Films on British TV 1993

July 29, 1981: After two years of the Thatcher administration, there is recession and unrest, but the economic boom is just around the corner. Meanwhile, there's the fairy tale wedding of Charles and Diana to celebrate.

Three modern-day pilgrims investigate a bizarre crime in a small town while on their way to Canterbury.

A noblewoman discovers her husband is The Scarlet Pimpernel, a vigilante who rescues aristocrats from the blade of the guillotine.

Carrie White, una timida studendessa che vive in isolamento con la madre fanatica religiosa, scopre di possedere poteri telecinetici che userà per vendicarsi dopo essere stata oggetto di un orribile burla durante il ballo della scuola.

Un principe europeo terrorizza i contadini locali e usa il suo castello come rifugio contro la pestilenza della "Morte Rossa" che dilaga nel territorio.

A Baton Rouge (Louisiana) giovane avvocato rampante con moglie frigida e cognata per amante accoglie in casa un vecchio amico di scuola che, munito di videotape, mette in crisi l'equilibrio della famiglia. Palma d'oro a Cannes 1989, premio all'opera prima e all'attore (J. Spader).

Details the life of the Russian monk Rasputin. The film shows his rise to power and how it corrupted him. His sexual perversions and madness ultimatly leads to his gruesome assasination.

Scientists Robert Jones and Frank Enari suspect that there is someone or something other than their research primates inhabiting their isolated polar station.

A hard-drinking but hard-working gun shearer leads a group of Outback sheep herders into striking after wealthy landowners attempt to drive them from their territory.

Dopo aver assistito a un omicidio per mano della mafia, due musicisti fuggono dallo stato travestiti da donne in una band tutta al femminile, ma subentrano ulteriori complicazioni.

La storia di una bella, vitale e piena di sessualità donna di origine africana a New York, dove conduce una vita assolutamente libera con i suoi tre amanti.

Mabel, moglie e madre, è amata dal marito Nick ma la sua malattia mentale si rivela un problema nel matrimonio.

A rich vein of ore is discovered in a silver mine near a small town. The corrupt Mayor almost succeeds in seizing control of the mine.

The slapstick perilous misadventures of two clumsy construction builders who require a wooden floorboard.

In March 1914, a mining engineer named Richard Hannay tries to prevent Prussian Agents from executing a political assassination designed to trigger World War I.

Set in Glasgow, Louie, the detective son of an upright police sergeant, is about to marry. His intended is the daughter of JoJo (Connolly), a wealthy and compulsive thief who attempts a spectacular robbery. Louie is put in charge of the investigation of JoJo's latest enterprise. JoJo learns of his peril and begins an exercise in risk management.

A five-part history of British cinema in the 1960s presented by American director Richard Lester.

Le romantiche avventure del bastardo adottato Tom Jones nell'Inghilterra del XVIII secolo.

Le vicissitudini di Gloria, una casalinga nevrotica, e della sua peculiare famiglia.

A frail waif, abused by her brutal boxer father in London's seedy Limehouse District, is befriended by a sensitive Chinese immigrant with tragic consequences.

In post-World War II Britain, food rationing continues, leading a married couple to become involved in the flourishing bacon black market.

In his final - and most daring - cinematic statement, Jarman the romantic meets Jarman the iconoclast in a lush soundscape pulsing against a purely blue screen, laying bare his physical and spiritual state.

The story of Hannie Schaft of the Dutch resistance told in flashbacks how she tries to bring collaborators and criminals to justice in 1945.

Un agente segreto francese si trova coinvolto nelle politiche della guerra fredda scoprendo prima gli eventi che porteranno alla crisi dei missili di Cuba del 1962 e poi smantellando una rete di spionaggio internazionale russa in Francia.

Fired by his editor for incompetence, idiotic reporter Robert Kittredge sees a chance at redeeming himself when he accidentally uncovers a network of German spies in Washington, D.C.