Movies

Intellectually driven doctoral student Rosamund Stacey, while undertaking graduate work at the British Museum, becomes pregnant after a brief affair...

TV-movie version of the Victor Hugo novel.

A biographical portrait of pen-and-ink artist, Aubrey Beardsley.

This is a film about Plato's ideas. It is about Stanley who meets his reflection in a field. The two begin a dialogue in the tradition of Socrates...

A period film, set around an English country house whose owners want to arrange a marriage of convenience between their elder daughter and an...

In 1945, the new Polish government asked for the heart of Chopin previously buried in Paris. A woman called Paulina Czernika approached the...

The story of Amy Johnson who disappeared while piloting a RAF Wellington Bomber

Slice-of-life look at class divisions among employees of a brokerage house. Alan, with his portrait of the Queen and love of the peerage; his wife...

Waris Hussein’s acclaimed drama is based on the autobiography of Firdaus Kanga, who stars in the lead role of Brit, a young man born with...

Lee Remick stars as Jennie Jerome, born in the United States in 1845, who eventually became Lady Randolph Churchill, and gave birth to Sir Winston...

A British play about homelessness by Jeremy Sandford, writer of "Cathy Come Home", first broadcast as a BBC Play For Today. It details the...

Dear Rosie is a 1990 British short film directed by Peter Cattaneo from a script by Peter Morgan and Mark Wadlow. The plot follows Rosie, an...

During a weekend at a country house in the 1920s, a Jewish outsider accuses a former officer of theft, setting off a tragic chain of events.

A politician is set up by his secretary and blackmailed by her brother.

A play about the life and work of the artist Auguste Renoir, based on the book by his film director son, Jean Renoir.

A romantic tragedy about two turn-of-the-century couples - one American, one British - who regularly vacation together at a spa in Germany.

Play about Eileen who steals a baby, and the reactions of those around her, including the priest, police, and authorities and the consequences of...

Daniel is an obeying and high-flying barrister with the good life on his side. Nathaniel Quass is a rich and bizarre recluse, generous, obsessed and...

Hiding out in an industrial wasteland from the murderous wrath of a regional ruler, a woman, disguised as a boy, gives wooing lessons to the edgy lad...

A series of six short films concerning the adventures of form 2B and their inventive science master, Mr Potter