Bbc Tv Movies

Dame Maggie Smith stars in the 1967 screen version of Franco Zeffirelli's exuberant National Theatre production of Shakespeare's romantic comedy, in...

A TV adaptation of Roald Dahl's classic book.

The future. Criminals serve prison sentences before they commit their crimes. Prisons are on new planets that are being colonised. After serving...

An expedition sets out to discover what has happened to a lost colony on a distant planet. Amongst the scientists is a teenager raised to be a kind...

Britain in the mid-1990s: a divided, violent nation where civil disorder and urban terrorism are on the increase. Scotland Yard detective Commander...

A film tycoon hires the wrong writer. Instead of getting the writer of Lawrence of Arabia, he gets someone whose only credits are two episodes of...

10/10/88 in London England at the Hammersmith Odeon

A stop-motion adaptation of the 1981 novel by geologist Dougal Dixon of the same name, which explores the speculative paths of evolution of modern...

The Future. Robot labour and free energy make the creation of goods easy and automatic. Now people are continually supplied with more things than...

BBC version of Brecht's epic account of Galileo's persecution for his 'heretical' idea that the earth moved around the sun.

An authored film by Margaret Drabble about the rise of the suburbs and the failure of city planning.

A baby is snatched from outside a launderette. The manageress and customers try to work out who was responsible. Part of the Black and Blue series of...

A deadly virus threatens the population, but a vaccine has been developed. However, it has a devastating side-effect. All is not well in the family...

In a foreign port two boys come to a fisherman saying they are refugees from a country where a military take-over has organised a gigantic League of...

"There's always a sale to be made if you're willing to work hard enough." Richard is a top salesman and is content. His wife, however, has had enough.

Dr Max Harrow is awakened from a re-current nightmare in which he is pursued by a barbaric accusing figures, to find a tramp collapsed on his...

BBC TV movie about the life of the late Francesco Forgione, widely known as Padre Pio.

Earth is no more, destroyed by nuclear war; but itinerant handyman Bert Foster, wandering the canals of Mars, is possessed by a restlessness for a...

Kate and Deeley are married and live in the country. They are joined by Kate's friend, Anna, and talk of the past. Although it is a past they have...

With her boss unexpectedly absent. Helen, his secretary takes charge.