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Lost (Film)
British thriller starring David Farrar as Detective Inspector Craig of Scotland Yard, who desperately tries to uncover the whereabouts of the kidnapped baby of American diplomat Lee Cochrane and his wife Sue.
Director: Guy Green
Starring: David Farrar, David Knight, Julia Arnall, Anthony Oliver, Thora Hird, Eleanor Summerfield
(1955, PG, 3 Star)
12:45
Carrington V.C. (Film)
Anthony Asquith's vivid and subtle courtroom drama stars David Niven as the eponymous officer desperate for money owed him by the army, and badgered by his neurotic wife Valerie. When WRAC officer Alison Graham goes to Niven's quarters to warn him about a plot to set him up, Carrington finds himself charged with misappropriating army funds, being absent without leave and improperly entertaining a WRAC in his room.
Director: Anthony Asquith
Starring: David Niven, Margaret Leighton, Noelle Middleton, Allan Cuthbertson, Victor Maddern, Raymond Francis
(Black and White, Subtitles, Audio Described, 1954, PG, 3 Star)
14:50
The Fighting Kentuckian (Film)
John Wayne and Oliver Hardy star as discharged soldiers from a Kentuckian army regiment who take the side of French settlers, exiled from their homeland after Napoleon's defeat and granted land in Alabama. On the other side is ruthless land-grabber Grant Withers, with the love interest for Wayne coming from Vera Ralston, as the daughter of one of the French ex-generals in George Waggner's all-action western.
Director: George Waggner
Starring: John Wayne, Vera Ralston, Philip Dorn, Oliver Hardy, Marie Windsor, John Howard
(Black and White, Subtitles, 1949, U, 3 Star)
16:45
Terry Gilliam Interview (Entertainment)
Terry Gilliam, the visionary director of Brazil, Time Bandits and of the new release The Imaginarium of Dr Parnassus, talks about his personal approach to making films.
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16:55
The Way We Were (Film)
All-American boy Hubbell falls for political activist Katie - his exact opposite - at their 1930s college. The romance lasts for years, but Katie's ideals begin to take their toll. Nostalgic weepie with a memorable, Oscar-winning theme song.
Director: Sydney Pollack
Starring: Barbra Streisand, Robert Redford, Bradford Dillman, Lois Chiles, Patrick O'Neal, Viveca Lindfors
(Widescreen, Subtitles, Audio Described, 1973, PG, 4 Star)
19:15
Bedazzled (Film)
Faustian comedy about the mishaps that occur when the devil grants seven wishes to a lovesick divorcee in return for his soul. The Princess of Darkness approaches an office worker harbouring a crush on a colleague with an offer to help in his failing advances. But as the young man is transformed into a plethora of characters, including a rock star and the US president, not one of his personas is able to get the girl.
Director: Harold Ramis
Starring: Brendan Fraser, Elizabeth Hurley, Frances O'Connor, Miriam Shor, Orlando Jones
(Widescreen, 2000, 12, 3 Star)
21:00
Clear and Present Danger (Film)
Jack Ryan takes matters into his own hands when a rogue CIA agent begins covert action in Colombia. To save the lives of US operatives, he throws himself into a secret war of which he knows nothing, and a conflict with his own President.
Director: Phillip Noyce
Starring: Harrison Ford, Willem Dafoe, Anne Archer, Joaquim de Almeida, Henry Czerny, Harris Yulin
(Widescreen, Subtitles, Audio Described, 1994, 12, 3 Star)
23:40
The Tree of Wooden Clogs (Film)
Ermanno Olmi's Cannes-winning drama is set in rural Italy at the end of the 19th century, centred on four families of peasants who live in the same farm complex. As the seasons change, the film simply follows their toil, lives and traditions with the central motif the carving of a child's clog from a felled poplar tree. Using a completely amateur cast drawn from rural farms, Olmi's contemplative, elegiac film is a beautifully shot record of a vanished way of life.
Director: Ermanno Olmi
Starring: Luigi Ornaghi, Francesca Moriggi, Omar Brignoli, Antonio Ferrari, Teresa Brescianini, Giuseppe Brignoli
(Subtitles, Subtitled, In Italian with English Subtitles, 1978, 12, 4 Star)
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11:00
Only Yesterday (Film)
From Japan's Studio Ghibli comes this animation from Hayao Miyazaki and Isao Takahata. Put-upon office worker Taeko suddenly recalls how in 1966, when visiting her sister to help harvest the saffron flowers, she fell for a handsome young farmer but turned him down for the lure of the big city. In her daydream, she wonders what life could have been and what he's doing now.
Director: Isao Takahata
Starring: Miki Imai, ToshirĂ´ Yanagiba, Youko Honna
(Widescreen, Subtitles, Subtitled, In Japanese with English Subtitles, 1991, PG, 4 Star)
13:25
Terry Gilliam Interview (Entertainment)
Terry Gilliam, the visionary director of Brazil, Time Bandits and of the new release The Imaginarium of Dr Parnassus, talks about his personal approach to making films.
(Repeat)
13:35
The Spy in Black (Film)
Michael Powell's classic espionage thriller stars Conrad Veidt as Captain Hardt, a First World War German submarine commander-turned-spy sent to the Orkneys, where he is foiled by a double agent Jill Blacklock.
Director: Michael Powell
Starring: Conrad Veidt, Sebastian Shaw, Valerie Hobson, Marius Goring, June Duprez, Athole Stewart
(Black and White, Subtitles, 1939, U, 4 Star)
15:15
The Human Jungle (Film)
Gary Merrill plays police captain John Danforth, who has just passed his bar exams and is about to leave the force when he's asked to take on one last assignment, the toughest of his career. The Heights district is almost lawless, with a demoralised force fighting a tide of crime. Danforth soon realises the enormity of his task when a murder investigation sees him obstructed by both sides, but he cracks the case and whips his men into shape in Joseph M Newman's tough crime thriller.
Director: Joseph M. Newman
Starring: Gary Merrill, Jan Sterling, Regis Toomey, Lamont Johnson, Patrick Waltz, Chuck Connors
(Black and White, 1954, 12, 3 Star)
16:50
Escape to Athena (Film)
George P Cosmatos' wartime thriller is set on an unnamed Greek island where German officer Otto Hecht runs a slack PoW camp where prisoners include Stefanie Powers, David Niven, Richard Roundtree, Sonny Bono and Elliott Gould. The prisoners are charged with identifying and gathering the island's antique treasures for shipment to Germany, but when they come across an invaluable collection, there's a chance to line their own pockets - if they can involve Hecht in their scheme and avoid the attentions of the local upright SS officer. An enjoyable caper movie, very much like Kelly's Heroes but with better weather, the film also stars Telly Savalas as a partisan who offers to help the group, and Claudia Cardinale as a local brothel owner who gets caught up in the plan. Edited for violence and language.
Director: George P. Cosmatos
Starring: Roger Moore, Telly Savalas, David Niven, Stefanie Powers, Claudia Cardinale, Richard Roundtree
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 1979, PG, 3 Star)
19:10
Just Married (Film)
In Shawn Levy's romantic comedy, Ashton Kutcher and Brittany Murphy play Tom Leezak and Sarah McNerney, a chalk-and-cheese couple who fall in love and marry. Now, all they need for the union to work is to survive both families disapproval of the match, deal with the well-meaning friends who meddle too much and, on their honeymoon, suffer a selection of Europe's worst accommodation. Edited for language.
Director: Shawn Levy
Starring: Ashton Kutcher, Brittany Murphy, Christian Kane, David Moscow, Monet Mazur, David Rasche
(2003, 12, 2 Star)
21:00
Judge Dredd (Film)
Judge Dredd first appeared in 1977 in the British comic book 2000 AD. This first, and only, screen incarnation stars Sylvester Stallone as THE LAW in the dystopian Megacity. Dredd and his colleague Judge Hershey dispense instant justice on the streets until he's found guilty of murdering a TV newsman. He's sent to Aspen Prison Colony, but his authority is badly missed when ex-Judge Rico begins wreaking havoc in Megacity for another megalomaniac Judge's own ends. Of course Dredd is innocent, framed by Rico, and tries to get free to rid Megacity of more scum. Danny Cannon's film sticks closely to the comic book ethos, with a knowing camp humour and the violence suggested rather than explicit. Rob Schneider stars as comic relief Fergie, one of Dredd's informants, while Jurgen Prochnow and Max von Sydow bring gravitas as senior Judges Griffin and Fargo.
Director: Danny Cannon
Starring: Sylvester Stallone, Diane Lane, Armand Assante, Rob Schneider, JĂĽrgen Prochnow, Max von Sydow
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 1994, 15, 3 Star)
22:50
Vera Drake (Film)
Mike Leigh's Oscar-nominated and BAFTA Award-winning film stars Imelda Staunton in the title role as a working class wife and mother in post-war London who makes ends meet by cleaning for the upper-class as well as caring for her elderly mother and invalid neighbour. But she also helps girls "in trouble", from the daughters of her employers to the local women who cannot afford another mouth to feed. Although abortion is illegal, Vera sees it as a service rather than a money-making venture and her shock when one of her abortions goes wrong and she is arrested is believably palpable. With a supporting cast including Jim Broadbent, Phil Davis and Heather Craney, this is one of Leigh's most stunning, moving films.
Director: Mike Leigh
Starring: Imelda Staunton, Richard Graham, Eddie Marsan, Anna Keaveney, Alex Kelly, Daniel Mays
(Subtitles, 2004, 12, 3 Star)
01:15
Dying Young (Film)
After discovering that her boyfriend is cheating on her, blue-collar girl Hilary applies for a job helping rich leukemia victim Victor. His dad wants a trained nurse, but Victor likes her spirit, hires her and then starts falling for her.
Director: Joel Schumacher
Starring: Julia Roberts, Campbell Scott, Vincent D'Onofrio, Colleen Dewhurst, David Selby, Ellen Burstyn
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 1991, 15, 3 Star)
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11:00
Beware, My Lovely (Film)
Ida Lupino and Robert Ryan star in Harry Horner's gripping psychological thriller. Lupino plays Helen Gordon, a young widow who runs a boarding house. She hires handyman Howard Wilton to maintain the property, little realising he is mentally ill and fixated on her. And by the time she realises the danger, Wilton has managed to make her a prisoner in her own home.
Director: Harry Horner
Starring: Ida Lupino, Robert Ryan, Taylor Holmes, Barbara Whiting, James Willmas, O.Z. Whitehead
(Black and White, Subtitles, 1952, U, 3 Star)
12:30
Lost (Film)
British thriller starring David Farrar as Detective Inspector Craig of Scotland Yard, who desperately tries to uncover the whereabouts of the kidnapped baby of American diplomat Lee Cochrane and his wife Sue.
Director: Guy Green
Starring: David Farrar, David Knight, Julia Arnall, Anthony Oliver, Thora Hird, Eleanor Summerfield
(Subtitles, 1955, PG, 3 Star)
14:15
All About Eve (Film)
Bette Davis stars in Joseph Mankiewicz's classic drama as Margo Channing, acid-tongued star of the stage who takes the young, innocent, mousey Eve Harrington under her wing. But Margo's protégé repays her kindness by quietly betraying her at every turn, until she has climbed the dizzy heights once occupied by the star. George Sanders stars as the acerbic critic Addison De Witt, with Hugh Marlowe as Margo's writer Lloyd Richards and Gary Merrill as her lover Bill Sampson. The film won six Oscars, including Best Picture and Best Director but Davis and Baxter were both nominated as Best Actress and the split vote meant neither won.
Director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Starring: Bette Davis, Anne Baxter, George Sanders, Celeste Holm, Gary Merrill, Hugh Marlowe
(Black and White, Subtitles, 1950, U, 4 Star)
16:55
Fun in Acapulco (Film)
Elvis Presley plays Mike Windgren, a former trapeze artist who's lost his nerve since dropping his partner. Working as a lifeguard and entertainer at an Acapulco resort, he falls for the social director Margarita Dauphine who helps him overcome his fear of heights. Classic tunes in Richard Thorpe's film include the title song, Bossa Nova Baby, and Marguerita, and there's an early un-credited appearance by Teri Garr.
Director: Richard Thorpe
Starring: Elvis Presley, Ursula Andress, Elsa Cárdenas, Paul Lukas, Larry Domasin, Alejandro Rey
(1963, PG, 3 Star)
18:50
Secondhand Lions (Film)
Tim McCanlies' affectionate coming-of-age drama stars Haley Joel Osment as Walter, a quiet, studious lad who suddenly finds himself left for the summer with his eccentric grand-uncles in the middle of nowhere, Texas. But as he hears tales about their adventurous past, they find new exploits beckon and his horizons are considerably widened. Edited for content.
Director: Tim McCanlies
Starring: Michael Caine, Robert Duvall, Haley Joel Osment, Kyra Sedgwick, Nicky Katt, Josh Lucas
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 2003, 12, 4 Star)
21:00
The Transporter (Film)
Jason Statham plays an ex-Special Forces officer now living in France with a new career - he will, for the right amount, take anything anywhere. His three rules are: no changes to the plan; no real names; no opening of the package ... until one package starts moving.
Director: Cory Yuen, Louis Leterrier
Starring: Jason Statham, Qi Shu, Matt Schulze, François Berléand, Ric Young, Doug Rand
(Subtitles, 2002, 15, 3 Star)
22:45
Hero (Film)
Zhang Yimou's stunning all-action film is set during the time of China's warring states, before the country was unified. To the court of the King of Qin, who seeks to rule the united country, comes Nameless, who claims to have killed three deadly assassins who were all determined to kill the King. As Nameless recounts his exploits in flashback, each time the wily King responds with his version. Is Nameless a true servant of Qin or does he have a secret agenda? Hero was more expensive than Crouching Tiger..., which is reflected on screen, with breath-taking special effects and wire-work coupled with a gripping, Rashomon -like story that intrigues to the last reel.
Director: Yimou Zhang
Starring: Jet Li, Tony Leung Chiu-Wai, Maggie Cheung, Ziyi Zhang, Daoming Chen, Donnie Yen
(Subtitles, Subtitled, In Mandarin with English Subtitles, Widescreen, 2002, 12, 4 Star)
00:40
Talk To Her (Film)
Pedro AlmodĂłvar's Oscar-winning film stars Javier Cámara as a male nurse fixated by a dance student, and DarĂo Grandinetti as Marco, a journalist who interviews a bullfighter on the eve of a fight. When the two women are separately injured and left in a coma, the two men meet and their mutual concerns for each of their "patients" sees them form a bond as they care for two women who cannot respond to their affection.
Starring: Javier Cámara, DarĂo Grandinetti, Leonor Watling, Rosario Flores, Geraldine Chaplin, Mariola Fuentes
(Subtitles, Subtitled, In Spanish with English Subtitles, 2002, 15, 4 Star)
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11:00
Eu, Tu, Eles (Film)
Based on a true story, Me You Them is a bittersweet Brazilian romantic comedy that explores the life and loves of Darlene, an independent-minded woman from north-east Brazil. Returning to her home town, Darlene finds that her mother has died and while in mourning she accepts a proposal of marriage. Not content with just one husband, however, in time she finds two other men who move into the house and can fulfil her in ways her first husband Osias is unable to. While life in the poor and arid village may be hard, comedy and romance are never far away as Darlene is forced to juggle the pride, desire, jealousy and tolerance of her three husbands.
Director: Andrucha Waddington
Starring: Regina Casé, Lima Duarte, Stenio Garcia, Luiz Carlos Vasconcelos, Nilda Spencer, Diogo Lopes
(Subtitles, Subtitled, In Portuguese with English Subtitles, Widescreen, 2000, PG, 4 Star)
13:05
Millions Like Us (Film)
Vintage British drama, directed by Sidney Gilliat and Frank Launder, about the fortunes of a family who are split up during World War II, concentrating on Celia Crowson, who gives up her middle-class life to work in a munitions factory and who falls in love with airman Fred Blake. And to show the British pluck, Basil Radford and Naunton Wayne reprise Charters and Caldicott from Hitchcock's The Lady Vanishes.
Director: Frank Launder, Sidney Gilliat
Starring: Patricia Roc, Gordon Jackson, Anna Crawford, Basil Radford, Naunton Wayne, Moore Marriott
(Black and White, Subtitles, 1943, U, 3 Star)
15:05
Operation Amsterdam (Film)
Fast-moving, fact-based World War II thriller starring Tony Britton as Major Dillon, a British army officer leading a dangerous mission to Amsterdam in 1940 to prevent valuable industrial diamonds falling into the hands of the invading Germans.
Director: Michael McCarthy
Starring: Peter Finch, Eva Bartok, Tony Britton, Alexander Knox, Malcolm Keen, Christopher Rhodes
(Black and White, Subtitles, 1960, U, 2 Star)
17:10
Doctor in Distress (Film)
Under the steady hand of Ralph Thomas, who directed the other Doctor... films, Dr Simon Sparrow returns to St Swithins as an experienced doctor but he still has a roving eye for the ladies, which soon settles on Delia Mallory. Once again, Sir Lancelot Spratt is in residence, but this time as a patient who's fallen for physiotherapist Iris. Will Sparrow's tips help him win her hand? The usual misunderstandings and jokes are all in place in this superior addition to the British comedy canon.
Director: Ralph L. Thomas
Starring: Dirk Bogarde, Samantha Eggar, James Robertson-Justice, Mylene Demongeot, Donald Houston, Barbara Murray
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 1963, PG, 3 Star)
19:10
The Beverly Hillbillies (Film)
Based on the classic TV series, Jim Varney heads up the Clampett family as Jed, who finds oil on his Arkansas farm. Deciding that his daughter Elly May needs to become a 'lady', the family move to Beverly Hills, where their boondock ways are forgiven on account of their wealth. But when widower Jed decides to re-marry, there's no shortage of candidates, as Jed's scheming bank manager Milburn Drysdale and his assistant, Miss Hathaway, try to make sure their own chosen candidate is selected. Penelope Spheeris's film, following her success with Wayne's World, continues in the same comic vein, and fans of the TV series should look out for a cameo role from Buddy Ebson, the original Jed Clampett.
Director: Penelope Spheeris
Starring: Jim Varney, Diedrich Bader, Erika Eleniak, Cloris Leachman, Lily Tomlin, Lea Thompson
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 1993, PG, 2 Star)
21:00
World Trade Center (Film)
Oliver Stone's dramatic take on the events of 9/11, based on a true story, features two New York Port Authority cops, John McLoughlin and Will Jimeno. Two of the first people to enter the World Trade Center after the plane hit the South Tower, they are trapped in the rubble when it collapses. Refusing to give up hope, they fight for survival while, in the outside world, their wives Donna and Allison wait for any news of their plight.
Director: Oliver Stone
Starring: Nicolas Cage, Maria Bello, Connor Paolo, Anthony Piccininni, Alexa Gerasimovich, Morgan Flynn, Michael Pena, Armando Riesco
(Editor's Choice, Widescreen, Subtitles, 2006, 12, 3 Star)
23:25
The Watcher (Film)
James Spader stars as burnt-out FBI agent Joel Campbell, whose attempts to catch a serial killer terrifying Los Angeles end in failure. Moving to Chicago, he seeks psychiatric help from Dr Polly Beilman but then finds his past has come back to haunt him. The killer, David Allen Griffin, has tired of life in the sun and followed him to the Windy City. He taunts Campbell by sending him photographs of the next victim, giving the agent just 24 hours to find them before he kills them. As the murders begin again, Campbell realises he must catch Griffin to lay his own demons to rest, but Griffin's next intended victim is one Campbell knows too well. Joe Charbanic's debut feature is a taut thriller with Spader and Reeves on top form.
Director: Joe Charbanic
Starring: James Spader, Keanu Reeves, Marisa Tomei, Ernie Hudson, Chris Ellis, Robert Cicchini
(Subtitles, Audio Described, 2000, 15, 3 Star)
01:15
El Perro (Film)
Carlos Sorin's gentle drama is set in Patagonia where Juan 'Coco' Villegas ekes out a living selling handmade knives. Then he's given BombĂłn, a game dog of questionable beauty but certifiable breeding. As man and mastiff hit the canine competition circuit, so Villegas, under the tutelage of his manager Walter Donado broadens his horizons in all directions. Comparisons to Best in Show are not unfair but this is very much a South American take on the theme with, of course, all plaudits going to the magnificent BombĂłn.
Director: Carlos Sorin
Starring: Juan Villegas, Walter Donado, Gregorio, Rosa Valsecchi, Mariela DĂaz, Sabino Morales
(In Spanish With Subtitles, Widescreen, 2004, 15, 4 Star)
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Cheaper By The Dozen (Film)
All those kids yours mister, or is this a picnic? They're all mine, says long-suffering dad Frank, and believe me, it's no picnic. Comedy drama based on the real life family of an eccentric professor and father.
Director: Walter Lang
Starring: Clifton Webb, Jeanne Crain, Myrna Loy, Betty Lynn, Edgar Buchanan, Barbara Bates
(Subtitles, 1950, U, 4 Star)
12:45
The Tall Men (Film)
Rousing action Western starring Clark Gable as a Civil War veteran who, with his brother Cameron Mitchell, agrees to crooked cattleman Robert Ryan's offer to be trail boss on a massive cattle drive from Texas to Montana.
Director: Raoul Walsh
Starring: Clark Gable, Jane Russell, Robert Ryan, Cameron Mitchell, Juan GarcĂa, Harry Shannon
(Subtitles, 1955, U, 3 Star)
15:05
The Fly (Film)
Kurt Neumann's classic horror film, scripted by best-selling author James Clavell, stars Patricia Owens as Helene Delambre who recounts, in flashback, the story of why she brought down a hydraulic press on the head and arm of her scientist husband Andre. As she tells her brother-in-law Francois and police Inspector Charas of the matter-transference device Andre had invented and the terrible accident that befell him, the horror mounts, with an ending that is one of cinema's most terrifying climaxes.
Director: Kurt Neumann
Starring: David Hedison, Patricia Owens, Vincent Price, Herbert Marshall, Kathleen Freeman, Betty Lou Gerson
(1958, 15, 3 Star)
16:55
That Riviera Touch (Film)
Film comedy starring Eric Morecambe and Ernie Wise as Eric Simpson and Ernest Clerk, caught up in a comic caper set in the south of France. After being inadvertently implicated in a mix-up involving the Royal Family, the accident-prone duo decide to escape to the French Riviera, only to become caught up in a crime sting involving a jewel thief, a band of smugglers, a femme fatale and a surfeit of collapsing corpses.
Director: Cliff Owen
Starring: Eric Morecambe, Ernie Wise, Paul Stassino, Peter Jeffrey, Suzanne Lloyd, Armand Mestral
(Subtitles, 1966, PG, 3 Star)
18:50
Bride and Prejudice: The Bollywood Musical (Film)
The determined Mrs. Bakshi sets out to find marriage matches for her four beautiful daughters while there's a lavish wedding party in town. Right away, the smart and headstrong Lalita announces she will only marry for love, giving her mother nightmares. Then Lalita meets wealthy American Will Darcy, and sparks immediately fly. But is it love or hate?
Director: Gurinder Chadha
Starring: Aishwarya Rai, Martin Henderson, Nadira Babbar, Anupam Kher, Naveen Andrews, Namrata Shirodkar
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 2004, 12, 3 Star)
21:00
Underworld (Film)
Medical student Michael Corvin is heading home after a hard evening's study when he comes across what looks like a gang rumble. What he doesn't know is that the fight is between the Death Dealers and the Lycans. The leader of the Death Dealers has heard the Lycans are after Corvin, whose genes carry the secret of supremacy for either race, and she becomes his protector until he's attacked by Lycan leader Lucian. Now, the man she swore to protect is her sworn enemy in Len Wiseman's stylish Gothic horror.
Director: Len Wiseman
Starring: Kate Beckinsale, Scott Speedman, Michael Sheen, Shane Brolly, Bill Nighy, Erwin Leder
(Editor's Choice, Widescreen, Subtitles, 2003, 15, 2 Star)
23:15
Underworld: Evolution (Film)
The battle for supremacy between the vampires and the werewolves chronicled in Underworld continues. The vampiric Selene and Lycan Michael have to deal both with their forbidden romance and those who now pursue them. The hunters are Marcus, who seeks Selene's knowledge of the whereabouts of his long-lost brother and Alexander Corvinus, an immortal who, unknown to them, is the father of Marcus and his psychopathic Lycan brother. Len Wiseman's action fantasy thriller is fast-moving, with great special effects and Beckinsale in particular is in kick-ass form.
Director: Len Wiseman
Starring: Kate Beckinsale, Scott Speedman, Tony Curran, Shane Brolly, Derek Jacobi, Bill Nighy
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 2005, 18, 3 Star)
01:15
Hud (Film)
Martin Ritt's Oscar winning film stars the late Paul Newman as Hud Bannon, the amoral son of honest rancher Homer, who blames him for the death of Hud's older brother. Passions come to a head when the government orders the destruction of the herd as a precaution against foot-and-mouth, with Hud planning to sell the cattle illegally and Homer on the side of the law.
Director: Martin Ritt
Starring: Paul Newman, Melvyn Douglas, Patricia Neal, Brandon de Wilde, Whit Bissell, Crahan Denton
(Black and White, Subtitles, 1963, PG, 5 Star)
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11:00
Retreat, Hell! (Film)
Cult director Joseph H Lewis is at the helm of this film set during the Korean war. Frank Lovejoy stars as marine battalion commander Steve Corbett. Among his men are Second World War vet Paul Hansen, and rookie Jimmy McDermid. The film follows them as they fight their way to a strategic reservoir and then, faced by overwhelming Chinese reinforcements, have to battle their way back to their own lines.
Director: Joseph H. Lewis
Starring: Frank Lovejoy, Richard Carlson, Anita Louise, Russ Tamblyn, Nedrick Young, Lamont Johnson
(Black and White, Subtitles, 1952, 12, 3 Star)
13:00
The First Wives Club (Film)
Bette Midler, Goldie Hawn and Diane Keaton star as Brenda, Elise and Annie, three women who meet at the funeral of a mutual college friend, where they discover they have something else in common: they've all been dumped by their husbands for a younger model. Vowing revenge, they decide to hit them where it hurts most: the pocket. Using the skills of socialite Gunilla Garson Goldberg, Annie's lesbian daughter Chris and Mob boss Carmine Morelli, they begin to pick them off one by one in Hugh Wilson's sharp comedy. Edited for language.
Director: Hugh Wilson
Starring: Bette Midler, Goldie Hawn, Diane Keaton, Maggie Smith, Dan Hedaya, Sarah Jessica Parker
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 1996, PG, 3 Star)
15:05
It's in the Bag (Film)
Richard Wallace's comedy stars Fred Allen as Fred F Trumble Floogle, a flea-circus owner who comes in to a surprise inheritance. The only problem is that it's hidden in one of five chairs he's just sold and he must retrieve them before a gang of thieves beat him to it. Allen was a hugely popular American comedian who ranked alongside Don Ameche, Jack Benny and Robert Benchley. This was his only leading role and is a rare chance to enjoy his dry yet madcap wit.
Director: Richard Wallace
Starring: Fred Allen, Jack Benny, William Bendix, Binnie Barnes, Robert Benchley, Jerry Colonna
(Black and White, Subtitles, 1945, U, 3 Star)
16:50
Viva Max (Film)
When the girlfriend of Mexican General Maximilian Rodrigues de Santos tells him his men wouldn't even follow him to a brothel, he decides a heroic act will win her back. Assembling a ragtag "army", he invades Texas, and manages to seize back the Alamo. The Texan National Guard, led by General Billy Joe Hallson are raised to evict him but since both sides want to avoid bloodshed, it's not quite that simple a task. Jerry Paris's likeable comedy was banned in Mexico, and shooting in San Antonio was sabotaged by outraged Texans.
Director: Jerry Paris
Starring: Peter Ustinov, Pamela Tiffin, Jonathan Winters, John Astin, Keenan Wynn, Harry Morgan
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 1969, U, 3 Star)
18:40
Around The World in 80 Days (Film)
Frank Coraci's remake of the classic 1956 film, based on Jules Verne's classic novel, stars Steve Coogan as eccentric inventor Phileas Fogg and Jackie Chan as his new manservant Passepartout. Fogg accepts a challenge from his fellow club member Lord Kelvin to circumnavigate the globe in 80 days and, with Passepartout, sets off on a series of adventures, picking up love interest in the shape of Monique La Roche in Paris but trailed by Inspector Fix, who suspects the duo of a daring crime.
Director: Frank Coraci
Starring: Jackie Chan, Steve Coogan, Robert Fyfe, Jim Broadbent, Ian McNeice, David Ryall
(Widescreen, Subtitles, Audio Described, 2004, PG, 2 Star)
21:00
Zoolander (Film)
Derek Zoolander is a self-obsessed male supermodel who loses his position as the top male model on the planet to younger, blond newcomer Hansel. In the midst of his midlife crisis, the dim-witted Zoolander is brainwashed at a day spa by the mysterious Katinka into assassinating the prime minister of Malaysia.
Director: Ben Stiller
Starring: Ben Stiller, Owen Wilson, Christine Taylor, Will Ferrell, Milla Jovovich, Jerry Stiller
(Subtitles, Audio Described, 2001, 12, 2 Star)
22:45
Dawn of the Dead (Film)
After a plague turns most of humanity into blood-crazed zombies, a small band of survivors find refuge in a shopping mall. But it's only a matter of time before the undead hordes get in. Splattery remake of George A Romero's classic horror satire.
Director: Zack Snyder
Starring: Sarah Polley, Ving Rhames, Jake Weber, Mekhi Phifer, Ty Burrell, Michael Kelly
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 2004, 18, 4 Star)
00:45
The Entity (Film)
Sidney J Furie's horror/thriller, allegedly based on a true story, stars Barbara Hershey as Carla Moran, a divorced mother who becomes the victim of a violent poltergeist which she claims assaulted and even raped her. Dismissed as a repressive hysteric by psychologists, when two parapsychology investigators succeed in photographing her attacker, the next, dangerous step is to isolate and trap it.
Director: Sidney J. Furie
Starring: Barbara Hershey, Ron Silver, David Labiosa, George Coe, Margaret Blye, Jacqueline Brookes
(Widescreen, 1981, 18, 3 Star)
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The Sheriff of Fractured Jaw (Film)
Having inherited a failing gunsmith business, quintessential Englishman Jonathan Tibbs decides that the real market for his wares is in the Wild West. And, after falling foul of both cowboys and Indians, he finds himself conned into becoming the law-man in the lawless town of Fractured Jaw, in this spoof western co-starring Jayne Mansfield as a pistol-packing saloon owner.
Director: Raoul Walsh
Starring: Kenneth More, Jayne Mansfield, Henry Hull, Bruce Cabot, Ronald Squire, William Campbell
(Subtitles, Audio Described, 1958, PG, 3 Star)
13:00
Around The World in 80 Days (Film)
Frank Coraci's remake of the classic 1956 film, based on Jules Verne's classic novel, stars Steve Coogan as eccentric inventor Phileas Fogg and Jackie Chan as his new manservant Passepartout. Fogg accepts a challenge from his fellow club member Lord Kelvin to circumnavigate the globe in 80 days and, with Passepartout, sets off on a series of adventures, picking up love interest in the shape of Monique La Roche in Paris but trailed by Inspector Fix, who suspects the duo of a daring crime.
Director: Frank Coraci
Starring: Jackie Chan, Steve Coogan, Robert Fyfe, Jim Broadbent, Ian McNeice, David Ryall
(Widescreen, Subtitles, Audio Described, 2004, PG, 2 Star)
15:20
The Siege at Red River (Film)
Rudolph Mate's lavish Civil War action film stars Van Johnson as Confederate agent James Faraday, who steals a Gatling gun prototype from the Yankees. But smuggling it south through enemy territory proves more difficult, especially with detective Frank Kelso on his back, treacherous scout Brett Manning double-crossing him, and nurse Nora Curtis to protect.
Director: Rudolph Maté
Starring: Van Johnson, Joanne Dru, Richard Boone, Milburn Stone, Jeff Morrow, Craig Hill
(Subtitles, 1954, U, 2 Star)
17:05
Doctor in Distress (Film)
Under the steady hand of Ralph Thomas, who directed the other Doctor... films, Dr Simon Sparrow returns to St Swithins as an experienced doctor but he still has a roving eye for the ladies, which soon settles on Delia Mallory. Once again, Sir Lancelot Spratt is in residence, but this time as a patient who's fallen for physiotherapist Iris. Will Sparrow's tips help him win her hand? The usual misunderstandings and jokes are all in place in this superior addition to the British comedy canon.
Director: Ralph L. Thomas
Starring: Dirk Bogarde, Samantha Eggar, James Robertson-Justice, Mylene Demongeot, Donald Houston, Barbara Murray
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 1963, PG, 3 Star)
19:05
Picture Perfect (Film)
Lively romantic comedy starring Jennifer Aniston as Kate Mosley, an ambitious advertising designer whose life takes a complicated turn when she fakes her engagement to wedding photographer Nick in order to get a promotion. Also starring Kevin Bacon and Olympia Dukakis, and directed by Glenn Gordon Caron. Edited for language.
Director: Glenn Gordon Caron
Starring: Jennifer Aniston, Jay Mohr, Kevin Bacon, Olympia Dukakis, Illeana Douglas, Kevin Dunn
(Subtitles, 1997, 12, 3 Star)
21:00
Men of Honor (Film)
Based on a true story, George Tillman Jnr's drama tells the story of Carl Brashear who joins the US Navy and applies for the elite diving school. But this is America of the 50s, where racism is still rife; his white comrades refuse to share barracks with him and the martinet instructor Billy Sunday is equally prejudiced. But Brashear's commitment, courage and determination eventually win Sunday's respect and, when Brashear's career comes up against military predjudice, he finds he has an unlikely ally.
Director: George Tillman Jr.
Starring: Robert de Niro, Cuba Gooding Jr., Charlize Theron, Aunjanue Ellis, Hal Holbrook, Michael Rapaport
(Subtitles, 2000, 15, 3 Star)
23:25
Kinsey (Film)
Liam Neeson stars in Bill Condon's second biopic as the eponymous Alfred Kinsey, whose groundbreaking investigations into human sexuality in late 40s and early 50s America both shocked and educated the public. In one of his best screen performances, Neeson portrays Kinsey as a man driven by curiousity and filled with humanity, inspired by the love of his wife Clara.
Director: Bill Condon
Starring: Liam Neeson, Laura Linney, Chris O'Donnell, Peter Sarsgaard, Timothy Hutton, John Lithgow
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 2004, 15, 4 Star)
01:40
The Dreamlife of Angels (Film)
Erick Zonga's Lille-set film follows the lives and loves of Isa and Marie, two 20-year old drifters who meet up in a sewing sweatshop. Becoming friends, they idle through life but Marie becomes involved with club owner Chris for the wrong reasons and despite Isa's reservations, starts on a relationship that is less about love and more about pragmatic survival. Intensely intelligent, beautifully acted and movingly told, the two leads deservedly shared the best actress award at Cannes 1998 as well as a host of other European awards.
Director: Erick Zonca
Starring: Élodie Bouchez, Natacha Régnier, Grégoire Colin, Patrick Mercado, Jo Prestia, Francine Massenhave
(In French With Subtitles, 1998, 18, 4 Star)
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The Cheaters (Film)
Joseph Kane's comedy stars Eugene Pallette as Mr Pidgeon, the patriarch of a middle-class family who fall on hard times when his wife inadvertently loses their money. A dying uncle could save them with a legacy of $5m, but he leaves the inheritance to Florie, an actress who he saw in a play 30 years earlier. The Pidgeons are forced to take in a lodger, the mysterious Mr M, a drunken, down-on-his-luck actor. Mr M offers to trace Florie and make a deal that will give her some, but not all, of the money. But will he tell her the truth behind her fortune or attempt to dupe her? At a Christmas gathering around the tree, a drunk Mr M spills the beans in front of Florie and the family who would cheat her; will the Yuletide spirit prevail?
Director: Joseph Kane
Starring: Joseph Schildkraut, Billie Burke, Eugene Pallette, Ona Munson, Raymond Walburn, Ann Gillis
(Black and White, 1945, U, 4 Star)
12:50
Three Came Home (Film)
Powerful fact-based drama directed by Jean Negulesco, starring Claudette Colbert as Agnes Keith, a woman captured by the invading Japanese in Borneo in 1941 and then separated from her husband in an all-woman prison camp. The film derives its considerable, if harrowing, impact from the deliberate lack of sensationalism in its treatment of the subject, fine central performances and, unusually for a picture of its time, its refusal to portray Sessue Hayawaka's character, camp commandant Colonel Suga, in xenophobic terms.
Director: Jean Negulesco
Starring: Claudette Colbert, Patric Knowles, Florence Desmond, Sessue Hayakawa, Sylvia Andrew, Mark Keuning
(Black and White, Subtitles, 1950, 12, 4 Star)
14:55
The Eve of St. Mark (Film)
U John M Stahl's engrossing WW2 flag-waver is centred on mid-western farm boy Quizz West's training and combat experiences in the Pacific, and his romance with Janet Feller, which is interrupted by the war. The film is a sensitive picture of service life and sacrifice, which balances the scenes of the couple's idyllic romance.
Director: John M. Stahl
Starring: Anne Baxter, William Eythe, Michael O'Shea, Vincent Price, Ruth Nelson, Ray Collins
(Black and White, Subtitles, 1944, A, 3 Star)
16:50
Please Sir! (Film)
Movie spin-off from the popular TV sitcom in which teacher Bernard Hedges takes troublesome class 5C to a holiday camp, with inevitably comic and disastrous results. Scripted by sitcom experts John Esmonde and Bob Larbey and.
Director: Mark Stuart
Starring: John Alderton, Deryck Guyler, Noel Howlett, Joan Sanderson, Richard Davies, Erik Chitty
(Subtitles, 1971, PG, 3 Star)
18:50
In Good Company (Film)
Not only does Dennis Quaid have a boss who's half his age, but the hotshot is dating his daughter (Scarlett Johansson). Smart comedy drama from the maker of About A Boy.
Director: Paul Weitz
Starring: Dennis Quaid, Topher Grace, Scarlett Johansson, Marg Helgenberger, David Paymer, Clark Gregg
(Widescreen, 2004, 15, 4 Star)
21:00
Behind Enemy Lines (Film)
Bored airman Chris Burnett is on the verge of retiring, when he ventures into forbidden airspace and is shot down over Serbia. A nail-biting cat-and-mouse operation ensues, as snipers and tanks hunt the American, whilst a US admiral fights NATO bureaucrats to rescue him.
Director: John Sanford Moore
Starring: Owen Wilson, Gene Hackman, Gabriel Macht, Charles Malik Whitfield, David Keith
(Editor's Choice, Subtitles, 2001, 12, 3 Star)
23:05
Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus (Film)
Nicole Kidman plays Diane Arbus, the legendary photographer, in Steven Shainberg's imagined biography of her rise to fame. She breaks out of the shadow of her photographer husband Allan through a relationship with a neighbour, Lionel Sweeney, who has a physical hereditary trait that fascinates Arbus both as a photographer and as a woman.
Director: Steven Shainberg
Starring: Nicole Kidman, Robert Downey Jr., Ty Burrell, Harris Yulin, Jane Alexander, Emmy Clarke
(Widescreen, 2006, 15, 3 Star)
01:25
Mister Lonely (Film)
Harmony Korine's Film4-funded film stars Diego Luna as a disillusioned Michael Jackson impersonator who finds faith and love when he meets a Marilyn Monroe impersonator who takes him to a remote Scottish island where impersonators are free to live their lives. But her husband, a Charlie Chaplin impersonator becomes jealous and as the community of impersonators build a theatre to display their talents, emotions reach boiling point.
Director: Harmony Korine
Starring: Diego Luna, Samantha Morton, Denis Lavant, James Fox, Werner Herzog, Leos Carax
(2007, 15, 3 Star)
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11:00
It's in the Bag (Film)
Richard Wallace's comedy stars Fred Allen as Fred F Trumble Floogle, a flea-circus owner who comes in to a surprise inheritance. The only problem is that it's hidden in one of five chairs he's just sold and he must retrieve them before a gang of thieves beat him to it. Allen was a hugely popular American comedian who ranked alongside Don Ameche, Jack Benny and Robert Benchley. This was his only leading role and is a rare chance to enjoy his dry yet madcap wit.
Director: Richard Wallace
Starring: Fred Allen, Jack Benny, William Bendix, Binnie Barnes, Robert Benchley, Jerry Colonna
(Black and White, Subtitles, 1945, U, 3 Star)
12:40
Intrigue (Film)
Embittered by his wrongful discharge from the air force, an ex-pilot finds himself in Shanghai where he unwittingly becomes involved with the same villainous black marketeers responsible for framing him.
Director: Edwin L. Marin
Starring: George Raft, June Havoc, Helena Carter, Tom Tully, Marvin Miller, Dan Seymour
(Black and White, Subtitles, 1947, PG, 3 Star)
14:25
Operation Amsterdam (Film)
Fast-moving, fact-based World War II thriller starring Tony Britton as Major Dillon, a British army officer leading a dangerous mission to Amsterdam in 1940 to prevent valuable industrial diamonds falling into the hands of the invading Germans.
Director: Michael McCarthy
Starring: Peter Finch, Eva Bartok, Tony Britton, Alexander Knox, Malcolm Keen, Christopher Rhodes
(Black and White, Subtitles, 1960, U, 2 Star)
16:30
Fathom (Film)
U Raquel Welch stars in this frothy spy comedy as Fathom Harvill, a talented skydiver touring her show through Europe. Recruited by Douglas Campbell, who works for American Intelligence, she must use her skills to locate a missing nuclear weapon component missing in the Med. She accepts the mission but is Campbell all he seems and who can she really trust? Full of fabulous aerial effects with Fathom in her tight jumpsuit, Leslie Martinson's film never takes itself seriously and, to her credit, neither does Welch.
Director: Leslie H. Martinson
Starring: Anthony Franciosa, Raquel Welch, Ronald Fraser, Richard Briers, Greta Chi, Tom Adams
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 1967, 12, 3 Star)
18:25
The Core (Film)
12 When the world is struck by extraordinary phenomena - Rome's Colosseum exploding, London's pigeons going berserk - it becomes apparent that the planet's core has stopped moving, causing electro-magnetic mayhem. The only hope lies in a exploit team of scientists burrowing to the core and re-starting Earth's engine. But is the disaster natural or is there a more sinister explanation? Jon Amiel's science-fiction blockbuster eschews outer space for inner-space in this taut special-effects extravaganza. Edited for language.
Director: Jon Amiel
Starring: Aaron Eckhart, Christopher Shyer, Ray Galletti, Hilary Swank, Delroy Lindo, Eileen Pedde
(Subtitles, 2003, 12, 3 Star)
21:00
World Trade Center (Film)
Oliver Stone's dramatic take on the events of 9/11, based on a true story, features two New York Port Authority cops, John McLoughlin and Will Jimeno. Two of the first people to enter the World Trade Center after the plane hit the South Tower, they are trapped in the rubble when it collapses. Refusing to give up hope, they fight for survival while, in the outside world, their wives Donna and Allison wait for any news of their plight.
Director: Oliver Stone
Starring: Nicolas Cage, Maria Bello, Connor Paolo, Anthony Piccininni, Alexa Gerasimovich, Morgan Flynn, Michael Pena, Armando Riesco
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 2006, 12, 3 Star)
23:25
The Proposition (Film)
Ray Winstone is the enforcer on the trail of three brutal Outback outlaws. Guy Pearce stars in a searingly violent Australian western written by Nick Cave.
Director: John Hillcoat
Starring: Richard Wilson, Noah Taylor, Jeremy Madrona, Jae Mamuyac, Guy Pearce, Mick Roughan
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 2005, 18, 4 Star)
01:25
Suspiria (Film)
Dario Argento's cult, classic horror movie re-invents the genre with Jessica Harper the heroine beset by evil and murder at a ballet school that is the front for a coven of witches. The plot may founder occasionally but Argento's flair never does. With Stefania Casini and Flavvio Bucci.
Director: Dario Argento
Starring: Jessica Harper, Stefania Casini, Flavio Bucci, Miguel Bosé, Barbara Magnolfi, Susanna Javicoli
(Subtitles, 1977, 18, 4 Star)
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11:00
Millions Like Us (Film)
Vintage British drama, directed by Sidney Gilliat and Frank Launder, about the fortunes of a family who are split up during World War II, concentrating on Celia Crowson, who gives up her middle-class life to work in a munitions factory and who falls in love with airman Fred Blake. And to show the British pluck, Basil Radford and Naunton Wayne reprise Charters and Caldicott from Hitchcock's The Lady Vanishes.
Director: Frank Launder, Sidney Gilliat
Starring: Patricia Roc, Gordon Jackson, Anna Crawford, Basil Radford, Naunton Wayne, Moore Marriott
(Black and White, Subtitles, 1943, U, 3 Star)
13:00
The Siege at Red River (Film)
Rudolph Mate's lavish Civil War action film stars Van Johnson as Confederate agent James Faraday, who steals a Gatling gun prototype from the Yankees. But smuggling it south through enemy territory proves more difficult, especially with detective Frank Kelso on his back, treacherous scout Brett Manning double-crossing him, and nurse Nora Curtis to protect.
Director: Rudolph Maté
Starring: Van Johnson, Joanne Dru, Richard Boone, Milburn Stone, Jeff Morrow, Craig Hill
(Subtitles, 1954, U, 2 Star)
14:50
Viva Max (Film)
When the girlfriend of Mexican General Maximilian Rodrigues de Santos tells him his men wouldn't even follow him to a brothel, he decides a heroic act will win her back. Assembling a ragtag "army", he invades Texas, and manages to seize back the Alamo. The Texan National Guard, led by General Billy Joe Hallson are raised to evict him but since both sides want to avoid bloodshed, it's not quite that simple a task. Jerry Paris's likeable comedy was banned in Mexico, and shooting in San Antonio was sabotaged by outraged Texans.
Director: Jerry Paris
Starring: Peter Ustinov, Pamela Tiffin, Jonathan Winters, John Astin, Keenan Wynn, Harry Morgan
(Subtitles, 1969, U, 3 Star)
16:40
The Tall Men (Film)
Rousing action Western starring Clark Gable as a Civil War veteran who, with his brother Cameron Mitchell, agrees to crooked cattleman Robert Ryan's offer to be trail boss on a massive cattle drive from Texas to Montana.
Director: Raoul Walsh
Starring: Clark Gable, Jane Russell, Robert Ryan, Cameron Mitchell, Juan GarcĂa, Harry Shannon
(Subtitles, 1955, U, 3 Star)
19:05
Picture Perfect (Film)
Lively romantic comedy starring Jennifer Aniston as Kate Mosley, an ambitious advertising designer whose life takes a complicated turn when she fakes her engagement to wedding photographer Nick in order to get a promotion. Also starring Kevin Bacon and Olympia Dukakis, and directed by Glenn Gordon Caron. Edited for language.
Director: Glenn Gordon Caron
Starring: Jennifer Aniston, Jay Mohr, Kevin Bacon, Olympia Dukakis, Illeana Douglas, Kevin Dunn
(Subtitles, 1997, 12, 3 Star)
21:00
House of Flying Daggers (Film)
Following hot on the heels of Hero, director Zhang Zimou brings another beautifully filmed, artistic and impressive Chinese film to the big screen. Like its predecessor, it's a "wuxia" film, dealing with classic swordplay and chivalry themes. Alongside these traditional aspects there's the very modern 21st century CGI, which allows the daggers of the title to do their flying, as well as enhancing the balletic style of much of the action. The plot concerns a blind outlaw who's tricked by a couple of cops into betraying a band of killers. But the plot is largely subservient to the supremely well choreographed martial arts action.
Director: Yimou Zhang
Starring: Takeshi Kaneshiro, Andy Lau, Ziyi Zhang, Dandan Song
(In Mandarin With Subtitles, 2004, 15, 4 Star)
23:15
Ashes of Time (Film)
15 Kar Wai Wong's film, showing in the extended redux version released last year, stars Leslie Cheung as Ouyang Feng, a disillusioned assassin who runs a lodging house in the back of beyond for those of his kind and those seeking killers. Through his doors come the blind, the mad and the sad and when they confront each other, swords are drawn. Maggie Cheung plays the woman he yearned for who married his brother, and the film also stars Brigitte Lin and Tony Leung and is shot by the doyen of Chinese films, Christopher Doyle. Screening in Film4's New Asian Cinema season.
Director: Kar-wai Wong
Starring: Brigitte Lin, Leslie Cheung, Maggie Cheung, Tony Leung Chiu-Wai, Jacky Cheung, Tony Leung Ka Fai
(Subtitles, Subtitled, In Cantonese and Mandarin with English Subtitles, Widescreen, 1994, 15, 4 Star)
01:05
To Kill a King (Film)
Tim Roth plays Cromwell and Dougray Scott his superior, General Thomas Fairfax, in Mike Barker's film set at the end of the English Civil War. With Charles I held prisoner, Fairfax is willing to compromise over his plight while Cromwell favours execution. As conspiracies are hatched and discovered and ringleaders punished, the film faithfully follows a turbulent time in British history as two men battle for power over the country.
Director: Mike Barker
Starring: Tim Roth, Dougray Scott, Olivia Williams, James Bolam, Corin Redgrave, Finbar Lynch
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 2003, 15, 3 Star)
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11:00 REACH FOR THE SKY 170*MINS
(1956) A classic biopic, recounting the story of WWII fighter pilot ace Douglas Bader (Kenneth More) who, despite losing both legs, became one of the RAF's finest flyers.
13:40 NOWHERE BOY SPECIAL 10*MINS
Sam Taylor Wood, Kristin Scott Thomas and Aaron Johnson talk about the new Film4 production telling the story of John Lennon's teenage years.
13:50 THE ROBE 155*MINS
(1953) Henry Koster's Biblical epic stars Oscar-nominated Richard Burton as Marcellus Gallio, a Roman centurion who wins Jesus' robe at the Crucifixion but his prize changes his life.
16:25 THUNDERBIRDS ARE GO! 120*MINS
(1966) International Rescue face all manner of peril when they provide security for Zero X, the first manned flight to Mars. Includes a cameo appearance by Cliff Richard and the Shadows.
18:15 AVATAR SPECIAL 10*MINS
Sigourney Weaver and the cast talk about the making of the sci-fi epic.
18:25 BATTLE OF BRITAIN 155*MINS
(1969) Laurence Olivier stars as an RAF commander who has to deploy his depleted air force against incessant Luftwaffe attacks in 1940 in Guy Hamilton's epic, action-packed film.
21:00 THE LEAGUE OF EXTRAORDINARY Gentlemen 125*MINS
...Gentlemen (2003) Sean Connery stars in this fantasy drama, set in an alternative Victorian world where he and his extraordinary companions must save the world.
23:05 THE PROPOSITION 125*MINS
(2005) When Australian outlaw Guy Pearce is caught by the police, he faces a choice in this drama: kill his older brother or his younger one hangs. Strong language/violence/sexual violence.
01:10 ALL THE PRETTY HORSES 135*MINS
(2000) Matt Damon and Henry Thomas are cowboys in the 40s west who seek their fortune in Mexico, but Penelope Cruz and Lucas Black land them in trouble in Billy Bob Thornton's film.
03:25 AVATAR SPECIAL 10*MINS
James Cameron talks about Avatar, his sci-fi epic.
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11:00Lost[SUB]
The events following a baby's abduction are followed from the point of view of the kidnappers, the police, the media, and the youngster's frantic parents. As the investigation into the disappearance gets under way, clues are in short supply - leaving officers desperately hoping for the break which will help them find the villains and save the victim. Drama, starring David Farrar, David Knight, Thora Hird and Julia ArnallFilm/General Movie/Drama
12:45Death Drums Along the River[SUB]
An inspector is called to South Africa to investigate the murder of a fellow policeman and uncovers a diamond-smuggling operation seemingly connected with an up-river hospital. Mystery, starring Richard Todd, Marianne Koch, Albert Lieven and Walter RillaFilm/Mystery
14:25Champion[SUB BW]
A naive war veteran heads for California with his brother to start a new life, but ends up turning to boxing to make ends meet. Determined to make it to the top in his sport, he is driven to betray the people closest to him. Drama, starring Kirk Douglas, Marilyn Maxwell, Arthur Kennedy and Paul StewartFilm/General Movie/Drama
16:20The Cassandra Crossing[SUB AD]
A wounded terrorist infected with a deadly plague virus boards a transcontinental train, prompting the authorities to take extreme steps to save millions from infection. However, conflict erupts between a military officer who thinks the passengers should die to contain the disease, and a doctor who believes their condition can be treated. Disaster movie, starring Burt Lancaster, Richard Harris, Martin Sheen and Sophia LorenFilm/Adventure/War
18:50Akeelah And The Bee
A clever girl from a poor neighbourhood finds school frustrating and tries to hide her intelligence from her classmates. When she competes in a school spelling competition, she is surprised to win and with the aid of a strict coach, sets out to compete in a national tournament and provide her community with something to rally round. Drama, starring Keke Palmer, Laurence Fishburne and Angela BassettFilm/General Movie/Drama
21:00The Waterboy[SUB]
An American football team's waterboy endures constant ridicule from the players, but one day his anger gets the better of him and he demonstrates an unexpected talent for tackling. He is soon given a chance to prove his worth on the pitch - but has to keep his sporting career a secret from his overprotective mother. Comedy, starring Adam Sandler, Kathy Bates, Henry Winkler and Fairuza BalkFilm/Comedy
22:45Blow[SUB]
Fact-based drama exploring the life of drug trafficker George Jung, who became one of the most powerful figures in the American cocaine trade. Vowing to leave his poverty-stricken childhood behind, Jung finds a way to make good his promise when he stumbles into a career as a dealer in the free-wheeling atmosphere of the 1970s. However, life gets harder as his business expands, not least because of the increasingly demanding women around him. Starring Johnny Depp, Penelope Cruz, Franka Potente and Rachel GriffithsFilm/General Movie/Drama
01:10To Die For[SUB]
An ambitious small town woman has a lifelong obsession of becoming a TV star. A job at a local TV station seems like the first step on her journey to the top, but when her husband announces his desire to start a family, she realises he has to go and persuades her dim-witted teenage lover to murder him. Gus Van Sant's black comedy, starring Nicole Kidman, Matt Dillon and Joaquin PhoenixFilm/General Movie/Drama/Comedy/Comedy
03:15Nowhere Boy Special
Sam Taylor Wood, Kristin Scott Thomas and Aaron Johnson discuss the new movie about John Lennon's teenage yearsFilm/Cinema
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11:00NorthforkThe residents of a small town are evicted because their homes stand in the way of the construction of a dam. However, a few hardy souls refuse to give up hope, despite the warnings of hired thugs employed to ensure they go. Drama, starring James Woods, Nick Nolte and Claire ForlaniFilm/General Movie/Drama
13:05Lost[SUB]The events following a baby's abduction are followed from the point of view of the kidnappers, the police, the media, and the youngster's frantic parents. As the investigation into the disappearance gets under way, clues are in short supply - leaving officers desperately hoping for the break which will help them find the villains and save the victim. Drama, starring David Farrar, David Knight, Thora Hird and Julia ArnallFilm/General Movie/Drama
14:50Carrington VC[SUB AD BW]A decorated Army major resorts to embezzling mess funds to make ends meet - an act that leaves him facing a court martial, with the evidence stacked against him. To make matters worse, his wife sees the opportunity to get revenge for his wartime affairs by providing false testimony for the prosecution. Courtroom drama, starring David Niven, Margaret Leighton, Noelle Middleton, Laurence Naismith and Clive MortonFilm/General Movie/Drama
16:55Hombre[SUB]A man raised by Apaches travels across the wilderness by stagecoach, and is treated with disdain by his fellow passengers because of his upbringing. However, when they are attacked by bandits, he stands up to defend the people who hate him. Western, starring Paul Newman, Richard Boone and Diane CilentoFilm/Western
19:05In & OutAn Oscar-winner announces on national TV that his former schoolteacher is gay, causing uproar in the close-knit community where he grew up, and forcing the beleaguered tutor to convince his family, fiancee and pupils that he is not homosexual. Comedy, starring Kevin Kline, Matt Dillon, Tom Selleck and Joan CusackFilm/Comedy
20:50Danny Boyle SpecialThe Oscar-winning director of Trainspotting and Slumdog Millionaire discusses his careerFilm/Cinema
21:00Shallow Grave[SUB]Three flat-sharing friends rent out their spare room to an enigmatic stranger, who promptly dies of an overdose, leaving behind a suitcase crammed full of cash. They plot to dispose of the body and keep the money - but as a curious detective comes looking for the dead man, the flatmates turn on one another. Danny Boyle's thriller, starring Ewan McGregor, Christopher Eccleston and Kerry FoxFilm/Detective/Thriller
22:50Alien Resurrection[SUB]Scientists create a clone of the late Lt Ripley to get hold of the alien queen growing inside her and breed a new race of the monsters. However, when the creatures escape and turn on their makers, the new Ripley must lead a smuggling crew caught up in the mayhem to safety. Sci-fi thriller sequel, starring Sigourney Weaver, Winona Ryder and Ron PerlmanFilm/Science Fiction
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11:00Freedom Radio[SUB BW]
A Viennese doctor tries to maintain business as usual while living under Nazi rule. However, events take a sickening turn when his wife begins wholeheartedly espousing Hitler's views - prompting him to start broadcasting Allied propaganda from a secret transmitter. World War Two drama, starring Clive Brook, Diana Wynyard, Raymond Huntley and Derek FarrFilm/Adventure/War
12:50Moulin Rouge
Biopic exploring the life and love affairs of famed painter Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, focusing on his infatuation with a prostitute. Starring Jose Ferrer, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Peter Cushing and an Oscar-winning Colette Marchand. Produced and co-written by John Huston and based on a best-selling fictionalised biography by Pierre La MureFilm/General Movie/Drama
15:10Jane Eyre[SUB AD BW]
A naive young woman becomes governess in a mysterious Yorkshire mansion and before long she is completely besotted with her charismatic but intimidating employer. Little does she suspect he is concealing a dark secret from her. Romantic period drama based on Charlotte Bronte's novel, starring Joan Fontaine, Orson Welles, Agnes Moorehead and Margaret O'BrienFilm/General Movie/Drama
17:00The Tall Men
A Civil War veteran and his brother are recruited on a cattle drive by a wealthy rancher. On the journey they rescue a female settler from danger, leading to jealousy and a fierce rivalry between the former soldier and his employer. Western, starring Clark Gable, Cameron Mitchell, Jane Russell and Robert RyanFilm/Western
19:20Hot Shots!
A pilot joins an elite squad to take part in a dangerous mission, where he faces a tough struggle to live down his father's bad reputation - and win the love of a glamorous psychiatrist. Comedy sending up action movies, principally Top Gun, starring Charlie Sheen, Lloyd Bridges, Valeria Golino, Cary Elwes, Kevin Dunn and William O'LearyFilm/Comedy
21:00She's the Man
Soccer-mad Viola's football team is disbanded, and the only other side in the area is all male - so she resorts to disguising herself as her twin brother to win a place on the squad. However, she falls for a team-mate who only has eyes for another girl - who in turn takes a liking to Viola in her male guise. Teenage romantic comedy, loosely based on Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, starring Amanda Bynes, Channing Tatum, Laura Ramsey and Vinnie JonesFilm/Comedy
23:00Trainspotting
Edinburgh heroin addict and petty crook Mark Renton makes a series of attempts to kick the habit, but the grind of everyday life and a circle of similarly self-destructive friends continually drag him back to his old ways. Following a near fatal overdose, he comes to the realisation that the only way to put his life in order is to rid himself of his friends - which is easier said than done. Danny Boyle's drama, starring Ewan McGregor, Robert Caryle and Ewen BremnerFilm/General Movie/Drama
00:50Danny Boyle Special
The Oscar-winning director of Trainspotting and Slumdog Millionaire discusses his careerFilm/Cinema
01:00To Die For
An ambitious small town woman has a lifelong obsession of becoming a TV star. A job at a local TV station seems like the first step on her journey to the top, but when her husband announces his desire to start a family, she realises he has to go and persuades her dim-witted teenage lover to murder him. Gus Van Sant's black comedy, starring Nicole Kidman, Matt Dillon and Joaquin PhoenixFilm/General Movie/Drama/Comedy/Comedy
03:05Avatar Special
Sigourney Weaver and other cast members discuss the making of James Cameron's sci-fi epicFilm/Cinema
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11:00Fun in Acapulco
A former trapeze artist tries to put a work-related tragedy behind him by taking a job as a lifeguard-cum-entertainer in a luxury hotel at the Mexican resort. He ends up contending with the considerable wiles of his beautiful boss and a female matador who each have romantic designs on him. Musical comedy, starring Elvis Presley, Ursula Andress, Paul Lukas and Alejandro ReyFilm/Musical
12:55Avatar Special
Sigourney Weaver and other cast members discuss the making of James Cameron's sci-fi epicFilm/Cinema
13:00James and the Giant Peach
An unhappy orphan living with his cruel aunts discovers a gigantic peach growing in the garden. Venturing inside, he meets six friendly insects and together they embark on a magical journey. Animated and live-action fantasy, based on Roald Dahl's novel, starring Paul Terry, Joanna Lumley and Miriam Margolyes and featuring the voices of Susan Sarandon and Richard DreyfussFilm/Animated Movie/Drama/Fantasy/Fantasy
14:35The Four Feathers
A military officer resigns his commission and is wrongly accused of cowardice. In a bid to redeem himself, he volunteers as an undercover agent. Zoltan Korda's adaptation of AEW Mason's adventure novel, starring John Clements, June Duprez, Ralph Richardson, C Aubrey Smith and Jack AllenFilm/Adventure/War
16:50Secondhand Lions
A youngster is packed off to stay with his eccentric bachelor uncles, who live in a ramshackle house with no mod cons in the middle of Texas. Worst of all, his mother has told him to find a stash of millions rumoured to be hidden somewhere on their property - but his wariness of the oldtimers disappears when they share exciting tales of tomfoolery from their youth. Family drama, with Michael Caine, Robert Duvall, Haley Joel Osment and Kyra SedgwickFilm/General Movie/Drama
19:00Danny Boyle Special
The Oscar-winning director of Trainspotting and Slumdog Millionaire discusses his careerFilm/Cinema
19:10Millions
When a bag of stolen money falls from the sky, wide-eyed youngster Damian thinks it is a gift from God. However, his level-headed brother realises they must race against time to spend the loot before the country switches to the Euro and a robber on their tail catches up with them. Danny Boyle's comedy drama, starring Alex Etel, Lewis McGibbon, Daisy Donovan and James NesbittFilm/General Movie/Drama/Comedy/Comedy
21:00The Shawshank Redemption[SUB AD]
A banker is wrongly jailed for murder. Over the course of his life sentence, he forms a close friendship with a fellow inmate and earns a position of trust as book-keeper to the corrupt prison governor - giving him the time and opportunity to conceive a unique escape plan. Frank Darabont's drama, starring Tim Robbins, Morgan Freeman, Bob Gunton, William Sadler, Clancy Brown and Gil BellowsFilm/General Movie/Drama
23:4528 Days Later
A man wakes from a coma to discover the UK has been struck by a terrifying experimental virus which sends sufferers into a homicidal rage. With a handful of other survivors, he heads for Manchester, the last outpost of the uninfected - but more dangers lie ahead. Danny Boyle's horror, starring Cillian Murphy, Naomie Harris, Brendan Gleeson and Christopher EcclestonFilm/Horror
02:00Asylum
An ambitious psychiatrist starts work at a mental institution, where his bored wife befriends a patient. However, when the disturbed man - who murdered his former partner - is given chores close to the family's home, their relationship becomes more intense. Drama set in the 1950s, starring Natasha Richardson, Hugh Bonneville, Ian McKellen and Marton CsokasFilm/Detective/Thriller
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11:00The Dark Corner[SUB BW]
A private eye is released after serving a prison sentence for a crime he did not commit. When he thinks someone is trying to kill him, he becomes convinced the real perpetrator is his old lawyer. When the attorney turns up dead, the detective becomes the prime suspect. Thriller, starring Mark Stevens, Lucille Ball, Clifton Webb and William BendixFilm/Detective/Thriller
13:00S1m0ne
A Hollywood director constructs a virtual reality actor whose talents impress film fans all around the world - but as the adoring public becomes more and more fascinated, he resorts to increasingly desperate measures to maintain the deception that she is real. Satirical comedy, starring Al Pacino, Catherine Keener, Pruitt Taylor Vince, Jay Mohr and Jason SchwartzmanFilm/Comedy
15:15Donovan's Reef
An American soldier settles down with two friends on a beautiful South Sea island to relax in the aftermath of World War Two - but the arrival of his daughter throws their idyllic life into turmoil. Comedy drama directed by John Ford, starring John Wayne, Lee Marvin, Jack Warden, Elizabeth Allen and Cesar RomeroFilm/Comedy
17:25Genevieve
Two rival motoring enthusiasts engage in a friendly race on the way back from the London-to-Brighton veteran car rally. However, their light-hearted attitude turns into heated competition as they approach the finishing line, with their friendship seemingly doomed - while their long-suffering other halves have to contend with their obsession. Comedy, starring Dinah Sheridan, John Gregson, Kenneth More and Kay KendallFilm/Comedy
19:10Avatar Special
Sigourney Weaver and other cast members discuss the making of James Cameron's sci-fi epicFilm/Cinema
19:15Robots
Rodney the robot heads for the city, where he hopes to find an investor for his latest invention. However, he finds himself battling an evil business mogul intent on stopping a manufacturer from making spare parts for ageing robots - so Rodney teams up with assorted rusty rejects to put the matter right. Animated adventure, with the voices of Ewan McGregor, Halle Berry, Robin Williams and Greg KinnearFilm/Animated Movie/Drama
21:00The Godfather: Part II
Mafia don Michael Corleone sets out to clinch a make-or-break deal with an ageing gangster - but finds his plans torn apart by a traitor within the family. The plot is intercut with flashback sequences chronicling the early life of Michael's father Don Vito, as he makes the shift from immigrant grocery store clerk to Mafia kingpin. Francis Ford Coppola's Oscar-winning crime drama sequel, starring Al Pacino, Robert De Niro, Robert Duvall, Diane Keaton, Talia Shire, John Cazale and Lee StrasbergFilm/General Movie/Drama
00:50Suspiria
An aspiring American ballerina and her fellow students are stalked through the halls of their European dance school by a coven of evil witches intent on turning them into anything but graceful stage stars. Dario Argento's horror thriller, starring Jessica Harper, Stefania Casini and Flavio BucciFilm/Horror
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11:00The Straight Story[SUB AD]
An old man embarks on a bizarre cross-country journey to visit his estranged brother, hoping to heal the rift between them before it is too late. Though his eyesight leaves much to be desired, he carries on regardless - choosing a motorised lawnmower as his form of transport. David Lynch's drama, starring Richard Farnsworth, Sissy Spacek, Jane Galloway, Everett McGill and Harry Dean StantonFilm/General Movie/Drama
13:10Jane Eyre[SUB AD BW]
A naive young woman becomes governess in a mysterious Yorkshire mansion and before long she is completely besotted with her charismatic but intimidating employer. Little does she suspect he is concealing a dark secret from her. Romantic period drama based on Charlotte Bronte's novel, starring Joan Fontaine, Orson Welles, Agnes Moorehead and Margaret O'BrienFilm/General Movie/Drama
15:05Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind
A post-apocalyptic tribe faces constant danger from a rival faction and a species of giant insects. The daughter of the kingdom's leader hopes to find a way to communicate peacefully with the bugs rather than destroying them, only to uncover a plan to repeat the cataclysm that nearly destroyed their world. Hayao Miyazaki's animated fantasy, with the voices of Patrick Stewart, Alison Lohman and Uma ThurmanFilm/Animated Movie/Drama/Fantasy
17:25The Mark of Zorro[SUB AD]
A 19th-century nobleman returns to his Californian home to find the local people living under the tyranny of a cruel military officer. He adopts the guise of a masked hero, fighting oppression wherever he finds it, while acting like a foppish aristocrat in his day-to-day life to avoid suspicion. Swashbuckling adventure, starring Frank Langella and Ricardo MontalbanFilm/Adventure/War
19:00Three Men and a Baby
The lives of three flat-sharing bachelors are turned upside down when they discover a baby on their doorstep. While trying to get to grips with the necessary parenting skills, they find themselves under threat from criminals searching for missing drugs. Comedy, directed by Leonard Nimoy, starring Tom Selleck, Ted Danson, Steve Guttenberg and Nancy TravisFilm/Comedy
21:00The War of the Roses
A Washington lawyer and his wife decide to divorce, but when it comes to dividing possessions - especially their magnificent house - it turns into an increasingly ferocious battle of wills, schemes and one-upmanship which is likely to end in tears. Black comedy, starring Michael Douglas, Kathleen Turner and Danny DeVito, who also directedFilm/Comedy
23:15The Accused
A down-at-heel waitress vows to bring to justice the gang who raped her in a small-town bar - but is shocked when her attackers are given a light sentence. Determined not to be beaten, she persuades the district attorney to prosecute the men who watched the attack but did nothing to stop it. Oscar-winning drama, starring Jodie Foster, Kelly McGillis, Bernie Coulson, Leo Rossi and Woody BrownFilm/General Movie/Drama
01:25My Beautiful Laundrette
An Asian teenager joins forces with a former National Front member to open a trendy laundrette, but as the project develops, so does the boys' relationship - leading to mixed feelings and racial tension. Stephen Frears' comedy drama, starring Daniel Day-Lewis, Gordon Warnecke and Saeed Jaffrey. Written by Hanif KureishiFilm/General Movie/Drama
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11:00The Good Die Young[SUB AD BW]
A psychotic playboy persuades three equally troubled crooks to help rob a mail van. However, while the heist itself succeeds, violent tensions among the gang members threaten to ruin their triumph. Thriller, starring Laurence Harvey, Richard Basehart and Joan CollinsFilm/Detective/Thriller
12:55Seance on a Wet Afternoon[SUB BW]
A self-professed medium with a greed for money and publicity arranges the kidnap of a wealthy industrialist's daughter, with the intention of winning acclaim and the ransom when she locates the child using her alleged psychic powers. British psychological thriller, starring Kim Stanley, Richard Attenborough, Mark Eden, Nanette Newman, Gerald Sim and Judith DonnerFilm/Detective/Thriller
15:10Heaven Can Wait[SUB HD]
A roguish playboy dies and goes to Hell, but the Devil is not convinced he has sinned enough or has the wicked credentials to gain entry. This prompts the old rascal to recount the story of his outrageously immoral life, from stealing his cousin's fiancee to meddling in his son's romance with a singer. Fantasy comedy, starring Don Ameche, Laird Cregar, Gene Tierney and Spring ByingtonFilm/Fantasy/Comedy
17:20Springfield Rifle
A Union officer is given a fake court martial and discharged so he can infiltrate a Confederate cavalry outpost and covertly identify the renegade Union soldiers who are supplying the enemy with firearms and horses. American Civil War Western adventure, starring Gary Cooper, Phyllis Thaxter and Lon Chaney JrFilm/Western
19:10Baby's Day Out[HD]
Three kidnappers hatch a plan to pose as society reporters and kidnap the baby son of a wealthy couple - but the youngster escapes and goes wandering around New York, evading the bungling crooks' every attempt to recapture him. Comedy, starring Joe Mantegna, Lara Flynn Boyle, Joe Pantoliano and Brian HaleyFilm/Comedy
21:00The Full Monty[SUB AD HD]
Six unemployed Sheffield steelworkers struggling to make ends meet decide to become strippers for one night only in a bid to raise some extra money. However, with no dancing experience and far from perfect physiques, the men are relying on the unique selling point of complete nudity to impress the punters. Comedy, starring Robert Carlyle, Mark Addy, Tom Wilkinson, Hugo Speer and Paul BarberFilm/Comedy
22:45Big Trouble In Little China[SUB HD]
A dim-witted but fearless trucker goes in search of his friend's kidnapped fiancee in Los Angeles' Chinatown, only to blunder into a supernatural world ruled by a powerful immortal sorcerer. Comedy fantasy adventure, starring Kurt Russell, Dennis Dun, Kim Cattrall, James Hong and Victor WongFilm/Fantasy/Comedy
00:40Alexandra
Premiere. When Alexandra Nikolaevna visits her grandson, a conscript based in a camp outside Grozny, she is appalled by the conditions endured by the soldiers. As she struggles to come to terms with the realities of military life and following an encounter with a kindly local, she finds herself questioning the need for hostilities. Drama set during the Chechen conflict, starring Galina Vishnevskaya, Vasily Shevtsov and Raisa GichaevaFilm/General Movie/Drama
02:30Small Time
A gang of inept small time crooks carries out a series of disastrous attempts to get rich. The leader of the group begins to worry he is losing the respect of his sidekicks, while one gang member risks losing his girlfriend for spending too much time on his life of crime. Comedy drama, directed by and starring Shane Meadows. With Mat Hand and Dena SmilesFilm/General Movie/Drama/Comedy
03:40Where's the Money, Ronnie?[SUB BW REP]
Award-winning short crime comedy following a bungled robbery which sees the anti-hero being blamed for the ensuing chaosComedy
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11:00Porco Rosso[HD]
A 1930s flying ace cursed with the head of a pig scrapes a living protecting ships in the Adriatic from airborne bandits. However, his daring deeds look set to come to an abrupt end when a deadly rival attempts to ground the plucky porker - permanently. Hayao Miyazaki's animated adventure, with the voices of Shuichiro Moriyama and Tokiko KatoFilm/Animated Movie/Drama
12:50A Ticket to Tomahawk[SUB HD]
The daughter of a railway pioneer sets out to prove her trains can beat a rival's stagecoaches to the same destination. However, the competition is marred by a campaign of dirty tricks, and the locomotive passengers - a travelling salesman and a chorus of showgirls - get dragged into the conflict. Comedy Western, starring Dan Dailey, Anne Baxter, Arthur Hunnicutt and Walter BrennanFilm/Comedy/Western
14:40David and Bathsheba[SUB HD]
King David embarks on a reckless affair with the wife of a loyal soldier, and arranges for her husband to be killed. In time he starts to neglect his duties to his people, finally incurring the wrath of God - who sends drought and famine to plague the land, forcing David to atone. Biblical drama, starring Gregory Peck, Susan Hayward, Raymond Massey and Kieron MooreFilm/General Movie/Drama
16:55The Hunters[SUB HD]
A former Second World War pilot leads a squadron on a series of daring missions deep into enemy territory in Korea. However, one assignment seems set to fail as a flight lieutenant's nerve cracks under the strain and the squadron leader tries to save the situation. Action adventure, starring Robert Mitchum, Robert Wagner, Richard Egan, May Britt and Lee PhilipsFilm/Adventure/War
19:00Eragon[SUB AD HD]
A young farm boy discovers a dragon's egg, which hatches into the last surviving specimen of its mighty race. His friendship with the winged creature soon comes in handy when he discovers he is destined to overthrow the evil tyrant who has taken control of the kingdom. Fantasy adventure, starring Edward Speleers, Jeremy Irons, Robert Carlyle and John Malkovich, with Rachel Weisz providing the voice of the dragonFilm/Fantasy
21:00Braveheart[SUB HD]
Account of the life of medieval Scottish hero William Wallace. After the slaughter of his father and brother, young Wallace is taken in by his uncle, who teaches him how to use not only his brawn but his brain - which he employs to great effect years later when he resolves to drive the English out of Scotland. Oscar-winning historical epic, directed by and starring Mel Gibson. With Patrick McGoohan, Sophie Marceau and Catherine McCormackFilm/General Movie/Drama
00:20Comrades[HD]
The story of the Tolpuddle Martyrs, the 19th-century farm labourers who took a stand against the harsh treatment and poor wages handed out by the land owner who employed them. Fearing the loss of his livelihood, the ruthless farmer takes desperate measures to crush the uprising. Historical drama, starring Robin Soans, Robert Stephens and Michael HordernFilm/General Movie/Drama
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11:00The Way Home
A spoilt seven-year-old boy is horrified when he is sent to live with his mute grandmother in a remote area of South Korea. At first the poverty and the solitude prove too much for him - but, as time passes, his anger begins to ebb away and he develops a deep affection for the old lady. Drama, starring Eul-boon Kim, Seung-ho Yu and Hyo-hee DongFilm/General Movie/Drama
12:45Gaslight[SUB BW]
A newlywed couple move into the former residence of an heiress who was murdered 20 years earlier. Rumours persist of a priceless stash of rubies hidden within the house and, when an ex-policeman recognises the husband as a relative of the murdered woman, he suspects the man has returned to claim the missing loot. Thriller, starring Anton Walbrook, Diana Wynyard, Frank Pettingell and Cathleen CordellFilm/Detective/Thriller
14:30Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines[SUB HD]
In a bid to boost the sales of his newspaper, a publisher offers to sponsor the first London-to-Paris air race. Among the motley assortment of characters that signs up for the challenge is a scheming nobleman bent on sabotaging the efforts of the other entrants. British period comedy, starring Terry-Thomas, Sarah Miles, James Fox, Robert Morley, Benny Hill, Tony Hancock, Eric Sykes and Gert FrobeFilm/Comedy
17:05The Time Machine
A Victorian scientist creates a machine that catapults him through time and sends him far into the future to a nightmarish age when the human race has divided into two species - one a gentle childlike race dwelling on the surface of the planet, the other a subterranean tribe of cannibals. Sci-fi adventure, starring Rod Taylo, Yvette Mimieux, Alan Young and Sebastian CabotFilm/Science Fiction
19:10Taxi[SUB HD]
A bumbling New York cop is unable to pursue a gang of bank robbers in their souped-up getaway car because he does not have a driving licence. Fortunately, help is on hand in the form of a taxi driver with dreams of becoming a racing driver, and whose customised cab can give the crooks a run for their money. Comedy thriller remake, starring Queen Latifah, Jimmy Fallon and Gisele BundchenFilm/Comedy
21:00The Sentinel[SUB HD]
A secret service agent is convinced a member of a neo-Nazi militant group has infiltrated the White House. But his attempt to investigate comes to a halt when he is framed for murder and blackmailed over his affair with the president's wife. As he battles to clear his name, his former protege is given the task of bringing him to justice. Spy thriller, starring Michael Douglas, Kiefer Sutherland, Eva Longoria Parker, Kim Basinger and the late Jackie BurroughsFilm/Detective/Thriller
23:05Que la bete meure
A grieving father becomes obsessed with avenging his son's death in a car accident, and ingratiates himself with the family of the driver. However, his conscience is pricked by his closeness to the family, while someone else also has murder on their mind. French thriller, directed by the late Claude Chabrol and starring Michael Duchaussoy and Caroline CellierFilm/Detective/Thriller
01:15The Hole
Four school friends escape the tedium of a field trip by hiding in an underground bunker, only to realise they are inexplicably sealed in. As panic gnaws away at them, tensions inevitably rise, and they desperately try to work out how they can escape. Thriller, starring Thora Birch, Keira Knightley, Desmond Harrington, Daniel Brocklebank, Embeth Davidtz and Steven WaddingtonFilm/Detective/Thriller
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Dallas (Film)
Western starring Gary Cooper as Blayde Hollister, an ex-Confederate officer who poses as a newly appointed US Marshal to exact vengance against brothers Bryant, Will and Longfellow Maarlow for plundering his estate and murdering his family.
Director: Stuart Heisler
Starring: Gary Cooper, Ruth Roman, Steve Cochran, Raymond Massey, Barbara Payton
(Subtitles, U, 1950, 3 Star)
12:50
The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex (Film)
Nominated for five Oscars, Michael Curtiz's lush historical drama stars Bette Davis as Queen Elizabeth I, with Errol Flynn as one of her favourites, the Earl of Essex. She is infatuated with him but is also aware he has designs on her throne. Essex, while not immune to her charms, has a roving eye which encourages Lady Penelope Gray, only for her hopes to be dashed. Donald Crisp plays Francis Bacon, friend to both the Queen and the Earl while among those plotting Essex's downfall are Sir Walter Raleigh and Sir Robert Cecil.
Director: Michael Curtiz
Starring: Bette Davis, Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Donald Crisp, Alan Hale Jr., Vincent Price
(Subtitles, U, 1939, 3 Star)
14:55
Hills of Home (Film)
Fred M Wilcox directs this adventure, starring Lassie and Edmund Gwenn as her owner, Dr William MacLure. Lassie has an aversion to water, despite the doctor's best efforts to coax her into it, but when his life is in danger, she overcomes her phobia and saves him. Unfortunately, not soon enough, but MacLure manages to pass on her ownership to the two romantic leads, Tammas Milton and Margit Mitchell.
Director: Fred M. Wilcox
Starring: Edmund Gwenn, Donald Crisp, Tom Drake, Janet Leigh, Rhys Williams, Reginald Owen
(Subtitles, U, 1948, 3 Star)
16:45
Guns of the Magnificent Seven (Film)
The third outing for the Magnificent Seven is led by George Kennedy as Chris, the legendary gunman enlisted to help free the incarcerated rebel leader Quinetero and aid the Mexican revolution. He assembles a posse of disparate fighters, including James Whitmore, Monte Markham, Joe Don Baker and Scott Thomas, and they head for the prison and a date with destiny.
Director: Paul Wendkos
Starring: George Kennedy, James Whit, Monte Markham, Reni Santoni, Bernie Casey, Scott Thomas
(Subtitles, Audio Described, PG, 1969, 2 Star)
18:50
The Family Stone (Film)
Thomas Bezucha's wry, sharp comedy/drama looks at a family in upheaval during the Christmas period. Everett Stone brings his fiancee Meredith Morton to his family home for the festive season. Matriarch Sybil Stone doesn't approve of her and leads the family attack on Meredith but cracks start to appear in the family's own relationship and painful, occasionally amusing truths appear. Edited for language.
Director: Thomas Bezucha
Starring: Claire Danes, Diane Keaton, Rachel McAdams, Dermot Mulroney, Craig T. Nelson, Sarah Jessica Parker
(Widescreen, Subtitles, Audio Described, PG, 2005, 3 Star)
21:00
Walk the Line (Film)
Oscar-nominee Joaquin Phoenix plays Johnny Cash, and Oscar-winner Reese Witherspoon plays June Carter in James Mangold's acclaimed biographical film about country music's legendary 'man in black'. The film follows Cash from his childhood, where he was touched by tragedy, through his years on the road to his marriage to June Carter, who was country royalty, and their struggle to find happiness as she weans him off booze and drugs. Walk the Line is a warts-and-all biopic, showing Cash's faults as well as his undoubted star quality as one of the greatest singer/songwriters that America has ever produced.
Director: James Mangold
Starring: Joaquin Phoenix, Reese Witherspoon, Ginnifer Goodwin, Robert Patrick, Dallas Roberts, Dan John Miller
(Widescreen, Subtitles, Audio Described, 12, 2005, 4 Star)
23:35
Lucky Number Slevin (Film)
Paul McGuigan's tricksy thriller stars Josh Hartnett as Slevin Kelevra, who pitches up at his friend's New York apartment, only to find it empty. He makes himself at home, but his peace is interrupted by employees of crime lord The Boss, who mistake him for his absent friend, who owes The Boss $96,000. But The Boss makes Slevin an offer: kill the son of his rival, The Rabbi, and the debt will be wiped clean. But The Rabbi soon gets hold of Slevin and makes a counter-offer. Add in cynical assassin Mr Goodkat, who is playing both ends against the middle in what might be a long-term plan, and Lucy Liu as Lindsey, Slevin's next-door neighbour, who soon becomes his love interest, and the result is a multi-stranded double-cross, but one with only one lucky winner.
Director: Paul McGuigan
Starring: Josh Hartnett, Bruce Willis, Lucy Liu, Morgan Freeman, Ben Kingsley, Michael Rubenfeld
(Editor's Choice, Widescreen, Subtitles, 18, 2006, 4 Star)
01:40
Solaris (Film)
Steven Soderbergh's re-make of the classic Andrei Torkovsky film stars George Clooney as Chris Kelvin, a therapist sent to mentor a group of astronauts on the Prometheus space station, where the remaining crew are both locked in their own fears, speaking of visions of lost loved ones. Kelvin is, at first, sceptical, but when his deceased wife appears to him, he begins to wonder what influence the mysterious planet Solaris has on the human psyche.
Director: Steven Soderbergh
Starring: George Clooney, Natascha McElhone, Viola Davis, Jeremy Davies, Ulrich Tukur, John Cho
(Subtitles, 12, 2002, 3 Star)
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11:00
The Spy in Black (Film)
Michael Powell's classic espionage thriller stars Conrad Veidt as Captain Hardt, a WWI German submarine commander-turned-spy sent to the Orkneys, where he is foiled by double agent Jill Blacklock.
Director: Michael Powell
Starring: Conrad Veidt, Sebastian Shaw, Valerie Hobson, Marius Goring, June Duprez, Athole Stewart
(Black and White, Subtitles, U, 1939, 4 Star)
12:40
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12:45
The Barbarian and the Geisha (Film)
John Wayne's only collaboration with director John Huston is based on the true story of Townsend Harris, America's first consul to Japan in 1856. At first spurned by both the locals and the Japanese hierarchy, he manages to gain their trust both through his assistance during a cholera epidemic and his blossoming relationship with the beautiful geisha Okichi.
Director: John Huston
Starring: John Wayne, Eiko Ando, Sam Jaffe, SĂ´ Yamamura
(Widescreen, Subtitles, U, 1958, 2 Star)
14:50
Ride the High Country (Film)
Sam Peckinpah's western classic in which once-respected, now down-on-his-luck lawman Steve Judd accepts the job of transporting gold from a remote mining camp to a small-town bank. Judd meets his former colleague Gil Westrum and his young assistant Hank Longtree, who agree to join Judd, but plan to steal the gold en-route.
Director: Sam Peckinpah
Starring: Joel McCrea, Randolph Scott, Mariette Hartley, Ron Starr, Edgar Buchanan, R.G. Armstrong
(Subtitles, PG, 1962, 4 Star)
16:40
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16:50
Warlock (Film)
Gunfighter Curt was supposed to be the saviour of Warlock. But after he turns out wilder than the cowboys he was hired to tame, former gunslinger Johnny joins the good guys as sheriff.
Director: Edward Dmytryk
Starring: Richard Widmark, Henry Fonda, Anthony Quinn, Dorothy Malone, Dolores Michaels, Wallace Ford
(Subtitles, U, 1959, 4 Star)
19:10
Hot Shots! (Film)
Topper Harley is a maverick air force pilot who constantly lives in the shadow of his father's legacy. Unable to handle the pressure, Harley has left the Air Force to live among a tribe of Native Americans. But when the United States seeks to destroy some Iraqi nuclear facilities there's only one man for the job.
Director: Jim Abrahams
Starring: Charlie Sheen, Cary Elwes, Valeria Golino, Lloyd Bridges, Kevin Dunn, Jon Cryer
(Widescreen, Subtitles, PG, 1991, 4 Star)
20:50
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21:00
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Film)
McMurphy, a social misfit who finds himself locked up in an insane asylum through his own choice to avoid a prison sentance. Whilst there he encourages his fellow inmates (DeVito, Lloyd and Dourif among them) into acts of rebellion, joyous freedom and self-expression. The authorities, principally in the shape of the formidable Nurse Ratched, react with increasing violence to McMurphy's dangerous ideas with terrible final consequences for McMurphy.
Director: Milos Forman
Starring: Jack Nicholson, Louise Fletcher, William Redfield, Michael Berryman, Danny DeVito, Peter Brocco
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 18, 1975, 5 Star)
23:35
Terminal Velocity (Film)
Deran Sarafian's all-action film stars Charlie Sheen as Richard 'Ditch' Brodie, a skydiving instructor. He's approached by a new pupil, Chris Morrow but while he takes his eye off her, she makes an unscheduled jump which ends in tragedy. Facing a manslaughter charge, Brodie starts his own investigations only to find himself caught up in a conspiracy involving stolen gold, the Russian mafia and enough bullets and explosions to last him a lifetime.
Director: Deran Serafian
Starring: Charlie Sheen, Nastassja Kinski, James Gandolfini, Christopher McDonald, Gary Bullock, Hans Howes
(15, 1994, 3 Star)
01:35
Taxidermia (Film)
György Pálfi's bizarre, sometimes grotesque film is set over three generations, beginning with Csaba Czene as Morosgoványi Vendel, a sexually frustrated orderly during the war who relieves his tensions in the most outlandish, gross ways. The result of his liaison is Balatony Kálmán, a glutton who grows up to be a champion speed eater. He produces a child, Balatony Lajoska who becomes obsessed with taxidermy to such an unhealthy degree, he practises his craft before the subject is fully dead.
Director: György Pálfi
Starring: Csaba Czene, Gergely Trócsányi, Marc Bischoff, István Gyuricza, Piroska Molnár, Gábor Máté
(In Hungarian/Russian/English with English Subtitles, Widescreen, 18, 2006, 3 Star)
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11:00
The Tall Men (Film)
Rousing action Western about a Civil War veteran who, with his brother Cameron Mitchell, agrees to crooked cattleman Robert Ryan's offer to be trail boss on a massive cattle drive from Texas to Montana. On the way they meet Nella from the Indians who decides to ride with them.
Director: Raoul Walsh
Starring: Clark Gable, Jane Russell, Robert Ryan, Cameron Mitchell, Juan GarcĂa, Harry Shannon
(Subtitles, U, 1955, 3 Star)
13:20
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13:25
The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex (Film)
Nominated for five Oscars, Michael Curtiz's lush historical drama stars Bette Davis as Queen Elizabeth I, with Errol Flynn as one of her favourites, the Earl of Essex. She is infatuated with him but is also aware he has designs on her throne. Essex, while not immune to her charms, has a roving eye which encourages Lady Penelope Gray, only for her hopes to be dashed. Donald Crisp plays Francis Bacon, friend to both the Queen and the Earl while among those plotting Essex's downfall are Sir Walter Raleigh and Sir Robert Cecil.
Director: Michael Curtiz
Starring: Bette Davis, Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Donald Crisp, Alan Hale Jr., Vincent Price
(Subtitles, U, 1939, 3 Star)
15:30
Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines (Film)
For a brief period in the 60s, there was a fad for madcap movies such as It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, Monte Carlo or Bust, The Great Race and Around the World in 80 Days, and Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines rightfully joins the list of those that worked. Newspaper publisher Lord Rawnsley puts up a ÂŁ10,000 prize for the winner of a flight from London to Paris and soon his daughter Patricia, her would-be husband Richard, his rival for her hand and a motley collection of aviators are gathered, ready for the race to begin. Among them, of course, is the requisite villain, Sir Percy Ware-Armitage, aided by his put-upon servant Courtney. Although the gags are flagged, the cast are all game for the fun and respect should go to cinematographer Christopher Challis and the anonymous stuntmen who, for some of the scenes, had to fly planes that were only slightly more robust than the original pre-WWI craft they were modelled on.
Director: Ken Annakin
Starring: Stuart Whitman, Sarah Miles, James Fox, Alberto Sordi, Robert Morley, Gert Fröbe
(Widescreen, Subtitles, U, 1965, 3 Star)
18:05
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18:15
Anna and the King (Film)
Jodie Foster stars as Anna Leonowens, a prim English governess engaged by King Mongkut of Siam to educate his children. At first, the two cultures clash but as the pair get to know each other, romance begins to blossom, threatened only by a plot against the throne.
Director: Andy Tennant
Starring: Jodie Foster, Yun-Fat Chow, Ling Bai, Tom Felton, Syed Alwi, Randall Duk Kim
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 12, 1999, 3 Star)
21:00
Mr. & Mrs. Smith (Film)
Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie star in Doug Liman's all-action thriller as an apparently typical suburban couple, attending marriage counselling in an attempt to reignite their relationship. What neither of them knows is that the other is a highly skilled assassin; until they each get a call for their next job. Accidentally double-booked, they both discover the truth about their spouse's secret existence and are now in danger, not only from their respective organisations, but also from each other. But it's amazing what the frisson of danger can do for a jaded marriage... As well as becoming an off-screen item during filming, Pitt and Jolie play a believable couple on screen, bickering through the mayhem and looking like they actually had fun making the film.
Director: Doug Liman
Starring: Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie, Vince Vaughn, Adam Brody, Kerry Washington, Keith David
(Widescreen, Subtitles, Audio Described, 15, 2005, 3 Star)
23:15
Tulpan (Film)
Sergei Dvortsevoy's amazing Cannes-winning comedy drama is set on Kazakhstan's bleak Hunger Steppe where Asa, a young sailor recently discharged from the Russian Navy, is living in a yurt with his sister Samai and her family. He is determined to become a shepherd and to marry a local woman but the only single one is Tulpan, who turns him down because his ears are too big. Can Asa change her mind and can he and Samai halt the increase in stillborn lambs in their flock?
Director: Sergei Dvortsevoy
Starring: Tolepbergen Baisakalov, Ondas Besikbasov, Samal Esljamova, Askhat Kuchencherekov, Bereke Turganbayev
(Premiere, In Kazakh and Russian with English Subtitles, 12, 2008, 4 Star)
01:10
The Dreamers (Film)
Bernado Bertolucci's film, scripted by Gilbert Adair from his novel, and set in 1968, stars Michael Pitt as an American student who enters the lives of Parisians Theo and his sister Isabelle. The three share a love of the movies but soon their relationship is one of sexual entanglement. The film's plot is counter-pointed with extracts from classic films that almost act as a Greek chorus on their relationships, while the trio's reality is affected by the growing unrest on the streets.
Director: Bernardo Bertolucci
Starring: Michael Pitt, Eva Green, Louis Garrel, Anna Chancellor, Robin Renucci, Jean-Pierre Kalfon
(In English and French with English Subtitles, Widescreen, 18, 2003, 2 Star)
03:25
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03:25
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11:00
The Iron Petticoat (Film)
Katharine Hepburn plays a humourless Russian, Captain Vinka Kovelenko, who defects from her home country. Major Chuck Lockwood is assigned to show her the bright lights of London while she tries to convince him of the superiority of communism. Naturally, the two opposites fall in love but then must contend with the KGB, who are not happy with the idea of one of their officers running around free in London in this comedy.
Director: Ralph L. Thomas
Starring: Bob Hope, Katharine Hepburn, Noelle Middleton, James Robertson-Justice, Robert Helpmann, David Kossoff
(Subtitles, PG, 1956, 3 Star)
12:50
Conspiracy of Hearts (Film)
In 1943 in Italy, Mother Katharine and Sister Mitya are part of a group of nuns helping to smuggle orphaned Jewish children out of an internment camp. Their covert activities are initially aided by the camp commandant, a sympathetic Italian major, but when he is replaced by a Nazi colonel and a lieutenant the nuns find themselves in much more danger.
Director: Ralph L. Thomas
Starring: Lilli Palmer, Sylvia Syms, Yvonne Mitchell, Ronald Lewis, Albert Lieven, Peter Arne
(Black and White, Subtitles, U, 1960, 3 Star)
15:00
The Valley of Gwangi (Film)
Dinosaurs meet cowboys in Jim O'Connolly's cult film, with the monsters animated by the inimitable Ray Harryhausen. In a small Mexican town, horse trader Tuck Kirby meets up with old flame T J Breckinridge, owner of a rundown circus. He runs into palaeontologist Professor Horace Bromley, who has found a living eohippus, the prehistoric ancestor of the horse. Nursing their own agendas, the scientist and the cowboy venture into the Forbidden Valley only to find that larger, more deadly creatures have survived from prehistoric times.
Director: Jim O'Connolly
Starring: James Franciscus, Gila Golan, Richard Carlson, Laurence Naismith, Freda Jackson, Gustavo Rojo
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 12, 1968, 2 Star)
16:50
Dallas (Film)
Western starring Gary Cooper as Blayde Hollister, an ex-Confederate officer who poses as a newly appointed US Marshal to exact vengance against brothers Bryant, Will and Longfellow Maarlow for plundering his estate and murdering his family.
Director: Stuart Heisler
Starring: Gary Cooper, Ruth Roman, Steve Cochran, Raymond Massey, Barbara Payton
(Subtitles, U, 1950, 3 Star)
18:40
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18:50
How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days (Film)
Andie Anderson writes an advice column for a fashionable magazine and agrees to demonstrate how easy it is to attract and then alienate a man in just ten days. She chooses Benjamin Barry, little knowing he's an advertising executive whose job rests on proving he understands women so well that he can make one fall for him in two weeks. Donald Petrie's comedy sees the two unknowingly played at their own game in this witty battle of the sexes. Edited for language.
Director: Donald Petrie
Starring: Kate Hudson, Matthew McConaughey, Kathryn Hahn, Annie Parisse, Adam Goldberg, Thomas Lennon
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 12, 2003, 3 Star)
21:00
The Magdalene Sisters (Film)
Peter Mullan's award-winning film tells the story of four of the inmates of one of Ireland's Magdalene Laundries, brutal nun-run institutions housing single mothers, orphans and 'promiscuous' girls. Run with a rod of iron by Sister Bridget, the inmates' only solace is their friendship.
Director: Peter Mullan
Starring: Geraldine McEwan, Anne-Marie Duff, Nora-Jane Noone, Dorothy Duffy, Eileen Walsh, Mary Murray
(Subtitles, Audio Described, 15, 2002, 4 Star)
23:15
Lucky Number Slevin (Film)
Paul McGuigan's tricksy thriller stars Josh Hartnett as Slevin Kelevra, who pitches up at his friend's New York apartment, only to find it empty. He makes himself at home, but his peace is interrupted by employees of crime lord The Boss, who mistake him for his absent friend, who owes The Boss $96,000. But The Boss makes Slevin an offer: kill the son of his rival, The Rabbi, and the debt will be wiped clean. But The Rabbi soon gets hold of Slevin and makes a counter-offer. Add in cynical assassin Mr Goodkat, who is playing both ends against the middle in what might be a long-term plan, and Lucy Liu as Lindsey, Slevin's next-door neighbour, who soon becomes his love interest, and the result is a multi-stranded double-cross, but one with only one lucky winner.
Director: Paul McGuigan
Starring: Josh Hartnett, Bruce Willis, Lucy Liu, Morgan Freeman, Ben Kingsley, Michael Rubenfeld
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 18, 2006, 4 Star)
01:20
In America (Film)
Jim Sheridan's Oscar-nominated drama stars Paddy Considine as Johnny, a would-be actor, who emigrates from Ireland to New York with his wife Sarah and daughters Christy and Ariel. While he searches for work, his wife tries to keep the family above the poverty line, with their lives complicated by enigmatic neighbour Mateo, who alternates between rages and affection for the family.
Director: Jim Sheridan
Starring: Paddy Considine, Samantha Morton, Sarah Bolger, Emma Bolger, Neal Jones, Randall Carlton
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 15, 2003, 3 Star)
03:20
The Social Network Special (Documentary)
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11:00
I Am Cuba (Film)
Showing in a restored version, Russian director Mikhail Kalatozov's propaganda film charts the rise of the Cuban revolution through four stories; a prostitute, a farmer, student revolutionaries and finally, Castro's forces are profiled to show the evil of the Batista regime and the right of the revolutionaries to fight him. Although the politics are somewhat obvious, the film is rightly revered for its artistry, with Kalatozov using techniques, angles and set-up that were, at the time, genuinely revolutionary.
Director: Mikhail Kalatozov
Starring: Sergio Corrieri, Salvador Wood, JosĂ© Gallardo, RaĂşl JimĂ©nez, Luz MarĂa Collazo, Jean Bouise
(Subtitles, Subtitled, In Spanish with English Subtitles, Black and White, PG, 1964, 4 Star)
13:45
Sea Wife (Film)
An offbeat melodrama. An RAF officer, a Sea Wife, a nun, a brash businessman and a purser all end up drifting on a life raft in the Indian Ocean after their ship is torpedoed. Romantic and racial tensions divide the four as they hope for rescue in Bob McNaught's taut film.
Director: Bob McNaught
Starring: Joan Collins, Richard Burton, Basil Sydney, Cy Grant, Ronald Squire, Joan Hickson
(Subtitles, U, 1957, 2 Star)
15:25
Boomerang (Film)
Elia Kazan's Oscar-nominated classic noir thriller, based on a true-life case, stars Dana Andrews as Henry Harvey, a New England State Attorney who is determined to prove vagrant John Waldron innocent of the murder of a prominent churchman.
Director: Elia Kazan
Starring: Dana Andrews, Jane Wyatt, Lee J. Cobb, Cara Williams, Arthur Kennedy, Sam Levene
(Black and White, Subtitles, PG, 1947, 4 Star)
17:10
Death Drums along the River (Film)
Exciting location-filmed thriller based on Sanders of the River and starring Richard Todd as Inspector Sanders, investigating diamond smuggling, mystery and murder in deepest Africa.
Director: Lawrence Huntington
Starring: Richard Todd, Marianne Koch, Vivi Bach, Albert Lieven, Walter Rilla, Jeremy Lloyd
(Subtitles, PG, 1963, 2 Star)
18:50
The Family Stone (Film)
Thomas Bezucha's wry, sharp comedy/drama looks at a family in upheaval during the Christmas period. Everett Stone brings his fiancee Meredith Morton to his family home for the festive season. Matriarch Sybil Stone doesn't approve of her and leads the family attack on Meredith but cracks start to appear in the family's own relationship and painful, occasionally amusing truths appear. Edited for language.
Director: Thomas Bezucha
Starring: Claire Danes, Diane Keaton, Rachel McAdams, Dermot Mulroney, Craig T. Nelson, Sarah Jessica Parker
(Widescreen, Subtitles, Audio Described, PG, 2005, 3 Star)
20:50
The Social Network Special (Documentary)
Writer Aaron Sorkin and stars Jesse Eisenberg, Andrew Garfield and Justin Timberlake talk about their acclaimed new drama The Social Network.
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21:00
The Insider (Film)
"60 Minutes" producer Lowell Bergman sniffs a story when a former research biologist for Brown & Williamson, Dr. Jeffrey Wigand, won't talk to him. When the company leans hard on Wigand to honour a confidentiality agreement, he gets his back up. Trusting Bergman and despite a crumbling marriage, he goes on camera for a Mike Wallace interview and risks arrest for contempt of court.
Director: Michael Mann
Starring: Al Pacino, Russell Crowe, Christopher Plummer, Diane Venora, Philip Baker Hall, Lindsay Crouse
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 15, 1999, 4 Star)
00:05
Dance with a Stranger (Film)
Miranda Richardson stars in this moving recreation of the events that led Ruth Ellis to become the last woman in Britain to be hanged, telling the story of her torrid love affair with handsome racing driver and its tragic consequences. With Stratford Johns, Ian Holm and Matthew Carol.
Director: Mike Newell
Starring: Miranda Richardson, Rupert Everett, Ian Holm, Stratford Johns, Joanne Whalley, Tom Chadbon
(Subtitles, 15, 1985, 3 Star)
02:00
The Hole (Film)
Nick Hamm's dark thriller sees public school student Thora Birch desperate for the attention of handsome Desmond Harrington. Fellow pupil Daniel Brocklebank suggests the pair plus two other friends bunk off a geography school trip and sneak off to a disused bomb shelter for three days where she'll have a chance to make her move. But after three days, Brocklebank isn't back to release the four and, as the days go on, the four are, literally, dying to get out. Told in flashback by one survivor, this is one of the most chilling films of recent years and proof that British directors can do cerebral horror.
Director: Nick Hamm
Starring: Thora Birch, Desmond Harrington, Daniel Brocklebank, Laurence Fox, Keira Knightley, Embeth Davidtz
(Subtitles, 15, 2001, 3 Star)
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11:00
Flight of the Phoenix (Film)
Robert Aldrich's classic drama stars James Stewart as Frank Towns, pilot of a plane transporting workers and cargo from an oil field back to town. Caught in a sandstorm, the plane crashes hundreds of miles off course, the radio destroyed. As the days go by, all hope of rescue fades until Heinrich Dorfmann announces he is an aeroplane designer and, by cannibalising the wrecked plane, he can build a craft to fly them to safety. The outstanding cast also includes Richard Attenborough, Peter Finch, Ernest Borgnine, Ian Bannen and Ronald Fraser.
Director: Robert Aldrich
Starring: James Stewart, Richard Attenborough, Peter Finch, Hardy KrĂĽger, Ernest Borgnine, Ian Bannen
(Subtitles, PG, 1966, 3 Star)
13:45
The Tall Men (Film)
Rousing action Western about a Civil War veteran who, with his brother Cameron Mitchell, agrees to crooked cattleman Robert Ryan's offer to be trail boss on a massive cattle drive from Texas to Montana. On the way they meet Nella from the Indians who decides to ride with them.
Director: Raoul Walsh
Starring: Clark Gable, Jane Russell, Robert Ryan, Cameron Mitchell, Juan GarcĂa, Harry Shannon
(Subtitles, U, 1955, 3 Star)
16:05
Doctor Dolittle (Film)
Rex Harrison stars in Richard Fleischer's charming adaptation of Hugh Lofting's classic children's book as the eccentric Doctor Dolittle, who can converse with animals in 849 languages. Wrongly imprisoned for releasing a captive seal into the wild, he is rescued by his friend Tommy and the pair set off with Matthew Muggins is search of the mythical pink sea snail.
Director: Richard Fleischer
Starring: Rex Harrison, Samantha Eggar, Anthony Newley, Richard Attenborough, Peter Bull, Muriel Landers
(Subtitles, U, 1967, 3 Star)
18:55
Never Been Kissed (Film)
Romantic comedy where a former high-school nerd (now a reporter), Josie, gets a second chance to go back to school when she goes under cover to research her story on cool teens. Back in the classroom, Josie falls for English her teacher...will she reveal her true identity for him?
Director: Raja Gosnell
Starring: Drew Barrymore, David Arquette, Michael Vartan, Molly Shannon, Leelee Sobieski, Jeremy Jordan
(Widescreen, Subtitles, PG, 1999, 2 Star)
21:00
East is East (Film)
Damien O'Donnell's multi-award-winning comedy stars Om Puri as George Khan, a Pakistani immigrant who, along with his wife Ella, is trying to run his fish-and-chip shop while coping with their seven children. Despite his increasingly desperate attempts to raise them to honour traditional values, all they want to do is embrace the best that the West has to offer.
Director: Damien O'Donnell
Starring: Om Puri, Linda Bassett, Jordan Routledge, Archie Panjabi, Emil Marwa, Chris Bisson
(Widescreen, Subtitles, Audio Described, 15, 1999, 3 Star)
23:00
Cronos (Film)
Guillermo Del Toro's cult horror film stars Federico Luppi as antiques dealer Jesus Gris, who stumbles across the Cronos Device, the invention of a 14th-century alchemist. Beetle-like in look, its bite confers immortality on its victim and Gris succumbs to its powers. But also after the device is dying industrialist Dieter, who sends his thuggish nephew Angel de la Guardia on a mission to track it down.
Director: Guillermo Del Toro
Starring: Federico Luppi, Ron Perlman, Claudio Brook, Margarita Isabel, Tamara Shanath, Daniel Giménez Cacho
(18, 1993, 3 Star)
00:50
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Film)
McMurphy, a social misfit who finds himself locked up in an insane asylum through his own choice to avoid a prison sentance. Whilst there he encourages his fellow inmates (DeVito, Lloyd and Dourif among them) into acts of rebellion, joyous freedom and self-expression. The authorities, principally in the shape of the formidable Nurse Ratched, react with increasing violence to McMurphy's dangerous ideas with terrible final consequences for McMurphy.
Director: Milos Forman
Starring: Jack Nicholson, Louise Fletcher, William Redfield, Michael Berryman, Danny DeVito, Peter Brocco
(Editor's Choice, Widescreen, Subtitles, 18, 1975, 5 Star)
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11:00The Way Home
A spoilt seven-year-old boy is horrified when he is sent to live with his mute grandmother in a remote area of South Korea. At first the poverty and the solitude prove too much for him - but, as time passes, his anger begins to ebb away and he develops a deep affection for the old lady. Drama, starring Eul-boon Kim, Seung-ho Yu and Hyo-hee DongFilm/General Movie/Drama
12:45Gaslight[SUB BW]
A newlywed couple move into the former residence of an heiress who was murdered 20 years earlier. Rumours persist of a priceless stash of rubies hidden within the house and, when an ex-policeman recognises the husband as a relative of the murdered woman, he suspects the man has returned to claim the missing loot. Thriller, starring Anton Walbrook, Diana Wynyard, Frank Pettingell and Cathleen CordellFilm/Detective/Thriller
14:30Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines[SUB HD]
In a bid to boost the sales of his newspaper, a publisher offers to sponsor the first London-to-Paris air race. Among the motley assortment of characters that signs up for the challenge is a scheming nobleman bent on sabotaging the efforts of the other entrants. British period comedy, starring Terry-Thomas, Sarah Miles, James Fox, Robert Morley, Benny Hill, Tony Hancock, Eric Sykes and Gert FrobeFilm/Comedy
17:05The Time Machine
A Victorian scientist creates a machine that catapults him through time and sends him far into the future to a nightmarish age when the human race has divided into two species - one a gentle childlike race dwelling on the surface of the planet, the other a subterranean tribe of cannibals. Sci-fi adventure, starring Rod Taylo, Yvette Mimieux, Alan Young and Sebastian CabotFilm/Science Fiction
19:10Taxi[SUB HD]
A bumbling New York cop is unable to pursue a gang of bank robbers in their souped-up getaway car because he does not have a driving licence. Fortunately, help is on hand in the form of a taxi driver with dreams of becoming a racing driver, and whose customised cab can give the crooks a run for their money. Comedy thriller remake, starring Queen Latifah, Jimmy Fallon and Gisele BundchenFilm/Comedy
21:00The Sentinel[SUB HD]
A secret service agent is convinced a member of a neo-Nazi militant group has infiltrated the White House. But his attempt to investigate comes to a halt when he is framed for murder and blackmailed over his affair with the president's wife. As he battles to clear his name, his former protege is given the task of bringing him to justice. Spy thriller, starring Michael Douglas, Kiefer Sutherland, Eva Longoria Parker, Kim Basinger and the late Jackie BurroughsFilm/Detective/Thriller
23:05Que la bete meure
A grieving father becomes obsessed with avenging his son's death in a car accident, and ingratiates himself with the family of the driver. However, his conscience is pricked by his closeness to the family, while someone else also has murder on their mind. French thriller, directed by the late Claude Chabrol and starring Michael Duchaussoy and Caroline CellierFilm/Detective/Thriller
01:15The Hole
Four school friends escape the tedium of a field trip by hiding in an underground bunker, only to realise they are inexplicably sealed in. As panic gnaws away at them, tensions inevitably rise, and they desperately try to work out how they can escape. Thriller, starring Thora Birch, Keira Knightley, Desmond Harrington, Daniel Brocklebank, Embeth Davidtz and Steven WaddingtonFilm/Detective/Thriller
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03:25
The Social Network Special (Documentary)
Writer Aaron Sorkin and stars Jesse Eisenberg, Andrew Garfield and Justin Timberlake talk about their acclaimed new drama The Social Network.
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11:00
A Letter to Three Wives (Film)
Witty Oscar winning comedy-drama about three friends who all receive a letter from another friend. This letter informs them that she is about to leave town with one of their husbands: but which one?
Director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Starring: Jeanne Crain, Linda Darnell, Ann Sothern, Kirk Douglas, Paul Douglas, Jeffrey Lynn, Barbara Lawrence
(Black and White, Subtitles, 1949, U, 4 Star)
13:00
Anna and the King (Film)
Jodie Foster stars as Anna Leonowens, a prim English governess engaged by King Mongkut of Siam to educate his children. At first, the two cultures clash but as the pair get to know each other, romance begins to blossom, threatened only by a plot against the throne.
Director: Andy Tennant
Starring: Jodie Foster, Yun-Fat Chow, Ling Bai, Tom Felton, Syed Alwi, Randall Duk Kim
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 1999, 12, 3 Star)
15:45
The Mark of Zorro (Film)
Feckless Mexican nobleman Don Diego returns to his family home to discover the locality has been taken over by venal officials. Consequently, he adopts the disguise of Zorro, masked master swordsman, and attempts to clear the land of corruption. Also starring Ricardo Montalban, Yvonne De Carlo, Anne Archer and Inez Perez.
Director: Don McDougall
Starring: Frank Langella, Ricardo Montalban, Gilbert Roland, Yvonne de Carlo, Louise Sorel, Robert Middleton
(Subtitles, Audio Described, Made For TV, 1974, U, 2 Star)
17:15
Singin' in the Rain (Film)
Gene Kelly, Donald O'Connor and Debbie Reynolds star in Stanley Donen and Kelly's classic musical, set at the time of the beginning of talkies. Kelly plays Don Lockwood, a matinee idol, Jean Hagen LIna Lamont, his bitchy Bronx-accented co-star and Reynolds Kathy SEldon his true love in a film littered with classic sequences, from O'Connor's Make 'Em Laugh to Good Morning and, of course, Kelly's classic routine, Singin' in the Rain.
Director: Stanley Donen, Gene Kelly
Starring: Gene Kelly, Donald O'Connor, Debbie Reynolds, Jean Hagen, Millard Mitchell, Cyd Charisse
(Subtitles, 1952, U, 5 Star)
19:20
Hot Shots! (Film)
Topper Harley is a maverick air force pilot who constantly lives in the shadow of his father's legacy. Unable to handle the pressure, Harley has left the Air Force to live among a tribe of Native Americans. But when the United States seeks to destroy some Iraqi nuclear facilities there's only one man for the job.
Director: Jim Abrahams
Starring: Charlie Sheen, Cary Elwes, Valeria Golino, Lloyd Bridges, Kevin Dunn, Jon Cryer
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 1991, PG, 4 Star)
21:00
Sleepy Hollow (Film)
Tim Burton's rollicking adaptation of Washington Irving's tale stars Johnny Depp as Constable Ichabod Crane, who is sent to the tiny village of Sleepy Hollow, where a headless horseman is leaving a trail of decapitated bodies. Crane believes in the science of detection, but will his skills solve the mystery, or is there really a supernatural explanation? Stunningly realised and shot, the film also stars Christina Ricci, Miranda Richardson and Michael Gambon.
Director: Tim Burton
Starring: Johnny Depp, Christina Ricci, Miranda Richardson, Michael Gambon, Casper Van Dien, Jeffrey Jones
(Subtitles, 1999, 15, 4 Star)
23:00
The Devil's Backbone (Film)
Guillermo del Toro's spine chilling thriller is set during the dog days of the Spanish Civil War at a remote 'orphanage', where children of the soon-to-be defeated Republican cause are given refuge. It is run by Dr Casares, who desires the headmistress Carmen. But she in turn is having an affair with the young janitor Jacinto, who is looking for the secret stash of gold bullion used to finance the left wing cause. Into this heady mix comes young Carlos, who is assigned the bed of Santi, who drowned in mysterious circumstances in the basement pool and whose ghost now haunts the establishment. As the corporeal and the spiritual worlds clash in a mix of lust, revenge and greed, the gripping climax sees avarice punished but at the expense of the greater good. Del Toro's Pan's Labyrinth screens tomorrow night.
Director: Guillermo Del Toro
Starring: Eduardo Noriega, Marisa Paredes, Federico Luppi, Fernando Tielve, Íñigo Garcés, Irene Visedo
(Premiere, Subtitles, Subtitled, In Spanish with English Subtitles, 2001, 15, 3 Star)
01:05
Terminal Velocity (Film)
Deran Sarafian's all-action film stars Charlie Sheen as Richard 'Ditch' Brodie, a skydiving instructor. He's approached by a new pupil, Chris Morrow but while he takes his eye off her, she makes an unscheduled jump which ends in tragedy. Facing a manslaughter charge, Brodie starts his own investigations only to find himself caught up in a conspiracy involving stolen gold, the Russian mafia and enough bullets and explosions to last him a lifetime.
Director: Deran Serafian
Starring: Charlie Sheen, Nastassja Kinski, James Gandolfini, Christopher McDonald, Gary Bullock, Hans Howes
(Widescreen, 1994, 15, 3 Star)
03:05
The Social Network Special (Documentary)
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11:00
Dallas (Film)
Western starring Gary Cooper as Blayde Hollister, an ex-Confederate officer who poses as a newly appointed US Marshal to exact vengance against brothers Bryant, Will and Longfellow Maarlow for plundering his estate and murdering his family.
Director: Stuart Heisler
Starring: Gary Cooper, Ruth Roman, Steve Cochran, Raymond Massey, Barbara Payton
(Subtitles, U, 1950, 3 Star)
12:50
The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex (Film)
Nominated for five Oscars, Michael Curtiz's lush historical drama stars Bette Davis as Queen Elizabeth I, with Errol Flynn as one of her favourites, the Earl of Essex. She is infatuated with him but is also aware he has designs on her throne. Essex, while not immune to her charms, has a roving eye which encourages Lady Penelope Gray, only for her hopes to be dashed. Donald Crisp plays Francis Bacon, friend to both the Queen and the Earl while among those plotting Essex's downfall are Sir Walter Raleigh and Sir Robert Cecil.
Director: Michael Curtiz
Starring: Bette Davis, Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Donald Crisp, Alan Hale Jr., Vincent Price
(Subtitles, U, 1939, 3 Star)
14:55
Hills of Home (Film)
Fred M Wilcox directs this adventure, starring Lassie and Edmund Gwenn as her owner, Dr William MacLure. Lassie has an aversion to water, despite the doctor's best efforts to coax her into it, but when his life is in danger, she overcomes her phobia and saves him. Unfortunately, not soon enough, but MacLure manages to pass on her ownership to the two romantic leads, Tammas Milton and Margit Mitchell.
Director: Fred M. Wilcox
Starring: Edmund Gwenn, Donald Crisp, Tom Drake, Janet Leigh, Rhys Williams, Reginald Owen
(Subtitles, U, 1948, 3 Star)
16:45
Guns of the Magnificent Seven (Film)
The third outing for the Magnificent Seven is led by George Kennedy as Chris, the legendary gunman enlisted to help free the incarcerated rebel leader Quinetero and aid the Mexican revolution. He assembles a posse of disparate fighters, including James Whitmore, Monte Markham, Joe Don Baker and Scott Thomas, and they head for the prison and a date with destiny.
Director: Paul Wendkos
Starring: George Kennedy, James Whit, Monte Markham, Reni Santoni, Bernie Casey, Scott Thomas
(Subtitles, Audio Described, PG, 1969, 2 Star)
18:50
The Family Stone (Film)
Thomas Bezucha's wry, sharp comedy/drama looks at a family in upheaval during the Christmas period. Everett Stone brings his fiancee Meredith Morton to his family home for the festive season. Matriarch Sybil Stone doesn't approve of her and leads the family attack on Meredith but cracks start to appear in the family's own relationship and painful, occasionally amusing truths appear. Edited for language.
Director: Thomas Bezucha
Starring: Claire Danes, Diane Keaton, Rachel McAdams, Dermot Mulroney, Craig T. Nelson, Sarah Jessica Parker
(Widescreen, Subtitles, Audio Described, PG, 2005, 3 Star)
21:00
Walk the Line (Film)
Oscar-nominee Joaquin Phoenix plays Johnny Cash, and Oscar-winner Reese Witherspoon plays June Carter in James Mangold's acclaimed biographical film about country music's legendary 'man in black'. The film follows Cash from his childhood, where he was touched by tragedy, through his years on the road to his marriage to June Carter, who was country royalty, and their struggle to find happiness as she weans him off booze and drugs. Walk the Line is a warts-and-all biopic, showing Cash's faults as well as his undoubted star quality as one of the greatest singer/songwriters that America has ever produced.
Director: James Mangold
Starring: Joaquin Phoenix, Reese Witherspoon, Ginnifer Goodwin, Robert Patrick, Dallas Roberts, Dan John Miller
(Widescreen, Subtitles, Audio Described, 12, 2005, 4 Star)
23:35
Lucky Number Slevin (Film)
Paul McGuigan's tricksy thriller stars Josh Hartnett as Slevin Kelevra, who pitches up at his friend's New York apartment, only to find it empty. He makes himself at home, but his peace is interrupted by employees of crime lord The Boss, who mistake him for his absent friend, who owes The Boss $96,000. But The Boss makes Slevin an offer: kill the son of his rival, The Rabbi, and the debt will be wiped clean. But The Rabbi soon gets hold of Slevin and makes a counter-offer. Add in cynical assassin Mr Goodkat, who is playing both ends against the middle in what might be a long-term plan, and Lucy Liu as Lindsey, Slevin's next-door neighbour, who soon becomes his love interest, and the result is a multi-stranded double-cross, but one with only one lucky winner.
Director: Paul McGuigan
Starring: Josh Hartnett, Bruce Willis, Lucy Liu, Morgan Freeman, Ben Kingsley, Michael Rubenfeld
(Editor's Choice, Widescreen, Subtitles, 18, 2006, 4 Star)
01:40
Solaris (Film)
Steven Soderbergh's re-make of the classic Andrei Torkovsky film stars George Clooney as Chris Kelvin, a therapist sent to mentor a group of astronauts on the Prometheus space station, where the remaining crew are both locked in their own fears, speaking of visions of lost loved ones. Kelvin is, at first, sceptical, but when his deceased wife appears to him, he begins to wonder what influence the mysterious planet Solaris has on the human psyche.
Director: Steven Soderbergh
Starring: George Clooney, Natascha McElhone, Viola Davis, Jeremy Davies, Ulrich Tukur, John Cho
(Subtitles, 12, 2002, 3 Star)
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11:00
The Iron Petticoat (Film)
Katharine Hepburn plays a humourless Russian, Captain Vinka Kovelenko, who defects from her home country. Major Chuck Lockwood is assigned to show her the bright lights of London while she tries to convince him of the superiority of communism. Naturally, the two opposites fall in love but then must contend with the KGB, who are not happy with the idea of one of their officers running around free in London in this comedy.
Director: Ralph L. Thomas
Starring: Bob Hope, Katharine Hepburn, Noelle Middleton, James Robertson-Justice, Robert Helpmann, David Kossoff
(Subtitles, 1956, PG, 3 Star)
12:50
The Social Network Special (Documentary)
Writer Aaron Sorkin and stars Jesse Eisenberg, Andrew Garfield and Justin Timberlake talk about their acclaimed new drama The Social Network.
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13:00
The Three Musketeers (Film)
Stephen Herek's derring-do take on Dumas' tale stars Chris O'Donnell as D'Artagan, a would-be recruit to the noble Musketeers who finds that Cardinal Richelieu has disbanded them, leaving only renegades Aramis, Athos and Porthos, who discover the Cardinal is plotting against France. They manage to intercept Richelieu's beautiful but deadly accomplice Milady as she is about to sail for England to make an alliance that will topple France's monarchy. But can they manage to return to Paris in time to thwart the Cardinal and save the throne?
Director: Stephen Herek
Starring: Charlie Sheen, Kiefer Sutherland, Chris O'Donnell, Oliver Platt, Tim Curry, Rebecca de Mornay
(Widescreen, 1993, PG, 3 Star)
15:05
Ride the High Country (Film)
Sam Peckinpah's western classic in which once-respected, now down-on-his-luck lawman Steve Judd accepts the job of transporting gold from a remote mining camp to a small-town bank. Judd meets his former colleague Gil Westrum and his young assistant Hank Longtree, who agree to join Judd, but plan to steal the gold en-route.
Director: Sam Peckinpah
Starring: Joel McCrea, Randolph Scott, Mariette Hartley, Ron Starr, Edgar Buchanan, R.G. Armstrong
(Subtitles, 1962, PG, 4 Star)
16:55
On the Town (Film)
Gene Kelly, Frank Sinatra and Jules Munshin are Gabey, Chip and Ozzie, three US Navy sailors with just 24 hours in New York and a mission - to find a date. Cue sassy taxi driver Brunhilde, pin-up Ivy and glamorous museum scientist Claire, who variously become their objects of desire in this stunning musical, shot almost entirely on location. Directed by Stanley Donen and Kelly, this Oscar-winning musical is packed with songs from Leonard Bernstein's sumptuous score including, of course, the classic New York, New York.
Director: Stanley Donen, Gene Kelly
Starring: Gene Kelly, Frank Sinatra, Betty Garrett, Ann Miller, Jules Munshin, Vera-Ellen Slezak
(Subtitles, 1949, U, 4 Star)
18:50
How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days (Film)
Andie Anderson writes an advice column for a fashionable magazine and agrees to demonstrate how easy it is to attract and then alienate a man in just ten days. She chooses Benjamin Barry, little knowing he's an advertising executive whose job rests on proving he understands women so well that he can make one fall for him in two weeks. Donald Petrie's comedy sees the two unknowingly played at their own game in this witty battle of the sexes. Edited for language.
Director: Donald Petrie
Starring: Kate Hudson, Matthew McConaughey, Kathryn Hahn, Annie Parisse, Adam Goldberg, Thomas Lennon
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 2003, 12, 3 Star)
21:00
10 Things I Hate About You (Film)
Gil Junger's feel good teen comedy is loosely based on Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew, with Heath Ledger as Patrick Verona and Julia Stiles as Katarina Stratford. He accepts a bribe to take her to the prom so that her sister can take the beau of her choice, but when Katarina finds out, she's furious. Just as Patrick realises her true character and falls for her... Cue many hysterical misunderstandings, including a wonderful set piece on an athletics field involving a marching band.
Director: Gil Junger
Starring: Heath Ledger, Julia Stiles, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Larisa Oleynik, David Krumholtz, Andrew Keegan
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 1998, 15, 3 Star)
23:00
Pan's Labyrinth (Film)
In 1940s Spain, a young girl escapes from the horrifying brutality of her sadistic stepfather's military endeavours into a mysterious netherworld of magic and monsters where she is set three tasks that will see her crowned as princess of this strange kingdom.
Director: Guillermo Del Toro
Starring: Ariadna Gil, Ivana Baquero, Sergi LĂłpez, Maribel VerdĂş, Doug Jones, Ălex Ăngulo
(Editor's Choice, In Spanish with Subtitles, Widescreen, 2006, 15, 4 Star)
01:15
The Actors (Film)
Dylan Moran plays Tom, a struggling actor playing a Nazi stormtrooper in an avant-garde production of Richard III with thespian Anthony O'Malley in the title role. But O'Malley has a get-rich plan: conning retired gangster Barreller out of a suitcase of cash; he just needs a willing accomplice... But the plan goes awry and only the pair's acting ability can save their lives in Conor McPherson's crime comedy caper.
Director: Conor McPherson
Starring: Michael Caine, Dylan Moran, Michael Gambon, Lena Headey, Miranda Richardson, Michael McElhatton
(Black and White, Subtitles, 2002, 15, 3 Star)
03:05
The Social Network Special (Documentary)
Writer Aaron Sorkin and stars Jesse Eisenberg, Andrew Garfield and Justin Timberlake talk about their acclaimed new drama The Social Network.
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The Spy in Black (Film)
Michael Powell's classic espionage thriller stars Conrad Veidt as Captain Hardt, a WWI German submarine commander-turned-spy sent to the Orkneys, where he is foiled by double agent Jill Blacklock.
Director: Michael Powell
Starring: Conrad Veidt, Sebastian Shaw, Valerie Hobson, Marius Goring, June Duprez, Athole Stewart
(Black and White, Subtitles, U, 1939, 4 Star)
12:40
The Social Network Special (Documentary)
Writer Aaron Sorkin and stars Jesse Eisenberg, Andrew Garfield and Justin Timberlake talk about their acclaimed new drama The Social Network.
12:45
The Barbarian and the Geisha (Film)
John Wayne's only collaboration with director John Huston is based on the true story of Townsend Harris, America's first consul to Japan in 1856. At first spurned by both the locals and the Japanese hierarchy, he manages to gain their trust both through his assistance during a cholera epidemic and his blossoming relationship with the beautiful geisha Okichi.
Director: John Huston
Starring: John Wayne, Eiko Ando, Sam Jaffe, SĂ´ Yamamura
(Widescreen, Subtitles, U, 1958, 2 Star)
14:50
Ride the High Country (Film)
Sam Peckinpah's western classic in which once-respected, now down-on-his-luck lawman Steve Judd accepts the job of transporting gold from a remote mining camp to a small-town bank. Judd meets his former colleague Gil Westrum and his young assistant Hank Longtree, who agree to join Judd, but plan to steal the gold en-route.
Director: Sam Peckinpah
Starring: Joel McCrea, Randolph Scott, Mariette Hartley, Ron Starr, Edgar Buchanan, R.G. Armstrong
(Subtitles, PG, 1962, 4 Star)
16:40
The Social Network Special (Documentary)
Writer Aaron Sorkin and stars Jesse Eisenberg, Andrew Garfield and Justin Timberlake talk about their acclaimed new drama The Social Network.
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16:50
Warlock (Film)
Gunfighter Curt was supposed to be the saviour of Warlock. But after he turns out wilder than the cowboys he was hired to tame, former gunslinger Johnny joins the good guys as sheriff.
Director: Edward Dmytryk
Starring: Richard Widmark, Henry Fonda, Anthony Quinn, Dorothy Malone, Dolores Michaels, Wallace Ford
(Subtitles, U, 1959, 4 Star)
19:10
Hot Shots! (Film)
Topper Harley is a maverick air force pilot who constantly lives in the shadow of his father's legacy. Unable to handle the pressure, Harley has left the Air Force to live among a tribe of Native Americans. But when the United States seeks to destroy some Iraqi nuclear facilities there's only one man for the job.
Director: Jim Abrahams
Starring: Charlie Sheen, Cary Elwes, Valeria Golino, Lloyd Bridges, Kevin Dunn, Jon Cryer
(Widescreen, Subtitles, PG, 1991, 4 Star)
20:50
The Social Network Special (Documentary)
Writer Aaron Sorkin and stars Jesse Eisenberg, Andrew Garfield and Justin Timberlake talk about their acclaimed new drama The Social Network.
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21:00
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Film)
McMurphy, a social misfit who finds himself locked up in an insane asylum through his own choice to avoid a prison sentance. Whilst there he encourages his fellow inmates (DeVito, Lloyd and Dourif among them) into acts of rebellion, joyous freedom and self-expression. The authorities, principally in the shape of the formidable Nurse Ratched, react with increasing violence to McMurphy's dangerous ideas with terrible final consequences for McMurphy.
Director: Milos Forman
Starring: Jack Nicholson, Louise Fletcher, William Redfield, Michael Berryman, Danny DeVito, Peter Brocco
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 18, 1975, 5 Star)
23:35
Terminal Velocity (Film)
Deran Sarafian's all-action film stars Charlie Sheen as Richard 'Ditch' Brodie, a skydiving instructor. He's approached by a new pupil, Chris Morrow but while he takes his eye off her, she makes an unscheduled jump which ends in tragedy. Facing a manslaughter charge, Brodie starts his own investigations only to find himself caught up in a conspiracy involving stolen gold, the Russian mafia and enough bullets and explosions to last him a lifetime.
Director: Deran Serafian
Starring: Charlie Sheen, Nastassja Kinski, James Gandolfini, Christopher McDonald, Gary Bullock, Hans Howes
(15, 1994, 3 Star)
01:35
Taxidermia (Film)
György Pálfi's bizarre, sometimes grotesque film is set over three generations, beginning with Csaba Czene as Morosgoványi Vendel, a sexually frustrated orderly during the war who relieves his tensions in the most outlandish, gross ways. The result of his liaison is Balatony Kálmán, a glutton who grows up to be a champion speed eater. He produces a child, Balatony Lajoska who becomes obsessed with taxidermy to such an unhealthy degree, he practises his craft before the subject is fully dead.
Director: György Pálfi
Starring: Csaba Czene, Gergely Trócsányi, Marc Bischoff, István Gyuricza, Piroska Molnár, Gábor Máté
(In Hungarian/Russian/English with English Subtitles, Widescreen, 18, 2006, 3 Star)
03:25
The Social Network Special (Documentary)
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The Social Network Special (Documentary)
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11:00
The Tall Men (Film)
Rousing action Western about a Civil War veteran who, with his brother Cameron Mitchell, agrees to crooked cattleman Robert Ryan's offer to be trail boss on a massive cattle drive from Texas to Montana. On the way they meet Nella from the Indians who decides to ride with them.
Director: Raoul Walsh
Starring: Clark Gable, Jane Russell, Robert Ryan, Cameron Mitchell, Juan GarcĂa, Harry Shannon
(Subtitles, U, 1955, 3 Star)
13:20
The Social Network Special (Documentary)
Writer Aaron Sorkin and stars Jesse Eisenberg, Andrew Garfield and Justin Timberlake talk about their acclaimed new drama The Social Network.
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13:25
The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex (Film)
Nominated for five Oscars, Michael Curtiz's lush historical drama stars Bette Davis as Queen Elizabeth I, with Errol Flynn as one of her favourites, the Earl of Essex. She is infatuated with him but is also aware he has designs on her throne. Essex, while not immune to her charms, has a roving eye which encourages Lady Penelope Gray, only for her hopes to be dashed. Donald Crisp plays Francis Bacon, friend to both the Queen and the Earl while among those plotting Essex's downfall are Sir Walter Raleigh and Sir Robert Cecil.
Director: Michael Curtiz
Starring: Bette Davis, Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Donald Crisp, Alan Hale Jr., Vincent Price
(Subtitles, U, 1939, 3 Star)
15:30
Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines (Film)
For a brief period in the 60s, there was a fad for madcap movies such as It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, Monte Carlo or Bust, The Great Race and Around the World in 80 Days, and Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines rightfully joins the list of those that worked. Newspaper publisher Lord Rawnsley puts up a ÂŁ10,000 prize for the winner of a flight from London to Paris and soon his daughter Patricia, her would-be husband Richard, his rival for her hand and a motley collection of aviators are gathered, ready for the race to begin. Among them, of course, is the requisite villain, Sir Percy Ware-Armitage, aided by his put-upon servant Courtney. Although the gags are flagged, the cast are all game for the fun and respect should go to cinematographer Christopher Challis and the anonymous stuntmen who, for some of the scenes, had to fly planes that were only slightly more robust than the original pre-WWI craft they were modelled on.
Director: Ken Annakin
Starring: Stuart Whitman, Sarah Miles, James Fox, Alberto Sordi, Robert Morley, Gert Fröbe
(Widescreen, Subtitles, U, 1965, 3 Star)
18:05
The Social Network Special (Documentary)
Writer Aaron Sorkin and stars Jesse Eisenberg, Andrew Garfield and Justin Timberlake talk about their acclaimed new drama The Social Network.
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18:15
Anna and the King (Film)
Jodie Foster stars as Anna Leonowens, a prim English governess engaged by King Mongkut of Siam to educate his children. At first, the two cultures clash but as the pair get to know each other, romance begins to blossom, threatened only by a plot against the throne.
Director: Andy Tennant
Starring: Jodie Foster, Yun-Fat Chow, Ling Bai, Tom Felton, Syed Alwi, Randall Duk Kim
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 12, 1999, 3 Star)
21:00
Mr. & Mrs. Smith (Film)
Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie star in Doug Liman's all-action thriller as an apparently typical suburban couple, attending marriage counselling in an attempt to reignite their relationship. What neither of them knows is that the other is a highly skilled assassin; until they each get a call for their next job. Accidentally double-booked, they both discover the truth about their spouse's secret existence and are now in danger, not only from their respective organisations, but also from each other. But it's amazing what the frisson of danger can do for a jaded marriage... As well as becoming an off-screen item during filming, Pitt and Jolie play a believable couple on screen, bickering through the mayhem and looking like they actually had fun making the film.
Director: Doug Liman
Starring: Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie, Vince Vaughn, Adam Brody, Kerry Washington, Keith David
(Widescreen, Subtitles, Audio Described, 15, 2005, 3 Star)
23:15
Tulpan (Film)
Sergei Dvortsevoy's amazing Cannes-winning comedy drama is set on Kazakhstan's bleak Hunger Steppe where Asa, a young sailor recently discharged from the Russian Navy, is living in a yurt with his sister Samai and her family. He is determined to become a shepherd and to marry a local woman but the only single one is Tulpan, who turns him down because his ears are too big. Can Asa change her mind and can he and Samai halt the increase in stillborn lambs in their flock?
Director: Sergei Dvortsevoy
Starring: Tolepbergen Baisakalov, Ondas Besikbasov, Samal Esljamova, Askhat Kuchencherekov, Bereke Turganbayev
(Premiere, In Kazakh and Russian with English Subtitles, 12, 2008, 4 Star)
01:10
The Dreamers (Film)
Bernado Bertolucci's film, scripted by Gilbert Adair from his novel, and set in 1968, stars Michael Pitt as an American student who enters the lives of Parisians Theo and his sister Isabelle. The three share a love of the movies but soon their relationship is one of sexual entanglement. The film's plot is counter-pointed with extracts from classic films that almost act as a Greek chorus on their relationships, while the trio's reality is affected by the growing unrest on the streets.
Director: Bernardo Bertolucci
Starring: Michael Pitt, Eva Green, Louis Garrel, Anna Chancellor, Robin Renucci, Jean-Pierre Kalfon
(In English and French with English Subtitles, Widescreen, 18, 2003, 2 Star)
03:25
The Social Network Special (Documentary)
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The Social Network Special (Documentary)
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11:00
The Iron Petticoat (Film)
Katharine Hepburn plays a humourless Russian, Captain Vinka Kovelenko, who defects from her home country. Major Chuck Lockwood is assigned to show her the bright lights of London while she tries to convince him of the superiority of communism. Naturally, the two opposites fall in love but then must contend with the KGB, who are not happy with the idea of one of their officers running around free in London in this comedy.
Director: Ralph L. Thomas
Starring: Bob Hope, Katharine Hepburn, Noelle Middleton, James Robertson-Justice, Robert Helpmann, David Kossoff
(Subtitles, PG, 1956, 3 Star)
12:50
Conspiracy of Hearts (Film)
In 1943 in Italy, Mother Katharine and Sister Mitya are part of a group of nuns helping to smuggle orphaned Jewish children out of an internment camp. Their covert activities are initially aided by the camp commandant, a sympathetic Italian major, but when he is replaced by a Nazi colonel and a lieutenant the nuns find themselves in much more danger.
Director: Ralph L. Thomas
Starring: Lilli Palmer, Sylvia Syms, Yvonne Mitchell, Ronald Lewis, Albert Lieven, Peter Arne
(Black and White, Subtitles, U, 1960, 3 Star)
15:00
The Valley of Gwangi (Film)
Dinosaurs meet cowboys in Jim O'Connolly's cult film, with the monsters animated by the inimitable Ray Harryhausen. In a small Mexican town, horse trader Tuck Kirby meets up with old flame T J Breckinridge, owner of a rundown circus. He runs into palaeontologist Professor Horace Bromley, who has found a living eohippus, the prehistoric ancestor of the horse. Nursing their own agendas, the scientist and the cowboy venture into the Forbidden Valley only to find that larger, more deadly creatures have survived from prehistoric times.
Director: Jim O'Connolly
Starring: James Franciscus, Gila Golan, Richard Carlson, Laurence Naismith, Freda Jackson, Gustavo Rojo
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 12, 1968, 2 Star)
16:50
Dallas (Film)
Western starring Gary Cooper as Blayde Hollister, an ex-Confederate officer who poses as a newly appointed US Marshal to exact vengance against brothers Bryant, Will and Longfellow Maarlow for plundering his estate and murdering his family.
Director: Stuart Heisler
Starring: Gary Cooper, Ruth Roman, Steve Cochran, Raymond Massey, Barbara Payton
(Subtitles, U, 1950, 3 Star)
18:40
The Social Network Special (Documentary)
Writer Aaron Sorkin and stars Jesse Eisenberg, Andrew Garfield and Justin Timberlake talk about their acclaimed new drama The Social Network.
(Repeat)
18:50
How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days (Film)
Andie Anderson writes an advice column for a fashionable magazine and agrees to demonstrate how easy it is to attract and then alienate a man in just ten days. She chooses Benjamin Barry, little knowing he's an advertising executive whose job rests on proving he understands women so well that he can make one fall for him in two weeks. Donald Petrie's comedy sees the two unknowingly played at their own game in this witty battle of the sexes. Edited for language.
Director: Donald Petrie
Starring: Kate Hudson, Matthew McConaughey, Kathryn Hahn, Annie Parisse, Adam Goldberg, Thomas Lennon
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 12, 2003, 3 Star)
21:00
The Magdalene Sisters (Film)
Peter Mullan's award-winning film tells the story of four of the inmates of one of Ireland's Magdalene Laundries, brutal nun-run institutions housing single mothers, orphans and 'promiscuous' girls. Run with a rod of iron by Sister Bridget, the inmates' only solace is their friendship.
Director: Peter Mullan
Starring: Geraldine McEwan, Anne-Marie Duff, Nora-Jane Noone, Dorothy Duffy, Eileen Walsh, Mary Murray
(Subtitles, Audio Described, 15, 2002, 4 Star)
23:15
Lucky Number Slevin (Film)
Paul McGuigan's tricksy thriller stars Josh Hartnett as Slevin Kelevra, who pitches up at his friend's New York apartment, only to find it empty. He makes himself at home, but his peace is interrupted by employees of crime lord The Boss, who mistake him for his absent friend, who owes The Boss $96,000. But The Boss makes Slevin an offer: kill the son of his rival, The Rabbi, and the debt will be wiped clean. But The Rabbi soon gets hold of Slevin and makes a counter-offer. Add in cynical assassin Mr Goodkat, who is playing both ends against the middle in what might be a long-term plan, and Lucy Liu as Lindsey, Slevin's next-door neighbour, who soon becomes his love interest, and the result is a multi-stranded double-cross, but one with only one lucky winner.
Director: Paul McGuigan
Starring: Josh Hartnett, Bruce Willis, Lucy Liu, Morgan Freeman, Ben Kingsley, Michael Rubenfeld
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 18, 2006, 4 Star)
01:20
In America (Film)
Jim Sheridan's Oscar-nominated drama stars Paddy Considine as Johnny, a would-be actor, who emigrates from Ireland to New York with his wife Sarah and daughters Christy and Ariel. While he searches for work, his wife tries to keep the family above the poverty line, with their lives complicated by enigmatic neighbour Mateo, who alternates between rages and affection for the family.
Director: Jim Sheridan
Starring: Paddy Considine, Samantha Morton, Sarah Bolger, Emma Bolger, Neal Jones, Randall Carlton
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 15, 2003, 3 Star)
03:20
The Social Network Special (Documentary)
Writer Aaron Sorkin and stars Jesse Eisenberg, Andrew Garfield and Justin Timberlake talk about their acclaimed new drama The Social Network.
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11:00Boomerang![SUB BW HD]
A district attorney is determined to convict a vagrant of killing a prominent clergyman. However, as the lawyer delves deeper into the case, he begins to suspect the defendant may in fact be innocent. Crime drama based on a real-life murder case of the 1920s, starring Dana Andrews, Lee J Cobb, Arthur Kennedy, Jane Wyatt, Ed Begley and featuring the late Karl MaldenFilm/Detective/Thriller/General Movie/Drama
12:45A Man Called Peter[SUB HD]
Fact-based drama charting the life of renowned Scottish priest and author Peter Marshall. As a young man, he dreams of going to sea, but finds himself taking on an entirely different calling as a minister. Later in life, he travels to America, ultimately rising to the esteemed position of chaplain to the United States Senate. Starring Richard Todd, Jean Peters, Marjorie Rambeau and Jill EsmondFilm/General Movie/Drama
15:00Fathom
A glamorous skydiver is hired by intelligence agents to retrieve the triggering device for a hydrogen bomb that a US Army defector has hidden in a statuette, and stop it falling into the hands of the Chinese. However, she begins to suspect her mysterious employers are involved in an elaborate double-cross as she searches frantically for the detonator. Espionage comedy, starring Raquel Welch, Tony Franciosa, Ronald Fraser and Richard BriersFilm/Comedy
16:55Dark Command[SUB BW]
A teacher is defeated in his ambition to become the marshal of his town during the early years of the American Civil War, so he turns renegade instead. Before long he has a reputation as a feared raider fighting on the side of the South, and it falls to the newly appointed lawman whose job he coveted to stop his reign of terror. Western, starring John Wayne and Walter PidgeonFilm/Western
18:45Logan's Run[SUB HD]
In a hedonistic futuristic city, euthanasia is compulsory for everyone over 30. A law enforcer whose job is to kill anyone who tries to escape is given the task of exposing an underground movement. To do so, his body clock is fast-forwarded, giving him a taste of life on the run. Sci-fi thriller, starring Michael York, Jenny Agutter, Farrah Fawcett and Peter UstinovFilm/Science Fiction
21:00The Waterboy[SUB AD HD]
An American football team's waterboy puts up with constant ridicule from the players. But one day his anger gets the better of him and he demonstrates an unexpected talent for tackling - so the coach gives him a chance to prove his worth on the pitch. However, he has to keep his budding sporting career a secret from his overprotective mother. Comedy, with Adam Sandler, Kathy Bates, Henry Winkler and Fairuza BalkFilm/Comedy
22:45The Abyss
When a nuclear submarine is attacked and becomes stricken in the ocean depths, the US Government calls on civilian divers from a nearby oil rig to come to their aid. However, when the team arrives at the location of the vessel, a series of strange incidents leads to an encounter with aliens living in the depths. James Cameron's sci-fi thriller, starring Ed Harris, Michael Biehn and Mary Elizabeth MastrantonioFilm/Science Fiction/Detective/Thriller
01:25The Summer Interlude[BW]
A Swedish ballerina coming to the end of her career reflects on a teenage love affair in Stockholm. Ingmar Bergman's romantic drama, starring Maj-Britt Nilsson, Alf Kjellin and Birger MalmstenFilm/General Movie/Drama
03:15The Social Network Special[REP]
Actors Jesse Eisenberg, Andrew Garfield and Justin Timberlake and writer Aaron Sorkin discuss David Fincher's new movieFilm/Cinema
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03:20
The Social Network Special (Documentary)
Writer Aaron Sorkin and stars Jesse Eisenberg, Andrew Garfield and Justin Timberlake talk about their acclaimed new drama The Social Network.
(Repeat)
11:00
I Am Cuba (Film)
Showing in a restored version, Russian director Mikhail Kalatozov's propaganda film charts the rise of the Cuban revolution through four stories; a prostitute, a farmer, student revolutionaries and finally, Castro's forces are profiled to show the evil of the Batista regime and the right of the revolutionaries to fight him. Although the politics are somewhat obvious, the film is rightly revered for its artistry, with Kalatozov using techniques, angles and set-up that were, at the time, genuinely revolutionary.
Director: Mikhail Kalatozov
Starring: Sergio Corrieri, Salvador Wood, JosĂ© Gallardo, RaĂşl JimĂ©nez, Luz MarĂa Collazo, Jean Bouise
(Subtitles, Subtitled, In Spanish with English Subtitles, Black and White, PG, 1964, 4 Star)
13:45
Sea Wife (Film)
An offbeat melodrama. An RAF officer, a Sea Wife, a nun, a brash businessman and a purser all end up drifting on a life raft in the Indian Ocean after their ship is torpedoed. Romantic and racial tensions divide the four as they hope for rescue in Bob McNaught's taut film.
Director: Bob McNaught
Starring: Joan Collins, Richard Burton, Basil Sydney, Cy Grant, Ronald Squire, Joan Hickson
(Subtitles, U, 1957, 2 Star)
15:25
Boomerang (Film)
Elia Kazan's Oscar-nominated classic noir thriller, based on a true-life case, stars Dana Andrews as Henry Harvey, a New England State Attorney who is determined to prove vagrant John Waldron innocent of the murder of a prominent churchman.
Director: Elia Kazan
Starring: Dana Andrews, Jane Wyatt, Lee J. Cobb, Cara Williams, Arthur Kennedy, Sam Levene
(Black and White, Subtitles, PG, 1947, 4 Star)
17:10
Death Drums along the River (Film)
Exciting location-filmed thriller based on Sanders of the River and starring Richard Todd as Inspector Sanders, investigating diamond smuggling, mystery and murder in deepest Africa.
Director: Lawrence Huntington
Starring: Richard Todd, Marianne Koch, Vivi Bach, Albert Lieven, Walter Rilla, Jeremy Lloyd
(Subtitles, PG, 1963, 2 Star)
18:50
The Family Stone (Film)
Thomas Bezucha's wry, sharp comedy/drama looks at a family in upheaval during the Christmas period. Everett Stone brings his fiancee Meredith Morton to his family home for the festive season. Matriarch Sybil Stone doesn't approve of her and leads the family attack on Meredith but cracks start to appear in the family's own relationship and painful, occasionally amusing truths appear. Edited for language.
Director: Thomas Bezucha
Starring: Claire Danes, Diane Keaton, Rachel McAdams, Dermot Mulroney, Craig T. Nelson, Sarah Jessica Parker
(Widescreen, Subtitles, Audio Described, PG, 2005, 3 Star)
20:50
The Social Network Special (Documentary)
Writer Aaron Sorkin and stars Jesse Eisenberg, Andrew Garfield and Justin Timberlake talk about their acclaimed new drama The Social Network.
(Repeat)
21:00
The Insider (Film)
"60 Minutes" producer Lowell Bergman sniffs a story when a former research biologist for Brown & Williamson, Dr. Jeffrey Wigand, won't talk to him. When the company leans hard on Wigand to honour a confidentiality agreement, he gets his back up. Trusting Bergman and despite a crumbling marriage, he goes on camera for a Mike Wallace interview and risks arrest for contempt of court.
Director: Michael Mann
Starring: Al Pacino, Russell Crowe, Christopher Plummer, Diane Venora, Philip Baker Hall, Lindsay Crouse
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 15, 1999, 4 Star)
00:05
Dance with a Stranger (Film)
Miranda Richardson stars in this moving recreation of the events that led Ruth Ellis to become the last woman in Britain to be hanged, telling the story of her torrid love affair with handsome racing driver and its tragic consequences. With Stratford Johns, Ian Holm and Matthew Carol.
Director: Mike Newell
Starring: Miranda Richardson, Rupert Everett, Ian Holm, Stratford Johns, Joanne Whalley, Tom Chadbon
(Subtitles, 15, 1985, 3 Star)
02:00
The Hole (Film)
Nick Hamm's dark thriller sees public school student Thora Birch desperate for the attention of handsome Desmond Harrington. Fellow pupil Daniel Brocklebank suggests the pair plus two other friends bunk off a geography school trip and sneak off to a disused bomb shelter for three days where she'll have a chance to make her move. But after three days, Brocklebank isn't back to release the four and, as the days go on, the four are, literally, dying to get out. Told in flashback by one survivor, this is one of the most chilling films of recent years and proof that British directors can do cerebral horror.
Director: Nick Hamm
Starring: Thora Birch, Desmond Harrington, Daniel Brocklebank, Laurence Fox, Keira Knightley, Embeth Davidtz
(Subtitles, 15, 2001, 3 Star)
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11:00The Sea Inside[HD]
Fact-based Spanish drama about a fisherman who is paralysed from the neck down in a diving accident. After spending years dependent on others to take care of him, he decides to fight for the legal right to end his own life. Starring Javier Bardem, Belen Rueda and Lola DuenasFilm/General Movie/Drama
13:25Where the Sidewalk Ends[SUB BW HD]
A violent New York cop beats a robbery suspect to death during a moment of madness and hastily tries to cover his tracks by framing a local mobster for the crime. Thriller, starring Dana Andrews, Gene Tierney, Gary Merrill and Karl MaldenFilm/Detective/Thriller
15:15The Master of Ballantrae
A Scottish nobleman who fought alongside Bonnie Prince Charlie is driven into exile when the rebellion is defeated. After years overseas spent battling pirates, he returns home to discover the woman he loves thought he was dead and has since married his treacherous brother. Swashbuckling adventure, based on Robert Louis Stevenson's novel, starring Errol Flynn and Anthony SteelFilm/Adventure
17:00Singin' In The Rain
Two old friends and an aspiring starlet find their lives changing as the arrival of sound revolutionises film-making. Gene Kelly co-directs, choreographs and stars in this musical comedy, with Debbie Reynolds, Donald O'Connor, Jean Hagen and Millard Mitchell. Songs include Make 'em Laugh, You Are My Lucky Star and the evergreen title numberFilm/Musical/Comedy
19:00The Pink Panther Strikes Again[SUB HD]
Bungling Inspector Clouseau fends off a murder syndicate led by demented former police chief Dreyfus, who has a scheme to get rid of the clumsy cop once and for all. However, doing away with the lucky lawman proves harder than anticipated - even for the world's top assassins. Comedy sequel, starring Peter Sellers, Herbert Lom, Lesley-Anne Down, Burt Kwouk and Leonard RossiterFilm/Comedy
21:0010 Things I Hate About You[SUB HD]
Lively teenager Bianca is not allowed to start dating until her man-hating sister Kat does first - but no boy is brave enough to ask her out. However, Bianca's would-be boyfriend thinks he has found the perfect man for the job in the shape of a quirky loner with a mysterious past. Comedy, based on Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew, starring Heath Ledger, Julia Stiles, Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Larisa OleynikFilm/Comedy
23:00Get Rich or Die Tryin'[SUB HD]
An inner-city drug dealer puts his life of crime behind him after a near-fatal shooting to pursue a new career as a rap artist. Unfortunately, when he performs songs inspired by his shady past, his former criminal associates do not take kindly to having their misdeeds immortalised in music. Drama, starring Curtis `50 Cent' Jackson, Terrence Howard and Ashley WaltersFilm/General Movie/Drama
01:15Smiles of a Summer Night[BW]
A lawyer goes to the theatre with his much younger wife, and finds the leading lady is an old flame. After a confrontation with the count she is having an affair with, the actress becomes determined to seduce the attorney once again, inviting both her lovers - and their wives - to a party at her country house. Ingmar Bergman's romantic comedy, with Gunnar Bjornstrand and Eva DahlbeckFilm/Comedy
03:25The Social Network Special[REP]
Actors Jesse Eisenberg, Andrew Garfield and Justin Timberlake and writer Aaron Sorkin discuss David Fincher's new movieFilm/Cinema
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11:00
Flight of the Phoenix (Film)
Robert Aldrich's classic drama stars James Stewart as Frank Towns, pilot of a plane transporting workers and cargo from an oil field back to town. Caught in a sandstorm, the plane crashes hundreds of miles off course, the radio destroyed. As the days go by, all hope of rescue fades until Heinrich Dorfmann announces he is an aeroplane designer and, by cannibalising the wrecked plane, he can build a craft to fly them to safety. The outstanding cast also includes Richard Attenborough, Peter Finch, Ernest Borgnine, Ian Bannen and Ronald Fraser.
Director: Robert Aldrich
Starring: James Stewart, Richard Attenborough, Peter Finch, Hardy KrĂĽger, Ernest Borgnine, Ian Bannen
(Subtitles, PG, 1966, 3 Star)
13:45
The Tall Men (Film)
Rousing action Western about a Civil War veteran who, with his brother Cameron Mitchell, agrees to crooked cattleman Robert Ryan's offer to be trail boss on a massive cattle drive from Texas to Montana. On the way they meet Nella from the Indians who decides to ride with them.
Director: Raoul Walsh
Starring: Clark Gable, Jane Russell, Robert Ryan, Cameron Mitchell, Juan GarcĂa, Harry Shannon
(Subtitles, U, 1955, 3 Star)
16:05
Doctor Dolittle (Film)
Rex Harrison stars in Richard Fleischer's charming adaptation of Hugh Lofting's classic children's book as the eccentric Doctor Dolittle, who can converse with animals in 849 languages. Wrongly imprisoned for releasing a captive seal into the wild, he is rescued by his friend Tommy and the pair set off with Matthew Muggins is search of the mythical pink sea snail.
Director: Richard Fleischer
Starring: Rex Harrison, Samantha Eggar, Anthony Newley, Richard Attenborough, Peter Bull, Muriel Landers
(Subtitles, U, 1967, 3 Star)
18:55
Never Been Kissed (Film)
Romantic comedy where a former high-school nerd (now a reporter), Josie, gets a second chance to go back to school when she goes under cover to research her story on cool teens. Back in the classroom, Josie falls for English her teacher...will she reveal her true identity for him?
Director: Raja Gosnell
Starring: Drew Barrymore, David Arquette, Michael Vartan, Molly Shannon, Leelee Sobieski, Jeremy Jordan
(Widescreen, Subtitles, PG, 1999, 2 Star)
21:00
East is East (Film)
Damien O'Donnell's multi-award-winning comedy stars Om Puri as George Khan, a Pakistani immigrant who, along with his wife Ella, is trying to run his fish-and-chip shop while coping with their seven children. Despite his increasingly desperate attempts to raise them to honour traditional values, all they want to do is embrace the best that the West has to offer.
Director: Damien O'Donnell
Starring: Om Puri, Linda Bassett, Jordan Routledge, Archie Panjabi, Emil Marwa, Chris Bisson
(Widescreen, Subtitles, Audio Described, 15, 1999, 3 Star)
23:00
Cronos (Film)
Guillermo Del Toro's cult horror film stars Federico Luppi as antiques dealer Jesus Gris, who stumbles across the Cronos Device, the invention of a 14th-century alchemist. Beetle-like in look, its bite confers immortality on its victim and Gris succumbs to its powers. But also after the device is dying industrialist Dieter, who sends his thuggish nephew Angel de la Guardia on a mission to track it down.
Director: Guillermo Del Toro
Starring: Federico Luppi, Ron Perlman, Claudio Brook, Margarita Isabel, Tamara Shanath, Daniel Giménez Cacho
(18, 1993, 3 Star)
00:50
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Film)
McMurphy, a social misfit who finds himself locked up in an insane asylum through his own choice to avoid a prison sentance. Whilst there he encourages his fellow inmates (DeVito, Lloyd and Dourif among them) into acts of rebellion, joyous freedom and self-expression. The authorities, principally in the shape of the formidable Nurse Ratched, react with increasing violence to McMurphy's dangerous ideas with terrible final consequences for McMurphy.
Director: Milos Forman
Starring: Jack Nicholson, Louise Fletcher, William Redfield, Michael Berryman, Danny DeVito, Peter Brocco
(Editor's Choice, Widescreen, Subtitles, 18, 1975, 5 Star)
03:25
The Social Network Special (Documentary)
Writer Aaron Sorkin and stars Jesse Eisenberg, Andrew Garfield and Justin Timberlake talk about their acclaimed new drama The Social Network.
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03:25
Social Network Special (Entertainment)
Writer Aaron Sorkin and stars Jesse Eisenberg, Andrew Garfield and Justin Timberlake talk about their acclaimed new drama The Social Network.
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11:00
The Spanish Gardener (Film)
Philip Leacock's film is the story of minor diplomat Harrington Brande, who becomes increasingly jealous of the relationship that develops between his son Nicholas and the Spanish gardener, Jose, who has been hired to work on the estate.
Director: Philip Leacock
Starring: Dirk Bogarde, Jon Whiteley, Michael Hordern, Cyril Cusack, Maureen Swanson, Lyndon Brook
(Subtitles, U, 1956, 3 Star)
12:50
A Letter to Three Wives (Film)
Witty Oscar winning comedy-drama about three friends who all receive a letter from another friend. This letter informs them that she is about to leave town with one of their husbands: but which one?
Director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Starring: Jeanne Crain, Linda Darnell, Ann Sothern, Kirk Douglas, Paul Douglas, Jeffrey Lynn, Barbara Lawrence
(Black and White, Subtitles, U, 1949, 4 Star)
14:50
Julia (Film)
Fred Zinnemann's sensitive and compelling dramatisation tells of the awakening in the 1930s of playwright Lillian Hellman to the growing threat of Nazism through the persecution and final execution of her childhood friend Julia. Although the narrative is slight, director Fred Zinnemann endows the film with suspense, sensitivity, elegance and, above all, a beautifully realised and complex relationship between the two women. The film earned nine Academy Award nominations, including another winner in Jason Robards as Dashiel Hammett. Edited for content.
Director: Fred Zinnemann
Starring: Jane Fonda, Vanessa Redgrave, Jason Robards, Maximilian Schell, Hal Holbrook, Rosemary Murphy
(Widescreen, Subtitles, PG, 1977, 4 Star)
17:05
On the Town (Film)
Gene Kelly, Frank Sinatra and Jules Munshin are Gabey, Chip and Ozzie, three US Navy sailors with just 24 hours in New York and a mission - to find a date. Cue sassy taxi driver Brunhilde, pin-up Ivy and glamorous museum scientist Claire, who variously become their objects of desire in this stunning musical, shot almost entirely on location. Directed by Stanley Donen and Kelly, this Oscar-winning musical is packed with songs from Leonard Bernstein's sumptuous score including, of course, the classic New York, New York.
Director: Stanley Donen, Gene Kelly
Starring: Gene Kelly, Frank Sinatra, Betty Garrett, Ann Miller, Jules Munshin, Vera-Ellen Slezak
(Subtitles, U, 1949, 4 Star)
19:00
The Three Musketeers (Film)
Stephen Herek's derring-do take on Dumas' tale stars Chris O'Donnell as D'Artagan, a would-be recruit to the noble Musketeers who finds that Cardinal Richelieu has disbanded them, leaving only renegades Aramis, Athos and Porthos, who discover the Cardinal is plotting against France. They manage to intercept Richelieu's beautiful but deadly accomplice Milady as she is about to sail for England to make an alliance that will topple France's monarchy. But can they manage to return to Paris in time to thwart the Cardinal and save the throne?
Director: Stephen Herek
Starring: Charlie Sheen, Kiefer Sutherland, Chris O'Donnell, Oliver Platt, Tim Curry, Rebecca de Mornay
(Widescreen, PG, 1993, 3 Star)
21:00
Sleepy Hollow (Film)
Tim Burton's rollicking adaptation of Washington Irving's tale stars Johnny Depp as Constable Ichabod Crane, who is sent to the tiny village of Sleepy Hollow, where a headless horseman is leaving a trail of decapitated bodies. Crane believes in the science of detection, but will his skills solve the mystery, or is there really a supernatural explanation? Stunningly realised and shot, the film also stars Christina Ricci, Miranda Richardson and Michael Gambon.
Director: Tim Burton
Starring: Johnny Depp, Christina Ricci, Miranda Richardson, Michael Gambon, Casper Van Dien, Jeffrey Jones
(Subtitles, 15, 1999, 4 Star)
23:05
The Disappeared (Film)
Johnny Kevorkian's assured directorial debut is set on a south London estate where Matthew Ryan is stuggling to come to terms with the guilt he feels over the disappearance of his younger brother Tom five months earlier when he was meant to be looking after him. Then he starts to hear and even glimpse Tom - or so he believes. Beginning his own investigations, helped by neighbour his Amy Tyler, he finds himself in contact with psychic Shelley Cartwright and cynical hack Jason Saks whose leads take him on a journey through decaying estates, old wharfs and even an abandoned tunnel as he searches for his missing sibling.
Director: Johnny Kevorkian
Starring: Harry Treadaway, Greg Wise, Alex Jennings, Finlay Robertson, Tom Felton, Nikki Amuka-Bird
(Premiere, Widescreen, 18, 2008, 3 Star)
00:55
Rosemary's Baby (Film)
Roman Polanski's mould-breaking horror story stars Mia Farrow and John Cassavetes as Rosemary and Guy Woodhouse, a young couple who move into an apartment block where they are befriended by Minnie and Roman Castevet. When Rosemary becomes pregnant, even though the circumstances of the conception are hazy, she is pleased by the concern of her husband, her neighbours and their friends, who are prepared to go to any lengths to ensure she has a healthy baby...
Director: Roman Polanski
Starring: Mia Farrow, John Cassavetes, Ruth Gordon, Sidney Blackmer, Maurice Evans, Ralph Bellamy
(Editor's Choice, 18, 1968, 4 Star)
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11:00The Way Home
A spoilt seven-year-old boy is horrified when he is sent to live with his mute grandmother in a remote area of South Korea. At first the poverty and the solitude prove too much for him - but, as time passes, his anger begins to ebb away and he develops a deep affection for the old lady. Drama, starring Eul-boon Kim, Seung-ho Yu and Hyo-hee DongFilm/General Movie/Drama
12:45Gaslight[SUB BW]
A newlywed couple move into the former residence of an heiress who was murdered 20 years earlier. Rumours persist of a priceless stash of rubies hidden within the house and, when an ex-policeman recognises the husband as a relative of the murdered woman, he suspects the man has returned to claim the missing loot. Thriller, starring Anton Walbrook, Diana Wynyard, Frank Pettingell and Cathleen CordellFilm/Detective/Thriller
14:30Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines[SUB HD]
In a bid to boost the sales of his newspaper, a publisher offers to sponsor the first London-to-Paris air race. Among the motley assortment of characters that signs up for the challenge is a scheming nobleman bent on sabotaging the efforts of the other entrants. British period comedy, starring Terry-Thomas, Sarah Miles, James Fox, Robert Morley, Benny Hill, Tony Hancock, Eric Sykes and Gert FrobeFilm/Comedy
17:05The Time Machine
A Victorian scientist creates a machine that catapults him through time and sends him far into the future to a nightmarish age when the human race has divided into two species - one a gentle childlike race dwelling on the surface of the planet, the other a subterranean tribe of cannibals. Sci-fi adventure, starring Rod Taylo, Yvette Mimieux, Alan Young and Sebastian CabotFilm/Science Fiction
19:10Taxi[SUB HD]
A bumbling New York cop is unable to pursue a gang of bank robbers in their souped-up getaway car because he does not have a driving licence. Fortunately, help is on hand in the form of a taxi driver with dreams of becoming a racing driver, and whose customised cab can give the crooks a run for their money. Comedy thriller remake, starring Queen Latifah, Jimmy Fallon and Gisele BundchenFilm/Comedy
21:00The Sentinel[SUB HD]
A secret service agent is convinced a member of a neo-Nazi militant group has infiltrated the White House. But his attempt to investigate comes to a halt when he is framed for murder and blackmailed over his affair with the president's wife. As he battles to clear his name, his former protege is given the task of bringing him to justice. Spy thriller, starring Michael Douglas, Kiefer Sutherland, Eva Longoria Parker, Kim Basinger and the late Jackie BurroughsFilm/Detective/Thriller
23:05Que la bete meure
A grieving father becomes obsessed with avenging his son's death in a car accident, and ingratiates himself with the family of the driver. However, his conscience is pricked by his closeness to the family, while someone else also has murder on their mind. French thriller, directed by the late Claude Chabrol and starring Michael Duchaussoy and Caroline CellierFilm/Detective/Thriller
01:15The Hole
Four school friends escape the tedium of a field trip by hiding in an underground bunker, only to realise they are inexplicably sealed in. As panic gnaws away at them, tensions inevitably rise, and they desperately try to work out how they can escape. Thriller, starring Thora Birch, Keira Knightley, Desmond Harrington, Daniel Brocklebank, Embeth Davidtz and Steven WaddingtonFilm/Detective/Thriller
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The Social Network Special (Documentary)
Writer Aaron Sorkin and stars Jesse Eisenberg, Andrew Garfield and Justin Timberlake talk about their acclaimed new drama The Social Network.
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11:00
A Letter to Three Wives (Film)
Witty Oscar winning comedy-drama about three friends who all receive a letter from another friend. This letter informs them that she is about to leave town with one of their husbands: but which one?
Director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Starring: Jeanne Crain, Linda Darnell, Ann Sothern, Kirk Douglas, Paul Douglas, Jeffrey Lynn, Barbara Lawrence
(Black and White, Subtitles, 1949, U, 4 Star)
13:00
Anna and the King (Film)
Jodie Foster stars as Anna Leonowens, a prim English governess engaged by King Mongkut of Siam to educate his children. At first, the two cultures clash but as the pair get to know each other, romance begins to blossom, threatened only by a plot against the throne.
Director: Andy Tennant
Starring: Jodie Foster, Yun-Fat Chow, Ling Bai, Tom Felton, Syed Alwi, Randall Duk Kim
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 1999, 12, 3 Star)
15:45
The Mark of Zorro (Film)
Feckless Mexican nobleman Don Diego returns to his family home to discover the locality has been taken over by venal officials. Consequently, he adopts the disguise of Zorro, masked master swordsman, and attempts to clear the land of corruption. Also starring Ricardo Montalban, Yvonne De Carlo, Anne Archer and Inez Perez.
Director: Don McDougall
Starring: Frank Langella, Ricardo Montalban, Gilbert Roland, Yvonne de Carlo, Louise Sorel, Robert Middleton
(Subtitles, Audio Described, Made For TV, 1974, U, 2 Star)
17:15
Singin' in the Rain (Film)
Gene Kelly, Donald O'Connor and Debbie Reynolds star in Stanley Donen and Kelly's classic musical, set at the time of the beginning of talkies. Kelly plays Don Lockwood, a matinee idol, Jean Hagen LIna Lamont, his bitchy Bronx-accented co-star and Reynolds Kathy SEldon his true love in a film littered with classic sequences, from O'Connor's Make 'Em Laugh to Good Morning and, of course, Kelly's classic routine, Singin' in the Rain.
Director: Stanley Donen, Gene Kelly
Starring: Gene Kelly, Donald O'Connor, Debbie Reynolds, Jean Hagen, Millard Mitchell, Cyd Charisse
(Subtitles, 1952, U, 5 Star)
19:20
Hot Shots! (Film)
Topper Harley is a maverick air force pilot who constantly lives in the shadow of his father's legacy. Unable to handle the pressure, Harley has left the Air Force to live among a tribe of Native Americans. But when the United States seeks to destroy some Iraqi nuclear facilities there's only one man for the job.
Director: Jim Abrahams
Starring: Charlie Sheen, Cary Elwes, Valeria Golino, Lloyd Bridges, Kevin Dunn, Jon Cryer
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 1991, PG, 4 Star)
21:00
Sleepy Hollow (Film)
Tim Burton's rollicking adaptation of Washington Irving's tale stars Johnny Depp as Constable Ichabod Crane, who is sent to the tiny village of Sleepy Hollow, where a headless horseman is leaving a trail of decapitated bodies. Crane believes in the science of detection, but will his skills solve the mystery, or is there really a supernatural explanation? Stunningly realised and shot, the film also stars Christina Ricci, Miranda Richardson and Michael Gambon.
Director: Tim Burton
Starring: Johnny Depp, Christina Ricci, Miranda Richardson, Michael Gambon, Casper Van Dien, Jeffrey Jones
(Subtitles, 1999, 15, 4 Star)
23:00
The Devil's Backbone (Film)
Guillermo del Toro's spine chilling thriller is set during the dog days of the Spanish Civil War at a remote 'orphanage', where children of the soon-to-be defeated Republican cause are given refuge. It is run by Dr Casares, who desires the headmistress Carmen. But she in turn is having an affair with the young janitor Jacinto, who is looking for the secret stash of gold bullion used to finance the left wing cause. Into this heady mix comes young Carlos, who is assigned the bed of Santi, who drowned in mysterious circumstances in the basement pool and whose ghost now haunts the establishment. As the corporeal and the spiritual worlds clash in a mix of lust, revenge and greed, the gripping climax sees avarice punished but at the expense of the greater good. Del Toro's Pan's Labyrinth screens tomorrow night.
Director: Guillermo Del Toro
Starring: Eduardo Noriega, Marisa Paredes, Federico Luppi, Fernando Tielve, Íñigo Garcés, Irene Visedo
(Premiere, Subtitles, Subtitled, In Spanish with English Subtitles, 2001, 15, 3 Star)
01:05
Terminal Velocity (Film)
Deran Sarafian's all-action film stars Charlie Sheen as Richard 'Ditch' Brodie, a skydiving instructor. He's approached by a new pupil, Chris Morrow but while he takes his eye off her, she makes an unscheduled jump which ends in tragedy. Facing a manslaughter charge, Brodie starts his own investigations only to find himself caught up in a conspiracy involving stolen gold, the Russian mafia and enough bullets and explosions to last him a lifetime.
Director: Deran Serafian
Starring: Charlie Sheen, Nastassja Kinski, James Gandolfini, Christopher McDonald, Gary Bullock, Hans Howes
(Widescreen, 1994, 15, 3 Star)
03:05
The Social Network Special (Documentary)
Writer Aaron Sorkin and stars Jesse Eisenberg, Andrew Garfield and Justin Timberlake talk about their acclaimed new drama The Social Network.
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11:00
Dallas (Film)
Western starring Gary Cooper as Blayde Hollister, an ex-Confederate officer who poses as a newly appointed US Marshal to exact vengance against brothers Bryant, Will and Longfellow Maarlow for plundering his estate and murdering his family.
Director: Stuart Heisler
Starring: Gary Cooper, Ruth Roman, Steve Cochran, Raymond Massey, Barbara Payton
(Subtitles, U, 1950, 3 Star)
12:50
The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex (Film)
Nominated for five Oscars, Michael Curtiz's lush historical drama stars Bette Davis as Queen Elizabeth I, with Errol Flynn as one of her favourites, the Earl of Essex. She is infatuated with him but is also aware he has designs on her throne. Essex, while not immune to her charms, has a roving eye which encourages Lady Penelope Gray, only for her hopes to be dashed. Donald Crisp plays Francis Bacon, friend to both the Queen and the Earl while among those plotting Essex's downfall are Sir Walter Raleigh and Sir Robert Cecil.
Director: Michael Curtiz
Starring: Bette Davis, Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Donald Crisp, Alan Hale Jr., Vincent Price
(Subtitles, U, 1939, 3 Star)
14:55
Hills of Home (Film)
Fred M Wilcox directs this adventure, starring Lassie and Edmund Gwenn as her owner, Dr William MacLure. Lassie has an aversion to water, despite the doctor's best efforts to coax her into it, but when his life is in danger, she overcomes her phobia and saves him. Unfortunately, not soon enough, but MacLure manages to pass on her ownership to the two romantic leads, Tammas Milton and Margit Mitchell.
Director: Fred M. Wilcox
Starring: Edmund Gwenn, Donald Crisp, Tom Drake, Janet Leigh, Rhys Williams, Reginald Owen
(Subtitles, U, 1948, 3 Star)
16:45
Guns of the Magnificent Seven (Film)
The third outing for the Magnificent Seven is led by George Kennedy as Chris, the legendary gunman enlisted to help free the incarcerated rebel leader Quinetero and aid the Mexican revolution. He assembles a posse of disparate fighters, including James Whitmore, Monte Markham, Joe Don Baker and Scott Thomas, and they head for the prison and a date with destiny.
Director: Paul Wendkos
Starring: George Kennedy, James Whit, Monte Markham, Reni Santoni, Bernie Casey, Scott Thomas
(Subtitles, Audio Described, PG, 1969, 2 Star)
18:50
The Family Stone (Film)
Thomas Bezucha's wry, sharp comedy/drama looks at a family in upheaval during the Christmas period. Everett Stone brings his fiancee Meredith Morton to his family home for the festive season. Matriarch Sybil Stone doesn't approve of her and leads the family attack on Meredith but cracks start to appear in the family's own relationship and painful, occasionally amusing truths appear. Edited for language.
Director: Thomas Bezucha
Starring: Claire Danes, Diane Keaton, Rachel McAdams, Dermot Mulroney, Craig T. Nelson, Sarah Jessica Parker
(Widescreen, Subtitles, Audio Described, PG, 2005, 3 Star)
21:00
Walk the Line (Film)
Oscar-nominee Joaquin Phoenix plays Johnny Cash, and Oscar-winner Reese Witherspoon plays June Carter in James Mangold's acclaimed biographical film about country music's legendary 'man in black'. The film follows Cash from his childhood, where he was touched by tragedy, through his years on the road to his marriage to June Carter, who was country royalty, and their struggle to find happiness as she weans him off booze and drugs. Walk the Line is a warts-and-all biopic, showing Cash's faults as well as his undoubted star quality as one of the greatest singer/songwriters that America has ever produced.
Director: James Mangold
Starring: Joaquin Phoenix, Reese Witherspoon, Ginnifer Goodwin, Robert Patrick, Dallas Roberts, Dan John Miller
(Widescreen, Subtitles, Audio Described, 12, 2005, 4 Star)
23:35
Lucky Number Slevin (Film)
Paul McGuigan's tricksy thriller stars Josh Hartnett as Slevin Kelevra, who pitches up at his friend's New York apartment, only to find it empty. He makes himself at home, but his peace is interrupted by employees of crime lord The Boss, who mistake him for his absent friend, who owes The Boss $96,000. But The Boss makes Slevin an offer: kill the son of his rival, The Rabbi, and the debt will be wiped clean. But The Rabbi soon gets hold of Slevin and makes a counter-offer. Add in cynical assassin Mr Goodkat, who is playing both ends against the middle in what might be a long-term plan, and Lucy Liu as Lindsey, Slevin's next-door neighbour, who soon becomes his love interest, and the result is a multi-stranded double-cross, but one with only one lucky winner.
Director: Paul McGuigan
Starring: Josh Hartnett, Bruce Willis, Lucy Liu, Morgan Freeman, Ben Kingsley, Michael Rubenfeld
(Editor's Choice, Widescreen, Subtitles, 18, 2006, 4 Star)
01:40
Solaris (Film)
Steven Soderbergh's re-make of the classic Andrei Torkovsky film stars George Clooney as Chris Kelvin, a therapist sent to mentor a group of astronauts on the Prometheus space station, where the remaining crew are both locked in their own fears, speaking of visions of lost loved ones. Kelvin is, at first, sceptical, but when his deceased wife appears to him, he begins to wonder what influence the mysterious planet Solaris has on the human psyche.
Director: Steven Soderbergh
Starring: George Clooney, Natascha McElhone, Viola Davis, Jeremy Davies, Ulrich Tukur, John Cho
(Subtitles, 12, 2002, 3 Star)
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11:00
The Iron Petticoat (Film)
Katharine Hepburn plays a humourless Russian, Captain Vinka Kovelenko, who defects from her home country. Major Chuck Lockwood is assigned to show her the bright lights of London while she tries to convince him of the superiority of communism. Naturally, the two opposites fall in love but then must contend with the KGB, who are not happy with the idea of one of their officers running around free in London in this comedy.
Director: Ralph L. Thomas
Starring: Bob Hope, Katharine Hepburn, Noelle Middleton, James Robertson-Justice, Robert Helpmann, David Kossoff
(Subtitles, 1956, PG, 3 Star)
12:50
The Social Network Special (Documentary)
Writer Aaron Sorkin and stars Jesse Eisenberg, Andrew Garfield and Justin Timberlake talk about their acclaimed new drama The Social Network.
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13:00
The Three Musketeers (Film)
Stephen Herek's derring-do take on Dumas' tale stars Chris O'Donnell as D'Artagan, a would-be recruit to the noble Musketeers who finds that Cardinal Richelieu has disbanded them, leaving only renegades Aramis, Athos and Porthos, who discover the Cardinal is plotting against France. They manage to intercept Richelieu's beautiful but deadly accomplice Milady as she is about to sail for England to make an alliance that will topple France's monarchy. But can they manage to return to Paris in time to thwart the Cardinal and save the throne?
Director: Stephen Herek
Starring: Charlie Sheen, Kiefer Sutherland, Chris O'Donnell, Oliver Platt, Tim Curry, Rebecca de Mornay
(Widescreen, 1993, PG, 3 Star)
15:05
Ride the High Country (Film)
Sam Peckinpah's western classic in which once-respected, now down-on-his-luck lawman Steve Judd accepts the job of transporting gold from a remote mining camp to a small-town bank. Judd meets his former colleague Gil Westrum and his young assistant Hank Longtree, who agree to join Judd, but plan to steal the gold en-route.
Director: Sam Peckinpah
Starring: Joel McCrea, Randolph Scott, Mariette Hartley, Ron Starr, Edgar Buchanan, R.G. Armstrong
(Subtitles, 1962, PG, 4 Star)
16:55
On the Town (Film)
Gene Kelly, Frank Sinatra and Jules Munshin are Gabey, Chip and Ozzie, three US Navy sailors with just 24 hours in New York and a mission - to find a date. Cue sassy taxi driver Brunhilde, pin-up Ivy and glamorous museum scientist Claire, who variously become their objects of desire in this stunning musical, shot almost entirely on location. Directed by Stanley Donen and Kelly, this Oscar-winning musical is packed with songs from Leonard Bernstein's sumptuous score including, of course, the classic New York, New York.
Director: Stanley Donen, Gene Kelly
Starring: Gene Kelly, Frank Sinatra, Betty Garrett, Ann Miller, Jules Munshin, Vera-Ellen Slezak
(Subtitles, 1949, U, 4 Star)
18:50
How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days (Film)
Andie Anderson writes an advice column for a fashionable magazine and agrees to demonstrate how easy it is to attract and then alienate a man in just ten days. She chooses Benjamin Barry, little knowing he's an advertising executive whose job rests on proving he understands women so well that he can make one fall for him in two weeks. Donald Petrie's comedy sees the two unknowingly played at their own game in this witty battle of the sexes. Edited for language.
Director: Donald Petrie
Starring: Kate Hudson, Matthew McConaughey, Kathryn Hahn, Annie Parisse, Adam Goldberg, Thomas Lennon
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 2003, 12, 3 Star)
21:00
10 Things I Hate About You (Film)
Gil Junger's feel good teen comedy is loosely based on Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew, with Heath Ledger as Patrick Verona and Julia Stiles as Katarina Stratford. He accepts a bribe to take her to the prom so that her sister can take the beau of her choice, but when Katarina finds out, she's furious. Just as Patrick realises her true character and falls for her... Cue many hysterical misunderstandings, including a wonderful set piece on an athletics field involving a marching band.
Director: Gil Junger
Starring: Heath Ledger, Julia Stiles, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Larisa Oleynik, David Krumholtz, Andrew Keegan
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 1998, 15, 3 Star)
23:00
Pan's Labyrinth (Film)
In 1940s Spain, a young girl escapes from the horrifying brutality of her sadistic stepfather's military endeavours into a mysterious netherworld of magic and monsters where she is set three tasks that will see her crowned as princess of this strange kingdom.
Director: Guillermo Del Toro
Starring: Ariadna Gil, Ivana Baquero, Sergi LĂłpez, Maribel VerdĂş, Doug Jones, Ălex Ăngulo
(Editor's Choice, In Spanish with Subtitles, Widescreen, 2006, 15, 4 Star)
01:15
The Actors (Film)
Dylan Moran plays Tom, a struggling actor playing a Nazi stormtrooper in an avant-garde production of Richard III with thespian Anthony O'Malley in the title role. But O'Malley has a get-rich plan: conning retired gangster Barreller out of a suitcase of cash; he just needs a willing accomplice... But the plan goes awry and only the pair's acting ability can save their lives in Conor McPherson's crime comedy caper.
Director: Conor McPherson
Starring: Michael Caine, Dylan Moran, Michael Gambon, Lena Headey, Miranda Richardson, Michael McElhatton
(Black and White, Subtitles, 2002, 15, 3 Star)
03:05
The Social Network Special (Documentary)
Writer Aaron Sorkin and stars Jesse Eisenberg, Andrew Garfield and Justin Timberlake talk about their acclaimed new drama The Social Network.
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11:00
The Spy in Black (Film)
Michael Powell's classic espionage thriller stars Conrad Veidt as Captain Hardt, a WWI German submarine commander-turned-spy sent to the Orkneys, where he is foiled by double agent Jill Blacklock.
Director: Michael Powell
Starring: Conrad Veidt, Sebastian Shaw, Valerie Hobson, Marius Goring, June Duprez, Athole Stewart
(Black and White, Subtitles, U, 1939, 4 Star)
12:40
The Social Network Special (Documentary)
Writer Aaron Sorkin and stars Jesse Eisenberg, Andrew Garfield and Justin Timberlake talk about their acclaimed new drama The Social Network.
12:45
The Barbarian and the Geisha (Film)
John Wayne's only collaboration with director John Huston is based on the true story of Townsend Harris, America's first consul to Japan in 1856. At first spurned by both the locals and the Japanese hierarchy, he manages to gain their trust both through his assistance during a cholera epidemic and his blossoming relationship with the beautiful geisha Okichi.
Director: John Huston
Starring: John Wayne, Eiko Ando, Sam Jaffe, SĂ´ Yamamura
(Widescreen, Subtitles, U, 1958, 2 Star)
14:50
Ride the High Country (Film)
Sam Peckinpah's western classic in which once-respected, now down-on-his-luck lawman Steve Judd accepts the job of transporting gold from a remote mining camp to a small-town bank. Judd meets his former colleague Gil Westrum and his young assistant Hank Longtree, who agree to join Judd, but plan to steal the gold en-route.
Director: Sam Peckinpah
Starring: Joel McCrea, Randolph Scott, Mariette Hartley, Ron Starr, Edgar Buchanan, R.G. Armstrong
(Subtitles, PG, 1962, 4 Star)
16:40
The Social Network Special (Documentary)
Writer Aaron Sorkin and stars Jesse Eisenberg, Andrew Garfield and Justin Timberlake talk about their acclaimed new drama The Social Network.
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16:50
Warlock (Film)
Gunfighter Curt was supposed to be the saviour of Warlock. But after he turns out wilder than the cowboys he was hired to tame, former gunslinger Johnny joins the good guys as sheriff.
Director: Edward Dmytryk
Starring: Richard Widmark, Henry Fonda, Anthony Quinn, Dorothy Malone, Dolores Michaels, Wallace Ford
(Subtitles, U, 1959, 4 Star)
19:10
Hot Shots! (Film)
Topper Harley is a maverick air force pilot who constantly lives in the shadow of his father's legacy. Unable to handle the pressure, Harley has left the Air Force to live among a tribe of Native Americans. But when the United States seeks to destroy some Iraqi nuclear facilities there's only one man for the job.
Director: Jim Abrahams
Starring: Charlie Sheen, Cary Elwes, Valeria Golino, Lloyd Bridges, Kevin Dunn, Jon Cryer
(Widescreen, Subtitles, PG, 1991, 4 Star)
20:50
The Social Network Special (Documentary)
Writer Aaron Sorkin and stars Jesse Eisenberg, Andrew Garfield and Justin Timberlake talk about their acclaimed new drama The Social Network.
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21:00
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Film)
McMurphy, a social misfit who finds himself locked up in an insane asylum through his own choice to avoid a prison sentance. Whilst there he encourages his fellow inmates (DeVito, Lloyd and Dourif among them) into acts of rebellion, joyous freedom and self-expression. The authorities, principally in the shape of the formidable Nurse Ratched, react with increasing violence to McMurphy's dangerous ideas with terrible final consequences for McMurphy.
Director: Milos Forman
Starring: Jack Nicholson, Louise Fletcher, William Redfield, Michael Berryman, Danny DeVito, Peter Brocco
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 18, 1975, 5 Star)
23:35
Terminal Velocity (Film)
Deran Sarafian's all-action film stars Charlie Sheen as Richard 'Ditch' Brodie, a skydiving instructor. He's approached by a new pupil, Chris Morrow but while he takes his eye off her, she makes an unscheduled jump which ends in tragedy. Facing a manslaughter charge, Brodie starts his own investigations only to find himself caught up in a conspiracy involving stolen gold, the Russian mafia and enough bullets and explosions to last him a lifetime.
Director: Deran Serafian
Starring: Charlie Sheen, Nastassja Kinski, James Gandolfini, Christopher McDonald, Gary Bullock, Hans Howes
(15, 1994, 3 Star)
01:35
Taxidermia (Film)
György Pálfi's bizarre, sometimes grotesque film is set over three generations, beginning with Csaba Czene as Morosgoványi Vendel, a sexually frustrated orderly during the war who relieves his tensions in the most outlandish, gross ways. The result of his liaison is Balatony Kálmán, a glutton who grows up to be a champion speed eater. He produces a child, Balatony Lajoska who becomes obsessed with taxidermy to such an unhealthy degree, he practises his craft before the subject is fully dead.
Director: György Pálfi
Starring: Csaba Czene, Gergely Trócsányi, Marc Bischoff, István Gyuricza, Piroska Molnár, Gábor Máté
(In Hungarian/Russian/English with English Subtitles, Widescreen, 18, 2006, 3 Star)
03:25
The Social Network Special (Documentary)
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03:25
The Social Network Special (Documentary)
Writer Aaron Sorkin and stars Jesse Eisenberg, Andrew Garfield and Justin Timberlake talk about their acclaimed new drama The Social Network.
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11:00
The Tall Men (Film)
Rousing action Western about a Civil War veteran who, with his brother Cameron Mitchell, agrees to crooked cattleman Robert Ryan's offer to be trail boss on a massive cattle drive from Texas to Montana. On the way they meet Nella from the Indians who decides to ride with them.
Director: Raoul Walsh
Starring: Clark Gable, Jane Russell, Robert Ryan, Cameron Mitchell, Juan GarcĂa, Harry Shannon
(Subtitles, U, 1955, 3 Star)
13:20
The Social Network Special (Documentary)
Writer Aaron Sorkin and stars Jesse Eisenberg, Andrew Garfield and Justin Timberlake talk about their acclaimed new drama The Social Network.
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13:25
The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex (Film)
Nominated for five Oscars, Michael Curtiz's lush historical drama stars Bette Davis as Queen Elizabeth I, with Errol Flynn as one of her favourites, the Earl of Essex. She is infatuated with him but is also aware he has designs on her throne. Essex, while not immune to her charms, has a roving eye which encourages Lady Penelope Gray, only for her hopes to be dashed. Donald Crisp plays Francis Bacon, friend to both the Queen and the Earl while among those plotting Essex's downfall are Sir Walter Raleigh and Sir Robert Cecil.
Director: Michael Curtiz
Starring: Bette Davis, Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Donald Crisp, Alan Hale Jr., Vincent Price
(Subtitles, U, 1939, 3 Star)
15:30
Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines (Film)
For a brief period in the 60s, there was a fad for madcap movies such as It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, Monte Carlo or Bust, The Great Race and Around the World in 80 Days, and Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines rightfully joins the list of those that worked. Newspaper publisher Lord Rawnsley puts up a ÂŁ10,000 prize for the winner of a flight from London to Paris and soon his daughter Patricia, her would-be husband Richard, his rival for her hand and a motley collection of aviators are gathered, ready for the race to begin. Among them, of course, is the requisite villain, Sir Percy Ware-Armitage, aided by his put-upon servant Courtney. Although the gags are flagged, the cast are all game for the fun and respect should go to cinematographer Christopher Challis and the anonymous stuntmen who, for some of the scenes, had to fly planes that were only slightly more robust than the original pre-WWI craft they were modelled on.
Director: Ken Annakin
Starring: Stuart Whitman, Sarah Miles, James Fox, Alberto Sordi, Robert Morley, Gert Fröbe
(Widescreen, Subtitles, U, 1965, 3 Star)
18:05
The Social Network Special (Documentary)
Writer Aaron Sorkin and stars Jesse Eisenberg, Andrew Garfield and Justin Timberlake talk about their acclaimed new drama The Social Network.
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18:15
Anna and the King (Film)
Jodie Foster stars as Anna Leonowens, a prim English governess engaged by King Mongkut of Siam to educate his children. At first, the two cultures clash but as the pair get to know each other, romance begins to blossom, threatened only by a plot against the throne.
Director: Andy Tennant
Starring: Jodie Foster, Yun-Fat Chow, Ling Bai, Tom Felton, Syed Alwi, Randall Duk Kim
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 12, 1999, 3 Star)
21:00
Mr. & Mrs. Smith (Film)
Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie star in Doug Liman's all-action thriller as an apparently typical suburban couple, attending marriage counselling in an attempt to reignite their relationship. What neither of them knows is that the other is a highly skilled assassin; until they each get a call for their next job. Accidentally double-booked, they both discover the truth about their spouse's secret existence and are now in danger, not only from their respective organisations, but also from each other. But it's amazing what the frisson of danger can do for a jaded marriage... As well as becoming an off-screen item during filming, Pitt and Jolie play a believable couple on screen, bickering through the mayhem and looking like they actually had fun making the film.
Director: Doug Liman
Starring: Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie, Vince Vaughn, Adam Brody, Kerry Washington, Keith David
(Widescreen, Subtitles, Audio Described, 15, 2005, 3 Star)
23:15
Tulpan (Film)
Sergei Dvortsevoy's amazing Cannes-winning comedy drama is set on Kazakhstan's bleak Hunger Steppe where Asa, a young sailor recently discharged from the Russian Navy, is living in a yurt with his sister Samai and her family. He is determined to become a shepherd and to marry a local woman but the only single one is Tulpan, who turns him down because his ears are too big. Can Asa change her mind and can he and Samai halt the increase in stillborn lambs in their flock?
Director: Sergei Dvortsevoy
Starring: Tolepbergen Baisakalov, Ondas Besikbasov, Samal Esljamova, Askhat Kuchencherekov, Bereke Turganbayev
(Premiere, In Kazakh and Russian with English Subtitles, 12, 2008, 4 Star)
01:10
The Dreamers (Film)
Bernado Bertolucci's film, scripted by Gilbert Adair from his novel, and set in 1968, stars Michael Pitt as an American student who enters the lives of Parisians Theo and his sister Isabelle. The three share a love of the movies but soon their relationship is one of sexual entanglement. The film's plot is counter-pointed with extracts from classic films that almost act as a Greek chorus on their relationships, while the trio's reality is affected by the growing unrest on the streets.
Director: Bernardo Bertolucci
Starring: Michael Pitt, Eva Green, Louis Garrel, Anna Chancellor, Robin Renucci, Jean-Pierre Kalfon
(In English and French with English Subtitles, Widescreen, 18, 2003, 2 Star)
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The Social Network Special (Documentary)
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11:00Boomerang![SUB BW HD]
A district attorney is determined to convict a vagrant of killing a prominent clergyman. However, as the lawyer delves deeper into the case, he begins to suspect the defendant may in fact be innocent. Crime drama based on a real-life murder case of the 1920s, starring Dana Andrews, Lee J Cobb, Arthur Kennedy, Jane Wyatt, Ed Begley and featuring the late Karl MaldenFilm/Detective/Thriller/General Movie/Drama
12:45A Man Called Peter[SUB HD]
Fact-based drama charting the life of renowned Scottish priest and author Peter Marshall. As a young man, he dreams of going to sea, but finds himself taking on an entirely different calling as a minister. Later in life, he travels to America, ultimately rising to the esteemed position of chaplain to the United States Senate. Starring Richard Todd, Jean Peters, Marjorie Rambeau and Jill EsmondFilm/General Movie/Drama
15:00Fathom
A glamorous skydiver is hired by intelligence agents to retrieve the triggering device for a hydrogen bomb that a US Army defector has hidden in a statuette, and stop it falling into the hands of the Chinese. However, she begins to suspect her mysterious employers are involved in an elaborate double-cross as she searches frantically for the detonator. Espionage comedy, starring Raquel Welch, Tony Franciosa, Ronald Fraser and Richard BriersFilm/Comedy
16:55Dark Command[SUB BW]
A teacher is defeated in his ambition to become the marshal of his town during the early years of the American Civil War, so he turns renegade instead. Before long he has a reputation as a feared raider fighting on the side of the South, and it falls to the newly appointed lawman whose job he coveted to stop his reign of terror. Western, starring John Wayne and Walter PidgeonFilm/Western
18:45Logan's Run[SUB HD]
In a hedonistic futuristic city, euthanasia is compulsory for everyone over 30. A law enforcer whose job is to kill anyone who tries to escape is given the task of exposing an underground movement. To do so, his body clock is fast-forwarded, giving him a taste of life on the run. Sci-fi thriller, starring Michael York, Jenny Agutter, Farrah Fawcett and Peter UstinovFilm/Science Fiction
21:00The Waterboy[SUB AD HD]
An American football team's waterboy puts up with constant ridicule from the players. But one day his anger gets the better of him and he demonstrates an unexpected talent for tackling - so the coach gives him a chance to prove his worth on the pitch. However, he has to keep his budding sporting career a secret from his overprotective mother. Comedy, with Adam Sandler, Kathy Bates, Henry Winkler and Fairuza BalkFilm/Comedy
22:45The Abyss
When a nuclear submarine is attacked and becomes stricken in the ocean depths, the US Government calls on civilian divers from a nearby oil rig to come to their aid. However, when the team arrives at the location of the vessel, a series of strange incidents leads to an encounter with aliens living in the depths. James Cameron's sci-fi thriller, starring Ed Harris, Michael Biehn and Mary Elizabeth MastrantonioFilm/Science Fiction/Detective/Thriller
01:25The Summer Interlude[BW]
A Swedish ballerina coming to the end of her career reflects on a teenage love affair in Stockholm. Ingmar Bergman's romantic drama, starring Maj-Britt Nilsson, Alf Kjellin and Birger MalmstenFilm/General Movie/Drama
03:15The Social Network Special[REP]
Actors Jesse Eisenberg, Andrew Garfield and Justin Timberlake and writer Aaron Sorkin discuss David Fincher's new movieFilm/Cinema
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03:25
The Social Network Special (Documentary)
Writer Aaron Sorkin and stars Jesse Eisenberg, Andrew Garfield and Justin Timberlake talk about their acclaimed new drama The Social Network.
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11:00
The Iron Petticoat (Film)
Katharine Hepburn plays a humourless Russian, Captain Vinka Kovelenko, who defects from her home country. Major Chuck Lockwood is assigned to show her the bright lights of London while she tries to convince him of the superiority of communism. Naturally, the two opposites fall in love but then must contend with the KGB, who are not happy with the idea of one of their officers running around free in London in this comedy.
Director: Ralph L. Thomas
Starring: Bob Hope, Katharine Hepburn, Noelle Middleton, James Robertson-Justice, Robert Helpmann, David Kossoff
(Subtitles, PG, 1956, 3 Star)
12:50
Conspiracy of Hearts (Film)
In 1943 in Italy, Mother Katharine and Sister Mitya are part of a group of nuns helping to smuggle orphaned Jewish children out of an internment camp. Their covert activities are initially aided by the camp commandant, a sympathetic Italian major, but when he is replaced by a Nazi colonel and a lieutenant the nuns find themselves in much more danger.
Director: Ralph L. Thomas
Starring: Lilli Palmer, Sylvia Syms, Yvonne Mitchell, Ronald Lewis, Albert Lieven, Peter Arne
(Black and White, Subtitles, U, 1960, 3 Star)
15:00
The Valley of Gwangi (Film)
Dinosaurs meet cowboys in Jim O'Connolly's cult film, with the monsters animated by the inimitable Ray Harryhausen. In a small Mexican town, horse trader Tuck Kirby meets up with old flame T J Breckinridge, owner of a rundown circus. He runs into palaeontologist Professor Horace Bromley, who has found a living eohippus, the prehistoric ancestor of the horse. Nursing their own agendas, the scientist and the cowboy venture into the Forbidden Valley only to find that larger, more deadly creatures have survived from prehistoric times.
Director: Jim O'Connolly
Starring: James Franciscus, Gila Golan, Richard Carlson, Laurence Naismith, Freda Jackson, Gustavo Rojo
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 12, 1968, 2 Star)
16:50
Dallas (Film)
Western starring Gary Cooper as Blayde Hollister, an ex-Confederate officer who poses as a newly appointed US Marshal to exact vengance against brothers Bryant, Will and Longfellow Maarlow for plundering his estate and murdering his family.
Director: Stuart Heisler
Starring: Gary Cooper, Ruth Roman, Steve Cochran, Raymond Massey, Barbara Payton
(Subtitles, U, 1950, 3 Star)
18:40
The Social Network Special (Documentary)
Writer Aaron Sorkin and stars Jesse Eisenberg, Andrew Garfield and Justin Timberlake talk about their acclaimed new drama The Social Network.
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18:50
How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days (Film)
Andie Anderson writes an advice column for a fashionable magazine and agrees to demonstrate how easy it is to attract and then alienate a man in just ten days. She chooses Benjamin Barry, little knowing he's an advertising executive whose job rests on proving he understands women so well that he can make one fall for him in two weeks. Donald Petrie's comedy sees the two unknowingly played at their own game in this witty battle of the sexes. Edited for language.
Director: Donald Petrie
Starring: Kate Hudson, Matthew McConaughey, Kathryn Hahn, Annie Parisse, Adam Goldberg, Thomas Lennon
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 12, 2003, 3 Star)
21:00
The Magdalene Sisters (Film)
Peter Mullan's award-winning film tells the story of four of the inmates of one of Ireland's Magdalene Laundries, brutal nun-run institutions housing single mothers, orphans and 'promiscuous' girls. Run with a rod of iron by Sister Bridget, the inmates' only solace is their friendship.
Director: Peter Mullan
Starring: Geraldine McEwan, Anne-Marie Duff, Nora-Jane Noone, Dorothy Duffy, Eileen Walsh, Mary Murray
(Subtitles, Audio Described, 15, 2002, 4 Star)
23:15
Lucky Number Slevin (Film)
Paul McGuigan's tricksy thriller stars Josh Hartnett as Slevin Kelevra, who pitches up at his friend's New York apartment, only to find it empty. He makes himself at home, but his peace is interrupted by employees of crime lord The Boss, who mistake him for his absent friend, who owes The Boss $96,000. But The Boss makes Slevin an offer: kill the son of his rival, The Rabbi, and the debt will be wiped clean. But The Rabbi soon gets hold of Slevin and makes a counter-offer. Add in cynical assassin Mr Goodkat, who is playing both ends against the middle in what might be a long-term plan, and Lucy Liu as Lindsey, Slevin's next-door neighbour, who soon becomes his love interest, and the result is a multi-stranded double-cross, but one with only one lucky winner.
Director: Paul McGuigan
Starring: Josh Hartnett, Bruce Willis, Lucy Liu, Morgan Freeman, Ben Kingsley, Michael Rubenfeld
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 18, 2006, 4 Star)
01:20
In America (Film)
Jim Sheridan's Oscar-nominated drama stars Paddy Considine as Johnny, a would-be actor, who emigrates from Ireland to New York with his wife Sarah and daughters Christy and Ariel. While he searches for work, his wife tries to keep the family above the poverty line, with their lives complicated by enigmatic neighbour Mateo, who alternates between rages and affection for the family.
Director: Jim Sheridan
Starring: Paddy Considine, Samantha Morton, Sarah Bolger, Emma Bolger, Neal Jones, Randall Carlton
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 15, 2003, 3 Star)
03:20
The Social Network Special (Documentary)
Writer Aaron Sorkin and stars Jesse Eisenberg, Andrew Garfield and Justin Timberlake talk about their acclaimed new drama The Social Network.
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11:00The Sea Inside[HD]
Fact-based Spanish drama about a fisherman who is paralysed from the neck down in a diving accident. After spending years dependent on others to take care of him, he decides to fight for the legal right to end his own life. Starring Javier Bardem, Belen Rueda and Lola DuenasFilm/General Movie/Drama
13:25Where the Sidewalk Ends[SUB BW HD]
A violent New York cop beats a robbery suspect to death during a moment of madness and hastily tries to cover his tracks by framing a local mobster for the crime. Thriller, starring Dana Andrews, Gene Tierney, Gary Merrill and Karl MaldenFilm/Detective/Thriller
15:15The Master of Ballantrae
A Scottish nobleman who fought alongside Bonnie Prince Charlie is driven into exile when the rebellion is defeated. After years overseas spent battling pirates, he returns home to discover the woman he loves thought he was dead and has since married his treacherous brother. Swashbuckling adventure, based on Robert Louis Stevenson's novel, starring Errol Flynn and Anthony SteelFilm/Adventure
17:00Singin' In The Rain
Two old friends and an aspiring starlet find their lives changing as the arrival of sound revolutionises film-making. Gene Kelly co-directs, choreographs and stars in this musical comedy, with Debbie Reynolds, Donald O'Connor, Jean Hagen and Millard Mitchell. Songs include Make 'em Laugh, You Are My Lucky Star and the evergreen title numberFilm/Musical/Comedy
19:00The Pink Panther Strikes Again[SUB HD]
Bungling Inspector Clouseau fends off a murder syndicate led by demented former police chief Dreyfus, who has a scheme to get rid of the clumsy cop once and for all. However, doing away with the lucky lawman proves harder than anticipated - even for the world's top assassins. Comedy sequel, starring Peter Sellers, Herbert Lom, Lesley-Anne Down, Burt Kwouk and Leonard RossiterFilm/Comedy
21:0010 Things I Hate About You[SUB HD]
Lively teenager Bianca is not allowed to start dating until her man-hating sister Kat does first - but no boy is brave enough to ask her out. However, Bianca's would-be boyfriend thinks he has found the perfect man for the job in the shape of a quirky loner with a mysterious past. Comedy, based on Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew, starring Heath Ledger, Julia Stiles, Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Larisa OleynikFilm/Comedy
23:00Get Rich or Die Tryin'[SUB HD]
An inner-city drug dealer puts his life of crime behind him after a near-fatal shooting to pursue a new career as a rap artist. Unfortunately, when he performs songs inspired by his shady past, his former criminal associates do not take kindly to having their misdeeds immortalised in music. Drama, starring Curtis `50 Cent' Jackson, Terrence Howard and Ashley WaltersFilm/General Movie/Drama
01:15Smiles of a Summer Night[BW]
A lawyer goes to the theatre with his much younger wife, and finds the leading lady is an old flame. After a confrontation with the count she is having an affair with, the actress becomes determined to seduce the attorney once again, inviting both her lovers - and their wives - to a party at her country house. Ingmar Bergman's romantic comedy, with Gunnar Bjornstrand and Eva DahlbeckFilm/Comedy
03:25The Social Network Special[REP]
Actors Jesse Eisenberg, Andrew Garfield and Justin Timberlake and writer Aaron Sorkin discuss David Fincher's new movieFilm/Cinema
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03:20
The Social Network Special (Documentary)
Writer Aaron Sorkin and stars Jesse Eisenberg, Andrew Garfield and Justin Timberlake talk about their acclaimed new drama The Social Network.
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11:00
I Am Cuba (Film)
Showing in a restored version, Russian director Mikhail Kalatozov's propaganda film charts the rise of the Cuban revolution through four stories; a prostitute, a farmer, student revolutionaries and finally, Castro's forces are profiled to show the evil of the Batista regime and the right of the revolutionaries to fight him. Although the politics are somewhat obvious, the film is rightly revered for its artistry, with Kalatozov using techniques, angles and set-up that were, at the time, genuinely revolutionary.
Director: Mikhail Kalatozov
Starring: Sergio Corrieri, Salvador Wood, JosĂ© Gallardo, RaĂşl JimĂ©nez, Luz MarĂa Collazo, Jean Bouise
(Subtitles, Subtitled, In Spanish with English Subtitles, Black and White, PG, 1964, 4 Star)
13:45
Sea Wife (Film)
An offbeat melodrama. An RAF officer, a Sea Wife, a nun, a brash businessman and a purser all end up drifting on a life raft in the Indian Ocean after their ship is torpedoed. Romantic and racial tensions divide the four as they hope for rescue in Bob McNaught's taut film.
Director: Bob McNaught
Starring: Joan Collins, Richard Burton, Basil Sydney, Cy Grant, Ronald Squire, Joan Hickson
(Subtitles, U, 1957, 2 Star)
15:25
Boomerang (Film)
Elia Kazan's Oscar-nominated classic noir thriller, based on a true-life case, stars Dana Andrews as Henry Harvey, a New England State Attorney who is determined to prove vagrant John Waldron innocent of the murder of a prominent churchman.
Director: Elia Kazan
Starring: Dana Andrews, Jane Wyatt, Lee J. Cobb, Cara Williams, Arthur Kennedy, Sam Levene
(Black and White, Subtitles, PG, 1947, 4 Star)
17:10
Death Drums along the River (Film)
Exciting location-filmed thriller based on Sanders of the River and starring Richard Todd as Inspector Sanders, investigating diamond smuggling, mystery and murder in deepest Africa.
Director: Lawrence Huntington
Starring: Richard Todd, Marianne Koch, Vivi Bach, Albert Lieven, Walter Rilla, Jeremy Lloyd
(Subtitles, PG, 1963, 2 Star)
18:50
The Family Stone (Film)
Thomas Bezucha's wry, sharp comedy/drama looks at a family in upheaval during the Christmas period. Everett Stone brings his fiancee Meredith Morton to his family home for the festive season. Matriarch Sybil Stone doesn't approve of her and leads the family attack on Meredith but cracks start to appear in the family's own relationship and painful, occasionally amusing truths appear. Edited for language.
Director: Thomas Bezucha
Starring: Claire Danes, Diane Keaton, Rachel McAdams, Dermot Mulroney, Craig T. Nelson, Sarah Jessica Parker
(Widescreen, Subtitles, Audio Described, PG, 2005, 3 Star)
20:50
The Social Network Special (Documentary)
Writer Aaron Sorkin and stars Jesse Eisenberg, Andrew Garfield and Justin Timberlake talk about their acclaimed new drama The Social Network.
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21:00
The Insider (Film)
"60 Minutes" producer Lowell Bergman sniffs a story when a former research biologist for Brown & Williamson, Dr. Jeffrey Wigand, won't talk to him. When the company leans hard on Wigand to honour a confidentiality agreement, he gets his back up. Trusting Bergman and despite a crumbling marriage, he goes on camera for a Mike Wallace interview and risks arrest for contempt of court.
Director: Michael Mann
Starring: Al Pacino, Russell Crowe, Christopher Plummer, Diane Venora, Philip Baker Hall, Lindsay Crouse
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 15, 1999, 4 Star)
00:05
Dance with a Stranger (Film)
Miranda Richardson stars in this moving recreation of the events that led Ruth Ellis to become the last woman in Britain to be hanged, telling the story of her torrid love affair with handsome racing driver and its tragic consequences. With Stratford Johns, Ian Holm and Matthew Carol.
Director: Mike Newell
Starring: Miranda Richardson, Rupert Everett, Ian Holm, Stratford Johns, Joanne Whalley, Tom Chadbon
(Subtitles, 15, 1985, 3 Star)
02:00
The Hole (Film)
Nick Hamm's dark thriller sees public school student Thora Birch desperate for the attention of handsome Desmond Harrington. Fellow pupil Daniel Brocklebank suggests the pair plus two other friends bunk off a geography school trip and sneak off to a disused bomb shelter for three days where she'll have a chance to make her move. But after three days, Brocklebank isn't back to release the four and, as the days go on, the four are, literally, dying to get out. Told in flashback by one survivor, this is one of the most chilling films of recent years and proof that British directors can do cerebral horror.
Director: Nick Hamm
Starring: Thora Birch, Desmond Harrington, Daniel Brocklebank, Laurence Fox, Keira Knightley, Embeth Davidtz
(Subtitles, 15, 2001, 3 Star)
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03:25
Social Network Special (Entertainment)
Writer Aaron Sorkin and stars Jesse Eisenberg, Andrew Garfield and Justin Timberlake talk about their acclaimed new drama The Social Network.
(Repeat)
11:00
The Spanish Gardener (Film)
Philip Leacock's film is the story of minor diplomat Harrington Brande, who becomes increasingly jealous of the relationship that develops between his son Nicholas and the Spanish gardener, Jose, who has been hired to work on the estate.
Director: Philip Leacock
Starring: Dirk Bogarde, Jon Whiteley, Michael Hordern, Cyril Cusack, Maureen Swanson, Lyndon Brook
(Subtitles, U, 1956, 3 Star)
12:50
A Letter to Three Wives (Film)
Witty Oscar winning comedy-drama about three friends who all receive a letter from another friend. This letter informs them that she is about to leave town with one of their husbands: but which one?
Director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Starring: Jeanne Crain, Linda Darnell, Ann Sothern, Kirk Douglas, Paul Douglas, Jeffrey Lynn, Barbara Lawrence
(Black and White, Subtitles, U, 1949, 4 Star)
14:50
Julia (Film)
Fred Zinnemann's sensitive and compelling dramatisation tells of the awakening in the 1930s of playwright Lillian Hellman to the growing threat of Nazism through the persecution and final execution of her childhood friend Julia. Although the narrative is slight, director Fred Zinnemann endows the film with suspense, sensitivity, elegance and, above all, a beautifully realised and complex relationship between the two women. The film earned nine Academy Award nominations, including another winner in Jason Robards as Dashiel Hammett. Edited for content.
Director: Fred Zinnemann
Starring: Jane Fonda, Vanessa Redgrave, Jason Robards, Maximilian Schell, Hal Holbrook, Rosemary Murphy
(Widescreen, Subtitles, PG, 1977, 4 Star)
17:05
On the Town (Film)
Gene Kelly, Frank Sinatra and Jules Munshin are Gabey, Chip and Ozzie, three US Navy sailors with just 24 hours in New York and a mission - to find a date. Cue sassy taxi driver Brunhilde, pin-up Ivy and glamorous museum scientist Claire, who variously become their objects of desire in this stunning musical, shot almost entirely on location. Directed by Stanley Donen and Kelly, this Oscar-winning musical is packed with songs from Leonard Bernstein's sumptuous score including, of course, the classic New York, New York.
Director: Stanley Donen, Gene Kelly
Starring: Gene Kelly, Frank Sinatra, Betty Garrett, Ann Miller, Jules Munshin, Vera-Ellen Slezak
(Subtitles, U, 1949, 4 Star)
19:00
The Three Musketeers (Film)
Stephen Herek's derring-do take on Dumas' tale stars Chris O'Donnell as D'Artagan, a would-be recruit to the noble Musketeers who finds that Cardinal Richelieu has disbanded them, leaving only renegades Aramis, Athos and Porthos, who discover the Cardinal is plotting against France. They manage to intercept Richelieu's beautiful but deadly accomplice Milady as she is about to sail for England to make an alliance that will topple France's monarchy. But can they manage to return to Paris in time to thwart the Cardinal and save the throne?
Director: Stephen Herek
Starring: Charlie Sheen, Kiefer Sutherland, Chris O'Donnell, Oliver Platt, Tim Curry, Rebecca de Mornay
(Widescreen, PG, 1993, 3 Star)
21:00
Sleepy Hollow (Film)
Tim Burton's rollicking adaptation of Washington Irving's tale stars Johnny Depp as Constable Ichabod Crane, who is sent to the tiny village of Sleepy Hollow, where a headless horseman is leaving a trail of decapitated bodies. Crane believes in the science of detection, but will his skills solve the mystery, or is there really a supernatural explanation? Stunningly realised and shot, the film also stars Christina Ricci, Miranda Richardson and Michael Gambon.
Director: Tim Burton
Starring: Johnny Depp, Christina Ricci, Miranda Richardson, Michael Gambon, Casper Van Dien, Jeffrey Jones
(Subtitles, 15, 1999, 4 Star)
23:05
The Disappeared (Film)
Johnny Kevorkian's assured directorial debut is set on a south London estate where Matthew Ryan is stuggling to come to terms with the guilt he feels over the disappearance of his younger brother Tom five months earlier when he was meant to be looking after him. Then he starts to hear and even glimpse Tom - or so he believes. Beginning his own investigations, helped by neighbour his Amy Tyler, he finds himself in contact with psychic Shelley Cartwright and cynical hack Jason Saks whose leads take him on a journey through decaying estates, old wharfs and even an abandoned tunnel as he searches for his missing sibling.
Director: Johnny Kevorkian
Starring: Harry Treadaway, Greg Wise, Alex Jennings, Finlay Robertson, Tom Felton, Nikki Amuka-Bird
(Premiere, Widescreen, 18, 2008, 3 Star)
00:55
Rosemary's Baby (Film)
Roman Polanski's mould-breaking horror story stars Mia Farrow and John Cassavetes as Rosemary and Guy Woodhouse, a young couple who move into an apartment block where they are befriended by Minnie and Roman Castevet. When Rosemary becomes pregnant, even though the circumstances of the conception are hazy, she is pleased by the concern of her husband, her neighbours and their friends, who are prepared to go to any lengths to ensure she has a healthy baby...
Director: Roman Polanski
Starring: Mia Farrow, John Cassavetes, Ruth Gordon, Sidney Blackmer, Maurice Evans, Ralph Bellamy
(Editor's Choice, 18, 1968, 4 Star)
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11:00
Flight of the Phoenix (Film)
Robert Aldrich's classic drama stars James Stewart as Frank Towns, pilot of a plane transporting workers and cargo from an oil field back to town. Caught in a sandstorm, the plane crashes hundreds of miles off course, the radio destroyed. As the days go by, all hope of rescue fades until Heinrich Dorfmann announces he is an aeroplane designer and, by cannibalising the wrecked plane, he can build a craft to fly them to safety. The outstanding cast also includes Richard Attenborough, Peter Finch, Ernest Borgnine, Ian Bannen and Ronald Fraser.
Director: Robert Aldrich
Starring: James Stewart, Richard Attenborough, Peter Finch, Hardy KrĂĽger, Ernest Borgnine, Ian Bannen
(Subtitles, PG, 1966, 3 Star)
13:45
The Tall Men (Film)
Rousing action Western about a Civil War veteran who, with his brother Cameron Mitchell, agrees to crooked cattleman Robert Ryan's offer to be trail boss on a massive cattle drive from Texas to Montana. On the way they meet Nella from the Indians who decides to ride with them.
Director: Raoul Walsh
Starring: Clark Gable, Jane Russell, Robert Ryan, Cameron Mitchell, Juan GarcĂa, Harry Shannon
(Subtitles, U, 1955, 3 Star)
16:05
Doctor Dolittle (Film)
Rex Harrison stars in Richard Fleischer's charming adaptation of Hugh Lofting's classic children's book as the eccentric Doctor Dolittle, who can converse with animals in 849 languages. Wrongly imprisoned for releasing a captive seal into the wild, he is rescued by his friend Tommy and the pair set off with Matthew Muggins is search of the mythical pink sea snail.
Director: Richard Fleischer
Starring: Rex Harrison, Samantha Eggar, Anthony Newley, Richard Attenborough, Peter Bull, Muriel Landers
(Subtitles, U, 1967, 3 Star)
18:55
Never Been Kissed (Film)
Romantic comedy where a former high-school nerd (now a reporter), Josie, gets a second chance to go back to school when she goes under cover to research her story on cool teens. Back in the classroom, Josie falls for English her teacher...will she reveal her true identity for him?
Director: Raja Gosnell
Starring: Drew Barrymore, David Arquette, Michael Vartan, Molly Shannon, Leelee Sobieski, Jeremy Jordan
(Widescreen, Subtitles, PG, 1999, 2 Star)
21:00
East is East (Film)
Damien O'Donnell's multi-award-winning comedy stars Om Puri as George Khan, a Pakistani immigrant who, along with his wife Ella, is trying to run his fish-and-chip shop while coping with their seven children. Despite his increasingly desperate attempts to raise them to honour traditional values, all they want to do is embrace the best that the West has to offer.
Director: Damien O'Donnell
Starring: Om Puri, Linda Bassett, Jordan Routledge, Archie Panjabi, Emil Marwa, Chris Bisson
(Widescreen, Subtitles, Audio Described, 15, 1999, 3 Star)
23:00
Cronos (Film)
Guillermo Del Toro's cult horror film stars Federico Luppi as antiques dealer Jesus Gris, who stumbles across the Cronos Device, the invention of a 14th-century alchemist. Beetle-like in look, its bite confers immortality on its victim and Gris succumbs to its powers. But also after the device is dying industrialist Dieter, who sends his thuggish nephew Angel de la Guardia on a mission to track it down.
Director: Guillermo Del Toro
Starring: Federico Luppi, Ron Perlman, Claudio Brook, Margarita Isabel, Tamara Shanath, Daniel Giménez Cacho
(18, 1993, 3 Star)
00:50
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Film)
McMurphy, a social misfit who finds himself locked up in an insane asylum through his own choice to avoid a prison sentance. Whilst there he encourages his fellow inmates (DeVito, Lloyd and Dourif among them) into acts of rebellion, joyous freedom and self-expression. The authorities, principally in the shape of the formidable Nurse Ratched, react with increasing violence to McMurphy's dangerous ideas with terrible final consequences for McMurphy.
Director: Milos Forman
Starring: Jack Nicholson, Louise Fletcher, William Redfield, Michael Berryman, Danny DeVito, Peter Brocco
(Editor's Choice, Widescreen, Subtitles, 18, 1975, 5 Star)
03:25
The Social Network Special (Documentary)
Writer Aaron Sorkin and stars Jesse Eisenberg, Andrew Garfield and Justin Timberlake talk about their acclaimed new drama The Social Network.
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03:25
The Social Network Special (Documentary)
Writer Aaron Sorkin and stars Jesse Eisenberg, Andrew Garfield and Justin Timberlake talk about their acclaimed new drama The Social Network.
(Repeat)
11:00
A Letter to Three Wives (Film)
Witty Oscar winning comedy-drama about three friends who all receive a letter from another friend. This letter informs them that she is about to leave town with one of their husbands: but which one?
Director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Starring: Jeanne Crain, Linda Darnell, Ann Sothern, Kirk Douglas, Paul Douglas, Jeffrey Lynn, Barbara Lawrence
(Black and White, Subtitles, 1949, U, 4 Star)
13:00
Anna and the King (Film)
Jodie Foster stars as Anna Leonowens, a prim English governess engaged by King Mongkut of Siam to educate his children. At first, the two cultures clash but as the pair get to know each other, romance begins to blossom, threatened only by a plot against the throne.
Director: Andy Tennant
Starring: Jodie Foster, Yun-Fat Chow, Ling Bai, Tom Felton, Syed Alwi, Randall Duk Kim
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 1999, 12, 3 Star)
15:45
The Mark of Zorro (Film)
Feckless Mexican nobleman Don Diego returns to his family home to discover the locality has been taken over by venal officials. Consequently, he adopts the disguise of Zorro, masked master swordsman, and attempts to clear the land of corruption. Also starring Ricardo Montalban, Yvonne De Carlo, Anne Archer and Inez Perez.
Director: Don McDougall
Starring: Frank Langella, Ricardo Montalban, Gilbert Roland, Yvonne de Carlo, Louise Sorel, Robert Middleton
(Subtitles, Audio Described, Made For TV, 1974, U, 2 Star)
17:15
Singin' in the Rain (Film)
Gene Kelly, Donald O'Connor and Debbie Reynolds star in Stanley Donen and Kelly's classic musical, set at the time of the beginning of talkies. Kelly plays Don Lockwood, a matinee idol, Jean Hagen LIna Lamont, his bitchy Bronx-accented co-star and Reynolds Kathy SEldon his true love in a film littered with classic sequences, from O'Connor's Make 'Em Laugh to Good Morning and, of course, Kelly's classic routine, Singin' in the Rain.
Director: Stanley Donen, Gene Kelly
Starring: Gene Kelly, Donald O'Connor, Debbie Reynolds, Jean Hagen, Millard Mitchell, Cyd Charisse
(Subtitles, 1952, U, 5 Star)
19:20
Hot Shots! (Film)
Topper Harley is a maverick air force pilot who constantly lives in the shadow of his father's legacy. Unable to handle the pressure, Harley has left the Air Force to live among a tribe of Native Americans. But when the United States seeks to destroy some Iraqi nuclear facilities there's only one man for the job.
Director: Jim Abrahams
Starring: Charlie Sheen, Cary Elwes, Valeria Golino, Lloyd Bridges, Kevin Dunn, Jon Cryer
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 1991, PG, 4 Star)
21:00
Sleepy Hollow (Film)
Tim Burton's rollicking adaptation of Washington Irving's tale stars Johnny Depp as Constable Ichabod Crane, who is sent to the tiny village of Sleepy Hollow, where a headless horseman is leaving a trail of decapitated bodies. Crane believes in the science of detection, but will his skills solve the mystery, or is there really a supernatural explanation? Stunningly realised and shot, the film also stars Christina Ricci, Miranda Richardson and Michael Gambon.
Director: Tim Burton
Starring: Johnny Depp, Christina Ricci, Miranda Richardson, Michael Gambon, Casper Van Dien, Jeffrey Jones
(Subtitles, 1999, 15, 4 Star)
23:00
The Devil's Backbone (Film)
Guillermo del Toro's spine chilling thriller is set during the dog days of the Spanish Civil War at a remote 'orphanage', where children of the soon-to-be defeated Republican cause are given refuge. It is run by Dr Casares, who desires the headmistress Carmen. But she in turn is having an affair with the young janitor Jacinto, who is looking for the secret stash of gold bullion used to finance the left wing cause. Into this heady mix comes young Carlos, who is assigned the bed of Santi, who drowned in mysterious circumstances in the basement pool and whose ghost now haunts the establishment. As the corporeal and the spiritual worlds clash in a mix of lust, revenge and greed, the gripping climax sees avarice punished but at the expense of the greater good. Del Toro's Pan's Labyrinth screens tomorrow night.
Director: Guillermo Del Toro
Starring: Eduardo Noriega, Marisa Paredes, Federico Luppi, Fernando Tielve, Íñigo Garcés, Irene Visedo
(Premiere, Subtitles, Subtitled, In Spanish with English Subtitles, 2001, 15, 3 Star)
01:05
Terminal Velocity (Film)
Deran Sarafian's all-action film stars Charlie Sheen as Richard 'Ditch' Brodie, a skydiving instructor. He's approached by a new pupil, Chris Morrow but while he takes his eye off her, she makes an unscheduled jump which ends in tragedy. Facing a manslaughter charge, Brodie starts his own investigations only to find himself caught up in a conspiracy involving stolen gold, the Russian mafia and enough bullets and explosions to last him a lifetime.
Director: Deran Serafian
Starring: Charlie Sheen, Nastassja Kinski, James Gandolfini, Christopher McDonald, Gary Bullock, Hans Howes
(Widescreen, 1994, 15, 3 Star)
03:05
The Social Network Special (Documentary)
Writer Aaron Sorkin and stars Jesse Eisenberg, Andrew Garfield and Justin Timberlake talk about their acclaimed new drama The Social Network.
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The Iron Petticoat (Film)
Katharine Hepburn plays a humourless Russian, Captain Vinka Kovelenko, who defects from her home country. Major Chuck Lockwood is assigned to show her the bright lights of London while she tries to convince him of the superiority of communism. Naturally, the two opposites fall in love but then must contend with the KGB, who are not happy with the idea of one of their officers running around free in London in this comedy.
Director: Ralph L. Thomas
Starring: Bob Hope, Katharine Hepburn, Noelle Middleton, James Robertson-Justice, Robert Helpmann, David Kossoff
(Subtitles, 1956, PG, 3 Star)
12:50
The Social Network Special (Documentary)
Writer Aaron Sorkin and stars Jesse Eisenberg, Andrew Garfield and Justin Timberlake talk about their acclaimed new drama The Social Network.
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13:00
The Three Musketeers (Film)
Stephen Herek's derring-do take on Dumas' tale stars Chris O'Donnell as D'Artagan, a would-be recruit to the noble Musketeers who finds that Cardinal Richelieu has disbanded them, leaving only renegades Aramis, Athos and Porthos, who discover the Cardinal is plotting against France. They manage to intercept Richelieu's beautiful but deadly accomplice Milady as she is about to sail for England to make an alliance that will topple France's monarchy. But can they manage to return to Paris in time to thwart the Cardinal and save the throne?
Director: Stephen Herek
Starring: Charlie Sheen, Kiefer Sutherland, Chris O'Donnell, Oliver Platt, Tim Curry, Rebecca de Mornay
(Widescreen, 1993, PG, 3 Star)
15:05
Ride the High Country (Film)
Sam Peckinpah's western classic in which once-respected, now down-on-his-luck lawman Steve Judd accepts the job of transporting gold from a remote mining camp to a small-town bank. Judd meets his former colleague Gil Westrum and his young assistant Hank Longtree, who agree to join Judd, but plan to steal the gold en-route.
Director: Sam Peckinpah
Starring: Joel McCrea, Randolph Scott, Mariette Hartley, Ron Starr, Edgar Buchanan, R.G. Armstrong
(Subtitles, 1962, PG, 4 Star)
16:55
On the Town (Film)
Gene Kelly, Frank Sinatra and Jules Munshin are Gabey, Chip and Ozzie, three US Navy sailors with just 24 hours in New York and a mission - to find a date. Cue sassy taxi driver Brunhilde, pin-up Ivy and glamorous museum scientist Claire, who variously become their objects of desire in this stunning musical, shot almost entirely on location. Directed by Stanley Donen and Kelly, this Oscar-winning musical is packed with songs from Leonard Bernstein's sumptuous score including, of course, the classic New York, New York.
Director: Stanley Donen, Gene Kelly
Starring: Gene Kelly, Frank Sinatra, Betty Garrett, Ann Miller, Jules Munshin, Vera-Ellen Slezak
(Subtitles, 1949, U, 4 Star)
18:50
How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days (Film)
Andie Anderson writes an advice column for a fashionable magazine and agrees to demonstrate how easy it is to attract and then alienate a man in just ten days. She chooses Benjamin Barry, little knowing he's an advertising executive whose job rests on proving he understands women so well that he can make one fall for him in two weeks. Donald Petrie's comedy sees the two unknowingly played at their own game in this witty battle of the sexes. Edited for language.
Director: Donald Petrie
Starring: Kate Hudson, Matthew McConaughey, Kathryn Hahn, Annie Parisse, Adam Goldberg, Thomas Lennon
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 2003, 12, 3 Star)
21:00
10 Things I Hate About You (Film)
Gil Junger's feel good teen comedy is loosely based on Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew, with Heath Ledger as Patrick Verona and Julia Stiles as Katarina Stratford. He accepts a bribe to take her to the prom so that her sister can take the beau of her choice, but when Katarina finds out, she's furious. Just as Patrick realises her true character and falls for her... Cue many hysterical misunderstandings, including a wonderful set piece on an athletics field involving a marching band.
Director: Gil Junger
Starring: Heath Ledger, Julia Stiles, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Larisa Oleynik, David Krumholtz, Andrew Keegan
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 1998, 15, 3 Star)
23:00
Pan's Labyrinth (Film)
In 1940s Spain, a young girl escapes from the horrifying brutality of her sadistic stepfather's military endeavours into a mysterious netherworld of magic and monsters where she is set three tasks that will see her crowned as princess of this strange kingdom.
Director: Guillermo Del Toro
Starring: Ariadna Gil, Ivana Baquero, Sergi LĂłpez, Maribel VerdĂş, Doug Jones, Ălex Ăngulo
(Editor's Choice, In Spanish with Subtitles, Widescreen, 2006, 15, 4 Star)
01:15
The Actors (Film)
Dylan Moran plays Tom, a struggling actor playing a Nazi stormtrooper in an avant-garde production of Richard III with thespian Anthony O'Malley in the title role. But O'Malley has a get-rich plan: conning retired gangster Barreller out of a suitcase of cash; he just needs a willing accomplice... But the plan goes awry and only the pair's acting ability can save their lives in Conor McPherson's crime comedy caper.
Director: Conor McPherson
Starring: Michael Caine, Dylan Moran, Michael Gambon, Lena Headey, Miranda Richardson, Michael McElhatton
(Black and White, Subtitles, 2002, 15, 3 Star)
03:05
The Social Network Special (Documentary)
Writer Aaron Sorkin and stars Jesse Eisenberg, Andrew Garfield and Justin Timberlake talk about their acclaimed new drama The Social Network.
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11:00Boomerang![SUB BW HD]
A district attorney is determined to convict a vagrant of killing a prominent clergyman. However, as the lawyer delves deeper into the case, he begins to suspect the defendant may in fact be innocent. Crime drama based on a real-life murder case of the 1920s, starring Dana Andrews, Lee J Cobb, Arthur Kennedy, Jane Wyatt, Ed Begley and featuring the late Karl MaldenFilm/Detective/Thriller/General Movie/Drama
12:45A Man Called Peter[SUB HD]
Fact-based drama charting the life of renowned Scottish priest and author Peter Marshall. As a young man, he dreams of going to sea, but finds himself taking on an entirely different calling as a minister. Later in life, he travels to America, ultimately rising to the esteemed position of chaplain to the United States Senate. Starring Richard Todd, Jean Peters, Marjorie Rambeau and Jill EsmondFilm/General Movie/Drama
15:00Fathom
A glamorous skydiver is hired by intelligence agents to retrieve the triggering device for a hydrogen bomb that a US Army defector has hidden in a statuette, and stop it falling into the hands of the Chinese. However, she begins to suspect her mysterious employers are involved in an elaborate double-cross as she searches frantically for the detonator. Espionage comedy, starring Raquel Welch, Tony Franciosa, Ronald Fraser and Richard BriersFilm/Comedy
16:55Dark Command[SUB BW]
A teacher is defeated in his ambition to become the marshal of his town during the early years of the American Civil War, so he turns renegade instead. Before long he has a reputation as a feared raider fighting on the side of the South, and it falls to the newly appointed lawman whose job he coveted to stop his reign of terror. Western, starring John Wayne and Walter PidgeonFilm/Western
18:45Logan's Run[SUB HD]
In a hedonistic futuristic city, euthanasia is compulsory for everyone over 30. A law enforcer whose job is to kill anyone who tries to escape is given the task of exposing an underground movement. To do so, his body clock is fast-forwarded, giving him a taste of life on the run. Sci-fi thriller, starring Michael York, Jenny Agutter, Farrah Fawcett and Peter UstinovFilm/Science Fiction
21:00The Waterboy[SUB AD HD]
An American football team's waterboy puts up with constant ridicule from the players. But one day his anger gets the better of him and he demonstrates an unexpected talent for tackling - so the coach gives him a chance to prove his worth on the pitch. However, he has to keep his budding sporting career a secret from his overprotective mother. Comedy, with Adam Sandler, Kathy Bates, Henry Winkler and Fairuza BalkFilm/Comedy
22:45The Abyss
When a nuclear submarine is attacked and becomes stricken in the ocean depths, the US Government calls on civilian divers from a nearby oil rig to come to their aid. However, when the team arrives at the location of the vessel, a series of strange incidents leads to an encounter with aliens living in the depths. James Cameron's sci-fi thriller, starring Ed Harris, Michael Biehn and Mary Elizabeth MastrantonioFilm/Science Fiction/Detective/Thriller
01:25The Summer Interlude[BW]
A Swedish ballerina coming to the end of her career reflects on a teenage love affair in Stockholm. Ingmar Bergman's romantic drama, starring Maj-Britt Nilsson, Alf Kjellin and Birger MalmstenFilm/General Movie/Drama
03:15The Social Network Special[REP]
Actors Jesse Eisenberg, Andrew Garfield and Justin Timberlake and writer Aaron Sorkin discuss David Fincher's new movieFilm/Cinema
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11:00The Sea Inside[HD]
Fact-based Spanish drama about a fisherman who is paralysed from the neck down in a diving accident. After spending years dependent on others to take care of him, he decides to fight for the legal right to end his own life. Starring Javier Bardem, Belen Rueda and Lola DuenasFilm/General Movie/Drama
13:25Where the Sidewalk Ends[SUB BW HD]
A violent New York cop beats a robbery suspect to death during a moment of madness and hastily tries to cover his tracks by framing a local mobster for the crime. Thriller, starring Dana Andrews, Gene Tierney, Gary Merrill and Karl MaldenFilm/Detective/Thriller
15:15The Master of Ballantrae
A Scottish nobleman who fought alongside Bonnie Prince Charlie is driven into exile when the rebellion is defeated. After years overseas spent battling pirates, he returns home to discover the woman he loves thought he was dead and has since married his treacherous brother. Swashbuckling adventure, based on Robert Louis Stevenson's novel, starring Errol Flynn and Anthony SteelFilm/Adventure
17:00Singin' In The Rain
Two old friends and an aspiring starlet find their lives changing as the arrival of sound revolutionises film-making. Gene Kelly co-directs, choreographs and stars in this musical comedy, with Debbie Reynolds, Donald O'Connor, Jean Hagen and Millard Mitchell. Songs include Make 'em Laugh, You Are My Lucky Star and the evergreen title numberFilm/Musical/Comedy
19:00The Pink Panther Strikes Again[SUB HD]
Bungling Inspector Clouseau fends off a murder syndicate led by demented former police chief Dreyfus, who has a scheme to get rid of the clumsy cop once and for all. However, doing away with the lucky lawman proves harder than anticipated - even for the world's top assassins. Comedy sequel, starring Peter Sellers, Herbert Lom, Lesley-Anne Down, Burt Kwouk and Leonard RossiterFilm/Comedy
21:0010 Things I Hate About You[SUB HD]
Lively teenager Bianca is not allowed to start dating until her man-hating sister Kat does first - but no boy is brave enough to ask her out. However, Bianca's would-be boyfriend thinks he has found the perfect man for the job in the shape of a quirky loner with a mysterious past. Comedy, based on Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew, starring Heath Ledger, Julia Stiles, Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Larisa OleynikFilm/Comedy
23:00Get Rich or Die Tryin'[SUB HD]
An inner-city drug dealer puts his life of crime behind him after a near-fatal shooting to pursue a new career as a rap artist. Unfortunately, when he performs songs inspired by his shady past, his former criminal associates do not take kindly to having their misdeeds immortalised in music. Drama, starring Curtis `50 Cent' Jackson, Terrence Howard and Ashley WaltersFilm/General Movie/Drama
01:15Smiles of a Summer Night[BW]
A lawyer goes to the theatre with his much younger wife, and finds the leading lady is an old flame. After a confrontation with the count she is having an affair with, the actress becomes determined to seduce the attorney once again, inviting both her lovers - and their wives - to a party at her country house. Ingmar Bergman's romantic comedy, with Gunnar Bjornstrand and Eva DahlbeckFilm/Comedy
03:25The Social Network Special[REP]
Actors Jesse Eisenberg, Andrew Garfield and Justin Timberlake and writer Aaron Sorkin discuss David Fincher's new movieFilm/Cinema
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Social Network Special (Entertainment)
Writer Aaron Sorkin and stars Jesse Eisenberg, Andrew Garfield and Justin Timberlake talk about their acclaimed new drama The Social Network.
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11:00
The Spanish Gardener (Film)
Philip Leacock's film is the story of minor diplomat Harrington Brande, who becomes increasingly jealous of the relationship that develops between his son Nicholas and the Spanish gardener, Jose, who has been hired to work on the estate.
Director: Philip Leacock
Starring: Dirk Bogarde, Jon Whiteley, Michael Hordern, Cyril Cusack, Maureen Swanson, Lyndon Brook
(Subtitles, U, 1956, 3 Star)
12:50
A Letter to Three Wives (Film)
Witty Oscar winning comedy-drama about three friends who all receive a letter from another friend. This letter informs them that she is about to leave town with one of their husbands: but which one?
Director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Starring: Jeanne Crain, Linda Darnell, Ann Sothern, Kirk Douglas, Paul Douglas, Jeffrey Lynn, Barbara Lawrence
(Black and White, Subtitles, U, 1949, 4 Star)
14:50
Julia (Film)
Fred Zinnemann's sensitive and compelling dramatisation tells of the awakening in the 1930s of playwright Lillian Hellman to the growing threat of Nazism through the persecution and final execution of her childhood friend Julia. Although the narrative is slight, director Fred Zinnemann endows the film with suspense, sensitivity, elegance and, above all, a beautifully realised and complex relationship between the two women. The film earned nine Academy Award nominations, including another winner in Jason Robards as Dashiel Hammett. Edited for content.
Director: Fred Zinnemann
Starring: Jane Fonda, Vanessa Redgrave, Jason Robards, Maximilian Schell, Hal Holbrook, Rosemary Murphy
(Widescreen, Subtitles, PG, 1977, 4 Star)
17:05
On the Town (Film)
Gene Kelly, Frank Sinatra and Jules Munshin are Gabey, Chip and Ozzie, three US Navy sailors with just 24 hours in New York and a mission - to find a date. Cue sassy taxi driver Brunhilde, pin-up Ivy and glamorous museum scientist Claire, who variously become their objects of desire in this stunning musical, shot almost entirely on location. Directed by Stanley Donen and Kelly, this Oscar-winning musical is packed with songs from Leonard Bernstein's sumptuous score including, of course, the classic New York, New York.
Director: Stanley Donen, Gene Kelly
Starring: Gene Kelly, Frank Sinatra, Betty Garrett, Ann Miller, Jules Munshin, Vera-Ellen Slezak
(Subtitles, U, 1949, 4 Star)
19:00
The Three Musketeers (Film)
Stephen Herek's derring-do take on Dumas' tale stars Chris O'Donnell as D'Artagan, a would-be recruit to the noble Musketeers who finds that Cardinal Richelieu has disbanded them, leaving only renegades Aramis, Athos and Porthos, who discover the Cardinal is plotting against France. They manage to intercept Richelieu's beautiful but deadly accomplice Milady as she is about to sail for England to make an alliance that will topple France's monarchy. But can they manage to return to Paris in time to thwart the Cardinal and save the throne?
Director: Stephen Herek
Starring: Charlie Sheen, Kiefer Sutherland, Chris O'Donnell, Oliver Platt, Tim Curry, Rebecca de Mornay
(Widescreen, PG, 1993, 3 Star)
21:00
Sleepy Hollow (Film)
Tim Burton's rollicking adaptation of Washington Irving's tale stars Johnny Depp as Constable Ichabod Crane, who is sent to the tiny village of Sleepy Hollow, where a headless horseman is leaving a trail of decapitated bodies. Crane believes in the science of detection, but will his skills solve the mystery, or is there really a supernatural explanation? Stunningly realised and shot, the film also stars Christina Ricci, Miranda Richardson and Michael Gambon.
Director: Tim Burton
Starring: Johnny Depp, Christina Ricci, Miranda Richardson, Michael Gambon, Casper Van Dien, Jeffrey Jones
(Subtitles, 15, 1999, 4 Star)
23:05
The Disappeared (Film)
Johnny Kevorkian's assured directorial debut is set on a south London estate where Matthew Ryan is stuggling to come to terms with the guilt he feels over the disappearance of his younger brother Tom five months earlier when he was meant to be looking after him. Then he starts to hear and even glimpse Tom - or so he believes. Beginning his own investigations, helped by neighbour his Amy Tyler, he finds himself in contact with psychic Shelley Cartwright and cynical hack Jason Saks whose leads take him on a journey through decaying estates, old wharfs and even an abandoned tunnel as he searches for his missing sibling.
Director: Johnny Kevorkian
Starring: Harry Treadaway, Greg Wise, Alex Jennings, Finlay Robertson, Tom Felton, Nikki Amuka-Bird
(Premiere, Widescreen, 18, 2008, 3 Star)
00:55
Rosemary's Baby (Film)
Roman Polanski's mould-breaking horror story stars Mia Farrow and John Cassavetes as Rosemary and Guy Woodhouse, a young couple who move into an apartment block where they are befriended by Minnie and Roman Castevet. When Rosemary becomes pregnant, even though the circumstances of the conception are hazy, she is pleased by the concern of her husband, her neighbours and their friends, who are prepared to go to any lengths to ensure she has a healthy baby...
Director: Roman Polanski
Starring: Mia Farrow, John Cassavetes, Ruth Gordon, Sidney Blackmer, Maurice Evans, Ralph Bellamy
(Editor's Choice, 18, 1968, 4 Star)
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11:00(GMT) Fathom
A glamorous skydiver is hired by intelligence agents to retrieve the triggering device for a hydrogen bomb that a US Army defector has hidden in a statuette, and stop it falling into the hands of the Chinese. However, she begins to suspect her mysterious employers are involved in an elaborate double-cross as she searches frantically for the detonator. Espionage comedy, starring Raquel Welch, Tony Franciosa, Ronald Fraser and Richard BriersFilm/Comedy
13:00Bugsy Malone[SUB HD]
Alan Parker's slapstick musical comedy, featuring a cast composed entirely of children and following a war between rival gangsters in 1920s New York - fought with custard pies and cream-firing tommy guns. When a slick mobster acquires devastating new weapons, his arch rival enlists the aid of a small-time chancer to steal them. Starring Scott Baio, Florrie Dugger and John Cassisi, with Jodie Foster in an early appearanceFilm/General Movie/Drama
14:50Across the Wide Missouri
An ambitious fur trapper plans to make his fortune in beaver pelts. To do so, he needs a safe passage through lands held by the Blackfoot tribe, so he marries the chief's daughter and together they lead an expedition that takes them deep into the uncharted wilderness. Western adventure, starring Clark Gable, Ricardo Montalban, Maria Elena Marques and John HodiakFilm/Western
16:25Logan's Run[SUB AD HD]
In a hedonistic futuristic city, euthanasia is compulsory for everyone over 30. A law enforcer whose job is to kill anyone who tries to escape is given the task of exposing an underground movement. To do so, his body clock is fast-forwarded, giving him a taste of life on the run. Sci-fi thriller, starring Michael York, Jenny Agutter, Farrah Fawcett and Peter UstinovFilm/Science Fiction
18:40Ever After: A Cinderella Story[SUB HD]
A girl grows up in 16th-century Europe under the iron fist of her mean stepmother, until the love of handsome Prince Henry offers a glimmer of hope. Unfortunately, the royal gent has worries of his own in the shape of an arranged marriage. Luckily, Renaissance genius Leonardo da Vinci is on hand to play fairy godfather and bring the pair together. Romantic drama, starring Drew Barrymore, Anjelica Huston, Dougray Scott and Timothy WestFilm/General Movie/Drama
21:00The Others[SUB HD]
A mother awaits the return of her husband from the Second World War, while struggling to care for her son and daughter. Both children suffer a violent reaction when exposed to daylight, forcing her to keep much of their isolated Jersey home shrouded in gloom. When the pair claim to see strangers in the house, their terrified mother begins to suspect that the souls of the dead are stalking the halls. Supernatural horror, starring Nicole Kidman, Fionnula Flanagan and Christopher EcclestonFilm/Horror
23:00White Noise[SUB AD HD]
A man is devastated by the death of his wife, but finds new hope when he becomes convinced her spirit is trying to communicate with him through electrical equipment. However, his obsession begins to spiral out of control and the threat of serious danger grows ever more real. Supernatural thriller, starring Michael Keaton, Chandra West, Ian McNeice and Deborah Kara UngerFilm/Detective/Thriller
00:50The Innocents[SUB BW HD]
A highly-strung vicar's daughter takes up the post of governess to two orphaned children living with their servants in a sprawling Gothic mansion. She learns of the scandalous history of her predecessor and her lover, and suspects their spirits are the cause of her charges' disquieting behaviour. Horror, based on Henry James' short story The Turn of the Screw, starring Deborah Kerr Michael Redgrave, Peter Wyngarde and Megs JenkinsFilm/Horror
02:50The Social Network Special[REP]
Actors Jesse Eisenberg, Andrew Garfield and Justin Timberlake and writer Aaron Sorkin discuss David Fincher's new movieFilm/Cinema
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11:00Beau Brummell
The renowned Regency dandy cultivates a friendship with the Prince of Wales in a bid to improve his social standing. However, an ill-judged remark threatens to bring his high-society lifestyle to an abrupt halt. Historical drama, starring Stewart Granger, Elizabeth Taylor, Peter Ustinov, Robert Morley, James Donald and James HayterFilm/General Movie/Drama
13:10A Man Called Peter[SUB HD]
Fact-based drama charting the life of renowned Scottish priest and author Peter Marshall. As a young man, he dreams of going to sea, but finds himself taking on an entirely different calling as a minister. Later in life, he travels to America, ultimately rising to the esteemed position of chaplain to the United States Senate. Starring Richard Todd, Jean Peters, Marjorie Rambeau and Jill EsmondFilm/General Movie/Drama
15:35All about Eve[SUB BW HD]
An ageing stage star is flattered by the attention of an adoring fan, and decides to take the young woman under her wing as her personal assistant - unaware that her new protegee is really a ruthlessly ambitious, budding actor who will do all that it takes to steal the limelight. Oscar-winning drama, starring Bette Davis, Anne Baxter, George Sanders, Thelma Ritter, Marilyn Monroe and Celeste HolmFilm/General Movie/Drama
18:15Star Trek: the Motion Picture[HD]
A mysterious, planet-sized energy cloud is heading for Earth, destroying everything in its path. Admiral James T Kirk returns to the bridge of the Enterprise to stop the invader, but he has to contend with a bitter rival and the possession of one of his crew by the alien force. Sci-fi adventure, the first movie based on the TV series, starring William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley and Persis KhambattaFilm/Adventure/Science Fiction
20:50Another Year: Cannes 2010 Special[REP]
The cast of Mike Leigh's new film discuss working with the director from the Cannes Film FestivalFilm/Cinema
21:00The Waterboy[SUB AD HD]
An American football team's waterboy puts up with constant ridicule from the players. But one day his anger gets the better of him and he demonstrates an unexpected talent for tackling - so the coach gives him a chance to prove his worth on the pitch. However, he has to keep his budding sporting career a secret from his overprotective mother. Comedy, with Adam Sandler, Kathy Bates, Henry Winkler and Fairuza BalkFilm/Comedy
22:45Mike Leigh Special
The director and actress Lesley Manville discuss working together on Another YearFilm/Cinema
23:00Life Is Sweet[SUB HD]
A suburban family struggle to keep body and soul together in the face of various trials and traumas. Bittersweet comedy directed by Mike Leigh, starring Alison Steadman, Jim Broadbent, Jane Horrocks, Timothy Spall, Claire Skinner and Stephen ReaFilm/Comedy
01:15Import/Export[HD]
Ukranian nurse Olga leaves her family and heads west in search of a better life, while Austrian security guard Pauli enters the former Soviet nation with expectations of a more fulfilling existence. However, both find life in another country presents it's own challenges. Drama, starring Ekateryna Rak and Paul HoffmanFilm/General Movie/Drama
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11:00Julia[SUB HD]
Fred Zinnemann's Oscar-winning fact-based drama set in the 1930s, chronicling the relationship between writer Lilian Hellman and her enigmatic friend Julia, focusing on the devastating effect the Nazis' rise to power has on their lives. Starring Vanessa Redgrave, Jane Fonda, Jason Robards, Maximilian Schell and Meryl Streep in her big-screen debutFilm/General Movie/Drama
13:15Edge of Darkness[SUB AD BW]
Two years after the Nazi invasion of Norway, the residents of a small coastal village are biding their time in anticipation of rising up against the occupying forces. Awaiting a shipment of arms from England, a brave fisherman prepares to lead the revolt when German cruelty becomes too much to bear. Second World War adventure, starring Errol Flynn, Walter Huston, Ann Sheridan and Judith AndersonFilm/Adventure/War
15:35Howards End[SUB AD]
Three families from very different backgrounds are thrown together when an aristocratic woman bequeaths part of her estate to a friend, meeting with outrage from her relatives. When the will disappears, the stage is set for a conflict with tragic consequences. Merchant Ivory period drama, based on EM Forster's novel, starring Emma Thompson, Anthony Hopkins and Helena Bonham CarterFilm/General Movie/Drama
18:25Oliver Twist[SUB AD HD]
Orphan Oliver flees his harsh upbringing in the workhouse and seeks his fortune in London. Instead, he falls in with the duplicitous Fagin and his gang of young thieves. His first efforts as a pickpocket lead to him being taken in by the wealthy Mr Brownlow - an opportunity brutal crook Bill Sikes sets out to exploit. Roman Polanski's period drama, based on Charles Dickens' novel, starring Barney Clark, Ben Kingsley and Jamie ForemanFilm/General Movie/Drama
21:00Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story[SUB AD HD]
The struggling owner of a run-down gym is forced to take drastic action to prevent an arrogant fitness guru buying the business out from under him - and enlists his customers to form a dodgeball team in the hope of triumphing in the US championships. Sporting comedy, starring Ben Stiller, Vince Vaughn and Christine TaylorFilm/Comedy
22:50Secrets and Lies
A successful black optician learns she is adopted and goes in search of her birth mother, who turns out to be a working class white woman, estranged from her brother and struggling to connect with her teenage daughter. The reunited mother and child soon become close friends, but tensions rise at a family gathering. Mike Leigh's drama, starring Brenda Blethyn, Marianne Jean-Baptiste and Timothy SpallFilm/General Movie/Drama
01:40Tokyo Sonata[HD]
Manager Ryuhei loses his job, and because he is too ashamed to tell his family he pretends to go to work each day while desperately searching for work and eating in soup kitchens. A friend in the same predicament helps him to keep up the deception - but Ryuhei's family realises the truth and begins to disintegrate under the weight of his lies. Japanese drama, with Teruyaki Kagawa, Kyoko Koizumi and Koji YakushoFilm/General Movie/Drama
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11:00
The Master of Ballantrae (Film)
85 minutes U William Keighley's adventure film, based on Robert Louis Stevenson's tale, stars Errol Flynn as Jamie Durrisdeer, a Jacobite forced to flee Scotland from the English. Joining Irish adventurer Francis Burke in the West Indies, he battles pirates for the English and in doing so, makes a small fortune. Now free to return home, he hopes to marry his sweetheart Lady Alison, only to find she, thinking him dead, is engaged to his brother Henry, the man who betrayed Jamie to the English.
Director: William Keighley
Starring: Errol Flynn, Roger Livesey, Anthony Steel, Beatrice Campbell, Yvonne Furneaux, Felix Aylmer
(Subtitles, PG, 1953, 3 Star)
12:45
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (Film)
'When the legend becomes fact, print the legend' is the famous quote from what is considered to be one of John Ford's finest westerns, and it pretty much sums up the film. Greenhorn lawyer Ransom Stoddard sets up in a frontier town where everyone, bar the tough-but-decent Tom Doniphon, fears the brutal bully Liberty Valance. As Stoddard's influence grows and Valance's wanes, a confrontation between the two seems inevitable. And it duly comes, with a result that shocks the town.
Director: John Ford
Starring: John Wayne, James Stewart, Vera Miles, Lee Marvin, Edmond O'Brien, Andy Devine
(Black and White, Subtitles, PG, 1962, 3 Star)
15:05
The Colditz Story (Film)
Guy Hamilton's WWII drama starring John Mills as Pat Reid, Eric Portman as Colonel Richmond, Lionel Jeffries as Harry Tyler and Christopher Rhodes as 'Mac' McGill, just some of the British prisoners of war gatherered together in the supposedly escape-proof war prison camp Colditz who immdiately set out planning to escape.
Director: Guy Hamilton
Starring: John Mills, Eric Portman, Christopher Rhodes, Lionel Jeffries, Bryan Forbes, Ian Carmichael
(Black and White, Premiere, Widescreen, Subtitles, 15, 1955, 4 Star)
16:55
The Bad and the Beautiful (Film)
Vicente Minnelli's biting Hollywood satire charts the rise and fall of ruthless movie producer Jonathan Shields, who uses actress Georgia Lorrison, director Fred Amiel and writer James Lee Bartlow as disposable ladder rungs on his climb to Hollywood success. Douglas was Oscar-nominated for his role, and the film won four Oscars.
Director: Vincente Minnelli
Starring: Lana Turner, Kirk Douglas, Walter Pidgeon, Dick Powell, Barry Sullivan, Gloria Grahame
(Black and White, Premiere, Subtitles, PG, 1952, 4 Star)
19:15
Bedazzled (Film)
Faustian comedy about the mishaps that occur when the devil grants seven wishes to a lovesick divorcee in return for his soul. The Princess of Darkness approaches an office worker harbouring a crush on a colleague with an offer to help in his failing advances. But as the young man is transformed into a plethora of characters, including a rock star and the US president, not one of his personas is able to get the girl.
Director: Harold Ramis
Starring: Brendan Fraser, Elizabeth Hurley, Frances O'Connor, Miriam Shor, Orlando Jones
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 12, 2000, 3 Star)
21:00
Transporter 2 (Film)
Frank Martin is back as the Transporter, who'll take anything anywhere, no questions asked, for the right money. This time, he's earning what should be easy money guarding the son of government drugs czar Billings. But when the boy is kidnapped by drugs lord Gianni, Martin takes it as a professional slur and sets out to find the boy and the baddies in Louis Leterrier's all-action film, co-written by Luc Besson.
Director: Louis Leterrier
Starring: Jason Statham, Alessandro Gassman, Amber Valletta, Kate Nauta, Matthew Modine, Jason Flemyng
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 15, 2005, 3 Star)
22:40
Vera Drake (Film)
Mike Leigh's Oscar-nominated and BAFTA Award-winning film stars Imelda Staunton in the title role as a working class wife and mother in post-war London who makes ends meet by cleaning for the upper-class as well as caring for her elderly mother and invalid neighbour. But she also helps girls 'in trouble', from the daughters of her employers to the local women who cannot afford another mouth to feed. Although abortion is illegal, Vera sees it as a service rather than a money-making venture and her shock when one of her abortions goes wrong and she is arrested is believably palpable. With a supporting cast including Jim Broadbent, Phil Davis and Heather Craney, this is one of Leigh's most stunning, moving films.
Director: Mike Leigh
Starring: Imelda Staunton, Richard Graham, Eddie Marsan, Anna Keaveney, Alex Kelly, Daniel Mays
(Subtitles, 12, 2004, 3 Star)
01:05
Memories of Matsuko (Film)
Tetsuya Nakashima's film's techniques have been compared to those of Amelie but with a more sombre story. Matsuko's story, from school teacher via yakuza moll to prostitute and eventually bag lady, is told in flashback by her teenage nephew Eita, who tracks down those she knew during her life in an effort to understand her death.
Director: Tetsuya Nakashima
Starring: Miki Nakatani, Eita, Yusuke Iseya, Teruyuki Kagawa, Mikako Ichikawa, Asuka Kurosawa
(Widescreen, Subtitles, Subtitled, In Japanese with English Subtitles, 15, 2006, 4 Star)
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11:00The Only Son[BW]
A poor widow working in a silk factory wants to provide a brighter future for her son, so sends him away to a school in Tokyo. Years later, she is reunited with her now NSFW child, but finds the opportunity she gave him has not brought him happiness. Japanese drama, with Choko Iida and Shinichi HimoriFilm/General Movie/Drama
12:40The Big Trees
An unscrupulous timber baron is determined to get his hands on some land heavily forested with redwoods and owned by a small Quaker community. However, he has a change of heart when he falls in love with one of the Quaker women, and has to contend with other less principled rivals who are also after the land. Romantic drama, starring Kirk Douglas, Eve Miller, Edgar Buchanan and Patrice WymoreFilm/General Movie/Drama
14:30Guns at Batasi[SUB BW HD]
Rebels besiege the headquarters of a British battalion garrisoned in Africa, enraged by the officers' refusal to give up a prisoner. Meanwhile, the sergeant major struggles to maintain order in his increasingly tense surroundings. Drama, starring Richard Attenborough, Jack Hawkins, Flora Robson and Mia FarrowFilm/General Movie/Drama
16:30Say Anything[SUB HD]
An aspiring teenage kickboxer falls for the most beautiful and intelligent girl in his class, and to his delight she feels the same way about him - but her father is not so enthusiastic about the relationship. Romantic comedy drama, starring John Cusack, Ione Skye and John Mahoney, and featuring a cameo from Cusack's real-life sibling Joan. Written and directed by Cameron CroweFilm/Comedy
18:30The Poseidon Adventure[SUB HD]
A priest takes charge of terrified survivors trapped in a capsized luxury liner, and tries to help them find an escape route before it sinks. Disaster movie, starring Gene Hackman, Ernest Borgnine, Shelley Winters, Leslie Nielsen and Roddy McDowallFilm/Adventure
20:45Mike Leigh Special[REP]
The director and actress Lesley Manville discuss working together on Another YearFilm/Cinema
21:00Cloverfield[SUB AD HD]
A gigantic monster of unknown origin rises from the sea and attacks New York. The ensuing carnage is filmed entirely from the perspective of a single hand-held video camera, carried by one of five survivors on a dangerous journey across the city to rescue a friend. Thriller, starring Michael Stahl-David, Lizzy Caplan, Jessica Lucas and TJ MillerFilm/Detective/Thriller
22:35Happy-Go-Lucky[SUB AD HD]
An eternally optimistic schoolteacher is determined to maintain an upbeat attitude whatever life throws at her and help others to do the same. However, she meets her total opposite when she takes lessons with an embittered driving instructor perpetually raging at the world. Mike Leigh's comedy drama, starring Sally Hawkins, Eddie Marsan and Alexis ZegermanFilm/General Movie/Drama/Comedy
00:50Happy-Go-Lucky Special[REP]
An extract from Mike Leigh's film Happy-Go-Lucky, introduced by both the director and its star Sally HawkinsFilm/Cinema
01:00The Death of Mr Lazarescu
An elderly man is convinced he is seriously ill - but his heavy drinking gives doctors reason to think that he is only hungover. Eventually he meets a sympathetic paramedic, who realises he is telling the truth, but the old man's problems continue as the pair embark on a tedious journey through run-down city hospitals, encountering indifference and bureaucracy along the way. Romanian comedy drama, starring Iaon Fiscuteanu and Luminita GheorghiuFilm/Comedy/General Movie/Drama
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11:00The Inn of the Sixth Happiness[HD]
English servant Gladys Aylward fulfils her dream of becoming a missionary in China. Working from a roadside inn used by mule caravans, she ends up caring for dozens of orphans, who she courageously leads to safety through hostile and mountainous territory during the Sino-Japanese War. Fact-based drama, starring Ingrid Bergman, with Curt Jurgens, Ronald Squire and Robert DonatFilm/General Movie/Drama
14:05Monte Carlo or Bust[SUB HD]
A villainous business tycoon schemes to win back half of the company he lost in a card game and proposes a winner-takes-all race in the 1,500-mile Monte Carlo Rally - where he is challenged by a host of eccentric drivers determined to beat him to it. Car chase comedy sequel to Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines, starring Tony Curtis, Terry-Thomas, Peter Cook, Dudley Moore, Susan Hampshire and Hattie JacquesFilm/Comedy
16:30An Affair to Remember[HD]
Love blossoms on the high seas for a playboy bachelor and a former nightclub singer during a transatlantic cruise. When the liner comes into dock at New York, they agree to wait for six months and then meet again at the Empire State Building, hoping to prove to each other their relationship is more than a shipboard affair. Romantic drama, with Cary Grant, Deborah Kerr, Cathleen Nesbitt, Richard Denning and Neva PattersonFilm/General Movie/Drama
18:45The Poseidon Adventure[SUB HD]
A priest takes charge of terrified survivors trapped in a capsized luxury liner, and tries to help them find an escape route before it sinks. Disaster movie, starring Gene Hackman, Ernest Borgnine, Shelley Winters, Leslie Nielsen and Roddy McDowallFilm/Adventure
21:00The Day After Tomorrow[SUB AD HD]
A climatologist warns global warming will soon result in destructive freak weather conditions, or even another ice age. He thinks the world still has time to prepare for the worst, but the crisis happens almost immediately - and as storms, earthquakes and hurricanes strike in terrifying fashion, he races across America to rescue his son from a frozen New York. Disaster thriller, with Dennis Quaid and Jake GyllenhaalFilm/Detective/Thriller
23:20Gregory's Two Girls
Gregory becomes a teacher in his old school, where he lusts after one of his pupils and finds himself the object of the music mistress's affection. Romantic comedy sequel, starring John Gordon Sinclair, Carly McKinnon, Maria Doyle Kennedy and Dougray ScottFilm/Comedy
01:35Que la bete meure
A grieving father becomes obsessed with avenging his son's death in a car accident, and ingratiates himself with the family of the driver. However, his conscience is pricked by his closeness to the family, while someone else also has murder on their mind. French thriller, directed by Claude Chabrol and starring Michael Duchaussoy and Caroline CellierFilm/Detective/Thriller
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11:00The Siege at Red River
A Confederate secret agent lays his hands on a shipment of guns, but before he can do anything with the cache a former comrade betrays him and leaves him fighting for his life behind enemy lines. Western set during the American Civil War, starring Van Johnson, Joanne Dru and Richard BooneFilm/Western
12:45The Man Behind the Gun
A soldier poses as a schoolteacher on a mission to root out a band of insurrectionists who are plotting to break away from the Union and reintroduce slavery. Before long he starts to fall for a fellow teacher, but suspects his rival for her affection may be involved with the militants. Western, starring Randolph Scott, Patrice Wymore and Philip CareyFilm/Western
14:25The Social Network Special[REP]
Actors Jesse Eisenberg, Andrew Garfield and Justin Timberlake and writer Aaron Sorkin discuss David Fincher's new movieFilm/Cinema
14:35Bhowani Junction
An Anglo-Indian woman returns to her native land after spending several years in England. As civil strife spreads through the country in the dying days of the Raj, she must decide whether to stay or go, but is torn between her love for a dashing British colonel and a local man. George Cukor's romantic drama based on John Masters' novel, with Ava Gardner, Stewart Granger, Bill Travers and Abraham SofaerFilm/General Movie/Drama
16:45Bless This House
Middle-aged father Sid Abbott's dream of building an illegal whisky still is continually frustrated by his son and daughter. However, he has a bigger problem when new neighbours move in next door and conflict instantly erupts. British comedy, based on the sitcom, starring Sid James, Diana Coupland and Sally GeesonFilm/Comedy
18:30Another Year: Cannes 2010 Special[REP]
The cast of Mike Leigh's new film discuss working with the director from the Cannes Film FestivalFilm/Cinema
18:40Tristan and Isolde[SUB HD]
The love affair that develops between an English warrior and an Irish princess, while their two countries are at war, ends when he has to return to England in his duty to his lord. The princess's cruel father then decides to auction her off for marriage to an English nobleman, forcing the former lovers to keep their relationship a secret. Romantic adventure set in the Dark Ages, with James Franco, Sophia Myles and Rufus SewellFilm/Adventure
21:00The General's Daughter[SUB HD]
A military detective is called in to investigate the murder and rape of the daughter of a top-ranking general. However, as he sets about solving the case, he unravels a tangled web of sexual brutality, personal betrayal and apparent cover-ups - and suspects the army has a vested interest in suppressing the truth. Mystery thriller, starring John Travolta, Madeleine Stowe, James Cromwell and Timothy HuttonFilm/Detective/Thriller/Mystery
23:1528 Weeks Later[SUB HD]
In the aftermath of the devastating outbreak of the rage virus, the US Army resettles British survivors in a quarantined area of London. However, when two young siblings stray outside the safety perimeter to revisit their home, they make a startling discovery that sparks a catastrophic series of events, ultimately causing another wave of the infection. Juan Carlos Fresnadillo's horror sequel to 28 Days Later, with Robert Carlyle, Rose Byrne, Jeremy Renner and Catherine McCormackFilm/Horror
01:05Goodbye Bafana[HD]
Premiere. James Gregory, a prison guard in apartheid-era South Africa and lifelong believer in his society's racist ideology, is assigned to Robben Island prison to watch over its most famous inmate - Nelson Mandela. Over the years an unusual relationship develops between the two, leading Gregory to question his beliefs. Fact-based drama, starring Joseph Fiennes, Dennis Haysbert, Diane Kruger and Shiloh HendersonFilm/General Movie/Drama
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11:00Late Spring[BW HD]
A woman who still lives at home is devoted to her widowed father and wants to spend her life caring for him. However, her aunt beleives it is time she was thinking about getting married and goes in search of a suitable man. Japanese drama, starring Chishu Ryu and Setsuko HaraFilm/General Movie/Drama
13:05Leave Her to Heaven
An emotionally unbalanced woman falls in love with an author who resembles her dead father. But their marriage is followed by a series of tragic deaths, and her new husband comes to realise his wife's obsessive jealousy is driving her to murder. Film noir, starring Gene Tierney, Cornel Wilde, Jeanne Crain, Vincent Price and Darryl HickmanFilm/General Movie/Drama
15:15High Anxiety[SUB HD]
A psychiatrist takes over the running of an institute following the suspicious death of the previous director. When he ends up framed for murder, he has to keep his own neuroses under control to prove his innocence. Spoof Hitchcock thriller, directed by and starring Mel Brooks. With Madeline Kahn, Cloris Leachman and Harvey KormanFilm/Comedy
17:05King Solomon's Mines[SUB HD]
A rugged soldier of fortune is hired to help a woman find her father, who is missing in the African wilderness. However, his mission gets him caught up in the search for a legendary treasure trove - and in a fight for his life against cannibals, the German army and a vengeful old foe. Action adventure, based on H Rider Haggard's novel, with Richard Chamberlain, Sharon Stone, Herbert Lom and John Rhys-DaviesFilm/Adventure
19:00Sister Act[SUB HD]
Flashy nightclub singer Deloris Van Cartier agrees to testify against her brutal gangster boyfriend after witnessing him mastermind a murder. Placed into protective custody by the authorities, she is less than pleased when she realises she is expected to pose as chaste nun Sister Mary Clarence in the cloistered quietness of a convent. Musical comedy, starring Whoopi Goldberg, Harvey Keitel, Maggie Smith, Bill Nunn and Kathy NajimyFilm/Comedy/Musical
21:00Crash[SUB AD HD]
The lives of a cultural cross-section of Los Angeles residents converge as a series of crashes and crimes occurs during a turbulent 36 hours in the city. Paul Haggis's directorial debut and Oscar-winning drama, starring Sandra Bullock, Matt Dillon, Don Cheadle, Thandie Newton and Brendan FraserFilm/General Movie/Drama
23:10Lady Vengeance
A woman imprisoned for the kidnap and murder of a child converts to Christianity while behind bars - but on release sets out to gain a bloody and violent revenge on those who framed her. Park Chan-wook's thriller, which is the final part in his Vengeance trilogy, starring Yeong-ae Lee, Min-sik Choi and Shi-hoo KimFilm/Detective/Thriller
01:30La femme infidele
A man whose wife is having an affair hires a private eye to identify her lover, and ultimately kills the man in a fit of jealous rage. When his wife learns what he has done, she is thrilled at the thought of a man killing for her, leaving their marriage stronger than before. French thriller, directed by Claude Chabrol and starring Michel Bouquet, Stephane Audran and Maurice RonetFilm/Detective/Thriller
03:25Mike Leigh Special[REP]
The director and actress Lesley Manville discuss working together on Another YearFilm/Cinema
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11:00One of Our Aircraft is Missing[SUB BW]
An RAF bomber is shot down during a raid on Stuttgart, forcing its crewmen to bail out over Nazi-occupied Holland. Trying to evade capture, they are assisted by a group of Dutch resistance fighters, who help them safely make it to the North Sea coast. Powell and Pressburger's Second World War drama, starring Godfrey Tearle, Eric Portman and Hugh WilliamsFilm/War
13:00Billy Rose's Jumbo[SUB HD]
The daughter of a circus owner is determined to save the show from a hostile takeover. However, she fails to realise the man she has turned to for help is in fact her fiercest rival's son, who has infiltrated her organisation on purpose to seduce her in a bid to undermine the business. Musical, starring Doris Day, Jimmy Durante, Stephen Boyd, Dean Jagger and Joseph WaringFilm/Musical
15:2023 Paces to Baker Street[SUB AD]
A blind playwright overhears a conversation in a London pub concerning a kidnapped child. He goes straight to the police, but they dismiss his story as the product of an overactive imagination, forcing him to take matters into his own hands. With the help of his fiancee and secretary, he sets out to rescue the child and catch the crooks - but his only clue is the scent of a distinctive perfume. Thriller, with Van Johnson, Cecil Parker, Patricia Laffan and Vera MilesFilm/Detective/Thriller
17:25Carry On up the Khyber[SUB AD]
British forces in colonial India find themselves in deep trouble when a manic local ruler discovers the soldiers' fearsome reputation is thoroughly undeserved - prompting open rebellion. Comedy, starring Sid James, Kenneth Williams, Charles Hawtrey, Roy Castle, Joan Sims, Bernard Bresslaw and Terry ScottFilm/Comedy
19:10Down to You
Two college students fall in love, but the cracks in their relationship begin to show as they are assailed by doubts. Romantic comedy, starring Freddie Prinze Jr, Julia Stiles, Selma Blair, Ashton Kutcher, Shawn Hatosy and Henry WinklerFilm/Comedy
21:00Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan[SUB HD]
A hapless Kazakhstani journalist is sent to the United States to learn about the country and its customs. However, when the inquisitive reporter stumbles across an episode of Baywatch featuring Pamela Anderson, he becomes convinced she is his future bride and embarks on a reckless mission to track her down. Spoof documentary, starring Sacha Baron Cohen, Ken Davitian and Pamela AndersonFilm/Comedy
22:40Cabin Fever[SUB HD]
Five college students look forward to fun and games during a summer break at an isolated cabin - but their vacation turns into a nightmare when they are struck down by a hideous flesh-eating virus. Horror, starring Rider Strong, Cerina Vincent, James DeBello, Jordan Ladd and Joey KernFilm/Horror
00:30Strange Wilderness[HD]
Premiere. A pot-smoking slacker inherits his late father's wildlife TV show - but finds it is on the brink of cancellation. Needing to do something spectacular to keep the series on the air, the new presenter leads an expedition to prove the existence of Bigfoot. Comedy, starring Steve Zahn, Allen Covert, Jonah Hill and Ashley ScottFilm/Comedy
02:10Conquest of the Planet of the Apes[SUB HD]
In the near future, humanoid apes are used as slave labour by brutal humans. An intelligent chimpanzee, the son of two apes from the future, conceals his ability to speak and lives under the protection of a kindly circus master. But when his secret is exposed, he leads his fellow simians in a violent uprising. Scilicet drama, presenting an origin story for the original movie, starring Roddy McDowall and Ricardo MontalbanFilm/Science Fiction
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11:00Action in the North Atlantic[SUB BW HD]
A US freighter is torpedoed by a Nazi submarine while en route with vital supplies to Russian allies. The captain and his first mate manage to rally the survivors and return home to a hero's welcome. After a short period of leave, the spirited crew is assigned a new ship - and another chance to carry out the mission. Second World War adventure, with Humphrey Bogart, Raymond Massey, Alan Hale, Julie Bishop and Ruth GordonFilm/Adventure/War
13:30David and Bathsheba[SUB HD]
King David embarks on a reckless affair with the wife of a loyal soldier, and arranges for her husband to be killed. In time he starts to neglect his duties to his people, finally incurring the wrath of God - who sends drought and famine to plague the land, forcing David to atone. Biblical drama, starring Gregory Peck, Susan Hayward, Raymond Massey and Kieron MooreFilm/General Movie/Drama
15:45North by Northwest[SUB HD]
A suave advertising executive is mistaken for an American intelligence agent by a foreign spy and is drawn into a world of espionage and adventure, leading to a high-tension cross-country chase made more perilous when the FBI intervenes. Alfred Hitchcock's thriller, starring Cary Grant, James Mason, Eva Marie Saint, Leo G Carroll and Martin LandauFilm/Detective/Thriller
18:20Coach Carter[SUB HD]
A former professional basketball player agrees to coach a high-school team, but he is unimpressed by its lack of discipline and instigates a tough new regimen. All goes well until the youngsters start to become complacent, forcing him to take drastic action - which leads to a backlash of complaints from angry parents and pupils alike. Drama, with Samuel L Jackson, Ashanti, Rob Brown and Robert Ri'chardFilm/General Movie/Drama
21:00The Italian Job[SUB HD]
A crook double-crosses his partners in crime, a betrayal that leaves their friend and mentor dead. One year later, they regroup and come up with a daring plan to exact revenge on the traitor and reclaim their ill-gotten gains. Crime thriller inspired by the 1969 movie, starring Mark Wahlberg, Charlize Theron, Edward Norton, Seth Green and Donald SutherlandFilm/Detective/Thriller
23:05Resurrected
A soldier goes missing during the Falklands War and is presumed dead. However, he later reappears, claiming to be suffering from amnesia. In an attempt to save themselves the embarrassment of explaining the situation, the British Army label the young man a deserter, leading to a tragic outcome. Drama, the debut of United 93 director Paul Greengrass, starring David Thewlis and Tom BellFilm/General Movie/Drama
00:50Downfall
Fact-based drama re-creating the claustrophobic events in Hitler's bunker during the final days of the Second World War. As the Fuehrer struggles to deal with the collapse of the Third Reich, his most loyal followers face the dilemma of whether to flee, die or face capture. Starring Bruno Ganz, Juliane Kohler, Heino Ferch and Ulrich MatthesFilm/General Movie/Drama/War
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11:00Action in the North Atlantic[SUB BW HD]
A US freighter is torpedoed by a Nazi submarine while en route with vital supplies to Russian allies. The captain and his first mate manage to rally the survivors and return home to a hero's welcome. After a short period of leave, the spirited crew is assigned a new ship - and another chance to carry out the mission. Second World War adventure, with Humphrey Bogart, Raymond Massey, Alan Hale, Julie Bishop and Ruth GordonFilm/Adventure/War
13:30David and Bathsheba[SUB HD]
King David embarks on a reckless affair with the wife of a loyal soldier, and arranges for her husband to be killed. In time he starts to neglect his duties to his people, finally incurring the wrath of God - who sends drought and famine to plague the land, forcing David to atone. Biblical drama, starring Gregory Peck, Susan Hayward, Raymond Massey and Kieron MooreFilm/General Movie/Drama
15:45North by Northwest[SUB HD]
A suave advertising executive is mistaken for an American intelligence agent by a foreign spy and is drawn into a world of espionage and adventure, leading to a high-tension cross-country chase made more perilous when the FBI intervenes. Alfred Hitchcock's thriller, starring Cary Grant, James Mason, Eva Marie Saint, Leo G Carroll and Martin LandauFilm/Detective/Thriller
18:20Coach Carter[SUB HD]
A former professional basketball player agrees to coach a high-school team, but he is unimpressed by its lack of discipline and instigates a tough new regimen. All goes well until the youngsters start to become complacent, forcing him to take drastic action - which leads to a backlash of complaints from angry parents and pupils alike. Drama, with Samuel L Jackson, Ashanti, Rob Brown and Robert Ri'chardFilm/General Movie/Drama
21:00The Italian Job[SUB HD]
A crook double-crosses his partners in crime, a betrayal that leaves their friend and mentor dead. One year later, they regroup and come up with a daring plan to exact revenge on the traitor and reclaim their ill-gotten gains. Crime thriller inspired by the 1969 movie, starring Mark Wahlberg, Charlize Theron, Edward Norton, Seth Green and Donald SutherlandFilm/Detective/Thriller
23:05Resurrected
A soldier goes missing during the Falklands War and is presumed dead. However, he later reappears, claiming to be suffering from amnesia. In an attempt to save themselves the embarrassment of explaining the situation, the British Army label the young man a deserter, leading to a tragic outcome. Drama, the debut of United 93 director Paul Greengrass, starring David Thewlis and Tom BellFilm/General Movie/Drama
00:50Downfall
Fact-based drama re-creating the claustrophobic events in Hitler's bunker during the final days of the Second World War. As the Fuehrer struggles to deal with the collapse of the Third Reich, his most loyal followers face the dilemma of whether to flee, die or face capture. Starring Bruno Ganz, Juliane Kohler, Heino Ferch and Ulrich MatthesFilm/General Movie/Drama/War
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11:00Gaslight[SUB BW]
A newlywed couple move into the former residence of an heiress who was murdered 20 years earlier. Rumours persist of a priceless stash of rubies hidden within the house and, when an ex-policeman recognises the husband as a relative of the murdered woman, he suspects the man has returned to claim the missing loot. Thriller, starring Anton Walbrook, Diana Wynyard, Frank Pettingell and Cathleen CordellFilm/Detective/Thriller
12:40Beau Brummell
The renowned Regency dandy cultivates a friendship with the Prince of Wales in a bid to improve his social standing. However, an ill-judged remark threatens to bring his high-society lifestyle to an abrupt halt. Historical drama, starring Stewart Granger, Elizabeth Taylor, Peter Ustinov, Robert Morley, James Donald and James HayterFilm/General Movie/Drama
14:50On the Town
Musical following three sailors who are out for a good time while on shore leave in New York. One tries initially to fend off the advances of a female taxi driver, another is pulled into helping with an anthropologist's study of prehistoric man, while the third seeks out the model for a famous advertising campaign - but finds she is not quite what he expected. With Gene Kelly, Frank Sinatra and Jules MunshinFilm/Musical
16:40Explorers[SUB HD]
Three boys intercept a message from outer space and, discovering it contains instructions for creating their own spaceship, they set out to trace the signal to its source. However, the aliens are not what the young astronauts expected them to be. Sci-fi adventure, starring Ethan Hawke, River Phoenix, Jason Presson, Dick Miller, James Cromwell and Robert Picardo in three different rolesFilm/Science Fiction/Adventure
18:50Gallipoli[SUB HD]
Two patriotic Australians join the army to fight during the First World War. However, their youthful idealism is quickly eroded by the harsh reality of the conflict, and their friendship is tested to the very limits of endurance as they prepare for combat ahead of the pivotal battle of Gallipoli in Turkey. Drama, directed by Peter Weir, starring Mel Gibson, Mark Lee, Bill Kerr and David ArgueFilm/War
21:00Alien 3[SUB HD]
Officer Ripley is left marooned alone on an all-male prison planet after the destruction of her spaceship, only to once again face one of the lethal extraterrestrial creatures. As she leads the inmates to hunt the alien - with no weapons at their disposal - she discovers a terrifying connection between herself and the creature. David Fincher's sci-fi thriller sequel, with Sigourney Weaver and Charles DanceFilm/Science Fiction
23:10The Escapist[SUB HD]
A convict serving a life sentence is resigned to never being released, until he learns that a drug overdose has left his estranged daughter seriously ill. Afraid she will die before he can make his peace with her, he decides to tunnel out of prison - but is forced to make some dangerous bargains to carry out his plan. British thriller, starring Brian Cox, Damian Lewis and Joseph FiennesFilm/Detective/Thriller
01:10The Man From Elysian Fields
A writer desperate for money takes a job at an escort agency providing wealthy women with intelligent male company. As he struggles to keep his new job a secret from his wife, he finds his latest client is the wife of an author he admires, and sees a chance to get the literary acclaim that has escaped him. Drama directed by the late George Hickenlooper, starring Andy Garcia, Olivia Williams, James Coburn and Mick JaggerFilm/General Movie/Drama
03:15Mike Leigh Special[REP]
The director and actress Lesley Manville discuss working together on Another YearFilm/Cinema
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11:00Gaslight[SUB BW]
A newlywed couple move into the former residence of an heiress who was murdered 20 years earlier. Rumours persist of a priceless stash of rubies hidden within the house and, when an ex-policeman recognises the husband as a relative of the murdered woman, he suspects the man has returned to claim the missing loot. Thriller, starring Anton Walbrook, Diana Wynyard, Frank Pettingell and Cathleen CordellFilm/Detective/Thriller
12:40Beau Brummell
The renowned Regency dandy cultivates a friendship with the Prince of Wales in a bid to improve his social standing. However, an ill-judged remark threatens to bring his high-society lifestyle to an abrupt halt. Historical drama, starring Stewart Granger, Elizabeth Taylor, Peter Ustinov, Robert Morley, James Donald and James HayterFilm/General Movie/Drama
14:50On the Town
Musical following three sailors who are out for a good time while on shore leave in New York. One tries initially to fend off the advances of a female taxi driver, another is pulled into helping with an anthropologist's study of prehistoric man, while the third seeks out the model for a famous advertising campaign - but finds she is not quite what he expected. With Gene Kelly, Frank Sinatra and Jules MunshinFilm/Musical
16:40Explorers[SUB HD]
Three boys intercept a message from outer space and, discovering it contains instructions for creating their own spaceship, they set out to trace the signal to its source. However, the aliens are not what the young astronauts expected them to be. Sci-fi adventure, starring Ethan Hawke, River Phoenix, Jason Presson, Dick Miller, James Cromwell and Robert Picardo in three different rolesFilm/Science Fiction/Adventure
18:50Gallipoli[SUB HD]
Two patriotic Australians join the army to fight during the First World War. However, their youthful idealism is quickly eroded by the harsh reality of the conflict, and their friendship is tested to the very limits of endurance as they prepare for combat ahead of the pivotal battle of Gallipoli in Turkey. Drama, directed by Peter Weir, starring Mel Gibson, Mark Lee, Bill Kerr and David ArgueFilm/War
21:00Alien 3[SUB HD]
Officer Ripley is left marooned alone on an all-male prison planet after the destruction of her spaceship, only to once again face one of the lethal extraterrestrial creatures. As she leads the inmates to hunt the alien - with no weapons at their disposal - she discovers a terrifying connection between herself and the creature. David Fincher's sci-fi thriller sequel, with Sigourney Weaver and Charles DanceFilm/Science Fiction
23:10The Escapist[SUB HD]
A convict serving a life sentence is resigned to never being released, until he learns that a drug overdose has left his estranged daughter seriously ill. Afraid she will die before he can make his peace with her, he decides to tunnel out of prison - but is forced to make some dangerous bargains to carry out his plan. British thriller, starring Brian Cox, Damian Lewis and Joseph FiennesFilm/Detective/Thriller
01:10The Man From Elysian Fields
A writer desperate for money takes a job at an escort agency providing wealthy women with intelligent male company. As he struggles to keep his new job a secret from his wife, he finds his latest client is the wife of an author he admires, and sees a chance to get the literary acclaim that has escaped him. Drama directed by the late George Hickenlooper, starring Andy Garcia, Olivia Williams, James Coburn and Mick JaggerFilm/General Movie/Drama
03:15Mike Leigh Special[REP]
The director and actress Lesley Manville discuss working together on Another YearFilm/Cinema
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11:00The Badlanders
A mining engineer is released from prison after serving a sentence for a crime he did not commit. He now wants vengeance on the mining company responsible for his stint in jail and plans to rob their gold mine - but first he has to persuade his recently released cellmate to help. Western, with Ernest Borgnine, Alan Ladd, Kent Smith and Katy JuradoFilm/Western
12:45Seance on a Wet Afternoon[SUB BW]
A self-professed medium with a greed for money and publicity arranges the kidnap of a wealthy industrialist's daughter, with the intention of winning acclaim and the ransom when she locates the child using her alleged psychic powers. British psychological thriller, starring Kim Stanley, Richard Attenborough, Mark Eden, Nanette Newman, Gerald Sim and Judith DonnerFilm/Detective/Thriller
15:00Bhowani Junction
An Anglo-Indian woman returns to her native land after spending several years in England. As civil strife spreads through the country in the dying days of the Raj, she must decide whether to stay or go, but is torn between her love for a dashing British colonel and a local man. George Cukor's romantic drama based on John Masters' novel, with Ava Gardner, Stewart Granger, Bill Travers and Abraham SofaerFilm/General Movie/Drama
17:05The Band Wagon[SUB HD]
A has-been Hollywood dancer and a temperamental producer join forces to stage a song-and-dance spectacular, the likes of which has never been seen before. Musical comedy, starring Fred Astaire and Jack Buchanan, with Oscar Levant, Cyd Charisse and Nanette Fabray. Featuring musical numbers That's Entertainment and Dancing in the DarkFilm/Musical
19:15How She Move[HD]
A medical student returns to her old neighbourhood when she is no longer able to afford to fund her education. She falls in with a street dancing team and hopes the prize money from a lucrative contest might provide the financial independence she needs - but her fellow dancers are not convinced she has what it takes. Drama, starring Rutina Wesley and Tre ArmstrongFilm/General Movie/Drama
21:00Kingdom of Heaven[SUB HD]
A blacksmith joins a crusade to Jerusalem, where he is ennobled as a knight and pledges to defend the city and its people. However, the city's ailing king has little time to live, and his hold on the fragile peace between Christians and Muslims looks set to slip as factions on both sides scheme to seize power. Ridley Scott's historical epic, starring Orlando Bloom, Eva Green, Liam Neeson and Edward NortonFilm/General Movie/Drama
00:40Epic Movie[SUB HD]
Four NSFW orphans, each inspired by a character from a recent movie, discover the enchanted land of Gnarnia, which has fallen under an evil spell. Joining forces with a pirate, a lion and a guild of would-be wizards, the four heroes restore peace to the magical kingdom. Fantasy spoof, starring Kal Penn, Adam Campbell, Jennifer Coolidge and Jayma MaysFilm/Comedy
02:20The House by the Cemetery
When a couple movie into a new home, their son keeps seeing a ghost in the house. The spirit is trying to warn him of a terrible danger - a deranged doctor has been lurking in the basement for over a century, and must repeatedly kill to keep his decaying body alive. Italian horror, starring Catriona MacColl and Paolo MalcoFilm/Horror
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11:00The Badlanders
A mining engineer is released from prison after serving a sentence for a crime he did not commit. He now wants vengeance on the mining company responsible for his stint in jail and plans to rob their gold mine - but first he has to persuade his recently released cellmate to help. Western, with Ernest Borgnine, Alan Ladd, Kent Smith and Katy JuradoFilm/Western
12:45Seance on a Wet Afternoon[SUB BW]
A self-professed medium with a greed for money and publicity arranges the kidnap of a wealthy industrialist's daughter, with the intention of winning acclaim and the ransom when she locates the child using her alleged psychic powers. British psychological thriller, starring Kim Stanley, Richard Attenborough, Mark Eden, Nanette Newman, Gerald Sim and Judith DonnerFilm/Detective/Thriller
15:00Bhowani Junction
An Anglo-Indian woman returns to her native land after spending several years in England. As civil strife spreads through the country in the dying days of the Raj, she must decide whether to stay or go, but is torn between her love for a dashing British colonel and a local man. George Cukor's romantic drama based on John Masters' novel, with Ava Gardner, Stewart Granger, Bill Travers and Abraham SofaerFilm/General Movie/Drama
17:05The Band Wagon[SUB HD]
A has-been Hollywood dancer and a temperamental producer join forces to stage a song-and-dance spectacular, the likes of which has never been seen before. Musical comedy, starring Fred Astaire and Jack Buchanan, with Oscar Levant, Cyd Charisse and Nanette Fabray. Featuring musical numbers That's Entertainment and Dancing in the DarkFilm/Musical
19:15How She Move[HD]
A medical student returns to her old neighbourhood when she is no longer able to afford to fund her education. She falls in with a street dancing team and hopes the prize money from a lucrative contest might provide the financial independence she needs - but her fellow dancers are not convinced she has what it takes. Drama, starring Rutina Wesley and Tre ArmstrongFilm/General Movie/Drama
21:00Kingdom of Heaven[SUB HD]
A blacksmith joins a crusade to Jerusalem, where he is ennobled as a knight and pledges to defend the city and its people. However, the city's ailing king has little time to live, and his hold on the fragile peace between Christians and Muslims looks set to slip as factions on both sides scheme to seize power. Ridley Scott's historical epic, starring Orlando Bloom, Eva Green, Liam Neeson and Edward NortonFilm/General Movie/Drama
00:40Epic Movie[SUB HD]
Four NSFW orphans, each inspired by a character from a recent movie, discover the enchanted land of Gnarnia, which has fallen under an evil spell. Joining forces with a pirate, a lion and a guild of would-be wizards, the four heroes restore peace to the magical kingdom. Fantasy spoof, starring Kal Penn, Adam Campbell, Jennifer Coolidge and Jayma MaysFilm/Comedy
02:20The House by the Cemetery
When a couple movie into a new home, their son keeps seeing a ghost in the house. The spirit is trying to warn him of a terrible danger - a deranged doctor has been lurking in the basement for over a century, and must repeatedly kill to keep his decaying body alive. Italian horror, starring Catriona MacColl and Paolo MalcoFilm/Horror
04:00Close
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11:00Mirror
Acclaimed director Andrei Tarkovsky's autobiographical drama, interweaving filmed sequences and archive newsreel footage to present a vivid portrait of his childhood memories and relationships with parents, children, wife and relatives. Starring Margarita Terekhova, Philip Yankowsky, Ignat Daniltsev and Oleg YankowskyFilm/General Movie/Drama
13:05Across the Wide Missouri
An ambitious fur trapper plans to make his fortune in beaver pelts. To do so, he needs a safe passage through lands held by the Blackfoot tribe, so he marries the chief's daughter and together they lead an expedition that takes them deep into the uncharted wilderness. Western adventure, starring Clark Gable, Ricardo Montalban, Maria Elena Marques and John HodiakFilm/Western
14:40Up Periscope[SUB AD]
A US Navy frogman and underwater demolition expert is ordered to steal a vital Japanese code book from a Pacific island. Unfortunately, the captain of the submarine charged with taking him into enemy waters disapproves of the plan. Tensions rise, damaging morale and threatening to jeopardise the mission's success, while the dangers around them are mounting. Second World War adventure, with James Garner, Edmond O'Brien and Alan Hale JrFilm/Adventure/War
16:50Singin' In The Rain
Two old friends and an aspiring starlet find their lives changing as the arrival of sound revolutionises film-making. Gene Kelly co-directs, choreographs and stars in this musical comedy, with Debbie Reynolds, Donald O'Connor, Jean Hagen and Millard Mitchell. Songs include Make 'em Laugh, You Are My Lucky Star and the evergreen title numberFilm/Musical/Comedy
18:50Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan[SUB HD]
The Enterprise crew faces a bitter battle to the death with an old enemy. Khan, a genetically engineered superhuman tyrant, has escaped exile on a barren planet and hijacked a starship to take his revenge on Admiral Kirk, while also scheming to turn an experimental planet-creating device into a doomsday weapon. Sci-fi adventure sequel, with William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, Ricardo Montalban and Kirstie AlleyFilm/Science Fiction/Adventure
21:00Stop-Loss[SUB HD]
Premiere. A disillusioned soldier returns home after a tour of duty in Iraq, haunted by the deaths of three of his fellow soldiers and hoping to pick up his life where he left off. When he is called back to the front line, he goes AWOL, and travels to Washington in search of political support to fight the decision. Drama, starring Ryan Phillippe and Joseph Gordon-LevittFilm/General Movie/Drama
23:10Hush[SUB HD]
A motorist travelling by night with his girlfriend nearly crashes into a van on the M1, and as it drives off he sees a badly beaten woman tied up in the back. Stopping at a service station, he panics when his girlfriend disappears and becomes convinced the van driver has abducted her as well. Thriller, starring William Ash, Christine Bottomley and Andreas WisniewskiFilm/Detective/Thriller
00:55Tulpan
Former soldier Asa goes to live with his sister and her family on the steppes of Kazakhstan. Asa longs to be a shepherd, but needs to marry first, so sets out to woo a local woman, only to be rejected before he has even met her. Undaunted, he resolves to prove to her that he is a worthy husband. Comedy drama, with Askhat Kuchinchirekov and Ondas BesikbasovFilm/Comedy/General Movie/Drama
02:50Mike Leigh Special[REP]
The director and actress Lesley Manville discuss working together on Another YearFilm/Cinema
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11:00Mirror
Acclaimed director Andrei Tarkovsky's autobiographical drama, interweaving filmed sequences and archive newsreel footage to present a vivid portrait of his childhood memories and relationships with parents, children, wife and relatives. Starring Margarita Terekhova, Philip Yankowsky, Ignat Daniltsev and Oleg YankowskyFilm/General Movie/Drama
13:05Across the Wide Missouri
An ambitious fur trapper plans to make his fortune in beaver pelts. To do so, he needs a safe passage through lands held by the Blackfoot tribe, so he marries the chief's daughter and together they lead an expedition that takes them deep into the uncharted wilderness. Western adventure, starring Clark Gable, Ricardo Montalban, Maria Elena Marques and John HodiakFilm/Western
14:40Up Periscope[SUB AD]
A US Navy frogman and underwater demolition expert is ordered to steal a vital Japanese code book from a Pacific island. Unfortunately, the captain of the submarine charged with taking him into enemy waters disapproves of the plan. Tensions rise, damaging morale and threatening to jeopardise the mission's success, while the dangers around them are mounting. Second World War adventure, with James Garner, Edmond O'Brien and Alan Hale JrFilm/Adventure/War
16:50Singin' In The Rain
Two old friends and an aspiring starlet find their lives changing as the arrival of sound revolutionises film-making. Gene Kelly co-directs, choreographs and stars in this musical comedy, with Debbie Reynolds, Donald O'Connor, Jean Hagen and Millard Mitchell. Songs include Make 'em Laugh, You Are My Lucky Star and the evergreen title numberFilm/Musical/Comedy
18:50Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan[SUB HD]
The Enterprise crew faces a bitter battle to the death with an old enemy. Khan, a genetically engineered superhuman tyrant, has escaped exile on a barren planet and hijacked a starship to take his revenge on Admiral Kirk, while also scheming to turn an experimental planet-creating device into a doomsday weapon. Sci-fi adventure sequel, with William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, Ricardo Montalban and Kirstie AlleyFilm/Science Fiction/Adventure
21:00Stop-Loss[SUB HD]
Premiere. A disillusioned soldier returns home after a tour of duty in Iraq, haunted by the deaths of three of his fellow soldiers and hoping to pick up his life where he left off. When he is called back to the front line, he goes AWOL, and travels to Washington in search of political support to fight the decision. Drama, starring Ryan Phillippe and Joseph Gordon-LevittFilm/General Movie/Drama
23:10Hush[SUB HD]
A motorist travelling by night with his girlfriend nearly crashes into a van on the M1, and as it drives off he sees a badly beaten woman tied up in the back. Stopping at a service station, he panics when his girlfriend disappears and becomes convinced the van driver has abducted her as well. Thriller, starring William Ash, Christine Bottomley and Andreas WisniewskiFilm/Detective/Thriller
00:55Tulpan
Former soldier Asa goes to live with his sister and her family on the steppes of Kazakhstan. Asa longs to be a shepherd, but needs to marry first, so sets out to woo a local woman, only to be rejected before he has even met her. Undaunted, he resolves to prove to her that he is a worthy husband. Comedy drama, with Askhat Kuchinchirekov and Ondas BesikbasovFilm/Comedy/General Movie/Drama
02:50Mike Leigh Special[REP]
The director and actress Lesley Manville discuss working together on Another YearFilm/Cinema
03:05Close
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11:00The Valley of Gwangi[SUB HD]
A cowboy in a travelling rodeo wants another specimen of his show's latest star attraction - a miniature horse. Aided by a British palaeontologist, he heads into a mysterious forbidden valley, where he is amazed to find ferocious dinosaurs are roaming. Unfortunately, a giant prehistoric monster has them in its sight. Fantasy Western, starring James Franciscus and Gila Golan, with effects by Ray HarryhausenFilm/Fantasy/Western
13:00Revenge of the Pink Panther[SUB HD]
Bumbling Inspector Clouseau's adventures seem to have come to an end when he is mistakenly declared dead. However, the disaster-prone detective is in fact alive and well, and takes advantage of the situation to launch an undercover investigation into his own murder, adopting a variety of cunning disguises. Comedy sequel, starring Peter Sellers, Herbert Lom, Burt Kwouk and Dyan CannonFilm/Comedy
14:55North by Northwest[SUB HD]
A suave advertising executive is mistaken for an American intelligence agent by a foreign spy and is drawn into a world of espionage and adventure, leading to a high-tension cross-country chase made more perilous when the FBI intervenes. Alfred Hitchcock's thriller, starring Cary Grant, James Mason, Eva Marie Saint, Leo G Carroll and Martin LandauFilm/Detective/Thriller
17:30Carry On Behind
Professors Ronald Crump and Anna Vooshka embark on an archaeological dig, but find their efforts disrupted by the saucy shenanigans of a motley bunch of holiday-makers in the neighbouring caravan park. Comedy, starring Kenneth Williams, Elke Sommer, Joan Sims, Windsor Davies, Kenneth Connor and Bernard BresslawFilm/Comedy
19:15How She Move[HD]
A medical student returns to her old neighbourhood when she is no longer able to afford to fund her education. She falls in with a street dancing team and hopes the prize money from a lucrative contest might provide the financial independence she needs - but her fellow dancers are not convinced she has what it takes. Drama, starring Rutina Wesley and Tre ArmstrongFilm/General Movie/Drama
21:00A Mighty Heart[SUB HD]
Drama based on journalist Mariane Pearl's account of her husband Daniel's kidnapping and murder by a militant group. Mariane was pregnant when she travelled with him to Pakistan. When he disappeared without trace, the frantic search for him turned into a media frenzy. Starring Angelina Jolie, Dan Futterman and Archie PanjabiFilm/General Movie/Drama
23:05Final Destination 3[SUB AD HD]
Minutes before boarding a rollercoaster with her friends, a high-school graduate has a premonition they will all die and persuades them to get off the ride - just before it crashes. However, death seems intent on catching up with the teenagers, as one by one they meet a gruesome end. Horror sequel, starring Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Ryan Merriman, Kris Lemche, Alexz Johnson and Sam EastonFilm/Horror
00:50The Death of Mr Lazarescu
An elderly man is convinced he is seriously ill - but his heavy drinking gives doctors reason to think that he is only hungover. Eventually he meets a sympathetic paramedic, who realises he is telling the truth, but the old man's problems continue as the pair embark on a tedious journey through run-down city hospitals, encountering indifference and bureaucracy along the way. Romanian comedy drama, starring Iaon Fiscuteanu and Luminita GheorghiuFilm/Comedy/General Movie/Drama
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11:00Beau Brummell
The renowned Regency dandy cultivates a friendship with the Prince of Wales in a bid to improve his social standing. However, an ill-judged remark threatens to bring his high-society lifestyle to an abrupt halt. Historical drama, starring Stewart Granger, Elizabeth Taylor, Peter Ustinov, Robert Morley, James Donald and James HayterFilm/General Movie/Drama
13:10The Badlanders
A mining engineer is released from prison after serving a sentence for a crime he did not commit. He now wants vengeance on the mining company responsible for his stint in jail and plans to rob their gold mine - but first he has to persuade his recently released cellmate to help. Western, with Ernest Borgnine, Alan Ladd, Kent Smith and Katy JuradoFilm/Western
14:55Singin' In The Rain
Two old friends and an aspiring starlet find their lives changing as the arrival of sound revolutionises film-making. Gene Kelly co-directs, choreographs and stars in this musical comedy, with Debbie Reynolds, Donald O'Connor, Jean Hagen and Millard Mitchell. Songs include Make 'em Laugh, You Are My Lucky Star and the evergreen title numberFilm/Musical/Comedy
16:55Merrill's Marauders
A exploit US unit pressed from all sides by the Japanese in Burma's steaming jungles is sent on a dangerous mission to seize an enemy rail yard. Samuel Fuller's Second World War adventure, starring Jeff Chandler, Ty Hardin, Peter Brown, Claude Akins, John Hoyt and Andrew DugganFilm/Adventure/War
18:50Gallipoli[SUB HD]
Two patriotic Australians join the army to fight during the First World War. However, their youthful idealism is quickly eroded by the harsh reality of the conflict, and their friendship is tested to the very limits of endurance as they prepare for combat ahead of the pivotal battle of Gallipoli in Turkey. Drama, directed by Peter Weir, starring Mel Gibson, Mark Lee, Bill Kerr and David ArgueFilm/War
21:00Jumper[SUB HD]
A young man discovers he has the ability to teleport, a talent he cleverly exploits to rob banks without being traced and live a life of luxury all over the world. However, it comes to light that he is not the only one with this kind of power - and that a secret society of religious fanatics is determined to wipe out him and all of his kind. Fantasy thriller, with Hayden Christensen, Jamie Bell and Samuel L JacksonFilm/Detective/Thriller/Fantasy
22:45Monster[SUB HD]
Fact-based drama exploring the story of serial killer Aileen Wuornos, examining the circumstances that initially drove her to murder and the motivation for her subsequent crimes, as well as looking at her troubled childhood and intense relationship with another woman. Starring an Oscar-winning Charlize Theron alongside Christina Ricci, Bruce Dern and Scott WilsonFilm/General Movie/Drama
00:50Mirror
Acclaimed director Andrei Tarkovsky's autobiographical drama, interweaving filmed sequences and archive newsreel footage to present a vivid portrait of his childhood memories and relationships with parents, children, wife and relatives. Starring Margarita Terekhova, Philip Yankowsky, Ignat Daniltsev and Oleg YankowskyFilm/General Movie/Drama
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11:00Seance on a Wet Afternoon[SUB BW]
A self-professed medium with a greed for money and publicity arranges the kidnap of a wealthy industrialist's daughter, with the intention of winning acclaim and the ransom when she locates the child using her alleged psychic powers. British psychological thriller, starring Kim Stanley, Richard Attenborough, Mark Eden, Nanette Newman, Gerald Sim and Judith DonnerFilm/Detective/Thriller
13:15The Band Wagon[HD]
A has-been Hollywood dancer and a temperamental producer join forces to stage a song-and-dance spectacular, the likes of which has never been seen before. Musical comedy, starring Fred Astaire and Jack Buchanan, with Oscar Levant, Cyd Charisse and Nanette Fabray. Featuring musical numbers That's Entertainment and Dancing in the DarkFilm/Musical
15:25Across the Wide Missouri
An ambitious fur trapper plans to make his fortune in beaver pelts. To do so, he needs a safe passage through lands held by the Blackfoot tribe, so he marries the chief's daughter and together they lead an expedition that takes them deep into the uncharted wilderness. Western adventure, starring Clark Gable, Ricardo Montalban, Maria Elena Marques and John HodiakFilm/Western
17:00Bhowani Junction
An Anglo-Indian woman returns to her native land after spending several years in England. As civil strife spreads through the country in the dying days of the Raj, she must decide whether to stay or go, but is torn between her love for a dashing British colonel and a local man. George Cukor's romantic drama based on John Masters' novel, with Ava Gardner, Stewart Granger, Bill Travers and Abraham SofaerFilm/General Movie/Drama
19:05The Seeker: The Dark Is Rising[SUB HD]
A teenager discovers he is the last in a long line of warriors destined to defend the world from dark forces. His duty now is to embark on a perilous journey through time to recover the six parts of a mystical artefact, and ensure the powerful device is returned to safe hands. Fantasy adventure, starring Alexander Ludwig, Christopher Eccleston and Ian McShaneFilm/Fantasy/Adventure
21:00Braveheart[SUB HD]
Account of the life of medieval Scottish hero William Wallace. After the slaughter of his father and brother, young Wallace is taken in by his uncle, who teaches him how to use not only his brawn but his brain - which he employs to great effect years later when he resolves to drive the English out of Scotland. Oscar-winning historical epic, directed by and starring Mel Gibson. With Patrick McGoohan, Sophie Marceau and Catherine McCormackFilm/General Movie/Drama
00:20Meet the Spartans[HD]
Premiere. A fearless king defends his country against an invading army, but finds himself inconveniently short of warriors. Comedy spoofing 300, starring Sean Maguire, Carmen Electra and Kevin SorboFilm/Comedy
02:00Room to Rent[SUB HD]
An aspiring writer decides to leave his native Egypt and head for the bright lights of London - but fame does not come easily, and he soon falls in with a bohemian crowd of ne'er-do-well artists and performers. Comedy drama, starring Juliette Lewis, Rupert Graves and Said TaghmaouiFilm/General Movie/Drama
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11:00A Man Alone
A mysterious lone gunman in the desert stumbles across the bodies of passengers murdered in a stagecoach robbery. He rides to the nearest town to report the crime, but instead he finds himself accused of the killings and facing a battle to prove his innocence. Western adventure, directed by and starring Ray Milland, with Raymond Burr, Lee Van Cleef, Mary Murphy and Ward BondFilm/Western
12:50Up Periscope[SUB AD]
A US Navy frogman and underwater demolition expert is ordered to steal a vital Japanese code book from a Pacific island. Unfortunately, the captain of the submarine charged with taking him into enemy waters disapproves of the plan. Tensions rise, damaging morale and threatening to jeopardise the mission's success, while the dangers around them are mounting. Second World War adventure, with James Garner, Edmond O'Brien and Alan Hale JrFilm/Adventure/War
15:00Carry On Behind
Professors Ronald Crump and Anna Vooshka embark on an archaeological dig, but find their efforts disrupted by the saucy shenanigans of a motley bunch of holiday-makers in the neighbouring caravan park. Comedy, starring Kenneth Williams, Elke Sommer, Joan Sims, Windsor Davies, Kenneth Connor and Bernard BresslawFilm/Comedy
16:45The Cat Returns
A young girl saves a cat's life, and is rewarded for her good deed by being whisked away to a magical land of powerful felines. Unfortunately, the King of the Cats soon sets his sights on her, and she must look to new friends to help her escape a horrible fate. Animated adventure, with the voices of Anne Hathaway, Cary Elwes, Peter Boyle and Tim CurryFilm/Animated Movie/Drama
18:25Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World[SUB AD HD]
The captain of a British warship engages in a tense battle of wits and an escalating test of nerves with his French counterpart during the Napoleonic wars, while his pursuit of the enemy takes his crew on a dangerous journey around South America. Seafaring drama, adapted from Patrick O'Brian's novel, starring Russell Crowe, Paul Bettany, James D'Arcy, Billy Boyd and Edward WoodallFilm/General Movie/Drama
21:00AVP: Alien vs Predator[SUB AD HD]
A team of archaeologists investigates the discovery of a mysterious pyramid beneath the Antarctic ice, which is inhabited by a deadly alien race. Meanwhile, more hostile extraterrestrials are on their way to prove their worth by fighting the first - with the unfortunate humans caught in the middle. Sci-fi thriller, starring Sanaa Lathan, Raoul Bova and Lance HenriksenFilm/Science Fiction/Detective/Thriller
22:45Dogtooth[HD]
Premiere. Three siblings have lived their whole lives in a state of isolation in a remote villa, fed false information by their parents to leave them terrified of the outside world. The only outsider allowed in the house is a woman hired to satisfy the son's sexual urges - but when she sleeps with one of the daughters, the parents' control starts to fail. Satirical drama, with Christos Stergioglou and Michele ValleyFilm/General Movie/Drama
00:35Maurice
In Edwardian England, a student becomes gradually aware of his homosexuality while studying at Cambridge University. Period drama, based on the novel by EM Forster, starring James Wilby, Denholm Elliott, Hugh Grant, Rupert Graves and Simon CallowFilm/General Movie/Drama
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11:00The Cross of Lorraine[SUB BW]
A Frenchman's daring escape from a German PoW camp triggers an uprising by villagers intent on overthrowing their Nazi oppressors. Second World War drama, starring Gene Kelly, Jean-Pierre Aumont, Cedric Hardwicke, Peter Lorre and Robert AndrewsFilm/General Movie/Drama/War
12:45The Way Ahead[SUB BW HD]
Slipshod British Army recruits face a testing time as they undergo a tough training regimen aimed at whipping them into shape to fight in the Second World War. Director Carol Reed's drama, starring David Niven, Stanley Holloway, Raymond Huntley, William Hartnell, John Laurie and James DonaldFilm/General Movie/Drama/War
15:00The Emperor's New Clothes
Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte hatches a cunning plan to return from exile and reclaim control of France. When he encounters a sailor who bears an uncanny resemblance to him, he arranges to swap places so he can make his way to Paris unnoticed. However, the double gets a little too used to living the life of an emperor, leaving the real Bonaparte stuck as a commoner. Drama, starring Ian Holm, Iben Hjejle and Tim McInnernyFilm/General Movie/Drama
17:05The Valley of Gwangi[SUB HD]
A cowboy in a travelling rodeo wants another specimen of his show's latest star attraction - a miniature horse. Aided by a British palaeontologist, he heads into a mysterious forbidden valley, where he is amazed to find ferocious dinosaurs are roaming. Unfortunately, a giant prehistoric monster has them in its sight. Fantasy Western, starring James Franciscus and Gila Golan, with effects by Ray HarryhausenFilm/Fantasy/Western
18:55Another Stakeout[HD]
Two bickering cops embark on another undercover mission, keeping watch on a house where a missing witness in a Mafia trial is thought to be staying, while an overbearing district attorney oversees the operation. Comedy adventure sequel, starring Richard Dreyfuss, Emilio Estevez, Rosie O'Donnell, Dennis Farina and Marcia StrassmanFilm/Comedy
21:00In Bruges[SUB AD HD]
Two hitmen are ordered to lie low in Belgium after an assignment goes tragically wrong. Trying to pass themselves off as ordinary tourists in the medieval city of Bruges, the bickering duo get caught up in a string of surreal misadventures - and then they learn the real and sinister reason why their unstable boss sent them there in the first place. Black comedy, starring Colin Farrell, Brendan Gleeson, Ralph Fiennes and Clemence PoesyFilm/Comedy/General Movie/Drama
23:10Final Destination 3[SUB AD HD]
Minutes before boarding a rollercoaster with her friends, a high-school graduate has a premonition they will all die and persuades them to get off the ride - just before it crashes. However, death seems intent on catching up with the teenagers, as one by one they meet a gruesome end. Horror sequel, starring Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Ryan Merriman, Kris Lemche, Alexz Johnson and Sam EastonFilm/Horror
00:55Talk to Her[HD]
A nurse who has long admired a beautiful dancer from afar spends hours at her bedside after a car accident leaves her in a coma. At the same hospital he meets a travel writer in a strangely similar situation - he too has fallen for a woman who is fighting for her life after being gored by a bull. Spanish romantic drama from director Pedro Almodovar, starring Javier Camara, Dario Grandinetti, Leonor Watling and Rosario FloresFilm/General Movie/Drama
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11:00Sea Wife[SUB HD]
A few survivors of a cargo ship torpedoed off the coast of Singapore scramble to safety on board a life raft. One of the group is an RAF officer who finds himself becoming attracted to a fellow castaway - little suspecting she is in fact a nun. Second World War adventure, starring Richard Burton, Joan Collins, Basil Sydney, Ronald Squire and Cy GrantFilm/Adventure/War
12:35Battle Cry
American soldiers going through basic training and eagerly awaiting their first taste of battle are frustrated by a series of non-combat assignments. All this changes when they are called up to fight in a gruelling engagement in the South Pacific. Second World War drama, based on the novel by Leon Uris, starring Van Heflin, Aldo Ray, Tab Hunter, James Whitmore, Mona Freeman and Dorothy MaloneFilm/Adventure/War
15:25Party Girl
A lawyer becomes rich and successful defending gangsters, but falls in love with a nightclub dancer and resolves to pursue an honest career. Unfortunately, the local Mob boss is not about to let him go straight. Crime drama, starring Robert Taylor, Cyd Charisse, Lee J Cobb and Corey AllenFilm/General Movie/Drama
17:15Carry On Dick
Two officers of the law dedicated to catching a cheeky highwayman enlist the help of a local vicar, unaware the pious pastor and his buxom housemaid are not all they seem to be. Comedy, starring Sid James, Kenneth Williams, Jack Douglas, Barbara Windsor, Bernard Bresslaw, Joan Sims and Hattie JacquesFilm/Comedy
19:00Bee Season[HD]
Premiere. The four members of a dysfunctional and highly spiritual Jewish family find themselves with little in common, and the daughter's unique flair with words only complicates matters, as her father neglects his wife and son to help her win the US National Spelling Bee. Drama, based on the novel by Myla Goldberg, starring Richard Gere, Juliette Binoche, Flora Cross and Max MinghellaFilm/General Movie/Drama
21:0027 Dresses[SUB HD]
Singleton Jane is literally always the bridesmaid and never the bride, a role she assumes for the 28th time when her sister announces she is getting married - to a man Jane is secretly in love with. As she wrestles with her feelings, Jane's predicament attracts the attention of a reporter fascinated by her story. Romantic comedy, starring Katherine Heigl, James Marsden and Malin AkermanFilm/Comedy
23:10Tokyo Sonata[HD]
Manager Ryuhei loses his job, and because he is too ashamed to tell his family he pretends to go to work each day while desperately searching for work and eating in soup kitchens. A friend in the same predicament helps him to keep up the deception - but Ryuhei's family realises the truth and begins to disintegrate under the weight of his lies. Japanese drama, with Teruyuki Kagawa, Kyoko Koizumi and Koji YakushoFilm/General Movie/Drama
01:30Mutual Appreciation [BW]
A musician moves to New York after splitting from his bandmates and, despite his attempts to stay focused on his career, soon finds himself falling in love with his best pal's charismatic girlfriend, while trying to fend off the unwelcome attentions of a smitten radio host. Comedy, starring Justin Rice and Rachel CliftFilm/Comedy
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11:00My Girlfriend's Boyfriend
Shy Parisian clerk Blanche becomes a close friend of lively student Lea. Blanche is attracted to one of Lea's male friends, but is too tongue-tied to do anything about it. However, when Lea goes on holiday, Blanche starts to fall for her boyfriend. French comedy drama, starring Emmanuelle Chaulet and Sophie RenoirFilm/Comedy/General Movie/Drama
13:05Gift Horse[SUB BW]
A Navy captain reluctantly takes charge of an old US destroyer during the Second World War. His attempts to take command of the vessel and her crew prove problematic and hostility erupts, until the prospect of facing the mighty German force brings much-needed unity. Adventure, starring Trevor Howard, Richard Attenborough, Bernard Lee, Sonny Tufts and James DonaldFilm/Adventure/War
15:00D-Day, The Sixth of June[SUB HD]
A British colonel and an American captain reminisce about their love for the same woman when they are brought together while preparing for the 1944 Normandy landings. Second World War drama, starring Robert Taylor, Richard Todd, Dana Wynter and Edmond O'BrienFilm/War
17:05Gentlemen Prefer Blondes[SUB HD]
Lounge singers Lorelei and Dorothy head for Paris in search of rich husbands. While Dorothy falls for a penniless man, Lorelei thinks she has found the millionaire of her dreams, only for his father to hire a private eye to spy on her and prove she is a gold-digger. Howard Hawks' musical comedy, starring Marilyn Monroe, Jane Russell, Charles Coburn and Elliott ReidFilm/Comedy/Musical
18:55The First Wives Club[SUB HD]
Three former college friends reunite at the funeral of a mutual acquaintance, who killed herself after her husband left her for a younger woman. Finding themselves in a similar situation, the trio decide to take action and hit their former partners where it hurts most - their finances. Comedy, starring Goldie Hawn, Bette Midler, Diane Keaton, Maggie Smith, Dan Hedaya, Bronson Pinchot and Elizabeth BerkleyFilm/Comedy
20:554Films For[SUB REP]
Throwing a Party
Armstrong and Miller offer words of advice taken from classic movie moments, beginning with tips on how to throw a partyFilm/Cinema
21:00My Super Ex-girlfriend[SUB AD HD]
Ordinary New Yorker Matt starts dating a woman he meets on the subway, unaware she is the superhero G-Girl. When he breaks up with the insecure crimefighter, she is outraged and uses her superpowers to make his life a misery. Meanwhile, her arch enemy sees Matt as a potential ally in defeating G-Girl once and for all. Fantasy comedy, starring Uma Thurman, Luke Wilson and Eddie IzzardFilm/Comedy/Fantasy
22:5035 Shots of Rum[HD]
Premiere. A middle-aged widower's close relationship with his twentysomething daughter becomes strained when she develops an intimate friendship with a handsome neighbour. Drama, starring Alex Descas, Mati Diop, Nicole Dogue and Gregoire ColinFilm/General Movie/Drama
00:50Showgirls
An ambitious stripper sets out to become a star in a Las Vegas show - but reckons without the dubious backstage backstabbing that threatens to destroy her. NSFW drama from Basic Instinct director Paul Verhoeven, starring Elizabeth Berkley, Kyle MacLachlan, Gina Gershon and Glenn PlummerFilm/NSFW Movie/Drama
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11:00Three Came Home[SUB BW]
A writer, her husband and their son are captured by Japanese forces in Borneo during the Second World War and incarcerated in separate prison camps. Drama based on the true story of Agnes Newton Keith, starring Claudette Colbert, Patric Knowles, Florence Desmond and Sessue HayakawaFilm/War
13:05Dragonwyck[SUB BW HD]
Nicholas Van Ryn, a wealthy Dutch immigrant in 1840s New York becomes infatuated with a visiting distant relative, and poisons his hated wife so that the two can marry. However, the early death of his only son proves too much for Nicholas, and he is driven over the edge, putting his new spouse in danger. Gothic drama, starring Vincent Price, Gene Tierney, Vivienne Osborne, Walter Huston and Glenn LanganFilm/General Movie/Drama
15:05Blanche Fury
A penniless governess is invited to stay with a wealthy relative, where she hopes to secure her future and take over the estate by marrying her infatuated cousin. However, her secret romance with a stablehand has tragic consequences for all concerned. Drama, starring Valerie Hobson, Michael Gough, Stewart Granger and Walter FitzgeraldFilm/General Movie/Drama
16:55Sink the Bismarck![SUB AD BW HD]
Fact-based Second World War drama, charting the mission of a Royal Navy officer and his crew to track down and eliminate the pride of the German fleet, a fearsome battleship devastating British vessels in the North Atlantic. Starring Kenneth More, Dana Wynter, Laurence Naismith and Karel StepanekFilm/Adventure/War
18:50Star Trek: Nemesis[SUB AD HD]
The crew of the Starship Enterprise is sent to form an alliance with old enemies the Romulans after the alien empire is taken over by a new leader - a clone of Captain Picard. Though claiming to want peace, Starfleet's finest soon realise he has more sinister plans in mind, involving a doomsday weapon that could destroy Earth. Sci-fi adventure, starring Patrick Stewart, Tom Hardy and Brent SpinerFilm/Science Fiction
21:00Equilibrium
In a future world, emotions are outlawed, and the population kept under control with a daily dose of sedatives - but a renegade lawman puts his life at risk when he resolves to embrace his feelings. Sci-fi adventure, starring Christian Bale, Emily Watson, Taye Diggs, Angus MacFadyen and Sean BeanFilm/Science Fiction
23:05Chain Reaction[SUB AD HD]
Two scientists devise a revolutionary process to produce energy from water - but instead of receiving professional acclaim, their work is subject to hi-tech sabotage. The pair are then framed for the murder of their mentor and forced to go on the run to clear their names. Action thriller, starring Keanu Reeves, Rachel Weisz, Morgan Freeman, Fred Ward and Brian CoxFilm/Detective/Thriller
01:05The Believer
A neo-Nazi tries to conceal his Jewish background from his fellow skinheads, while inciting a campaign of violence against the `enemy' - but as events escalate, his hidden past comes to the fore. Psychological drama, starring Ryan Gosling, Billy Zane, Summer Phoenix and Glenn FitzgeraldFilm/General Movie/Drama
03:05Neds Special[SUB REP]
Peter Mullan talks about his new film as a directorFilm/Cinema
03:15Black Swan Special[SUB REP]
Darren Aronofsky, Natalie Portman, Mila Kunis and Vincent Cassel talk about the new filmFilm/Cinema
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11:00Only Yesterday
A bored and frustrated woman is weary of her humdrum life, and decides to take a break from her city job. She heads for the farm of her sister's in-laws, and discovers deep in the countryside that her childhood memories are unfolding. Animated fantasy, directed by Isao Takahata, with the voices of Miki Imai and Toshiro YanagibaFilm/Animated Movie/Drama/Fantasy
13:20Hell and High Water[SUB HD]
A mercenary American captain with a submarine and crew for hire embarks on a mission to search out sites of illegal atomic testing by Chinese communists somewhere in the Arctic Circle. Cold War adventure, with Richard Widmark, Victor Francen, Bella Darvi and David WayneFilm/Adventure/War
15:25Three Came Home[SUB BW]
A writer, her husband and their son are captured by Japanese forces in Borneo during the Second World War and incarcerated in separate prison camps. Drama based on the true story of Agnes Newton Keith, starring Claudette Colbert, Patric Knowles, Florence Desmond and Sessue HayakawaFilm/War
17:30Big Top Pee-Wee[SUB HD]
A struggling circus blows into town in the middle of a storm, and pitches up on a farm owned by the childlike Pee-Wee Herman, who generously allows the performers to stage a show on his property. Comedy sequel, starring Paul Reubens, Kris Kristofferson, Valeria Golino and Penelope Ann MillerFilm/Comedy
19:10Black Swan Special[SUB REP]
Darren Aronofsky, Natalie Portman, Mila Kunis and Vincent Cassel talk about the new filmFilm/Cinema
19:15The Ringer[SUB HD]
An able-bodied office worker's amoral uncle persuades him to compete in the Special Olympics in an unethical bid to raise money. However, the presence of an attractive trainer and the friendliness of his fellow competitors force the phoney athlete to have a change of heart. Comedy, starring Johnny Knoxville, Brian Cox, Katherine Heigl and Jed ReesFilm/Comedy
21:00Die Hard 2[SUB AD HD]
Tough cop John McClane arrives at an airport to pick up his wife and finds himself plunged into a bloody life-or-death struggle with terrorists who have seized control of the terminal as part of a campaign to secure the release of a convicted drug baron. Action thriller sequel, starring Bruce Willis, Bonnie Bedelia, William Sadler, Franco Nero and William AthertonFilm/Detective/Thriller
23:20Scary Movie 2[SUB HD]
Teenage survivors of an encounter with a ghost-faced killer end up in college and try to forget the trauma of earlier events - but fate takes a hand when an eccentric college professor bribes them to stay in a haunted house in return for A-grades. Spoof horror sequel, starring Marlon and Shawn Wayans, Anna Faris and Tim CurryFilm/Comedy/Horror
00:55Birthday Girl
A staid and lonely Englishman orders a Russian bride over the Internet, who turns out to be the sultry, sex-crazed woman of his dreams. However, events take a sinister turn when her relatives arrive, drawing him into a web of international intrigue. Comedy thriller, starring Nicole Kidman, Ben Chaplin, Mathieu Kassovitz and Vincent CasselFilm/Comedy/Detective/Thriller
02:404Films For[SUB REP]
Armstrong and Miller offer words of advice taken from classic movie momentsFilm/Cinema
02:45Neds Special[SUB REP]
Peter Mullan talks about his new film as a directorFilm/Cinema
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11:00Two Thousand Women[SUB AD BW]
Female prisoners struggle to cope with living in a German internment camp, but find common cause in making life difficult for their captors. When three British airmen are shot down over the prison, they keep them hidden from the Germans while plotting a way to smuggle them out safely. Second World War comedy, with Phyllis Calvert, Flora Robson, Patricia Roc and Renee HoustonFilm/Comedy
12:55The Black Swan
Notorious pirate Henry Morgan is made governor of Jamaica, and offers other buccaneers the choice of giving up their lawless ways or facing justice. Two rogues refuse to toe the line, so Morgan's trusted ally James Waring is sent to track them down, but has other things on his mind - namely winning the daughter of the previous governor away from her duplicitous fiance. High-seas adventure, with Tyrone Power, Laird Cregar, George Sanders, Maureen O'Hara and Anthony QuinnFilm/Adventure
14:35Call Me Madam
A Washington socialite becomes ambassador to a small European state and falls in love with the foreign minister, while her sidekick attracts the attention of a princess. Irving Berlin's musical, starring Ethel Merman, George Sanders and Donald O'ConnorFilm/Musical
16:50Black Swan Special[SUB REP]
Darren Aronofsky, Natalie Portman, Mila Kunis and Vincent Cassel talk about the new filmFilm/Cinema
17:00Girls! Girls! Girls!
A tuna fisherman with an eye for the ladies is faced with the age-old dilemma as he tries to decide which lucky girl deserves his attentions. However, he is distracted from the pursuit of pleasure when his jealous rival ensures he loses his boat. Musical, starring Elvis Presley, Stella Stevens, Laurel Goodwin and Jeremy Slate. Songs featured include Return to SenderFilm/Musical
18:55Mad Money[SUB HD]
When her husband loses his job, wealthy Bridget is forced to get a job as a cleaner at a federal reserve bank. She learns that damaged dollar bills are shredded on the premises and recruits two of her co-workers to steal the money everyone thinks will be destroyed. However, after paying her debts, she cannot resist taking some more, drawing the attention of the law. Crime comedy, starring Diane Keaton, Queen Latifah and Katie HolmesFilm/Comedy
20:554Films For
Armstrong and Miller offer words of advice taken from classic movie momentsFilm/Cinema
21:00Juno[SUB AD HD]
A teenage girl finds herself unexpectedly pregnant after a one-night stand with her best friend. Deciding to give her baby up for adoption, she thinks she has found the perfect parents in a yuppie couple. However, over the next nine months, things prove less than simple. Comedy, starring Ellen Page, Michael Cera, Jennifer Garner and Jason BatemanFilm/Comedy
22:50Shutter[SUB HD]
A photographer and his wife are involved in a car accident that leaves a young woman dead, but her body disappears without trace. But as he starts work on a fashion shoot, he finds strange images appearing in the prints and they begin to suspect the spirit of the dead woman is haunting them, seeking revenge. Horror, starring Joshua Jackson and Rachael TaylorFilm/Horror
00:30Birth
A widow finds her world turned upside down by an encounter with a mysterious 10-year-old boy who claims to be the reincarnation of her dear departed husband. Intriguing mystery drama, starring Nicole Kidman, Lauren Bacall, Cameron Bright and Danny HustonFilm/General Movie/Drama
02:25Lake Tahoe[HD]
A teenager crashes the family car into a telephone pole on the outskirts of town. As he searches for the spare part needed to repair the vehicle, he encounters a host of disparate characters and comes to realise the decisions he makes on this day will affect the rest of his life. Fernando Eimbcke's drama, starring Diego Catano, Juan Carlos Lara II, Yemil Sefani and Olda LopezFilm/General Movie/Drama
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28-02-11
11:00Gift Horse[SUB BW]
A Navy captain reluctantly takes charge of an old US destroyer during the Second World War. His attempts to take command of the vessel and her crew prove problematic and hostility erupts, until the prospect of facing the mighty German force brings much-needed unity. Adventure, starring Trevor Howard, Richard Attenborough, Bernard Lee, Sonny Tufts and James DonaldFilm/Adventure/War
12:55The Desert Fox[SUB BW]
German commander Rommel falls out of favour with Hitler following his defeat at El Alamein. On returning to his homeland, he is torn between his oath of loyalty and lack of faith in the Fuehrer's unstable leadership, prompting him to become involved in an assassination plot. Second World War drama, starring James Mason, Jessica Tandy, Cedric Hardwicke, Leo G Carroll and Luther AdlerFilm/Adventure/War
14:40Ivanhoe
A brave knight defies his father and enlists the help of a rich man and his daughter to rescue Richard the Lionheart from imprisonment. Along the way they also have to counter the evil machinations of tyrannical Prince John, who is determined their quest will fail. Medieval adventure based on Walter Scott's tale, starring Robert Taylor, Elizabeth Taylor, Joan Fontaine, George Sanders and Guy RolfeFilm/Adventure
16:45That Thing You Do![SUB HD]
A small-town beat combo become a national overnight sensation with their debut record - but their sudden success looks to be a one-off, leaving them struggling to find a way of repeating the formula. Comedy drama set in the 1960s, written and directed by Tom Hanks, who also appears as the band's manager. With Tom Everett Scott, Liv Tyler and Johnathon SchaechFilm/General Movie/Drama/Comedy
18:50Made in America
A black teenager who discovers she was conceived through artificial insemination asks her mother to track down the biological father. However, her parent is horrified to find that because of a mix-up in the sperm bank the donor is a brash second-hand car salesman - and white - with little inclination to take on the responsibilities of parenthood. Romantic comedy, starring Whoopi Goldberg, Ted Danson, Nia Long, Will Smith and the late Peggy ReaFilm/Comedy
21:00Wedding Crashers[SUB AD HD]
Two party-mad bachelors make the most of the romantic atmosphere as they gatecrash weddings to pick up women. With a catalogue of tall stories to tell guests, the pair are regularly the boys of the ball - until one of them falls for a blushing bridesmaid and they both learn a few things about love. Comedy, starring Owen Wilson, Vince Vaughn, Christopher Walken, Jane Seymour, Rachel McAdams and Isla FisherFilm/Comedy
23:15Genova[SUB HD]
A grieving husband accepts a job in Italy, hoping a change of scene will help his two daughters get over their mother's death. While one of the girls rapidly comes out of her shell, starting a romance with a local boy, her sister claims to have seen visions of her dead mother. Drama, starring Colin Firth and Catherine KeenerFilm/General Movie/Drama
01:00Goya's Ghosts[SUB HD]
An 18th-century a monk with ties to the Inquisition commissions the controversial artist Goya to paint his portrait. But to keep the fact secret and to protect his reputation, the scheming cleric has one of the painter's models falsely imprisoned for heresy. Years later, at the height of the Napoleonic wars, the repentant monk seeks out the woman he wronged to atone for his crimes. Period drama, starring Javier Bardem, Natalie Portman and Stellan SkarsgardFilm/General Movie/Drama
03:10Paul Film Special[SUB REP]
Simon Pegg and Nick Frost discuss their roles in the sci-fi comedyFilm/Cinema
03:20Never Let Me Go Special[SUB REP]
Cast
Keira Knightley, Carey Mulligan and Andrew Garfield talk about their roles in the film adaptation of Kazuo Ishiguro's novelFilm/Cinema
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1:15pm Sink the Bismarck!
3:10pm The Shepherd of the Hills
5:05pm Sunset Boulevard
7:15pm Meet Dave
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Heat
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