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  • 1998
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    Get Real

    Get Real

    6.80 1998 HD

    Steven spends his school days longing for all-star athlete John. But John has a gorgeous girlfriend, and Steven is still in the closet. Steven's sole...

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  • 2000
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    Billy Elliot

    Billy Elliot

    7.60 2000 HD

    County Durham, England, 1984. The miners' strike has started and the police have started coming up from Bethnal Green, starting a class war with the...

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  • 2000
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    There's Only One Jimmy Grimble

    There's Only One Jimmy Grimble

    6.79 2000 HD

    Jimmy Grimble is a shy Manchester school boy. At school he is constantly being bullied by the other kids, and at home he has to face his mother's new...

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  • 1998
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    Hideous Kinky

    Hideous Kinky

    6.09 1998 HD

    In 1972, disenchanted about the dreary conventions of English life, 25-year-old Julia heads for Morocco with her daughters, six-year-old Lucy and...

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  • 2000
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    Beautiful Creatures

    Beautiful Creatures

    5.70 2000 HD

    When Petula and Dorothy cover up the accidental murder of one jerk boyfriend, they hatch a hilarious scheme to collect a huge ransom.

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  • 2000
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    The House of Mirth

    The House of Mirth

    6.19 2000 HD

    In early 20th century New York City, an impoverished socialite desperately seeks a suitable husband as she gradually finds herself betrayed by her...

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  • 1999
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    An Ideal Husband

    An Ideal Husband

    6.40 1999 HD

    Sir Robert Chiltern is a successful government minister, well-off and with a loving wife. All this is threatened when Mrs Cheveley appears in London...

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  • 2000
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    Whatever Happened to Harold Smith?

    Whatever Happened to Harold Smith?

    6.20 2000 HD

    It's 1976, and Vinny is a confused teenager who can't decide whether he is a disco king or a proto punk rocker.

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  • 1999
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    Plunkett & MacLeane

    Plunkett & MacLeane

    5.98 1999 HD

    Will Plunkett and Captain James Macleane, two men from different ends of the social spectrum in 18th-century England, enter a gentlemen's agreement:...

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  • 1999
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    Ratcatcher

    Ratcatcher

    7.10 1999 HD

    James Gillespie is 12 years old. The world he knew is changing. Haunted by a secret, he has become a stranger in his own family. He is drawn to the...

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  • 2000
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    The Claim

    The Claim

    5.97 2000 HD

    A prospector sells his wife and daughter to another gold miner for the rights to a gold mine. Twenty years later, the prospector is a wealthy man who...

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  • 1997
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    Shooting Fish

    Shooting Fish

    6.30 1997 HD

    Two con artists hire an unwitting medical-school student as a secretary for their latest scam.

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  • 1998
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    The Governess

    The Governess

    5.86 1998 HD

    When the father of privileged Rosina da Silva violently dies, she decides to pass herself off as a gentile and finds employment with a family in...

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  • 1997
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    The Tango Lesson

    The Tango Lesson

    6.40 1997 HD

    On a trip to Paris Sally meets Pablo, a tango dancer. He starts teaching her to dance then she returns to London to work on some "projects". She...

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  • 1999
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    Solomon & Gaenor

    Solomon & Gaenor

    6.00 1999 HD

    A young Jew in 1911 Wales tries to make his living by selling fabrics door to door, but to do so he must hide his nationality. On one of his sales he...

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  • 1998
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    Babymother

    Babymother

    3.30 1998 HD

    A single mother determined to make it as a singer puts together an all-girl reggae group named Neeta, Sweeta, & Nastie with her friends. Living in a...

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  • 1997
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    Metroland

    Metroland

    5.86 1997 HD

    In late-1970s suburban London, Chris and Marion have settled into a comfortable yet all-too-predictable middle-class existence. Chris receives an...

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  • 2000
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    Lighthouse

    Lighthouse

    4.80 2000 HD

    A prison ship on its way to a remote island prison runs aground on rocks and sinks. Mixed survivors of cons and prison guards struggle ashore, only...

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  • 2000
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    Love's Labour's Lost

    Love's Labour's Lost

    5.50 2000 HD

    The King of Navarre and his three companions swear a very public oath to study together and to renounce women for three years. Their honour is...

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  • 1998
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    Love and Death on Long Island

    Love and Death on Long Island

    6.34 1998 HD

    Curmudgeonly author Giles De'Ath, a widower with a marked distaste for modern popular culture, attempts to buy a ticket for a film adaptation of an...

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