Screenplay: Ruth Rendell

Direction Claude Chabrol

Cast Isabelle Huppert · Sandrine Bonnaire · Jacqueline Bisset · Jean-Pierre Cassel

Synopsis Sophie, a quiet and shy maid working for the upper-class family Lelievre, hides her illiteracy under the cloak of a perfect household and obedience. She finds a friend in the energetic and uncompromising postmaster Jeanne, who encourages her to stand...

Direction Claude Chabrol

Cast Benoît Magimel · Laura Smet · Aurore Clément · Bernard Le Coq

Synopsis A middle class family in Loire, where things seem just a tad off kilter. Philippe (Benoît Magimel) dotes on his mother, who has raised his two sisters and him. Gérard, a wealthy man just divorced, is paying attention to her,...

Direction Claude Miller

Cast Sandrine Kiberlain · Nicole García · Mathilde Seigner · Luck Mervil

Direction Tom Shankland

Cast Lee Williams · Marc Warren · Mikela Jay · Salvatore Antonio

Synopsis Young Tim Cornish's life has begun with great promise. Blessed with extraordinary good looks, Tim enjoyed much attention and cared little of broken hearts. At University he was a favored student in a prestigious creative writing course, but a chance...

Direction Pedro Almodóvar

Cast Javier Bardem · Francesca Neri · Liberto Rabal · Ángela Molina

Synopsis Live Flesh (1997), directed by Pedro Almodóvar, follows the intertwined lives of several characters in Madrid over two decades. The story begins with a young man, Víctor, whose life takes a dramatic turn after a fateful encounter with a police...

Direction Ousama Rawi

Cast Rita Tushingham · Ross Petty · Shelley Peterson · Jonathan Crombie

Synopsis An English woman, psychotic and sexually repressed, murders her sadistic father, then moves to America. She soon secures a job as a maid for a wealthy family. Soon her severe psychosis and her attempts to keep her sexuality from asserting...

Direction Giles Foster

Cast Helen Shaver · Lauren Bacall · Malcolm Stoddard · Peter Firth

Synopsis A woman is attempting to cope with her son's tragic death when her mother arrives on an ill-timed visit with her own remedies.

Direction Gilles Bourdos

Cast Grégoire Colin · Julie Ordon · Brigitte Catillon · Laurent Grévill

Direction Pascal Thomas

Cast Vincent Rottiers · Marilou Berry · Marie Gillain · Geraldine Chaplin

Direction Mary McMurray · Sandy Johnson · Herbert Wise · Matthew Evans

Cast George Baker · Christopher Ravenscroft · Louie Ramsay · Ken Kitson

Synopsis From cold, rock-strewn moors to comfortable suburban estates, award-winning writer Ruth Rendell explores the dark fissures between friends and family members that motivate murder.

Direction Tim Fywell

Cast Helena Bonham Carter · Celia Imrie · Guy Witcher · Jason Durr

Synopsis This psychological mystery/thriller, adapted from Ruth Rendell's novel of the same name, depicts a family on the edge. Two sisters, the elder obsessive Vera, and the younger, manipulative Eden, cut a path of jealousy, murder and revenge that leads to...

Direction Marek Losey

Cast Luke Treadaway · Geraldine James · Gemma Jones · Brian Bovell

Synopsis Mix Cellini is a lonely, maladjusted young man who works for a company that repairs exercise equipment, and lives in the upstairs apartment of an old Victorian house on Notting Hill. While his reclusive landlady, Gwendoline Chawcer, spends her time...