Frances Barber

Set in a small English town in 1959, a woman decides, against polite but ruthless local opposition, to open a bookshop, a decision which becomes ...

A new republican prime minister strips the British monarch and her family of their money and assets, and forces them to live on a rundown council ...

Greg Kielty’s life is turned upside down when his estranged brother Dan turns up, claiming to have drunkenly run someone over. But has Dan ...

Built upon a 14 hour interview, McKellen: Playing the Part is a unique journey through the key landmarks of McKellen’s life, from early ...

An ordinary woman makes an extraordinary decision which will change her life forever.

Liverpool, 1978: What starts as a vibrant affair between a legendary femme-fatale, the eccentric Academy Award-winning actress Gloria Grahame, ...

He’s a low level criminal with no future and just out of prison. She’s a low level lawyer never noticed by others, a lost soul ...

A PC becomes a vigilante after a head trauma.

King Lear, old and tired, divides his kingdom among his daughters, giving great importance to their protestations of love for him. When Cordelia, ...

For years, Andrei Evilenko eluded the obsessive Detective Lesiev and the psychiatric profiler Aron Richter. Spurred on by his rabid fury at the ...

During a train ride, an anxiety attack leads middle-aged illustrator John into an identity crisis. As his marital problems merge and blur into ...

The past catches up with a ruthlessly ambitious boxing promoter.

A Jewish girl in 19th century London dreams of becoming a stage actress.

October 1918: After returning to the civil life, the young Doctor Giorgino Volli searches for a group of children, which he had been the ...

Eight years ago, Gavin, artistic son of an Scots/Italian ice-cream dynasty, turned his back on Glasgow and moved south to London to make his name ...

Two disc jockeys have a friend’s murder to solve in the fringe-group melting pot of 1977 London.

An aimless young man, Johnny, is sent prison. He entrusts his beloved dog, Evie, to the care of his former lover and best friend, Frank. When he ...

When the young, attractive Joe Orton meets the older, more introverted Kenneth Halliwell at drama school, he befriends the kindred spirit and ...

Middle-aged Gerald Kingsland advertises in a London paper for a female companion to spend a year with him on a desert island. The young Lucy ...

Twin zoologists lose their wives in a car accident and become obsessed with decomposing animals.

In An Ideal Husband, an ambitious government minister, Sir Robert Chiltern, is on an assured smooth ascent to the top. Until Mrs Cheveley appears ...

Tempted away from Newcastle United to join Real Madrid, rising star Santiago Munez finds this latest change of fortune the greatest challenge yet ...