The Blockhouse
A group of Slave workers, drafted by the Nazis to help construct their coastal defences in 1944, are trapped in an underground bunker when the Allies land at Normandy on…
The Queen of Sheba’s Pearls
Set in post-war England, a mysterious woman arrives at the Prettys’ rural family home on the eve of young Jack’s 16th birthday. Her remarkable likeness to Jack’s mother, Emily, who…
Massacre in Rome
In the Nazi occupied city of Rome, an assault on an SS brigade draws retaliation from the military governship. “Massacre in Rome” is the true story of how this partisan…
Taste of Excitement
A man has been killed on the Dover/Boulogne car ferry. What is the connection between him and the attempts being made to kill Jane Kerrell, a young girl in her…
I Thank a Fool
A physician is employed by an attorney, played by Peter Finch, who formerly prosecuted her on charges of euthanasia to watch over his mentally ill wife.
Porridge
Times are hard for habitual guest of Her Majesty Norman Stanley Fletcher. The new prison officer, Beale, makes MacKay look soft and what’s more, an escape plan is hatching from…
Savage Messiah
The film fictionalizes the real relationship between French sculptor Henri Gaudier and Polish writer Sophie Brzeska, twenty years his senior, who came to Paris, she says, for its “creative atmosphere.”
Porridge
Porridge is a British situation comedy broadcast on BBC1 from 1974 to 1977, running for three series, two Christmas specials and a feature film also titled Porridge. Written by Dick…
The Punch and Judy Man
Walter Pinner (Tony Hancock) is the titular Punch And Judy Man plying his trade in the seaside town of Piltdown. Unhappily married to his social climbing wife (Sylvia Sims), who…
The Pied Piper
Greed, corruption, ignorance, and disease. Midsummer, 1349: the Black Death reaches northern Germany. Minstrels go to Hamelin for the Mayor’s daughter’s wedding to the Baron’s son. He wants her dowry…
Symptoms
A young woman is invited by her girlfriend, who lives in an English country mansion, to stay there with her. The estate, however, isn’t quite what it seems–and neither is…
Fanatic
A young woman is terrorized by her fiance’s demented mother who blames her for her son’s death.
The Razor’s Edge
He had everything and wanted nothing. He learned that he had nothing and wanted everything. He saved the world and then it shattered. The path to enlightenment is as sharp…
A Twist of Sand
A former British Naval Officer now makes his living by smuggling goods around the Mediterranean. After being forced to dump his cargo after nearly being caught by the authorities in…
Hammerhead
An American agent has tracked down the stronghold of an evil criminal mastermind, determined to take over the world (what, another one ?).
Sudden Terror
A boy who cries wolf witnesses a political assassination on the island of Malta. But will anyone other than his granddad believe him?
Prisoner of Honor
France, 1897. Colonel Georges Picquart challenges the French government when he discovers the obscure political maneuvers that led to the imprisonment of the Jewish Captain Alfred Dreyfus after being convicted…
Rotten to the Core
Rogues Jelly Knight, Scapa Flood, and Lennie the Dip leave prison expecting boss The Duke to have their stash ready to share out. Instead, Duke’s girl Sara gives them the…
A Warning to the Curious
The tale tells the story of Paxton, an amateur archeologist who travels to “Seaburgh” (a disguised version of Aldeburgh, Suffolk) and inadvertently stumbles across one of the lost crowns of…
Alfred the Great
While Old England is being ransacked by roving Danes in the 9th century, Alfred is planning to join the priesthood. But observing the rape of his land, he puts away…
The Legend of 1900
The story of a virtuoso piano player who lives his entire life aboard an ocean liner. Born and raised on the ship, 1900 (Tim Roth) learned about the outside world…
The Mother
A grandmother has a passionate affair with a man half her age, who is also sleeping with her daughter.
The Remains of the Day
A rule certain head butler’s world of manners and decorum in the family he maintains is examined by the arrival of a housekeeper who falls in love with him in…
Fatherland
Fictional accounts of what could happen if Hitler had won the war. It’s currently the 1960s and Germany’s war crimes have been kept that a secret. Hitler would like to…