Movies: Bbc Tv

In a foreign port two boys come to a fisherman saying they are refugees from a country where a military take-over has organised a gigantic League of Youth....

Dame Maggie Smith stars in the 1967 screen version of Franco Zeffirelli's exuberant National Theatre production of Shakespeare's romantic comedy, in which young lovers Hero and Claudio conspire to make sharp-tongued rivals Beatrice and Benedick fall ...

Earth is no more, destroyed by nuclear war; but itinerant handyman Bert Foster, wandering the canals of Mars, is possessed by a restlessness for a home which no longer exists. He considers a move to an isolated outpost on Venus....

Britain in the mid-1990s: a divided, violent nation where civil disorder and urban terrorism are on the increase. Scotland Yard detective Commander Jack Bentham is seconded to Wales to look into a series of shootings by police officers, and uncovers ...

A TV adaptation of Roald Dahl's classic book....

The future. The material needs of people are tended by the Machine, which makes their environment, in vast tunnels beneath the earth, comfortable and safe. But if the Machine stops, what then?...

BBC TV movie about the life of the late Francesco Forgione, widely known as Padre Pio....

On Jupiter's moon Ganymede, an alien life-form has taken over the body of a human astronaut, creating an almost perfect copy. It then begins the long return journey to Earth....

A boy is skilled at telepathy and in mind control. He attracts the attention of the government....

Angie, an unemployed single mother moves into a new rented home. She then receives an unwelcome visitor from her past....

After 30 years apart, a man is reunited with his mother, who resides on a psychiatric ward....

Drama documentary which takes the form of an up-dated version of Pygmalion. With a special music score by jazz group Working Week, with real "society" characters and locations from 1984....

Angie, Tony and their son Farnley go to stay with Uncle Edward. The routine of Edward and his companion servant, Blades, becomes unsettled when Edward and Angie develop a close bond....

A disillusioned antiques dealer takes tap dancing lessons....

Gerald works in publisling. He was a pilot in World War 2 and enjoys talking about his aerial battles. His employees dislike him, apart from his loyal secretary. One evening, his wife tells him about her depression. Gerald has a solution: gin and to...

A court had to decide what to do about Ellen, an elderly lady living on her own in a deteriorating rented property....

A married couple go to stay at a remote cottage. Once there, they discover there is no running water for tea. Then, a stranger appears, accompanied by his stick insect....

A British businessman whose family company has been taken over by a multinational corporation clashes with his new American manager while they both vacation with their families at an Italian villa at their employer's expense. The manager's son fantas...

A student commits murder. He inherits his victim's estate. For a while, he is content, but finally his conscience starts to trouble him....

BBC version of Brecht's epic account of Galileo's persecution for his 'heretical' idea that the earth moved around the sun....