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Spotlight tells the riveting true story of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Boston Globe investigation that would rock the city and cause a crisis in one of the world’s oldest and most trusted institutions. When the newspaper’s tenacious “Spotlight” team of reporters delve into allegations of abuse in the Catholic Church, their year-long investigation uncovers a decades-long cover-up at the highest levels of Boston's religious, legal, and government establishment, touching off a wave of revelations around the world.
Academy Award Winner
All six episodes from the second season of the ITV drama about a group of Women's Institute members living in a rural Cheshire village during the Second World War. Beginning in 1940, this series follows the residents of Great Paxford as they deal with the imminent threat of invasion. When the Battle of Britain intensifies, the women find they must heighten their efforts to boost morale and keep spirits high while dealing with the various problems of their personal lives. Meanwhile, Laura is publicly shamed after news of her affair with a married man, and his subsequent divorce, hits the headlines and Joyce's patriotic reputation is jeopardised when a shocking revelation comes to light.
David Suchet and Peter Capaldi star in this three-part BBC adaptation of Joseph Conrad's novel. Adolf Verloc is a Russian spy living as a shopkeeper in Victorian London with his wife, Winnie, and her mentally handicapped brother, Stevie. When Verloc's Russian superiors order him to blow up the Greenwich Observatory in an act of terrorism, Verloc persuades Stevie to assist him. However, Stevie trips and explodes the bomb in Greenwich Park, killing himself and putting Chief Inspector Heat of Scotland Yard on Verloc's trail.
Maya, a barrister in London, is at the very top of her profession. She is about to become the first black Director of Public Prosecutions. But just as her life comes under intense public scrutiny, Maya discovers that her husband Nick has been lying to her for 20 years. At the same time a case that has dominated her career is about to reach its conclusion. Rudy Jones, a black man in America wrongly convicted of murdering a white politician, is to be executed. As she fights to save Rudy and discovers more about her husband’s past, Maya begins to realise there are bigger forces at work. An intricate web of corruption involving members of the police, the press and politicians unfolds.
War drama from director Paul Gross, who also stars. Ryan (Rossif Sutherland), Travis (Allan Hawco), Tank (Karl Campbell) and Hickie (David Richmond-Peck) together form a Canadian sniper company engaged in the war in Afghanistan. The film delves into the stories of the four men and their Intelligence Officer (Gross), who are tasked with building a road through dense and hostile enemy territory. The soldiers grapple with the realities of modern warfare and morality where boundaries between black and white are often blurred.
American drama written and directed by Oren Moverman. Richard Gere plays down on his luck George Hammond who is thrown out of his scruffy Manhattan apartment by his landlord (Steve Buscemi). At first he walks the streets and asks for change before staying at the Bellevue Hospital, the largest refuge for homeless men in Manhattan. The story follows George as he navigates the bureaucracy required to get a bed and a meal voucher at the Bellevue, and his attempts to repair relations with his estranged daughter Maggie (Jena Malone). Another client at the Hospital, talkative Dixon (Ben Vereen) helps George come to terms with his homeless status in this sensitive depiction.
Biopic written and directed by Stephen Bradley depicting the life of Irish charity worker and rights campaigner Christina Noble. The film follows Christina (Gloria Cramer Curtis/Sarah Greene/Deirdre O'Kane)'s life, from the great deal of suffering she experienced in her own childhood at the hands of her alcoholic father, which forced her into an orphanage, to her later ordeals with an abusive partner. It is only later, when Christina decides to travel to Ho Chi Minh City in Vietnam and set up a home for abandoned and abused local children, that she finds her true calling and the opportunity to make a difference in other victims' lives.
Television drama starring Claire Goose as coroner Jane Kennedy. After a failed relationship Jane returns with her daughter Beth (Grace Hogg-Robinson) to her hometown Lighthaven, on the Devon coast. Taking up the role of coroner, Jane must work alongside local policeman Davey Higgins (Matt Bardock), her childhood sweetheart. The cast also includes Beatie Edney as Judith Kennedy, Jane's mother. The episodes are: 'First Love', 'How to Catch a Lobster', 'That's the Way to Do It', 'The Fisherman's Tale', 'Gilt', 'Capsized', 'The Salcombe Selkie', 'Napoleon's Violin', 'The Deep Freeze' and 'Dirty Dancing'.
All 13 episodes from the sixth season of the historical crime drama set in late 19th-century Toronto. Yannick Bisson stars as Inspector William Murdoch, a dashing young detective who pioneers new scientific approaches to solving crime such as fingerprinting, forensic techniques and lie detector machines. Assisted by Inspector Thomas Brackenreid (Thomas Craig), coroner Dr Julia Ogden (Helene Joy) and Constable George Crabtree (Jonny Harris), Murdoch employs these newfangled methods - as well as his own unswerving instinct - to solve some of the city's most gruesome murders. The episodes are: 'Murdoch Air', 'Winston's Lost Night', 'Murdoch On the Corner', 'A Study in Sherlock', 'Murdoch Au Naturel', 'Murdoch and the Cloud of Doom', 'The Ghost of Queen's Park', 'Murdoch in Ladies Wear', 'Victoria Cross', 'Twisted Sisters', 'Lovers in a Murderous Time', 'Crime and Punishment' and 'The Murdoch Trap'.
Eight-part American miniseries about the rise of the New York Mob. Narrated by Ray Liotta, the programme begins in 1905 and chronicles the rise of the modern American Mafia and some of its most notorious gangsters including Charles 'Lucky' Luciano (Rich Graff), Meyer Lansky (Ian Bell), Bugsy Sigel (Jonathan C. Stewart), Vito Genovese (Craig Thomas Rivela) and Frank Costello (Anthony DiCarlo). The episodes are: 'The Education of Lucky Luciano', 'Equal Opportunity Gangster', 'King of New York', 'A Rising Threat', 'Exit Strategy', 'The Mob at War', 'New Frontiers' and 'End Game'.
Holiday special of the BBC's fast-paced modernised crime drama starring Benedict Cumberbatch as Arthur Conan Doyle's famouth sleuth.
All 29 episodes from the third season of Alfred Hitchcock's thriller anthology series. The British film-maker returns with a spin-off to his TV show 'Alfred Hitchcock Presents' with more murderous and suspenseful tales of mystery. The episodes are: 'The Return of Verge Likens', 'Change of Address', 'Water's Edge', 'The Life Work of Juan Diaz', 'See the Monkey Dance', 'Lonely Place', 'The McGregor Affair', 'Misadventure', 'Triumph', 'Memo from Purgatory', 'Consider Her Ways', 'The Crimson Witness', 'Where the Woodbine Twineth', 'The Final Performance', 'Thanatos Palace Hotel', 'One of the Family', 'An Unlocked Window', 'The Trap', 'Wally the Beard', 'Death Scene', 'The Photographer and the Undertaker', 'Thou Still Unravished Bride', 'Completely Foolproof', 'Power of Attorney', 'The World's Oldest Motive', 'The Monkey's Paw - A Retelling', 'The Second Wife', 'Night Fever' and 'Off Season'.
All eight episodes from the first series of the BBC crime drama. The programme follows the serving officers of the South Sussex Police Force as they deal with the daily challenges of the front line, including rookie PC Jake Vickers (Jacob Ifan), whose father is the Chief Superintendent, and his partner PC Ryan Draper (Ashley Walters). As they attend to various incidents including a dognapping, fighting naturists and public schoolboy muggings the officers' personal lives are affected by their work.
All 16 episodes of the gritty hospital drama dealing with intrigue and malpractice in an NHS maternity unit. Young registrar Rob Lake (Max Beesley) works under established gynaecologist Roger Hurley (Patrick Baladi) whose record and methods are worthy of question. In series two, Rob finds himself out of a job whilst Hurley is promoted to Clinical Director. Rob's affair with Donna (Neve McIntosh) is still strong, though remaining extremely quiet. Hurley's patented close shaves on the operating table continue to give staff cause for concern, as he butts heads with fellow consultant Tony Whitman (Keith Allen). Meanwhile, accusations of sexual harassment are levelled at Whitman, Donna crumbles under the stress and hits the diamorphine, more patients die and all the while, Rob quietly plots Hurley's demise.
All 38 episodes from the third season of the famous 1950s/60s mystery and suspense series hosted by the master of suspense himself, Alfred Hitchcock. Each 30 minute episode includes opening and closing monologues by Hitchcock who would explain some aspect of the episode's story in his inimitably dry, humorous monotone.
Famous '50s/'60s mystery and suspense series hosted by the master of suspense himlsef, Alfred Hitchcock. Each 30 minute episode included opening and closing monologues by Hitchcock who would explain some aspect of the day's story in his inimitably dry, humorous monotone. Episodes included: 'Wet Saturday', 'Fog Closing In', 'De Mortis', 'Kill with Kindness', 'None Are So Blind', 'Toby', 'Alibi Me', 'Conversation Over a Corpse', 'Crack of Doom', 'Jonathan', 'A Better Bargain', 'The Rose Garden', 'Mr. Blanchard's Secret', 'John Brown's Body', 'Crackpot', 'Nightmare in 4-D', 'My Brother Richard', 'Manacled', 'Bottle of Wine', 'Malice Domestic', 'Number Twenty-Two', 'The End of Indian Summer', 'One for the Road', 'The Cream of the Jest', 'I Killed the Count (1)', 'I Killed the Count (2)', 'I Killed the Count (3)', 'One More Mile to Go', 'Vicious Circle', 'The Three Dreams of Mr. Findlater', 'The Night the World Ended', 'The Hands of Mr. Ottermole', 'A Man Greatly Beloved', 'Martha Mason, Movie Star', 'The West Warlock Time Capsule', 'Father and Son', 'The Indestructible Mr. Weems', 'A Little Sleep'and 'The Dangerous People'. |
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