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Two-part TV drama based on the novel by John Cleland. Set in the 18th century, the story of a young country girl who through financial neccessity falls into prostitution.
Find out more, including where to buy or rent Fanny Hill1992 BBC adaptation of the Joseph Conrad novel of 1907 concerning the mostly inactive spy Alfred Verloc, who is ordered by his superior Mr Vladimir to carry out a terrorist act. Verloc reluctantly pla...
Find out more, including where to buy or rent The Secret AgentStark is a 1993 British-Australian television miniseries, based on the bestselling novel Stark by comedian Ben Elton. The three-episode series, directed by Nadia Tass, was an international co-producti...
Find out more, including where to buy or rent StarkWhen astronomers detect a transmission from another galaxy, it is definitive proof of intelligent extra-terrestrial life. The world’s population waits for further contact with bated breath. They do no...
Find out more, including where to buy or rent War of the WorldsThe follow-up to A Woman of Substance with Emma Harte at age eighty in the last winter of her life and dealing with her granddaughter Paula, as well as her respected advisor Henry Rossiter and Blackie...
Find out more, including where to buy or rent Hold the DreamThe citizens of the small British town of Pagford fight for the spot on the parish council after Barry Fairbrother dies.
Find out more, including where to buy or rent The Casual VacancySet in the late 1950’s, The Larkins follows the golden-hearted wheeler dealer Pop Larkin and his wife Ma, together with their six children, including the beautiful Mariette, as they bask in their idyl...
Find out more, including where to buy or rent The LarkinsFluke Kelso, a dissipated, middle-aged former Oxford historian, who is in Moscow to attend a conference on the newly opened Soviet archives, receives in his hotel a very unexpected visitor.
Find out more, including where to buy or rent ArchangelSet in 1820 against the forbidding backdrop of windswept Cornish moors, the story follows the journey of young and spirited Mary who is forced to live with her Aunt Patience after the death of her mot...
Find out more, including where to buy or rent Jamaica Inn