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Last Tango in Halifax

Last Tango in Halifax (2012)

Last Tango in Halifax

Alan and Celia, both widowed and in their seventies, rekindle a passionate relationship that fate stole from them over sixty years ago

Medici the Magnificent

Medici the Magnificent (2019)

Medici the Magnificent

20 years after the events depicted in 'Medici: Masters of Florence,' Lorenzo - Piero's son, takes over as head of the family in order to avoid the fall of Florence

Detective TV series 1964 & 1968

Detective (1964)

Detective TV series 1964 & 1968

BBC anthology series in which each week a different famous literary detective is brought to the screen. The series spawned several long-running series including 'Cluff,' 'Father Brown,' and 'Sherlock Holmes'

Vikingane/Norsemen

Vikingane / Norsemen (2016)

Vikingane/Norsemen

Norwegian comedy series about the daily challenges of a group of Vikings living in the village of Norheim around the year 790. The power struggles, sibling rivalry, gender equality, betrayal and friendship...

Paul Temple (1979)

A successful writer of detective novels, living a wealthy life, is also a part-time private eye in this television version of a successful radio series

Afterlife

After Life (2019)

Afterlife

Struggling to come to terms with his wife's death, a writer for a newspaper casts aside his nice-guy image and adopts a gruff new persona in an effort to push away those trying to help

My Octopus Teacher

My Octopus Teacher (2020)

My Octopus Teacher

A filmmaker forges an unusual friendship with an octopus living in a South African kelp forest, learning as the animal shares the mysteries of her world

Curb Your Enthusiasm

Curb Your Enthusiasm (2000)

Curb Your Enthusiasm

HBO's hit comedy series about a Hollywood writer who seems to have the idyllic life in California but who is never far away from misfortune, misunderstanding and confrontation

The Queen's Gambit

The Queen's Gambit (2020)

The Queen's Gambit

American coming-of-age period drama which follows the life of an orphan chess prodigy during her quest to become an elite chess player, while struggling with emotional problems, drugs and alcohol dependency

Breaking Dad

Breaking Dad (2019)

Breaking Dad

Coming of age road trip to the USA. With viewing figures of 5 million an episode, the series became Britain's highest rating celebrity travelogue in nearly 10 years

Warrior Nun

Warrior Nun (2020)

Warrior Nun

When an orphaned teen wakes up in a morgue she discovers that a divine artefact has been embedded in her back. The powers it gives her means that she is now the Halo-Bearer for a secret sect of demon-hunting nuns

Holding the Fort

Holding the Fort (1980)

Holding the Fort

Sitcom starring Peter Davison and Patricia Hodge in which to maintain a reasonable standard of living a wife works in the Army while her husband brings up baby.

The Trap Door animated series 1984

The Trap Door (1984)

The Trap Door animated series 1984

Enter a world inhabited solely by monsters of every imaginable shape and size. Below the trap door there is always something in the dark, waiting to come out...Don't open that trapdoor. You're a fool if you dare!

Mayans M.C.

Mayans M.C. (2018)

Mayans M.C.

The next chapter in the 'Sons of Anarchy' saga: Blood runs thicker than water in the cartel-run borderlands between Mexico and the US

What We Do in the Shadows

What We Do in the Shadows (2019)

What We Do in the Shadows

Hilarious mockumentary comedy horror series which follows three vampires, who've lived together for over 100 years, on Staten Island, New York

Squid Game

Squid Game (2021)

Squid Game

Hundreds of cash-strapped players accept a strange invitation to compete in children's games. It's a game to the death!

Odd Man Out tv series 1977

Odd Man Out (1977)

Odd Man Out tv series 1977

British sitcom starring John Inman as a chip-shop owner who sells up his thriving business to take on an ailing seaside rock factory with his half-sister

Beasts 1976

Beasts (1976)

Beasts 1976

Laden with suspense, drama and a thick vein of black humour Beasts presented stories of civilised man in conflict with the primal, animal side of existence.

No Job for a Lady tv series

No Job for a Lady (1990)

No Job for a Lady tv series

Jean Price is the idealistic, newly-elected Labour Party Member of Parliament - trapped in a man's world, a place where bureaucracy and blather cheerfully co-exist...

Snowfall tv series

Snowfall (2017)

Snowfall tv series

In Los Angeles at the beginning of the 1980s a new drug, which will change the game for ever, is about to hit the streets. A storm is coming and it's name is crack...

Tony Hancock

Hancock (1963)

Tony Hancock

When Tony Hancock left the BBC for ITV his was one of the most watched shows on British television. By the end of this ITV series his career was in shreds...

Daughters of Albion

Daughters of Albion (1979)

Daughters of Albion

"Look...I've got you for one night. I want you..." When the girls from town meet the young men from university at an all-night party, anything can happen.

The Sheriff of Cochise County 1956

The Sheriff of Cochise (1956)

The Sheriff of Cochise County 1956

Blazing a trail of law and order in untamed Cochise County, Arizona, Sheriff Frank Morgan uses modern 1950s police methods to fight crime

This Man Craig

This Man Craig (1966)

This Man Craig

Thought-provoking 1960s drama series that tackled a number of social problems which it addressed with intelligence and sensitivity

The Count of Monte Cristo 1975

The Count of Monte Cristo (1975 TV Movie) (1975)

The Count of Monte Cristo 1975

Richard Chamberlain leads an all-star cast in the 1975 television adaptation of Alexandre Dumas' classic novel about a beleaguered young seaman who, after being wrongfully imprisoned for many years, plots his revenge

The Two Popes Netflix movie

The Two Popes (2019)

The Two Popes Netflix movie

An intimate story of one of the most dramatic transitions of power in the last 2,000 years. At a key turning point for the Catholic Church, Pope Benedict XVI forms a surprising friendship with the future Pope Francis