This riveting mystery is a whodunit at its best. The legendary British sleuth Sherlock Holmes accompanied by his loyal sidekick Watson become wrapped up in yet another jewel-centered mystery when a beautiful young woman finds herself the surprised recipient of the world's second largest diamond. The master detective is summoned to figure out just who sent her the jewel and why.
When Professor Hiram Otis gets a research grant to study in England, his family is thrilled to learn that they will live in a real castle called Canterville Hall. The castle's most notable feature turns out to be the ghost of Sir Simon de Canterville (Patrick Stewart), who died 400 years ago, visible only to Virginia Otis (Neve Cambell), 16, and her two younger brothers. Though he goes through the motions of being terrifying, Sir Simon turns out to be a rather friendly fellow once proper intr...
Who Do You Think You Are?' follows the journeys of eight well known personalities as they explore their family trees uncover their family history and discover fascinating and poignant facts about their ancestors that have been until now hidden in the annals of time. In the fifth series Patsy Kensit uncovers a healthy and hardworking mix of criminals and curates; Boris Johnson is never happier than when he discovers he's descended from both a heroic journalist and royalty; Jerry Springer finds darker and more terrible truths about the fate of his relatives; while Esther Rantzen starts off with silver and ends up in diamonds. Ashley Harriott visits West Indian lands of slaves and soldiers policemen free negroes and slaveowners; David Suchet researches how the Shokhet family became the Suchedowitz's and eventually Suchet; Jodie Kidd tracks down both a scandalous Baronet and a pilgrim heritage; while Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen finds himself all at sea as he investigates some very watery roots.
During the final decline of the Ottoman Empire a white woman is abducted and sold into a harem. There she is menaced by one of the Sultan's jealous wives then sentenced to death for sleeping with another man--a revolutionary to boot. The girl manages to break free from her gilded prison leading the Sultan's subjects in the fight to bring down their cruel ruler.
Based on the last novel of acclaimed author Edith Wharton The Buccaneers features an epic cast including Michael Kitchen Cherie Lunghi Mira Sorvino Dinsdale Landen Rosemary Leach Sheila Hancock Greg Wise Connie Booth and Jenny Agutter. Seen through the eyes of a family governess four ambitious American girls - Virginia and her sister Nan their friend Lizzy Elmsworth and their Brazilian friend Conchita - secure husbands and position in England in order to live happily ever after. But life bears little resemblance to the fairytales; and castles appear a lot less magical when you have to live in them. They soon find themselves trapped by the trappings of wealth and discover that beneath fine manners and social graces lie some very shabby vices. A superb cast stunning scenery and costumes and a story that unfolds as lavishly and unexpectedly as their lives The Buccaneers makes compelling viewing representing television drama at its very best.
Let's be honest: this should be titled Wretched Excess' Frankenstein. Swooping, wild, bloody, and energetic, this is bad moviemaking from the best, which makes it all the more loveable. Kenneth Branagh plays Victor Frankenstein, a man so obsessed with conquering death that he decides to create life. What he gets, after a protoplasmic mud wrestle, is a Mean Streets monster (Robert De Niro) that isn't particularly happy to be back from the dead or thrilled about all the stitches. Helena Bonham Carter may, at several points in this film, actually be channelling Ramtha. The supporting cast couldn't be peopled with better performers (Tom Hulce, John Cleese, Ian Holm) but they all look like they're ringside at some Ultimate Fighting competition. A must for any midnight movie collector for the shock factor alone. A hoot. --Keith Simanton
The complete collection of Horatio Hornblower's (Ioan Gruffudd) hi-jinks on the high seas!
Billie Piper stars in ITV2's drama Secret Diary of a Call Girl. It's the sexually explicit story of a beautiful prostitute who leads the ultimate double life. To her parents she's Hannah the legal secretary. Hannah has a responsible job that involves working lots of unsocial hours in the evening. Hannah has her own set of clothes and her own friends. Even her closest pal has no idea about her working life. To her clients Belle is whatever they want her to be. She can be the quiet girl-next-door. Or she can be the high-heeled dominatrix who whips them into submission. Her mission is to make money by satisfying male fantasies. As she tells us in the first episode: ""Work out what the client wants as fast as you can and give it to him."" Belle also has strict rules. The most important being that she never becomes emotionally involved. That's before she meets a handsome young single man. On their first meeting Belle looks stunning but it is a complete disaster. He tells her madam (Cherie Lunghi) that next time he'd like a girl just au naturel. Belle was too overpowering. But crafty Belle's professional pride is hurt. She elbows out another call girl and ensures they have a second date. This time everything goes wonderfully and in an unguarded moment she lets slip her real name. Hannah. And the client wants Hannah. Not Belle. And the most important lesson she's learnt: to do this job and keep sane she has to keep Belle and Hannah separate. Follow Belle's further adventures in the eight-part series.
Secret Diary Of A Call Girl: Season 3
Billie Piper returns as Belle de Jour in the second season of the popular ITV drama series.
Roland Joffé (The Killing Fields) directs this fuzzy effort at a David Lean-like epic without David Lean's sense of emotional proportion. Lean's most important screenwriting collaborator, Robert Bolt, in fact wrote The Mission, which concerns a Jesuit missionary (Jeremy Irons) who establishes a church in the hostile jungles of Brazil and then finds his work threatened by greed and political forces among his superiors. Robert De Niro is briefly effective as a callous soldier who kills his own brother and then turns to Irons's character to oversee his penance and conversion to the clergy. The narrative and dramatic forces at work in this movie should be more stirring and powerful than they are--the problem being that Joffé is too removed from them to allow us in. --Tom Keogh
Twelve-year-old Lizzie (Camilla Belle) has come to Misselthwait Manor now a home for young war orphans run by housekeeper Martha (Joan Plowright) and there she meets fellow orphans Robert (Aled Roberts). Stephen (Justin Girdler) and Geraldine (Florence Hoath). Endlessly curious full of spark and life Lizzie soon learns about the Secret Garden and wants to find out more. But Martha is fearful of its mysteries and has forbidden any of the children from venturing inside - a strictly observed rule that Lizzie is determined to break! With stolen key in hand she enters the garden and discovers that something once so beautiful has starved of love and is dying from neglect - but how to restore it to its former splendour?
Who Do You Think You Are? follows the journeys of ten well known personalities as they explore their family trees uncover their family history and discover fascinating and poignant facts about their ancestors that have been until now hidden in the annals of time. Una Stubbs discovers that sometimes life is a box of chocolates; upper-class actor Nigel Havers uncovers some lower class roots; Minnie Driver follows a trail that leads to unknown new relatives and a kindred spirit; Lesley Sharp uncovers some home truths that leads her to a charitable great-great-grandfather; Gary Lineker learns how his family tree extends to both sides of the law; Nick Hewer finds out how his family’s fortunes were shaped by the English Civil War; Nitin Ganatra travels from Africa to India in search of his family’s ancestral home; Sarah Millican swims into a world of divers before heading out to Canada and the fur trade: Marianne Faithfull follows her mother back into the world of Berlin cabaret; and John Simpson attempts to keep up with an adventurous grandmother who runs off with a Wild West Entertainer.
Nothing is as it seems behind the well-trimmed hedges of the picturesque cottages in the idyllic English county of Midsomer. Beneath the tranquil surface of sleepy village life exist dark secrets scandals and downright evil. John Nettles stars as the humorous thoughtful and methodical Detective Chief Inspector Barnaby.
Clive Donner's take on the classic Dickens tale of an orphan boy who escapes the horrors of the orphanage only to be taken in by a band of thieves and pickpockets...
The Manageress: Series 1 (2 Discs)
Van Helsing (Dir. Stephen Sommers 2004): Hunted as a murderer by those who do not understand his calling Van Helsing (Hugh Jackman) travels the globe as a fugitive. Accompanied only by Carl (David Wenham) a friar entrusted with providing Van Helsing's safety and a weapons arsenal to rival James Bond Van Helsing is despatched to the shadowy world of Transylvania. Home to the ravishing Anna Valerious (Kate Beckinsale) one of the last remaining descendents of a powerful royal family Van Helsing has been sent to terminate the evil and undefeatable Count Dracula (Richard Roxburgh) and his alluring bloodthirsty vampire brides. Herself a fearless hunter Anna joins forces with Van Helsing to confront her family's life long adversary and avenge the deaths of her predecessors. In a stunning showdown Van Helsing comes face to face with his mortal enemy but is also forced to confront his past... Bram Stoker's Dracula (Dir. Francis Ford Coppola 1992): Francis Ford Coppola returns to the original source of the Dracula to create a modern masterpiece. It follows the tortured journey of the devastatingly seductive Transylvanian Prince (Gary Oldman) as he moves from Eastern Europe to 19th century London in search of his long lost Elisabeta who is reincarnated as the beautiful Mina (Winona Ryder)... Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (Dir. Kenneth Branagh 1994): It is the late 18th Century. After the death of his beloved mother young Victor Frankenstein leaves his father and Elizabeth the adopted sister he passionately loves to attend university. Here he becomes obsessed with the teachings of Professor Walman who believes that living creatures can actually be created from dead matter. One electrifying night Frankenstein's efforts are rewarded as his Creature struggles to life. Alone despised and driven by a rage of emotional agony it sets off to find its maker. And so begins the nightmare that will engulf Victor Frankenstein...
Based freely on the classic novels by CS Forester, Hornblower is a series of TV films following the progress of a young officer through the ranks of the British navy during the Napoleonic Wars. The series' greatest asset is the handsome and charismatic Ioan Gruffudd in the lead role, surely a major star in the making. For television films the production values are very good, though as Titanic, Waterworld and The Perfect Storm demonstrated, filming an aquatic adventure is a very expensive business, and it is clear that the Hornblower dramas simply make the best of comparatively small budgets. No more faithful to Forester's books than the 1951 Gregory Peck classic Captain Horatio Hornblower, the real inspiration seems to have come from the success of Sharpe, starring Sean Bean, which likewise featured a British hero in the Napoleonic Wars. Nevertheless, while rather more easygoing than the real British navy of the time, the Hornblower saga delivers an entertaining adventure, greatly enhanced by the presence of such guest stars as Denis Lawson, Cheri Lunghi, Ronald Pickup and Anthony Sher. --Gary S Dalkin
Who Do You Think You Are? follows the journeys of well-known personalities as they delve into the past to explore their family trees uncover their family history and discover fascinating facts about their ancestors that have been hidden by the passage of time. Genealogist Nick Barratt introduces this programme which uses highlights from the individual stories to illustrate how to go about tracing your own family. Nick shows how to get started with your search the val
The complete first two seasons of the popular ITV series.
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