De er fanget - innestengt bak piggtrådgjerder, i frykt for sine egne liv og med drømmer om et liv i frihet. Alle forsøk på å rømme blir brutalt slått ned og opprørslederen blir alltid straffet og satt i enecelle. Men dette er ikke noe vanlig fengsel...og dette er ikke noen vanlige fengselsfugler.
Vi befinner oss på Nordre Tvilsheim Hønsegård (Tweedy´s Egg Farm) hvor den høna som ikke bidrar med egg til frokostbordet risikerer å ende opp som dagens hønsefrikassé. Men Inger (Ginger) og resten av hønseflokken er fast bestemt på å unnslippe før de blir ribbet og stekt. Tiden er i ferd med å renne ut. Den grådige eieren av gården, fru Tvilsheim (Mrs. Tweedy) finner en ny måte å skyte gullfuglen på: Ved å bruke hønene til hønsepai. Men nå, med hjelp fra "den ensomme rytter" Rocky, klekker Inger (Ginger) og de andre hønene en plan for hvordan de skal komme seg ut av hønsehuset.....FLUKTEN FRA HØNSEGÅRDEN er i gang.
Fra skaperne av Flukten fra Hønsegården kommer nå den første langfilmen med Wallace & Gromit, den ostespisende oppfinneren og hans intelligente og foretaksomme hund, som er hyllet og elsket verden rundt for deres Oscar-vinnende kortfilmer. Når byens grønnsaker begynner å forsvinne før den store grønnsakkonkurransen, må vår heroiske duo bruke all sin ville oppfinnerfantasi for å prøve å fange det mystiske beistet av et grønnsakspisende pelsuhyre! - Oscar®-vinner for Beste animasjonsfilm (2006)
County Durham, England, 1984. The miners' strike has started and the police have started coming up from Bethnal Green, starting a class war with the lower classes suffering. Caught in the middle of the conflict is 11-year old Billy Elliot, who, after leaving his boxing club for the day, stumbles upon a ballet class and finds out that he's naturally talented. He practices with his teacher Mrs. Wilkinson for an upcoming audition in Newcastle-upon Tyne for the royal Ballet school in London.
Jack Carter is a small-time hood working in London. When word reaches him of his brother's death, he travels to Newcastle to attend the funeral. Refusing to accept the police report of suicide, Carter seeks out his brother’s friends and acquaintances to learn who murdered his sibling and why.
Documentary style account of a nuclear holocaust and its effect on the working class city of Sheffield, England; and the eventual long run effects of nuclear war on civilization.
Bullied at school and ignored and abused at home by his indifferent mother and older brother, Billy Casper, a 15-year-old working-class Yorkshire boy, tames and trains his pet kestrel falcon whom he names Kes. Helped and encouraged by his English teacher and his fellow students, Billy finally finds a positive purpose to his unhappy existence—until tragedy strikes.
A group of Muslim men living in Sheffield hatch an inept plan to become suicide bombers.
A Yorkshire coal mine is threatened with closure and the only hope is for the men to enter their Grimley Colliery Brass Band into a national competition. They believe they have no hope until Gloria appears carrying her Flugelhorn. At first mocked for being a woman, she soon becomes the only chance for the band to win.
Rural England, 1865. Katherine, suffocated by her loveless marriage to a bitter man and restrained by his father's tyranny, unleashes an irresistible force within her, so powerful that she will stop at nothing to get what she wants.
Maurice Flitcroft, a dreamer and unrelenting optimist, managed to gain entry to The British Open Golf Championship qualifying in 1976 and subsequently shot the worst round in Open history, becoming a folk hero in the process.
In County Durham, England, 1984, a talented young dancer, Billy Elliot, stumbles out of the boxing ring and onto the ballet floor. He faces many trials and triumphs as he strives to conquer his family’s set ways, inner conflict, and standing on his toes in a musical that questions masculinity, gender norms and conformity.
Arbeidsledige Gaz trommer sammen sine beste kamerater for å tjene noen sårt tiltrengte kroner på å strippe. Gjengen kan ikke akkurat sammenlignes med Chippendales, men de er villige til å vise alt... Til tross for sine forskjellige handikap, kler de av seg på scenen til stor jubel fra et entusiastisk publikum.
Henry Hobson owns and tyrannically runs a successful Victorian boot maker’s shop in Salford, England. A stingy widower with a weakness for overindulging in the local Moonraker Public House, he exploits his three daughters as cheap labour. When he declares that there will be ‘no marriages’ to avoid the expense of marriage settlements at £500 each, his eldest daughter Maggie rebels.
A middle aged carpenter, who requires state welfare after injuring himself, is joined by a single mother in a similar scenario.
An American master chemist plans to score big on a once in a lifetime drug deal. All does not go as planned and he is soon entangled in a web of deceit.
Taking over Leeds United, Brian Clough's abrasive approach and his clear dislike of the players' dirty style of play make it certain there is going to be friction. Glimpses of his earlier career help explain both his hostility to previous manager Don Revie and how much he is missing right-hand man Peter Taylor.
Two out-of-work actors -- the anxious, luckless Marwood and his acerbic, alcoholic friend, Withnail -- spend their days drifting between their squalid flat, the unemployment office and the pub. When they take a holiday "by mistake" at the country house of Withnail's flamboyantly gay uncle, Monty, they encounter the unpleasant side of the English countryside: tedium, terrifying locals and torrential rain.
An ambitious young accountant schemes to wed a wealthy factory owner's daughter, despite falling in love with a married older woman.
Manchester, 1976. Tony Wilson is an ambitious but frustrated local TV news reporter looking for a way to make his mark. After witnessing a life-changing concert by a band known as the Sex Pistols, he persuades his station to televise one of their performances, and soon Manchester's punk groups are clamoring for him to manage them. Riding the wave of a musical revolution, Wilson and his friends create the legendary Factory Records label and The Hacienda club.
A hapless parole officer is framed for murder by a crooked police chief. To prove his innocence he must entice his former clients away from the law abiding lives they are now living to recover the evidence that will save him.