, 1h40 Directed byJack Gold OriginUnited-kingdom GenresDrama, Comedy ActorsDenis Lawson, Phyllis Logan, Maurice Denham, Nigel Hawthorne, David Troughton, Anna Massey Rating69% The Chain tells the story of seven households that comprise a circular property chain, and various moving company employees who are tasked with assisting each household in their move. It follows the trials and tribulations, from trivial to profound, each household and mover (who are each guilty of one of the seven deadly sins) endures during the moving process.
Directed byMichael Radford GenresDrama, War, Romance ThemesPrison films, Political films ActorsPhyllis Logan, Denise Coffey, Tom Watson, Gregor Fisher, Paul Young, Yvonne Gilan Rating63% In Scotland in 1943 during World War II, Janie (Phyllis Logan) is a young Scottish housewife married to Dougal (Paul Young), who is 15 years older. Participating in a war rehabilation program, the couple take in three Italian prisoners of war to work on their farm. Janie soon falls in love with one of the three, Luigi (Giovanni Mauriello). She begins a secret relationship with Luigi that is doomed from the start.
, 2h15 Directed byMike Leigh OriginUnited-kingdom GenresDrama, Comedy ThemesFilms about adoption, Films about children, Films about families ActorsTimothy Spall, Brenda Blethyn, Phyllis Logan, Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Claire Rushbrook, Liz Smith Rating79% The film tells the story of Hortense Cumberbatch, a successful black middle class optometrist in London, who is adopted and has chosen to trace her family history after the death of her adoptive mother. After being warned by public officials about the troubles she could face by tracking her birth mother down, she continues her investigation and is baffled to learn that her birth mother is white but does not resent her and wants to know more about her past. Her birth mother, Cynthia Purley, is working class and downwardly mobile. Hortense meets her and later meets Cynthia's brother, Maurice Purley, a photographer, his wife Monica, and Cynthia's daughter Roxanne, a street cleaner.