Walter Sparrow

Smith and Jones: The Home-Made Xmas Video

John Kilby

Griff Rhys Jones, Mel Smith

Mel Smith and Griff Rhys Jone star in festive special about a family with a video camera. Christmas usually means a little over-indulgence, but to the Aldershot family it is an orgy of hitherto uncharted proportions.

Edna: The Inebriate Woman

Ted Kotcheff

Patricia Hayes, Barbara Jefford

A British play about homelessness by Jeremy Sandford, writer of "Cathy Come Home", first broadcast as a BBC Play For Today. It details the deterioration of Edna, a homeless alcoholic and was made at a time when vagrancy was still a criminal offence.

Dirtysomething

Carl Prechezer

Rachel Weisz, Paul Reynolds

Dirtysomething centres around young lovers Becca and Dog, an older fellow traveller, sage Larry, and is about the pitfalls of giving up the alternative 'crustie' liftestyle of no fixed abode and travelling to settle down.

Memento Mori

Jack Clayton

Maggie Smith, Michael Hordern

Several elderly friends and acquaintances in 1950s London are disturbed to receive mysterious telephone calls predicting their impending deaths...

The Secret Garden

Agnieszka Holland

Kate Maberly, Heydon Prowse

A young British girl born and reared in India loses her neglectful parents in an earthquake. She is returned to England to live at her uncle's castle. Her uncle is very distant due to the loss of his wife ten years before. Neglected once again, she begins exploring the estate and discovers a garden that has been locked and neglected. Aided by one of the servants' boys, she begins restoring the garden, and eventually discovers some other secrets of the manor.

Die Gentlemen bitten zur Kasse

John Olden, Claus Peter Witt

Horst Tappert, Kai Fischer

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.

Let Him Have It

Peter Medak

Christopher Eccleston, Paul Reynolds

In 1950s England, slow-witted Derek Bentley falls in with a group of petty criminals led by Chris Craig, a teenager with a fondness for American gangster films. Chris and Derek's friendship leads to their involvement in the true case which would forever shake England's belief in capital punishment.

EverAfter

Andy Tennant

Drew Barrymore, Anjelica Huston

Orphaned as a child, Danielle is treated like a servant by her wicked stepmother and two stepsisters. When she stumbles onto Prince Henry, who's fleeing an arranged marriage, the two inspire each other to resolve their respective troubles.

I Hired a Contract Killer

Aki Kaurismäki

Jean-Pierre Léaud, Margi Clarke

After losing his job and realizing that he is alone in the world, a businessman opts to voluntarily end his life. Lacking courage, he hires a contract killer to do the job. Then, while awaiting his demise, he meets a woman and promptly falls in love.

Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves

Kevin Reynolds

Kevin Costner, Morgan Freeman

When the dastardly Sheriff of Nottingham murders Robin's father, the legendary archer vows vengeance. To accomplish his mission, Robin joins forces with a band of exiled villagers (and comely Maid Marian), and together they battle to end the evil sheriff's reign of terror.

Simon Magus

Ben Hopkins

Noah Taylor, Stuart Townsend

Simon is an outcast from his Jewish community because he claims that the devil talks to him and he has the ability to put curses on crops. When Dovid asks the 'Squire' to sell him some land so he can build a railway station, a ruthless businessman from the neighbouring gentile community uses Simon to find out who wants to buy the land so he can 'persuade' him otherwise

Young Sherlock Holmes

Barry Levinson

Nicholas Rowe, Alan Cox

Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson meet as boys in an English Boarding school. Holmes is known for his deductive ability even as a youth, amazing his classmates with his abilities. When they discover a plot to murder a series of British business men by an Egyptian cult, they move to stop it.

Now and Then

Lesli Linka Glatter

Christina Ricci, Rosie O'Donnell

Waxing nostalgic about the bittersweet passage from childhood to puberty, four childhood girlfriends — Teeny, Chrissy, Samantha and Roberta — recall the magical summer of 1970. During their walk down memory lane, they reconcile experiences with boys, secrets, bullies and more.

The Accidental Tourist

Lawrence Kasdan

William Hurt, Kathleen Turner

After the death of his son, travel writer Macon Leary seems to be sleep walking through life. Macon's wife is having similar problems. They separate, and Macon meets a strange, outgoing woman who brings him 'back down to earth', but his wife soon thinks their marriage is still worth another try.

Prometheus

Tony Harrison

Michael Feast, Walter Sparrow

Tony Harrison's poetic essay on the working class - in particular the British miners -, its struggles, its dreams and its icononography - at the very end of the 20th century, as interpreted through the myth of Prometheus.