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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.
Teen dance drama sequel. Recently released from a juvenile detention centre after a brush with the law, 17-year-old Maria Ramirez (Katerina Graham) returns to the Bronx with nothing except her burning talent for street dance and a determination to make a new life for herself. After seeing her dance in a local nightclub, instructor Brandon (Randy Wayne) invites her to help train a group of dancers for the TV competition 'Dance Or Die', an opportunity that brings Maria face to face with her former boyfriend Luis (Christopher 'War' Martinez) and his rival dance crew.
Melinda Gordon communicates with earthbound spirits, ghosts who cling to the living because they have unfinished business that prevents them from moving beyond the familiar plane of existence that we call life. Inspired in part by the work of famed medium James Van Praagh and of Mary Ann Winkowski, a real-life communicator with spirits, Ghost Whisperer explores the spiritual side of life and death as Melinda navigates among the dead and the living in her sometimes chilling, sometimes heart-rending and sometimes amusing attempts to act as an intermediary between the ghosts and those they haunt. Jim, her husband, worries about the emotional toll this work is taking on his wife as they embark on a new life together. Melinda recently has revealed her gift to her new friend, Delia Banks, a single mom who works in Melinda's antique shop. However, Melinda fears the consequences of drawing Delia into this unconventional world. Melinda also shared her secret with quirky Professor Rick Payne, an expert in occult beliefs and history who thrives on helping her gain insights into the more baffling paranormal phenomena she encounters. For her part, Melinda accepts her unique abilities as a blessing and sometime curse, but always helps her clients, alive or dead, find emotional closure. Contains all 107 episodes plus bonus features in a complete collection box set.
Set during the 1960s in the fictional North Yorkshire village of Aidensfield and initially starring former EastEnder Nick Berry as PC Nick Rowan, this enduringly popular series interweaves crime and medical storylines, with a host of colourful characters that viewers took to their hearts and a wonderfully nostalgic soundtrack. Running for two successful decades and becoming staple Sunday-night viewing, Heartbeat won several prestigious TV awards including Best Performing Peak-Time Drama in 1999 (beating Coronation Street), and a number of ITV Programme of the Year awards. The series attracted a peak audience of 14 million, spawned a highly successful spin-off, The Royal, and a Top Ten hit single, and has garnered a devoted following, remaining prime-time viewing world-wide.
A collection of 23 dramas based on the novels of Catherine Cookson: 'The Mallen Secret', 'The Mallen Curse', 'The Mallen Girls', 'The Mallen Streak', 'The Fifteen Streets', 'The Wingless Bird', 'The Round Tower', 'The Black Velvet Gown', 'The Black Candle', 'The Rag Nymph', 'The Moth', 'The Girl', 'The Tide of Life', 'The Glass Virgin', 'The Gambling Man', 'The Man Who Cried', 'The Cinder Path', 'The Dwelling Place', 'The Colour Blind', 'The Tilly Trotter', 'The Storyteller', 'The Secret' and 'Dinner of Herbs'.
Jerzy Skolimowski writes and directs this comedy drama exploring the dangers of unrequited love. After leaving school, 15-year-old Mike (John Moulder-Brown) goes to work in a bathhouse where he meets and falls for fellow employee Susan (Jane Asher) who is ten years his senior. Mike is already envious of Susan's young fiancé Chris (Christopher Sanford) but the situation intensifies when he finds out that she is also having an affair. Driven mad by jealousy, Mike harrasses Susan, hoping that he will win her over. When they finally do get together, however, the consequences are disastrous.
The complete seasons 1-10 of the US drama series. Former flying ace Harmon 'Harm' Rabb (David James Elliott) is a member of the Navy's Judge Advocate General. Now an attorney, Harm investigates, prosecutes and defends military criminals in cases that often take him behind enemy lines.
All 104 episodes from series 8 to 14 of the long-running ITV fire-fighting drama. The popular series follows the lives of the men and women of Blackwall Fire Station's Blue Watch, as they contend with a never-ending stream of emergencies set in motion by the public at large.
Acclaimed British drama portraying the 1968 strike at Ford's Dagenham car plant, where female workers walked out in protest against sexual discrimination and unequal pay. Like many local women, Rita O'Grady (Sally Hawkins) works at the Ford assembly plant stitching seat covers. Although it is intricate work, carried out in sweltering conditions, she is paid the same as an unskilled labourer. But as time passes the female workers come to question this inequality, and eventually take their plight all the way to the House of Commons with the support of political firebrand Barbara Castle (Miranda Richardson).
Kyle Patrick Alvarez writes and directs this indie drama. Brian Geraghty stars as Davy Mitchell, a bored and lonely writer who goes on a book tour to publicise his unpublished short story collection. One night, when Davy is alone in his cheap motel room, he receives a random phone call from a woman identifying herself only as Nicole, asking him to have 'phone sex' with her. As the tour goes on, Davy has longer and more intimate conversations with Nicole, and soon finds himself falling in love with her. But can a relationship formed on such an unlikely basis possibly have any future?
Julia Roberts stars in this drama based on the bestselling memoir by Elizabeth Gilbert. 30-something Liz (Roberts) has arrived at a crossroads in life. With a career, a home and a husband, she is in possession of everything the modern woman dreams of. But after repeatedly failing to get pregnant, Liz starts to question her marriage and her purpose in life, and after a painful divorce she takes off on a year-long solo trip around the world on a quest for self-discovery. Along the way she spends four months discovering the joys of food in Italy and four months on the spiritual path in India before finally and unexpectedly finding true love in Bali.
Cate Blanchett reprises her role as the 'Virgin Queen' in this sequel to the Oscar-nominated 'Elizabeth'. This time round Elizabeth has to contend with the rising power of Spain, as Philip II (Jordi Molla) readies an armada for invasion, intent on returning England to Catholic influence. While her trusty servant Sir Francis Walsingham (Geoffrey Rush) works tirelessly to protect her from numerous plots, Elizabeth discovers she has a potential weakness in her fondness for Sir Walter Raleigh (Clive Owen).
Expectant first-time father Peter Highman looks forward to his new child’s due date five days away. As Peter hurries to catch a flight home from Atlanta to be at his wife’s side for the birth, his best intentions go completely awry when an encounter with aspiring actor Ethan Tremblay forces Peter to hitch a ride with Ethan on a cross-country trip that will ultimately destroy several cars, many friendships and Peter’s last nerve.
In this, the final story in the Close to Jesus series from the producers of the Bible series, we follow the life-story of Joseph of Nazareth, Mary's husband. With lives caught between the collision of the paranoid and evil King Herod and the dominant Roman Empire of Caesar Augustus, Joseph finds himself acting as father to his nephews until eventually he is called to higher things. The betrothal to Mary, the Visitation and Annunciation, the hirth of Christ, the journey of the Three Wise Men, the flight to and exile in Egypt are all here in this dramatic telling of the family and lives of those closest to Jesus.
The third instalment of the teen vampire saga based on the bestselling novels by Stephenie Meyer. Bella Swan (Kristen Stewart) is reunited with the love of her life, vampire Edward Cullen (Robert Pattinson), but their forbidden relationship comes under threat once again as vampire villainess Victoria (Bryce Dallas Howard) continues to seek her revenge. Meanwhile, with graduation fast approaching, Bella is forced to choose once and for all between her love for Edward and her strong friendship with Jacob Black (Taylor Lautner) - a decision with the potential to inflame the centuries-long conflict between vampire and werewolf.
Darkly comic indie drama directed by Noah Baumbach. Ben Stiller stars as Roger Greenberg, a 40-year-old man with little direction or purpose in his life. After suffering an emotional breakdown, he goes to house-sit for his brother in their hometown in California with the express intention of 'doing nothing for a while'. There he makes a few painfully self-conscious attempts to reconnect with old friends and lovers, and falls into a relationship of sorts with his brother's 26-year-old personal assistant, Florence (Greta Gerwig).
Patrick Melrose is a new kind of family saga which takes a scathing and sardonic view of the upper-classes, shining an unforgiving light on the privilege, greed cruelty and vulnerabilities that lie within their ranks. Played to perfection by Benedict Cumberbatch, Patrick himself is many things: an aristocratic addict, a rakish and outrageously funny playboy, but he is also a man living as a victim of the sins of his parents. Based on the celebrated series of semi-autobiographical novels by Edward St Aubyn, this intelligent, beautifully told 5-episode miniseries follows Patrick as he embarks on a harrowing yet humorous decades-spanning odyssey to come to terms with the effects of childhood trauma.
This collection contains the entire eleventh series, featuring Blood Wedding, Shot at Dawn, Left for Dead, Midsomer Life, The Magician's Nephew, Days of Misrule, Talking to the Dead. Featuring the episodes in production order, this collection features the entire eleventh series, starring John Nettles and Jason Hughes. Set in the idyllic, picturesque county of Midsomer, Detective Chief Inspector Barnaby discovers that all is not as it seems and beneath the tranquil surface of village life exists a disturbing and cunning propensity for murder.
In the second installment of Stephenie Meyer's phenomenally successful Twilight series, the romance between mortal and vampire soars to a new level as Bella Swan delves deeper into the mysteries of the supernatural world she yearns to become part of - only to find herself in greater peril than ever before.
Oscar-winning drama starring Forest Whitaker. When a naive young Scottish doctor, Nicholas Garrigan (James McAvoy), arrives in 1970s Uganda hoping for fun, sun and to lend a helping hand, he finds himself instead on a shocking ride into the darkest realm on earth. Befriended by the charismatic new leader, Idi Amin (Whitaker), and appointed as his personal physician, Nicholas is originally blinded by his larger-than-life and charming persona. But when the terrible truth of his despotic rule is revealed, he must fight for both his life and soul against one of the cruelest leaders in history.
Two films by Gus Van Sant. Van Sant's debut feature is 'Mala Noche' (1985), a gritty slice-of-life drama made on a shoestring budget that set the template for his later work. Portland liquor store manager Walt (Tim Streeter), who is gay, encounters two handsome illegal Mexican immigrants. Besotted by the young Johnny (Doug Cooeyate), who speaks no English, Walt becomes the protector of the two boys, teaching them how to drive and trying to learn Spanish in order to get closer to them. With Johnny coldly indifferent to Walt's attentions, the desire appears to be strictly one-sided, but this doesn't prevent the friendship developing into one of mutual needs and desires. 'Paranoid Park' (2007) is a 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. |
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