4.2

The Nutcracker: The Untold Story

2009, UK, Hungary

• Actors: Elle Fanning, Nathan Lane, John Turturro, Frances de la Tour, Richard E. Grant, Yuliya Vysotskaya, Shirley Henderson, Aaron Michael Drozin, Charlie Rowe, Peter Elliott, Daniel Peacock, Alan Cox, Hugh Sachs, Africa Nile, Jonathan Coyne, Stuart Hopps, Ferenc Elek, Attila Kalmár, György Honti, Gergo Brummel, Fernanda Dorogi, Kriszta Dorogi, Béla Gados, Verner Gresty, Jason Harris, Jácint Hergenröder, Zoltán Hetényi, Barna Ilyes, Lilla Karolyi, László Keszég
• Genre: Action, Family, Fantasy
• Director(s): Andrey Konchalovskiy
• Available languages:
  • English English.

1920s Vienna. Nine-year-old Mary lives in a home filled with lovely things and loneliness. Bothered by bratty brother Max and neglected by well intentioned, but distracted, parents, she yearns for companionship and adventure. On Christmas Eve, Mary's beloved Uncle Albert arrives with the gift of a wooden nutcracker doll. Later that night, Mary's imagination brings the doll to life. Introducing himself as "NC," he takes her on a wondrous journey through a stunning dimension where toys assume human form and everything appears ten times larger. But danger lurks. An army of toothy rat creatures, led by the flamboyant Rat King and his devious mother, has unleashed a plot to overthrow humanity. When NC is captured and placed under a paralytic spell, Mary, Max and a spirited band of toy sidekicks must rescue him from the Rat King's clutches and thwart his wicked plans to 'ratify' the world.

  6.8

Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves

1991, USA

• Actors: Kevin Costner, Morgan Freeman, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Christian Slater, Alan Rickman, Geraldine McEwan, Michael McShane, Brian Blessed, Michael Wincott, Nick Brimble, Soo Drouet, Daniel Newman, Daniel Peacock, Walter Sparrow, Harold Innocent, Jack Wild, Michael Goldie, Liam Halligan, Marc Zuber, Merelina Kendall, Imogen Bain, Jimmy Gardner, Bobby Parr, John Hallam, Douglas Blackwell, Pat Roach, Andy Hockley, John Dallimore, Derek Deadman, Howard Lew Lewis
• Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Romance
• Director(s): Kevin Reynolds
• Available languages:
  • English English.

After being captured by Turks during the Crusades, Robin of Locksley and a Moor, Azeem, escape back to England where Azeem vows to remain until he repays Robin for saving his life. Meanwhile, Robin's father has been murdered by the Sheriff of Nottingham and when Robin returns home he vows to avenge his father's death. Even though Marian, his childhood friend, cannot help him, he escapes to the Forest of Sherwood where he joins a band of exiled villagers and becomes their leader. With their help he attempts to cleanse the land of the evil that the Sheriff has spread.

  2.6

Carry on Columbus

1991, UK

• Actors: Jim Dale, Bernard Cribbins, Maureen Lipman, Peter Richardson, Alexei Sayle, Rik Mayall, Charles Fleischer, Larry Miller, Nigel Planer, Leslie Phillips, June Whitfield, Julian Clary, Sara Crowe, Holly Aird, Keith Allen, Martin Clunes, Jack Douglas, Allan Corduner, James Faulkner, Peter Gordeno, Don Henderson, Burt Kwouk, Rebecca Lacey, Chris Langham, Daniel Peacock, Jon Pertwee, Tony Slattery, Richard Wilson, Andrew Bailey, Philip Herbert
• Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Romance
• Director(s): Gerald Thomas
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Christopher Columbus believes he can find an alternative route to the far East and persuades the King and Queen of Spain to finance his expedition. But the Sultan of Turkey, who makes a great deal of money through taxing the merchants who have to pass through his country on the current route, sends his best spy, Fatima, to wreck the trip.

  5.8

The Jewel of the Nile

1985, USA

• Actors: Michael Douglas, Kathleen Turner, Danny DeVito, Spiros Focás, Avner Eisenberg, Paul David Magid, Howard Jay Patterson, Randall Edwin Nelson, Samuel Ross Williams, Timothy Daniel Furst, Hamid Fillali, Holland Taylor, Guy Cuevas, Peter DePalma, Mark Daly Richards, Sadeke Colobanane, Hyacinthe N'Iaye, Daniel Peacock, Benyahim Ahed, Alaoui Hassen, Makoula Ahmed, Akasby Mohamed, Zaouia Abdelmajid, Ted Buffington, Flora Alberti, Patricia Davidson, Ziraoui Mustapha, Baji Abdelmajid, Kachela Mohammed, Mohamed Attifi
• Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Romance
• Director(s): Lewis Teague
• Available languages:
  • English English.

This is the sequel to "Romancing the Stone" where Jack and Joan have their yacht and easy life, but are gradually getting bored with each other and this way of life. Joan accepts an invitation to go to some middle eastern country as a guest of the sheik, but there she is abducted and finds her- self involved with the "jewel". Jack decides to rescue her with his new partner Ralph. They all go from one adventure to another... What is the story of this "jewel"?

  4.5

Trail of the Pink Panther

1982, UK, USA

• Actors: Peter Sellers, David Niven, Herbert Lom, Richard Mulligan, Joanna Lumley, Capucine, Robert Loggia, Harvey Korman, Burt Kwouk, Graham Stark, Peter Arne, André Maranne, Ronald Fraser, Leonard Rossiter, Marne Maitland, Harold Kasket, Liz Smith, Danny Schiller, Denise Crosby, William Hootkins, Kathleen St. John, Harold Berens, Daniel Peacock, Lucca Mezzofanti, Madlena Nedeva, Arthur Howard, Weston Gavin, Marc Smith, John Cassady, Gary Whelan
• Genre: Comedy, Crime, Family, Mystery
• Director(s): Blake Edwards
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Seventh in Blake Edwards' Pink Panther series. The Pink Panther diamond is stolen once again from Lugash and the authorities call in Chief Inspector Clouseau from France. His plane disappears en-route. This time, famous French TV reporter Marie Jouvet sets out to solve the mystery and starts to interview everybody connected to Clouseau. Each interviewee Dreyfus, Sir Charles & Lady Lytton (and ex-wife of Clouseau) & George Lytton, Hercule Lajoie (assistant in "A Shot In The Dark") and Cato tells of their run-ins with Clouseau. She is also kidnapped by mobster Bruno Langlois who doesn't want Clouseau found but she continues and finds Clouseau Sr, Clouseau's father. Is Clouseau alive or is he dead? Each interview has not-have-seen or famous clips from the previous movies (since Peter Sellers has sadly passed away) as Marie continues to get a honest view or impression of the great French detective...

  8.1

Gandhi

1982, UK, India

• Actors: Ben Kingsley, Candice Bergen, Edward Fox, John Gielgud, Trevor Howard, John Mills, Martin Sheen, Ian Charleson, Athol Fugard, Günther Maria Halmer, Saeed Jaffrey, Geraldine James, Alyque Padamsee, Amrish Puri, Roshan Seth, Rohini Hattangadi, Ian Bannen, Michael Bryant, John Clements, Richard Griffiths, Nigel Hawthorne, Bernard Hepton, Michael Hordern, Shreeram Lagoo, Om Puri, Virendra Razdan, Richard Vernon, Harsh Nayyar, Prabhakar Patankar, Vijay Kashyap
• Genre: Biography, Drama, History
• Director(s): Richard Attenborough
• Available languages:
  • English English.

In 1893, Gandhi is thrown off a South African train for being an Indian and traveling in a first class compartment. Gandhi realizes that the laws are biased against Indians and decides to start a non-violent protest campaign for the rights of all Indians in South Africa. After numerous arrests and the unwanted attention of the world, the government finally relents by recognizing rights for Indians, though not for the native blacks of South Africa. After this victory, Gandhi is invited back to India, where he is now considered something of a national hero. He is urged to take up the fight for India's independence from the British Empire. Gandhi agrees, and mounts a non-violent non-cooperation campaign of unprecedented scale, coordinating millions of Indians nationwide. There are some setbacks, such as violence against the protesters and Gandhi's occasional imprisonment. Nevertheless, the campaign generates great attention, and Britain faces intense public pressure. Too weak from World War II to continue enforcing its will in India, Britain finally grants India's independence. Indians celebrate this victory, but their troubles are far from over. Religious tensions between Hindus and Muslims erupt into nation-wide violence. Gandhi declares a hunger strike, saying he will not eat until the fighting stops. The fighting does stop eventually, but the country is divided. It is decided that the northwest area of India, and eastern part of India (current day Bangladesh), both places where Muslims are in the majority, will become a new country called Pakistan (West and East Pakistan respectively). It is hoped that by encouraging the Muslims to live in a separate country, violence will abate. Gandhi is opposed to the idea, and is even willing to allow Muhammad Ali Jinnah to become the first prime minister of India, but the Partition of India is carried out nevertheless. Gandhi spends his last days trying to bring about peace between both nations. He thereby angers many dissidents on both sides, one of whom finally gets close enough to assassinate him.