Ricky Champ

Following the travails of five disparate (and desperate) Westerners--including a couple of English lager louts, an in-transit German woman confined to her Thai hotel, an Irishman doing a runner from hometown responsibilities and another German woman seeking solace at a meditation centre--Heiss almost casually (and sometimes gently) allows her camera to capture her characters' predicaments in Thailand and India. (viff)

The Royal Shakespeare Company's award-winning production of Shakespeare's great play. Director Gregory Doran's modern-dress production was hailed by the critics as thrilling, fast-moving and, in parts, very funny. Hamlet must decide whether to avenge his father's murder at the hands of his uncle Claudius, who has married his brother's wife - Hamlet's mother, Gertrude. This visually sumptuous screen version was filmed on location with all of the original stage cast. (BBC iPlayer)

An acutely observed, forensically honest, warts-and-all look at a working-class couple in their mid-20s. (imdb)

Helen Stephens is wrongly sentenced to 12 years in prison for murdering her boss Eric Bridges, the managing director of Entirely Tiles. Although she is sure that it will only be a matter of time before this mistake is rectified, everyone around her seems to be conspiring to keep her behind bars. (imdb)

Piglets follows a group of six very different recruits at a fictional police training college and the staff charged with training them. (imdb)