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BBC mini-series with Jane Lapotaire in the title role. The programme chronicles the work of scientific pioneer Marie Curie as she conducts her research into radioactivity, makes the famous discovery of Radium and wins Nobel Prizes for both Physics and Chemistry. The programme also looks at key events that affected the soon-to-be famous revolutionary including the devastating death of her husband (Nigel Hawthorne) and her subsequent controversial affairs.
Six-part thriller series from Francis Durbridge. When a famous athlete (Anthony Sagar) dies on a golf course, his detective son Jack (Gerald Harper) supects murder, despite the coroner's misadventure verdict. In pursuit of the facts and events behind his death, Jack embarks on a murder hunt that takes him into the seedy underworld of the Soho red-light district. As the body count rises Jack's suspicions are proved correct but will he be able to discover the mystery behind it all?
All seven episodes of the blackly comic drama series starring Bryan Cranston as Walter White, a high school chemistry teacher in the throes of a midlife crisis who discovers that he is dying from inoperable lung cancer. In an attempt to sort out his disastrous financial affairs he decides to turn to crime, and enlists the help of a good-for-nothing ex-student to set himself up as a crystal meth dealer. Episodes are: 'Pilot', 'Cat's in the Bag', '... And the Bag's in the River', 'Cancer Man', 'Gray Matter', 'Crazy Handful of Nothin'' and 'A No-Rough-Stuff-Type-Deal'.
All episodes from the 1967 BBC miniseries adapted from Emily Brontë's classic novel. Ian McShane stars as Heathcliff who was adopted into the Earnshaw family as a young boy. As they grow up together he and his adoptive sister Cathy (Angela Scoular) form a deep bond but when she marries the well-off Edgar Linton (Drewe Henley), Heathcliff leaves to make his own wealth. He later returns to Wuthering Heights hoping to win back Cathy's heart but tragedy soon strikes.
Ang Lee directs this Academy Award-winning fantasy adventure based on Yann Martel's Booker Prize-winning novel. Suraj Sharma stars as Pi Patel, a 16-year-old zookeeper's son from Pondicherry who finds himself stranded on a small boat in the Pacific Ocean in the company of a hyena, a zebra, an orangutan and a Bengal tiger following the shipwreck of the freighter on which he and his family were sailing for Canada. Over the course of several months Pi manages to survive on the meagre supplies of food and water he finds on the boat, and also takes up fishing, while in his half-delirious state he muses on various aspects of animal behaviour, religion and the meaning of life. The film won Academy Awards for Best Director (Ang Lee) and Best Cinematography (Claudio Miranda), as well as an Academy Award and a Golden Globe for Best Original Score - Motion Picture (Mychael Danna) and two BAFTAs.
When the body of a young man is discovered in a derelict building, DCI Cassie Stuart – one of the Met’s smartest detectives – is called in to investigate with her partner, DI Sunil Khan. Jimmy Sullivan was a homeless boy, murdered in 1976 when the building was a hostel. His diary implicates four suspects; a clergyman, an eminent entrepreneur, a community worker and a wheelchair-bound husband caring for his wife. Each has a secret to hide. As their lies unravel, the people they love most begin to wonder what else they might be capable of as nothing in this case is black and white. Can you ever really know the people closest to you? What secrets have they buried?
The first ten episodes from the fifth season of the historical drama
following the adventures of a Viking clan. Following on from events in
the previous season, Ragnar's sons Ubbe, Ivar and Hvitserk (Jordan
Patrick Smith, Alex Hřgh and Marco Ilsř) collaboratively reign over
their new land in East Anglia. Bjorn and Halfdan (Alexander Ludwig and
Jasper Pääkkönen) have sailed away to the Mediterranean Sea, Floki
(Gustaf Skarsgĺrd) embarks on a journey into uncharted territory and
King Harald (Peter Franzén) returns to Kattegat.
Documentary which exposes some of the most magnificent landscapes of the world, and encourages us to focus upon the preservation of our planet. Locations featured include the mountains of Vancouver, the deserts of Namibia and the tropical jungles of Borneo.
All six series of the acclaimed French police drama starring Grégory
Fitoussi and Caroline Proust. In the first series, the discovery of a
young woman's badly-beaten body on a rubbish tip in Paris sets in
motion a police investigation that unravels a trail of corruption
leading from the dark worlds of prostitution and drugs to the halls of
government, business and the judiciary itself. In the second series,
public prosecutor Pierre Clement (Fitoussi) once again joins forces
with Police Captain Laure Berthaud (Proust) and crusading judge
Francois Roban (Philippe Duclos) to infiltrate Paris's underworld of
organised crime, international drugs trafficking and arms dealing.
The critically-acclaimed four-part television drama series about one of the greatest miscarriages of justice in British legal history when hundreds of innocent sub-postmasters and postmistresses were wrongly accused of theft, fraud and false accounting due to a defective IT system.
Martin Scorsese’s cinematic mastery is on full display in this sweeping crime saga, which serves as an elegiac summation of his six-decade career. Left behind by the world, former hit man and union truck driver Frank Sheeran (Robert DeNiro) looks back from a nursing home on his life’s journey through the ranks of organized crime: from his involvement with Philadelphia mob boss Russell Bufalino (Joe Pesci) to his association with Teamsters union head Jimmy Hoffa (Al Pacino) to the rift that forced him to choose between the two. An intimate story of loyalty and betrayal writ large across the epic canvas of mid-twentieth-century American history, The Irishman (based on the real-life Sheeran’s confessions, as told to writer Charles Brandt for the book I Heard You Paint Houses) is a uniquely reflective late-career triumph that balances its director’s virtuoso set pieces with a profoundly personal rumination on aging, mortality, and the decisions and regrets that shape a life. (Nominated for 10 Academy Awards: Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor (Al Pacino), Best Supporting Actor (Joe Pesci), Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Cinematography, Best Costume Design, Best Production Design, Best Film Editing, Best Visual Effects)
The crew of the USAF bomber 'Memphis Belle', stationed in Britain during World War II, are preparing for their record-breaking 25th daylight mission. The mission will be as dangerous as ever, but if they survive they will return to the States as heroes. Starring Matthew Modine, Eric Stoltz and crooner Harry Connick Jr, the film is based on William Wyler's classic 1944 documentary.
ONE LIFE tells the true story of Sir Nicholas ‘Nicky’ Winton, a young London broker who, in the months leading up to World War II, rescued 669 predominantly Jewish children from the Nazis. Nicky visited Prague in December 1938 and found families who had fled the rise of the Nazis in Germany and Austria, living in desperate conditions with little or no shelter and food, and under threat of Nazi invasion. He immediately realised it was a race against time. How many children could he and the team rescue before the borders closed? Fifty years later, it’s 1988 and Nicky lives haunted by the fate of the children he wasn’t able to bring to safety in England; always blaming himself for not doing more. It’s not until a live BBC television show, ‘That’s Life’, surprises him by introducing him to some surviving children – now adults – that he finally begins to come to terms with the guilt and grief he had carried for five decades.
All four episodes from the third season of the BBC crime thriller series starring Idris Elba as the brilliant but flawed murder detective John Luther. Still continuing to struggle with his personal demons, Luther's attempts to bring a fetishistic killer to justice are thwarted when he's suddenly put on another case. Things go from bad to worse, however, when it becomes apparent that former colleague Erin Gray (Nikki Amuka-Bird), now a member of the anti corruption unit, and her boss DSU George Stark (David O'Hara), are out to nail him. Dermot Crowley, Michael Smiley and Sienna Guillory co-star.
The multi-award winning drama returns to BBC One for a tenth season! It’s 1966, and it’s a testing time for the nuns and midwives. With Trixie’s help, Sister Julienne is determined to steer Nonnatus House out of its financial quandary. Dr Turner deals with an array of difficult cases, including a former soldier involved in nuclear test explosions. Meanwhile, Sister Monica Joan experiences a crisis of faith, and Sister Frances realises she needs to be a little less spiritual if she’s to really connect with the local women. There are some interesting challenges ahead, as well as great celebrations when England wins the football World Cup. Also includes the 2020 Christmas Special and Call The Midwife: Special Delivery 10th Anniversary Special.
Winner of 7 Academy Awards: Best Picture, Director, Actor, Supporting Actor, Cinematography, Editing and Original Music Score. Experience the breathtaking global phenomenon that has captivated audiences around the world. Written for the screen and directed by Christopher Nolan, Oppenheimer thrusts audiences into the mind of physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer, whose landmark work on the Manhattan Project created the first atomic bomb.
Also 6 additional Academy Award nominations for:
Cathy Earnshaw (Juliette Bincoche) and her adoptive brother Heathcliff (Ralph Fiennes) became inseparable as children, and now share a forbidden passion in adulthood. However, Heathcliff is cast down to the level of a servant by Cathy's vengeful brother, Hindley (Jeremy Northam), who resents the love their father showed for a man he regards as an infidel. When Cathy sets her cap at wealthy neighbour Edgar Linton (Simon Shephard), the enraged Heathcliff flees, vowing revenge.
All 10 episodes of the Danish domestic drama series created by Maya Ilsře. When Veronika Grřnnegaard (Kirsten Olesen) leaves the whole of her estate to Signe (Marie Bach Hansen), the daughter she gave up for adoption, when she dies, her four other children are shocked by the decision. As they then attempt to divide the estate up, a number of home truths come out into the open which threaten to change their understanding of their upbringing and themselves.
Gripping secrets unfold as estranged brothers are finally forced to confront their troubled past, decades after one of them self-exiled to the wilderness. Poignant and profound, Ronan Day-Lewis's directorial debut delivers an intense, mysterious, and visually stunning story of severed ties and the path to redemption.
After being separated from his wife Erzsébet (Felicity Jones), Hungarian architect and Holocaust survivor László Tóth (Brody) seeks a new life in America. Getting a job with his cousin at his furniture company, they receive a renovation commission from the son of wealthy industrialist Harrison Lee Van Buren (Guy Pearce). Although enraged at the work being done without his consent, Harrison employs László to design a monument in memory of his late mother, offering to help him repatriate his wife in return. After he is subjected to horrific abuse at the hands of Harrison, László spirals into addiction and is in danger of losing himself in the turmoil.
As World War 1 rages on, the Choral Society in a small English town has lost most of its men to the army. The Choral’s committee is determined to press ahead with new recruits. They engage a driven new chorus master, Dr. Henry Guthrie – recently returned from a career in Germany. As conscription papers start to arrive, the community discovers that the best response to the war is to make music together.
Academy Award winner for Best Animated Feature at the 2025 Oscars. Cat is a solitary animal, but as its home is devastated by a great flood, it finds refuge on a boat populated by various species, and will have to team up with them despite their differences.
The true story of legendary mixed martial arts and UFC fighter Mark Kerr, whose obsession with greatness made him a legend and nearly cost him everything. A portrait about ambition, sacrifice and the courage to fight for something greater than victory.
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