A panoramic saga of Dublin life during one of the city's most turbulent eras in the early 1900s, based on the novels of James Plunkett, which are in t... Read more
Christine Edzard's film is a brilliant reworking of the Charles Dickens classic in two parts. The first part ("Nobody's Fault") is told from Arthur Cl... Read more
With the idiosyncratic American fable "Harold and Maude", countercultural director Hal Ashby fashioned what would become the cult classic of its era.... Read more
With the idiosyncratic American fable "Harold and Maude", countercultural director Hal Ashby fashioned what would become the cult classic of its era.... Read more
The acclaimed true story of Christy Brown, an Irish artist and writer who refused to let the cerebral palsy that crippled him since birth make him a p... Read more
The acclaimed true story of Christy Brown, an Irish artist and writer who refused to let the cerebral palsy that crippled him since birth make him a p... Read more
A rivetting thriller of an assassin hired to kill Charles De Gaulle, juxtaposing his calm preparation for the shooting against the tense international... Read more
Based on Frederick Forsyths best-selling novel of political intrigue, The Day of the Jackal, tells of a cold, suave British assassin hired by the Fre... Read more
Victor Hugo's classic story of an escaped convict and the detective who trails him for a lifetime. A lavish remake of the perennial favourite, starrin... Read more
In a future society all books are destroyed, so that hope for humanity resides in those few outcasts who have committed them to memory. Based on Ray B... Read more
A.k.a. 'The Wild Heart.' Jennifer Jones plays a beautiful young English Gypsy girl who loves animals and in particular her pet fox. She is hotly desir... Read more
In the totalitarian state of Oceania, a lowly outer party functionary, Winston Smith (John Hurt), toils at his job rewriting bits of history, while se... Read more
An extraordinary film version of George Orwell's dystopian masterpiece, starring John Hurt and Richard Burton. A story of impossible love and tragic b... Read more
An exquisite mounting of Shakespeare's comic look at male-female relationships stars Richard Burton as Petruchio, the wily gentleman from Verona who t... Read more
In this offering adapted from the play by Harold Pinter, Michael Jayston brings his wife Vivien Merchant home to visit his long-estranged family. Jays... Read more
Based on the novel by Graham Greene, this is a story of a French advocate Chavel (Sir Anthony Hopkins), who, while imprisoned by the Germans during th... Read more
Nine year old Danny Smith lives an idyllic life in a gypsy caravan at the back of his Dad's garage but all this looks set to change when evil landowne... Read more
In 1940's Los Angeles, Monsignor Desmond Spellacy (Robert De Niro), a rising star in the Catholic Church hierarchy, has a talent for fundraising that... Read more
'This Sporting Life' (1963) When Frank Martin begins to enjoy the accolades of being a local rugby star his brutal nature distances him from those aro... Read more
Darkly humourous and playfully macabre stories served up with a twist of fate. Each stand-alone episode in this acclaimed series is a brilliantly acte... Read more
Written in 1893, though not performed until 1902 due to government censorship 'Mrs Warren's Profession' scandalized Victorian England. This BBC produ... Read more