London's gambling world is the setting where aspiring writer Jack Manfred, suffering from writer's block, takes a job as a croupier to support his art. Knowing the dangers of the cards, Jack is adamant about remaining a professional outsider, but the temptations of the game inevitably swallow him deeper than he could have ever anticipated.

Lt. Commander Ericson and his crew find they are fighting not only the Germans, but the age-old enemy, the sea, in this World War II action drama.

A rueful, romantic tale of the awfulness of life in an ancient English public school in the 1930's. At its center is the friendship of Guy Bennett (Rupert Everett), a dark, Byronically handsome young man, who accepts the horrors of the school system in return for its rewards, and Tommy Judd (Colin Firth), who attends the school against his will, refuses to play the gentleman's game, and is already a Marxist. Guy falls in love with a handsome fellow...

Delhi graduate Dr. Prem Sharma and his wife move to the U.K. in 1963, hoping to establish a glamorous London practice, but instead, they arrive in Trefelin, a Welsh coal mining village where things are not quite as they should be.

Two masked men seize Alice Creed (Gemma Arterton), the daughter of a millionaire, and take her to an abandoned, soundproofed apartment where they bind and gag her. The coldly efficient kidnapper (Eddie Marsan) and his accomplice (Martin Compston) worked out a meticulous plan, but Alice is not going to play the perfect victim or go down without a fight.

When London art student Ben Willis goes through a painful breakup, he develops insomnia. To kill time, he starts working the late-night shift at the local supermarket. There he meets a colorful cast of characters, all of whom have their own means of dealing with the boredom of an eight-hour-shift. Ben imagines freezing time, which allows him to see the beauty of the everyday world and the people inside it - especially Sharon, the quiet checkout girl,...

Ten renowned film directors each direct a vignette inspired by an aria from a famous opera.

When Henry, Earl of Richmond, ascended to the throne as King Henry VII in 1485, he would not only unite England after the tumultuous War of the Roses, he would herald the end of the Middle Ages and the beginning of the Modern Era. His reign would set the stage for the Protestant Reformation and the cultural revolution brought about by the Renaissance. His achievements can stand proudly alongside anything accomplished by his descendants.