Front Door (2010)

Actors: Mike Ezuruonye (actor), Annie Macauley (actress), Annie Macauley (producer), Afe Olumowe (director), Afe Olumowe (writer), Jme Orighoye (actress), Millicent Mugadu Wambui (actress), Nash Alexis Smith (actor), Wisdom Macaulay (actor), Paa Kwesi Yeboah (actor),

Genres: Drama,

Front Door 2 (2010)

Actors: Mike Ezuruonye (actor), Annie Macauley (actress), Annie Macauley (producer), Afe Olumowe (director), Afe Olumowe (writer), Jme Orighoye (actress), Millicent Mugadu Wambui (actress), Nash Alexis Smith (actor), Wisdom Macaulay (actor), Paa Kwesi Yeboah (actor),

Genres: Drama,

The History of Mr Polly (2007)

Actors: Roger Lloyd-Pack (actor), H.G. Wells (writer), Lee Evans (actor), James Edward Barker (composer), Adrian Scarborough (actor), Michele Buck (producer), Trevor Cooper (actor), Charlotte Holdich (costume designer), Richard Coyle (actor), Selina Cadell (actress), Jason Watkins (actor), Damien Timmer (producer), John Warnaby (actor), Anne-Marie Duff (actress), Linda James (producer),

Plot: In the early 1900s Alfred Polly, still hankering after his dream girl Christabel, marries Miriam Larkins and they open a shop, but, as the years go by, the marriage becomes stale and Polly feels trapped. He decides to stage his own death by burning down the shop but becomes an accidental hero when he saves a deaf old lady from the flames. Giving Miriam the insurance pay-out he decides to go walkabout and gets a job at a country pub, the Potwell Inn, run by a kindly landlady. However, her violent nephew Jim is driving the customers away and Polly reluctantly faces up to him. Jim is drunk and falls in the river and drowns, wearing a pair of trousers stolen from Polly with Polly's name inside and so at last Polly has his perfect escape as it is assumed his is the corpse. After a visit to Miriam, now perfectly happy running a tea-shop, he returns to the Potwell Inn and the idyllic life he has always craved.

Keywords: based-on-novel
Genres: Drama,

The Lift (2007)

Actors: Nina Wadia (actress), Beryl Vertue (producer), Douglas Hodge (actor), James Hawes (director), Richard Cox (editor), Mark Watson (actor), Amar Adatia (actor), Mark Watson (writer), Siobhan Redmond (actress), Rasmus Hardiker (actor), Mark Freeland (producer), Suzanne Baron (miscellaneous crew), Sue Vertue (producer), Murray Peterson (producer),

Genres: Comedy,

Wheel of Change (2005)

Actors: Fred Amata (actor), Desmond Elliot (actor), Stella Damasus (actress), Rita Dominic (actress), Robert Peters (writer), Jeta Amata (writer), Jeta Amata (director), Enyinna Nwigwe (actor), Ansa Ekpo Bassey (producer), Mbong Amata (actress), Eric Anderson (actor),

Genres: ,

Whatever Love Means (2005)

Actors: Morgan O'Sullivan (producer), Richard Johnson (actor), James Flynn (producer), Michele Buck (producer), Anne Dudley (composer), Grania Preston (costume designer), Niall Martin (miscellaneous crew), Damien Timmer (producer), Mark Day (editor), Peter Egan (actor), Andrea Riseborough (actress), Stella McCusker (actress), Susan Holmes (miscellaneous crew), Freya Berry (actress), Patrick O'Donoghue (producer),

Genres: Drama,

Quotes:

[In Camilla's flat afer their first date. Charles's detective is waiting in the car outside]::Camilla Parker-Bowles: How long does that chappie have to wait outside?::Prince Charles: As long as I'm in here.::Camilla Parker-Bowles: So what do we do - send out food and drink at regular intervals? Or do they bring in supplies from the Palace? I suppose you've had all these jokes before.::Prince Charles: Well, most people are a *little* more circumspect.::Camilla Parker-Bowles: Circumspect?::Prince Charles: One gets very used to being called "Sir".::Camilla Parker-Bowles: But you told me not to. Look, I *do* know about royal bloody protocol, Charles. Do you know who my grandmother was? My great grandmother, actually. She was your great great grandfather's mistress, Charles. And do you know what she said her job was? She said "My job is to curtsy to the King first... then jump into bed with him!"::Prince Charles: Did she really?::Camilla Parker-Bowles: Yes she did.::[Camilla looks longingly and seductively at Charles]::Prince Charles: Are you by any chance saying what I think you're saying?::Camilla Parker-Bowles: Put it this way, Charles. I'm buggered if I'm curtsying.

Without a Clue (1988)

Actors: Nigel Davenport (actor), Ben Kingsley (actor), Peter Tanner (editor), Skates Naiman (miscellaneous crew), Henry Mancini (composer), Jeffrey Jones (actor), Lysette Anthony (actress), Michael Caine (actor), Peter Cook (actor), Paul Freeman (actor), Tristan Whalley (miscellaneous crew), Brian Weske (miscellaneous crew), Patrick Isherwood (miscellaneous crew), Annie Penn (miscellaneous crew), Michael O'Hagan (actor),

Plot: This is a Sherlock Holmes story with a difference. Here Dr Watson is the ace detective and has been using an actor to play the part Holmes. Holmes is a drunken actor and gets on Watson's nerves. When Watson tries to go it alone, he doesn't have much success, so he is forced to let Holmes take all the credit once more.

Keywords: actor, attempted-robbery, bank-of-england, bumbling-detective, cross-dressing, detective, doctor, drunkard, drunkenness, evil-man
Genres: Comedy, Crime, Mystery,
Taglines: The flip side of Sherlock Holmes. He's got his hat, He's got his pipe...but he hasn't got a clue! Watson...there's an evil mastermind on the loose! ...And my dear Holmes, there's an idiot on his trail! The outrageous comedy about the world's greatest detective and his bumbling partner...Sherlock Holmes. Meet the world's greatest detective...and Sherlock Holmes.

Quotes:

Inspector Lestrade: Half a tick, Mr. Holmes. Ye can't go walkin' into someone's residence, pokin' about their personal possessions, disruptin' their privacy... That's for Scotland Yard.

Holmes: An occasional libation enables me to stiffen my resolve.::Mrs. Hudson: Your resolve should be pickled by now!

Watson: I'll ask you once more: Are you coming with me?::Holmes: I would rather waltz naked through the fires of Hell.

Holmes: MORIARTY?::Watson: Oh, for God's sake...::Holmes: You didn't tell me that homicidal maniac was in on this!::Watson: That's because I knew you'd behave this way.::Holmes: Bravo! Another triumph for deductive reasoning!

Holmes: It wasn't YOU he tried to kill!::Watson: Think man, think... Who was SUPPOSED to be in that room?::Holmes: That's right! You were!::Watson: Moriarty knows... I'm am the only match for his evil genius.::Holmes: You mean he's not trying to kill me?::Watson: Of course not. He knows you're an idiot.::Holmes: Oh, thank God.

Holmes: How can I be expected to maintain the character when you belittle me in front of those hooligans?::Watson: Character? Are we talking about the same man who once declared with total conviction that the late Colonel Howard had been bludgeoned to death with a blunt *excrement*?::Holmes: Is it my fault you have such poor handwriting?

[Holmes and Watson are walking through some woods. Holmes is looking up into the trees]::Holmes: What am I looking for?::Watson: Footprints.::Holmes: Ah.::[Holmes looks down]::Holmes: Have I found any yet?::Watson: Not yet.::Holmes: Well let me know when I do.

Holmes: Lovely story, Watson. But on page 2 you have me admitting a mistake.::Watson: A writer must write of which he knows...

Holmes: I'm reminded of the curious case of the Manchurian Mambo...::Watson: Holmes, could I have a word?::Holmes: Yes, what is it?::Watson: I believe that was the Manchurian Mamba.::Holmes: Mambo, mamba. What's the difference?::Watson: Well, very little, except that one is a deadly, poisonous snake, while the other is a rather festive Carribean dance.::Holmes: It was a night like any other, when suddenly a knock came at the door. I opened it, and there were these Manchurians, doing a rather festive Carribean dance...

Watson: Lord Mayor! Don't move until Holmes has searched the area for clues!::Holmes: My GOD I've trained you well, Watson!

The History of Mr. Polly (1949)

Actors: Wylie Watson (actor), Neville Phillips (actor), Timothy Bateson (actor), Cyril Smith (actor), Wally Patch (actor), Moore Marriott (actor), Frederick Piper (actor), Cameron Hall (actor), David Horne (actor), Michael Ripper (actor), Edward Chapman (actor), John Mills (actor), Finlay Currie (actor), Miles Malleson (actor), Ian Wilson (actor),

Plot: Quiet and somewhat direction-less, Alfred Polly uses the money he inherits from his father to marry and to set up shop in a small town. His heart is in neither of these enterprises and he eventually resorts to desperate measures to break free. His random wanderings in the countryside lead him to a new opportunity that just might be what he's been looking for all along.

Genres: Drama,

Quotes:

The Innkeeper: What sort of work do you want?::Alfred Polly: I've never properly thought that out.

The Innkeeper: I want an odd man about the place.::Alfred Polly: I'm odd all right.

The Innkeeper: I suppose you're all right. You've got a sort of half respectable look about you. I suppose you haven't done anything?::Alfred Polly: Bit of arson.::The Innkeeper: So long as you haven't the habit.::Alfred Polly: My first time, m'am, and my last.

The Innkeeper: Have you ever been to prison?::Alfred Polly: Never.::The Innkeeper: Nor reformatory?::Alfred Polly: Not me. Do I look reformed?

The Joyous Adventures of Aristide Pujol (1920)

Actors: Frank Miller (director), Barbara Everest (actress), Kenelm Foss (producer), Frank Miller (writer), Kenelm Foss (actor), Pauline Peters (actress), Irene Tripod (actress), Bryan Powley (actor), W.J. Locke (writer), George Tawde (actor), Douglas Heathcote (actor), Arthur Helmore (actor), Blanche Churms (actress),

Genres: Comedy,

Robin Hood (1912)

Actors: John G. Adolfi (actor), Alec B. Francis (actor), Robert Frazer (actor), Lamar Johnstone (actor), George Larkin (actor), Guy Oliver (actor), Muriel Ostriche (actress), Julia Stuart (actress), Barbara Tennant (actress), Étienne Arnaud (director), Herbert Blaché (director), Mathilde Baring (actress), Isabel Lamon (actress), Leslie Stowe (actor), Richard Sterling (actor),

Genres: Adventure, Drama, Romance, Short,