Charles Simon

Sir Norbert Smith, a Life

Geoff Posner

Harry Enfield, Melvyn Bragg

a spoof TV documentary film (a "mockumentary") charting the life and career of the fictitious British actor Sir Norbert Smith.

Endgame

Conor McPherson

Michael Gambon, David Thewlis

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 dustbins. Together they live in a room with two windows, but there may be nothing at all outside.

Night Flight

Nicholas Renton

Christopher Plummer, Edward Woodward

Night Flight was a powerful drama set in 1943 and the present telling the story of two World War II veterans. Harry Peters piloted a Lancaster bomber at just 20. His now middle-class world is thrown into disarray when former comrade Vic Green lands. A tale of secrets, scandal and corruption based on ghosts as yet not laid to rest.

Jake's Journey

Hal Ashby

Graham Chapman, Peter Cook

A normal teenager is transported to a Monty Pythonesque medieval fantasy land where an odd, adamant knight takes him on a quest.

Topsy-Turvy

Mike Leigh

Jim Broadbent, Allan Corduner

After their production "Princess Ida" meets with less-than-stunning reviews, the relationship between Gilbert and Sullivan is strained to breaking. Their friends and associates attempt to get the two to work together again, which opens the way to "The Mikado," one of the duo's greatest successes.

Shadowlands

Richard Attenborough

Anthony Hopkins, Debra Winger

C.S. Lewis, a world-renowned writer and professor, leads a passionless life until he meets spirited poet Joy Gresham.

O Fat White Woman

Philip Saville

Maureen Pryor, Peter Jeffrey

The wife of a public school head becomes gradually aware that her husband has been physically abusing his pupils. Written by the master of late-middle-age morality plays, William Trevor.

The Darwin Adventure

Jack Couffer

Nicholas Clay, Susan Macready

The story of Charles Darwin's journey on The Beagle.

Stiff Upper Lips

Gary Sinyor

Georgina Cates, Peter Ustinov

Stiff Upper Lips is a broad parody of British period films, especially the lavish Merchant-Ivory productions of the 'eighties and early 'nineties. Although it specifically targets A Room with a View, Chariots of Fire, Maurice, A Passage to India, and many other films, in a more general way Stiff Upper Lips satirises popular perceptions of certain Edwardian traits: propriety, sexual repression, xenophobia, and class snobbery.

Sherlock Holmes

George Anton

Kevin Glaser, Charles Simon

Sherlock Holmes is called upon to deal with a serial killer.

Codename: Kyril

Ian Sharp

Ian Charleson, Edward Woodward

At the height of the cold war, a known Russian spy ("Kyril") is sent to the UK under falsely reported pretenses in order to hopefully indirectly spark an unknown mole in the KGB to reveal himself; the endeavor eventually has repercussions which none of the initial players could have predicted.

Journey to Knock

John Hurt, David Thewlis

Journey to Knock humourously follows three disabled men on their pilgrimage from the North of England to Knock shrine in Co. Mayo.