British TV & Films 1988 Not Yet Released On DVD Region 2

Comedy about the eccentric members of an exclusive London club.

Trevor Beasley, a school teacher, has his head stuck firmly in the past, despite having a new house, a new job and a new baby

Carlos Quintas, the democratically-elected president of an unnamed South American country, has been deposed by a military coup. He is in London, the head of a government in exile, rallying international support. He is also a poet of talent and reputation, in love with Kate, his assistant, who has a secret of her own and keeps Carlos at a distance. The generals have a team of professionals in London bent on kidnap and assassination. Hovering around Carlos are two Russians, who may be KGB, an American book publisher, who may be CIA, an elusive Brit, probably from her majesty's secret service, and his own few supporters. Is Carlos doomed? Whom can he trust?

In early 1980s Buenos Aires, a struggling movie theater owner takes in a roommate but suspects he is responsible for a series of political assassinations.

While being treated for asthma at a country spa, an American diplomat's lonely 12-year-old son is befriended and infatuated by a suave, mysterious baron. During a story of his war experiences, the baron reveals the scar of a wound from an American soldier and thrusts a pin through it, saying "see-- no feeling." Little does the boy realize that it is his turn to be wounded. But soon his adored friend heartlessly brushes him aside and turns his seductive attentions to his mother. The boy's jealousy and feelings of betrayal become uncontrollable.

A father (Tab Hunter) who experiments with his son's (Scott Curtis) psychokinetic powers is unaware that these experiments release a demon from hell, which lives in his son's closet, preparing to take over the young boy's soul.

Five friends set up their own knitting company.

Crime Police Squad protects brutal member when he beats up protester.

A tragic mishap at a chocolate factory results in candy lovers getting an unexpected 'extra' in their sweets. The problem is that they want more!

Robinson Crusoe is shipwrecked and he finds himself all alone on a tropical island. With a few tools he manages to rescue from the wreck he has to learn to support himself until help arrives.

A short experimental film about the perception of vision inspired by a poem by English poet William Blake

In the 1960's N.V. Standish graduated from Oxford an accomplished novelist and a fine athlete, yet is found 25 years later to be flipping burgers. His sisters Louise and Mary decide to look after him, and he endeavors to shirk as much work and responsibility as possible.

A young woman about to be married begins having terrifying dreams about demons. When she wakes, however, the demons are real and begin to commit gruesome murders.

Three generations of women share the same problem--marriage woes--and want to put an end to it.

When the widowed Mrs Bing goes into hospital for a routine operation, she little realises she will soon make a dramatic bid for the most essential freedom of all.

Chef Keith Floyd visits various parts of the UK and Ireland and cooks local produce.

Saturday Live brought the late 1980s UK alternative comedy circuit to Channel 4. Some of comedy's most iconic characters made their debut such as Ben Elton, Harry Enfield, Rik Mayall, Adrian Edmondson, Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie.

An old man remembers the troubled relationship he had with his mother, the erotic games, and the fantasies in which she managed to entrap him.

Bernard Samson is a spy in the employ of S.I.S., London Central.

Two business rivals find themselves neighbours in a peaceful English village.

Poor little rich girl into Mills and Boon fantasies falls for unemployed black boy up north and tries to 'help'.

Forever bungling private investigator Henry Brilliant has been hired by Maxine de la Hunt to protect her stepdaughter Marigold during her trip to Denmark. A real caring parent should have hired an army of P.I.s to protect Marigold from Mr. Brilliant. His name, he's not.

Family comedy filmed in Bolton about lovable rogue Gruey, who always meant well but frequently got in trouble.

Two 13-year-olds from different backgrounds form an unlikely friendship, take Max's dad's Ferrari, and embark on an unauthorized trip to Brighton, learning life lessons.

Drama series about probation officers and the tough situations that they have to tackle.

Two terminally ill patients in a hospital yearn for relief from their predicament. With little or no friends, they form an uneasy alliance and plot an escape for one last wild time.

A young boy's holiday at a seaside resort includes a crazy blind priest, nuns in suspenders and a whole bunch of fat ladies.

Comedy set in a modelling agency, Maggie's Models.

Stylish and harrowing account of attempt to drive a 'Dennis' Fire engine from the Northern most point of Europe (Cape North) to the Southern most tip of Africa (Cape South) to raise funds for the Samaritans.

Jo, a Jamaican native, moves to Canada to help support her family. But she quickly learns that earning money and respect will be more difficult than she ever imagined.

A teenage girl discovers a portal through time, and tries to help two children of the past.

Mr Majeika is a wizard, sent to "Britland" from the planet Walpurgis because he failed his O-level sorcery exam for the seventeenth time. He drops into the sleepy village of Much Barty, finding a post at St Barty's School in sleepy U.K.

A woman moves in with her daughter and grand-daughter.

An alien called Nukie searches for his brother Miko, who has been captured by the U.S. government.

A contractor attempts to convince a 90-year old woman to sell her house but ends up falling in love with the house's history and befriending the old woman.

Olympian gods watch the Earth and resolve to fight a group of terrorists who stole a diskette containing a secret that can destroy the world.

Palace Hill is the name of the High School. The show is a satire of high school life full of quite bizarre students, up to quite bizarre antics.

Clara Paige (Charlotte Rampling) is a busy Euro Member of Parliament with a husband and child at home and a high powered career, but on a trip to Paris, her ordered existence is overturned by a murder and a chance encounter.

A secret agent in Turkey is persuaded by his superiors to assist a couple of English cons in the theft of a priceless Greek statue.

The unexplainable disappearances of innocently-courting teenagers and a child, plus the brutal slaying of livestock, attracts the international media.

Sequel to Rockliffe's Babies. Sergeant Alan Rockliffe relocates to rural Dorset, where he finds that different policing tactics are needed.

Major Charles Forsythe (Carradine) is a Vietnam veteran U.S. Army officer stationed near Rome. He is a brutal, if effective, commander who was "fragged" by his own men in Vietnam. When he is denied promotion because of the number of men injured during his training exercises, he takes out his anger by beating his pregnant wife Sarah (Hutton). She miscarries. On her release from the hospital, Sarah is determined to get back into shape and begins running. She meets Alan Morani (Segal) a former Olympic runner who is a paraplegic as the result of a car accident. Morani offers to coach Sarah to run in the Rome marathon, a race which her husband has won two years in a row. Sarah realizes that winning the race is the best way to avenge the death of her baby and destroy her husband's ego.

On Guy Fawkes Day 1892 Oscar Wilde goes to a performance of his controversial, banned play 'Salome'. The 'theatre' is a brothel and the performers are prostitutes.

A prime time variety show hosted by Michael Barrymore, with music and comedy guests, including regulars The Bluebell Girls.

A sitcom following the exploits of Malcolm and Clive and Pamela and Jackie, four patrons of a singles bar.

Michael flies up to French Canada to visit his girlfriend and her wacky family. She doesn't love him anymore, the grandma mistakes him for her late husband, the sister appears naked and makes advances, the dad likes to be naked as well.

Drama based on The Old Wives' Tale by Arnold Bennett about two sisters whose paths in life differ widely.

Former school friends secretary Pearl Parker and tearaway Finn Gallagher have a flair for investigation so decide to try their hands has private detectives.

Roger Gilbert is an adrenaline junkie who leads an otherwise ordinary life until one day he rides where no man had ridden before. On his ride to the planet Stardust 420, he meets an Aupian named Flou-krepto.

A romantic triangle emerges between Yuppie couple Emma and Nigel Barrington, and their new, more creative-minded neighbor, Sean.

In medieval Paris, a young religious scholar and the beautiful niece of a local patrician fall madly in love and consummate their passion for each other. In the religious uproar that follows, they are condemned and brutally punished.

Childhood sweethearts Bernie and Sylvia are reunited after twenty years and resume their relationship, although their lives have become very different.

An exiled Ghanaian politician returns to Ghana two decades after the 1966 coup.

An adult sitcom about the domestic problems of a young married couple, Patsy (Diana Hardcastle) and Donald (Jimmy Mulville).

A British engineer becomes entangled in a forbidden romance with his Indian employer's eldest daughter. As their passion ignites, the East-meets-West clash of cultures leads to surprising and tragic consequences.

A British spy helps a Russian scientist to defect from the Soviet Union by taking a perilous journey through the Eastern Bloc.

When a courier at the D-Day Courier Service mistakenly finds a pile of money in his regular delivery, he does some digging and discovers that the messenger company is a front for a drug ring. A reformed drug user himself, he sets out to crack the lethal ring.

An I.R.A. gunman (Sir Anthony Hopkins) on the run from the government. He meets up with an idealistic young woman (Rebecca Pidgeon) and attempts to win her support for his cause.

In England during World War II, a repressed dressmaker and her sister struggle looking after their seventeen-year-old niece, who is having a delusional affair with an American soldier.

The story of the Australian Rugby League's first visit to England.

A man finds himself incarcerated alone in a prison cell, not knowing who his unseen captors might be, or why he has been imprisoned.....

London art broker travels to Copenhagen, hires trilingual secretary. Despite knowing little about her, they marry. Her past mysteriously resurfaces after marriage, straining their relationship as he navigates the situation.

When an archaeologist uncovers a strange skull in a foreign land, the residents of a nearby town begin to disappear, leading to further inexplicable occurrences.

When he was a little boy, Dillon's rock musician father and hippie mother died in a traffic accident. Now in his twenties, Dillon wants nothing more than a normal, responsible life, working in an office and taking care of the grandmother who raised him. But his grandmother has other ideas, and Dillon finds himself lured into an alternate lifestyle of art, pleasure and rebellion.

Ron and Ron inherit a London nightclub from their late uncle Albert. They rename the club "The Management Club" and have high hopes for success.

Dramatisation of the events surrounding the attempt by Turk Mehmet Ali Agca to shoot Pope John Paul II in May 1981.

The Movie tells the story of a successful businesswoman who craves love and seeks fulfillment through brief flirtations and unsatisfactory sexual liaisons.

A boy reads about the attacks of a unknown animal on livestock in the town. He plans to run his own investigation. The so called beast however is also used as a metaphor for every day problems the townsfolk face.

Various plays from each of the home nations.

After nearly five years away teaching in the Middle East, Shelley flies back into the UK. He's shocked to find a new world of high rent, yuppies, and wine bars--but Shelley is still Shelley--ready wit, work-shy behaviour, and all.

An old storyteller tells European folk tales to his sarcastic dog.

An ex-SAS officer and an ex member of the Special Boat Services, team up to search for £ 2 million worth of diamonds which go missing when an aircraft is hijacked. Ruthless terrorists seize a London embassy residence. The SAS are called in. There's intense political pressure for a quick resolution. The worst fears of David Barber, the officer in command, are tragically realised. With a brilliant career in ruins, the prospects for ex-Major Barber seem grim until he meets Colonel Patrick Ansell, Managing director of Saracen systems Ltd.

Spoof investigative journalist David Lander chases down and exposes scandal and wrongdoing in nineteen eighties Britain.

In this luminous tale set in the area around Sarajevo and in Italy, Perhan, an engaging young Romany (gypsy) with telekinetic powers, is seduced by the quick-cash world of petty crime, which threatens to destroy him and those he loves.

T.Bag infiltrates a TV to broadcast mind-controlling "High-TV". Holly and Professor Sparkes plan to stop her with a crystal jammer, but T.Bag hides the crystals in shows. Holly races to find them before T.Bag's transmissions begin.

A young girl kicks all of her rubbish under her bed creating a monster which she and her brother must fight. A funny family film with cameos from The Goodies.

An Uruguayan diplomat brings his new wife with him on a business trip to Poland in the summer immediately preceding the outbreak of World War II.

Sitcom focusing on a local Neighbourhood Watch group.