Phyllida Law

In 1973, Gen. Augusto Pinochet overtook Chile in a violent coup. During his 17-year rule, he gained a reputation as one of the world’s most oppressive dictators. This new HBO Film tells the fascinating story of Pinochet’s surprise arrest for crimes against humanity in 1998. Then retired, the 82-year-old former dictator went to Great Britain for a vacation that was to forever change his life—and the prospects for dictators across the globe. Emmy(R)-winning actor Derek Jacobi stars as Pinochet; also with Peter Capaldi, Phyllida Law and Anna Massey. Written and directed by Richard Curson Smith.

A 19th-century inventor travels 800,000 years into the future, where he finds humankind divided.

This mini-series follows Jane Austen as she nears her 40th birthday and lifts the lid on the secrets of the love life of the celebrated novelist.

Pregnant wife Marie finds things starting to go wrong when she and her husband Joe decide to take a break at a remote Scottish hotel.

The first film made in the newly independent Republic of Macedonia, Milcho Manchevski’s BEFORE THE RAIN crosscuts the stories of an orthodox Christian monk (Grégoire Colin), a British photo agent (Katrin Cartlidge), and a native Macedonian war photographer (Rade Šerbedžija) to paint a portrait of simmering ethnic and religious hatred about to reach its boiling point. Made during the strife of the war-torn Balkan states in the nineties, this gripping triptych of love and violence is also a timeless evocation of the loss of pastoral innocence, and remains one of recent cinema’s most powerful laments on the futility of war.

An eccentric widow touring the world with her husband’s ashes makes a fateful first stop at a glorious Scottish inn owned by the fiancé of an heiress.

In Cuba, insurance man Jack Petty befriends a trouble-seeking writer, waking to a dead body and kill order. He must outsmart danger to survive.

The sheriff of a Spanish town during the Inquisition must choose between his conscience and his family when he's tied to a series of barbaric murders.