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Travel Man: Series 1 (2015)Travel Man: 48 Hours in...
Richard Ayoade, a man who would much rather be at home, offers a guide to the best way to spend 48 hours in some of the most exciting places on Earth. Joining him are a quartet of the most funny and famous people ever to appear on a television travel show. This is Travel Without Mercy. Richard's odyssey begins in Barcelona in the company of Kathy Burke. They tour the city by Pedicab and visit the famous Camp Nou stadium before a cava tasting gets out of hand. Adam Hills joins Richard for a double day dose of Istanbul, criss-crossing between Europe and Asia and enjoying an evening of raki and tripe soup. Richard has a close shave and Adam haggles over a rug in the Grand Bazaar, before they both get uncomfortable in a Turkish Bath. Jessica Hynes is Richard's travelling companion for a frozen 48 hours in Iceland. They tour the island's Golden Circle of geysers and waterfalls by helicopter, sample the distinctive taste of rotten shark and attend The Elfschool. Finally Stephen Mangan accompanies Richard for two days in Marrakech. They sightsee by balloon, get lost in the maze of the city's streets and dine on a dubious delicacy; boiled sheep's head. - Director:
- Leo McCrea
- Cast:
- Richard Ayoade, Kathy Burke, Adam Hills
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Growing up in New York City, George Carlin was always the class clown. He went on to become one of the greatest comedians of all time, with appeal that spanned generations. His brand of provocative socio-political commentary and scathing comic style brought him five Grammy awards. Carlin was the first-ever host of NBC's Saturday Night Live, and starred in fourteen HBO specials. "George Carlin: Best Stuff" is compilation of Carlin's legendary routines, including "A Place For My Stuff", "Dogs and Cats", "Baseball and Football", the notorious "Seven Words You Can Never Say On Television" and many more. A great collection of some of the best stand-up comedy ever performed. - Director:
- Rocco Urbisci
- Cast:
- George Carlin
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Join Detective Frank Drebin (Leslie Nielsen) and Capt. Ed Hocken (Alan North) as they solve the toughest cases - full of all the sight-gags, puns, and non-sequiturs that made the series famous!
Episodes Comprise:
1. A Substantial Gift (The Broken Promise)2. Ring of Fear (A Dangerous Assignment)
3. The Butler Did It (A Bird in the Hand)
4. Revenge and Remorse (The Guilty Alibi)
5. Rendezvous at Big Gulch (Terror in the Neighborhood)
6. Testimony of Evil (Dead Men Don't Laugh)- Director:
- Reza Badiyi
- Cast:
- Leslie Nielsen, Alan North, Rex Hamilton
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British Comedy Award Winner, internet sensation and star of BBC's 'Live at the Apollo' and 'Russell Howard's Good News', Nina Conti is a ground-breaking ventriloquist and cutting edge comedian whose Dolly Mixtures Show is a performance of comic thrills and surprises. Unlike any comedy show you have seen before Nina Conti's 'Dolly Mixtures' is a brilliantly funny, outrageously hilarious show of comedy antics that refuses to go as rehearsed, thanks to Nina's trouble making puppets who put the audience centre stage - you'll be relieved to be watching from the safety of your sofa. - Director:
- Toby Baker
- Cast:
- Nina Conti
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Adapted from the classic novel by Charles Dickens, 'The Personal History of David Copperfield' brings to life one of the author's most cherished characters. From birth to infancy, from adolescence to adulthood, the good-hearted David Copperfield (Dev Patel) is surrounded by kindness, wickedness, poverty and wealth, as he meets an array of remarkable characters in Victorian England. As David sets out to be a writer, in his quest for family, friendship, romance and status, the story of his life is the most seductive tale of all. - Director:
- Armando Iannucci
- Cast:
- Dev Patel, James Daniel Wilson, Hugh Laurie
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I Vitelloni (1953)I vitelloni
The film is essentially a rites of passage story involving a group of friends growing up together in a small provincial town. This seemingly aimless fraternity is led by Fausto in their daily routine of hanging around in bars and wasting their days whilst dreaming of breaking free of their parochial chains to taste the adventure the world has to offer. Events force the womanising Fausto to choose between responsibility and freedom which in turn prompts the other members of the group to look at their own futures in a new light. - Director:
- Federico Fellini
- Cast:
- Alberto Sordi, Franco Fabrizi, Franco Interlenghi
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A comedy series in the same style of Christopher Guest's films (Best in Show, Waiting for Guffman), Family Tree follows the world and journey of 30-year-old Tom Chadwick (Chris O'Dowd) as he sets about finding himself, one relative at a time. Having recently lost his job and girlfriend, Tom has a rather unsure sense of his own identity. But when he inherits a mysterious box of belongings from a great aunt that he never met, he starts investigating his family lineage and uncovers a whole world of unusual stories and characters and a growing sense of who he is and who his real family are. - Director:
- Christopher Guest
- Cast:
- Chris O'Dowd, Nina Conti, Tom Bennett
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Vienna, winter. Johann, a guard at the grand Kunsthistorisches Art Museum encounters Anne, a foreign visitor called to Austria because of the poor health of a friend. Never having been to Austria and with little money, she wanders the city in limbo, taking the museum as her refuge. Johann, initially wary, offers help, and they're drawn into each other's worlds. Their meetings spark an unexpected series of explorations - of their own lives and the life of the city, and of the way artworks can reflect and shape daily experience. - Director:
- Jem Cohen
- Cast:
- Steve Crilley, Mary Margaret O'Hara, Bobby Sommer
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In the Mood for Love (2000)Hua yang nian hua
Hong Kong, 1962. Chow (Tony Leung) is a junior newspaper editor with an elusive wife. His new neighbour Li-zhen (Maggie Cheung) is a secretary whose husband seems to spend all his time on business trips. They become friends, making the lonely evenings more bearable. As their relationship develops they make a discovery that changes their lives forever... - Director:
- Kar-Wai Wong
- Cast:
- Roy Cheung, Tony Leung Chiu Wai, Paulyn Sun
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The Sound Barrier: The true story of the jet plane's early days and the committed men who risked all to test the danger levels. Ralph Richardson is an air-craft manufacturer driven to design the first supersonic aeroplane even if his obsession to break the sound barrier costs him his humanity, the love of his family and the ultimate sacrifice – his son.
Hobson's Choice:
The brilliant, touching and delightful working-class comedy from David Lean. Charles Laughton is the drunken tyrannical Lancashire Bootmaker brought to heel by his tough eldest daughter and her simple-minded husband after they open a rival shoe shop.- Director:
- David Lean
- Cast:
- Charles Laughton, Ralph Richardson, John Mills
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Ran (1985)Revolt
Akira Kurosawa's acclaimed study of power, revenge and retribution is set against the magnificent backdrop of feudal warfare in sixteenth century Japan. Transposing the events of Shakespeare's King Lear to the blood-thirsty 'Period of Warring States', 'Ran' tells the story of a bitter power struggle within the family of Warlord Hidetora Ichimonji (Tatsuya Nakadai). After fifty years of ruthless slaughter Hidetora divides his kingdom among his sons, seeking peaceful retirement. However, as his life descends into chaos, he is unable to escape the corruption within his family and the torment within his soul. - Director:
- Akira Kurosawa
- Cast:
- Tatsuya Nakadai, Seizô Katô, Akira Terao
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From the 1870s to the modem era, Radioactive is a journey through Marie Curie's enduring legacies - her passionate relationships, scientific breakthroughs, and the consequences that followed for her and for the world. After meeting fellow scientist Pierre Curie, the pair marry and change the face o science forever by their discovery of two new elements. The ensuing Nobel Prize propels the couple into the international limelight, but after a tragic accident Marie continues to advance her work, resulting in revolutionary discoveries that have dramatic consequences. - Director:
- Marjane Satrapi
- Cast:
- Rosamund Pike, Yvette Feuer, Mirjam Novak
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Alan Partridge's Scissored Isle (2016)Alan Partridge: Scissored Isle
Steve Coogan returns in his iconic role winning him the BAFTA for Best Male Performance in a Comedy. 'Scissored Isle' also won the International Emmy for Best Comedy. Following a controversial on-air incident, Alan attempts to make amends. Leaving behind his comfortable existence and vast detached house, Alan takes a journey of redemption. He journeys into an unreported Britain inhabited by the very people he had offended to ask whether, in this once united kingdom, a 'schasm' has formed - a schism or chasm, between the haves and the have-nots (or haven'ts). From supermarket staff to payday lenders, disaffected street gangs to food scavenging 'freegans', Alan pledges to move among them; to understand them; to see the world through their eyes. And - god willing - along the way become a better citizen, a better man and a better, more sought-after broadcaster. - Director:
- Neil Gibbons
- Cast:
- Steve Coogan, John Thomson, Ben Rufus Green
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George Carlin returns to the stage in 'Life is Worth Losing', his 13th live comedy stand-up special, performed at the Beacon Theatre in New York City for HBO. Carlin's spot-on observations on the deterioration of human behaviour include Americans' obsession with their two favourite addictions - shopping and eating; his creative idea for The All-Suicide Channel, a new reality TV network; and the glorious rebirth of the planet to its original pristine condition - once the fires and floods destroy life as we know it.
"Life is Worth Losing" includes:
- A Modern Man
- Three Little Words
- The Suicide Guy
- Extreme Human Behavior
- The All-Suicide Channel
- Dumb Americans
- Pyramid of the Hopeless
- Autoerotic Asphyxia
- Posthumous Female Transplants
- Yeast Infection
- Excess: Fires and Floods
- Coast-to-Coast Emergency- Director:
- Rocco Urbisci
- Cast:
- George Carlin
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The BAFTA-winning series returns as director Michael Winterbottom reunites Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon for their last culinary coast-to-coast odyssey. Nearly ten years after their first journey together round the gastronomic hot spots of northern England, Steve and Rob set off on a fourth and final expedition. This time they will set out from the ruins of Troy in modern-day Turkey as they head to Greece to retrace the steps of legendary king Odysseus, hero of Homer's epic poem The Odyssey, on his journey home to Ithaca at the end of the Trojan War. Along the way, Steve and Rob's semi-fictional alter-egos make pit-stops in search of culture, history, beautiful scenery and, yes, some of the finest dishes in Europe. Pop culture, music, art and even the meaning of life are all discussed in their famous free-flowing conversations, peppered with barbed banter, boisterous in-car singalongs and uncannily life-like celebrity impersonations. - Director:
- Michael Winterbottom
- Cast:
- Kareem Alkabbani, Marta Barrio, Rob Brydon
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