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- 20122h 40m8.6 (379)TV MovieDirectorMarianne ElliottScott GrahamSteven HoggettStarsLuke TreadawayNiamh CusackPaul RitterChristopher has an extraordinary brain - exceptional at maths while ill-equipped to interpret everyday life. When his neighbour's dog is murdered, he ventures on a frightening journey that upturns his world.
- DirectorSimon StoneTony Grech-SmithStarsBillie PiperJohn MacmillanBrendan CowellThe extraordinary Billie Piper plays Her, a woman driven to the unthinkable by her desperate desire to have a child. Simon Stone creates a radical new production of Lorca's achingly powerful masterpiece.
- DirectorNick WickhamStarsKate DuchêneChukwudi IwujiÉva MagyarHedda and Tesman have just returned from their honeymoon and the relationship is already in trouble. Trapped but determined, Hedda tries to control those around her, only to see her own world unravel.
- DirectorJames MacDonaldTim Van SomerenStarsImogen PootsImelda StauntonConleth HillAn older couple drags a young couple into their intense arguments and abuse after accidentally inviting them to their house.
- DirectorBenedict AndrewsNick WickhamStarsGillian AndersonClare BurtLachele CarlAs Blanche's fragile world crumbles, she turns to her sister Stella for solace - but her downward spiral brings her face to face with the brutal, unforgiving Stanley Kowalski.
- DirectorMatthew DunsterRoss MacGibbonStarsJosef DaviesJames DrydenJohnny FlynnLocal hangman Harry is unaware of the recent abolition of hanging in Great Britain, and everyone, including his old assistant Syd, and the peculiar Mooney, are just dying to hear Harry's reaction to the news.
- DirectorDominic CookeTim Van SomerenStarsImelda StauntonGary RaymondTracie BennettThe former Weismann's Follies girls return to their old theatre one last time. At the core of the story are two married couples on the brink of collapse. As the night goes on, egos are unleashed, lies are exposed, and secrets are revealed.
- DirectorNicholas HytnerTony Grech-SmithStarsBen WhishawMichelle FairleyDavid MorrisseyCaesar returns in triumph to Rome and the people pour out of their homes to celebrate. Alarmed by the autocrat's popularity, the educated elite conspire to bring him down. After his assassination, civil war erupts on the streets of Rome.
- DirectorLyndsey TurnerRobin LoughStarsBenedict CumberbatchCiarán HindsSian BrookeHamlet, Prince of Denmark, finds out that his Uncle Claudius killed his father to obtain the throne, and plans his revenge.
- DirectorJosie RourkeTim Van SomerenStarsRochenda SandallMark StanleyDwane WalcottCaius Martius Coriolanus is a war hero, banished from his home, seeking to come back.
- DirectorSimon GodwinTony Grech-SmithStarsRalph FiennesSophie OkonedoTim McMullanCaesar and his assassins are dead. General Mark Antony now rules alongside his fellow defenders of Rome. But at the fringes of a war-torn empire the Egyptian Queen Cleopatra and Mark Antony have fallen fiercely in love.
- DirectorCarrie CracknellMatthew AmosStarsVanessa KirbyEric Kofi AbrefaThalissa TeixeiraWild and newly single, Julie throws a late night party, which rapidly descends into a savage fight for survival.
- DirectorJonathan MunbyRoss MacGibbonStarsIan McKellenSinéad CusackDanny WebbTwo aging fathers - one a King, one his courtier - reject the children who truly love them. Their blindness unleashes a tornado of pitiless ambition and treachery, and their worlds crumble.
- DirectorMelly StillStarsDavid AjalaGaye BrownGary CarrA parallel world, 1860. Two teenagers thrown together by a tsunami. One wears next to nothing, the other a long white dress. Neither speaks the others language, but somehow they must learn to survive and forge a new nation.
- DirectorRobert IckeRhodri HuwIlinca RadulianStarsAndrew ScottJuliet StevensonJessica Brown FindlayHamlet, Prince of Denmark, returns home to find his father murdered and his mother remarrying the murderer, his uncle. Meanwhile, war is brewing.
- DirectorRob AshfordKenneth BranaghBenjamin CaronStarsRichard MaddenLily JamesDerek JacobiTwo teenagers fall in love, but their feuding families and fate itself cause the relationship to end in tragedy.
- DirectorNick WickhamStarsJude LawChukwudi IwujiHalina ReijnA drifter falls for a married woman at road side diner and the two plot to kill her husband.
- DirectorDavid LeveauxTim Van SomerenStarsJoshua McGuireDaniel RadcliffeDavid HaigAgainst the backdrop of Hamlet, two hapless minor characters, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, take centre stage.
- DirectorMichael LonghurstTim Van SomerenStarsLucian MsamatiAdam GillenKarla CromeWolfgang Amadeus Mozart, a rowdy young prodigy, arrives in Vienna, the music capital of the world - and he's determined to make a splash.
- DirectorIvo van HoveNick WickhamStarsEmun ElliottPhoebe FoxMichael GouldIn Brooklyn, longshoreman Eddie Carbone welcomes his Sicilian cousins to the land of freedom. But when one of them falls for his beautiful niece, they discover that freedom comes at a price.
- DirectorScott ElliotDavid HornStarsTaissa FarmigaEd HarrisAmy MadiganLive theatrical production of Sam Shepard's play about a grandson who brings his girlfriend home to meet his family and uncovers the destructive nature of dark family secrets.
- DirectorRob AshfordKenneth BranaghBenjamin CaronStarsMiranda RaisonPierre AtriJaygann AyehA jealous King jeopardizes his family, friendships, and succession.
- DirectorRob AshfordBenjamin CaronStarsLauren AlexandraKenneth BranaghPhil DunsterSet against the backdrop of post-war Britain, John Osbornes modern classic conjures the seedy glamor of the old music halls for an explosive examination of public masks and private torment.
- DirectorNeil ArmfieldRobin LoughStarsSian BrookeOwen FindlayAlex HassellPauline Gibson has spent her life as a doctor, the inspiring leader of a local health campaign. When she crosses paths with her old boyfriend, a stalwart loyalist in Labour Party politics, she's faced with an agonising decision.
- DirectorDanny BoyleTim Van SomerenStarsJonny Lee MillerBenedict CumberbatchAndreea PaduraruChildlike in his innocence but grotesque in form, Frankenstein's bewildered creature is cast out into a hostile universe by his horror-struck maker. Meeting with cruelty wherever he goes, the Creature determines to track down his creator.
- DirectorRufus NorrisTim Van SomerenStarsNadia AlbinaMichael BalogunStephen BoxerThe ruined aftermath of a bloody civil war. Ruthlessly fighting to survive, the Macbeths are propelled towards the crown by forces of elemental darkness.
- DirectorAnna D. ShapiroStarsJames FrancoChris O'DowdJim NortonThis landmark revival of Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck's play is a powerful portrait of the American spirit and a heart-breaking testament to the bonds of friendship.
- DirectorMatthew WarchusStarsNicole AgadaKitty ArcherEnzo CilentiAs he prepares to embark on an overseas tour, star actor Garry Essendine's colourful life is in danger of spiralling out of control, as he becomes engulfed by an escalating identity crisis.
- DirectorJamie LloydTony Grech-SmithStarsJames McAvoyAnita-Joy UwajehEben FigueiredoAn intense, raw and deep revival of Rostand's Cyrano de Bergerac by the Jamie Lloyd Company.
- DirectorTony Grech-SmithVicky JonesStarsPhoebe Waller-BridgeA rip-roaring look at some sort of woman living her sort of life. With family and friendships under strain and a guinea pig cafe struggling to keep afloat, Fleabag suddenly finds herself with nothing to lose.
- DirectorJamie LloydStarsJason BarnettEmilia ClarkeRobert GlenisterThe Seagull is a filmed performance of the play by Anton Chekhov, in a new version by Anya Reiss, in which a woman leaves Moscow to visit her terminally ill brother.
- DirectorDominic CookeStarsDavid TennantElliot LeveySharon SmallAs the world faces its Second World War, John Halder, a good, intelligent German professor, finds himself pulled into a movement with unthinkable consequences.
- DirectorJustin MartinStarsJodie ComerTessa is a young, brilliant barrister. From working class origins, she has reached the top of her game. An unexpected event forces her to confront the lines where the patriarchal power of the law, burden of proof and morals diverge.
- DirectorLyndsey TurnerStarsBrendan CowellErin DohertyEileen WalshIn the good Christian town of Salem in 1692 a group of girls create a religious and legal fervour when they start accusing women of witchcraft after getting caught dancing in the forest.
- DirectorSam MendesMatthew AmosStarsSimon Russell BealeAdam GodleyBen MilesThe story of Lehman Brothers, from their beginnings as cotton brokers before the Civil War to the company's involvement in the financial crisis of 2008.
- DirectorStephen DaldryRobin LoughStarsCarey MulliganBill NighyMatthew BeardOn a bitterly cold London evening, schoolteacher Kyra Hollis receives an unexpected visit from her former lover, Tom Sergeant, a successful and charismatic restaurateur whose wife has recently died.
- DirectorRoss MacGibbonStarsOliver ChrisGwendoline ChristieDavid MoorstYoung lovers, a troupe of actors, and fairies have romantic encounters in the forest on summer's night.
- DirectorBenedict AndrewsTim Van SomerenStarsArtinis AliajNya BergMax BloomLive theatrical production of Tennessee Williams' 'Cat on a Hot Tin Roof'.
- DirectorJeremy HerrinRoss MacGibbonStarsJenna ColemanSally FieldBill PullmanAmerica, 1947, Joe and Kate Keller are a success story. But their contented lives are about to shatter. A figure from the past forces long buried truths to the surface lying bare the price of their American dream.
- DirectorMax WebsterStarsKate DuchêneKit HaringtonOlivier HubandFresh to the throne, King Henry V launches England into a bloody war with France. When his campaign encounters resistance, this inexperienced new ruler must prove he is fit to guide a country into war.
- DirectorNicholas HytnerRobin LoughStarsJonathan BaileySandy BatchelorAdam BerryThe Moorish general Othello is manipulated into thinking that his new wife Desdemona has been carrying on an affair with his lieutenant Michael Cassio when in reality it is all part of the scheme of a bitter ensign named Iago.
- DirectorNicholas HytnerRobin LoughStarsPortia BooroffChipo ChungDominic CooperThe wife of the Athenian King Theseus conceives a forbidden love for his son (by an earlier wife) Hyppolytus. All ends badly for all.
- DirectorCarrie CracknellRoss MacGibbonStarsHelen McCroryDanny SapaniMichaela CoelMedea, a woman stricken with grief after learning that her ex-husband has decided to remarry is faced with impossible choices in this exhilarating and breathtaking adaptation of Medea.
- DirectorCarrie CracknellMatthew AmosStarsMarion BaileyHubert BurtonYolanda KettleWhen Hester Collyer is found by her neighbours in the aftermath of a failed suicide attempt, the story of her tempestuous affair with a former RAF pilot and the breakdown of her marriage to a High Court judge begins to emerge.
- DirectorYaël FarberRobert DelamereStarsRichard ArmitageHarry AttwellSamantha ColleyLust and betrayal against the backdrop of the Salem witch trials.
- DirectorYaël FarberMatthew AmosStarsOlwen FouéréShahar IsaacPaul ChahidiA re-telling of the the classic tale of Salome.
- DirectorStephen DaldryRobin LoughStarsHelen MirrenPaul RitterEdward FoxFor sixty years, Elizabeth II has met each of her twelve Prime Ministers in a weekly audience at Buckingham Palace, a meeting like no other in British public life, it is private.
- DirectorSimon GodwinRobin LoughStarsTamara LawranceDaniel EzraOliver ChrisTamsin Greig is Malvolia in a new twist on Shakespeare's classic comedy of mistaken identity. A ship is wrecked on the rocks. Viola is washed ashore but her twin brother Sebastian is lost. Determined to survive on her own, she steps out to explore a new land. So begins a whirlwind of mistaken identity and unrequited love.
- DirectorRufus NorrisStarsOlivia WilliamsOlivia ColmanPaul HiltonIn 2008, as the Large Hadron Collider searches for the Higgs boson, tragedy throws two sisters together. The collision threatens them all with chaos.
- DirectorRufus NorrisNick WickhamStarsRory KinnearRosalie CraigHaydn GwynneAs London's East End scrubs up for the coronation, Mr and Mrs Peachum gear up for a bumper day in the beggary business. Keeping tight control of the city's underground - and their daughter's whereabouts.
- DirectorRoger MichellStarsPriyanga BurfordPip CarterBen ChaplinFriends take opposing briefs in a rape case. The key witness is a woman whose life seems a world away from theirs. At home, their own lives begin to unravel as every version of the truth is challenged.
- DirectorJosie RourkeTony Grech-SmithStarsJanet McTeerMorfydd ClarkAdjoa AndohMarquise de Merteuil, former lover of Vicomte de Valmont, incites him to corrupt the innocent Cecile de Volanges before her wedding night, but Valmont has targeted the peerlessly virtuous and beautiful Madame de Tourvel.
- DirectorPolly FindlayStarsZoë AldrichJamie BallardPaul BentallThe new King Creon is desperate to gain control over a city ravaged by civil war and refuses to bury the body of Antigone's rebellious brother. Outraged, she defies him.
- DirectorRufus NorrisNick WickhamStarsChiwetel EjioforPhilip Martin BrownPaul BullionEveryman is successful, popular and riding high when Death comes calling. He is forced to abandon the life he has built and embark on a last, frantic search to recruit a friend.
- DirectorAdam PenfordMatt WoodwardStarsNadia AlbinaNicholas BishopMark GatissWith the King's mind unravelling at a dramatic pace, ambitious politicians and the scheming Prince of Wales threaten to undermine the power of the Crown, and expose the fine line between a King and a man.
- DirectorNicholas HytnerRobin LoughStarsFranc AshmanLinda BassettEllie BurrowPeople spoil things; there are so many of them and the last thing one wants is them traipsing through one's house. But with the park a jungle and a bath on the billiard table, what is one to do?
- DirectorHoward DaviesRoss MacGibbonStarsClaudie BlakleyMark BonnarPip CarterMadame Ranevskaya is a spoiled, aging aristocratic lady who returns from a trip to Paris to face the loss of her magnificent Cherry Orchard estate after a default on the mortgage.
- DirectorSam YatesStarsAndrew ScottAndrew Scott brings multiple characters to life in Chekhov's Uncle Vanya, filmed live in West End, London. Hopes, dreams, and regrets are thrust into sharp focus in this one-man adaptation which explores the complexities of human emotions.
- DirectorRupert GooldChristine LallaStarsJosh BarrowTashinga BepeteJoseph FiennesWith the worst track record for penalties in the world, Gareth Southgate knows he needs to open his mind and face up to the years of hurt, to take team and country back to the promised land.
- DirectorIvo van HoveNick WickhamStarsLily JamesGillian AndersonJulian OvendenEve shows up in the dressing room of Broadway mega-star Margo Channing and tells Margo and her friends a melancholy life story. Margo takes Eve under her wing, only to have Eve use her and connive against her.
- DirectorClint DyerStarsKirsty J. CurtisTanya FranksPaul HiltonA man who rose from slavery to become a respected black military leader and ambassador who marries a powerful Venetian senator's white daughter.
- DirectorJeremy HerrinStarsDavid BoyleEmilio DoorgasinghClare FosterDavid Harewood (Homeland) and Zachary Quinto (Star Trek) play feuding political rivals in James Graham's (Sherwood) multiple award-winning new drama. In 1968 America, as two men fight to become the next president, all eyes are on the battle between two others: the cunningly conservative William F. Buckley Jr., and the unruly liberal Gore Vidal. During a new nightly television format, they debate the moral landscape of a shattered nation. As beliefs are challenged and slurs slung, a new frontier in American politics is opening and television news is about to be transformed forever. Jeremy Herrin (All My Sons) directs this blistering political thriller, filmed live in London's West End.
- DirectorNicholas HytnerStarsAlisha BaileyDavid BromleyRalph FiennesFiennes is brilliant portraying Robert Moses (1888 - 1981), a very powerful and charismatic urban planner, whose career spanned over 40 years. Early in his career, Moses claimed to want to give all New Yorkers easy access to the outdoors, but with time, his motives were revealed to be less pure. David Hare's script is based on a biography by Robert Caro.
- StarsNoa AlbertsSebastian ArmestoJenna AugenLeopoldstadt is a passionate drama of love, family and endurance. At the beginning of the 20th century, Leopoldstadt was the old, crowded Jewish quarter of Vienna, Austria. But Hermann Merz, a factory owner and baptised Jew now married to Catholic Gretl, has moved up in the world. We follow his family's story across half a century, passing through the convulsions of war, revolution, impoverishment, annexation by Nazi Germany and the Holocaust. A company of 40 actors represent each generation of the family in this epic, but intimate play.
- DirectorSam MendesRobin LoughStarsSaif Al-WarithWaj AliNathan AmpofoAn aging King invites disaster when he abdicates to his corrupt, toadying daughters and rejects his one loving, but honest one.
- DirectorMarianne ElliottBridget CaldwellStarsAndrew GarfieldRussell ToveyDenise GoughThe National Theatre's live theatrical production of Tony Kushner's play 'Angels in America' about New Yorkers grappling with the AIDS crisis during the mid-1980s.
- DirectorSean MathiasRobin LoughStarsSean MathiasIan McKellenDamien MolonyFollowing their hit run on Broadway, Sir Ian McKellen and Sir Patrick Stewart return to the West End stage in Harold Pinter's No Man's Land, broadcast live to cinemas from Wyndham's Theatre, London.
- DirectorNicholas HytnerRobin LoughStarsSuzanne ToaseTrevor LairdFred RidgewayFrancis Henshall becomes minder to Roscoe, a small time East End hood. Francis spots the chance of an extra meal ticket and takes a second job with one Stanley Stubber. To prevent discovery, Francis must keep his two guvnors apart.
- DirectorSimon GodwinStarsRalph FiennesIndira VarmaCorey JohnsonBased on Nietzsche's theory of the Superman, this reinvention of Shaw's witty, provocative classic tells of Ann Whitefield's relentless pursuit of dedicated bachelor Jack Tanner.
- DirectorJosie RourkeTony Grech-SmithStarsGemma ArtertonFisayo AkinadeMatt BardockJoan, a young Frenchwoman, decides to spring to action when England invades France. After having visions of Archangel and Saints, she goes to Charles VII to offer her support.
- DirectorMarianne ElliottBridget CaldwellStarsAndrew GarfieldRussell ToveyDenise GoughAmerica in the mid-1980s. In the midst of the AIDS crisis and a conservative Reagan administration, New Yorkers grapple with life and death, love and sex, heaven and hell.
- DirectorPolly FindlayTim Van SomerenStarsLeon AnnorPhilip ArdittiJoe BannisterAfter the overthrowing of Duke Senior by his tyrannical brother, Senior's daughter Rosalind disguises herself as a man and sets out to find her banished father while also counseling her clumsy suitor Orlando in the art of wooing.
- DirectorBridget CaldwellSally CooksonStarsBenji BowerWill BowerCraig EdwardsAfter a harsh childhood, orphan Jane Eyre is hired by Edward Rochester, the brooding lord of a mysterious manor house, to care for his young daughter.
- DirectorNadia FallStarsRonke AdekoluejoAdedayo Adeleke OyedejiJonathan AjayiNigeria, 1967. Three sisters, grieving the loss of their father, long to return to their former home in Lagos as conflict encroaches on their provincial village.
- DirectorJoe Hill-GibbinsTony Grech-SmithStarsSimon Russell BealeLeo BillMartins ImhangbeRichard II, King of England, is irresponsible, foolish and vain. His weak leadership sends his kingdom into disarray and his court into uproar.
- DirectorMarta Miskaryan
- DirectorIndhu RubasinghamStarsOlivia DarnleyBuffy DavisKate FleetwoodAfter three tours in Afghanistan, Jess finally returns to Florida. In a small town on the Space Coast, as the final shuttle is about to launch, Jess must confront her scars - and a home that may have changed even more than her. Experimenting with a pioneering virtual reality therapy, she builds a breath-taking new world where she can escape her pain. There, she begins to restore her relationships, her life and, slowly, herself. (Source: the ntathome website)