Anna Chancellor

West End Theatre Series: Private Lives

Anna Chancellor, Toby Stephens

Elyot Chase and Amanda Prynne are glamorous, rich, reckless…and divorced. Five years later, their love for one another is unexpectedly rekindled when they take adjoining suites of a French hotel while honeymooning with their new spouses. This chance encounter instantly reignites their passion, and they fling themselves headlong into a whirlwind of love and lust once more, without a thought for partners present or turbulences past. This Chichester Festival Theatre production of Noël Coward’s Privates Lives was filmed live at London's Gielgud Theatre.

Queen Victoria's Letters: A Monarch Unveiled

Ian Denyer

Anna Chancellor, Helena of Schleswig-Holstein

This is the story of Queen Victoria as never heard before; a psychological insight of the woman told through her own words, her experiences recounted solely through her personal diaries and letters.

Longitude

Charles Sturridge

Michael Gambon, Jeremy Irons

Parallel stories: 18th century Harrison builds the marine chronometer for safe navigation at sea; 20th century Gould is obsessed with restoring it.

Tipping the Velvet

Geoffrey Sax

Rachael Stirling, Keeley Hawes

Set in the 1890s, Tipping the Velvet tells the lesbian love affair between male impersonator music hall star Kitty Butler and Nan Astley.

The Real Jane Austen

Nicky Pattison

Anna Chancellor, Gillian Kearney

Drama-documentary exploring the life of Jane Austen. Actor Anna Chancellor, a distant relative of Jane Austen, discovers the woman behind the acclaimed novels through readings and reconstructions. Location shots of her homes in Steventon and Chawton and extracts from adaptations of her work are also featured.

Roman Road

Paul Seed

Alan Davies, John Gordon Sinclair

Vince is a writer who suddenly decides to visit his old college friend Matt (who knows more than a bit about map-reading) to join him on an expedition. They both set off to walk the Roman road from Chichester to London, but it doesn't take long for it to become apparent that they're being chased by a mystery man in a fast car. It seems Vince has something in his backpack that someone wants very badly indeed.

Don't Crash: The Documentary of the Making of the Movie of the Book of the Radio Series of 'The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy'

Grant Gee

Douglas Adams, Garth Jennings

An in-depth examination of the complete production of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (2005).

The Secret Life of Mrs. Beeton

Jon Jones

Anna Madeley, J.J. Feild

In 19th century Victorian England, Mrs. Isabella Beeton produced what became an essential book for housewives of the day. She was married at a relatively young age to Sam Beeton, a publisher of books and magazines on a variety of subjects. Not someone to sit at home in the traditional role of a housewife, Mrs. Beeton started work in her husband's business, initially as an editor correcting English but then writing some of the columns herself. It as at this point that she developed an idea for a cookbook and Mrs. Beeton's Book of Household Management was born. Her life was not an easy one however. The publishing business went bankrupt, she lost two children at a young age and had several miscarriages. She died at the age of 28.

Testament of Youth

James Kent

Alicia Vikander, Kit Harington

Testament of Youth is a powerful story of love, war and remembrance, based on the First World War memoir by Vera Brittain, which has become the classic testimony of that war from a woman’s point of view. A searing journey from youthful hopes and dreams to the edge of despair and back again, it’s a film about young love, the futility of war and how to make sense of the darkest times.

Four Weddings and a Funeral

Mike Newell

Hugh Grant, Энди Макдауэлл

Over the course of five social occasions, a committed bachelor must consider the notion that he may have discovered love.

Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris

Anthony Fabian

Lucas Bravo, Philippe Bertin

A 1950s London cleaning lady falls in love with an haute couture dress by Christian Dior and decides to gamble everything for the sake of this folly.

The Dreamers

Bernardo Bertolucci

Michael Pitt, Ева Грин

When Isabelle and Theo invite Matthew to stay with them, what begins as a casual friendship ripens into a sensual voyage of discovery and desire in which nothing is off limits and everything is possible.

Mrs Harris Goes to Paris

Anthony Fabian

Lesley Manville, Isabelle Huppert

A 1950s London cleaning lady falls in love with an haute couture dress by Christian Dior and decides to gamble everything for the sake of this folly.

Making of 'The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy'

Garth Jennings, Martin Freeman

A documentary about the making of 'Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy' (2005)

This Beautiful Fantastic

Simon Aboud

Jessica Brown Findlay, Tom Wilkinson

Set against the backdrop of a beautiful garden in the heart of London, this contemporary fairy tale revolves around the unlikely friendship between a reclusive young woman and a cantankerous old widower. Bella Brown is a beautifully quirky young woman who dreams of writing and illustrating a successful children’s book. After she is forced by her landlord to deal with her neglected garden or face eviction, she meets her match, nemesis, and unlikely mentor in Alfie Stephenson, a grumpy, loveless, old man who lives next door who happens to be an amazing horticulturalist.

Doc Martin and the Legend of the Cloutie

Ben Bolt

Martin Clunes, Mark Heap

Doctor Bamford has had enough of village life and is desperate for some distance from inquisitive Cornish neighbours. When the local estate agent shows him Tregunnt Farm # derelict and miles from anywhere # it's love at first sight. But the Bowden family from London also have their eye on the property with a view to developing the surrounding land into ugly holiday cottages. After being gazumped, the Doc decides to try and spook the family into leaving by pretending to be the Beast of Bodmin.