Cast: Frances Barber

Direction Russell T. Davies · Graeme Harper · Euros Lyn · James Strong

Cast David Tennant · Matt Smith · Christopher Eccleston · Peter Capaldi

Synopsis TV Series (2005-Present). 12 Seasons. Christopher Eccleston's Doctor is wise and funny cheeky and brave. An alien and a loner his detached logic gives him a vital edge when the world's in danger. But when it comes to human relationships...

Direction Joe Stephenson

Cast Ian McKellen · Scott Chambers · Luke Evans · Milo Parker

Synopsis Feature documentary on the life and work of Sir Ian McKellen.

Direction Brian Kirk

Cast Douglas Booth · Gillian Anderson · Ray Winstone · Vanessa Kirby

Synopsis TV Miniseries (2011). 3 Episodes. In the 1810s orphan boy Pip Pirrup lives on the Kent marshes with his shrewish sister and her kindly husband,farrier Joe Gargery. On Christmas eve,whilst visiting his parents' grave, he is confronted by an escaped...

Direction Peter Moffat · Catherine Morshead · Michael Offer · Peter Hoar

Cast Maxine Peake · Rupert Penry-Jones · Neil Stuke · Theo Barklem-Biggs

Synopsis TV Series (2011-2014). 3 Seasons. 18 Episodes. Silk follows a group of barristers from a chambers in London. The series' main focus is on Martha Costello (Maxine Peake) and her ambition to become Queen's Counsel as well as on her...

Direction Charles Palmer

Cast David Suchet · Olivia Grant · Anna Skellern · Tom Burke

Synopsis Four clocks surround an unidentified corpse in a blind woman's house, and a young typist is summoned to the crime scene. However, Poirot is convinced that the complicated setup is merely hiding a simpler solution.

Direction Arnaud Desplechin

Cast Summer Phoenix · Fabrice Desplechin · Ian Holm · Emmanuelle Devos

Synopsis In the late 19th Century, Esther Kahn (Summer Phoenix) and her immigrant Jewish family settle in the East End of London. Whilst the rest of her family occupy themselves with their business, making clothes in a dreary workshop, Esther dreams...

Direction Peter Greenaway

Cast Andrea Ferréol · Brian Deacon · Eric Deacon · Frances Barber

Synopsis Oliver Deuce, a successful doctor, is shattered when his wife is killed in a freak car accident involving the car being driven by Alba Bewick colliding with a very large rare bird. His twin brother Oswald is researching how carcasses...

Direction John Strickland

Cast Geraldine McEwan · Christian Coulson · Cherie Lunghi · Robert Pugh

Synopsis The residents of Chipping Cleghorn are astonished to read an advert in the local newspaper that a murder will take place the following Friday at 7:30 p.m. at Little Paddocks, the home of Letitia Blacklock. A group gathers and at...

Direction David Garfath · John Madden · Tony Smith · Paul Weiland

Cast Michael Gambon · Brian Henson · Mark Ashman · Frances Barber

Synopsis A storyteller in a labyrinth tells his dog the stories of Perseus and Medusa, Icarus and Daedalus, Theseus and the Minotaur, and Orpheus & Euridyce.

Direction Paul McGuigan

Cast Annette Bening · Jamie Bell · Julie Walters · Vanessa Redgrave

Synopsis Based on Peter Turner's memoir, the film follows the relationship between Turner (Jamie Bell) and the eccentric Academy Award-winning actress Gloria Grahame (Annette Bening) in 1978 Liverpool. What starts as a vibrant affair between a legendary femme fatale and her...

Direction Robert Popper · Steve Bendelack · Martin Dennis

Cast Simon Bird · Tom Rosenthal · Tamsin Greig · Paul Ritter

Synopsis TV Series (2011-Present). Every Friday night, twenty-something brothers Adam (Bird) and Jonny (Rosenthal) Goodman return to their parents' home for dinner. Adam and Jonny think of the weekly event as a necessary annoyance - necessary because they get fed, and...

Direction Trevor Nunn

Cast Ian McKellen · William Gaunt · Philip Winchester · Ben Meyjes

Synopsis King Lear decides to abdicate and divide his kingdom between his three daughters. Including in the "Great Performances" Series, this television production includes the same cast and director as the 2007/8 Royal Shakespeare Company production, performed on tour worldwide and...

Direction Edward Bennett

Cast David Suchet · Hugh Fraser · Philip Jackson · Pauline Moran

Synopsis Poirot becomes a criminal himself when he agrees to help a beautiful woman recover a letter written in her youth that is being used to blackmail her.

Direction Isabel Coixet

Cast Emily Mortimer · Patricia Clarkson · Bill Nighy · Honor Kneafsey

Synopsis Set in a small town in 1959 England, it is the story of a young woman who decides, against polite but ruthless local opposition, to open a bookshop, a decision which becomes a political minefield.

Direction Nick Willing

Cast Toby Stephens · Emily Woof · Ben Kingsley · Frances Barber

Synopsis After the sudden death of his young wife, Charles Castle devotes himself to his work as a photographer in World War I. After the war he works in trick photography and exposes frauds, but when a pair of little girls...

Direction Bill Condon

Cast Ian McKellen · Milo Parker · Laura Linney · Hattie Morahan

Synopsis The story picks up with the detective at age 93, long-ago retired to the rural area of Sussex, where he is haunted by an unresolved case from a half-century ago. His partner, Dr. Watson, is no longer with him. And...

Direction Stephen Frears

Cast Shashi Kapoor · Claire Bloom · Ayub Khan-Din · Frances Barber

Synopsis Sammy and Rosie are an unconventional middle-class London married couple. They live in the midst of inner-city chaos, surround themselves with intellectual street people, and sleep with everybody - except each other! Things become interesting when Sammy's father, Raffi, who...

Direction Isaac Julien

Cast Valentine Nonyela · Mo Sesay · Dorian Healy · Frances Barber

Direction Antonio Chavarrías

Cast Alfonso Herrera · Hannah Murray · Julian Sands · Elvira Mínguez

Synopsis A man named Jacques Mornard arrives in Mexico in 1940, claiming to be a Belgian who is fleeing the war in Europe to join his girlfriend, one of refugee Leon Trotsky’s secretaries. But nobody knows that in reality this conventional...

Direction Sean Mathias

Cast Ian McKellen · Jonathan Hyde · Jenny Seagrove · Steven Berkoff