Howard Lanning
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After his lover rejects him, Maurice attempts to come to terms with his sexuality within the restrictiveness of Edwardian society.
Maurice

A musical adaptation of Colin MacInnes' novel about life in late 1950s London. Nineteen-year-old photographer Colin is hopelessly in love with model Crepe Suzette, but her relationships are strictly connected with her progress in the fashion world. So Colin gets involved with a pop promoter and tries to crack the big time. Meanwhile, racial tension is brewing in Colin's Notting Hill housing estate...
Absolute Beginners

England, 1645. The cruel civil war between Royalists and Parliamentarians that is ravaging the country causes an era of chaos and legal arbitrariness that allows unscrupulous men to profit by exploiting the absurd superstitions of the peasants; like Matthew Hopkins, a monster disguised as a man who wanders from town to town offering his services as a witch hunter.
Witchfinder General

A by-the-rule police officer must team up with a streetwise cop and go undercover in an operation to bust a major drug ring in Manchester. This becomes the start of a continuing partnership.
Supply and Demand

When his brother disappears, a man visits the remote country house where he was last seen. While the host seems outwardly friendly and his niece more demonstrably so, there's a feeling of menace in the air with the overhanging legend of Lavinia Morley, the Black Witch of Greymarsh.
Curse of the Crimson Altar

Nostalgic comic drama in which Cyril and Amos, two veterans of the Normandy landings, return to France to visit the grave of their wartime buddy. They encounter Waldo, an American on a similar mission, and the meeting sparks memories of an old girlfriend from the past. With the mysterious American lady Lisa in their wake, Cyril and Waldo decide to try and track her down.
A Foreign Field

A scientist working with genetics creates a horrifying flying creature that feeds on human blood. Following a gruesome trail of dead bodies, Scotland Yard investigators must scramble to halt its ravenous rampage.
The Blood Beast Terror

Special introducing William Shakespeare to young people through sketches, readings and music.
William: The Life, Works and Times of William Shakespeare

Two frustrated wives decide to visit a health farm for a weekend where they become involved in orgies while their husbands amuse themselves at work in a similar fashion.
Sex Farm

In Britain, bodies of NATO paratroopers are being snatched during routine jumps by a mysterious red-beam of otherworldly origin.
The Body Stealers

The 1974 finals in West Germany saw the emergence of "Total Football" in the shape of the classy Dutch led by the legendary Johan Cruyff. The Dutch swept all before them until they came up against the solid hosts in the final. Beckenbauer led West Germany to a tense 2-1 victory.
Heading For Glory

Things go terribly wrong for four youths, ejected from a London nightclub for rowdiness, after they decide to break into a Magic shop, where they tie up and terrorize the owner. They find to their cost that he deals in more than illusions...
Where Has Poor Mickey Gone?

Argentina, as hosts in 1978, were under great pressure to succeed. Amidst passionate supporters, they progressed to the finals with a wonderful blend of attacking football and tough defending. The unlucky Dutch, now lacking Cruyffs' sublime skills, were the fall guys once again in the Final, losing 3-1 in a classic clash of styles. This 1991 reedited version omits controversial interviews from the 1978 original "Copa 78 - O Poder do Futebol", while also including additional television footage of the tournament and newly dubbed English narration instead of the original Spanish.
Campeones
Don is a young artist. When he meets Laura, a girl who used to be his model and mistress, but is now married to an older, wealthy man, they almost renew their relationship.
Promenade

Kamilla and the Thief - Part 2 continues where the first Kamilla movie ends. Sebastian going to jail, but Kamilla did not fail his friend, even if she refused to have contact with him and is bullied because she is "a friend of a thief." Kamilla is the only one who believes in Sebastian when he says that he will not steal. Can Sebastian to keep that promise? Kamilla is faithful - but is it enough?
Kamilla and the Thief 2

Hitch a ride with a glamorous blonde in a convertible sports car, and take a spin around the seaside town of Weston-Super-Mare and its surroundings.
One Summer in Somerset

A documentary on the making of The Body Stealers featuring; editor Howard Lanning, actors Dixon Adams, Pamela Conway, and Sally Faulkner, technician Arthur Wicks, and boom operator Rowland Fowles, among others, as they recall their involvement with the film
The Making of The Body Stealers

A look at how fish and chips make it to your plate.
Marine Merchants

The story of the ship R.F.A. Tidereach on its journey from England to Norfolk Virginia, Boston and New York, featuring deliveries, the hardworking crew and great streets scenes of New York.
Lifeline

A 'fact full' film showing the work at Leeds printer John Waddington, featuring pictures printed for jigsaws, boxes for toothpaste and enormous posters.