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The life and times of Britain's king-in-waiting, from his debauched youth and two marriages to his father's madness and his belated ascent to the throne. George, Prince of Wales (1762-1830) waited almost 60 years to become King, despite his father George Ill's long battle with mental illness. In his youth the prince (Peter Egan) is a notorious womaniser, gambler and drinker, who runs up huge debts with extravagant renovations of his private palace, Carlton House. At 21 he falls for the charms of Maria Fitzherbert (Susannah York), a twice-widowed Catholic commoner six years his senior. Despite her unsuitability on almost every count, he rushes into a secret marriage. But his father the King (Nigel Davenport), insists he make a 'proper' marriage with his cousin Princess Caroline of Brunswick (Dinah Stabb), in exchange for support in clearing his debts. That marriage is a disaster as young George refuses to give up Maria - and takes a series of other lovers. When George III succumbs to his first bout of madness in 1788, there's a constitutional crisis. Without a King's Speech, there can be no State Opening of Parliament, and plans are drawn up for a Regency. Prime Minister William Pitt the Younger (David Codings) reluctantly agrees with the prince's staunch ally and his own fierce rival Charles James Fox (Keith Barron) that there is only one suitable candidate to assume the duties of the living King. But the King recovers his wits, and the Regency is delayed for another 20 years. Not till our own times would an heir to the British throne wait so long for his coronation. - Director:
- Michael Simpson
- Cast:
- Peter Egan, Bosco Hogan, Nigel Davenport
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Kate Nelligan is Eleni, a Greek villager struggling to keep her family together despite the turmoil of the civil war that has enveloped the country at the end of World War II. Her torment and death at the hands of rebel guerillas have forever plagued her son, Nick. Now an adult and a journalist for the New York Times, Nick travels back to the small village in Greece to uncover the truth behind mother's untimely death. - Director:
- Peter Yates
- Cast:
- Kate Nelligan, John Malkovich, Linda Hunt
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A year after her little boy goes missing, Eve takes her family to Crickley Hall to escape the past. She discovers their new refuge has a past even more disturbing. Unseen children are pursued by a frenzied spectre wielding a cane. As Eve prepares to move out, she hears her missing son who tells her the children know where he is. In order to find him, Eve has to unravel the mystery of what happened in Crickley Hall in 1943. But as she searches, the evil that stalks Crickley Hall reaches for her other children. - Director:
- Joe Ahearne
- Cast:
- Suranne Jones, Tom Ellis, Douglas Henshall
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Complete fifth series of the ITV drama set in a rural medical practice in Derbyshire's Peak District.
- Director:
- A.J. Quinn
- Cast:
- Ian Burfield, Lauren Richardson, Frances White
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The young Arthur Conan Doyle has just qualified as a doctor and is troubled by a beautiful young patient, claiming to be the victim of a stalker. As the investigation deepens, the appearance of corpses, an old house with a gruesome past and the worrying disappearance of the beautiful young patient leads Dr Joseph Bell (Ian Richardson) and Arthur Conan Doyle (Charles Edwards) to employ his famed 'methodology' to solve the case. But... will even Bell himself, be prepared for the final twist that awaits them at the climax of this spine chilling programme? - Director:
- Tim Fywell
- Cast:
- Katie Blake, Charles Edwards, Alexander Armstrong
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One night in 1990's rural England, a retired couple finds their isolated house besieged by a gang of young criminals. The thieves think it will be easy to make them give up the secret of their safe. But they have no idea what nightmare they've gotten themselves into as they fight to escape the house alive. - Director:
- Julius Berg
- Cast:
- Maisie Williams, Sylvester McCoy, Rita Tushingham
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Nowhere in Africa (2001)Nirgendwo in Afrika
A beautifully realised World War II-set love story spanning two continents, 'Nowhere in Africa' is the extraordinary true tale of a Jewish family who flee the Nazi regime at the very last moment for a remote farm in Kenya. Torn from her comfortable life in Germany, the shy five-year-old Regina (Karoline Eckertz / Lea Kurka) embraces her new life discovering the magic in the wilderness or the sun-burnt African plains and the initially strange African people who live there. Her parents however find it harder to leave their European roots behind and to adjust to the poverty and isolation of their new home. - Director:
- Caroline Link
- Cast:
- Herbert Knaup, Juliane Köhler, Merab Ninidze
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When Bill Hixon (Rob Lowe) lands in Boston, Lincolnshire, with his 14-year-old daughter Kelsey (Aloreia Spencer) in tow, he's hoping they can flee their painful recent past. Whip-smart, acerbic and unstoppable, Bill is very good at what he does. America's Top Metropolitan Police Chief three years running is the ideal candidate to make his mark on the Force as its new Chief Constable. From the outset, Bill isn't about making friends. He's here to get the job done and get the hell out as quick as his spin-class-toned legs will carry him. Bill soon discovers that the people of this unfamiliar community are just as smart-mouthed, cynical and dificult to impress as he is. They don't suffer fools, authority or algorithms gladly. And as Bill, a man who's spent his life keeping the messiness of human intimacy at arm's length, is reluctantly propelled into front-line policing, the result will be as funny as it is dangerous. - Director:
- Annie Griffin
- Cast:
- Rob Lowe, Bronwyn James, Anthony Flanagan
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When Uncle Charlie comes to visit his relatives in the sleepy town of Santa Rosa, the foundation is laid for one of his most engaging and suspenseful excursions. Joseph Cotten stars as the charming Uncle Charlie, a beguiling killer who travels from Philadelphia to California just one step ahead of the law. But soon his unknowing niece and namesake, "Young Charlie" (Teresa Wright), begins to suspect her uncle of being the Merry Widow murderer, and a deadly game of cat-and-mouse begins. As his niece draws closer to the truth, the psychopathic killer has no choice but to plot the death of his favourite relative in one of Hitchcock's most riveting psychological thrillers. - Director:
- Alfred Hitchcock
- Cast:
- Teresa Wright, Joseph Cotten, Macdonald Carey
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Four women from the North of Dutch town Breda are sick of their poor life. Lot (Susan Visser) is divorced and has two little kids; her friend Sam (Monic Hendrickx) has a busy family life and an unemployed husband; Reneetje (Georgina Verbaan) has a little daughter (and always a sniff of coke in her pocket); teacher Kers (Monique van de Ven) has had trouble making ends meet after her husband died. They boldly decide to rob a bank in the neighborhood and to their surprise they get away with it easily. The women are extremely happy with the success of their moves, but life has gotten nowhere near easy! Kers is being harassed by the school principal Zeger (Pierre Bokma) who has feelings for her. Sam's husband Najib (Ergun Simsek) finds her cash in a kitchen drawer and is getting quite suspicious. Reneetje is spending money like water and, worse of all, Lot falls in love with Achilles, a police officer. Tighter and tighter, the women are getting trapped. They decide to make one last big hit, but that robbery gets terribly out of hand... - Director:
- Esmé Lammers
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- Monique Van De Ven, Monic Hendrickx, Georgina Verbaan
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Philo Beddoe (Clint Eastwood) is your regular, easygoing, truck-driving guy. He's also the best barroom brawler west of the Rockies. And he lives with a 165-pound orangutan named Clyde. Like other guys, Philo finally falls in love - with a flighty singer who leads him on a screwball chase across the American Southwest. Nothing's in the way except a motorcycle gang, two sneaky off-duty cops and legendary brawler Tank Murdock (Walter Barnes). - Director:
- James Fargo
- Cast:
- Clint Eastwood, Sondra Locke, Geoffrey Lewis
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Martin Clifford (Spencer Banks) lives in a quiet English village and is busy studying for his 'A' levels when he suddenly finds himself at the centre of a dangerous international espionage plot. Beneath the outwardly calm surface of Redlow lies an intricate network of spies and counterspies, with the focus of attention the USAF base nearby - soon to become the communications centre for top-secret NATO exercises. Martin, commissioned by British Intelligence to help uncover enemy agents in the village, finds his life balanced precariously on a tightrope; one false move on either side, and he could fall to his death. - Director:
- Ron Francis
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- John Savident, Spencer Banks, David Munro
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Series three of this outstanding police procedural drama sees the role of Chief Constable passing from John Stafford (played by Tim Pigott-Smith) to former Metropolitan Deputy Assistant Commissioner Alan Cade (Martin Shaw). This release contains all six episodes, originally transmitted in 1993. As John Stafford takes up a new position with Europol, Alan Cade replaces him as Chief Constable at Eastland, East Anglia; Anne Stewart continues as Cade's deputy. While Cade is every bit as capable as his predecessor, he finds that the challenge of front-line policing continues to be eclipsed by the pressure to manage ever-tighter budgets and justify expenditure. Sharing Stafford's tolerant but scrupulous approach, he also faces ongoing conflict with his superiors, and certain local politicians whose cavalier attitudes towards issues of civil liberties contrast sharply with his own. - Director:
- AJ Quinn
- Cast:
- Tim Pigott-Smith, Martin Shaw, Karen Archer
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Infection (2019)Infección
An outbreak of a mutated virus results in a zombie epidemic that brings chaos and fear to the country. As civilisation collapses around them, a father battles through hostile territory in a fight to rescue his only son. Fans of '28 Days Later', 'World War Z' and 'Train to Busan' will appreciate this post COVID 19 horror which speaks to man's shortcomings in the face of impossible calamities. - Director:
- Flavio Pedota
- Cast:
- Jesus Guevara, Leonidas Urbina, Magdiel González
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Geoffrey Carr (Peter Barkworth), a major player in the emerging computer industry, is newly married to the impetuous Frances (Harriet Walter), a much younger woman with a wilful daughter from a previous marriage. He’ll go to any lengths to make her happy and stretches his finances to buy a crumbling Georgian estate in County Wicklow where Frances spent part of her childhood. Aside from commitments on the new house, Geoffrey's continuing control of the company depends on an uncertain research deal with a visiting Japanese consortium. Frank Crossan (Derek Thompson) is an Irish Republican hitman on the run from British authorities in the North, and from his own commanders. Seeking refuge with old flame Kate (Aingeal Crehan), he hatches a plan to kidnap a wealthy Brit for a hefty ransom to fund a major arms deal. The two worlds collide when Frances and daughter Clare are brutally snatched and removed to a bleak hideaway. Geoffrey’s immediate impulse is to cave in to the kidnappers’ demands - but nothing is straightforward when a personal crisis plays out against the forces of political intrigue, high finance, and the full glare of the media. - Director:
- Kenneth Glenaan
- Cast:
- Peter Barkworth, Harriet Walter, Aingeal Grehan
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