Humphrey Proudfoot (Robertson Hare) is a class-conscious solicitor whose daughter falls in love with the son of a disreputable greyhound owner Alfred Gilbey (Stanley Holloway) who lives in the same apartment building. After Humphrey fails to convince his daughter not to marry the young Gilbe he decides to employ a private investigator in order to dig up some dirt on the womanising gambler. But his sneaky shenanigans backfire when Gilbey turns the tables and discovers Proudfoot's first love Emily (Irene Handl). When Emily turns up at the same time as Gilbey's mistress Gloria, the two men suddenly find themselves on the same side as they struggle to keep their two women away from their wives.
In the savage and deadly world of the gangland king, the man at the top is ruler, only for as long as he controls everything in his territory. For that man, the rewards can be infinite, but so are the dangers. Harold Shand (Bob Hoskins) is enjoying the height of his powers, and he is on the verge of something that would make his current 'arrangements' small fry. But stronger forces than even he can control have moved in and taken over. Climaxing in one long and bloody day of terror, an Easter Good Friday, he is to see his empire begin to crack and crumble.
The comedy legend Mr. Bean returns with 3 more of the original classic episodes.
Episodes Comprise:
- The Curse of Mr. Bean
- Mr. Bean goes to Town
- The Trouble with Mr. Bean
All six episodes of the cult British comedy series. Controversial and surreal, this sketch-based series includes scenes where a lonely woman tries to get a plumber to fix her dead baby, and a laid-back couple don't notice that their son has been abducted and murdered.
After the explosion at Ravenhill Hospital, Mr. Jelly, Joy, David and Maureen Sowerbutts, Mr. Lomax and Robert just want to get on with their twisted, mad and sad lives. But the shadowy, if technologically-deprived, Grace Andrews and the enigmatic detective Finney are tracking them down - one by one - in search of Nurse Kenchington's locket. Meanwhile, we meet some new but equally bizarre Psychoville characters: Jeremy Goode, a librarian tortured by a silent singer as he hunts for 50 Great Coastal Walks of the British Isles Volume 2; Peter Bishop, whose toy shop, Hoyti Toyti, has a very strange basement and a desperate and dateless overworked make-up artist, Hattie. What could they all have to do with the mystery - and why is it truly a matter of life and death?
When you've spent your loan in another continent and returned home to become your parents' worst nightmare, your name is the only thing that's true on your CV and you'll do way too much to get a free drink, that's when you know you're a Drifter. Meg (Jessica Knappett) is 24 and she's on her second gap year. In Leeds. She would be getting herself a 'cool arty media-y job' but life seems to be getting in the way a bit. She hasn't had sex in twelve months, her ex won't leave her alone and her work uniform is a mobile phone. Her two best mates, Bunny (Lydia Rose Bewley) and Laura (Lauren O'Rourke) are going through a similar quarter life crisis. Posh daydreamer Bunny is a 'born entertainer' struggling to come to terms with the mere idea of work as she waits for her call to 'showbiz'. No nonsense Northerner Laura is on the lookout for a quick fix, to 'win the lottery or have a bad accident and get a compensation payout'. For these girls, things aren't quite going as planned at work (flyering), at home (Mum and Dad's) and in the bedroom (walk in wardrobe). It's a good job they're all in this together.
Episodes Comprise:
1. Home
2. Scabies
3. Work Experience
4. Dry Run
5. Friend Night Stand
6. Nineties Night
Oakland A's general manager Billy Beane (Brad Pitt) challenges the system and defies conventional wisdom when he is forced to rebuild his small-market team, on a limited budget. Despite opposition from the old guard, the media, fans and their own field manager (Philip Seymour Hoffman), Beane, with the help of a young, number-crunching, Yale-educated economist (Jonah Hill), develops a roster of misfits...and along the way, forever changes the way the game is played.
Doris Day and Howard Keel fuss, feud and fall in love as Calamity Jane and Wild Bill Hickok in this entertainment mother lode. At first curvaceous Calamity is too durned busy fighting Indians and cracking a bullwhip to pay mind to such girlie what-alls as dresses and perfume. And Wild Bill is too danged busy wooing a dainty chanteuse (Allyn McLerie) to give a hoot about a hot-headed tomboy. But things change in a rootin,'tootin', big way when each becomes love's target.
In 1950, Timothy Evans was hanged for the murder of his baby daughter Geraldine. The police also believed that he had killed his wife Beryl. But to his final moments Evans protested his innocence. Three years later, a gruesome discovery at 10 Rillington Place revealed that his neighbour - star prosecution witness John Reginald Christie (Tim Roth) knew much more about the sinister goings on in the house. Set in the dark confines of Christie's home, this powerful drama imagines the relationships between Christie, his wife Ethel (Samantha Morton) and the innocent young Evans couple. What twisted influence did Christie hold over the young newly-weds Timothy (Nico Mirallegro) and Beryl (Jodie Comer)? And how was he able to trick both judge and jury into sending an innocent man to the executioner?
From the makers of the highly successful cult classic TV series comes "Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Movie" - one of the most outrageous, most irreverent and most hilarious big-screen spoofs ever! A mad scientist, in his quest for world domination, concocts a diabolical scheme to subject the human race to the worst movie ever made: 1955's This Island Earth. It's up to one test subject's quick wit, sharp sense of humour, and utter intolerance for cinematic garbage to foil the plans of the scientist and save the Earth. Experience the hijinks and low jabs of "Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Movie" - where the worse the movie is, the better time you'll have!
In series 6 crisis hits the Nesbitt household when Rab's benefit is suspended. But there is worse news to come when Rab becomes seriously ill and for once drink isn't responsible. In preparation for his upcoming wedding Gash seeks marital advice from Rab and Jamesie.
Screwball sparks fly when Cary Grant and Katharine Hepburn let loose in one of the fastest and funniest films ever made - a high-wire act of invention that took American screen comedy to new heights of absurdity. Hoping to procure a million-dollar endowment from a wealthy society j matron for his museum, a hapless paleontologist (Grant) finds himself entangled with a dizzy heiress (Hepburn) as the manic misadventures pile up - a missing dinosaur bone, a leopard on the loose, and plenty of gender-bending mayhem among them. Bringing Up Baby's sophisticated dialogue, spontaneous performances, and giddy innuendo come together in a whirlwind of comic chaos captured with lightning-in-a-bottle brio by director Howard Hawks.
In this classic slice of British comedy, John Cleese plays clock-watching headmaster Brian Stimpson, whose fanaticism for timekeeping knows no bounds. But his obsessive punctuality is put to the test when he boards the wrong train on his way to an education conference in Norwich. What follows is a nightmarish journey involving a catalogue of misunderstandings, ex-girlfriends, unruly sixth formers and the police.
When Carol (Cate Blanchett) walks into a New York City department store and meets Therese (Rooney Mara) an unlikely friendship sparks. Carol is an elegant socialite going through a bitter divorce while Therese is just starting out in life; unsure of who she wants to be. Mesmerized by each other, they face a choice: deny their hearts desires or defy society's conventions but in doing so, risk life as they know it.
The third case of the award-winning crime comedy sees DI Jack Cloth (John Hannah) and DC Anne Oldman (Suranne Jones) reunited in a murder case and this time it's personal. A sexy female rookie, Newblood (Karen Gillan), has joined Cloth's team. At her first crime scene the team discover the body of Cloth's brother, Terry Cloth (John Hannah). Cloth traces Terry's past back to a remote healing therapy centre, "The Healery", but Cloth believes this is a cult and suspects Vull (Adrian Dunbar), the sinister leader, of murdering his brother. Whilst Vull is being questioned down the station, another shooting has occurred in the City of Town. And a case that was already uncomfortably personal for Cloth becomes personaler as he discovers the next victim is an ex-girlfriend. There is a serial killer hunting down people who have a personal connection to Cloth meaning Oldman's life is in danger. Can Cloth save Oldman? Can Cloth save himself?
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