National Theatre Live production of Christopher Hampton's play in which the super rich couple exert their influence on society using the art of seduction as a strategy but, when the alliance between them collapses into rivalry, then everyone is threatened by the fallout.
The highly acclaimed story of William Shakespeare's marriage to Agnes, a spiritual woman, with whom he had two daughters and a son, Hamnet. The film is an imagined account of their blissful life together until tragedy strikes the family. This happens at a time when William's career is just taking off, requiring him to be in London far more, all of which puts a strain on their relationship.
A dramatisation of the Nuremberg Trials in 1945 in which most of the surviving Nazi hierarchy were accused and convicted of their war crimes. The film centres around the relationship between an American psychologist and Herman Goring. The psychologist interviews and assesses the General and becomes increasingly obsessed by the concept of Evil.
Each year, to celebrate President Saddam Hussein's birthday, schools across Iraq choose a student to bring something to honour the President's birthday. Nine year old Lamia lives with her Grandmother who teaches her some tricks to avoid being chosen. Despite her best efforts, Lamia is chosen anyway and is tasked with baking a cake. She struggles, however, to find all the ingredients but failure is not an option as the consequences could mean imprisonment or worse.
This film has been nominated several times and won many awards. It is a story of an ex-revolutionary trying to live a quiet life with his high spirited daughter but his paranoia gets the better of him when he receives news that his old nemesis has re-emerged and his daughter has gone missing. He contacts his old revolutionary buddies and, together, they try to locate and rescue her.
The story centres around Yusuf, a young Palestinian, who gets caught up in the uprising of the people of Palestine in 1936. The film documents the protest against British rule and the influx of Jews escaping persecution in Europe resulting in the inevitable clash of cultures and interests.
This National Theatre Live production is a new adaptation of Moliere's dark comedy by Martin Crimp. Starring award-winning Sandra Oh as Alice, an outspoken novelist and artist who discovers, due to her forthright views challenging fashionable ideas , that her friends and colleagues begin to drift away.
Small-time entertainers Mike and Claire, disillusioned with their individual careers, decide to join forces as a Neil Diamond tribute act calling themselves Lightning and Thunder. They experience soaring success but at a cost to their personal relationship.
