British TV & Films 1983 Not Yet Released On DVD Region 2
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- StarsAnthony HopkinsCiaran MaddenSophie AshtonA British lawyer, disillusioned with his marriage and career, starts an affair with a beautiful woman with political connections; a murder leads him to the greatest challenge of his life.
- DirectorColin FinbowStarsJack MayFrank MiddlemassOliver HicksAn unpopular boy returns to Cathedral Choral School from his broken home, to learn that he is to be "beekeeper", a symbolic role merely requiring plenty of singing.
- DirectorJulien TempleStarsMartin FryDavid PalmerStephen SingletonA longform video that showcases the British pop group ABC, using songs from their album "The Lexicon of Love" to tell a spy-caper story of how the unsuspecting lead singer, Martin Fry, is duped into fronting the band because of his striking resemblance to another man associated with espionage. Will he stumble onto the deception before it is too late for him?
- StarsDerek FowldsSarah BadelHolly AirdIs there life after a heart attack? Peter Bonamy --- about to be discharged from hospital --- believes there could be. Now it's just a question of convincing his family, his friends, his doctor and, above all, his wife.
- DirectorMohamed Shukri JameelStarsOliver ReedGhazi Al-TakriteeJames BolamThis movie is about the 1920 revolution in Iraq against the English occupation.
- DirectorEdward BennettStarsJulie CovingtonIan CharlesonJohn PhillipsConnie is a member of the British landowning "Ascendancy" in Ireland after WWI. Through a chance friendship with a British soldier, she learns how sheltered she has been, and chooses to ally herself, in her own way, with the struggle for Irish independence.
- StarsPaul CharlesJenny JayAdam SunderlandThe musical slapstick adventures of the pupils of Fulley Comprehensive school.
- DirectorDavid Hugh JonesStarsJeremy IronsBen KingsleyPatricia HodgeAn affair between a literary agent and his best friend's wife. The story unfolds in reverse-chronological order.
- DirectorBryan ForbesStarsDavid NivenArt CarneyMaggie SmithTwo men show up claiming to be the grandfather of a child heiress.
- DirectorJohn MackenzieStarsMichael CaineRichard GereBob HoskinsDuring the Dirty War, a half-English doctor in Argentina befriends the police, the rebels and the alcoholic Honorary British Consul, whose Latino wife he seduces. When the consul is mistakenly kidnapped by the rebels, he must pick a side.
- StarsMarc ZuberMichael ElphickCarol HawkinsComedy drama series by Roy Clarke about unsuccessful private eye Billy Gibbs and his ex-wrestler assistant Bloomfield.
- DirectorFrank GodwinStarsDavid JacksonIan BartholomewJohn BowlerTwo brothers take to Stockers Wood of a Saturday afternoon, to build a den and do some birdwatching. Their day takes a surprising turn when a car is dumped in the woods. Curious, David investigates the boot of the car. What he finds is a suitcase of clothes and identification. Soon afterwards, the men on the identification appear to pick up the car, and discover the two boys have been spying on them. The two men are prison escapees, who are keen to get away and beat the police roadblocks. They decide to use the boys to convey the impression they are all related and go through the roadblocks. Be prepared for a charming 80's TV film that will warm your heart.
- DirectorSidney LumetStarsTimothy HuttonMandy PatinkinLindsay CrouseDaniel Isaacson attempts to determine the true complicity of his parents Paul and Rochelle Isaacson, who were executed for espionage in the 1950s.
- DirectorJeannot SzwarcStarsMartin SheenSam NeillBrigitte FosseyA C.I.A. Agent tries to infiltrate Soviet intelligence to stop a murderous diabolical plot.
- DirectorJames ScottStarsPhyllis LoganAlex NortonLeonard O'MalleyA film about the early life of the acclaimed British artist William Scott the father of the director of the film James Scott.
- CreatorHunter DaviesStarsJohn AldertonDominique BarnesZac NicholsonShort-lived comedy series inspired by Hunter Davies's newspaper columns about his own family and their eccentricities, especially those of his daughter Caitlin.
- DirectorBarry BlissStarsElvis PayneMark WingettKathryn ApanowiczInfluential, cult classic, UK buddy road movie about two friends, one white and one black, who bond over their desire to escape from boredom and unemployment in Thatcher's Britain.
- DirectorJames Kenelm ClarkeStarsGregg HenryElizabeth DailyGareth HuntIn Las Vegas young Barty Nicholls inadvertently steals a fortune from the Mob and is slashed to death by a limping hood. Later his girlfriend Cass arrives in London with a stack of stolen credit cards looking for Ben Turtle, famed as a credit card king who she needs as a partner in her credit card swindles. Thrown out of a West End hotel for stealing cards, the pair are soon muscled back in by two heavy Minders to sexually perform at a Mob party in front of Mr. Big. Ben and Cass check out with suit cases of Mafia cash then the real funny money begins to flow and the chase is on.
- DirectorDavid Kent-WatsonStarsCliff TwemlowJane CunliffeAnthony SchaefferA bouncer is called in to help fight off a mob boss who is trying to take over local night clubs.
- DirectorKen McMullenStarsPascale OgierLeonie MellingerRobbie ColtraneThrough the experiences of two women in Paris and London, Ghost Dance offers a stunning analysis of the complexity of our conceptions of ghosts memory and the past.
- StarsBrian BlessedMichael WoodRay GoslingA series presenting various narrow gauge railway adventures from around the world.
- DirectorBill BrydenStarsJoseph BradyJames CopelandJ.G. DevlinThe story of St Kilda, in the Outer Hebrides: the farthest inhabited island in the United Kingdom until it was evacuated in 1930: after continuous inhabitation for 4,000 years.
- StarsNikki BoughtonJim BarclayMartin BeaumontComedy series, featuring 'Station S', pirate TV that keeps interfering with Channel 4's transmissions. It featured comedians such as Jim Barclay and Arnold Brown who were regulars at The Comedy Store.
- StarsNicholas LyndhurstDavid HaymanAndrew SachsSeries of cabaret-style entertainments on the arguments surrounding nuclear weapons.
- StarsDick EmeryTony SelbyChristopher BramwellPrivate detective Bernie Weinstock and his partner Norman Lugg search for a hoard of diamonds from the Second World War.
- StarsMark FarmerIan SearsAlrick RileyIn Hackney in 1977, Johnny Jarvis and Alan Lipton become unlikely friends in their final year at school: Jarvis is the class clown, a popular lad with a talent for welding, while Lipton is a bookish dreamer who spends his time fabricating impressive exploits, pondering the future and fantasising about the father he's never met. As they leave school and anxiously embark on an uncertain future, can their friendship survive?
- StarsRichard PiperCharles ShaughnessyDavid SimeonTwelve members of the public are picked as jurors in a rape trial. Each juror's personal life is gifted an episode as the court case plays out each week.
- StarsPatricia HayesPat CoombsRon PemberIt's about 2 friends/sisters that were tramps and lived I a broken down car.
- CreatorMicky DolenzStarsAaron BrownFrank DuncanColin BennettIn 2040, the dimini female (teenage girl) 72 Batch 19Y and her misfit family in the Efficiecity, a completely enclosed bureaucratic city sealed off from the polluted and abandoned outside world.
- DirectorAhmed Alauddin JamalStarsRita WolfTony WreddenMeera Syal
- DirectorMaurice HattonStarsEileen AtkinsAnthony BateBarbara JeffordShe remembers nothing before standing at a hotel reception and signing the first, and only, name that comes into her head - Nelly Dean (Dame Eileen Atkins). Then in her room, our mystery woman opens her suitcase to find it filled with a fortune in bank notes. Completely without memory, Nelly must try to unravel the chain of events that led her to the room. This is the starting point for Maurice Hatton's thrilling mystery.
- StarsCharlotte CornwellDonald SumpterAlex NortonNo Excuses was about Shelley Maze, a female rock star. The series showed her trying to come to terms with her failing career and her relationships with the people she'd worked with.
- StarsChris TummingsJudith JacobVictor Romero EvansAfter their parents return to Jamaica, the grown children of the Powell family are left to make their way through adulthood together in their Willesden council house.
- CreatorJohn EsmondeBob LarbeyStarsBernard HolleyJill KermanJohn AlfordA family man in his 40s is contemplating selling the house that he has lived in since childhood, which incorporated the years of the Second World War. Each episode jumps back from the present to memories of his boyhood. Despite the war, they are happy memories of his parents and his siblings, and how they coped during those difficult times. It's these memories that are making quite a wrench for him to sell the house that he has known and loved for as long as he can remember.
- DirectorAnwar KawadriStarsJoan CollinsCarol WhitePaul NicholasA Russian ballet dancer defects from the U.S.S.R., emigrates to England, and joins a ballet company run by a powerful, wealthy lady (Dame Joan Collins).
- DirectorStanley O'TooleStarsRichard MorantCatherine SchellPaul WilliamsonA couple return home to find a man inside who claims to be friends with the previous homeowner. He seems a friendly at first, but all is not as it seems.
- StarsPowers BootheBilly KearnsKathryn Leigh ScottPrivate detective Philip Marlowe solves many crimes in Los Angeles during the 1930s.
- StarsEleanor BronClive MerrisonGeoffrey WhiteheadThe adventures of an unscrupulous teacher at a very peculiar school.
- DirectorFausto CanelStarsJon FinchCatriona MacCollNeil Hallett
- DirectorPeter SmithAn absent-minded professor develops different types of potions--such as potions that restore youth, formulas that give super strength and one particular drinks that makes anyone who takes it tell the truth--that students use to cause havoc at school.
- DirectorCharles SturridgeStarsKate HardieJames FoxJane AsherWhen his young daughter disappears, her father refuses to accept that she is dead and sets out on a journey to find her.
- DirectorAndrew V. McLaglenJohn GuillerminStarsBrooke ShieldsLambert WilsonJohn Rhys-DaviesIntent on winning a competition in place of her distinguished late father, beautiful young heiress Dale takes on the guise of a man and competes in his spot, embarking on a car race that crosses the unforgiving Sahara desert.
- StarsChris TarrantHelen Atkinson WoodBob CarolgeesThe follow-up series to "OTT" sees Chris Tarrant, Helen Atkinson-Wood and Bob Carolgees in a pre-recorded show filmed in pubs, with the pretence that sketches and songs are taking part during a post-11pm "lock in".
- StarsYvette FieldingAaron BrownMaggie OllerenshawGeorge and Sandy Shelton help their parents to run a small seaside hotel.
- DirectorGavin MillarStarsHelen LindsayJohn HorsleyAnna JonesTeen girl in 1963 finds freemasonry items in her late fathers briefcase including condoms and a book of rites. The book is taken to school and the girls form their own club. The mother finds the condoms and makes wrong assumption.
- StarsClaire NielsonAnita WestIsla BlairA collection of folk tales and fairy stories from all over the world, based on Veronica Kruger's anthology of stories for children.
- StarsTim Pigott-SmithPaul RogersRay SmithSatirical comedy about "loony left" London councils in the 1980s. Pigott-Smith's character is pitched against Paul Rogers' traditional Labour figure.
- StarsRobert StephensMichael FeastCarol LeaderDrama series set in the Headland recording studio, where a fading superstar attempts to recover his health and career.
- DirectorAlan BriggsStarsColin ChamberlainGinny RoseJon HollanzA mute child arrives at a children's home and starts terrorizing the other children with her demonic powers.
- StarsPenelope KeithChristopher VilliersJoan BlackhamHelen Walker, a 41-year-old who runs a building firm, falls in love with the 25-year-old Peter Morgan and becomes pregnant with his child. Issues between the two arise due to their age difference.
- CreatorGlenn ChandlerStarsBlythe DuffJames MacPhersonRobert RobertsonThe Maryhill CID investigates gruesome murders against the bleak backdrop of the city of Glasgow.
- DirectorTom HuckabeeKent SmithStarsBill PaxtonBarry WoollerDavid GuthrieMilitant feminist scientists brainwash research subject to assassinate the Welsh Minister of Prostitution. Meanwhile World War III is being fought and the USA has been invaded.
- DirectorDavid Kent-WatsonStarsCliff TwemlowJohn Saint RyanMax Beesley SnrProfessor Lindenbrook has secret documentation wanted by the Russians. She is kidnapped and taken to The Caribbean. Following in hot pursuit are Chaser and William Grant.
- StarsGeraldine McEwanFrancis MatthewsAnthony CalfAnne and Geoffrey's children won't leave home, so they decide to move out themselves.
- StarsJay SimpsonDamion NapierAdam WoodyattThe adventures of a gang of street urchins living in Victorian London, who assist the legendary detective Sherlock Holmes in solving crimes and find themselves tackling cases of their own.
- StarsMichael WatermanRoy AlexanderLloyd PetersRodney Baverstock wins the football pools and with the money buys a Ferrari, a tiger and a mansion for himself and his friends.
- StarsRobin NedwellDavid BattleyJacqueline TongShort lived (6 episodes) sitcom starring Robin Nedwell of Upchat and Doctor fame. Due to a mix up test Harry Lumsdon has been mistakenly declared a genius by Mensa however in reality he is a moron at best.
- StarsHywel BennettDonald BurtonJonathon MorrisAn ambitious computer consultant is hired to detect fraud in a major bank's computer system and finds himself involved in a complex scheme of lies, blackmail and murder.
- StarsVan JohnsonLila KayeSarah-Jane BickertonFollows the lives of a group of people and an 11-year old orphan who unexpectedly become drawn together in 1898, when a ship is wrecked on the Cornish coast near Falmouth.
- CreatorJohn BrasonGerard GlaisterStarsPaul ShelleyNeil StacySusan KydSOE agents are sent on a mission to destroy a V1 flying bomb facility, situated in an underground bunker un Northern France. Ordinary people are recruited and subjected to highly demanding training in the seclusion of a large house in the country. They are each given a code name comprising the French word for a different type of bird, such as 'Hibou' and 'Chardonneret'. They train for a parachute jump, and perform a trial operation in a real French village. Can their extraordinary training give such ordinary people a real chance to succeed?
- StarsJames EllisDavid ThrelfallGilly ComanJoe Henshaw, a young working-class man from Lancashire, joins the Labour movement, serves in World War Two and has a relationship with a local councillor.
- StarsLeslie AshNicky HensonPeter-Hugo DalyNancy was the new secretary at the Happy Apple advertising agency.Despite being ill-educated, she had a remarkable gift; she could come up with the most brilliantly simple and most effective advertising slogans without trying. Of Course her bosses exploited her ability to the full.
- StarsIan BannenDuggie BrownLynn FarleighUnemployment causes emptiness and desolation for two families who thought they had everything.
- DirectorMichael J. MurphyStarsSteven LonghurstCaroline AylwardColin EffordNeville Harmer thinks his troubles are over when his wheel-chair bound father meets with an untimely death due to Neville's negligence leaving him with a hefty inheritance. But stipulations in the will means that Neville will have to continue to run his father's sawmill and live in his house or forfeit the inheritance. But the house has a dark history where many unexplained things occur causing many to question their sanity.
- StarsBrenda BruceWarren ClarkeMalcolm TierneyDrama series about the internal tensions behind the facade of a northern English family.
- DirectorTony ScottStarsCatherine DeneuveDavid BowieSusan SarandonA love triangle develops between a beautiful yet dangerous vampire (Catherine Deneuve), her cellist companion (David Bowie), and a gerontologist (Susan Sarandon).
- DirectorMichael MannStarsScott GlennIan McKellenAlberta WatsonNazis are forced to turn to a Jewish historian for help in battling the ancient demon they have inadvertently freed from its prison.
- DirectorMichael J. MurphyStarsSteven LonghurstCaroline AylwardDavid BruhlTwo psychos escape from the maximum security wing of Broadmoor Prison and sneak in the backdoor of a theatre to hide away while a performance of a stage play titled "Murder in the Dark" stages its final night.
- StarsShaun TaylorDebbie BreenTony SaintA British town endures WWII bombings. A child takes a machine gun from a crashed German plane and fires at an aircraft, missing but forcing it to crash. Unaware they caused the crash, the children befriend the German pilot.
- StarsStuart WilsonMarius GoringAndrew CruickshankSatirical piece set in a zoo, which is plunged into a crisis when a giraffe escapes.
- StarsEnn ReitelChristine GarnerRobert SidawayMeet The Optimist. A guy who has big dreams in life yet creates problems and confusion wherever he goes. He means well, but in this dialogue-free comedy series he manages to leave a trail of chaos across Hollywood and London.
- StarsJohn DuttineCarol RoyleJoanna DunhamFrank Scully, an out-of-work journalist, goes to stay for a few days with friends Donald and Sylvia Harper in Micklethorpe, a small town in the Yorkshire Dales. Miss Banner, the deeply-religious new owner of the local newspaper, asks him to stay on as editor of the paper. Frank unwittingly revives long-dead local scandals when he innocently publishes a series of anonymous articles that Miss Banner has written. Matters are further complicated when he becomes involved in a love triangle with Sylvia Harper and Fiona Neave, who owns the company that prints the newspaper - and Miss Banner threatens to use her column to reveal some very compromising details about Fiona.
- DirectorWilford LeachStarsKevin KlineAngela LansburyLinda RonstadtAfter a young man leaves a band of pirates, hilarity ensues.
- StarsFrank FinlayEnrique ListerRamón Serrano SúñerDocumentary series which uses film and eyewitness accounts from both sides of the conflict that divided Spain in the years leading up to World War Two, also placing it in its international context.
- DirectorMichael WinnerStarsFaye DunawayAlan BatesJohn GielgudCaroline is to be wed to Sir Ralph and invites her sister Barbara to be her bridesmaid. Barbara seduces Ralph, however, and she becomes the new Lady, but despite her new wealthy situation, she gets bored and turns to highway robbery for thrills. While on the road she meets a famous highwayman, and they continue as a team, but some people begin suspecting her identity, and she risks death if she continues her nefarious activities.
- DirectorBob KellettStarsRichard OwensMark JefferisRebecca LaceyA family on holiday in Italy get into trouble when a cable car journey goes wrong.
- CreatorPhil RedmondBarry PurcheseStarsTodd CartyGeorge ArmstrongPaul McCarthyThe further adventures of Tucker Jenkins and his former classmates from Grange Hill. Follow Tucker and friends as they duck and dive their way through love and life during a time of high unemployment in the 1980s.
- DirectorBette GordonStarsSandy McLeodWill PattonRichard M. DavidsonA woman becomes obsessed with pornography and the mysterious rich patron of the Times Square porn theater called Variety where she works selling tickets. This awakens her sexuality, which confuses her worried boyfriend.
- StarsWill LymanHenry KissingerWilliam C. WestmorelandAn in-depth look at the Vietnam War.
- StarsJulia HillsRory McGrathJimmy MulvilleDaring 1980s alternative comedy sketch show that helped launch the careers of a number of British comedians. Often parodies the channel it aired on. Recurring characters include Terry and Wang-Wang - a pair of swearing Pandas.