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'House Of Cards' is a delicious tale of greed, corruption and burning ambition. At its heart is Francis Urquhart (Ian Richardson), a black-hearted villain with a smiling face, who shares with the viewers his estranged humour and innermost thoughts to destroy each of his political rivals. One by one his opponents tumble, until at last there is just one wild card left in the pack... - Director:
- Paul Seed
- Cast:
- Ian Richardson, Susannah Harker, Miles Anderson
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The highly acclaimed BBC series 'Inside the Commons', produced by Atlantic Productions and presented by Michael Cockerell, was filmed with unprecedented access to the House of Commons. Travelling deep inside the corridors of the Palace of Westminster this series reveals what really went on behind the scenes during a remarkable year in politics, in the run up to one of the most unpredictable general elections ever. 'Inside the Commons' follows Ministers and MPs high and low as they seek to navigate the machinery of the House, to make laws and fight their constituents' battles. 'Inside the Commons' will also introduce the nation to the people who keep the Commons working, from the keepers of Big Ben, the Hawker responsible for keeping pigeons off the 19th-century stonework to the gospel-singing tea lady of the Members' Tea Room. It's no easy task. From crumbling stonework to leaky roofs, the series shows the challenges faced as staff strive to keep the country's most iconic and historic building functioning as a modern parliament. - Director:
- Max Baring
- Cast:
- Michael Cockerell, Jacob Rees-Mogg, Ed Miliband
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2018 marks 100 years since the first women over the age of 30, who owned property, were allowed to vote in the UK. But the fight for the vote was about more than the Pankhurst family or Emily Davison's fateful collision with the king's horse. In this dramatised documentary, popular historian Lucy Worsley tells the story of a group of less well known, but equally astonishing, young working-class suffragettes who decided to go against every rule and expectation that Edwardian society had about them. Lucy and her group of suffragettes from the Women's Social Political Union reveal how women got the vote through their brave, trailblazing and often dangerous activities. Lucy looks at the role of politics, police and parliament in the partial enfranchisement of women in 1918, followed by the coalition of groups who successfully achieved the vote for all women over 21 some ten years later. - Director:
- Emma Frank
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- Amy Gavin, Lucy Worsley, Joanne Thomson
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Molly Dineen is one of Britain's most acclaimed contemporary documentary filmmakers, known for her intimate and probing portraits of British individuals and institutions, and recipient of numerous accolades, including BAFTA, Grierson and RTS awards for documentary. This is the final of three volumes that bring all of her films.
Geri (1999)
Geri Halliwell, the most colourful and outrageous of the Spice Girls, has dramatically left the band. Two days later, Dineen joins her as she dodges the paparazzi and seeks solace with family and friends in a fascinating rollercoaster ride through fame, celebrity and the personality behind that infamous Union Jack dress.
The Lords' Tale (2002)
Dineen follows one of Parliament's greatest upheavals: the abolition of the hereditary peers. With customary sensitivity, she puts a human face on the constitutional crisis, weaving the strands of the personal and the public to make one of the most astute political documentaries of the New Labour era.
The Lie of the Land (2007)
On the eve of the fox hunting ban, Dineen uncovers the unpleasant truths of life in the British countryside, where farmers struggle to survive under the weight of government legislation and national indifference towards rural communities.- Director:
- Molly Dineen
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- Geri Horner, Molly Dineen, Tony Blair
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The year is 2065. The location is a secret island base. The Tracy family run International Rescue - a top secret organisation whose ongoing mission is to aid humanity. With the support of five incredible Thunderbirds craft, the London agent Lady Penelope Creighton-Ward, her butler and former safe-cracker Parker, and genius Brains, the Tracy family battle the forces of evil.
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- Trapped in the Sky
- Pit of Peril
- The Perils of Penelope
- Terror in New York City- Director:
- Alan Patillo
- Cast:
- Shane Rimmer, Matt Zimmerman, Sylvia Anderson
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Raging Bull (1980)The Life of Jake La Motta
"Raging Bull" is arguably the finest work from the Scorsese and De Niro partnership. De Niro gives and amazing portrayal of a man whose animal side lurks just beneath the surface, ever ready to erupt. Vivid and unremitting in its uncompromising brutality and honesty, the fight sequences are famed for their realism. Violent throughout, this film is a testament to Scorsese's and De Niro's skills, creating a thoroughly absorbing film about such an unlikable character. Renowned for throwing himself into the roles of his character, De Niro went on a diet to gain fifty pounds during production for the role of the faded star. - Director:
- Martin Scorsese
- Cast:
- Robert De Niro, Ted Husing, Cathy Moriarty
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When a man stumbles on a bloody crime scene, a pickup truck loaded with heroin, and two million dollars in irresistible cash, his decision to take the money sets off an unstoppable chain reaction of violence. Not even west Texas law can contain it. Based on the novel by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Cormac McCarthy. - Director:
- Ethan Coen
- Cast:
- Tommy Lee Jones, Javier Bardem, Josh Brolin
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Stephen Collins (David Morrissey) is an ambitious politician. Cal McAffrey (John Simm) is a well-respected investigative journalist and Stephen's ex-campaign manager. En route to work one morning, Stephen's research assistant mysteriously falls to her death on the London Underground. It's not long before rumours of an affair between Stephen and the assistant hit the headlines. Meanwhile a suspected teenage drug dealer is shot dead. Revelation upon revelation pile up in the aftermath of these two seemingly unconnected events, ultimately bringing to light shady dealings between the government and major corporate powers. Friendships are tested and lives are put on the line as an intricate , web of lies unfolds. - Director:
- David Yates
- Cast:
- John Simm, Kelly MacDonald, Bill Nighy
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Comedy icon Penelope Keith stars as an uncompromising Labour MP who finds her cherished principles severely tested in the unforgiving, often murkily Machiavellian world of Westminster in this cleverly scripted Thames comedy. Soldiering on amid the dreadful facilities and uncivilised hours that might drive a lesser woman out of the job, wife and mother Jean Price is still managing to hold her own amid the swollen ego and rampant chauvinism of the political elite. This third series sees her facing down the threat of de-selection, taking a stand against nuclear weapons, organising an MPs' 'sleep out' in a bid to highlight the plight of the homeless, and tackling the sensitive subject of MPs' rising salaries... - Director:
- John Howard Davies
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- Penelope Keith, Mark Kingston, Garfield Morgan
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Comedy icon Penelope Keith stars as Jean Price, a newly elected Labour MP who finds her cherished principles severely tested in the unforgiving, often murky world of Westminster. Jean's ambition withstands the dreadful facilities and uncivilised hours that might drive a lesser woman out of the job, with the wife and mother managing to hold her own amid the swollen egos, rampant chauvinism and Machiavellian scheming of the political elite; husband Geoff provides much-needed moral support. Also featuring 'Ruth Rendell Mysteries' star George Baker as Tory adversary Sir Godfrey Eagan and Garfield Morgan as Labour whip Norman, this cleverly scripted Thames comedy was directed by BAFTA Award winner John Howard Davies, whose high-profile credits include 'The Good Life', 'Fawlty Towers' and 'Mr. Bean'. - Director:
- John Howard-Davies
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- Penelope Keith, Mark Kingston, Garfield Morgan
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'Our Friends In The North' is the biggest and most ambitious contemporary serial ever produced for BBC 2, an epic drama spanning 30 years in the lives of four Georgie friends and the world that shaped them. The eleven hours took forty weeks to film and feature a cast of thousands, with 160 speaking parts and 3000 extras, exploring three decades of corruption, vice, violence and collapsing ethical standards in Britain's corridors of power from 1964 to 1995. - Director:
- Simon Cellan Jones
- Cast:
- Christopher Eccleston, Mark Strong, Gina McKee
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The Virgin Suicides (1999)Sofia Coppola's the Virgin Suicides / The Lisbon Sisters
Featuring a spellbinding performance from Kirsten Dunst. With mesmeric cinematography from Edward Lachman, accompanied by a cult soundtrack from French duo Air, 'The Virgin Suicides' remains a coming-of-age classic. In a quiet, conservative American town in the 1970s, Cecilia Lisbon (Hanna Hall), just 13, attempts suicide. She is one of five beautiful teenage sisters and this incident begins to unravel the lives of the entire family. The story is told from the point of view of the neighbourhood boys who are obsessed with these enigmatic sisters and draws its dark humour from the fabric of teenage life. Little by little, the family begins to shut itself off from friends and neighbours and the girls are soon forbidden to go out. As the situation spirals downward, the boys plot to rescue the girls. - Director:
- Sofia Coppola
- Cast:
- Giovanni Ribisi, Kirsten Dunst, Josh Hartnett
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Bagpuss: Series (1974)That Cat: Series
Bagpuss, dear Bagpuss, old fat furry cat-puss, wake-up, and look at this thing that I bring, wake-up, be bright, be golden and light. Bagpuss, oh hear what I sing. 'Bagpuss' was first seen on British television on 12th February 1974. The charming children's stop motion animation was made by Oliver Postgate and Peter Firmin, starring the "saggy old cloth cat" Bagpuss. He lived in a strange shop - owned by a little girl called Emily - which didn't actually sell anything, but was a home for lost property. Only 13 episodes were ever made, but the programme has remained popular down the generations and was voted the all-time favourite children's programme in 1999. The show has now delighted viewers of children's television for 50 years. Join Emily and her friends as she wakes Bagpuss once again... - Director:
- Oliver Postgate
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- Oliver Postgate, Sandra Kerr, John Faulkner
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Cabaret brings 1931 Berlin to life inside and outside the Kit Kat Klub. There, starry eyed American Sally Bowles (Liza Minnelli) and an impish emee (Joel Grey) sound the call for decadent fun, while in the street the Nazi party is beginning to grow into a brutal political force. Into this heady world arrives British language teacher Brian Robert (Michael York) who falls for Sally's charm and soon, the two of them find themselves embroiled in the turmoil and decadence of the era. - Director:
- Bob Fosse
- Cast:
- Liza Minnelli, Michael York, Helmut Griem
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"Snatch" is an edgy and hilarious film about a diamond heist gone wrong, a colourful Irish gypsy turned prize fighter...and a very temperamental dog. In the heart of gangland, two novice unlicensed boxing promoters, Turkish (Jason Stratham) and Tommy (Stephen Graham) get roped into organising a rigged bare-knuckle fight with local kingpin villain and fellow boxing promoter, Brick Top (Alan Ford). But all goes wrong when wildcard Irish gypsy boxer, One Punch Mickey O'Neil (Brad Pitt). Starts playing by his own rules and the duo find themselves heading for a whole lot of trouble...Meanwhile Franky Four Fingers (Benicio Del Toro) and his stolen 86 carat diamond have gone missing in London. Head honcho Avi (Dennis Farina) hires local legend, Bullet Tooth Tony (Vinnie Jones) to find them, launching everyone into a spiral of double-crossing vendettas and events, most of them illegal... - Director:
- Guy Ritchie
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- Jason Statham, Brad Pitt, Benicio Del Toro
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