Eastern Promises (2007)

Director: David Cronenberg

Starring: Viggo Mortensen, Naomi Watts, Vincent Cassel, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Sinead Cusack

Following on from 'A History of Violence', director David Cronenberg again imbues a familiar Hollywood story with his trademark raw style and a searin... Read more

Thriller: Series 1 and 2 (1973)

Starring: Dennis Waterman, Helen Mirren, Robert Powell, Jeremy Brett, Diana Dors, Denholm...

Following his immense success with 'The Avengers', British producer Brian Clemens made this spine-chillingly good series, with each episode a differen... Read more

Tenko: Series 2 (1982)

Starring: Ann Bell, Stephanie Cole, Louise Jameson, Jean Anderson, Emily Bolton, Elizabeth...

The hard-hitting and engrossing series continues as the Dutch, Belgian and Australian women interned in a Japanese POW camp are moved to another settl... Read more

Hustle: Series 1 (2004)

Starring: Adrian Lester, Robert Vaughn, Philip Glenister, Jaime Murray, Marc Warren

Fresh out of prison, Mickey has an ambitious plan: create a team of con-artists to make a few bob before retiring - but only target the greedy and cor... Read more

As You Like It (1936)

Director: Paul Czinner

Starring: Laurence Olivier, Elisabeth Bergner

Filmed in 1936 when Olivier was still considered a promising young actor rather than one of the finest thespians ever, this is his first filmed perfor... Read more

Rosamunde Pilcher's Winter Solstice (2005)

Director: Martyn Friend

Starring: Sinead Cusack, Jan Niklas, Jean Simmons, Geraldine Chaplin, Peter Ustinov

Rosamunde Pilcher ('Coming Home') has another best-selling novel adapted into an absorbing miniseries. The recently bereaved Elfrida Phipps moves to a... Read more

Coast: Series 1 (2005)

Discover the curious, sometimes dysfunctional, relationship between the British and the seas as the entire 20,000+ kilometre coast surrounding the Uni... Read more

Elizabeth: The Golden Age (2007)

Director: Shekhar Kapur

Starring: Cate Blanchett, Geoffrey Rush, Clive Owen, Rhys Ifans, Samantha Morton, Jordi Mo...

The second installment in a proposed trilogy of the most momentous points of Elizabeth I's life, we now see Blanchett play her as a queen experienced... Read more

Resident Alien: Quentin Crisp in America (1991)

Starring: Narrated by, John Hurt

This look at Quentin Crisp offers an intimate glimpse of the flamboyant gay icon and author of 'The Naked Civil Servant' in and around his Manhattan a... Read more

Venus (2006)

Director: Roger Michell

Starring: Peter O'Toole, Leslie Phillips, Jodie Whittaker, Richard Griffiths, Vanessa Redg...

The grand Peter O'Toole plays a weathered old curmudgeon in this hilarious and touching story of an aging actor taking a young woman under his wing. M... Read more