Slowed Down in the Middle!
Somewhere between the 3rd Episode & the last Episode, they stretch it out way too far & way too thin!!!!
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- StarsSofia PekkariPihla ViitalaJohn SimmTwo young Finnish women in London are drawn inexorably together via the Studio - a clandestine group dedicated to bringing justice to those beyond the law.
- StarsDawid OgrodnikAndrzej SewerynZofia WichlaczIn an early-'80s Polish town, a prostitute and a youth leader are found killed, but the police's handling of the case makes two journalists suspicious.
- StarsAlessio BoniSergio RubiniLucrezia Lante della RovereAn agricultural estate owner in northern Italy awakens from a five-year coma to discover the life he knew turned upside down, and to learn that he is suspected of a murder of which he has no memory.
- DirectorMalcolm McKayStarsDavid SuchetSaskia ReevesAdrian DunbarA sordid story of sexual passion, sexual crimes, and murder, set among the staff of an English railway line in 1940-41.
- DirectorLawrence GoughStarsNeve McIntoshShaun DooleyDean AndrewsWhen a container washes ashore the residents of a sleepy cul-de-sac are plunged into violence, terror and paranoia. Ring fenced by the military a single mother must overcome all the odds to save her daughter.
- DirectorThomas RobinsStarsKatherine McRaePhillip Spencer-HarrisAidee WalkerThe courageous story of a tenacious New Zealand woman who would stop at nothing in seeking justice for her brother's murder.
- StarsDouglas HodgeJeremy NorthamRachel JoyceAfter Adam inherits a country house from his great uncle, he and his friend Rufus decide to spend the summer there instead of abroad. An odd assortment of 'house guests' turns up through different means and it's an uneasy mix at best. A decade afterwards, the bodies of a young woman and an infant are discovered in the woods behind the house. As the police investigate, they naturally look to Adam as former owner of the house, and what happened all those years before starts to catch up with him.
- StarsMichael GoughCarol RoyleNigel PlanerBlackeyes is an attempt to explore "what does go on between men and women in their heads, to show the possibilities of the ways that they see each other." Complex and multi-layered, the interweaving narrative threads include novelist Maurice James Kingsley who appropriates accounts by his niece Jessica about her life as a professional model. Kingsley's embellishments become a trashy bestseller, "Sugar Bush," tracing the rise and decline of fictional fashion model Blackeyes, victimized by men. Angry and betrayed, Jessica begins to rewrite Kingsley's novel to set Blackeyes free from the abuse of men.
- DirectorChristopher MorahanStarsPaul BhattacharjeeJohn GielgudRosemary HarrisIn 1975, after a nuclear war, the nations have combined to set up a World Government. An old man who lives quietly in the country finds his peace threatened by a visit from three World Government figures.
- DirectorMichael WinterbottomStarsRobert CarlyleJuliet AubreyJames NesbittNick, is a young Scottish soccer player living in the big city. He meets Karen, and the two fall in love and move in together. Soon after, Nick exhibits signs of serious illness. As his body slowly succumbs to multiple sclerosis, he experiences a wide sweep of jagged emotions, and in the process gives himself and those who love him the strength to carry on.
- DirectorAlexis CahillBrigitte DrodtloffStarsRoxana LupuDaniel PlierRichard ElfynDevastated by the First World War and plunged into political controversy, Romania's every hope accompanies its queen on her mission to Paris to lobby for international recognition of its great unification at the 1919 peace talks.
- DirectorJohn StricklandStarsMel SmithDeborah FindlayJohn Hannah
- DirectorPiers HaggardStarsMaureen LipmanDavid RossBenedict SandifordFollowing on from the events in Interview Day (1996), Pippa Lloyd and Neil Whittle have now started going out together, much to the dismay of Pippa's father. They take their A level exams and leave home to go to Exeter University, but drift apart after Pippa falls for another student, Tony Gregg, and Neil finds that he prefers to spend all his time drinking and setting up a pop group. However they eventually get back together again and make the ultimate commitment - by the end of the play, they have a baby! Pippa's and Neil's parents have to adjust to life without their children. Harriet Lloyd has a brief affair with a local antique-shop owner, Gordon Callow; Hugh Lloyd opens an office in Exeter so he can keep an eye on Pippa and make sure she mixes with the right sort of people; Bevis Whittle suffers a mental breakdown but eventually Shani persuades him to go back to the local college in Blackburn where he does a night-school course in Sport Science; Shani herself studies for a degree in Cultural Studies.
- DirectorMichael MannStarsChristian BaleJohnny DeppChristian StolteThe Feds try to take down notorious American gangsters John Dillinger, Baby Face Nelson, and Pretty Boy Floyd during a booming crime wave in the 1930s.
- DirectorBryn HigginsStarsAgyness DeynChristian CookePaul AndersonA journey seen through the eyes of a young woman with epilepsy that brings extraordinary hallucinations as she searches for her long lost brother.
- StarsIan McShaneRosemary LeachMary PeachA penetrating look at one of British history's most enigmatic and controversial figure, Benjamin Disraeli--a dandy, womanizer and a Jew.
- DirectorGerard BarrettStarsWill PoulterToni ColletteJack ReynorSet in Dublin, 'Glassland' tells the story of a young taxi driver who gets tangled up in the world of human trafficking while trying to save his mother from drug addiction.
- DirectorMichael PetroniStarsGuy PearceHelena Bonham CarterPeter CurtinA man returns to Victoria, Australia, where he grew up, and encounters a mysterious woman who reminds him of someone he once knew.
- DirectorRobert QuinnStarsAndrew ScottKaty DavisEamonn OwensThe return of a vengeful ex-girlfriend sets into motion a series of gruesome events for a hapless Irish bachelor in director Robert Quinn's grim black comedy.
- StarsCheryl CampbellPeter CapaldiJanet SuzmanA triple agent attempts to blow up the Greenwich Observatory in 1894, a time of unrest and anarchist violence throughout Europe.
- DirectorMichael SpierigPeter SpierigStarsHelen MirrenSarah SnookFinn Scicluna-O'PreyEnsconced in her sprawling San Jose, California mansion, eccentric firearm heiress Sarah Winchester (Dame Helen Mirren) believes she is haunted by the souls of people killed by the Winchester repeating rifle.
- StarsJenny SeagroveDeborah KerrFiona FullertonFour-part, four-hour follow-up to A Woman of Substance (1984) with Deborah Kerr, now playing Emma Harte at age eighty in the last winter of her life and dealing with her granddaughter Paula.
- StarsJude NorthRoger BrierleyGeoffrey ChaterIn 1984 Kenith Trodd joined BBC team responding to Channel 4 releases, leading to transition from BBC studio plays to Screen One/Two anthology series. Trodd oversaw first group of titles in these series in 1985.
- DirectorNicholas RentonStarsGeorge BeachMichael GambonNicholas HewetsonThe play uses the metaphor of the dying music hall tradition, specifically fictional music hall star Archie Rice, to comment on the moribund state of the British Empire in the 1950s.
- DirectorMirtha VegaStarsAurora Bella AustinBhrina BacheCéline BeranTo prevent those found to be flawed by mental disabilities, bad genes, "undesirable" hereditary taint, or exhibiting unacceptable social tendencies (such as overt promiscuity) from reproducing, Sweden had as many as 60,000 of its own citizens sterilized, primarily between 1935 and 1955 - sometimes involuntarily. Nearly 95% of these were women. These chilling words appear at the beginning of the feature, THE HUMAN SOLUTION. Based on historical facts and set in 1938-1953 Sweden, this fictional story is a harrowing family drama that explores eugenics through the eyes of a Swedish doctor, August Persson, who performed the procedures. When his estranged wife dies in childbirth, leaving behind a half-Roma baby girl, August's life is turned upside down by his decision to raise her himself.
- DirectorBeeban KidronStarsVanessa RedgraveJohn HurtJonathan PryceDesire turns deadly as an intricate web of lies and betrayal unfolds on a voyage aboard a luxurious ocean liner. The journey begins when a naive young woman finds romance in the arms of a dashing stranger who could be a dangerous criminal.
- DirectorDustin FeneleyStarsLuciane BuchananKieran CharnockJoel FiliIn a cold and remote landscape, two strangers struggle to repair their broken pasts.
- DirectorRichard RoxburghStarsEric BanaFranka PotenteMarton CsokasIt tells the story of Romulus, his beautiful wife, Christina, and their struggle in the face of great adversity to bring up their son, Raimond. It is a story of impossible love that ultimately celebrates the unbreakable bond between father and son.
- CreatorJason FilardiPeter FilardiStarsAdrien BrodyEmily HampshireJennifer EnsIn the 1850s, Captain Charles Boone relocates his family to his ancestral home in the small, sleepy town of Preacher's Corners. Charles will soon have to confront the secrets of his family's history and fight to end the darkness.
- DirectorCiarán FoyStarsAneurin BarnardJames CosmoWunmi MosakuAn agoraphobic father teams up with a renegade priest to save his daughter from the clutches of a gang of twisted feral children who committed an act of violence against his family years earlier.
- StarsAnna Maxwell MartinRhashan StoneKen NwosuThe lives of two sisters, Theresa, and her older head teacher sibling, Helen, and a missing child.
- DirectorMartin ScorseseStarsAndrew GarfieldAdam DriverLiam NeesonIn the 17th century, two Portuguese Jesuit priests travel to Japan in an attempt to locate their mentor, who is rumored to have committed apostasy, and to propagate Catholicism.
- CreatorEd SinclairStarsOlivia ColmanDavid ThewlisKate O'FlynnA devoted and mild-mannered British couple become the focus of an extraordinary investigation when two dead bodies are discovered in the back garden of a house in England.
- DirectorEzna SandsStarsTheo IkummaqDakota JohnsonAshley SpringerFrom the northern ice comes a gentler kind of hero.
- CreatorTea LindeburgStarsDanica CurcicLars BrygmannKaroline HammAstrid was traumatized by the mysterious disappearance of a school class in 1999. Twenty years later, when she finds out that the only survivor from 1999 mysteriously died, Astrid sets off to discover what really happened.
- DirectorRoland EmmerichStarsRhys IfansVanessa RedgraveDavid ThewlisThe theory that it was in fact Edward De Vere, Earl of Oxford, who penned Shakespeare's plays. Set against the backdrop of the succession of Queen Elizabeth I and the Essex rebellion against her.
- DirectorDavid LoweryStarsDev PatelAlicia VikanderJoel EdgertonA fantasy retelling of the medieval story of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.
- DirectorÁlex de la IglesiaStarsElijah WoodJohn HurtLeonor WatlingAt Oxford University, a professor and a grad student work together to try to stop a potential series of murders seemingly linked by mathematical symbols.
- DirectorKen LoachStarsFrances McDormandMaurice RoëvesRobert PattersonWhen an American human rights lawyer is assassinated in Belfast, it remains for the man's girlfriend, as well as a tough, no nonsense, police detective to find the truth.
- DirectorJames IvoryStarsIsabelle AdjaniMaggie SmithAlan BatesFinding herself penniless after her art-dealer husband Stephan is convicted of theft, Marya Zelli accepts the hospitality of a strange couple, H.J. and Lois Heidler, who let her live in their home.
- DirectorTerence DaviesStarsPete PostlethwaiteFreda DowieAngela WalshThe lives of an English working-class family are told out of order in a free-associative manner. The first part, "Distant Voices", focuses on the father's role in the family. The second part, "Still Lives", focuses on his children.
- DirectorTristram PowellStarsBryan PringleFred PearsonMichael PalinReverend Francis Ashby (Sir Michael Palin), a senior Oxford don on vacation alone in the Alps, meets vacationing American Miss Caroline Hartley (Connie Booth) and her companion Miss Elinor Hartley (Trini Alvarado), the blossoming Irish-American girl she adopted many years before. Ashby finds he enjoys their company, particularly that of Elinor, and both of the women are drawn to him. Back at Oxford he is nevertheless taken aback when they arrive unannounced. Women are not allowed in the College grounds, let alone the rooms. Indeed any liaison, however innocent, is frowned on by the upstanding Fellows.
- DirectorBille AugustStarsJeremy IronsMélanie LaurentJack HustonSwiss Professor Raimund Gregorius abandons his lectures and buttoned-down life to embark on a thrilling adventure that will take him on a journey to the very heart of himself.
- DirectorJan VardoenStarsJames BachmanDaniel BianchiniMichael ColganEight British actors and a narcoleptic director travel to the Norwegian Arctic Circle to film Henrik Ibsen's play. Thinking it will be an easy task, they are soon overwhelmed by the surreal surroundings and the never ending daylight.
- DirectorDarrell RoodtStarsRichard HarrisJames Earl JonesVusi KuneneA South African preacher goes to search for his wayward son, who has committed a crime in the big city.
- CreatorHarry WilliamsJack WilliamsStarsJamie DornanDanielle MacdonaldGreg LarsenWhen a man wakes up in the Australian outback with no memory, he must use the few clues he has to discover his identity before his past catches up with him.
- DirectorPaul CoxStarsDavid WenhamKate CeberanoJan DecleirThe true story of the nineteenth century priest who volunteered to go to the island of Molokai, to console and care for the lepers.
- DirectorShakun BatraStarsDeepika PadukoneNaseeruddin ShahAnanya PandayTakes you on a journey into the deep rooted intricacies of modern human relationships.
- DirectorSimon StoneStarsGeoffrey RushNicholas HopeSam NeillThe story follows a man who returns home to discover a long-buried family secret, and whose attempts to put things right threaten the lives of those he left home years before.
- DirectorCate ShortlandStarsSaskia RosendahlKai-Peter MalinaNele TrebsAs the Allies sweep across Germany, Lore leads her siblings on a journey that exposes them to the truth of their parents' beliefs. An encounter with a mysterious refugee forces Lore to rely on a person she has always been taught to hate.
- DirectorKelly ReichardtStarsMichelle WilliamsBruce GreenwoodPaul DanoSettlers traveling through the Oregon desert in 1845 find themselves stranded in harsh conditions.
- DirectorFerdia MacAnnaStarsDarragh ByrneClelia MurphyHelena GeogheganSet in small town Ireland in 1981, 'Dannyboy' tells the story of a young man trying to find love among New Romantics, Post Punks, Goths and others tribes. The film centres around Daniel, an anxious, stuttering teen in his attempt to save his demented family in the midst of a compromising love triangle.
- DirectorWilliam NicholsonStarsAnnette BeningBill NighyJosh O'ConnorA couple's visit with their son takes a dramatic turn when the father tells him he plans on leaving his mother.
- DirectorIvan PasserStarsArmand AssantePatrick MalahideMichael KitchenWhen Scottish young gentleman David Balfour's father dies, he leaves school to collect his inheritance from uncle Ebenezer, who in turn sells the boy as a future slave to a pirate ship. When staunch Stuart dynasty supporter Alan Breck Stewart accidentally boards the ship, he takes David along on his escape back to Edinburgh. They part and meet again repeatedly, mutually helpful against the Redcoats and respectful, although David is loyal to the English crown, but learns about its cruel oppression. Both ultimately face their adversaries.
- DirectorAlex HelfrechtJörg TittelStarsÓlafur Darri ÓlafssonFiona ShawOlivia WilliamsA 12-year-old boy rebels after a brutal government labels his father a traitor and imprisons him.
- DirectorD.W. BrownStarsNick StahlDash MihokOlivia WildeA decent but troubled young man is sent to a psychiatric institution for the criminally insane and soon finds himself in a fight for his life battling ghosts inside his head and very real enemies all around him.
- StarsDavid CrabtreeDavid RudolfDavid Crabtree interviews David Rudolf.
- StarsMatteo SimoniStef AertsJeroen PercevalIn 18th-century Flanders a soldier-turned-bandit becomes a local hero as he leads the oppressed and downtrodden in a revolt against the corrupt aristocracy.
- StarsYon GonzálezElena RiveraJesús CarrozaResourceful young Hugo Llor works to make a name for himself in 14th-century Barcelona while keeping a vow he made to the Estanyol family.
- CreatorBaran bo OdarJantje FrieseStarsEmily BeechamAneurin BarnardAndreas PietschmannMultinational immigrants traveling from the old continent to the new encounter a nightmarish riddle aboard a second ship adrift on the open sea.
- DirectorFabian MedeaStarsMothusi MaganoFrank RautenbachChris ChameleonRacial tensions and corruption come to a head in a small, segregated town after the police find the body of a young Afrikaner girl in the bush.
- CreatorMeredith AverillCarlton CuseAron Eli ColeiteStarsDarby StanchfieldConnor JessupEmilia JonesAfter their father is murdered under mysterious circumstances, the three Locke siblings and their mother move into their ancestral home, Keyhouse, which they discover is full of magical keys that may be connected to their father's death.
- DirectorTim PickettStarsMarnie BaxterDavid PowellBruce McGuireA young English couple move to Calabria to get over the death of their son only to become embroiled with a supernatural Mafia cult.
- CreatorMartine BrantPeter FlanneryStarsAndrea RiseboroughDominic WestTom Goodman-HillDrama charts the progress of the English Civil War through the story of a young woman, the fictional Angelica Fanshawe, and her three husbands.
- DirectorHeath DavisStarsAlan DukesMelanie ClarryRose RileyA jaded high-school English teacher is forced to re-evaluate his life when his novel is passed over for one by one of his students.
- DirectorCarlo Gabriel NeroStarsVanessa RedgraveMaxim VengerovVag PapianTells the story of a woman who gets involved in politics with no previous contact with world events.
- DirectorJake ScottStarsSienna MillerSky FerreiraKentucker AudleyA woman raises her young grandson after her daughter goes missing.
- StarsAlfred MolinaRossif SutherlandElle-Máijá TailfeathersFollowing Chief Inspector Armand Gamache as he investigates cases beneath the idyllic surface of the Quebec village, Three Pines, finding long-buried secrets and facing a few ghosts of his own.
- DirectorJohn McPhailStarsTyler CollinsLucy-Jane QuinlanAlison PeeblesWhen Jen starts her new job as a nurse at the 'Easy Love Care Home', she is surprised to find James, a 25 year old man living and working in the building. James and his three, elderly best friends hatch a plan to go on one last adventure and the only medical cover they can get is the one person who doesn't want to be around old people. Will their plan go off without a hitch or is there a sell by date on adventure?
- StarsJames D'ArcyCharlie MurphyIndra OvéWhen Natalie Varga is accused of murdering her husband, journalist James Alden finds himself captivated by the case and ends up falling in love with the very femme fatale.
- DirectorU-Wei Haji SaariStarsPeter O'BrienSofia JaneKhalid SallehBased on Joseph Conrad's 1895 novel Almayer's Folly, this epic film tells the story of Kaspar Almayer, an English trader struggling to survive in Malaysia at the turn of the 19th Century.
- CreatorDavid MacphersonStarsEmily HampshireIain GlenMolly VeversA group of workers on a remote Scottish oil rig are due to return to the mainland when a mysterious fog enshrouds them and supernatural forces take hold.