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- Maria Altmann, an octogenarian Jewish refugee, takes on the Austrian government to recover artwork she believes rightfully belongs to her family.
- Elizabeth and Darcy, now six years married, are preparing for their annual ball when festivities are brought to an abrupt halt. An adaptation of PD James's homage to Pride and Prejudice.
- When lawyer Gina Hawkes hires Harry to find a witness, he unexpectedly revisits his brother's decades-old death, embroiling him in a political conspiracy at the highest levels of British government.
- The life and times of the woman who reformed the Russian empire.
- In 1921, England is overwhelmed by the loss and grief of World War I. Hoax exposer Florence Cathcart visits a boarding school to explain sightings of a child ghost. Everything she believes unravels as the 'missing' begin to show themselves.
- A couple's visit with their son takes a dramatic turn when the father tells him he plans on leaving his mother.
- A socially awkward teenage maths prodigy finds new confidence and new friendships when he lands a spot on the British squad at the International Mathematics Olympiad.
- A chronicle of Nelson Mandela's life journey from his childhood in a rural village through to his inauguration as the first democratically elected president of South Africa.
- A family of five heads to Granddad's big 75th-birthday party at an uncle's estate in rural Scotland. The parents are separated and hope their three kids won't mention it. The kids love, can talk with, and would do anything for Granddad.
- A bold new adaptation of Wilkie Collins' classic gothic novel.
- Set in 1870s London, a young prostitute finds potential power and status after becoming the mistress of a powerful patriarch.
- A man becomes haunted by his past and is presented with a mysterious legacy that causes him to re-think his current situation in life.
- A young woman moves in with her aunt and uncle and soon discovers unsavory happenings in her new home.
- The story of an 84 year-old Kenyan villager and ex Mau Mau veteran who fights for his right to go to school for the first time to get the education he could never afford.
- A semi-autobiographical coming-of-age story set in the Cotswolds during and immediately after the First World War.
- Two brothers run away from home in England to reach their estranged grandfather on Ireland's west coast.
- 'Diamond' Dave Matthews works for a ruthless firm providing mortgages to families denied credit, regardless of whether they can afford the repayments. Divorced City banker Gus sells lucrative corporate mortgages over the phone and literally has orgasms at his own success. Dave runs into old school-mate Jim Potter, a married security guard with two children and, under the guise of friendship, offers him and his family an escape from their drab council estate. But the repayments rocket,dragging the Potters into a spiral of debt. Jim works overtime but is so exhausted he sleeps on the job and is sacked. Gus's workaholicism alienates him from his daughter and colleague/lover Anna, who resigns, and he is undone by the world recession, losing his job, his purpose in life, and he kills himself. Jim confronts Dave but to no avail.The Potters are re-possessed though they move up in the world when they are re-homed whilst Dave carries on deceiving more families with a different company.
- Tom is a lovely and super positive charity worker, whose life seems under complete control. Until the day a mysterious woman enters his way and completely changes his life. Intrusive and twisted, she's about to present a side of Tom he never knew he had inside of himself, new perspectives that comes with strange consequences on the way.
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- In the violent world of 1874 London Sugar is a spirited prostitute in the brothel of grasping Mrs. Castaway. After her friend Elizabeth dies from injuries inflicted by two drunken clients Sugar starts writing a book to expose Mrs. Castaway's customers. Another would-be writer is William Rackham, an accountant for his father's soap factory and in debt to Dr. Curlew for the care of his unstable wife Agnes. He visits the brothel on the recommendation of friends and is impressed by Sugar's literary erudition as well as her bedside manner. She even encourages him to do more in the family business and he becomes her regular patron. Ironically, his brother Henry is smitten by Dr. Curlew's widowed sister, philanthropic Mrs. Fox, who is trying to help prostitutes to better lives. Out of interest Sugar comes to look at William's house and waves to Agnes whom she sees at a window.
- William moves Sugar into her own apartment where she continues to write and advise him on the running of the factory. Whilst he is in Glasgow on business, she goes alone to Royal Albert Hall, where she meets Agnes and comforts her after one of her fits, arranging to send her home. Agnes calls her 'guardian angel'. Henry visits Mrs. Fox, who is ill with, according to Dr. Curlew, terminal consumption so he carries on her work helping prostitutes. He meets Sugar's friend Caroline, who prefers to stay on the game with all its risks than take a lower paid factory job. William tells his brother to satisfy Mrs. Fox sexually but Henry has a fatal mishap during a sexual fantasy in which the flames of passion are only too literal. Sugar suggests to William that she becomes a tutor to his little daughter Sophie.
- Sugar becomes Sophie's tutor, immediately giving the little girl a happier and less austere life, whilst continuing to sleep with William, who tells her that Agnes has always refused to acknowledge her daughter. Sugar finds Agnes's diaries, which she has left in her room and starts to read them. When Agnes tries to flee the house Sugar finds her and promises to help. William's attempts to be tender and loving with Agnes backfire and he reluctantly agrees to Curlew putting her in an asylum, convincing himself that she will be cured. The night before Curlew comes for Agnes, Sugar gives her money and puts her on a train to Cornwall, instructing her to seek out the nearest convent.
- Sugar denies any part in helping Agnes escape but soon afterwards a body is discovered which William identifies as having been his wife. Mrs. Fox, now fully recovered, guesses that Sugar is a former prostitute and keeps her secret, telling her that Mrs. Castaway has died. Sugar visits the brothel but her old friends have all left and it is being run by lesbians. Sugar falls pregnant but William tells her that he does not want a child with her and she throws herself downstairs to induce a miscarriage. William grows distant from her, initially obsessed with Agnes but later visiting brothels and courting Agnes's friend Constance. Finally he sacks her, despite the great bond she has with Sophie so she and the little girl run away together. As they leave Sugar drops her manuscript and the pages are scattered down the street.
- After killing Hillman the mysterious saviour disappears but Venn finds a picture of Jason Styles in Tanzir's possession. Gina explains that Sir Nigel is her adoptive father and her real parents were killed twenty years earlier. Her mother, Jennifer Moscati, was murdered by Tanzir on the orders of Styles, who, she believes, also killed her father as well as being the real killer of Venn's brother. At a dinner given by Wentworth's sponsors Styles also shows up. Venn and Gina return to London where James Morpeth, one of Wentworth's supporters, sends Styles to kill Gina, but she recognises him and escapes, believing that Sir Nigel is also in on the plot. She meets Venn and Frank Hanna and they go to the house in Kent where, twenty years earlier, the killing of Venn's brother took place, to meet the only survivor of that night, wheelchair-bound Ben Lander. He points a gun at Venn, who is saved by Hanna.
- After dumping his girlfriend solicitor Harry Venn is approached by high-powered advocate Gina Hawkes to find Joe Collins,who she claims can prove the innocence of her client,murder suspect Stevie Quirke. Venn is reluctant,especially since Gina and her firm do not appear to exist on paper but is intrigued when Quirke claims to have news of Venn's brother Mark,apparently killed in a police shoot-out years earlier. Leaving the prison Venn is surprised to see Paul Hillman,a policeman whom he also thought was dead. Next day he survives a bomb blast at his office. Meanwhile Opposition Leader Alexander Wentworth goes on television to attack PM Brian Worsley,whose supposed corruption and bribery have caused nation-wide riots.
- Despite the warning phone call telling him to get out the insurance company claim the explosion was caused by a gas leak. Venn gets his investigator Frank Hanna to break into Gina's doctor's office and find out more about her from her files but heavies led by Jason Styles,who knew Venn's brother,chase him away. Venn seeks out barrister Sir Nigel Fountain,who says that Gina is his daughter and an espouser of lost causes. Whilst Stevie is murdered in prison Venn and his ex-wife Lauren learn their teenage son Michael has been arrested for drug-dealing. Eventually Venn tracks Gina down in Paris,where she has stumbled upon the corpse of newly released prisoner Tannzir,who was convicted of the random murder of Jennifer Moscati. Venn and Gina are threatened by Hillman,who is shot dead by a mysterious saviour.
- After Ben Lander has told Gina that Morpeth and a man named Cockburn visited the night before his uncle and Mark were killed Venn drops Frank,wounded in the shoot-out,off at hospital. Gina gets a call from Joe Collins,whom she and meet in hiding. He says that Styles paid him and Stevie to kill her but instead they decamped with his lap-top,which he gives Venn. Gina confronts Sir Nigel,an open supporter of Wentworth,over her parents' death but,after he has said they would not oblige with Cockburn's request,he is killed. Venn hacks into the lap-top and discovers that Mark is alive and set to kill Wentworth next day at his press conference. Gate-crashing the event Venn sees Mark with a gun though the victim is not the intended one and ultimately nothing is resolved.
- Darcy and Elizabeth Bennet are now married with a son and prepare to host their annual ball at their country mansion Pemberley. Among the guests are upright Colonel Fitzwilliam and young radical lawyer Henry Alveston, both love rivals for Darcy's sister Georgiana. Whilst walking in the woods Elizabeth sees a mysterious woman, said to be local ghost Mrs Riley but this is forgotten as she welcomes her guests, including her parents. Younger sister Lydia and her feckless husband Wickham have not been invited but Lydia makes a dramatic entrance, announcing that Wickham has argued with his friend Denny in the woods. Two shots ring out and a search party finds Wickham bloodied and drunk and Denny beaten to death though Wickham denies killing him. Nonetheless unpopular magistrate Hardcastle arrests Wickham to charge him with murder. After they have gone Darcy tells Elizabeth that years earlier Hardcastle sentenced to death a young poacher, whose mother hung herself in grief, the mother being Mrs Riley, whose ghost is said to appear to harbinger bad news.
- Wickham is visited in jail by Colonel Fitzwilliam, who has his own reason for keeping quiet although he has an alibi for the murder as he was publicly seen in the company of one of his soldiers' widows. Elizabeth assures the staff that they have nothing to fear - whilst cancelling the ball - but is intrigued by fragments of a burned letter whose writer sought to meet Colonel Fitzwilliam in the woods. She tells Hardcastle she saw the woman believed to be the ghost in the woods but was certain she was mortal. Later she comes upon a grave in the woods and is told it belongs to the Darcy's great grandfather, a reckless gambler who almost lost Pemberley. Whilst Georgiana turns down Alveston's marriage proposal the young lawyer supports Darcy at the inquest, whose jury finds Wickham guilty of murder and sends him to the Assizes. Furthermore Elizabeth learns that Wickham has used a false name to have sex with serving girl Louisa Bidwell, who has borne his child.
- Things look very bad for Wickham as Hardcastle learns that he fathered Louisa's baby under a false name with the same initials as Fitzwilliam Darcy. Meanwhile Louisa tells Elizabeth that Denny was arranging for her to have the baby adopted by the woman seen in the woods - although Louisa refused - and that Fitzwilliam was listening to them. Wickham goes for trial, defended by Alveston - who will later marry Georgina. To the horror of snobbish patroness Lady Catherine De Bourgh Darcy goes to give evidence for Wickham, seeing the woman from the woods, who he recognizes as Mrs Younge, the old governess of Georgiana who turned out to be an accomplice of Wickham. Now she turns out to be Wickham's sister. The jury return a guilty verdict but Elizabeth is not convinced and conducts her own investigation to find out who really killed Martin Denny.
- In 1821 spirited orphan Mary Yellan goes to live with her aunt Patience at the remote Jamaica Inn on Bodmin Moor, run by Patience's forbidding husband Joss. Since her father was killed by smugglers Mary is not happy to discover that Joss has made the inn the meeting point for a local smuggling gang. Joss's younger brother Jem gives Mary a horse and, although Jem warns Joss to suspend activities because a new magistrate is clamping down on smugglers, Joss ignores him and some of his men are caught. Mary reluctantly helps the gang to clear contraband from the beach before the revenue men can discover it and later sees Joss apparently kill the man who betrayed the smugglers. She is about to go to the law but falls into a bog on the moor, from which she is rescued by Jem.
- Mary lies to the magistrate about the inn's involvement with smuggling but feels guilty and visits the vicar, Francis Davey, and his sister Hannah, who partially condone some of the smuggling but disapprove of Joss and ask Mary to spy on him so he can be arrested. Returning to Jamaica Inn she hears Patience argue with Joss about the real smugglers' leader, who gives him his orders. She follows him but gets lost and is again rescued by Jem, who is living rough. After Jem has returned her home a drunken Joss confesses to her that he has nightmares about the sailors he killed for contraband and that her father was also a smuggler, who was hanged. Mary again seeks solace with Jem and they go to an auction to sell the horse - stolen from the magistrate - which he gave her. They decide to spend a night together at a hotel but Jem disappears and Mary is taken home by Francis and Hannah, who are dispensing alms in the area. Francis tells Mary that he has informed the magistrate of Joss's latest plan.
- To Mary's horror the wreckers lure a ship onto the rocks and then murder and rob the crew as they swim ashore. However the revenue officers arrive and shoot and kill most of the smugglers, Joss and Mary escaping back to the inn. Joss and Patience decide to flee over the river to Devon but before they can do so both are also murdered. Jem, arrested at the auction for horse-stealing, is released from prison on condition he leads the magistrate to the man who gives the smugglers their orders but Mary, discovering the bodies of Patience and Joss, runs to the Daveys, who are sympathetic and give her tea. However all is not what is seems and Jem must race against time to save Mary and unmask the chief smuggler.
- After a haunting encounter with a woman dressed all in white, drawing master Walter Hartright is struck by a startling resemblance between her and his beautiful new pupil Laura Fairlie.
- Laura is forced to set aside her love for Walter and marry Sir Percival, whose character takes a dark turn. Marian finds herself drawn to his enigmatic friend, Count Fosco.
- Sir Percival goes to violent lengths to get his hands on Laura's fortune, while Marian starts to suspect there might be something sinister behind Count Fosco's charming facade.
- Count Fosco and Sir Percival's plan is set in motion with tragic consequences. Marian and Walter make a horrifying discovery as they seek justice for Laura.
- Mrs. Catherick hints at an irregularity with Sir Percival's parentage leading Marian and Walter to the church where his birth was registered. The baronet goes to desperate lengths to stop them.