The Twilight Zone - Season One
Genres: Fantasy, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Year: 1985
Country: USA
Director: Robin Ward, Charles Aidman, Luci-Lynn Norris
Starring: Rod Serling
Available Quality: DivX
A collection of tales which range from comic to tragic, but often have a wicked sense of humor and an unexpected twist.
The Twilight Zone - Season Two
Genres: Fantasy, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Year: 1986
Country: USA
Director: Robin Ward, Charles Aidman, Luci-Lynn Norris
Starring: Rod Serling
Available Quality: DivX
The Twilight Zone is an American television anthology series created by Rod Serling. Each episode (156 in the original series) is a mixture of self-contained drama, psychological thriller, fantasy, science fiction, suspense, or horror, often concluding with a macabre or unexpected twist. A popular and critical success, it introduced many Americans to serious science fiction and abstract ideas through television and also through a wide variety of Twilight Zone literature.
Yes Minister - Season One
Genres: Comedy
Year: 1980
Country: UK
Director: Paul Eddington, Nigel Hawthorne, Derek Fowlds
Starring: Nigel Hawthorne, Paul Eddington, Derek Fowlds
Available Quality: DivX
Yes Minister is a satirical British sitcom written by Antony Jay and Jonathan Lynn that was first transmitted by BBC Television between 19801982 and 1984, split over three seven-episode series. The sequel, Yes, Prime Minister, ran from 1986 to 1988. In total there were 38 episodesof which all but one lasted half an hour. Several episodes were adapted for BBC Radio, and a stage play was produced in 2010.
Yes Minister - Season Two
Genres: Comedy
Year: 1981
Country: UK
Director: Paul Eddington, Nigel Hawthorne, Derek Fowlds
Starring: Nigel Hawthorne, Paul Eddington, Derek Fowlds
Available Quality: DivX
Set principally in the private office of a British government cabinet minister in the (fictional) Department for Administrative Affairs in Whitehall (the sequel was set in the Prime Minister's offices at 10 Downing Street), the series follows the senior ministerial career of The Rt Hon Jim Hacker MP, played by Paul Eddington. His various struggles to formulate and enact legislation or effect departmental changes are opposed by the will of the British Home Civil Service, in particular his Permanent Secretary, Sir Humphrey Appleby, played by Nigel Hawthorne. His Principal Private Secretary Bernard Woolley, played by Derek Fowlds, is usually cau...
Yes Minister - Season Three
Genres: Comedy
Year: 1982
Country: UK
Director: Paul Eddington, Nigel Hawthorne, Derek Fowlds
Starring: Nigel Hawthorne, Paul Eddington, Derek Fowlds
Available Quality: DivX
A huge critical and popular success, the series received a number of awards, including several BAFTAs and in 2004 came sixth in the Britain's Best Sitcom poll. It was the favourite television programme of the then Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Margaret Thatcher.
Open All Hours - Season Two
Genres: Comedy
Year: 1981
Country: UK
Director: Ronnie Barker, David Jason, Lynda Baron
Starring: Lynda Baron, David Jason, Ronnie Barker
Available Quality: DivX
The series features a small grocer's shop in Balby, a suburb of Doncaster in South Yorkshire. The owner, Albert Arkwright (Ronnie Barker), is a middle-aged miser with a stammer and a knack for being able to sell anything to any buyer, no matter how unwilling. His nephew Granville (David Jason), is his put-upon errand boy, whose attempts at a love-life or even just a meaningful social life fall flat. He blames his uncle, in particular, that, he has to be up early to open the shop, stay up late to close it with only an odd hour of free time and deliver large numbers of goods on a battered bicycle. Almost every mistake Arkwright makes is followe...
Open All Hours - Season Three
Genres: Comedy
Year: 1982
Country: UK
Director: Ronnie Barker, David Jason, Lynda Baron
Starring: Lynda Baron, David Jason, Ronnie Barker
Available Quality: DivX
The shop is crowded and most goods can only be reached from behind the counter allowing Arkwright a chance to hawk more goods. The till is old, and an overtightened spring on its drawer terrifies Granville and Arkwright, as it results in many a close call as the till snaps shut, almost trapping the pair's fingers. Arkwright does not replace it partly because replacements are too expensive, and partly because it prevents people from taking his precious money.
Open All Hours - Season Four
Genres: Comedy
Year: 1984
Country: UK
Director: Ronnie Barker, David Jason, Lynda Baron
Starring: Lynda Baron, David Jason, Ronnie Barker
Available Quality: DivX
Across the road lives Nurse Gladys Emmanuel (Lynda Baron), Arkwright's long-standing fiancée; much of the skinflint's time is dedicated to trying to persuade her to marry him, or at least sleep with him. Nurse Gladys has her rounds and her elderly mother to occupy her. The only one with any influence over Arkwright, she forces him to give Granville more freedoms and spend money to modernize his archaic lifestyle. In the pilot episode, Nurse Gladys was played by Sheila Brennan with an Irish accent, and the character was slimmer than the buxom creature she became, played by Lynda Baron.
Voice Over
Genres: Drama
Year: 1983
Country: UK
Director: Christopher Monger
Starring: Ian McNeice, John Cassady, Bish Nethercote, Sarah Martin, David Pearce, Stuart Hutton, Eira Moore
Available Quality: DivX
Does the fact that a film is about a misogynist make it a misogynistic film? Thats the question that plagued Voice Over director, Christopher Monger, on the films initial release and which helped hasten its relegation to relative obscurity.Ian McNeice stars as Fats Bannerman, the writer of a radio drama for women set in the 19th Century which has attracted a loyal following, much to everyones amusement.When hes faced with some home truths about his show by a local journalist, before being taunted by two women whom he meets in a bar, Fats career starts to take a new direction. Then he stumbles upon one of the women in an alley, b...
Treasure Island
Genres: Adventure
Year: 1990
Country: USA, UK
Director: Fraser Clarke Heston
Starring: Christian Bale, Charlton Heston, Pete Postlethwaite, Christopher Lee, James Cosmo, John Abbott, Julian Glover
Available Quality: DivX
Young Jim Hawkins, while running the Benbow Inn with his mother, meets Captain Billy Bones, who dies at the inn while it is beseiged by buccaneers led by Blind Pew. Jim and his mother fight off the attackers and discover Billy Bones' treasure map for which the buccaneers had come. Jim agrees to sail on the S.S. Espaniola with Squire Trelawney and Dr. Livesey to find the treasure on a mysterious isiand. Upon arriving at the island, ship's cook and scaliwag Long John Silver leads a mutiny of crew members who want the treasure for themselves. Jim helps the Squire and Espaniola officers to survive the mutiny and fight back against Silver's men, w...
The Muppet Show - Season Five
Year: 1980
Country: USA
Director: Jim Henson, Joseph A. Bailey
Starring: Jim Henson, Frank Oz, Richard Hunt
Available Quality: DivX
"The Muppet Show Theme" was played at the beginning and end of every episode of The Muppet Show. Although it evolved visually over the course of the show's five seasons, the musical composition remained sequentially the same.
The Bunker
Year: 1981
Country: USA, France
Director: George Schaefer
Starring: Michael Kitchen, Anthony Hopkins, James Naughton, Piper Laurie, Richard Jordan, Martin Jarvis, Michael Lonsdale
Available Quality: DivX
Dramatization depicting the events surrounding Adolf Hitler's last weeks in and around his underground bunker in Berlin before and during the battle for the city.
Steaming
Genres: Drama
Year: 1985
Country: UK
Director: Joseph Losey
Starring: Vanessa Redgrave, Diana Dors, Patti Love, Anna Tzelniker, Sarah Miles, Felicity Dean, Brenda Bruce
Available Quality: DivX
A film about self-discovery and triumph based on the popular play.
The Young Riders - Season One
Year: 1989
Country: USA
Director: Unknown
Starring: Josh Brolin, Stephen Baldwin, Brett Cullen, Anthony Zerbe, Melissa Leo, Christopher Pettiet, Don Franklin
Available Quality: DivX
Set just before the American Civil War, this series presented a highly fictionalized account of the heyday of the Pony Express. Its focus was a group of young Express riders based at the waystation in Sweetwater, Kansas. Running the station was ex-Texas Ranger and all-around eccentric Teaspoon Hunter. The role of cook, housekeeper and mother hen was filled first by Emma and later by Rachel. The riders included the future "Buffalo Bill" Cody and James Butler ("Wild Bill") Hickok, as well as Ike, a mute, Buck, a half-White/half-Kiowa scout and the Kid, a quiet Southerner. Their final member was Lou, a young woman who lived and worked with the r...
Mother Lode
Genres: Adventure
Year: 1982
Country: USA
Director: Charlton Heston
Starring: Charlton Heston, Kim Basinger, John Marley, Nick Mancuso, Dale Wilson, Rocky Zantolas, Marie George
Available Quality: DivX
A couple of youngish adventurers go into the wilderness of British Columbia in search of a lost colleague. Their plane crashes and they find themselves at the mercy of a crazed old Scottish miner, who has lived in isolation for many decades searching the mountain caves for a chamber of long lost gold. He is prepared to do anything - including murder - to keep his gold for himself.
Around the World with Dot aka Dot and Santa Claus
Year: 1981
Country: Australia
Director: Yoram Gross
Starring: Ron Haddrick, Drew Forsythe, Barbara Frawley, Ross Higgins, Anne Haddy, Ben Alcott, Ashley Ayre
Available Quality: DivX
Little Dot searches the Globe for her lost baby Kangaroo, and in the process learns the true meaning of Christmas.
Alone in the Neon Jungle
Year: 1988
Country: USA
Director: Georg Stanford Brown
Starring: Jude Ciccolella, Jon Tenney, Jon Polito, Georg Stanford Brown, Joe Morton, Danny Aiello, Suzanne Pleshette
Available Quality: DivX
When the Chief of Police transfers tough police captain Janet Hamilton to "The Sewer," a crime-infested inner-city precinct, she suspects that many of her own men have been thriving in this lawless wasteland-though she has no idea how deep the corruption goes. Compelled to investigate after a sergeant is mysteriously murdered, Janet discovers that some of Pittsburgh finest are caught up in one of the most explosive and shocking scandals the City of Pittsburgh has ever seen.
Comic Book Confidential
Genres: History, Documentary
Year: 1988
Country: USA, Canada
Director: Ron Mann
Starring: Stan Lee, Frank Miller, Bill Griffith, Robert Crumb, Lynda Barry, Charles Burns, Sue Coe
Available Quality: DivX
In the 20th century, no artistic medium in North America with so much potential for creative expression has had a more turbulent history plagued with less respect than comic books. Through animated montages, readings and interviews, this film guides us through the history of the medium from the late 1930s and 1940s with the first explosion of popularity with the superheroes created by great talents like Jack Kirby and hitting its first artistic zenith with Will Eisner's "Spirit". It then shifts to the post war comics world with the rising popularity of crime and horror comics, especially those published by EC Comics under the editorshiop of W...
Signal Seven
Genres: Drama
Year: 1986
Country: USA
Director: Rob Nilsson
Starring: Paul West, Bill Ackridge, Dan Leegant, John Tidwell, Herb Mills, Don Bajema, Phil Polakoff
Available Quality: DivX
A day in the life of two middle-aged San Francisco cab drivers, Marty and Speed, both who are living in a state of turmoil, unable to shake the anger, loneliness and anguish of the lives they didnt live. This was the first feature film to be blown up from small format video to 35 mm and distributed around the world.
Next
Year: 1989
Country: UK
Director: Barry Purves
Starring: Roger Rees, Barry Purves
Available Quality: DivX
Will, a poor player who bears an uncanny resemblance to Shakespeare, auditions on stage in front of Peter, a busy producer with his nose in the trade papers, hardly noticing Will's extraordinary performance. Will, using the prop of a life-sized doll and changing costumes with magical speed, acts out brief scenes at the heart of Romeo and Juliet, Richard III, As You Like It, Hamlet, Antony and Cleopatra, Othello, Titus Andronicus, Merry Wives, the Tempest, the Winter's Tale, and other of the Bard's plays. It's an infinite variety show, and finally Peter's attention is on Will. What will the producer say when Will finishes?