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| Albert Schweitzer - Ein Leben für Afrika - (aka A Life for Africa) |  |
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| Cinematic release on 24th December 2009 (Germany only) | ||
| Synopsis: | 1949 the early years of the Cold War. Albert Schweitzer has become one of the most admired men in the world, thanks to his philosophy of Reverence for Life which he lives out in his hospital in Lambarene/West Africa. When he is urged by Albert Einstein to speak out against the hydrogen bomb tests, U.S. national security agencies consider this a denunciation of Western politics. A smear campaign is launched to discredit the septuagenarians reputation and to silence him. The investigative journalist Phil Figgis is sent to Lambarene to dig up dirt on Schweitzer and initiate a mutiny of some of the hospital doctors and local government representatives. Schweitzer is pressurized, the hospital might even be closed down. Will he resist, follow his conscience and still speak out against the nuclear weapons and the armament race? | |
| Starring: | Jeroen Krabbé, Barbara Hershey, Judith Godrèche, Samuel West, Jeanette Hain, Patrice Naiambana, Jonathan Firth and Armin Rohde | |
| Directed by: | Gavin Millar | |
| Produced by: | Eliza Mellor | |
| Executive producers: | Charles A. Seiller, Christian P. Stehr, Alexander Thies and Giselher Venzke | |
| Screenplay by: | David Howard and Gavin Millar, based on an original screenplay by James Brabazon | |
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| Cold Blood V - The Last Hurrah |  |
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| First broadcast on ITV1 on Thursday 3rd January 2008 (at 21.00). Now on DVD | ||
| Synopsis: | Brian Wicklow is dying, which makes him more dangerous than ever. He sets in motion a shocking plan to go out with the biggest of bangs, and destroy Eve and Jake in the process | |
| Starring: | Jemma Redgrave, John Hannah, Matthew Kelly, Pauline Quirke, Ace Bhatti and Alison Fiske | |
| Directed by: | Stuart Orme | |
| Produced by: | Ian White | |
| Executive producer: | Kieran Roberts | |
| Written by: | Tom Needham | |
| Granada Television Limited Production | ||
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| Half Broken Things |  |
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| First broadcast on ITV1 on Sunday 28th October 2007 (at 21.00). Now on DVD | ||
| Synopsis: | A house-sitter facing retirement is on her last job in a country house; a place so enchanting she begins to live in it as if it was her own. When fate brings two strangers to the house, a petty thief and pregnant girl on the run from an abusive boyfriend, the unlikely trio soon form a strong bond, living as a family in the borrowed house. But theirs is a life based on deception and delusion, and as the summer draws to a close, they resort to violent ends to try to maintain their idyllic existence | |
| Starring: | Penelope Wilton, Daniel Mays and Sinead Matthews | |
| Directed by: | Tim Fywell | |
| Produced by: | Ray Marshall | |
| Screenplay by: | Alan Whiting (adapted from the novel by Morag Joss) | |
| Festival Film & TV Limited | ||
| The Man Who Lost His Head | |
| First broadcast on ITV1 on Sunday 26th August 2007 (at 21.00) | |
| Synopsis: | Martin Clunes plays a strait-laced museum curator on the eve of marriage and with a long sought-after promotion in sight. But then a repatriation claim comes in to the museum for a Maori carving to be returned to a remote corner of New Zealand. Setting off on a mission to appease the Maori community, but retain possession of the carving, he soon finds himself drawn to the local culture - and one woman in particular - and his life is turned upside down. Just what power does the carving possess? |
| Starring: | Martin Clunes, Nicola Kawana, Calvin Tuteao and Te Paki Cherrington |
| Directed by: | Terry Johnson |
| Produced by: | Eve Gutierrez |
| Executive producer: | Jill Green |
| Written by: | Mark Wallington |
| Greenlit Rights Limited & South Pacific Pictures Limited Production | |
| Cold Blood IV - Dead And Buried | |
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| First broadcast on ITV1 on Wednesday 27th June 2007 (at 21.00). Now on DVD | ||
| Synopsis: | Eve uses her instinct to identify a brutal killer in the army, but has no evidence to back her accusations up. To find the evidence she needs, she must put her own life on the line | |
| Starring: | Jemma Redgrave, John Hannah, Pauline Quirke, Ace Bhatti, Cyril Nri, Steve John Shepherd, Tony Slattery and Bill Ward | |
| Directed by: | Suri Krishnamma | |
| Produced by: | Ian White | |
| Executive producer: | Kieran Roberts | |
| Written by: | Tom Needham | |
| Granada Television Limited Production | ||
| Cold Blood III - Interference |  |
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| First broadcast on ITV1 on Wednesday 20th June 2007 (at 21.00). Now on DVD | ||
| Synopsis: | A young man with learning difficulties has his controversial conviction for murder overturned. Serial killer Brian Wicklow offers to help Eve when the investigation is re-opened, but will the real killer be caught before he strikes again? | |
| Starring: | Jemma Redgrave, John Hannah, Matthew Kelly, Pauline Quirke, Ace Bhatti, Phil Davis, Clare Holman and Russell Brand | |
| Directed by: | Suri Krishnamma | |
| Produced by: | Ian White | |
| Executive producer: | Kieran Roberts | |
| Written by: | Tom Needham | |
| Granada Television Limited Production | ||
| Cold Blood II | |
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| First broadcast on ITV1 on Monday 5th March 2007 (at 21.00). Now on DVD | ||
| Synopsis: | Having been jailed for murdering his wife and her lover, then sharing a cell with Brian Wicklow, Jake has been able to get inside the mind of a killer. But is he putting his own life - and that of his estranged son Joss - in danger by sharing this information with the police? The team, led by DI Massum, become involved in an investigation that has a bloody beginning, a series of sinister cat and mouse interviews and a brutally unexpected conclusion | |
| Starring: | Jemma Redgrave, John Hannah, Matthew Kelly, Ralph Brown, David Calder, Ace Bhatti and Kwame Kwei-Armah | |
| Directed by: | Stuart Orme | |
| Produced by: | Ian White | |
| Executive producer: | Kieran Roberts | |
| Written by: | Tom Needham | |
| Granada Television Limited Production | ||
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| Red Mercury | |
| Extremely limited cinematic release and still awaiting full release in the UK | |
| Synopsis: | About a group of people whose lives are shattered by a random act of terrorism when a Greek restaurant in central London is taken over by three young British Muslims. These fundamental extremists threaten the destruction of the city, leading to a battle of wits and wills between MI5, the hostages and three young men prepared to die for their cause. It also explores the ways in which our intelligence services and police deal with a terrorist event that they have long claimed to be inevitable – the development and deployment of a so-called ‘dirty bomb’ or crude nuclear device |
| Starring: | David Bradley, Stockard Channing, Peter Postlethwaite, Ron Silver, Juliet Stevenson, Nigel Terry, Alex Caan, Navin Chowdhry and San Stella |
| Directed by: | Roy Battersby |
| Produced by: | Phil Blackburn, Peter Ansorge and Michael Wearing |
| Executive producers: | Meenu Bachan and Vibha Bhatanagar |
| Screenplay by: | Farrukh Dhondy (additional material by Peter Ansorge and Michael Wearing) |
| Inspired Movies Film / Dirty Bomb Production | |
| Cold Blood | |
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| First broadcast on ITV1 on Wednesday 19th October 2005 (at 21.00). Now on DVD | ||
| Synopsis: | A twisted serial killer who has spent 15 years in prison plays a game of psychological cat-and-mouse with his captors. Jailed for a series of murders so macabre that he continues to be vilified by the popular press and despised by his fellow inmates, his notoriety is compounded by the fact that the body of his last victim - a child - has never been found. Now he has decided that he wants to talk | |
| Starring: | Jemma Redgrave, John Hannah, Matthew Kelly, Kerry Fox and David Calder | |
| Directed by: | Stuart Orme | |
| Produced by: | Ian White | |
| Executive producer: | Carolyn Reynolds | |
| Written by: | Tom Needham | |
| Granada Television Limited Production | ||
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| Double Zero |
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| Cinematic release on 16th June 2004 (France only). Now on DVD (France only) | ||
| Synopsis: | ???????? | |
| Starring: | Eric and Ramzy and Edouard Baer | |
| Directed by: | Gerald Pires | |
| Produced by: | Thomas Langmann | |
| Written by: | Matt Alexander | |
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La Petite Reine and Alma Gate Ltd Production
N.B. A soundtrack was released (French-only release). However, Colin has only 3 tracks on this release, and these only appear on the Limited Edition CD + DVD version NOT on the standard version of the CD(French-only release) |
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Mon Ange
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| Cinematic release on 19th January 2005 (France only). Now on DVD (France only) | ||
| Synopsis: | ???????? | |
| Starring: | Vanessa Paradis and Vincent Rottiers | |
| Directed by: | Serge Frydman | |
| Produced by: | Claudie Ossard | |
| Executive producers: | Koen Plate and Jean-Luc Van Damme | |
| Written by: | Serge Frydman | |
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Victoires Productions and MK2
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| Not Only But Always... |
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| First broadcast on Channel 4 (UK) on 30th December 2004 (at 21.00). Now on DVD | ||
| Synopsis: | Publicly, the partnership of Peter Cook and Dudley Moore was a riotously funny double act that re-defined the art of comedy for the second half of the 20th century. Yet privately, their creative relationship was fraught with tension and resentment. Theirs is a story of life-long love and mindless promiscuity, of high life and despair, of ambition and failure, of huge success and the price paid for it. Ultimately, it is a love story - the love story of Peter Cook and Dudley Moore and all their infidelities. This affectionate, witty and moving drama takes viewers from the West End of London in the 1960s, through Los Angeles and Broadway to Peter's tragic death in 1995. It's a tale of two very different men who collaborated to create an extraordinary body of comic work, a story where the tragedy of real life contrasts sharply with the comedy of two outstanding minds. It is, like Peter Cook's life, by turns moving and hilarious | |
| Starring: | Rhys Ifans and Aidan McArdle | |
| Directed by: | Terry Johnson | |
| Produced by: | Alison Jackson | |
| Executive producers: | Charles Pattinson and George Faber | |
| Written by: | Terry Johnson | |
| Company Pictures | ||
| King Of Fridges |
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| First broadcast on ITV1 on 18th September 2004 (at 21.10). Now on DVD | ||
| Synopsis: | Comedy drama, telling the story of Alan, Assistant Manager of electrical superstore Rocket. Alan gets the first chance in his life to be Store Manager on a Bank Holiday, while his boss is off for a routine operation. However, it seems his boss has laid a trap for Alan in the shape of Frank, a mid-sixties bloke on a retraining scheme | |
| Starring: | Richard Wilson, Mark Benton, Anna Keaveney and Joan Kempson | |
| Directed by: | Gavin Millar | |
| Produced by: | Alison MacPhail | |
| Executive producers: | Henry Normal and Steve Coogan | |
| Written by: | Tim Firth | |
| Baby Cow Productions | ||
| Man Dancin' |
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| Nationwide UK cinematic release on 20th February 2004. Now on DVD | ||
| Synopsis: | This film is a ganster movie with a difference. After being detained at Her Majesty's pleasure, Jimmy Kerrigan returns to his family home in a tough Glaswegian estate. It's only been a few years but the Glasgow that he knew has changed, and more importantly to those who knew him, so has Jimmy Kerrigan - dramatically. Sparks fly when the new hits the old and the events that follow will soon change Kerrigan, his friends and his world forever | |
| Starring: | Alex Ferns, Tom Georgeson, Kenneth Cranham, James Cosmo, Jenny Foulds, Gerald Lepkowski, Ron Donachie, Cas Harkins, Tam White, Stewart Porter and Sarah Finch | |
| Directed by: | Norman Stone | |
| Produced by: | Ray Marshall | |
| Executive producers: | Peter Barber-Fleming, Peter Cregreen, Norman Stone and Ray Marshall | |
| Screenplay by: | Sergio Casci | |
| 1A Films & Festival Films Production | ||
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Crimson Rivers 2 - The Angels Of The Apocalypse
(Les Rivières Pourpres 2 - Les Anges de l'Apocalypse) |
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| Cinematic release in February 2004 (initially only in France). Now on DVD | ||
| Synopsis: | Commissioner Neimans' day is going from bad to worse. The body he found in a monastery seems to point to a ritualistic sacrifice and a portent of something strange coming. At the same time, young police captain Reda finds a man in agony who's an exact DNA match for Christ. Reda quickly finds out his case is directly linked to Neimans'. But is the Apocalypse really starting, as all signs seem to indicate? | |
| Starring: | Jean Reno, Benoit Magimel, Christopher Lee and Camille Natta | |
| Directed by: | Olivier Dahan | |
| Produced by: | Ilan Goldman | |
| Screenplay by: | Luc Besson | |
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| Dalziel And Pascoe - The Price Of Fame | |
| First broadcast on BBC1 on 10th January 2004 (at 21.00) | |
| Synopsis: | 90-minute detective drama. When the body of Efrona Davis, an entertainer at Wayland Bay Holiday Village, is washed up on the beach Pascoe faces an investigation without Dalziel, who is on leave. The suspects include Wayland Bay's resident comedian Rowan Priestley, and Efrona's lay-preacher father Matthew. Pascoe soon realises he needs Dalziel's help on the case, and has to figure out how to get him back |
| Starring: | Warren Clarke, Colin Buchanan, Ricky Tomlinson, John McArdle, Claire King, James Corden, Emil Marwa, Mark Heap, William Ilkley, Katy Cavanagh, Darren Tunstall, Annette Bentley, Judy Flynn, Susan Brown |
| Directed by: | David Wheatley |
| Produced by: | Ann Tricklebank |
| Executive producer: | Mal Young |
| Written by: | Tony McHale |
| BBC Birmingham | |
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| Goodbye Mr Chips |
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| First broadcast on ITV1 on Thursday 26th December 2002 (at 20.30). Now on DVD | ||
| Synopsis: | Feature-length drama chronicling the life of a much loved schoolteacher in an English public school in the 1920s. Mr Chips finds teaching a tough job at first, but on finding love he gradually becomes a kind and gentle tutor adored by all who know him | |
| Starring: | Martin Clunes, Patrick Malahide, Victoria Hamilton, Conleth Hill, Christopher Fulford, David Horovitch and John Wood | |
| Directed by: | Stuart Orme | |
| Produced by: | Margaret Mitchell | |
| Executive producer: | Judy Counihan | |
| Written by: | Frank Delaney based on the novel by James Hilton | |
| Carlton / SMG TV Productions | ||
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| Dalziel And Pascoe - Truth And Consequences | |
| First broadcast on BBC1 on 19th November 2001 (at 20.30) | |
| Synopsis: | 90-minute detective drama. Dalziel and Pascoe investigate a murder case when a skeleton is unearthed in a Yorkshire mining town. As they begin to unravel a tale of theft, adultery and betrayal, the killer strikes again |
| Starring: | Warren Clarke, Colin Buchanan, Anne Reid, Michael J Jackson, Kate Gartside, Bruce Byron, Ray Stevenson and Elizabeth Edmonds |
| Directed by: | David Wheatley |
| Produced by: | Ann Tricklebank |
| Executive producer: | Mal Young |
| Written by: | Elizabeth-Anne Wheal and David Gilman |
| BBC Birmingham | |
| Dalziel And Pascoe - Home Truths | |
| First broadcast on BBC1 on 5th November 2001 (at 20.30) | |
| Synopsis: | 90-minute detective drama. Det. Supt. Andy Dalziel and DI Peter Pascoe investigate the killing of a young Sikh woman. Faced with race riots, corruption and a bolshy city squad, the detective duo uncover an explosive cocktail of political ambition and unrequited love |
| Starring: | Warren Clarke, Colin Buchanan, David Royle, Jo-Anne Stockham, Kenneth Cranham, Madhav Sharma, Fiona Allen, Guy Rhys, Darren Morfitt, Ashley Miller and Craig Parkinson |
| Directed by: | Lawrence Gordon Clark |
| Produced by: | Ann Tricklebank |
| Executive producer: | Mal Young |
| Written by: | Elizabeth-Anne Wheal |
| BBC Birmingham | |
| Hot Money | |
| First broadcast on ITV1 on Wednesday 12th December 2001 (at 21.00) | |
| Synopsis: | Drama based on a true story. A group of women working at a Bank Of England factory where worn-out banknotes are incinerated hatch an ingenious plan to smuggle money out of the plant, despite being monitored by CCTV cameras and watched by security men. To avoid raising suspicion, they agree not to make their spending too conspicuous - but will they be able to resist the temptation to splash out? |
| Starring: | Caroline Quentin, Melanie Hill and Georgia Mackenzie |
| Directed by: | Terry Winsor |
| Produced by: | Jeremy Phillips |
| Executive producer: | Jeff Pope |
| Written by: | Neil McKay and Terry Winsor based on an original screenplay by John Mister |
| Granada Production | |
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| Maybe Baby |
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| Nationwide UK cinematic release on 2nd June 2000. Home-video release. Now on DVD | ||
| Synopsis: | Sam and Lucy Bell are a married couple who seem to have it all. They have the looks, the successful careers and the enthusiastic love life, but the one thing they lack is the one thing they want most - a baby. After trying everything in their efforts to reproduce, inevitable stresses put their love to the test | |
| Starring: | Hugh Laurie, Joely Richardson, Adrian Lester, James Purefoy, Tom Hollander, Joanna Lumley, Rowan Atkinson, Emma Thompson and Dawn French | |
| Directed by: | Ben Elton | |
| Produced by: | Phil McIntyre | |
| Executive producers: | Ernst Goldschmidt, David M Thompson and Norman Petty | |
| Screenplay by: | Ben Elton based on his book Inconceivable | |
| BBC Films | ||
| Complicity |
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| Nationwide UK cinematic release in March 2000. Home-video release. Now on DVD | ||
| Synopsis: | Local journalist, Cameron Colley, writes articles that are idealistic, from the viewpoint of the underdog. A twisted serial killer seems to have the same motives. His brutal murders are also committed on behalf of the underdog. The two stories begin to merge and Cameron finds himself inextricably and inexplicably inplicated by the brutal killer. The arms dealer that Cameron plans to expose is found literally 'disarmed' before he can put pen to paper. The brewery chief, loathed by Cameron, who sold up at the expense of his workers, finds himself permanently unemployable. The police are convinced of Cameron's guilt and so are half his friends and colleagues. Cameron is forced to employ all his investigative skills to find the real killer and his motives | |
| Starring: | Bill Paterson, Brian Cox, Jonny Lee Miller, Samuel West, Keeley Hawes and Rachael Stirling | |
| Directed by: | Gavin Millar | |
| Produced by: | Richard Jackson | |
| Executive producers: | Julia Palau and Michael Ryan | |
| Screenplay by: | Bryan Elsley based on a novel by Iain Banks | |
| Carlton Films / Talisman Films Production | ||