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All episodes from the first and second series of the gritty British crime drama following a gang of drug dealers in Hackney, London. In the first series, after receiving a loan from Bobby Raikes (Geoff Bell), Dushane (Ashley Walters) and Sully (Kane Robinson)'s drugs business thrives, enabling them to lead a rich lifestyle. Their situation takes a dark turn, however, when their rival, Kamale (Scorcher), steals their stash and violence breaks out amongst the gangs. Meanwhile, 13-year-old Ra'Nell (Malcolm Kamulete) becomes inadvertently involved in the drugs circle after his mother is taken into hospital. In the second series, Dushane has worked his way to the top but finds he has an enemy in his one-time associate Sully who now has a new ruthless crime partner. When their common nemesis Kamale is found dead both Dushane and Sully fall under suspicion. Meanwhile, 15-year-old Ra'Nell is lying low with the district youth squad trials fast approaching but his friend Gem (Giacomo Mancini) is unable to do the same.
Baz Luhrmann writes, directs and produces this adaptation of the F. Scott Fitzgerald novel starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Tobey Maguire and Carey Mulligan. Set in the 1920s, the story follows aspiring writer Nick Carraway (Maguire) as he moves to New York and becomes intrigued by his neighbour Jay Gatsby (DiCaprio)'s lavish lifestyle and mysterious past. As Nick finds himself caught up in the world of the wealthy, he witnesses romantic entanglement and betrayal. Gatsby's true nature is slowly exposed and his involvement with old flame Daisy Buchanan (Mulligan) ultimately leads to tragedy. The soundtrack was overseen by Jay-Z and features music from, amongst others, Beyoncé, André 3000, Will.i.am, Lana Del Rey and Florence and the Machine, as well as Jay-Z himself.
Matthew Goode and MyAnna Buring star in this two-part ITV drama adapted from the novel by Erin Kelly. Having been released from prison early after serving time for murder, Rex (Goode) is welcomed home by his girlfriend Karen (Buring) and their young daughter. Their dark past is gradually pieced together in flashbacks which show how Karen was first beguiled by Rex and his eccentric sister Biba (Ophelia Lovibond) and how the close bond between the three eventually led to murder.
TV's critically acclaimed crime drama returns, starring multi-award winning actress Brenda Blethyn as DCI Vera Stanhope. Based on the bestselling Inspector Stanhope books by renowned writer Ann Cleeves, Vera and her team are faced with a series of daunting challenges.
Live performance of Shakespeare's comedy, recorded at the reconstucted Globe Theatre. The play follows the story of the shipwrecked Viola (Johnny Flynn) who disguises herself as a man named Cesario to work for the charming Duke Orsino (Liam Brennan). She soon falls for the Duke but he is in love with Countess Olivia (Mark Rylance), who in turn develops feelings for Cesario. The situation is further complicated when Viola's twin brother Sebastian (Samuel Barnett) shows up. The all-male production also stars Stephen Fry as Olivia's arrogant steward Malvolio.
Tense, disturbing drama starring Penelope Wilton. Facing imminent forced retirement, Jean (Wilton), a house-sitter on her final job in a beautiful country house, begins to live in the place as though she owns it. When fate brings two strangers to the house - Michael (Daniel Mays), a petty thief, and Steph (Sinead Matthews), a pregnant girl on the run from her abusive boyfriend - Jean discovers the family she has always wanted. Inevitably the past starts catching up with them, threatening to destroy the delusional yet idyllic, isolated life they have created.
The complete eighth season of the popular US drama following detectives Andy Sipowicz (Dennis Franz) and Bobby Simone (Jimmy Smits) as they help police the streets of the Big Apple. The episodes comprise: 'Daveless in New York', 'Waking Up Is Hard to Do', 'Franco, My Dear, I Don't Give a Damn', 'Family Ties', 'Fools Russian', 'Writing Wrongs', 'In-Laws, Outlaws', 'Russellmania', 'Oh Golly Goth', 'In the Still of Night', 'Peeping Tommy', 'Thumb Enchanted Evening', 'Flight of Fancy', 'Nariz a Nariz', 'Love Hurts', 'Everyone Into the Pool', 'Dying to Testify', 'Lost Time', 'Under Covers' and 'In the Wind'.
Award-winning drama based on Blake Nelson's novel. The film follows 16-year-old skateboarder Alex (Gabe Nevins), who accidentally kills a security guard outside Paranoid Park, Portland's most infamous skateboarding park. When he decides to say nothing, he takes on a crushing burden of guilt with huge ramifications.
A Touch of Frost is one of Britain's best loved ITV detective dramas starting Sir David Jason as Detective Inspector Jack Frost - an unconventional policeman with sympathy for the underdog and an instinct for moral justice. Sloppy, disorganised and disrespectful, he attracts trouble like a magnet. Also starring Bruce Alexander and John Lyons. This DVD box set features all episodes from season 1-15, including the last ever episode (please note that season 12 contains one episode "Near Death Experience" and season 13 contains one episode "An Endangered Species").
Lawrence Gordon Clark directs this triple bill of BBC adaptations of the ghost stories by M.R. James. In 'Lost Hearts' (1973) young orphan Stephen (Simon Gipps-Kent) goes to stay at the generous Mr. Abney (Joseph O'Connor)'s estate where he is haunted by two children who previously lived in the house. It turns out the children have come to warn Stephen that Abney is not all that he seems. In 'The Ash Tree' (1975) Sir Richard Fell (Edward Petherbridge) inherits his uncle's manor and grounds. He moves in and decides to cut down an ash tree that could prove harmful to the property but before he gets the chance he begins to hear strange sounds and sees supernatural figures coming from the tree... In 'The Treasure of Abbot Thomas' (1974) cynical Reverend Somerton (Michael Bryant) is completely close-minded when it comes to paranormal activity. His steadfast beliefs falter, however, when his and Lord Peter Dattering (Paul Lavers)'s search for the treasure of alchemist Abbot Thomas (John Herrington) unleashes a terrifying spectre.
The first full commercial release of the 1972 film based on the play of the same name adapted and directed by Jane Arden. The film is an exploration into the mind of a young woman marked as a schizophrenic after suffering a mental breakdown only to find that the cause is not due to her insanity but rather a distorted sexual guilt constructed by the prohibitive community in which she lives.
Double bill of BBC adaptations of M.R. James's ghost story 'Oh, Whistle, and I'll Come to You, My Lad', written in 1904. In 'Whistle and I'll Come to You' (1968) Michael Hordern plays Professor Parkin who heads to a hotel on the east coast of England where he comes across a bone whistle while out on a walk. He takes it back to the hotel with him but that night hears strange noises in his room and, despite his dismissal of the supernatural, he is soon faced with more mysterious goings-on. In 'Whistle and I'll Come to You' (2010) John Hurt stars as James Parkin who, in this version, is a retired astronomer taking a much needed break from caring for his ailing wife. After finding a ring while wandering through the coastal resort he finds himself experiencing increasingly frightening and seemingly paranormal activity.
All 22 episodes from the third season of the 1980s crime drama starring Edward Woodward as Robert McCall, a former government agent who offers his specialist services to those in need. The episodes comprise: 'Blood and Wine: Part 1', 'Blood and Wine: Part 2', 'Suspicion of Innocence', 'In the Money', 'Encounter in a Closed Room', 'Mission McCall: Part 1', 'Mission McCall: Part 2', 'Shadow Play', 'Inner View', 'The Rehearsal', 'Christmas Presence', 'A Dance On the Dark Side', 'The Child Broker', 'Video Games', 'Something Green', 'The Mystery of Manon: Part 1', 'The Mystery of Manon: Part 2', 'No Place Like Home', 'Last Call', 'Regrets Only', 'Target of Choice' and 'Always a Lady'.
Five-part drama series based on the life of Charmian Biggs, the wife of criminal Ronnie Biggs who played a significant part in the Great Train Robbery of 1963. Charmian (Sheridan Smith) first encounters Ronnie (Daniel Mays) on a train and they soon fall in love. When she becomes pregnant the two marry but Ronnie's involvement in the robbery results in his imprisonment. He escapes from jail less than two years later and, wanting to keep her family together, Charmian goes to Paris with their children to meet up with Ronnie. They flee to Australia but are unable to evade the constant threat of capture...
Drama following the volatile relationship between Dink (Berwick Kaler) and Dee (Julie Shaw). When Dee comes across homeless man, Dink, living on the streets of London, she decides to invite him to stay with her. Soon they become involved with one another but their relationship is rocky, often switching between loving and cruel exchanges. As tensions mount the couple head towards the point of self-destruction.
All 26 episodes of the Yorkshire Television drama following the police officers of a small village in Yorkshire. A precursor to the success of 'Heartbeat', the show sees PC Moss Parkin (John Flanagan) and DC Ron Radley (Gareth Thomas) struggle to keep the citizens of Fickley on the right side of the law, with cases ranging from petty theft to abduction. The episodes are: 'Hoot Nor Horn', 'Lock, Stock and...', 'Dead Or Alive?', 'Fame of a Kind', 'Bonus', 'The Good Listener', 'The Deserter', 'The Way Home', 'Boys', 'A Pair of Good Shoes', 'The Birmingham Con', 'Nothing Personal', 'Everybody Knew But Me', 'No Friendship for Coppers', 'Manchester Passenger', 'The Journey', 'Regulation 17', 'Vickory', 'Fox Among the Chickens', 'Wisemen', 'This Little Piggy', 'Low Moon', 'The Spider's Web', 'It's Got to Be Local', 'The Link' and 'Two Gentlemen Standing'.
All episodes from the second series of the British medical drama set in the 1960s at the fictional St Aidan's Royal Free Hospital. The show follows Matron (Wendy Craig) and the other hospital staff as they tend to the sick and face challenges both in and out of the workplace. Episodes comprise: 'All at Sea', 'Snake and Ladders', 'Thicker Than Water', 'Wishing and Hoping', 'One of Those Days' and 'The Last Waltz'.
Bill Douglas's highly acclaimed, largely autobiographical trio of films that follow the fortunes of Jamie (Stephen Archibald) as he grows up in a poverty-stricken mining village in post-war Scotland. The films were made over a six-year period and track Jamie's growth from childhood to adolescence. Many critics regard the trilogy as one of British cinema's greatest achievements.
Bruce Robinson writes and directs this drama based on the debut novel of Hunter S. Thompson. Johnny Depp, who also co-produces the film, stars as burned-out vagrant freelance journalist Paul Kemp, who leaves his life in New York behind and heads off south to work for a local newspaper in San Juan, Puerto Rico. There he adopts the debauched, liquor-soaked lifestyle of Hemingway's 'Lost Generation' and develops an unhealthy obsession with Chenault (Amber Heard), the beautiful fiancee of shady property developer Sanderson (Aaron Eckhart).
Lance Hammer writes and directs this pared-down realist drama set in the Mississippi Delta. After her ex-husband's suicide, impoverished single mother Marlee (Tara Riggs) is struggling to deal with the wayward behaviour of her teenage son, James (JimMyron Ross). Meanwhile, Marlee's ex-brother-in-law, convenience store owner Lawrence (Micheal J. Smith Sr), is thrown into a paralysis of grief and despair by his brother's suicide. As tension builds between the bereaved trio, they must find a way to deal with their pain and move towards some kind of reconciliation.
Mark Wahlberg and Christian Bale star in this drama based on the lives of professional boxers and half-brothers Mickey 'Irish' Ward and Dicky Eklund. From a tough childhood in Lowell, Massachusetts, Dicky (Bale) becomes a talented boxer in the late 1970s and early '80s. Away from the ring, however, he becomes addicted to crack cocaine and resorts to crime to support his habit. When Mickey (Wahlberg) begins to show similar promise in the boxing ring, Dicky decides to retire from the sport and become his brother's trainer - but can he kick his drug habit and dedicate himself to making Mickey a star? Bale won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor and Melissa Leo won Best Supporting Actress.
After the death of his father King George V and the scandalous abdication of King Edward VIII, Bertie who has suffered from a debilitating speech impediment all his life, is suddenly crowned King George VI of England. With his country on the brink of war and in desperate need of a leader, his wife, Elizabeth, the future Queen Mother, arranges for her husband to see an eccentric speech therapist, Lionel Logue. After a rough start, the two delve into an unorthodox course of treatment and eventually form an unbreakable bond. With the support of Logue, his family, his government and Winston Churchill, the King will overcome his stammer and deliver a radio-address that inspires his people and unites them in battle. Based on the true story of King George VI, The King's Speech follows the Royal Monarch's quest to find his voice.
Academy Award Winner
British drama which follows the relationship of a young couple. Author Peter (Bruce Robinson) takes time out from working to move in with his receptionist girlfriend, Ann (Susan Penhaligon), against the wishes of her parents. When Ann falls pregnant, Peter is torn between pursuing his artistic passion of writing and committing to the domestic lifestyle.
Made-for-television biopic, directed by Peter Hall, about the famous Biblical character. Jacob (Matthew Modine) and Esau (Sean Bean) are two brothers fighting for their father's affection and inheritance, driven to war, enmity, and eventual reconcilliation. Also featuring performances from Lara Flynn Boyle and Joss Ackland. |
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