January 1991. Six people are dead. Murdered.
One thing in common – they are members of one of the most corrupt, powerful and toxic families in the country.
One prime suspect – the celebrated writer in the middle of compiling a history of the family.
A simple open and shut case
Anything but.
What a Carve Up! chronicles the events leading up to the ‘Winshaw Murders’, examining e...
A costume drama and satire about financial skull-duggery, and confidence tricksters in both the upper and lower classes in Victorian London. A working class man impersonates a Lord who is supposedly very rich, and a financial wizard. As such, he is invited to all the best peoples' parties. In fact, he is not, and his wealth and expertise are more in the minds of his associates ...
In CHARLES DICKENS’S ENGLAND, Derek Jacobi takes the viewer around the most important places, towns and cities that were the inspiration to some of the most famous settings in literature. The film features Cooling Church in Kent, used by the author in the opening chapter of Great Expectations; Miss Havisham ‘s house in Rochester; the almost forgotten London Roman Baths used by ...
NOTHING IS TRUER THAN TRUTH is a feature length documentary about Edward de Vere, Seventeenth Earl of Oxford, A-list party boy on the continental circuit, who spent a year and a half in Venice and traveling in Europe, learning about commedia dell'arte and collecting the experiences that would become the Shakespeare plays. Shot in Venice, Verona, Mantua, Padua, and Brenta, the f...
老古玩店店主吐伦特和他美丽、善良的外孙女小耐儿相依为命的悲惨故事。吐伦特为使还不满14岁的外孙女在他身后能过上幸福生活,竭力想发财致富,不料却落入高利贷暴发户丹尼尔·奎尔普的魔爪。奎尔普这个贪得无厌的吸血鬼,利用高利贷不仅夺走了老古玩店的全部财产,还想夺取美丽的小耐儿。祖孙二人被迫逃离伦敦,过着四处乞讨、颠沛流离的生活。最后,身心俱受损伤的小耐儿,因精神过度疲劳而夭折。