Screenplay: Ian McEwan

Direction Joe Wright

Cast Keira Knightley · James McAvoy · Romola Garai · Saoirse Ronan

Plot On the hottest day of the summer of 1935, thirteen-year-old Briony Tallis (Saoirse Ronan) sees her older sister Cecilia (Keira Knightley) strip off her clothes and plunge into the fountain...

Direction Andrew Birkin

Cast Andrew Robertson · Charlotte Gainsbourg · Sinead Cusack · Alice Coulthard

Plot After the death of her husband, the mother of Julie, Jack, Sue and Tom begins to suffer from a mysterious illness. Aware that she is going to have to go...

Direction Paul Schrader

Cast Christopher Walken · Rupert Everett · Natasha Richardson · Helen Mirren

Plot An English couple holiday in Venice to sort out their relationship. There is some friction and distance between them, and we also sense they are being watched. One evening, they...

Direction Dominic Cooke

Cast Saoirse Ronan · Billy Howle · Emily Watson · Anne-Marie Duff

Plot A drama set in the early 1960s and centered on a young couple on their honeymoon.

Direction Richard Eyre

Cast Emma Thompson · Stanley Tucci · Fionn Whitehead · Jason Watkins

Plot British High Court judge Fiona Maye is a judge in a life-and-death situation when her court is faced with a teenage boy whose life can be saved — decrees materia...

Direction Joseph Ruben

Cast Macaulay Culkin · Elijah Wood · Wendy Crewson · David Morse

Plot Evil resides in an unexpected place in this gripping, suspense-filled drama. Macaulay Culkin stars as Henry, an angelic-looking boy who seems loving and loyal to his parents, sister and friends....

Direction Roger Michell

Cast Daniel Craig · Samantha Morton · Rhys Ifans · Bill Nighy

Plot On a beautiful cloudless day a young couple celebrate their reunion with a picnic. Joe Rose and his girlfriend Claire are about to open a bottle of champagne when a...

Direction Richard Eyre

Cast Jonathan Pryce · Tim Curry · Rosemary Harris · Frank Finlay

Plot James Penfield has made a career out of journalism. Now bankrupt, he finds himself with a group of other writers in the middle of the dispute-ridden British homeland at the...

Direction John Schlesinger

Cast Anthony Hopkins · Isabella Rossellini · Campbell Scott · Ronald Nitschke

Plot A young engineer is sent to post-WWII Berlin to help the Americans in spying on the Russians. In a time and place where discretion is still a man's best friend,...

Direction Julian Farino

Cast Benedict Cumberbatch · Kelly MacDonald · Stephen Campbell Moore · Saskia Reeves

Plot The life of a children's book author is turned upside down when his daughter goes missing.

Direction Mike Newell

Cast Sylvia Chang · Danny Dun · Jodi Long · Speedy Choo

Plot Lily and Chen move from Hong Kong to London to make their fortune. Enterprising Lily runs her own restaurant but she fails to persuade Chen who prefers the security of...

Direction Wolfgang Becker

Cast Bertram von Boxberg · Lena Boehncke · Dieter Oberholz · Uwe Helfrich

Direction Mariusz Grzegorzek

Cast Bozena Adamek · Rafal Olbrychski · Karol Cieslar · Maciej Wilk

Plot Charles sits for hours in a wardrobe in a rented room on the attic, looking back on his whole life. He was brought up by a single mother who loved...

Direction Derek Banham

Cast Annette Badland · Graham McGrath · James Gaddas · Christine Winter

Plot A young woman moves into a hippy commune and spends an idyllic summer with the young brother of one of the residents.

Direction Philip Saville · Pedr James · Mike Leigh · Tara Prem

Cast Ken Kitson · Jean Heywood · Ivor Roberts · Alison Steadman

Plot A series of television plays produced at the BBC's studios at Pebble Mill, Birmingham; Birmingham is England's second city, hence the series title. The 1974 episode "Girl" featured the first...

Direction Jesse Peretz

Cast Natasha Gregson Wagner · Giovanni Ribisi · Robert John Burke · Jeanetta Arnette