6.9

Page Eight

2010,

• Actors: Bill Nighy, Tom Hughes, Michael Gambon, Judy Davis, Rakhee Thakrar, Saskia Reeves, Ewen Bremner, Felicity Jones, Richard Lintern, Holly Aird, Andrew Cleaver, Kate Burdette, Ralph Fiennes, Alice Krige, Rory Morrison, Aisling Loftus, Bruce Myers, Surendra Kochar, Charlotte Green, Marthe Keller, Bijan Daneshmand, Jay Benedict, James McArdle, Kriss Dosanjh, Hywel Morgan, Pippa Andre, Dixie Arnold, Ken Birk, Rachel Weisz, Simon Steggall
• Genre: Thriller
• Director(s): David Hare
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Johnny Worricker (Bill Nighy) is a long-serving MI5 officer. His boss and best friend Benedict Baron (Michael Gambon) dies suddenly, leaving behind him an inexplicable file, threatening the stability of the organization. Meanwhile, a seemingly chance encounter with Johnny's striking next-door neighbor and political activist Nancy Pierpan (Rachel Weisz) seems too good to be true. Johnny is forced to walk out of his job, and then out of his identity to find out the truth. Set in London and Cambridge, PAGE EIGHT is a contemporary spy film for the BBC, which addresses intelligence issues and moral dilemmas peculiar to the new century.

  7.8

This Is England

2005, UK

• Actors: Thomas Turgoose, Stephen Graham, Jo Hartley, Andrew Shim, Vicky McClure, Joseph Gilgun, Rosamund Hanson, Andrew Ellis, Perry Benson, George Newton, Frank Harper, Jack O'Connell, Kriss Dosanjh, Kieran Hardcastle, Chanel Cresswell, Danielle Watson, Sophie Ellerby, Hannah Walters, Dave Laws, Michael Socha, Ian Smith, Dave Blant, Matthew Blamires, James Burrows, Harpal Hayer, Terry Haywood, Nimesh Jani, David Claridge, Duran Duran, Simon Le Bon
• Genre: Crime, Drama
• Director(s): Shane Meadows
• Available languages:
  • English English.

This is England: Mods, New Romantics, and Skinheads are the major youth sub-cultures of this very English summer of 1983 and young 12-year-old Shaun is left wandering aimlessly alone and lost during the start of his school holidays, until his chance meeting with Woody and his fun and friendly Skinhead pack. Finding a new lease of life; girls, parties, Ben Sherman shirts, Doc Martin boots and shaven hairstyles young Shaun is welcomed, life during this summer holiday has got a whole lot better. That is until Combo arrives on the scene bitter, dangerous, racist, militant and psychotic life for young Shaun has just approached his first major crossroads. This is England is a look back at the early eighties of British working-class life through the eyes of young Shaun and his new gang, and dealing with the bitterness of outside influences such as racism and xenophobia, of mass unemployment and the fall out of the Falkland's War; Thatcher's Britain: Did we ever have it so good? When you see Shaun, ask Him.

  7.5

Dirty Pretty Things

2002, UK

• Actors: Chiwetel Ejiofor, Kriss Dosanjh, Israel Aduramo, Yemi Ajibade, Nizwar Karanj, Deobia Oparei, Jeffery Kissoon, Zlatko Buric, Audrey Tautou, Sophie Okonedo, Sergi López, Benedict Wong, Kenan Hudaverdi, Damon Younger, Paul Bhattacharjee, Darrell D'Silva, Sotigui Kouyaté, Abi Gouhad, Jeillo Edwards, Rita Hamill, Ron Stenner, Jemanesh Solomon, Naomi Simpson, Barber Ali, Jean-Philippe Écoffey, Josef Altin, Fisun Burgess, Sabina Michael, Michael Mellinger, Noma Dumezweni
• Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
• Director(s): Stephen Frears
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Okwe, a kind-hearted Nigerian doctor, and Senay, a Turkish chambermaid, work at the same West London hotel. The hotel is run by Senor Sneaky and is the sort of place where dirty business like drug dealing and prostitution takes place. However, when Okwe finds a human heart in one of the toilets, he uncovers something far more sinister than just a common crime.

  6.7

East Is East

1998, UK

• Actors: Om Puri, Linda Bassett, Jordan Routledge, Archie Panjabi, Emil Marwa, Chris Bisson, Jimi Mistry, Raji James, Ian Aspinall, Lesley Nicol, Emma Rydal, Ruth Jones, Ben Keaton, Kriss Dosanjh, John Bardon, Gary Damer, Albert Moses, Jimmi Harkishin, Rosalind March, Kaleem Janjua, Gary Lewis, Roger Morlidge, Ralph Birtwell, Madhav Sharma, Saikat Ahamed, Bruce McGregor, Margaret Blakemore, Thierry Harcourt, Leena Dhingra, Tallat Nawaz
• Genre: Comedy, Drama
• Director(s): Damien O'Donnell
• Available languages:
  • English English.

In 1971 Salford fish-and-chip shop owner George Khan expects his family to follow his strict Pakistani Muslim ways. But his children, with an English mother and having been born and brought up in Britain, increasingly see themselves as British and start to reject their father's rules on dress, food, religion, and living in general.