7.3

Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest

2005, USA

• Actors: Johnny Depp, Orlando Bloom, Keira Knightley, Jack Davenport, Bill Nighy, Jonathan Pryce, Lee Arenberg, Mackenzie Crook, Kevin McNally, David Bailie, Stellan Skarsgård, Tom Hollander, Naomie Harris, Martin Klebba, David Schofield, Alex Norton, Lauren Maher, Nej Adamson, Jimmy Roussounis, Moray Treadwell, San Shella, Jim Cody Williams, Michael Miranda, Luke de Woolfson, Derrick O'Connor, Georges Trillat, Israel Aduramo, Gerry O'Brien, Dermot Keaney, Clive Ashborn
• Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy
• Director(s): Gore Verbinski
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Once again we're plunged into the world of sword fights and "savvy" pirates. Captain Jack Sparrow is reminded he owes a debt to Davy Jones, who captains the flying Dutchman, a ghostly ship, with a crew from hell. Facing the "locker" Jack must find the heart of Davy Jones but to save himself he must get the help of quick-witted Will Turner and Elizabeth Swan. If that's not complicated enough, Will and Elizabeth are sentenced to hang, unless will can get Lord Cutler Beckett Jack's compass, Will is forced to join another crazy adventure with Jack.

  7.6

The Count of Monte Cristo

2002, UK, USA, Ireland

• Actors: James Caviezel, Guy Pearce, Richard Harris, James Frain, Dagmara Dominczyk, Michael Wincott, Luis Guzmán, Christopher Adamson, JB Blanc, Guy Carleton, Alex Norton, Barry Cassin, Henry Cavill, Aliaz Moufid, Brendan Costello, Patrick Godfrey, Katherine Holme, Freddie Jones, Joe Hanley, Mairead Devlin, Stella Feeley, Joseph Kelly, Ivan Kennedy, Alvaro Lucchesi, Helen McCrory, Karl O'Neill, Robert Price, Derek Reid, Eric Stovell, Jude Sweeney
• Genre: Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama, History, Romance, Thriller
• Director(s): Kevin Reynolds
• Available languages:
  • English English.

'The Count of Monte Cristo' is a remake of the Alexander Dumas tale by the same name. Dantes, a sailor who is falsely accused of treason by his best friend Fernand, who wants Dantes' girlfriend Mercedes for himself. Dantes is imprisoned on the island prison of Chateau d'If for 14 years, where he plots revenge against those who betrayed him. With the help of another prisoner, he escapes the island and proceeds to transform himself into the wealthy Count of Monte Cristo as part of his plan to exact revenge.

  7.3

Les misérables

1998, UK, Germany, USA

• Actors: Christopher Adamson, Tim Barlow, Timothy Bateson, Veronika Bendová, David Birkin, Reine Brynolfsson, Patsy Byrne, Kathleen Byron, Václav Chalupa, Ian Cregg, Ben Crompton, Claire Danes, Zdenek David, Paola Dionisotti, Edna Doré, Louis Hammond, Gillian Hanna, Janet Henfrey, Shane Hervey, Zdenék Hess, Gerard Horan, Kelly Hunter, Lennie James, Toby Jones, Jon Kenny, Pavel Koci, Sylvie Koblizkova, Jan Kuzelka, Peter Mackriel, Margery Mason
• Genre: Crime, Drama, History, Romance
• Director(s): Bille August
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Jean Valjean, a Frenchman imprisoned for stealing bread, must flee a police officer named Javert. The pursuit consumes both men's lives, and soon Valjean finds himself in the midst of the student revolutions in France.

  7.0

Little Voice

1997, UK

• Actors: Brenda Blethyn, Jane Horrocks, Ewan McGregor, Philip Jackson, Annette Badland, Michael Caine, Jim Broadbent, Adam Fogerty, James Welsh, Karen Gregory, Fred Feast, Graham Turner, George Oliver, Virgil Tracy, Dick Van Winkle, George Bradley, Geoffrey Emmerson, Barry Gomersalt, Angela Harrison, Jean Hotton, David Kemp, Aiden Lawrence, Michael Lynskey, Peter Marshall, Peter Minns, Christine Quick, Len Rangely, Bob Scott, Melanie Simpson, Doug Stewart
• Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance, Music
• Director(s): Mark Herman
• Available languages:
  • English English.

The pathetically shy LV lives the life of a recluse listening to her late fathers old records in her room and in the process driving her abusive, loud-mouthed mother, Mari Hoff, to distraction. At night, however, when her father's ghost visits, LV sings the songs of the great divas such as Judy Garland, Marilyn Monroe and Shirley Bassey. One evening LV is overheard by one of her mother's loathsome boyfriends, the disastrous dead-end talent scout Ray Say, who recognizes her innate talent and realizes this is his last big chance for the glittering prizes. Gambling everything Ray Say forces LV to appear at a local run-down, seedy night club run by Mr. Boo. As preparations for the big event proceed apace LV meets the equally shy Billy, a pigeon-racing telephone engineer and they form a tentative, gentle friendship. The big night finally arrives and everything is in readiness the band, the club and even a big agent from London, but what about LV?

  8.4

Braveheart

1994, USA

• Actors: Mel Gibson, James Robinson, Sean Lawlor, Sandy Nelson, James Cosmo, Sean McGinley, Alan Tall, Andrew Weir, Gerda Stevenson, Ralph Riach, Mhairi Calvey, Brian Cox, Patrick McGoohan, Peter Hanly, Sophie Marceau, Stephen Billington, Barry McGovern, Angus Macfadyen, John Kavanagh, Alun Armstrong, Catherine McCormack, Brendan Gleeson, Tommy Flanagan, Julie Austin, Alex Norton, Joanne Bett, Rupert Vansittart, Michael Byrne, Robert Paterson, Malcolm Tierney
• Genre: Action, Biography, Drama, History, War
• Director(s): Mel Gibson
• Available languages:
  • English English.

William Wallace is a Scottish rebel who leads an uprising against the cruel English ruler Edward the Longshanks, who wishes to inherit the crown of Scotland for himself. When he was a young boy, William Wallace's father and brother, along with many others, lost their lives trying to free Scotland. Once he loses another of his loved ones, William Wallace begins his long quest to make Scotland free once and for all, along with the assistance of Robert the Bruce.

  7.3

"Screen One" Down Among the Big Boys

1993, UK

• Actors: Billy Connolly, Maggie Bell, Ashley Jensen, Douglas Henshall, Alex Norton, Ken Drury, Katherine Stark, Rab Affleck, Iain Agnew, Bill Barclay, John Bett, Freddie Boardley, Kenneth Bryans, Paul Burnham, Jim Byars, Simon Donald, David Findlay, James Gibb, Stevie Hannan, Stuart Hepburn, Gary Lewis, Kenneth Lindsay, Bill Little, Donald MacNeil, Maggie MacRitchie, Martin McCardie, David McKay, John Murtagh, Victoria Nairn, Sandy Neilson
• Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance
• Director(s): Charles Gormley
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Set in Glasgow, Louie, the detective son of an upright police sergeant, is about to marry. His intended is the daughter of JoJo (Connolly), a wealthy and compulsive thief who attempts a spectacular robbery. Louie is put in charge of the investigation of JoJo's latest enterprise. JoJo learns of his peril and begins an exercise in risk management.

  6.9

Patriot Games

1991, USA

• Actors: Harrison Ford, Anne Archer, Patrick Bergin, Sean Bean, Thora Birch, James Fox, Samuel L. Jackson, Polly Walker, J.E. Freeman, James Earl Jones, Richard Harris, Alex Norton, Hugh Fraser, David Threlfall, Alun Armstrong, Berlinda Tolbert, Hugh Ross, Gerald Sim, Pip Torrens, Thomas Russell, Jonathan Ryan, Andrew Connolly, Karl Hayden, Claire Oberman, Oliver Stone, Tom Watt, P.H. Moriarty, Rebecca Mayhook, Roger Blake, Martin Cochrane
• Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
• Director(s): Phillip Noyce
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Jack Ryan, the hero of Tom Clancy's techno-thriller series, returns in the sequel to _The Hunt for Red October_. Ryan is on vacation in England when he spoils an assassination attempt on an important member of the Royal Family. Ryan gets drawn back into the CIA when the same splinter faction of the IRA targets him and his family.

  6.3

Scandal

1988, UK

• Actors: John Hurt, Joanne Whalley, Bridget Fonda, Ian McKellen, Leslie Phillips, Britt Ekland, Daniel Massey, Roland Gift, Jean Alexander, Alex Norton, Ronald Fraser, Paul Brooke, Jeroen Krabbé, Keith Allen, Ralph Brown, Ken Campbell, Iain Cuthbertson, Susannah Doyle, Joanna Dunham, Trevor Eve, Oliver Ford Davies, Deborah Grant, Valerie Griffiths, Czeslaw Grocholski, Leon Herbert, Chris Humphreys, Stefan Kalipha, Tacy Kneale, Tony Mathews, Richard Morant
• Genre: Drama, History
• Director(s): Michael Caton-Jones
• Available languages:
  • English English.

An English bon-vivant osteopath is enchanted with a young exotic dancer and invites her to live with him. He serves as friend and mentor, and through his contacts and parties she and her friend meet and date members of the Conservative Party. Eventually a scandal occurs when her affair with the Minister of War goes public, threatening their lifestyles and their freedom. Based on the real Profumo scandal of 1963.