6.0

Telstar: The Joe Meek Story

2007, UK

• Actors: Con O'Neill, Kevin Spacey, Pam Ferris, JJ Feild, James Corden, Tom Burke, Ralf Little, Sid Mitchell, Mathew Baynton, Shaun Evans, Callum Dixon, Tom Harper, Jon Lee, Nigel Harman, Carl Barât, Justin Hawkins, Jess Conrad, Clem Cattini, Chas Hodges, John Leyton, Robbie Duke, Michael Sarne, David Hayler, Craig Vye, Joan Hodges, Jimmy Carr, Jim Field Smith, Marcus Brigstocke, Stephanie Dickens, Gary Whelan
• Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
• Director(s): Nick Moran
• Available languages:
  • English English.

A music-infused drama about Joe Meek, the flamboyantly gay, tone deaf, songwriter-producer behind the '60s hits "Have I the Right," "Just Like Eddie," "Johnny, Remember Me" and "Telstar."

  7.8

Eastern Promises

2006, UK, Canada, USA

• Actors: Josef Altin, Mina E. Mina, Aleksander Mikic, Sarah-Jeanne Labrosse, Lalita Ahmed, Badi Uzzaman, Naomi Watts, Doña Croll, Raza Jaffrey, Sinéad Cusack, Jerzy Skolimowski, Tatiana Maslany, Viggo Mortensen, Vincent Cassel, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Shannon-Fleur Roux, Lillibet Langley, Mia Soteriou, Radoslaw Kaim, Donald Sumpter, Rhodri Wyn Miles, Tereza Srbova, Elisa Lasowski, Cristina Catalina, Alice Henley, Faton Gerbeshi, David Papava, Tamer Hassan, Gergo Danka, Michael Sarne
• Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
• Director(s): David Cronenberg
• Available languages:
  • English English.

In London, the Russian pregnant teenager Tatiana arrives bleeding in a hospital, and the doctors save her baby only. The Russian descendant midwife Anna Khitrova finds Tatiana's diary written in Russian language in her belongings and decided to find her family to deliver the baby, she brings the diary home and ask her uncle Stepan to translate the document. Stepan refuses, but Anna finds a card of a restaurant owned by the Russian Semyon inside the diary and she visits the old man trying to find a lead to contact Tatiana's family. When she mentions the existence of the diary, Semyon immediately offers to translate the document. However, Stepan translates part of the diary and Anna discovers that Semyon and his sick son Kirill had raped Tatiana when she was fourteen years old and forced her to work as prostitute in a brothel of their own. Further, Semyon is the dangerous boss of the Russian mafia "Vory v Zakone", jeopardizing the safety of Anna and her family. Meanwhile, Semyon's driver Nikolai Luzhin gets close to Kirill and Semyon, climbing positions in the criminal organization, but he helps Anna, her family and the baby.

  5.5

The Fourth Angel

2001, UK, Canada

• Actors: Jeremy Irons, Forest Whitaker, Jason Priestley, Briony Glassco, Charlotte Rampling, Lois Maxwell, Timothy West, Joel Pitts, Anna Maguire, Holly Boyd, Kal Weber, Ian McNeice, William Armstrong, Garrick Hagon, Serge Soric, Ivan Marevich, Dorin Rimbu, Joerg Stadler, Julian Rivett, Michael Sarne, Yuri Stepanov, Peter Majer, Kate Fahy, Badi Uzzaman, John Ioannou, Patrick Watson, Neil Daglish, Catherine Hood, Natasha Williams, Paul Birchard
• Genre: Thriller, Drama, Action
• Director(s): John Irvin
• Available languages:
  • English English.

The Economist reporter Jack Elgin, a workaholic, takes his family on a working trip to India, where he is to interview the PM. But their US airplane is hijacked in Limassol (Cyprus) by the unknown August 15 terrorist movement, which ends up in a bloodbath. Jack can save his pre-teen son Andrew, literally in his arms, but his wife and daughter are among the slaughter victims. Western governments seem unwilling to go after the fiends, even hide the identity of a high-profile fatal victim. Although now a single father, Jack uses all his contacts and snooping skill to seek the truth himself. A London-based Serbian free newspaper editor sets him on the trail of four Balkanic killers, but is murdered. Jack decides to exact revenge himself, tipped-off by Sûreté-contact Dugay. Meanwhile US embassy official Davidson and FBI Special Agent Jules Bernard play a key part in the official, MI5-lead investigation, which ends up crossing Jack's path.

  5.7

Appointment with Death

1988, USA

• Actors: Peter Ustinov, Lauren Bacall, Carrie Fisher, John Gielgud, Piper Laurie, Hayley Mills, Jenny Seagrove, David Soul, Nicholas Guest, Valerie Richards, John Terlesky, Amber Bezer, Douglas Sheldon, Michael Sarne, Michael Craig, Mohammed Hirzalla, Rudy Ruggiero, Dan Muggia, Lutuf Nouasser, Babi Neeman, Rupert Horrox, Hugh Brophy, Marcel Solomon, Iyad Hajjaj
• Genre: Crime, Mystery
• Director(s): Michael Winner
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Emily Boynton, step-mother to the three Boynton children and mother to Ginevra, blackmails the family lawyer, Jefferson Cope, into destroying a second will of her late husband which would have freed the childern from her dominating influence. She takes herself and the children on holiday to Europe and the Holy Land. In Jerusalem, Hercule Poirot meets up with a woman friend, Dr. King who falls in love with Raymond Boynton to Emily's disapproval. Lady Westholme, her secretary and Cope are following them too. The children discover about the second will and Emily succeeds in rubbing the rest up the wrong way causing much hatred towards her. At a dig, everybody wonders about the camp and Emily is found dead... poisoned. Poirot investigates...

  7.2

Sink the Bismarck!

1960, UK

• Actors: Kenneth More, Dana Wynter, Carl Möhner, Laurence Naismith, Geoffrey Keen, Karel Stepanek, Michael Hordern, Maurice Denham, Michael Goodliffe, Esmond Knight, Jack Watling, Jack Gwillim, Mark Dignam, Ernest Clark, John Horsley, Peter Burton, Sydney Tafler, John Stuart, Walter Hudd, Sean Barrett, Edward R. Murrow, Michael Balfour, John Barron, Victor Beaumont, Brandon Brady, Johnny Briggs, Roy Castle, Robert Desmond, Walter Gotell, John G. Heller
• Genre: Action, Drama, History, War
• Director(s): Lewis Gilbert
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Chronicles the breakout of the Bismarck during the early days of World War Two. Seen both from the point of view of the many naval vessels on both sides and from the central headquarters of the British where the search for the super battleship was controlled.