Screenplay: Julian Mitchell

Direction John Madden · Peter Hammond · Herbert Wise · Adrian Shergold

Cast John Thaw · Kevin Whately · James Grout · Peter Woodthorpe

Synopsis TV Series (1987-2000). 33 episodes. A grouchy but cultured police detective (John Thaw) and his easy going partner (Kevin Whately) investigate crimes around the British community of Oxford. Twenty one years ago a young, fresh-faced detective climbed into an old...

Direction Roderick Graham

Cast Glenda Jackson · Ronald Hines · Robert Hardy · Anthony Ainley

Synopsis When Elizabeth Tudor comes to the throne, her (male) advisors know she has to marry. Doesn't she? Thus starts a decades-long political/ matrimonial game, during an age of high passions and high achievement.

Direction Marek Kanievska

Cast Rupert Everett · Colin Firth · Michael Jenn · Robert Addie

Synopsis Based on the life of the young Guy Burgess, who would become better known as one of the Cambridge Spies.

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 Stanley Donen

Cast Gregory Peck · Sophia Loren · Alan Badel · Kieron Moore

Synopsis Story of international intrigue involving a university professor, an Arab prime minister, a ruthless businessman, a beautiful spy, and hieroglyphics. Professor David Pollock (Gregory Peck) is an expert in ancient Arabic hieroglyphics. A Middle Eastern Prime Minister convinces Pollock to...

Direction Robert Altman

Cast Tim Roth · Paul Rhys · Johanna ter Steege · Wladimir Yordanoff

Synopsis The familiar tragic story of Vincent van Gogh is broadened by focusing as well on his brother Theodore, who helped support Vincent. The movie also provides a nice view of the locations which Vincent painted.

Direction Anthony Hopkins

Cast Anthony Hopkins · Leslie Phillips · Kate Burton · Gawn Grainger

Synopsis Year 1896, North Wales. Leuan Davis has spent most of his wasted life managing the highly respected Professor Blathwaite's estate. Ieuan's brother-in-law, Blathwaite only comes for the summer and this year brings his second wife along, someone that both Iuean...

Direction Howard Baker

Cast Ann Firbank · Bryan Marshall · Marian Spencer · Richard Vernon

Synopsis Eight years earlier, Anne Elliot, the daughter of a financially troubled aristocratic family, was persuaded to break off her engagement to Frederick Wentworth, a young seaman, who, though promising, had poor family connections. When her father rents out the family...

Direction Donald McWhinnie · Barry Davis · David Giles · Peter Wood

Cast Peter Firth · Ian McKellen · Prunella Ransome · Stephan Chase

Synopsis TV Series (1972-1973). 2 Seasons, 13 Episodes. Country Matters portrays several romance stories, set in rural England just after the first World War. Each episode provides accurate and fascinating costume and set design to illustrate the class differences, living habits,...

Direction Peter H. Hunt

Cast Chris Makepeace · Bernhard Wicki · Herbert Fux · Christoph Waltz

Synopsis A young printer's apprentice imagines himself back in the days of Guttenberg, helping him to print the Bible.

Direction James Cellan Jones

Cast Lee Remick · Barbara Parkins · Warren Clarke · Rachel Kempson

Synopsis Step into the gilded world of beautiful and intelligent American heiress Jennie Jerome, from her fairytale wedding to Lord Randolph Churchill, through extramarital affairs and fashionable salons that helped advance his career and the career of their son, Winston.

Direction Alan Bridges · James Ferman · Michael Hayes · Donald McWhinnie

Cast Denholm Elliott · Billie Whitelaw · Richard Vernon · Dennis Waterman

Synopsis TV Series (1972). 8 episodes. An anthology series of BBC television dramas on sexual themes. The same cast was featured in each production.

Direction Robert Altman

Cast Tim Roth · Paul Rhys · Johanna ter Steege · Wladimir Yordanoff

Synopsis TV Mini-series (4 episodes). The familiar tragic story of Vincent van Gogh is broadened by focusing as well on his brother Theodore, who helped support Vincent. The movie also provides a nice view of the locations which Vincent painted.

Direction Kevin Billington

Cast Robin Ellis · Vickery Turner · Jeremy Brett · Susan Fleetwood

Synopsis A romantic tragedy about two turn-of-the-century couples - one American, one British - who regularly vacation together at a spa in Germany.

Direction Gavin Millar

Cast Michael York · Lisa Eichhorn · Joanna Lumley · Rosalind Ayres

Synopsis Passion comes calling when a man suffering through an unhappy marriage in 1920s England runs into first love.

Direction Silvio Narizzano

Cast Trevor Howard · Celia Johnson · Saeed Jaffrey · Pearl Padamsee

Synopsis A british colonel and his wife decide to remain in India after the departure of the British raj in the 1940s.