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'Luther' is an epic production recounting one of the greatest revolutionary periods in history - 'The Reformation'. It is the powerful true story of one man confronted with the frailty of human faith and his pursuit of spiritual upheaval in the battle against the corrupt might of an empire.

After a brush with death, which he labels "a fright from heaven", a young Martin Luther abandons his law studies to enter a humble 16th Century Augustinian monastery. Here, under the tutelage of Father Johann his spiritual mentor, he embarks on an incredible journey that will change the face of the world forever. Seeing vice and corruption littering his faith, Luther's defiant crusade is to rid society of Church-sanctioned treachery and fear-mongering. In doing so, he faces charges of heresy, excommunication and even death to uphold his belief in the divine word of his faith and in a better world for the devout followers of Christianity.

Inspired by a shocking true story, a tenacious attorney (Mark Ruffalo) uncovers a dark secret that connects a growing number of unexplained deaths to one of the world's largest corporations. In the process, he risks everything - his career, his livelihood, and his family - to expose the truth.

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A lavish adaptation of Stendhal's classic novel. Ewan McGregor is Julien Sorel seducing his way up the social ladder in post-Napoleonic France. Ewan McGregor, Alice Krige and Rachel Weisz head a top-class cast in this stylish adaptation of Stendhal's classic novel, 'Le Rouge et Le Noir'.

Filmed on location in the Jura mountains and aristocratic chateaux around Lyon, 'Scarlet and Black' tells the story of Julien Sorel, son of a provincial carpenter with ambitions far above his station in life. He is inspired by Napoleon Bonaparte, the humble soldier who rose through the ranks to become Emperor. But young Julien feels that the road to power no longer lies in the army (the scarlet) but in the church (the black) and applies himself to scholarship.

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In this dramatic adaptation by Jack Pulman of the classic Henry James novel, a damaged golden bowl reflects the truth in a hidden relationship and redirects the lives of all the characters into whose hands it has been placed.

A young American in Europe, Maggie (Jill Townsend) is devoted to her father, the rich and cultured Adam Verver (Barry Morse). Introduced to the charismatic Italian Prince Amerigo (Daniel Massey) by her trusted friend Fanny Assingham (Kathleen Byron), she soon falls in love and a suitable marriage of affection and convenience takes place. When Amerigo runs into a former mistress, the attractive Charlotte Stant (Gayle Hunnicutt), he cannot help but rekindle their friendship and introduce her to his wife. Maggie, in turn, sees a suitable companion for her father, and so a second marriage that draws upon the Verver fortune takes place. All coexist, some knowingly, some blindly, until a hidden crack in a golden bowl exposes the truth and sets in motion an irreversible chain of events.

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This powerful three-part adaptation of Joseph Conrad's famous novel tells of an attempt by a triple agent to blow up the Greenwich Observatory in 1894, a time of unrest and anarchist violence throughout Europe.

However it is the far-reaching effect this infamous conspiracy has upon the domestic life of the anti-hero, Adolf Verloc, that takes this compelling and complex tale beyond political intrigue to reveal a psychological drama of probing depth and vivid detail, in its incisive portrayal of human frailty.

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When threatening letters arrive at his fashionable London home, prominent Government Minister Sir Paul Berowne (Bosco Hogan) calls his old friend Adam Dalgliesh (Roy Marsden) for assistance. Berowne's own household is a challenge.

His exquisite wife (Wendy Hiller) makes no secret of her adulterous affair with a fashionable surgeon. His only daughter (Fiona Fullerton), deeply involved in left-wing politics, has rejected her Conservative father. He is even resented by his own, strong-willed mother, whose favored son was killed in an IRA terrorist ambush. Dalgliesh has barely started on the case when a series of bizarre deaths turn the informal investigation into an urgent assignment. With characteristic determination Scotland Yard's enigmatic star detective pursues every possibility, ruthlessly exposing dark secrets and ugly emotions as the case proceeds toward its terrifying and bloody conclusion.

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Backstabbing, Blackmail and Betrayal...it's all in the family when you're a Roy.

Blending high drama with dark humour, the acclaimed HBO series 'Succession' explores themes of power, politics and money played out within a filthy rich, dysfunctional dynasty led by aging media tycoon Logan Roy (Brian Cox) and his four grown children: Kendall (Jeremy Strong), Shiv (Sarah Snook), Roman (Kieran Culkin) and Connor (Alan Ruck). In Season 2, Kendall deals with fallout from his hostile-takeover attempt, Shiv is poised to enter the upper echelons of the company, Roman reacquaints himself with the business from the bottom up, and Connor launches an unlikely bid for president. There's plenty of juicy intrigue as this scheming, emotionally challenged family navigates a rapidly changing media landscape and the looming question of who will take over in a post-Logan world.

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"The Traitor" tells the true story of Tommaso Buscetta (Pierfrancesco Favino), the man who brought down the Cosa Nostra. In the early 1980's, an all out war rages between Sicilian mafia bosses over the heroin trade. Tommaso Buscetta, a made man, flees to hide out in Brazil.

Back home, scores are being settled and Buscetta watches from afar as his sons and brother are killed in Palermo, knowing he may be next. Arrested and extradited to Italy by the Brazilian police, Buscetta makes a decision that will change everything for the Mafia: he decides to meet with Judge Giovanni Falcone (Fausto Russo Alesi) and betray the eternal vow he made to the Cosa Nostra.

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A Merry Murdoch Christmas (2015)
When a philanthropist is found dead before the holidays and the presents he distributes to Toronto's orphans go missing, it is up to Murdoch (Yannick Bisson), Ogden (Helene Joy) and the team at Station House No. 4 to solve the mystery and save Christmas.

Once Upon a Murdoch Christmas (2016)
When brazen robberies target Toronto's wealthiest businessmen just days before Christmas, Murdoch and Brackenreid's (Thomas Craig) jobs are under fire if they don't quickly solve the case. Meanwhile, Jackson (Kristian Bruun) and James (Mouna Traore) team up to bring Christmas spirit to the Station House, Crabtree's (Jonny Harris) latest novel finds some unlikely fans, and Ogden (Helene Joy) is stalked by two street urchins who need her help.

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Power, Politics, Money...

in this provocative, bitingly funny drama series about a dysfunctional dynasty led by the ageing and ailing - Logan Roy (Brian Cox), whose four grown children (Jeremy Strong, Kieran Culkin, Sarah Snook, Alan Ruck) challenge his waning dominance while others in their orbit position themselves for the looming post-Logan world.

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Roy Marsden stars as Adam Dalgliesh, the shrewd yet cool thinking man's detective...A corpse is found floating in a dinghy at sea and turns out to be the body of crime writer Maurice Seton (Arthur Blake).

As the case takes its hold, Dalgliesh's dedication to duty threatens a rekindled love affair and puts his girlfriend's life at risk. Finally, trapped in raging flood waters with the insane killer, Dalgliesh has to fight for his own survival.

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It's 1963, and Alison Wilson (Ruth Wilson) returns home to find husband Alexander (Iain Glen) dead. Soon afterwards, a woman unexpectedly arrives at the door, claiming to be Alec's 'real wife'.

Alison embarks on a mission of discovery to try and find out who her husband really was; but from their wartime romance whilst working for the secret service, to a mysterious period in India - it soon becomes clear that Alec died holding his secrets close to his chest. Alison is left craving the truth as she makes discoveries that threaten to tear her carefully crafted world apart.

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It's 1951, and newly independent India is breaking free of its past. Lata (Tanya Maniktala) is a spirited young student whose mother wants to find her a husband - a suitable boy. As Lata meets potential matches, she's torn between romance and responsibility.

Meanwhile, her headstrong friend Maan (Ishaan Khattar) defies his father as he falls in love with a glamorous courtesan. Both are determined to decide their own future. And, in a country still haunted by the horrors of Partition, anything could happen.

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A brilliant QC is found dead in her chambers, killed by a single knife wound to the heart - but chillingly drenched in a colleague's blood...Ambitious, forthright, cold and aggressive, Venetia Aldridge (Penny Downie) has made many enemies both inside and outside the legal profession.

When Adam Dalgliesh (Roy Marsden) is called in to investigate, he finds no shortage of potential suspects - colleagues whose careers she's endangered, an ex-lover who's also an M.P. and even the office cleaner. At the same time, Venetia's teenage daughter is dating a known psychopath. Could he have murdered her mother? As Adam Dalgliesh closes in on the answer he discovers that the law may not be enough to close the case...and that the best he can hope for is 'A Certain Justice'...

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Brought to you by the producers of global hit 'Bodyguard', true crime drama 'The Pembrokeshire Murders' brings to life the extraordinary cold-case pursuit of the most notorious serial killer in Welsh history.

Two unsolved double murders from the 1980's and an unsolved violent assault on five teenagers in 1996 cast a long shadow over the work of the Dyfed-Powys police force. In 2006, newly promoted Detective Superintendent Steve Wilkins (Luke Evans) decided to reopen all three cases. Employing pioneering forensic methods, Wilkins and his handpicked team, Operation Ottawa, linked the murders to a string of burglaries committed in the 80's and 90's. The perpetrator of those crimes was nearing the end of his prison sentence, but if Steve Wilkins was right, he was also a serial killer...Could Steve and his team unearth enough forensic evidence to charge their suspect before he was released to potentially kill again?