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Various mishaps at a police station in an English town. The main character is the anachronistic, yet charming and funny Inspector Fowler. CID foil to Fowler, Inspector Grim is a bumbling, seething idiot.

Drama examining the politics and change across Britain from the Sixties to the Nineties seen through the varying fortunes of four friends.

Cowboy Curly McClain tries to win the heart of a girl in a singing and dancing extravaganza.

A new pastor arrives in a stark Vermont village and is intrigued by crippled, misshapen Ethan Frome living on an isolated, hardscrabble farm with his sickly wife Zeena.

Ilea is an old space craft cruising around the Jupiter system, and functioning as a university. This is the story of its crew and students.

The adventures of a (not very good) trainee witch and her friends.

When young Nell Trent's grandfather loses the investment money of wharf owner Daniel Quilp with cards, Quilp develops an everlasting urge to get him put in the madhouse. Nell and her grandfather flee the city.

The Barbara Taylor Bradford trilogy that began with "A Woman of Substance"(1984) and continued with "Hold the Dream" (1986) ends with this epic tale. Paula feuds with her cousins as she fights to save her grandmother Emma's business.

The story of the British 19th-century businessman who became the wealthiest man in the Western world and founded the nation Rhodesia.

Bill Hicks tells us how he feels about non-smokers, blow-jobs, religion, war and peace, drugs and music.

Bill Hicks in the height of his genius. Recorded at the Dominion Theatre in London, Hicks opens our eyes and minds to the hypocrisy and ludicrousness of the world around us.

An opium-addicted choirmaster develops an obsession for a beautiful young girl and will not stop short of murder in order to have her.

An elite group of British bodyguards guard vulnerable VIPs against threats.

An autobiographical film about the racing life of Captain Henry "Tim" Birkin, a British gentleman racing driver of the nineteen thirties. Spectacular vintage car racing scenes. Quintessentially British, celebrating the early years of the Bentley motor car.

Implicated in a corruption enquiry, Detective Inspector Mick Raynor (Leslie Grantham) agrees to go deep under cover to bring down criminal networks that appear to be beyond the reach of the law.

"Finney" begins with the murder of the patriarch of a criminal family, Patrick "Tucker" Finney. Who killed him? There are plenty of suspects - from his compulsive gambler and drug addict son Tom to rival "businessman" Bobo Simpson. Tucker's eldest son, Steven (or Finney, as everyone calls him) couldn't care less. As a sick joke, his father has left him a derelict cinema in the middle of Simpson territory. Finney decides to turn it into a jazz club, and finally pull his life together. Meanwhile, his older sister Lena, who has inherited both Tucker's shady empire and his hard personality, has decided to find out who murdered her father...

Fairly sensitive melodrama about life on the back-roads in Australia at the height of the Great Depression. Centring on the developing romance between two drifters this presents a commendable level of period detail. Based on the novel by Kylie Tennant.

Biopic about a real eccentric ultra-patriotic British army officer and war hero called Lt. Col. Alfred D. Wintle, who fought in both World Wars against both the enemy and his higher-ups with the same passion.

A heartwarming rags-to-riches story of a family during the Depression. The story is from a novel by Mary Grant Bruce.

A young couple move to the country but do not get the quiet life they expected

Memoir explores the roles of the son and the father in western, patriarchal culture. Hi-8 video, snapshots, dramatic archival footage and poetic and expository sequences blend with the moving testimonies of fathers and sons.

Robbie Coltrane drives from Los Angeles across the USA to New York in a '51 convertible Cadillac.

A resort island, run by the Wilson family, becomes the home to an unhappy Vietnamese refugee teenager and is also threatened by a greedy businessman.

A biographical profile of Irving Berlin.