Pete Postlethwaite
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The Age of Stupid
(2009)This enormously ambitious dramadocumentary-animation hybrid stars Oscar-nominated Pete Postlethwaite as an old man living in the devastated world of 2055

Brassed Off
(1996)Ewan McGregor and Pete Poslethwaite star in this typically British award winning comedy about a Yorkshire mining town turning to music for inspiration when faced with the loss of its way of life.
Screen Two
Landmark productions from some of the UK's greatest creative talents, as first seen in the 1980s and 1990s - part of the BBC's rich archive of classic drama.

In the Name of the Father
(1993)Based on the true story of Gerry Conlon, an Irishman who was wrongly imprisoned, alongside three of his friends, for a fatal bombing in a Guildford pub.

Distant Voices, Still Lives
(1988)Distant Voices, Still Lives presents an evocative account of working-class life in Liverpool, England during the 1940s and 50s.

Solomon Kane
(2009)When a powerful sorcerer kidnaps a local girl, a warrior renounces his vow of peace and promises to kill anyone in his path in order to rescue her.

The Lost World: Jurassic Park
(1997)It has been four years since the disaster at Jurassic Park and two groups are in a race against time that will determine the fate of the remote island's prehistoric inhabitants.

Killing Bono
(2011)Neil McCormick (Ben Barnes) always knew he’d be famous. A young Irish songwriter and budding genius, nothing less than a life of rock n’ roll stardom will do. But there’s only room for one singer in school band The Hype and his friend Paul’s already bagged the job. So Neil forms his own band with his brother Ivan (Robert Sheehan). There’s only one problem: The Hype have changed their name. To ‘U2’. And Paul (Martin McCann) has turned into ‘Bono’. Naturally there’s only one option for Neil: become bigger than U2. The brothers head to London in their quest for fame, but their every action is dwarfed by the soaring success of their old school rivals. And when Ivan discovers the shocking truth behind Neil’s rivalry with U2, it threatens to destroy everything. As his rock n’ roll dream crashes and burns, is Neil forever destined to live in the shadows of superstardom? And what if the answer lies in… Killing Bono?

James and the Giant Peach
(1996)This is the story of James Henry Trotter, a lonely orphan sent to live with his horribly wicked and greedy Aunts Spiker and Sponge. when James meets a strange old man who promises that marvellous things will happen, indeed they do. Escaping his aunts by climbing inside a giant peach that mysteriously and suddenly grows on their barren tree, he meets some very unusual new friends.

Anchoress
(1993)In the 14th-century, a visionary girl is to become an Anchoress, a walled-in recluse, so that she can live in the Virgin's house forever. Over time she awakens to her own sensuality and explores her own female, earth-based spirituality.

When Saturday Comes
(1996)A rebellious, hard-drinking brewery worker with a knack for soccer catches a scout’s eye and gets a shot at going pro, playing for Sheffield United.

The Constant Gardener
(2005)A diplomat on the hunt for his wife's murderer uncovers a treacherous conspiracy that will destroy millions of innocent people-unless he can reveal its sinister roots.

The Shipping News
(2001)Quoyle (Kevin Spacey) is a newspaper inksetter in Poughkeepsie, silently suffering in a marriage of inconvenience to a woman, Petal (Cate Blanchett) who doesn't love him and is keen to put their baby daughter up for adoption. Petal is killed in an accident however, and worse, Quoyle's parents both die fairly soon after in a dual-suicide.

DragonHeart
(1996)The last dragon and a disillusioned dragonslaying knight must cooperate to stop an evil king who was given partial immortality.

Dark Water
(2005)HD. A leaky apartment turns out to have a terrifying connection to the supernatural in this bone-chilling tale starring Jennifer Connelly.

The Serpent's Kiss
(1997)In 17th-century England, an architect is drawn into a web of passion and deceit, as he builds a luxuriant garden for a man whose wife has a past.

The Omen
(2006)Remake of Richard Donner's 1976 horror classic. Katherine (Julia Stiles) and Robert (Liev Schreiber) Thorn are as loving parents as any young boy could ask for, but as fate would have it, their new son Damien is far from the typical child.

Closing the Ring
(2007)A young man searches for the owner of a ring that belonged to a U.S. World War II bomber gunner who crashed in Belfast, Northern Ireland in June 1944.

Rat
(2000)Hubert Flynn (Pete Postlethwaite, Amistad, The Lost World: Jurassic Park) enjoys the three loves in his life: his nightly beer at the local bar, betting on the horses and his eccentric wife Conchita (Imelda Staunton, Shakespeare In Love, Sense and Sensibility) - in that order. So when he comes home one night and turns into a rat, Conchita is not so quick to forgive.

Split Second
(1992)In a future London where rising sea levels have submerged most of the city, a burned-out cop’s murder investigation points to a non-human culprit.