David Copperfield (1999)
Charles Dickens’ haunting semi-autobiographical tale of a boy who is sent away by his stepfather after his mother dies but manages to triumph over incredible adversities.
Arthur’s Hallowed Ground
Arthur is the groundsman. He’s a perfectionist who has lovingly tended the cricket pitch for 45 years. Now he is given a new assistant.
The Element of Crime
Fisher, an ex-detective, decides to take one final case when a mysterious serial killer claims the lives of several young girls. Fisher, unable to find the culprit, turns to Osbourne,…
Buddy’s Song
Buddy is an aspiring teenager who is a very good musician and has pressure to go further than his Dad’s teddy boy rocker days…
Withnail & I
Two out-of-work actors — the anxious, luckless Marwood and his acerbic, alcoholic friend, Withnail — spend their days drifting between their squalid flat, the unemployment office and the pub. When…
Gorky Park
Police Inspector Renko tries to solve the case of three bodies found in Moscow’s Gorky Park but finds his attempts to solve the crime impeded by his superiors. Working on…
The Elephant Man
A Victorian surgeon rescues a heavily disfigured man being mistreated by his “owner” as a side-show freak. Behind his monstrous façade, there is revealed a person of great intelligence and…
Privates on Parade
It is 1947, the year of the communist rebellion in Malaya and the British army’s SADUSEA (Song And Dance Unit South East Asia) are called to the Malayan Jungle to…
Hamlet
Tony Richardson’s Hamlet is based on his own stage production. Filmed entirely within the Roundhouse in London (a disused train shed), it is shot almost entirely in close up, focusing…
Three Men in a Boat
One hot June day, three friends decide there is nothing they would like to do more than to get away from London. A boating holiday with lots of fresh air…
The Buttercup Chain
Born to twin sisters on the same day in London, France and Margaret are more like brother and sister than cousins. The close relationship between the cousins is suspended when…
I Bought a Vampire Motorcycle
When a motorbike gang kills an occultist, the evil spirit he was summoning inhabits a damaged bike. The bike is then bought and restored, but reveals its true nature when…
Ordeal by Innocence
Dr. Arthur Calgary visits the Argyle family to return an address book lost some time ago by Jack Argyle, only to find out that Jack has been executed for the…
Pirates
Captain Red runs a hardy pirate ship with the able assistance of Frog, a dashing young French sailor. One day Capt. Red is captured and taken aboard a Spanish galleon,…
Valhalla
Two children in the Viking age find their way into the magical world of Norse mythology.
Cry of the Banshee
In seventeenth century England Lord Whitman wages unending war on what he sees as the ever-present scourge of witchcraft, and many local villagers have suffered at his hands. But one…