Realist drama from Ealing Studios, based on a novel by Arthur La Bern and set in London's working-class East End just after World War 2. The action unfolds over the course of one dismal, rainy Sunday. Tommy Swann (John McCallum) has escaped from Dartmoor prison and turns up at the drab East End home of his former love Rose (Googie Withers), who is now married to the staid George (Edward Chapman) with three children. Rose has a difficult decision to make: should she help Tommy, or put her marriage - and the claustrophobic domesticity it entails - first?

Double bill of supernatural dramas adapted by the BBC from the M.R. James ghost stories. In 'A View from a Hill' (2005) historian Dr. Fanshawe (Mark Letheren) visits his friend, Squire Richard (Pip Torrens), and, having broken his own binoculars, borrows a pair through which, as he soon discovers, he can see an old abbey that existed hundreds of years ago next to the hanging site of Gallows Hill. Curious, Fanshawe investigates but finds himself haunted by evil spirits. In 'Number 13' (2006) Professor Anderson (Greg Wise) is staying in room 12 of a local hotel while working in a cathedral town to authenticate historical documents. After being disturbed at night, Anderson discovers that a previously missing room 13 has appeared. As his work produces evidence of witchcraft activity, he finds himself continually awoken from his sleep and, before long, he decides to find out what lies beyond door number 13...

Five-part drama series based on the life of Charmian Biggs, the wife of criminal Ronnie Biggs who played a significant part in the Great Train Robbery of 1963. Charmian (Sheridan Smith) first encounters Ronnie (Daniel Mays) on a train and they soon fall in love. When she becomes pregnant the two marry but Ronnie's involvement in the robbery results in his imprisonment. He escapes from jail less than two years later and, wanting to keep her family together, Charmian goes to Paris with their children to meet up with Ronnie. They flee to Australia but are unable to evade the constant threat of capture...

Lawrence Gordon Clark directs this triple bill of BBC adaptations of the ghost stories by M.R. James. In 'Lost Hearts' (1973) young orphan Stephen (Simon Gipps-Kent) goes to stay at the generous Mr. Abney (Joseph O'Connor)'s estate where he is haunted by two children who previously lived in the house. It turns out the children have come to warn Stephen that Abney is not all that he seems. In 'The Ash Tree' (1975) Sir Richard Fell (Edward Petherbridge) inherits his uncle's manor and grounds. He moves in and decides to cut down an ash tree that could prove harmful to the property but before he gets the chance he begins to hear strange sounds and sees supernatural figures coming from the tree... In 'The Treasure of Abbot Thomas' (1974) cynical Reverend Somerton (Michael Bryant) is completely close-minded when it comes to paranormal activity. His steadfast beliefs falter, however, when his and Lord Peter Dattering (Paul Lavers)'s search for the treasure of alchemist Abbot Thomas (John Herrington) unleashes a terrifying spectre.

Double bill of BBC adaptations of M.R. James's ghost story 'Oh, Whistle, and I'll Come to You, My Lad', written in 1904. In 'Whistle and I'll Come to You' (1968) Michael Hordern plays Professor Parkin who heads to a hotel on the east coast of England where he comes across a bone whistle while out on a walk. He takes it back to the hotel with him but that night hears strange noises in his room and, despite his dismissal of the supernatural, he is soon faced with more mysterious goings-on. In 'Whistle and I'll Come to You' (2010) John Hurt stars as James Parkin who, in this version, is a retired astronomer taking a much needed break from caring for his ailing wife. After finding a ring while wandering through the coastal resort he finds himself experiencing increasingly frightening and seemingly paranormal activity.

The complete four-part BBC drama in which the events of one night are re-told from the perspectives of different characters who are inevitably linked by the evening's outcome. To ensure a more secure future for himself, Ted (Douglas Hodge) attempts to impress his boss by holding a barbecue. When teenage rebel Rochelle (Georgina Campbell) litters the street outside his house, Ted makes sure she is punished but, in doing so, damages her chances at further education. Rochelle's mum, Carol (Jessica Hynes), is already struggling to cope with her life at home and at work when the police turn up looking for her son. Meanwhile, young Alfie (Billy Matthews) is about to turn 13 when he is faced with a difficult decision.

Andrea Arnold ('Red Road', 'Fish Tank') directs this gritty, pared-down version of Emily Brontë's classic Gothic novel. Heathcliff (Solomon Glave/James Howson), a runaway slave boy, is brought back to the Earnshaws' isolated, wind-blown moorland farm from the streets of Liverpool. Brought up together in this unforgiving landscape, Heathcliff and his adoptive sister, Cathy (Shannon Beer/Kaya Scoledario), become attached to one another on a primitive and instinctual level that transcends the bond of sibling or lover. When Cathy is reluctantly married off to insipid local landowner Edgar Linton (James Northcote), Heathcliff is cruelly abused and later thrown out by his brutish adoptive brother, Hindley (Lee Shaw). He eventually returns rich, embittered and still craving his beloved Cathy.

A meticulously accurate historical film set in 1649 in the poverty and unrest left in the wake of the English Civil War. A group of impoverished men and women, led by Gerrard Winstanley (a former soldier and cloth merchant ruined by the war), set up a commune on St George's Hill in Surrey, and the story follows their attempts to live in perfect peace and harmony. Directors Kevin Brownlow and Andrew Mollo attempted to make a completely authentic film - the costumes were copied from originals in the Victoria and Albert Museum, the armour was borrowed from the Tower of London Armoury, and the script was altered when Winstanley's pamphlets were discovered in the British Museum. The film is accompanied by an award-winning documentary, 'It Happened Here Again', by Eric Mival, who had previously worked with Brownlow and Mollo on 'It Happened Here'.

Jake Scott directs this indie drama starring James Gandolfini and Kristen Stewart. Middle-aged businessman Doug (Gandolfini) has led a life of quiet desperation since the death of his daughter eight years ago, and the subsequent withdrawal from life of his severely depressed wife, Lois (Melissa Leo). While attending a conference in New Orleans, Doug makes a fumbled attempt to heal his own broken heart by engaging with the problems of troubled teenage runaway Mallory (Stewart).

South African drama following Gerrit Wolfaardt (Jan Ellis), a young white man who has grown up believing blacks to be an inferior race. He decides he must help rid his country of its native Africans but gradually realises he is in the wrong with the help of college student Celeste (Liezel van der Merwe) and pastor Peter (John Kani). After undergoing this change of heart he tries to make peace between both races but there are some who are sceptical about his motives, including Moses (Mpho Lovinga), once a victim of Gerrit's violence.

Tom Bell stars as a discontented young husband who begins an affair with a 15-year-old girl in this drama written and directed by Gerry O'Hara, based on his own novel. Bored with his job and marriage to wife Joy (Judy Carne), electrician Len Lewin (Bell) starts up an affair with teenage actress Val (Olivia Hussey). Swept up in the initial rush of excitement, the pair are quickly forced to re-evaluate their situation when Val discovers that she is pregnant.

Controversial BBC Halloween special from 1992. A fully-scripted drama which imitated the format of a live television broadcast taking place inside a haunted house, the show convinced many frightened viewers of its own reality and prompted a string of complaints. The hoax is made all the more convincing thanks to its use of well-known TV presenters Michael Parkinson, Sarah Greene and Mike Smith.

Lance Hammer writes and directs this pared-down realist drama set in the Mississippi Delta. After her ex-husband's suicide, impoverished single mother Marlee (Tara Riggs) is struggling to deal with the wayward behaviour of her teenage son, James (JimMyron Ross). Meanwhile, Marlee's ex-brother-in-law, convenience store owner Lawrence (Micheal J. Smith Sr), is thrown into a paralysis of grief and despair by his brother's suicide. As tension builds between the bereaved trio, they must find a way to deal with their pain and move towards some kind of reconciliation.

Ashley Judd stars in this drama about a headstrong young woman's search for meaning and self-worth in her life. Lucy Fowler (Judd) is a contractor for a construction firm run by Owen Allen (Stacy Keach). In between caring for her reclusive alcoholic father (Scott Wilson) and spending time with her family - grandmothers Doll (Candyce Hinkle) and Nana (Diane Ladd) and uncle Tim (Tim Blake Nelson) - Lucy spends her weekends getting drunk in the local bar and sleeping with anonymous men. When she meets Cal Percell (Jeffrey Donovan), the new guy in town, it seems that Lucy might finally have found fulfilment, but it soon becomes apparent that she still has demons to confront.

Cate Blanchett reprises her role as the 'Virgin Queen' in this sequel to the Oscar-nominated 'Elizabeth'. This time round Elizabeth has to contend with the rising power of Spain, as Philip II (Jordi Molla) readies an armada for invasion, intent on returning England to Catholic influence. While her trusty servant Sir Francis Walsingham (Geoffrey Rush) works tirelessly to protect her from numerous plots, Elizabeth discovers she has a potential weakness in her fondness for Sir Walter Raleigh (Clive Owen).

Kyle Patrick Alvarez writes and directs this indie drama. Brian Geraghty stars as Davy Mitchell, a bored and lonely writer who goes on a book tour to publicise his unpublished short story collection. One night, when Davy is alone in his cheap motel room, he receives a random phone call from a woman identifying herself only as Nicole, asking him to have 'phone sex' with her. As the tour goes on, Davy has longer and more intimate conversations with Nicole, and soon finds himself falling in love with her. But can a relationship formed on such an unlikely basis possibly have any future?

Made-for-television biopic, directed by Peter Hall, about the famous Biblical character. Jacob (Matthew Modine) and Esau (Sean Bean) are two brothers fighting for their father's affection and inheritance, driven to war, enmity, and eventual reconcilliation. Also featuring performances from Lara Flynn Boyle and Joss Ackland.

The five-and-a-half-hour television mini-series chronicling 20 years in the life of the Venezuelan revolutionary Ilich Ramirez Sanchez, aka Carlos the Jackal. Edgar Ramirez stars in the title role as the ambitious, egotistical, yet powerfully charismatic, man who founded a worldwide terrorist organisation and raided the OPEC headquarters in 1975 before finally being captured by the French police.

The debut feature of director Tony Scott, this atmospheric drama tells the story of a mysterious brother and sister who live an isolated life together on the Yorkshire Moors, accompanied only by their memories and a grisly secret. Rosamund Greenwood stars.

All 14 episodes from the second series of the BBC's classic yarn of 19th-century love and passion on the high seas. This series heralds the end of the American Civil War, leading to new opportunities for the shipping trade - but James (Peter Gilmore) is preoccupied with both business and personal troubles. Meanwhile, as struggling seamen prepare to strike, Anne (Anne Stallybrass) is torn between her principles and loyalty to her husband. Episodes are: 'The Hard Case', 'Pound and Pint', 'A Woman Alone', 'Fetch and Carry', 'Yellow Jack', 'Survivor', 'Coffin Ship', 'Frisco Bound', 'Beyond the Upper Sea', 'An Inch of Candle', 'Goodbye, Goodbye', 'Bloody Week', 'The Challenge' and 'Race for Power'.

Friendships and hostilities vie for attention when a West Indian cricket team from Brixton plays a team from a Suffolk village. Invited to participate in their 'Third World Week' celebrations, a cricket team made up of West Indians from Brixton arrives in a small, upmarket Suffolk village to play the locals. Cross-cultural relations soon take a knock, however, as the members of the rival teams choose to settle their own internal issues, before moving on to those of the opposition during the match itself.

Alan Davies returns as the lateral thinking sleuth, this time investigating the disappearance of a young woman after spending the night in 'The Nightmare Room' of an old Gothic house. For 70 years, 'Metropolis' has guarded the secret of how a Harvard geneticist, Eli Mencken (Patrick Poletti), vanished after spending the night in an attic room where the malevolent spirit of a madman is said to dwell. Now, when magician Lance Gessler (Nicholas Boulton)'s beautiful young assistant Elodie (Jenna Harrison) goes missing after sheltering there from a storm, Jonathan Creek, alongside the ever sceptical Joey Ross (Sheridan Smith), sets out to solve the mystery.

All 26 episodes from the TV drama series portraying the daily life of Channel islanders under German occupation during WWII. As the only British territory to be occupied by the Nazi regime during WWII, the Channel Islands represented a glimpse of what life in Britain could have been like if Germany had won the war. Blending archive footage with contemporary film techniques, the series achieved a gritty realism that went a long way to recreating the fear and uncertainty endemic in the population at the time. Episodes comprise: 'By Order of the Fuhrer', 'The Librarian', 'After the Ball', 'Steel Hand from the Sea', 'The Laws and Usages of War', 'V for Victory', 'The Polish Affaire', 'Officers of the Law', 'The Jerry Bag', 'Treason', 'Pains and Penalties', 'The Prussian Officer', 'Judgement of Solomon', 'Call of the Dead', 'Reception for the General', 'Angels That Soar Above', 'No Quarter Given', 'Committee Man', 'Post Mortem', 'The Raid', 'Jealousy', 'War Game', 'The Right Blood', 'From a View to a Death', 'The Education of Nils Borg' and 'Escape'.

A tale of forbidden romance based on a short story by Thomas Hardy. Deserting German hussar, Matthaus Singer (Jean-Marc Barr) falls madly in love with solicitor's daughter Frances Groves (Emma Fielding) whereby she is torn between her duty and her desire. Frances's father (Jack Shepherd) would prefer her to marry the weasly suitor Humphrey (John Sessions). The passion flows but will the heart be stronger than the outside forces set on keeping the lovers apart?

Sam, living as a ghost, discovers his death wasn't just a random robbery gone bad.

To help him reconnect with the love of his life, Molly, and solve his own murder, he enlists the talents of a skeptical psychic, who doesn't even believe her own abilities.

Ghost is a supernatural mystery-thriller that will cross over into your heart and never leave.