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- Bridget Jones is determined to improve herself while she looks for love in a year in which she keeps a personal diary.
- A Russian and a German sniper play a game of cat-and-mouse during the Battle of Stalingrad.
- An aspiring writer is hired as a croupier at a casino, where he realizes that his life as a croupier would make a great novel.
- Chronicles the rise and fall of a prominent, and particularly ruthless English gangster.
- Grandpa Ward gives a horse he found to his grandchildren, who keep it in their tower-block flat in Dublin. The horse is stolen from them, and the two young boys set out to find it and flee on it.
- Brilliant, flamboyant master criminal Michael Lynch is more interested in his image and his posterity than the actual profit from his ill-gotten gains.
- A Jewish strongman performs in Berlin as the blond Aryan hero Siegfried.
- A disillusioned war journalist's return home is blighted when he becomes implicated in the mysterious disappearance of a teenage girl he has befriended.
- 30ish Patrick and teenage Dominic are two brothers living alone in a remote farmhouse in the Southwest of Ireland, while their mother is away traveling. When their aunt comes visiting, with her arrives Anya, a young woman from Germany who starts helping Dominic with his studies in return for a chance to improve her English. As time goes by, Patrick and Anya fall in love, while Dominic also develops feelings for the girl. And when they marry and decide to move to Dublin together, Dominic comes with them, not being able to let go of his brother.
- The four brothers of the Phelan family battle to save their farm and their family from the ravages of the Irish Potato Famine in 1846, and from an English land agent who takes a dislike to them.
- Shortly after waking up from a coma and discovering that his wife has been killed in a car accident, Ben befriends his beautiful young neighbor. But just as Ben begins to turn his life around, he is haunted by visions of his dead wife.
- When sent to Ireland as magistrate, Major Yeates discovers the justice system must bend to suit local needs, where not everything is as it seems.
- A friendly, poetry quoting bus conductor in 1963 Dublin wants to stage Oscar Wilde's play, Salome, with passengers on his bus.
- At the beginning of the 20th century, a young servant provokes an independent Irish farm community by her relationship with two brothers. Pregnant, she refuses to reveal the name of the father.
- In 1813, Capitaine Jacques St. Ives, a Hussar in the Napoleonic wars, is captured and sent to a Scottish prison camp. He's a swashbuckler, so the prison's commander, Major Farquar Bolingbroke Chevening, asks for lessons in communicating with women. Both men have their eyes on the lovely Flora, who resides with her aunt, the iconoclastic and well-traveled Miss Susan Emily Gilcrist. By chance, living close to the camp is Jacques's grandfather and brother, whom Jacques believes died years before. Jacques decides to escape, find his relatives, and win the hand of Flora; Major Chevening and an unforeseen enemy stand in his way. Can Miss Gilcrist contrive to make everything work out?
- Edward fancies himself to be a cunning manipulator, but is so tragically self-deluded that he can't see he's being used by his wealthy friends as a sex-tool and a dupe. Banality ensues.
- A raw depiction of the Belfast, Northern Ireland "troubles" as savage tribal warfare. Set shortly after the 1975 cease fire, this movie focuses on the tribulations of Kenny (James Frain), Protestant leader of a group of Shankill Road Loyalists, and his one-time friend Liam (John Lynch), a Catholic.
- The deportation of 4000 Jews from Budapest to Auschwitz in July 1944, as told by George Tabori, and how the narrator's mother escaped it, owing to coincidence, courage and some help from where you'd least expect it.
- A former IRA bombmaker is forced to resume her craft when her daughter is kidnapped.
- When a bomb explodes in a British RAF base in Germany, MI5 terrorist specialist Bull (Bill Paterson) is called in to investigate. However, the further he begins to dig into the secrets behind the terrorism, the more he finds himself immersed in dodgy goings-on in the corridors of power of NATO itself.
- When Uncle Max takes his nephew Luke out for the day there is sure to be fun.. and trouble!
- The story about the national personality cult of the Romanian dictator, Nicolae Ceausescu.
- Examines the controversial legacy of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the revolutionary Turkish leader.
- A strongly visual look at the life, work and obsessions of the writer Bruce Chatwin, who died of AIDS in 1989. He was hailed as the greatest novelist since Hemingway, and the foremost travel writer of modern times.
- A provocative portrait of Ireland's Traveller Community by acclaimed documentary-maker John T. Davis and photographer Alen MacWeeney, who first photographed them 35 years ago. The result is a poignant film and a study in the durability of photographic art - these Travellers are quite recognisable, and it comes as a shock when they step our of their photographs and tell what they did with their lives in the long interval.
- A fast-paced, often surreal documentary that goes beyond the tinselly glamour of Bollywood to explore the industry's darker side.
- Mrs. Cadogan leaves for a funeral and a job cook is hired to replace her. Flurry and Sally return from their honeymoon in Paris, and Flurry is up to his old tricks again. He convinces Major Yeates to go on a hunting trip that turns out badly for the Major.
- Sally's new neighbor, Mr. Shoot, seeks help buying a horse. When the Knoxs and Yeates take him to the market, they are surprised to learn how clueless he really is. Flurry becomes jealous of Mr. Shoot's attention to Sally.
- The Major's sister, Barbara, looks after him in Philippa's absence. Cousin Andrew also arrives to help and begins to fix everything in sight, including a crumbling chimney and a mysterious well. Cold water and strange spirits are unleased as Andrew's enthusiasm goes a bit too far.
- With few prospects, Major Yeates leaves his home and fiancée in England and accepts a position as resident magistrate in Ireland. Upon arriving, he discovers that not only is the house he rents not as grand as it was advertised, it might also be haunted.
- A ship with a full cargo of rum runs aground near Shebawn, and the locals engage in broken revelry as the barrels wash ashore. Of course, the subsequent police search reveals practically no signs of rum.
- It's time for the hunt as the Major drives to meet with the Curranhilty Harriers in a noisy new motor car, suffering the disdain of the locals. The excursion doesn't quite go as planned, as the Major continuously finds himself in an awkward position with Miss Bennett.
- Flurry and Sally's blossoming relationship is hindered by Sally's mother. Old Mrs. Knox is giving a tenants ball to which all the servants are invited. Recruited to help out, the Major and Philippa have an exciting evening dousing fire and promoting romance.
- A local publican smoothly sidesteps the Major's objections to beer sales at the annual St. Peter and St. Paul's Day Games, which are being held on Shreelane land. Philippa offers to organize tea for the event, and unknowingly becomes part of Flurry's scheme.
- Christmas proves a tense time for the Yeateses when Philippa collides with Oweneen while driving the carriage. When it's discovered that one of the people injured in the carriage accident is an evil mountain man known as Oweneen the Sprat, the family is overcome with fear.
- A visit from the Major's officious cousin Basil coincides with an unusually complicated case. A dispute between two fishing families living on a remote island involves an alleged assault, a marriage proposal, and a "boat's share."
- The major receives an offer to become R.M. in a community closer to Dublin. Upon hearing of the offer, Mrs. Cadogan and the rest of the household think it's a joke. But unexpected frustrations cause the Major to resign.
- On the eve of the annual local regatta, the rivalry between the Callaghans and the Foleys heats up and the Foleys wind up in court. The major sets off to carry out his duties as patron of the regatta but gets sidetracked when Flurry's friend persuades him to help raid the butcher shop
- With Philippa gone to England to tend to her ailing mother, Major Yeate's problems multiply. A shifty entrepreneur brings moving pictures into Skebawn, creating havoc that the Major must subdue while fending off the unwanted advances of Miss Bobbie Bennett.
- Flurry's imposing grandmother turns up at court and invites the Major to a dinner party. The Major wants to give Philippa a horse as a wedding gift and Flurry devises a plan to get one of his grandmother's colts.
- Babs fondly reminisces about her old friend, Julian Chichester, who is coming to stay at Shreelane. But no sooner does Chichester arrive than he begins to scorn the Major's household, including a beloved canine. Flurry decides to teach Chichester a lesson, resulting in a disastrous sailing trip.
- The Maharajah and his Indian polo team, visiting Skebawn, accept a "friendly" challenge from Flurry. To ensure he comes out ahead, Flurry sells a seemingly docile filly to John Cullinane.
- Flurry and Sally are threatened with being put out on the street after they discover that the landlord of Aussolas Castle wants to rent it out. Their time to deal with eviction is lessened by a telegram detailing the impending arrival of the new tenant. It appears Mrs. Knox is serious in her intent.
- As the Lisheen Races take hold of Skebawn, Sally strikes a deal to enter the competition, while Mrs. Cadogan discourages Peter from betting on the horses. The Major is surprised to learn that his job performance has been called into question by a visiting Dublin official.