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- An Irish immigrant lands in 1950s Brooklyn, where she quickly falls into a romance with a local. When her past catches up with her, however, she must choose between two countries and the lives that exist within.
- A young Peruvian bear travels to London in search of a home. Finding himself lost and alone at Paddington Station, he meets the kindly Brown family, who offer him a temporary haven.
- Maria Altmann, an octogenarian Jewish refugee, takes on the Austrian government to recover artwork she believes rightfully belongs to her family.
- Against the backdrop of the Irish War of Independence, two brothers fight a guerrilla war against British forces.
- When two married business executives having an affair are blackmailed by a violent criminal, the two must turn the tables on him to save their families.
- A British woman recalls coming of age during World War I - a story of young love, the futility of war, and how to make sense of the darkest times.
- Five years after jilting his pregnant fiancée on their wedding day, out-of-shape Dennis decides to run a marathon to win her back.
- Together, four heroes build their own army to retrieve the orb, using elemental forces to defeat Damodar before he summons the sleeping black dragon.
- The life of Neil Baldwin, a man who has shrugged off his perceived limitations to live an incredible life.
- Set in the fields of Devon and the WW1 battlefields of Flanders, two brothers fall for the same girl while contending with the pressures of their feudal family life, the war, and the price of courage and cowardice.
- A telling of the biblical tale, where Moses returns to Egypt to free the Hebrews from slavery.
- Falcón is a brilliant detective whose personal and professional life is compromised by dark secrets from the past.
- Set in the 1970s London during the height of the Cold War when a young spy discovers the disturbing truth about his father's complex past.
- Ali's biggest match, his fight with the US government. A film about the politics and hubris surrounding the Vietnam War and the revenge exacted on America's greatest sportsman of the 20th century because he refused to fight in that war.
- Struggling with her grief, Anglican priest Rebecca Ashton tries to replace her deceased daughter with another girl.
- A bodyguard must cope with hatred for his new client.
- Three friends out for a weekend motorcycle ride through Wales stumble upon a marijuana field and biker gang war.
- In 1899, a care-free young man must prepare to take over his family's Chinese banking empire.
- Adapted by Antony Sher from If This Is a Man (1947) by Primo Levi, it is a monologue told as a memoir by an older Primo looking back at his life in Auschwitz.
- Music video for Arcade Fire's "We Exist".
- Gary Tarn's remarkable, award-winning documentary, BLACK SUN, investigates this through the story of Hugues de Montalembert, a New York-based artist and filmmaker who was blinded by a vicious attack in 1978.
- A father is confronted by the sons he had cloned decades earlier. Based on a play by Caryl Churchill.
- You know you are in trouble when your girl friends put up an organization chart to explain why you were invited to the New Years Party in the country ... Only in Britain can the New Years Holiday be celebrated with sublime wit and comedy as a re-union of London city dwellers arrives on the doorstep of a modern-day back-to-the-farm family, Adam, Claire, and daughter Jodie, where marriage is as flinty sharp as the hills of their sheep ranch. As friends arrive with untested partner arrangements, the gathering girl friends soon discover after the dinner party that their stalwart male friend, Sean, holds the record of having slept with all of them for all the wrong reasons. And, if January 2nd is too late for new resolutions -- it isn't too late for revenge.
- A young man watches a state of the art, interactive television, only to realize that the TV is so interactive that the people on screen are watching him too.
- The team investigate the apparent possession of a grieving father by a recently murdered criminal.
- Justine admits to having precognition abilities and in doing so ends up saving lives.
- A sleep experiment turns dangerous.
- Disturbances at a 5-star Glasgow hotel prompt the manager to hire Justine and Craig to investigate.
- A young woman is generating extreme electrical manifestations, interfering with electrical equipment, shocking people with her touch, and threatening her health, perhaps even her life. The team are called in to investigate.
- A demon who preys on men picks one of the team as a victim.
- The elderly Logan Mountstuart recalls his life as recorded in his many journals. In 1926, as an Oxford student, he is keen to race his friends Peter and Ben to losing their virginity. However, his chosen girl, the feisty socialist Land Fothergill seeks only his intellectual companionship. Thus he spends illicit Sunday afternoons with Peter's girlfriend Tess until she becomes pregnant and marries Peter. Whilst promising his dying father and Uruguayan mother that he will carry on the family tinned meat business, he longs to be a writer. After meeting Ernest Hemingway in Paris, he publishes his first book, the sexy novel 'The Girl Factory', which becomes a best seller. Land is not impressed with his book, feeling it has no intellectual value. Feeling Logan is beneath her, she marries a Labour M.P., and goes on to stand for parliament herself. Logan, on the rebound, marries Lottie, the daughter of an aristocrat. They have a son, Lionel, but the marriage is not a happy one and,when in 1936, Logan goes to Spain to cover the Civil War, it is not Lottie who sees him off but the alluring BBC journalist Freya Deverell, who is carrying his child.
- In Barcelona Logan meets Hemingway who arranges for him to go the front,where he witnesses the slaughter of members of the International Brigade. He returns to England and divorces Lottie to marry Freya,who has given birth to a daughter, Stella. He is given limited access to his son,Lionel.Tess kills herself due to the infidelity of Peter,who converts to Catholicism as atonement. World War Two breaks out and Logan's friend Ian Fleming recruits him for Naval Intelligence. He is sent to the Bahamas to keep tabs on the Duke and Duchess of Windsor whose loyalty is in doubt but falls out with them after refusing to take part in implicating an innocent man in the murder of his wealthy father-in-law. Back in Europe he is interned as a spy,returning to London at the end of the war to find Freya and Stella have both been killed in an air raid.
- In 1955 Logan lives in New York,running an art gallery for Ben Leeping and married to American widow Alannah but the marriage is falling apart and he drinks heavily. On a visit to London following his mother's death he meets the seductive Gloria, third wife of Peter Scabius,with whom he has a highly sexual affair and,on his return to New York,shortly after he learns of Hemingway's death,Alannah leaves him for another man. Compensation comes when long estranged son Lionel turns up to see him but the boy dies of a drug overdose and Lottie,arriving in New York for the funeral,blames Logan. Logan has to flee New York after an affair with Monday,his son's girlfriend,who has lied about her age and is a minor,rendering him open to prosecution. Back in London he lives frugally in a basement flat where Gloria,divorced from Peter and dying of cancer,spends her last days with him. He inherits a house in the South of France and,returning from a visit there,is run over by a car.
- Logan recovers from his accident in hospital,being a very grumpy patient. On discharge he joins the Socialist Patients' Collective,believing it to be a hospital lobby group when it is actually an anti-capitalist cell with links to the Baader-Meinhof gang. On its behalf he travels to Switzerland,recalling war-time incarceration, but,on discovery that he has been sent to buy explosives,he ditches his purchase and quits the group. He retires to his house in France,befriending divorced local woman Gabrielle,who reminds him of Freya. With Peter and Ben now both dead Logan is the lone survivor of the Oxford trio and he will spend the rest of his days working on his autobiography,to be published as 'Any Human Heart'.
- A young man makes friends with a pet mouse out of loneliness.
- A suspicious death in the mine in Burnsend leads Gently and Bacchus to explore the tensions and relationships in a community whose seams have been ripped wide open by politics.
- Christopher Jefferies, a semi-retired teacher in his mid-sixties, owns a house in Bristol and lets rooms to tenants. Though on several committees and with friends he is considered an eccentric, esoteric figure with his long grey hair and old-fashioned ways. In December 2010 tenant Greg Reardon reports his partner Jo Yeates missing and the police visit Chris. When Jo's corpse is found on Christmas Eve Chris is beset by reporters to whom he reacts pedantically and some days later he is arrested for Jo's murder. He is subjected to trial by media as the gutter press term him 'lewd', 'creepy' and the Nutty Professor despite his lawyer Paul Okebu securing his release whilst the school where he used to teach is less than supportive.
- Tommy and Tuppence have a chance encounter on a train with an agitated young woman who suddenly disappears and never returns to her seat.
- Tommy is sent on a secret mission to discover the identity of Soviet spy staying at a seaside guest-house; Tuppence refuses to be left behind.
- In January 2011 the police arrest Vincent Tabak, Chris's Dutch lodger, who has returned to the Netherlands after supplying evidence to incriminate Chris. He pleads guilty to Jo Yeates' manslaughter but is found guilty of her murder. Now out of the public eye Chris is keen for a quiet life but, encouraged by friends, engages the lawyer Louis Charalambous to sue the six tabloid papers that had vilified him. They are charged with contempt of court for suggesting that an untried suspect was a murderer and they are fined, with Chris receiving damages. With his hair cut short Chris is also a witness at the newly-commissioned Leveson Inquiry, investigating the dirty tricks employed by the gutter press, exonerating himself once and for all.
- Grandpa Bee is reluctant to come along to the Art Class that Aunty Bee has organised. Buzzbee is disappointed - he wants all his family to be there. He convinces Grandpa to give it a try and Grandpa discovers his creative side.
- Postman Spider has lost his usual enthusiasm for his work and wants to retire. Buzzbee tries lots of different approaches to help but Postman Spider gets his bounce back after Buzzbee discovers that very small changes can make a big difference.
- Debee has a new Chatterbug toy that mimics everything you say. Buzzbee and friends are desperate to have a go and so Debee lends it to them. When it stops working they go to great lengths to fix it -- only to find the problem is a simple one.
- Buzzbee's class splits into two teams led by Mrs Wasp and Postman Spider for an after-school club but find out it's more fun to be one big group.
- Buzzbee and Barnabee discover ways to tell the time through the natural world, including their tummies.