The Draughtsman's Contract
(1982) [M]

The Draughtsman's Contract is a visual and narrative treat and established Peter Greenaway as one of Britain's most original and talented filmmakers. Set in the opulent 17th Century when double standards between the sexes prevailed, this elaborate conspiracy thriller tells of an opportunistic and...  More

Lock, Stock & Two Smoking Barrels
(1998) [MA]

High-octane fuelled East-End gangster comedy thriller, Lock, Stock & Two Smoking Barrels is a journey into London's seedy underworld with brilliant street-wise dialogue and razor sharp black comedy.  More

Vanity Fair (BBC 2 disc set)
(1987) [PG]

In an England on the brink of bankruptcy and war, only the wily may prosper. Becky Sharp is a governess, temptress and social climber supreme, a woman who more than compensates in brains and beauty for what she conspicuously lacks in breeding. To what lengths will she go in order to secure...  More

Sliding Doors
(1998) [M]

The split-second moments that can take a life down one path instead of another form the tantalizing 'what if?' In this delightful romantic comedy starring Gwyneth Paltrow. Paltrow plays London publicist Helen, effortlessly sliding between parallel storylines that show what happens if she does or...  More

Stella Does Tricks
(1996) [R]

Kelly Macdonald gives a powerful performance as Stella, a gutsy teenage prostitute who can already turn tricks with the best of them but still enjoys a giggle about sex with her girlfriends, a young group run by oily pimp Mr Peters. Despite an oddly close relationship with Peters, she is...  More

The Boxer
(1997) [M]

Academy Award winner Daniel Day-Lewis (In The Name Of The Father, My Left Foot) and Academy Award nominee Emily Watson (Breaking the Waves) are star-crossed lovers torn between unquestioning loyalty to the ties of tradition and the passion they share in one of 1997's most critically-acclaimed...  More

Her Majesty Mrs Brown
(1997) [PG]

Queen Victoria, the world's most powerful woman. John Brown, a simple Scottish Highlander. Their extraordinary friendship transformed an empire. A sweeping epic, based on the true-life relationship between England's Queen Victoria and John Brown, a royal servant, Mrs Brown paints a revealing...  More

Jane Austen In Manhattan
(1980) [PG]

In this delightful Merchant Ivory production, past meets present and flamboyant egos collide as two Manhattan theatre companies compete to stage a literary gem: a lost play by one of Britain's best-loved authors. Jane Austen In Manhattan blends Jane Austen's charming "playlet", tracing the...  More

A Fish Called Wanda (2 disc set)
(1988) [M]

Jewel thieves, Yorkshire terriers, proper British barristers and a fish called Wanda come together to create a comedy of non-stop wit and wonderfully funny misunderstandings in the much-loved British comedy A Fish Called Wanda. Barrister Archie (John Cleese) falls in love and tosses off more then...  More

Fever Pitch
(1996) [M]

Adapted by Nick Hornby from his own best-selling novel, Fever Pitch is one of the funniest, most believable, and most talked about films in years. Meet Paul (Colin Firth): a man with a life-long obsession - football! Then he meets Sarah and soon discovers that, unlike football, relationships...  More

The Full Monty
(1997) [M]

Six unemployed men, inspired by a touring group of male strippers, decide they can make a small fortune by putting on a striptease show of their own - but with one small difference. They intend to go the "full monty" and strip completely naked! In this hilarious, heartfelt comedy, these six...  More

A Life Less Ordinary
(1997) [M]

Robert is one of life's losers. He works as a janitor in giant corporation, but dreams of something... less ordinary. Sharp-tongued Celine on the other hand, has never wanted for anything in her short and pampered life as the daughter of Robert's boss, Naville. But like Robert she is bored. In a...  More

The Mission
(1986) [PG]

Jeremy Irons plays a Spanish Jesuit who goes into the South American wilderness to build a mission in the hope of converting the Indians of the region. Robert DeNiro plays a slave hunter who is converted and joins Irons in his mission. When Spain sells the colony to Portugal, they are forced to...  More

Educating Rita
(1983) [PG]

Rita (Julie Walters), a hairdresser with a sharp wit, is married to Denny, and at 26 doesn't want a baby. She wants to discover herself – so she joins the Open University. Dr. Frank Bryant (Michael Caine) is a disillusioned university professor of literature. His marriage has failed, his...  More

Carla's Song
(1996) [M]

1987, love in time of war. A bus driver George Lennox meets Carla, a Nicaraguan exile living a precarious, profoundly sad life in Glasgow. Her back is scarred, her boyfriend missing, her family dispersed; she's suicidal. George takes her to Nicaragua to find out what has happened to them and to...  More

1984
(1984) [M]

After The Atomic War the world is divided into three states. London is the capital of Oceania, ruled by a party who has total control over all its citizens. Winston Smith is one of the bureaucrats, rewriting history in one of the departments. One day he commits the crime of falling in love with...  More

Brassed Off
(1996) [M]

It's 1992 and the miners of Grimley Colliery are facing uncertainty. Not only is their pit under threat, but the Grimley Colliery Band is on the verge of breaking up - that is, until Gloria (Tara Fitzgerald) arrives. As the only female member of the band, she somehow manages to rekindle their...  More

Comic Strip 1 : Five Go Mad In Dorset / War / The Beat Generation / Bad News Tour / Summer School / Five Go Mad On Mescalin
(1982) [MA]

The ground-shaking impact of The Comic Strip's anarchic humour rattled the televisions of the 1980s, and when the smoke cleared they left a gaping crater that lesser comics are still falling into today. Now, for the first time all 39 rarely seen episodes of The Comic Strip Presents, totalling...  More

The Secret Agent
(1996) [M]

London of the late 19th century is a haven for political exiles of all sorts - refugees, partisans, anarchists. Verloc has made his living spying for the Russian government, an agent provocateur of sorts, while simultaneously providing information to the London police, specifically Chief...  More

The English Patient
(1996) [M]

THE ENGLISH PATIENT is an epic film of adventure, intrigue, betrayal and love about four strangers whose diverse lives become inextricably connected. The story is told largely through the eno of an unknown English patient, the sole survivor of a plane shot down near the beginning of World War II,...  More

Twelfth Night (1996)
(1996) [G]

Identical mixed-sex twins, separated during a shipwreck, both believe the other dead. When Viola dresses as her 'dead' brother for better protection, little does she realise that her living brother will be on the scene as well. Based on the William Shakespeare play, adapted for the screen by...  More

Distant Voices, Still Lives
(1989) [M]

On her wedding Day, Eileen along with her younger brother and sister, remembers her overbearing father with mixed feelings of regret and compassion. The recollections of this domineering and irrational man are played against music and radio programmes of the period to create an evocative and...  More

Fierce Creatures
(1997) [M]

Jamie Lee Curtis, John Cleese, Michael Palin and Academy Award winner Kevin Kline - the stars of the smash hit comedy A Fish Called Wanda - return for another hysterically funny farce. The outrageous fun begins when ruthless media mogul Rod McCain (Kline) acquires England's Marwood Zoo....  More

Michael Collins
(1996) [M]

The life and times of Michael Collins, the man who inspired passion in a nation and changed the history of Ireland.  More

Drowning By Numbers
(1988) [M]

3 generations of women share a name and an aversion to marriage. 3 husbands have reason to be afraid of water. Add to the equation 1 amorous coroner and 1 inventive little boy, and so begins the game. Drowning By Numbers is a sharp and witty tale of female camaraderie with Joan Plowright, Juliet...  More

Jude
(1996) [M]

Jude Fawley is a stonemason who loves learning. Inspired by his teacher he longs to go to University. After a brief but unhappy marriage to the daughter of a local pig farmer, he moves to Christminster to be closer to his beloved scholars. There, he meets and falls totally in love with his cousin...  More

Withnail And I
(1987) [M]

London. The 60s. Two unemployed actors - acerbic, elegantly wasted Withnail (Richard E Grant) and the anxiety-ridden I (Paul McGann) drown their frustrations in booze, pills and lighter fluid. When Withnail`s Uncle Monty (Richard Griffiths) offers them his country cottage for a week, they escape...  More

Secrets And Lies
(1996) [M]

Nominated for 5 Oscars and winner of 3 BAFTA awards, Mike Leigh’s hilarious, bittersweet comedy is an unmissable and moving slice of real life. Secrets and Lies centres around Cynthia, a sad, unmarried mother who works in a factory and lives in a shabby terraced house with a confrontational...  More

Haunted
(1995) [M]

David Ash, Professor of Para-Psychology, is called in to investigate the strange hauntings at Edbrook House and there meets the beautiful Christina and immediately falls in love. As he begins his investigation he becomes aware of a presence in the house which slowly but surely starts to wear him...  More

How To Get Ahead In Advertising
(1989) [M]

This advertising executive is the best. He can sell anything to any-body. Along comes a pimple cream that promises to put a real blemish on his career.....he can't think of anything. His anxiety takes the form of a growing boil on his neck. When the boil begins to speak he is beyond help. It...  More