A carefree student at an all-girls school shows unusual symptoms when she begins puberty, forcing her to grapple with a mysterious and visceral power.
After his estranged son gets embroiled in a Nazi plot, self-exiled gangster Tommy Shelby must return to Birmingham to save his family — and his nation.
A recovering drug addict is about to have a very strange night on The English Riviera.
When his estranged daughter Miranda tragically dies, a retired musician sets out to complete the last song she wrote.
A country boy loves the daughter of his boss and godfather. An engineer who comes from the city is interested in the young woman who corresponds to him against his will.
A peasant family composed of Don Juan de la Cruz Pizarro, his wife Doña Juliana and their six children who, like the branches of a tree, grow and detach from the trunk that gave them life ..
In a rural English village, a firefighter battles ruthless budget cuts to save her station, risking everything to protect her community before the next call becomes a tragedy.
Following the suicide of her mother, an emotionally disoriented schoolgirl is swept away to live in the countryside by wealthy family friends. Her entangled need for comfort and desire to explore her powers of sexual fascination soon embroils the entire household.
A poignant drama set in 1970s Australia about a newly-single father’s efforts to weather the turbulence of change – in his life and in the world around him – while a new immigrant endeavours to find her place in a foreign land.
Middle-class housewife Kay Miniver deals with petty problems. She and her husband Clem watch her Oxford-educated son Vin court Carol Beldon, the charming granddaughter of the local nobility as represented by Lady Beldon. Then the war comes and Vin joins the RAF.
England, 1969. The fascinating Abbie and the troubled Lydia are great friends. After an unexpected tragedy occurs in the strict girls' school they attend, a mysterious epidemic of fainting breaks out that threatens the mental sanity and beliefs of the tormented people involved, both teachers and students.
A 22-year-old factory worker lets loose on the weekends: drinking, brawling, and dating two women, one of whom is older and married.
Lou Clark, a directionless 26-year-old from the English countryside, takes a job at the local castle as a caregiver and companion to a wealthy young banker, Will Traynor. Wheelchair-bound from an accident two years prior, the once adventurous Will has all but given up — that is until Lou determines to show him that life is worth living.
T'Day
A BBC dramatization of the Pendle witch trials of Lancashire, England that occurred in 1616.
A British wartime aviator who cheats death must argue for his life before a celestial court, hoping to prolong his fledgling romance with an American girl.
With both parents working far away, ten-year-old Chuang is being raised by extended family in his home village, where thousands of years of rural tradition collide with the socio-economic changes of China in the early 1990s.
The Grand Hotel formula that was so overworked in the 1930s made an encore appearance in 1940's Escape to Glory. The story is given timeliness by placing the characters on a British merchant ship on the very day that World War II is declared. The ship is attacked by a Nazi U-Boat, resulting in a variety of reactions from the diverse passengers--one of whom (Erwin Kalser) is a German doctor. Constance Bennett is glamorous, Pat O'Brien is boozy, John Halliday is pensive, and everybody else (except for the German medico) is plain fearful.
Jealousy flares after the headmistress of an elite boarding school for girls becomes obsessed with a new student.
A British housewife faces up to the harsh realities of the Second World War.