Movies

The musician Orpheus descends to Hades to bring back his dead wife, Eurydice.

After 30 years apart, a man is reunited with his mother, who resides on a psychiatric ward.

Friends arrange a dinner party to introduce two single friends, Rita and Piers, neither of whom are particularly keen.

In World War II England, a woman is approached by a man claiming to work as an intelligence agent who has found out her lover is a spy. He promises...

The BBC delves into its archives to discover British acting greats as they take their first tentative steps on the road to success. Long before they...

A made for TV documentary about the creation of Paul Simon and Derek Walcott's controversial and ultimately flop of a musical, "The Capeman"....

A portrait of the 30 year relationship between Vivien Leigh and Laurence Olivier. With comments by their friends and family.

Theseus, with help from a beautiful princess, versus the savage Minotaur, half-man half-bull.

The romantic and comic adventures of a group of Englishmen in France, on a course to learn the language.

In 1920s Ireland, an elderly couple reside over a tired country estate. Living with them are their high-spirited niece, their Oxford student nephew,...

Clara Bell is a busy Euro MP with a husband and child at home and a high powered career - but on a trip to Paris her ordered existence is overturned...

Drama about infamous aristocrat Lord Lucan, who mysteriously disappeared in 1974 after being accused of murdering his children's nanny.

Mistaken identity, unrequited love, and the supernatural are combined in Shakespeare's classic set in the woods of Greece on a moonlit night.

A movie in three acts following three couples who, over three years, each host a Christmas party. The camera stays in the kitchen and we are treated...

Harold Pinter play starring Michael Gambon. 'Your language is forbidden. It is dead. No one is allowed to speak your language. Your language no...

Hamm is blind and unable to stand; Clov, his servant, is unable to sit; Nagg and Nell are his father and mother, who are legless and live in...

A group of friends and relations gather at a country estate to see the first performance of an experimental play written and staged by the young man...

A bomb-throwing incident in 1905 sets off a train of events which ends in a murder and a suicide.

Helene Alving leads an outwardly contented life. On the eve of the 10th anniversary of her husband's death, she is about to open an orphanage as a...