Frances Barber

An aged, retired Sherlock Holmes deals with dementia, as he tries to remember his final case, and a mysterious woman, whose memory haunts him. He also befriends a fan, the young son of his housekeeper, who wants him to work again.

The extremely talented Santiago Muñez is spotted by a Newcastle United scout and given a chance at professional football.

England 1959. In a small East Anglian town, Florence Green decides, against polite but ruthless local opposition, to open a bookshop.

When Newcastle United soccer star Santiago Muñez (Kuno Becker) is offered a spot with Real Madrid, he accepts, but the move - accompanied by big money and fame - tests his ties and loyalties to family, friends, and business acquai...

A romance sparks between a young actor and a Hollywood leading lady.

Fame, fortune and fornication drove the British rock band in the '70s until a divine end. 20 years later, Strange Fruit reunites and goes on a tour with ups and downs on the continent.

Twin zoologists lose their wives in a car accident and become obsessed with decomposing animals.

Two ex-convicts are on parole and working dead-end jobs in a New York diner until they are approached by a geeky English lawyer who enlists them in a plot to steal a very valuable diamond.

Biographer John Lahr is writing a book about playwright Joe Orton. Joe and Kenneth meet at drama school and live together for ten years as lovers and collaborators. Both want to be writers, but only one of them is successful.

A disgraced communist schoolteacher in Kyiv becomes a brutal, unfeeling serial killer. Based on the crimes of Andrei Chikatilo.

Middle-aged Gerald Kingsland advertises in a London paper for a female companion to spend a year with him on a desert island.

Traitors, killers and lovers collide in London.

Photographer Charles Castle is dazed with grief after the death of his girlfriend. He goes off to war and works in the trenches as photographer. After the war, still grieving, Charles receives some photographs that claim to be of ...

An ordinary woman makes an extraordinary decision which will change her life forever.

A London gigolo persuades an impoverished French writer to join his profession.

A look at the love affair between 1960s supermodel Jean Shrimpton and photographer David Bailey.

A Jewish girl in 19th-century London dreams of becoming a stage actress.

Greg Kielty's life is turned upside down when his estranged brother Dan turns up, claiming to have drunkenly run someone over. But has Dan just murdered a gangster's son? Or maybe there's an even more sinister explanation.

Sir Ian McKellen gives a tour-de-force performance as Shakespeare's tragic monarch, in this special television adaptation of the Royal Shakespeare Company production of one of the playwright's most enduring and haunting works.

Two disc jockeys have a friend's murder to solve in the fringe-group melting pot of 1977 London.

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

A new republican prime minister strips the British monarch and her family of their money and assets and forces them to live on a rundown council estate.

Georgie Godwin, housebound for 23 years, is the fattest man in Britain, a tourist attraction, thanks to greedy 'agent', cabbie Morris who brings visitors to Rochdale to hear Georgie sing and--rather to his annoyance--to touch him....

Eight years ago, Gavin artistic son of an Scots/Italian ice-cream dynasty, turned his back on Glasgow and moved south to London to make his name illustrating children's books. Now, frustrated and broke, his Uncle Sal appears with ...

During a train ride, an anxiety attack leads middle-aged illustrator John (Sir Alan Bates) into an identity crisis. As his marital problems merge and blur into his fantasy life with prostitutes and call girls, a long-dormant secre...

Dispirited coworkers unite to try a holiday experiment.