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Last Tango in Halifax
2012 United Kingdom

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
2019 Italy, United Kingdom

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
1964 United Kingdom

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'

Dix Pour Cent/Call My Agent TV series
2015 France

At a top Paris talent firm, agents scramble to keep their star clients happy and their business afloat...

Vikingane/Norsemen
2016 Norway

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 United Kingdom, Germany

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
2019 United Kingdom

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
2020 South Africa

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
2000 United States

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
2020 United States

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
2019 United Kingdom

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
2020 United States

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
1980 United Kingdom

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
1984 United Kingdom

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.
2018 United States

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
2019 United States

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

Squid Game
2021 South Korea

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
1977 United Kingdom

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
1976 United Kingdom

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.

Hitler: The Rise of Evil
2003 Canada

Primetime Emmy Award winning Canadian drama series that explores the rise of Nazi power during the years prior to World War II

No Job for a Lady tv series
1990 United Kingdom

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
2017 United States

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
1963 United Kingdom

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
1979 United Kingdom

"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 Ugliest Girl in Town tv show
1968 United States

Boy meets girl....boy loses girl...boy dresses up as girl to be with girl - it wasn't Television Heaven - it was Television Hell

The Sheriff of Cochise County 1956
1956 United States

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
1966 United Kingdom

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
1975 Italy, United Kingdom

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
2019 Italy, United Kingdom

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

Wolf Hall
2015 United Kingdom

The BBC's excellent award-winning historical drama on the rapid rise to power of Thomas Cromwell in the court of Henry VIII