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Richard Jordan and Anthony Perkins star in this made-for-TV adaptation of Victor Hugo's classic novel. Jean Valjean (Jordan) is imprisoned for stealing a loaf of bread for his sister's starving family. Soon afterwards he escapes and is presumed dead by all except police inspector Javert (Perkins), who pursues him relentlessly throughout his lifetime. In later years, when Valjean becomes involved in the French Revolution through his adopted daughter Cosette (Caroline Langrise)'s love for insurrectionist leader Marius (Christopher Guard), his quest for redemption comes to a heady climax.
The complete first series of the French drama following the women working in a Parisian brothel known as Paradise in 1871. Owner Hortense (Valérie Karsenti) looks after her girls while fending off a gangster who wants her money; Véra (Anne Charrier), who is in her mid-thirties, knows at her age she will be unable to continue as a prostitute much longer and hopes that a wealthy client will be able to take care of her debt; and Rose (Jemima West) is still very young when she comes to Paris to find her mother and ends up working at Paradise.
Lawrence Gordon Clark directs this double bill of horror dramas adaptated by the BBC from two of M.R. James's classic ghost stories. In 'A Warning to the Curious' (1972) Mr Paxton (Peter Vaughan) travels to English seaside town Seaburg hoping to find the last of three Anglo Saxon crowns belonging to the Agers family whose last descendant has recently died. When he uncovers the crown, however, he finds himself haunted by a ghostly figure. In 'The Stalls of Barchester' (1971) Dr. Black (Clive Swift) is cataloguing the Barchester Cathedral Library when he comes across an old diary belonging to Archdeacon Haynes (Robert Hardy) who died mysteriously. Whilst reading the entries Black soon discovers that Haynes may have been cursed upon the death of his predecessor after which he was tormented by supernatural goings-on.
In one of moviedom's most influential roles, James Dean plays Jim Stark, the new kid in town whose loneliness, frustration and anger mirrored those of post-war teens - and reverberate ' more than 40 years later. Natalie Wood (as Jim's girlfriend Judy) and Sal Mineo (in his screen debut as Jim's tag-along pal Plato) were Academy Award nominees for their achingly true performances. Director Nicholas Ray was also an Oscar nominee for this landmark film chosen as one of the Top-100 American Films by the American Film Institute. Rebel Without A Cause has been digitally mastered from newly restored elements, so this DVD offers the movie's picture and sound in its most optimal presentation since its original theatrical release.
This complete box set contains all eight seasons of Desperate Housewives. Welcome to the sexiest street in suburbia, where the lawns are green and the scandals ripe. Rediscover every delectable moment of this sinfully original series, from the stunning beginning on Mary Alice’s unusual day, through the climactic finale. This collection gathers all eight seasons together in a sizzling set that is totally desperate and dangerously delightful.
A critical film in the history of British Cinema, Sally Potter's adaptation of Virginia Woolf's witty modernist novel took eight years to make it to the screen and is a meticulously crafted commentary on all things English as well as being a wonderfully romantic tale. Tilda Swinton stars as the eponymous hero who lives for 500 years and changes sex halfway. Granted a favour of immortality from Quentin Crisp's archetypal Queen Elizabeth I, Orlando proceeds to spend the next few centuries in search of love, life and adventure.
A terrorist infected with a deadly virus boards the Stockholm to Geneva Express and exposes all aboard to the disease. Colonel Mackenzie (Burt Lancaster) is called in to handle the situation and finds Dr. Chamberlain (Richard Harris) who is on board the train. Mackenzie decides to re-route the train to the Cassandra Crossing where it will plunge into oblivion. But passengers miraculously begin to recover and Chamberlain must race against time to disconnect the cars.
Clint Eastwood directs this biopic starring Leonardo DiCaprio as J. Edgar Hoover, the head of American law enforcement for nearly 50 years. Hoover was the first ever Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) from its inception till his death in 1972. Both admired and vilified during his lifetime, he covertly collated a number of files on political and public figures such as Eleanor Roosevelt, the Kennedy brothers and Martin Luther King, while at the same time keeping the truth of his own private life a closely guarded secret. The film offers a portrayal of a complex and controversial figure, as seen through the eyes of Hoover himself. Naomi Watts, Armie Hammer, Ed Westwick, Dermot Mulroney and Judi Dench co-star.
First screened at the 2004 Cannes Film Festival, Pedro Almodóvar's powerful and passionate semi-autobiographical melodrama follows the intertwining stories of two boys, Enrique (Fele Martínez) and Ignacio (Gael García Bernal), who fall in love at an abusive Catholic school and are parted by a jealous paedophile priest. Sixteen years later, Enrique, now a successful filmmaker, is casting about for an idea for a new film when a young cross-dressing actor, claiming to be Ignacio but known as 'Angel', approaches him with a short story based on their schooldays together. Enrique decides to use the story, and casts Angel in the film's lead role, despite his discovery that Angel is not in fact Ignacio, who died three years earlier shortly after completing the story, but his younger brother. Enrique's film also includes scenes in which the grown-up Ignacio tracks down the Catholic priest who abused them as boys, and these scenes soon become mirrored by real-life events. Almodóvar moves away from his trademark quirky comedy with this dark and brooding drama, using a complex 'film-within-a-film' structure to create a noir-like sense of mystery and blurred identity, and to explore the relationship between fantasy and reality.
Systems engineer Chuck Noland (Tom Hanks) says goodbye to his girlfriend Kelly (Helen Hunt) and heads off on a flight to South America. En route the plane crashes into the Pacific Ocean, leaving Chuck as its only survivor. Luckily, there is an uninhabited island nearby and Chuck manages to swim to safety. After a failed attempt to escape on an inflatable raft, Chuck accepts that he is unlikely to get back to civilisation and begins to make the most of what he has around him. Four years later he is still on the island, having adapted extremely well to his new environment, but decides the time is right to make another attempt at the long journey home and sets off for a remarkable adventure on a makeshift wooden raft.
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 eight episodes from the second season of Olivier Marchal's French police thriller. The series follows a group of police led by Eddy Caplan (Jean-Hugues Anglade) who use violent and unorthodox methods in their criminal investigations. When this is brought to the attention of Internal Affairs, the department is faced with the difficult and dangerous task of exposing the group's methods and putting a stop to them. The episodes are: 'Les Damnés', 'Seuls Contre Tous', 'Tous Pour Un', 'Chèvres et Chacals', 'Infiltré', 'Mère et Patrie', 'Au Non du Pire' and '4 Moins 1'.
The complete four-part BBC drama in which the events of one night are re-told from the perspectives of different characters who are inevitably linked by the evening's outcome. To ensure a more secure future for himself, Ted (Douglas Hodge) attempts to impress his boss by holding a barbecue. When teenage rebel Rochelle (Georgina Campbell) litters the street outside his house, Ted makes sure she is punished but, in doing so, damages her chances at further education. Rochelle's mum, Carol (Jessica Hynes), is already struggling to cope with her life at home and at work when the police turn up looking for her son. Meanwhile, young Alfie (Billy Matthews) is about to turn 13 when he is faced with a difficult decision.
Indie romantic drama about a young couple separated by bureaucracy. Felicity Jones plays Anna, a British student who goes to study in Los Angeles for a year. There she meets American student Jacob (Anton Yelchin), and the two fall for each other almost immediately. They spend a blissful summer together but when Anna outstays her student visa, she is denied access to return to the United States. The lovers now find themselves separated by distance and seemingly insurmountable bureaucracy. Can they possibly make their relationship work with all the odds stacked against them?
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.
TV play made for ITV's 1970s 'Playhouse' series starring Julia Foster as an engaging young secretary who catches the eye of her boss. Mr Axelford (Michael Bryant) runs his electronic business with the same efficiency and lack of emotion as the circuit boards that provide his living. That is, until Angel (Foster) arrives to work at the office. Though Angel exasperates her fellow secretaries with her absent-mindedness, her irrepressible nature makes an impression on her boss and appears set to bring about a change in the way he views the world...
The complete first and second series of the thriller following a group of 40-something men who inadvertently become involved in crime. In the first series, Baxter (John Simm), Rick (Marc Warren), Woody (Max Beesley) and Quinn (Philip Glenister) go on holiday to Majorca where they meet their wealthy friend, Alvo (Ben Chaplin), who has gone into early retirement. It soon becomes clear that Alvo is mentally unstable and, when he steals a boat, the situation gets quickly out of hand. They soon find themselves caught up in a web of corruption involving murder and millions of euros in drug money. In the second series, the friends leave Majorca with the drug money and find themselves in Ibiza after boarding the wrong ferry where they decide to start a new life. Rick suggests they gamble the tainted money in order to get clean notes but they soon realise they have made a new enemy when their rental car blows up. Will they be able to survive another troublesome situation and find the new life they are hoping for?
Adaptation of the classic novel by Charlotte Bronte in which a young governess falls in love with her master. Jane Eyre (Mia Wasikowska) emerges from a troubled childhood to take on the position of governess at Thornfield Hall. Thornfield is owned by the passionate and impulsive Rochester (Michael Fassbender), who pays Jane unusual attention for someone below his station. The pair quickly fall in love and set their heart on marriage, but a dark secret from Rochester's past threatens to destroy their happiness. Directed by Cary Fukunaga and also starring Judi Dench as the housekeeper, Mrs Fairfax, this latest re-telling of Bronte's popular story makes use of modern cinematic techniques while remaining true to the novel's intent.
Native American filmmaker Georgina Lightning co-writes, directs and stars in this drama about the abuse suffered by Cree Indian children at a government-run boarding school. Rain (Lightning) is a young Cree woman tormented by terrifying visions from the past. Luke (Bradley Cooper) is a geologist attempting to locate the epicentre of a recent earthquake. Both of their journeys lead them to an abandoned schoolhouse on an Indian reservation, where they uncover a string of shocking secrets that generations of corrupt politicians and businessmen have kept hidden.
An epic BBC adaptation of Charles Dickens' last completed novel, interweaving various characters in a complex tale of greed, passion and death in Victorian London. John Harmon (Steven Mackintosh) is betrothed to the beautiful-but-spoilt Bella Wilfer (Anna Friel), who only wishes to marry for money. Then Harmon disappears, and it seems that he has drowned, but he has in fact assumed a new identity and found work with his late father's former employees, the Boffins (Peter Vaughan and Pam Ferris). Meanwhile, impoverished Lizzy Hexam (Keeley Hawes) must choose between the selfish Eugene Wrayburn (Paul McGann) and the obsessive Bradley Headstone (David Morrissey).
Tom Bell stars as a discontented young husband who begins an affair with a 15-year-old girl in this drama written and directed by Gerry O'Hara, based on his own novel. Bored with his job and marriage to wife Joy (Judy Carne), electrician Len Lewin (Bell) starts up an affair with teenage actress Val (Olivia Hussey). Swept up in the initial rush of excitement, the pair are quickly forced to re-evaluate their situation when Val discovers that she is pregnant.
South African drama following Gerrit Wolfaardt (Jan Ellis), a young white man who has grown up believing blacks to be an inferior race. He decides he must help rid his country of its native Africans but gradually realises he is in the wrong with the help of college student Celeste (Liezel van der Merwe) and pastor Peter (John Kani). After undergoing this change of heart he tries to make peace between both races but there are some who are sceptical about his motives, including Moses (Mpho Lovinga), once a victim of Gerrit's violence.
Keira Knightley stars as a woman whose marriage vows are put to the test in this drama from first-time director Massy Tadjedin. Seeming to share an idyllic life with her husband, Michael (Sam Worthington), in Manhattan, writer Joanna (Knightley) fears the worst when he heads off on an overnight business trip with his seductive colleague, Laura (Eva Mendes). As Laura sets her sights on taking their relationship to a new level, Michael tries to resist temptation, unaware that, back home, Joanna has run into her former Gallic lover, Alex (Guillaume Canet).
Crime drama in which the lives of four individuals become interlinked. Drug dealer Jordan Coleman (Stephen Schmaltz), exotic dancer Chelsea Hammond (Catrina Fagundes), detective Sam Riley (Peter Wayne Burke) and ex-criminal Harrison Green (Charles Upshaw) are all struggling with personal dilemmas. Their lives are about to get much worse, however, with ferocious gangster Copernicus Jones (Kent Burrell) out to get them...
All eight episodes from the second series of the award-winning ITV costume drama following the lives and loves of those above and below stairs in a stately home at the outbreak of World War One. While Matthew (Dan Stevens) and Thomas (Rob James-Collier) are off fighting at the Somme, both Lord Grantham (Hugh Bonneville) and William (Thomas Howes) feel frustrated at being barred from taking part in the fighting. Meanwhile, Lady Sybil (Jessica Brown Findlay) defies her aristocratic position and enlists in the Royal Army Nursing Corps, while Lady Mary (Michelle Dockery) puts on a brave face when Matthew arrives home on leave with his future wife Lavinia Swire (Zoe Boyle) in tow. |
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