"Better Things" is a multi narrative drama depicting everyday life in small town England.
An ageing actress (Robin Wright, playing a version of herself) decides to take her final job: preserving her digital likeness for a future Hollywood.
Susan Hampshire stars in this world stars in this wonderful BBC dramatisation of the lives of John and Sarah Churchill. John Churchill was the first Duke of Marlborough a military genius whose brilliance on the battlefield saved England from defeat just as his descendant Winston Churchill saved Britain 300 years later... Episodes comprise: The Chaste Nymph Bridals Plot Counter-Plot The Lion and the Unicorn Rebellion The Protestant Wind.
Chow Yun-Fat makes his Hollywood debut with Mira Sorvino in this fierce and explosive action thriller. A seamless fusion of style and Hong Kong action adventure 'Replacement Killers' will blow you away! After he betrays Mr. Wei the ruthless crime boss who hired him to avenge his son's death professional killer John Lee goes on the run. Enlisting the aid of beautiful document forger Meg Coburn Lee attempts to return to his family in China before they are targets of their impress
Al Pacino stars as the titular character A.J. Manglehorn in this drama directed by David Gordon Green. Unable to recover from losing the love of his life, Clara Massey (Natalie Wilemon), 20 years previously, small-town Texas locksmith Manglehorn still writes her daily letters. Living a reclusive life alone with his cat Fanny, Manglehorn takes refuge in his job while only occasionally meeting his grown-up son Jacob (Chris Messina) and granddaughter Kylie (Skylar Gasper), and shunning the advances of friendly bank teller Dawn (Holly Hunter). Will he ever be able to escape his solitary existence and learn to love something other than his cat?
Though better known for his still photography than for his work in film David Hamilton explores similar themes in each medium. With the stunningly shot Premiers Desirs Hamilton turns once again to familiar ideas and images. The film - which revolves around three young girls adjusting to adolescence and their own sexuality after being stranded by a boat wreck in the Mediterranean - explores issues of innocence purity and sexuality. While many object to Hamilton's subject ma
The companion film to 'Smoke' 'Blue In The Face' is about a motley crew of characters whose lives intersect and collide at a corner cigar shop in Brooklyn managed by Augie Wren (Harvey Keitel). More of a neighbourhood institution then a money-making proposition the shop may soon be a memory as the owner is thinking of selling it to a health food chain. The neighbourhood is on hand to give their say - in a series of hilarious situations they talk until they are blue in the face in this movie about relationships the city and sex.
With compelling sympathetic performances from double Oscar nominee Burgess Meredith and accomplished Irish actor Kieron Moore this powerful psychological drama shows the almost super-human demands of a profession that ranks amongst the most challenging. Adapted from his own novel by BAFTA-winning author and screenwriter Nigel Balchin Mine Own Executioner is presented in a brand-new High Definition transfer from the original film elements. Meredith stars as Felix Milne a lay psychiatrist in post-war London who is enlisted to treat Adam Lucian a fighter pilot deeply traumatised by his experiences in a Japanese prisoner-of-war camp. Beleaguered by emotional problems of his own Milne embodies the mixture of dedication self-distrust and self-criticism that characterises someone with a genuine vocation for the psychiatrist's work; but is he qualified to treat a patient as disturbed and potentially destructive as Adam? Special Features: Image Gallery Promotional Material PDFs
In upstate New York, seemingly located off the beaten highway, is the roadside tavern, 'Pete & Dolly's', where Victor, an introverted, over-weight pizza chef, maintains his daily vigil. Under the domineering sway of his mother, Dolly, Victor cooks her an elaborate breakfast every morning and does whatever else she wants. It amounts to a very passive, out-of-the-mainstream existence. Into this settled little world comes Callie, a beautiful, but directionless, college dropout, whom Victor imme...
Her Only Crime Was Being A Woman… A woman gives birth to a baby girl. Little does she know but she and her daughter are already unwanted. Three women are released from prison and their need for money leads them to take desperate measures. An unmarried woman seeking an abortion is rejected from her father's house by the violent threats of her brothers. Their crimes are vague their guilt or innocence unimportant. Their paths cross the suspense of their intrigues
Ari is a handsome young man of Greek descent who finds himself torn between his traditional upbringing and conservative community and his sexual identity. Ari careens between hanging out with his friends bickering with his family and several heterosexual and homosexual encounters always trying to come to terms with where he fits in.
In 'Rage Of Angels' Jaclyn Smith plays determined young lawyer Jennifer Parker who fights against the odds to triumph as a top trial attorney in New York's tough world of power glamour and crime. Based on the best-selling novel by Sidney Sheldon this compelling drama switches from New York Acapulco and Paris as Jennifer finds herself in a highly-charged love triangle romantically pursued by two powerful men on opposite sides of the law. With the passion and tension in her life reaching boiling point Jennifer faces a terrifying confrontation that could destroy them all. As she moves from the law of the land to the law of the jungle the only case Jennifer can't seem to win is the trial for her heart.
A story that follows a New York woman (who doesn't really have an apartment), apprentices for a dance company (though she's not really a dancer), and throws herself headlong into her dreams, even as their possible reality dwindles.
The story of Virginia Cunningham who finds herself in an insane asylum and has no idea how she got there. Her husband Robert attempts to explain their relationship both before and after marriage and how her symptoms developed. Doctor Mark Kick struggles to get to the root of her problems but a relapse puts her back into 'The Snake Pit'... A touching central performance from Olivia de Havilland in this riveting exploration of mental illness.
A Cargo Ship takes on a female passenger. Can the Captain contain the crew and himself as they hit stormy conditions and emotions explode?
Fast, funny, and incredibly entertaining, Steven Spielberg directs Leonardo DiCaprio and Tom Hanks in this stranger-than-fiction tale inspired by a true story. Frank W. Abagnale, Jr. is a brilliant young master of deception. Frank didn't go to flight school...Frank didn't go to medical school...Frank didn't go to law school...because Frank's still in high school. While he successfully passes himself off as a pilot, a lawyer and a doctor-all before his 21st birthday-an FBI agent closes in, hot on his trail. Product Features Catch Me If You Can: Behind the Camera CAST Me If You Can: The Casting of the Film Scoring: Catch Me If You Can Frank Abagnale: Between Reality and Fiction The FBI Perspective Catch Me If You Can: In Closing Photo Galleries
A huge Indian contingent embarks on a dangerous cat-and-mouse trail of capturing Don (Shah Rukh Khan) - the ruthless drug mafia in Malaysia. When Don gets seriously injured in a police encounter the word that he is dead begins to do the rounds. The reality of course is that Don is held captive in a secret location while his bumpkin of a look-alike Vijay is polished and sent to take down Don's gang. In a bizarre twist of fate when the man shielding the humble and streetwise Vijay is killed the latter comes to terms with the horrifying realization that both the police and the gang are out to nab him for different reasons. In a desperate attempt to prove his innocence he is aided by the glamorously staggering Roma (Priyanka Chopra) and handsomely striking Jasjit (Arjun Rampal) who owes Vijay a favour for care-taking his son during his imprisonment. But will Vijay be successful in his mission? Based on the successful erstwhile classic of the same name which featured the legendary Amitabh Bachchan the contemporary and stylishly crafted Don features Bollywood czar Shah Rukh Khan playing a double role in one of the most defining performances of his career teamed for the first time with former Miss World Priyanka Chopra.
The Killing: When ex-con Johnny Clay (Sterling Hayden) says he has a plan to make a killing everybody want to be in on the action. Especially when the plan is to steal $2 million in a racetrack robbery scheme in which ""no one will get hurt."" But despite all their careful plotting Clay and his men have overlooked on thing: Sherry Peatty (Marie Windsor) a money-hungry double-crossing dame who's planning to make a financial killing of her own...even if she has to wipe out Clay's entire gang to do it! Paths Of Glory: Safe in their picturesque chateau behind the front lines the French General Staff passes down a direct order to Colonel Dax: take the Ant Hill at any cost. A blatant suicide mission the attack is doomed to failure. Covering up their fatal blunder the Generals order the arrest of three innocent soldiers charging them with cowardice and mutiny. Dax a lawyer in civilian life rises to the men's defense but soon realizes that unless he can prove that the Generals were to blame nothing less than a miracle will save his clients from the firing squad. The Killer's Kiss: Stanley Kubrick's second film Killer's Kiss made the world take notice. The young moviemaker won acclaim for this dazzling film noir about a struggling New York boxer (Jamie Smith) whose life is imperiled when he protects a nightclub dancer (Irene Kane) from her gangster boss (Frank Silvera). ""Using his camera as a sandpaper block Kubrick has stripped away the veneer from the prizefight and dancehall worlds "" the New York Mirror proclaimed. Killer's Kiss not only lends considerable insight into future Kubrick classics - such as The Killing and Full Metal Jacket - but is also a remarkable film in its own right: the boxing match may be the most vicious this side of Raging Bull and the famed final battle remains an action tour-de-force.
An ordinary family are accused of murder when a stranger dies at their dinner table. Two-time BAFTA winner Chris Langham (Help, The Thick of It) stars as bumbling father Tom Thompson and inimitable British comedian Simon Amstell (Never Mind the Buzzcocks) makes his film debut as a sinister psychotherapist. Combining the quietly surreal with the beautifully mundane, this award-winning comedy tells the hilarious and heart breaking story of how The Thompsons became known as the 'Family of Killers'.Black Pond was nominated for Outstanding Debut at BAFTA.
Richard Gere is a frantically overworked socially-in-demand gynecologist whose life is coming apart at the seams. His wife (Farrah Fawcett) has regressed into a child-like state while one daughter (Tara Reid) is raising suspicions about the relationship between his soon-to-be-married other daughter (Kate Hudson) and her maid of honor (Liv Tyler). Meanwhile just as his champagne-loving sister-in-law (Laura Dern) arrives with three nieces in tow the doctor falls for the sexy new golf pro (Helen Hunt). As complications mount the good doctor's life rapidly approaches the force of a Texas tornado!
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