Cast: Judy Parfitt

Direction Adam Smith · Dearbhla Walsh · Diarmuid Lawrence

Cast Claire Foy · Matthew Macfadyen · Tom Courtenay · Alun Armstrong

Synopsis An adaptation of Charles Dickens' classic 'Little Dorrit'. It tells the story of the Dorrit family and the rich array of characters they encounter on their way from rags to riches and back again.

Direction Christopher Morahan · Jim O'Brien

Cast Peggy Ashcroft · Tim Pigott-Smith · Art Malik · Charles Dance

Synopsis A fifteen-hour adaptation of four novels by Paul Scott, collectively known as the "Raj Quartet," which describe the final years of Great Britain's colonial rule in India. The action begins in 1942, a time of tension as the Japanese army...

Direction Philippa Lowthorpe · Jamie Payne

Cast Vanessa Redgrave · Jessica Raine · Pam Ferris · Laura Main

Synopsis The story is about a group of midwives based in East London in the 1950s.

Direction James Ivory

Cast Hugh Grant · Simon Callow · James Wilby · Denholm Elliott

Synopsis Two male English school chums find themselves falling in love at Cambridge. To regain his place in society, Clive gives up his forbidden love, Maurice (pronounced "Morris") and marries. While staying with Clive and his shallow wife, Anne, Maurice finally...

Direction Taylor Hackford

Cast Kathy Bates · Jennifer Jason Leigh · David Strathairn · Judy Parfitt

Synopsis Eighteen years ago, the abusive husband of Dolores Claiborne (Kathy Bates) died under mysterious circumstances. His death was ruled an accident despite the suspicions of police detective John Mackey. Now the elderly woman she has nursed for many years has...

Direction Joseph Losey

Cast Topol · Edward Fox · John Gielgud · Tom Conti

Synopsis This bio-pic is about Galileo, the 17th century Italian who laid the foundations of modern science. Galileo made himself one of the world's first telescopes and discovered the moons of Jupiter. He supported Copernicus' theory that the Earth revolved around...

Direction Andy Wilson

Cast David Suchet · James Fox · Emma Griffiths Malin · JJ Feild

Synopsis A wealthy British heiress honeymooning on a Nile cruise ship is stalked by a former friend, whose boyfriend she had stolen before making him her new husband.

Direction Toa Fraser

Cast Sam Neill · Jeremy Northam · Bryan Brown · Peter O'Toole

Synopsis In 1930s London, gentleman Fisk (Northam) attends a lecture about reincarnation with his father. Spotting a dean (Neill) there, Fisk becomes curious about his views and invites him to dinner, during which Dean Spanley hints of a previous life. Intrigued,...

Direction Tony Richardson

Cast Nicol Williamson · Anthony Hopkins · Marianne Faithfull · Judy Parfitt

Synopsis Hamlet is Prince of Denmark, son of the recently deceased King Hamlet and his wife, Queen Gertrude. At a frosty night at Elsinore, the Danish royal castle, Hamlet meets King Hamlet's Ghost and learns that King Claudius murdered his father,...

Direction Peter Webber

Cast Scarlett Johansson · Colin Firth · Tom Wilkinson · Cillian Murphy

Synopsis Girl With a Pearl Earring (2003) follows Griet, a modest Dutch maid in 17th-century Delft, who enters the household of painter Johannes Vermeer. As she navigates the complexities of the Vermeer family and their strict social hierarchy, Griet forms a...

Direction Sarah Harding

Cast Julia McKenzie · Kimberley Nixon · Bobby Smalldridge · Martin Compston

Synopsis Miss Marple aids a young mother and son by spiriting them away to the estate of an eccentric botanist, not knowing that it will soon become the scene of murder.

Direction Brian Gilbert

Cast Stephen Fry · Jude Law · Vanessa Redgrave · Jennifer Ehle

Synopsis In 1883, Irish born Oscar Wilde (Stephen Fry) returns to London from a year long lecture tour of the US and Canada. He meets and marries Constance Lloyd. A few years later, his wit, flamboyance and creative genius are widely...

Direction John Daly

Cast Martin Landau · Judy Parfitt · Kenny Doughty · Caroline Carver

Synopsis In attempt to gather secrets for the Hungarian resistance a Jewish couple disguises themselves as Aryan.

Direction Andy Tennant

Cast Drew Barrymore · Anjelica Huston · Dougray Scott · Jeanne Moreau

Synopsis Ever After (1998) is a romantic drama that reimagines the classic Cinderella tale with a historical twist. Set in Renaissance France, the story follows Danielle, a strong-willed and intelligent young woman, who is forced into servitude by her cruel stepmother...

Direction Madonna

Cast Abbie Cornish · Andrea Riseborough · James D'Arcy · Natalie Dormer

Synopsis A two-tiered romantic drama focusing on the affair between King Edward VIII and American divorcée Wallis Simpson and a contemporary romance between a married woman and a Russian security guard.

Direction Randal Kleiser

Cast Jesse Birdsall · Helena Bonham Carter · Peter Cook · John Gielgud

Direction David Mackenzie

Cast Natasha Richardson · Ian McKellen · Marton Csokas · Hugh Bonneville

Synopsis Based on Patrick McGrath's celebrated novel of erotic obsession, "Asylum" was adapted for the screen by award-winning writer Patrick Marber (Closer) and Chrysanthy Balis.

Direction David S. Ward

Cast John Goodman · Peter O'Toole · John Hurt · Camille Coduri

Direction Nick Broomfield

Cast Gabriel Byrne · Amanda Donohoe · Struan Rodger · Douglas Hodge

Synopsis Hugo, heir to a fortune, is married to Ginny. They have a young son, and she seems devoted to Hugo, but jealousy wracks him: he imagines her in the arms of a colleague, he spies on her, he rages. One...

Direction Anthony Page

Cast Gena Rowlands · Annabeth Gish · Chloe Webb · Gail Strickland

Synopsis In 1942, the Japanese occupied the island of Singapore. During the take-over, not only military soldiers were taken prisoner, but also innocent civilians, particularly women and children. This is the story of a group of women who band together to...