Antony Sher

Queen Victoria (Dench) was the world's most powerful woman. Rugged Scotsman John Brown (Connolly) was a lowly servant who looked after her horses. Yet when circumstances brought them together, the result was a passionate friendship that scandalized a nation. (Buena Vista Entertainment)

This film is based on a true story about a British teenager who allegedly poisoned family, friends, and co-workers... (imdb)

Lt. Hornblower and his mates are sent to accompany a doomed royalist invasion of revolutionary France. (imdb)

Erik the Viking gathers warriors from his village and sets out on a dangerous journey to Valhalla, to ask the gods to end the Age of Ragnorok and allow his people to see sunlight again. A Pythonesque satire of Viking life. (imdb)

Mole's underground home is bought by the Weasels from wealthy landowner Mr.Toad and Mole is thrown out. He and Rat start to fight to get his home back from evil Weasels. (imdb)

A comedy about ordinary people with unique dilemmas. How far will they go? Will the cocktail of desperation, friendship, loneliness, love and even a brush with cannibalism derail their intent? (imdb)

Shakespeare's classic story of tyranny and ambition, directed by Gregory Doran and shot exclusively on location at the Roundhouse, London. (Sky Arts)

A passionately committed young dancer is forced to re-examine his career and life when faced with death, finding hope through an older man who becomes his lover, mentor and companion (imdb)

Satire on the Hollywood take on history, with Winston Churchill being an American G.I., while the "real" Churchill was an actor, named Roy Bubble.

Nicholas Hytner Directs Nicholas Wright's new play: a funny and fascinating tribute to the birth of movie-making. (ntlive.nationaltheatre.org.uk)

A young man discovers that not only does he have the ability to read minds, but that if he holds a camera next to his head he can transmit the thoughts he sees onto film. He strikes a deal with a wealthy businessman to use his powers but with two conditions: one is that he'll make enough money for a sex-change operation, and the other is that under no circumstances are his powers to be used for military purposes. Things don't work out quite the way he planned. (imdb)

Government officials practice their response and decisions in a simulated escalation of nuclear threat. (imdb)

Detective Inspector Jonah Gabriel returns to work after a botched operation that resulted in him sustaining a near-fatal bullet wound. He's soon thrown straight into an investigation to uncover the identity of the person responsible for killing a notorious drug baron. Gabriel cooperates with Joseph Bede, a former associate of the deceased dealer who's also out to find answers. As the two delve deeper into the mystery, their worlds are set for a collision course. (imdb)

A one-man drama where Primo Levi narrates the story of how he, an Italian-Jewish chemist, was captured by the Nazis and sent to Auschwitz. (HBO)

A Bavarian police commissioner, a former Nazi with a lasting admiration for Hitler, teams up with the ghost of a Jewish ventriloquist to solve a serial killing.

Twelve men and women are called for jury service in the retrial of a man accused of a triple murder after the High Court overturns the original verdict. (imdb)

King Lear has ruled for many years. As age begins to overtake him, he decides to divide his kingdom amongst his children, living out his days without the burden of power. A proud man, he allows vanity to cloud his judgment, believing that he can relinquish the crown, but enjoy the same authority and respect he has always known. Misjudging his children's loyalty he soon finds himself stripped of all the trappings of state, wealth and power he had taken for granted.

A disturbing, darkly comic tale of a man who attempts to sever all contact with the outside world, by simply staying at home. As Gerald Ballantyne rids himself of the surface clutter in his life he is lead to a startling discovery; a mystery about the house begins to reveal itself, though possibly only in his fevered mind. The changes begin to obsess and take control of Ballantyne, bring his experiment to a chilling climax.