

The Shout (1978) Bored while officiating a cricket match at a psychiatric hospital, Crossley tells Graves (a visitor) the tale of a mysterious stranger (also named Crossley) who invades the lives and home of a local musician and his wife. The stranger claims knowledge of real magic, which he uses to

Bathsheba Everdene, a willful, flirtatious, young woman, unexpectedly inherits a large farm and is romantically pursued by three very different men.

An Unmarried Woman (1978) Erica is unmarried only temporarily in that her successful, wealthy husband of seventeen years has just left her for a girl he met while buying a shirt in Bloomingdale's. The film shows Erica coming to terms with the break-up while revising her opinions of herself, redefini

Spartacus (2004) Sentenced to spend out the rest of his adult life laboring in the harsh deserts of Egypt, the Thracian slave Spartacus gets a new lease on life when he is purchased by the obese owner of a Roman gladiator school. Moved by the defiance of an Ethiopian warrior, Draba, Spartacus leads

A Bad Idea Gone Wrong (2017) Two would-be thieves forge a surprising relationship with with an unexpected housesitter when they accidentally trap themselves in a house they just broke into.

The Wicked Lady (1983) Caroline is to be wed to Sir Ralph and invites her sister Barbara to be her bridesmaid. Barbara seduces Ralph, however, and she becomes the new Lady, but despite her new wealthy situation, she gets bored and turns to highway robbery for thrills. While on the road she meets a f

Hamlet returns to Denmark when his father, the King, dies. His mother Gertrude has already married Hamlets uncle Claudius, the new King. They urge Hamlet to marry his beloved Ophelia. But soon the ghost of Hamlets father appears and tells Hamlet that he was murdered by Claudius and Gertrude. Hamlet

The tragic life of a self-destructive female rock star who struggles to deal with the constant pressures of her career and the demands of her ruthless business manager.

In Czarist Russia, around 1911, a Russian-Jewish handyman, Yakov Bog, is wrongly imprisoned for a most unlikely crime.

A homely but vivacious young woman dodges the amorous attentions of her father's middle-aged employer while striving to capture some of the glamorous life of her swinging London roommate.

Martin Fallon is an IRA bomber who tries to blow up a troop truck but instead kills a bus load of school children. He loses heart and quits the movement and goes to London trying to leave ...