based on play or musical Archives

Roald Dahl’s Matilda the Musical

An extraordinary young girl discovers her superpower and summons the remarkable courage, against all odds, to help others change their stories, whilst also taking charge of her own destiny. Standing up for what's right, she's met with miraculous results.

PG

6.7

2022 Comedy 117 min Play

HD 6.7

Scrooge: A Christmas Carol

On a cold Christmas Eve, selfish miser Ebenezer Scrooge has one night left to face his past — and change the future — before time runs out.

NR

6.7

2022 Animation 97 min Play

HD 8.1

Nayola

In 1995, during the Angolan civil war, Nayola sets out in search of her missing husband.

NR

8.1

2023 Animation 84 min Play

HD 10

Much Ado

Hero and Beatrice, cousins and best friends, have very different approaches to love. Beatrice, burned once, is fiercely avoiding her arrogant ex-boyfriend Benedick and has sworn off men in general. Hero, a true romantic, is deeply in love with Benedick's friend Claudio, but too shy to say it. When they get trapped in a house with the entire boys rugby team, they'll be forced to face the questions they'd been avoiding.

NR

10

2023 Comedy 117 min Play

HD 5.0

Girl Unknown

Carolina and Leo, who have met through a chat room, agree to meet in person in a secluded city park.

NR

5.0

2023 Drama 88 min Play

HD 3.5

Eric LaRue

Janice is struggling; she moves through life as if in a haze, unable to let go of her anger and frustration. While her husband has found refuge at a new church, Janice finds it hard to seek solace in her faith despite her pastor’s pleas to heal her wounds by meeting with the mothers of her son’s victims.

NR

3.5

2023 Drama 119 min Play

HD 6.2

Greatest Days

Based on the Take That musical, five best friends have the night of their lives seeing their favourite boy band in concert. Twenty-five years later, their lives have changed in many different ways as they reunite for one more epic show by their beloved band, to relight their friendship and discover that maybe their greatest days are ahead of them.

NR

6.2

2023 Comedy 112 min Play

HD 5.3

Cuánto me queda

Two doctors, leading a stable life, are shocked to learn from new technology that one of them has less than a month to live. Seized by the urgency of their dwindling time together, they strive to savor every precious moment while fearlessly confronting their deepest desires and fears.

NR

5.3

2023 Comedy 0 min Play

HD 6.4

Sordid Lives

"Sordid Lives" is about a family in a small Texas town preparing for the funeral of the mother. Among the characters are the grandson trying to find his identity in West Hollywood, the son who has spent the past twenty-three years dressed as Tammy Wynette, the sister and her best friend (who live in delightfully kitschy homes), and the two daughters (one strait-laced and one quite a bit of a loser).

R

6.4

2000 Comedy 111 min Play

HD 6.6

Chinese Coffee

When Harry Levine, an aging, unsuccessful Greenwich Village writer, is fired from his job as restaurant doorman, he calls on friend and mentor Jake, ostensibly to collect a long-standing debt.

R

6.6

2000 Drama 99 min Play

HD 5.7

Urbania

A series of urban legends take place around the life of a troubled man who is searching New York City for a mysterious stranger.

R

5.7

2000 Drama 103 min Play

HD 7.1

Quills

A nobleman with a literary flair, the Marquis de Sade lives in a madhouse where a beautiful laundry maid smuggles his erotic stories to a printer, defying orders from the asylum's resident priest. The titillating passages whip all of France into a sexual frenzy, until a fiercely conservative doctor tries to put an end to the fun.

R

7.1

2000 Drama 124 min Play

HD 6.6

Water Drops on Burning Rocks

In 1970s Germany, Leopold, a 50-year-old businessman, picks up and seduces 20-year old Franz, who swiftly moves into his bachelor pad. Their cozy relationship soon sours as Leopold turns cranky and argumentative. When Franz's buxom blond girlfriend surfaces, and then Leopold's elegant and enigmatic ex, things get funnier, steamier and a lot more complicated.

NR

6.6

2000 Comedy 90 min Play

HD 6.3

The Tenderness

Queen Esmeralda hates men because they have always limited her freedom, so she does not want her two daughters to suffer the same fate. Therefore, when the ship in which they are traveling passes near an apparently deserted island, she invokes a portentous storm.

NR

6.3

2023 Comedy 105 min Play

HD 6.6

Venus

One night, at the end of the seventies, Venus, Paula and Miguel's band, performs its last concert.

NR

6.6

2023 Drama 97 min Play

HD 6.5

The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial

Barney Greenwald, a skeptical lawyer, reluctantly defends an officer of the navy who took control of the Caine from its captain, Lt. Philip Francis Queeg, while caught in a violent sea storm. As the court-martial proceeds, however, Greenwald increasingly questions if it was truly a mutiny or rather the courageous acts of a group of sailors who could not trust their unstable leader.

PG-13

6.5

2023 Drama 109 min Play

HD 4.1

Dicks: The Musical

Two self-obsessed businessmen discover they're long-lost identical twins and come together to plot the reunion of their eccentric divorced parents.

R

4.1

2023 Comedy 86 min Play

HD 5.5

Maybe I Do

Michelle and Allen, who have reached the point in their relationship where they are considering next steps, decide to invite their parents to finally meet and to offer some understanding of why marriage works. Except the parents already know each other quite well, which leads to some very distinct opinions about the value of marriage.

PG-13

5.5

2023 Comedy 95 min Play

HD 7.9

Heathers: The Musical

A teenage girl who halfheartedly tries to be part of the "in crowd" meets a dashing rebel who teaches her a more sinister way to play social politics.

R

7.9

2023 Comedy 135 min Play

HD 7.2

Rocky Horror Tribute Show

Recorded at London's Royal Court Theatre before an audience of faithful fans, various cast members from different productions of The Rocky Horror Show come together in a one-off concert extravaganza paying tribute to the phenomenon.

NR

7.2

2008 Comedy 64 min Play

HD 7.4

The Rocky Horror Picture Show

Sweethearts Brad and Janet, stuck with a flat tire during a storm, discover the eerie mansion of Dr. Frank-N-Furter, a transvestite scientist. As their innocence is lost, Brad and Janet meet a houseful of wild characters, including a rocking biker and a creepy butler. Through elaborate dances and rock songs, Frank-N-Furter unveils his latest creation: a muscular man named 'Rocky'.

R

7.4

1975 Comedy 100 min Play

HD 5.8

Psycho Beach Party

Chicklet is a sixteen-year old tomboy who's desperate to be part of the in-crowd of Malibu beach surfers. She's the typical American girl - except for one little problem: her personality is split into more slices than a pepperoni pizza.

NR

5.8

2000 Comedy 95 min Play

HD 0

4.48 Psychosis

An adaptation of the play "4.48 Psychosis" written by Sarah Kane. The movie consists of scenes that work as a fragmenteded voyage through the mind of a person on a deeply depressive state. Everything is shown in a raw and experimental manner to bring the feelings and emotions in the most pure form to screen.

NR

0

2023 Drama 54 min Play

HD TV 5

BBC Play of the Month

Play of the Month is a BBC television anthology series featuring productions of classic and contemporary stage plays which were usually broadcast on BBC1. Each production featured a different work, often using prominent British stage actors in the leading roles. The series was transmitted from October 1965 to September 1983; the producer most associated with the Play of the Month was Cedric Messina. Some of the 121 episodes are missing from the archives, having been junked in the 1960s and ...

NR BBC One

5

1965 Drama 90 min Play