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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. - Director:
- John Davies
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- Roy Marsden, Wendy Hiller, Fiona Fullerton
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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. - Director:
- Mark Mylod
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- Christian Carrigan, Dagmara Dominczyk, Drew Gehling
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The Traitor (2019)Il Traditore
"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. - Director:
- Marco Bellocchio
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- Pierfrancesco Favino, Luigi Lo Cascio, Fausto Russo Alesi
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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.- Director:
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- Yannick Bisson. Helene Joy, Thomas Craig, Jonny Harris
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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. - Director:
- Adam McKay
- Cast:
- Hiam Abbass, Nicholas Braun, Brian Cox
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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. - Director:
- John Davies
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- Roy Marsden, Simon Chandler, Kenneth Colley
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Mrs Wilson (2018)Mrs. Wilson
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. - Director:
- Richard Laxton
- Cast:
- Ruth Wilson, Iain Glen, Calam Lynch
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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. - Director:
- Mira Nair
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- Tanya Maniktala, Ishaan Khattar, Mahira Kakkar
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A Certain Justice (1998)A Certain Justice (Adam Dalglish Mystery)
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'... - Director:
- Ross Devenish
- Cast:
- Roy Marsden, Rikki Harnet, Britta Smith
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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? - Director:
- Marc Evans
- Cast:
- Luke Evans, Keith Allen, Caroline Berry
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Young Montalbano: Series 1 (2012)Il Giovane Montalbano
Inspector Montalbano is back - as you've never seen him before. These are the tales of the young Inspector Montalbano, with all the integrity but less of the experience of his older, possibly wiser, self. Exhausted by the neverending hillsides of his rural Sicilian beat, the Deputy Inspector - in the midst of investigating a murder -finds himself promoted to Inspector and dispatched to his childhood home of Vigata. There he will be called upon to take control of the local police station and gradually build his team with both Fazio Senior and Fazio Junior, Domenico 'Mimi' Augello and the young and exceedingly eager Officer Catarella. Along the way he'll discover the simple dining pleasures of Calogero's, and the unexpected passions that will guide him into the waiting - always waiting - arms of Livia. Drawing on the bestselling novels and short stories of acclaimed Italian author Andrea Camilleri, in a Sicilian world of loan sharks, mafia families, drug-dealing, perilous love affairs and murder, Michele Riondino is Young Montalbano. - Director:
- Gianluca Maria Tavarelli
- Cast:
- Michele Riondino, Andrea Tidona, Katia Greco
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Tim Pigott-Smith stars as Chief Constable John Stafford in this police procedural drama series with a difference. 'The Chief' shows a police force undergoing a culture change, as the outspoken and deeply committed Stafford attempts to reform crime-prevention policies and challenge the frequently unacceptable behaviour of his front-line officers; there are always difficult decisions to be made, often at a professional and personal cost.The cast of this powerful drama series also includes Judy Loe (Casualty) as Stafford's doctor wife, Elizabeth, EastEnders star Tony Caunter,and Roger Lloyd Pack. John Stafford is back at work at East Anglia's Eastland station following his temporary suspension. While Stafford continues to challenge what he regards as outmoded practices and attitudes, he and his deputy, Anne Stewart, face more tense situations at the sharp end of policing; this second series, originally screened in 1991, sees them tackling animal rights activism and environmental protest, negotiating throughout a dramatic siege, and dealing with the aftermath of the tragic death of one of Eastland's officers. - Director:
- Desmond Davis
- Cast:
- Tim Pigott-Smith, Karen Archer, Eamon Boland
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Tim Pigott-Smith stars as John Stafford, a newly promoted Chief Constable, in this police procedural drama series with a difference. 'The Chief' shows a police force undergoing a culture change, as the outspoken and deeply committed Stafford attempts to reform crime-prevention policies and challenge the frequently unacceptable behaviour of his front-line officers. There are always difficult decisions to be made, and often at a professional and personal cost. The cast of this powerful drama series, originally transmitted in 1990, also includes Judy Loe as Stafford's doctor wife, Elizabeth, and Eastenders stars Tony Caunter and Ross Kemp. Having appointed Anne Stewart (Karen Archer) as his deputy, Chief Constable John Stafford promotes his highly capable colleague to the rank of Head of Crime and Operations at Eastland, East Anglia. The promotion proves deeply unpopular, and, when Anne encounters rampant workplace misogyny, exposes some of the more unpleasant institutional attitudes among the ranks. While Anne faces a wall of prejudice as well as the personal difficulties arising from her son's drug addiction, Stafford's strategies for tackling the ever-mounting challenges of modern policing - be they the consequences of an increasingly violent drugs subculture, militant student actions or vigilante gangs - frequently bring him into conflict with his superiors. His high-level adversaries include the Home Office - whose staff watch his actions with interest, and more than a little concern... - Director:
- Brian Farnham
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- Tim Pigott-Smith, Karen Archer, Jeremy Clyde
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Tut (2015)King Tut
Starring Academy Awards winner Ben Kingsley, Nonso Anozie and Avon Jogia. The astounding saga of one of history's most extraordinary rulers, Tutankhamun (King Tut) who is thrust into power at a young age after the murder of his father. This gripping drama portrays KingTut's rise from manipulated prince into an unlikely hero who is determined to wrest control of his kingdom from those who conspire against him. Tutankhamun (Avon Jogia) already Pharaoh ten years, is exploited by his chief advisor Vizier Ay (Ben Kingsley), a ruthless military General and scheming High Priest. Forced to marry his strong willed, ambitious sister in order to maintain the dynasty, but in love with a commoner, he struggles to protect her from the jealous queen. Through unexpected twists and turns Tut strives to overcome the odds. - Director:
- David Von Ancken
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- Ben Kingsley, Avan Jogia, Sibylla Deen
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In 1950, Timothy Evans was hanged for the murder of his baby daughter Geraldine. The police also believed that he had killed his wife Beryl. But to his final moments Evans protested his innocence. Three years later, a gruesome discovery at 10 Rillington Place revealed that his neighbour - star prosecution witness John Reginald Christie (Tim Roth) knew much more about the sinister goings on in the house. Set in the dark confines of Christie's home, this powerful drama imagines the relationships between Christie, his wife Ethel (Samantha Morton) and the innocent young Evans couple. What twisted influence did Christie hold over the young newly-weds Timothy (Nico Mirallegro) and Beryl (Jodie Comer)? And how was he able to trick both judge and jury into sending an innocent man to the executioner? - Director:
- Craig Viveiros
- Cast:
- Jodie Comer, Tim Roth, Nico Mirallegro
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