Penelope Wilton

A man who's always lived life on the sidelines becomes an unlikely media sensation when he embarks on a walk across England to reach a dying friend.

John Cleese, at his harried best in this hilarious British comedy, plays a school headmaster obsessed with punctuality. His best laid plans to attend a headmasters' conference go wrong when he boards the wrong train. He turns back to find alternative means of transport, hijacking one of his pupils who is taking the afternoon off school in her father's car. As the journey descends into further chaos, the head begins to lose his schoolmasterly poise.

In post-war Poland, an author writes the biography of composer Frédéric Chopin and meets a strange woman who claims her ancestor was his muse.

An older man who offers to help a writer whose garden has grown wild begins a relationship with her, but his intentions are far from good.

During World War II, an Englishwoman (Gemma Arterton) opens her heart to an evacuee after initially resolving to be rid of him in this moving journey of womanhood, love and friendship.

The tension and terror that is present-day South Africa is powerfully portrayed in director Richard Attenborough's sweeping story of black activist Stephen Biko (Denzel Washington) and a liberal white newspaper editor who risks his own life to bring Biko's message to the world.

An investigation into a mother’s disappearance from a quiet British suburb and the mysteries surrounding it play out over five non-consecutive days.

During WWII, two intelligence officers use a corpse and false papers to outwit German troops.

`Brief Encounters', starring Penelope Wilton, Sophie Rundle, Angela Griffin and Sharon Rooney, follows four women as they overcome personal struggles and find success when they take part in a new venture. Set in the early '80s, the period marks the era when Ann Summers party planning is first introduced to the UK market. Shy and retiring, young mother Steph embarks on a career as a party planner, which helps her grow in confidence and make new friendships. Alongside Steph, Nita, who has a wayward husband, Dawn, a woman who has been supporting her father and three brothers, and Pauline, a lonely housewife, all sign up to become Ann Summers saleswomen.

The Carlions gather for an event, where they must determine who will take over their powerful family business.

The aging King Lear decides to abdicate and divide his kingdom in accordance with how much his three daughters say they love him. His youngest daughter refuses to answer and finds herself banished. The elder daughters plot a cruel betrayal against him which ultimately threatens the kingdom and the King's own sanity.

HD. Judi Dench gives an Oscar(R)-nominated performance in this poignant story chronicling the life of celebrated English author Iris Murdoch.

Iconic director Alfred Hitchcock's obsessive relationship with actress Tippi Hedren is the focus of this HBO Films drama.

When Jane’s crippling schizophrenia forces her to retreat inside her head, what pulls her out is an unlikely relationship with a quirky aging rocker.

A modern adaptation of the classic children's story "Alice Through the Looking Glass" by Lewis Carroll and John Tenniel, which continued on from "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland". This time, Alice is played by the mother, who falls asleep while reading the bedtime story to her daughter. Walking through the Looking Glass, Alice (Kate Beckinsale) finds herself in Chessland, a magical and fun world.

Chris, a former tennis player looking to work as a tennis instructor, becomes obsessed with Nola, his brother-in-law's seductive fiancée.

British pensioners move to a retirement home in India where they get a new lease on life.

Follow the true story of English painter Dora Carrington and writer Lytton Strachey, who formed an unconventional relationship between 1915 and 1932.

When two actors star in a movie about a love affair in nineteenth-century England, their off-screen life starts to resemble the film’s plot.

An orphan little girl befriends a benevolent giant who takes her to Giant Country, where they attempt to stop the man-eating giants that are invading the human world. [YTV]