A seriously ill schoolteacher becomes dependent on a miracle drug that begins to affect his sanity
A grizzled Australian painter decides to jolt his stale creativity by moving to a remote island on the Great Barrier Reef, where he takes on an alluring, uninhibited young woman as his muse
This childrens fantasy tells the story of a 12 year old boy who discovers a complex underwater world where young children are held prisoner by an evil shark and an eel
A general of the old school, who believes strongly in his own honour and sense of duty, must come to terms with a crime he commited years earlier, during the Irish War for Independence in 1921
TVs great comedy duo, Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz, star in this madcap comedy about a research chemist whose dedicated pursuit of a new pesticide wreaks havoc on his marriage
A cop pursues the Mob for revenge as well as personal honor
In 1787, American medical student Hugh Tallant and British convicts are sent from London to New South Wales on a ship commanded by the evil Captain Gilbert
Wilfred of Ivanhoe, a worthy and noble knight, the champion of justice returns to England after the holy wars He finds England under the reign of Prince John and his henchmen and finds himself being involved in the
A vain businessman puts a strain on happy marriage to a rich, beautiful socialite by allowing himself to be seduced by a former girlfriend
A year after Sheila is killed in a hit and run, her wealthy husband invites a group of friends to spend a week on his yacht playing a scavenger hunt mystery game The game turns out to be all too real and all too de
In post WW2 Berlin, when travel to the East was still possible, the sister of a British officer from West Berlin is abducted by Communist agents and taken into the Soviet sector where her eventual rescue is arrange
After a brutish, hedonistic Marquis marries a pretty young Clarissa to act as a brood sow, he begins an affair with her friend who plots to take her place
After stealing a gangsters money and his girlfriend, a doctor heads for a small village in Mexico
John Sawyer, once an eminent barrister, has slid into a life of cynicism and drunkenness since his wife left him When his daughters boyfriend is accused of murder, Sawyer decides to try to pull himself together and
A New York City advertising executive goes on the run after being mistaken for a government agent by a group of foreign spies, and falls for a woman whose loyalties he begins to doubt
Sherlock Holmes investigates the murders commited by Jack the Ripper and discovers a conspiracy to protect the killer
A noblewoman begins to lead a dangerous double life in order to alleviate her boredom
A stern father and lenient mother try to deal with the ups and downs of their four childrens lives in working class Bolton
A female school teacher is implicated in a murder in a Sicilian town only hours after her arrival The dead man insulted her on the bus on the way into town As the mystery unfolds, it becomes clear that the town is
A mystery novelist sends a series of weird audiotapes to his publisher On the first tape, the author boasts that the publisher wont be able to discern if the story he narrates is the history of an imminent murder o
Based on an actual event The Kidnap Syndicate is the story of two boys, one from a rich family and the other from a poor family, who are kidnapped and held for ransom
When terrorists take over two oil rigs, and threaten to blow them up if their demands are not met, an eccentric anti terrorism expert volunteers his unique commando unit to stop them
Beautiful Mother of five Jo leaves the banality of her marriage to second husband Giles to wed her passionate screenwriter lover, Jake Armitage As suspicions of Husband Jakes philandering grows, Jos sanity spirals
At an exclusive boys school, a new gym teacher is drawn into a feud between two older instructors, and he discovers that everything at the school is not quite as staid, tranquil and harmless as it seems
After being discredited as a coward, a 19th century seaman lives for only one purpose to redeem himself
An elderly couple move into an old, supposedly haunted abandoned house A young girl comes to live with the pair as a companion for the wife However, soon the girl is possessed by the spirit of another girl, a wealt
A young Viking prince strives to become a knight in King Arthurs Court and restore his exiled father to his rightful throne
A provincial doctors wifes romantic illusions about life and social status lead her to betray her naive husband, take on lovers, and run up ruinous debts
On the anniversary of her fathers death, an Indian princess Madhur Jaffrey celebrates his memory in her London apartment by having tea and showing a selection of home movies to her guest, her fathers old tutor Cyri
A concert pianist with amnesia fights to regain her memory
The death of Marcus Aurelius leads to a succession crisis, in which the deceased emperors son, Commodus, demonstrates that he is unwilling to let anything undermine his claim to the Roman Empire
An 1840s slaveowner trains one of his slaves to be a bare knuckle fighter
Comedian Tommy Trinder plays it straight in this tribute to the wartime AFS Auxiliary Fire Service, the dedicated band who kept the fires of London under control during the blitz and fire bombings of WWII
Two stories In the first, a sea captain has to conceal a mans presence aboard ship from his crew In the second, a Wild West lawman has to deal with a troublemaker bent on bloodshed before he can concentrate on matr
A young pilot in the German air force of 1918, disliked as lower class and unchivalrous, tries ambitiously to earn the medal offered for 20 kills
German commander Hauptmann Stransky places a squad in extreme danger after Sergeant Rolf Steiner refuses to lie for him
Robber Roy King loses his wife, Alicia, to revolutionary Montero Despite their rivalry they collaborate in an attempt to rob the Mexican government of one million dollars
An Edinburgh professor and assorted colleagues follow an explorers trail down an extinct Icelandic volcano to the earths center
During the thirteenth century, the shy Mongol boy Temujin Carlo Cura becomes the fearless leader Genghis Khan Omar Sharif, who unites all Mongol tribes and conquers most of Asia, Europe, and the Middle East
Interpol investigates the freelance killings of drug and porn peddlers
A passion for slaughter keeps Box in line at the local abattoir where he can quench his thirst for blood When Nathan, a young parolee arrives in town, Box is instructed to take him under his wing, and soon the two
Based on real life events that led to tragic deaths of Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria and his lover Baroness Mary Vetsera
After discovering the dead body of her teenage daughters lover, a housewife takes desperate measures to protect her family from scandal
The growing ambition of Julius Caesar is a source of major concern to his close friend Brutus Cassius persuades him to participate in his plot to assassinate Caesar but they have both sorely underestimated Mark Ant
A chronicle of Oscar Wildes libel suit against the Marquis of Queensberry and the tragic turn his life takes because of it
An outcast, alcoholic Boston lawyer sees the chance to salvage his career and self respect by taking a medical malpractice case to trial rather than settling
This drama set during the 1950s on a British ruled Caribbean island deals with local politics, interracial relationships, social inequality, racism, adultery, and murder
When the brilliant but unorthodox scientist Dr Victor Frankenstein rejects the artificial man that he has created, the Creature escapes and later swears revenge