A Cabinet minister is gunned down outside his home in London by a member of the Provisional IRA. Security protocols come into immediate effect but the assassin evades them and manages to get back to Belfast unscathed. The military send Captain Harry Brown - a soldier who specialises in deep cover work in hostile situations - into the Falls Road area of Belfast a place notorious for civil unrest. His mission: to infiltrate himself into the local population hunt down the assassin and kill him on his own te..
Les Dawson’s self-deprecating and enduringly bleak humour coupled with a world-weary delivery honed in the working men’s clubs of northern England made him one of Britain’s best-loved comedians.
To celebrate the 35th anniversary of England's first rural-based soap opera and one of the nation's most popular programmes, Network is proud to present some of the strongest and most memorable episodes of the last twenty years. As well as the series-defining moment if the plane crash, you can thrill again to such storylines as Kim Tate leaving Emmerdale, Louise killing Ray, the Storm and the hostage situation at Home Farm which costs Shirley Turner her life. A regular recipient of awards, Emmerdale's BAFTA..
Just released from prison reformed cat-burglar Spider Scott (Stephen Yardley - Howard's Way) is determined to stay on the straight and narrow this time. Unfortunately for Spider his body is working against him - he has an abnormal genetic predisposition towards crimes against property and there are a number of factions willing to take advantage of his skills including the British Government. Carrying out sanctioned burglaries is more dangerous than normal kind as Spider soon finds out and it's not long ..
From the acclaimed Oscar-winning director John Huston (The Maltese Falcon The Treasure of the Sierra Madre) comes a tale of lost-love and emotional paralysis in turn-of-the-century Ireland. It is based on the celebrated short story by James Joyce and stars John Huston's daughter. Oscar-winner Anjelica Huston (Prizzi's Honour The Grifters The Royal Tenebaums) as Gretta Conroy a country girl who has moved to the city of Dublin and married wealthy socialite Gabriel Conroy (Donal McCann - Out of Africa The..
An amusing satire on American habits (based on a story that appeared in 'Punch' magazine), The Ghost Goes West combines the talents of the Kordas with those of French director Rene Clair and American script writer Robert E. Sherwood.Donald Glourie (Robert Donat - The 39 Steps) shares his run-down home with the eighteenth-century ghost of Murdoch Glourie (also Robert Donat), who has been condemned to haunt the castle until he avenges an ancient insult by the rival clan MacLaggan. In order to clear his debts..
A Story to Storm Your Heart! Drama at the top of the world...where winds of the exotic past sweep men and women to strange and fascinating adventure...Sister Clodagh (Deborah Kerr) leads a group of Anglican nuns to a remote Himalayan range of mountains, there to set up a mission in an abandoned harem. This is her first position of authority and she finds both her physical and her spiritual limits being taxed as she has to maintain order and discipline in a claustrophobically hostile environment. Slowly but ..
