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The hit police corruption drama from the makers of 'Bodyguard' returns. When three police officers are shot dead during the hijack of a seized drugs transport, AC-12 move in to investigate possible police collusion. Stephen Graham stars as John Corbett, the ruthless leader of an Organised Crime Group who hijack a seized drugs transport. AC-12 investigators Superintendent Ted Hastings (Adrian Dunbar), Detective Inspector Kate Fleming (Vicky McClure) and Detective Sergeant Steve Arnott (Martin Compston) suspect corrupt police officers of leaking information. As the body count rises, AC-12 realise they re facing their most vicious adversary yet. - Director:
- John Strickland
- Cast:
- Barry Aird, Taj Atwal, Ace Bhatti
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The thrilling third series introduces Sergeant Danny Waldron (Daniel Mays), the highly proficient leader of a police Armed Response Unit whose unpredictable behaviour is becoming a threat to colleagues and suspects alike. When AC12 are called in, DS Steve Arnott (Martin Compston) clashes with Danny, and it's left to DC Kate Fleming (Vicky McClure) to investigate undercover. As the inquiry intensifies, Supt. Ted Hastings (Adrian Dunbar) begins to suspect the case is linked to AC12's past and a possible traitor in their midst. - Director:
- Michael Keillor
- Cast:
- Daniel Mays, Will Mellor, Shaun Parkes
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Inspector Montalbano: Collection 9 (2019)Il commissario Montalbano
Based on the bestselling crime novels of Andrea Camilleri, 'Inspector Montalbano' is Sicily's finest detective. Respected by the community and his subordinates, less so by his superiors, and on an island where two major crime families are constantly battling for supremacy, the Inspector has his work cut out for him. In 'The Other End of the Line', migrant landings arrive almost every night, and Montalbano (Luca Zingaretti) must face this emergency with his few men, without ever losing his humanity and sense of justice. When a woman is inexplicably murdered Montalbano uncovers her extraordinary life and in so doing, the truth behind her death. 'A Diary from '43', Montalbano determines that the discovery of a young fascist's diary from 1943, the arrival of a Sicilian born man, believed dead, from the US and the murder of one of Sicily's richest entrepreneurs are tragically linked together.
Episodes Comprise:
- The Other End of the Line (L'Altro Capo del Filo)
- A Diary from '43 (Un Diario del '43)- Director:
- Alberto Sironi
- Cast:
- Marco Basile, Sonia Bergamasco, Cesare Bocci
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The Guardians (2017)Les Gardiennes
France 1915. The impact of the First World War is being felt across Europe as conscription forces the men to leave their homes for the battlefield. Hortense, realising she has to hold up her family's farm with less than half the labour force hires a helping hand, Francine. The young woman works hard and, with the arrival of Hortense's son Georges, finally feels she has a place she can call home. As the battle rages on, these women unite to keep both their family and society from collapsing. - Director:
- Xavier Beauvois
- Cast:
- Nathalie Baye, Laura Smet, Iris Bry
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As World War II looms in Europe, an ambitious young English lawyer embarks on his turbulent career - and even stormier love life. Set amidst the politically turbulent times surrounding World War II, this acclaimed 13-part BBC drama (adapted from C.P. Snow's novel) chronicles the impassioned life of young Englishman Lewis Eliot (Shaughan Seymour). In a world where truth and justice test the moral fibre of even the most solid of men, Eliot is the ambitious lawyer fighting the temptations that could ruin his career, friendships and marriage. His decisions lead his career on a tempestuous journey of success, tragedy, and rekindled love. Throughout it all, Eliot realizes his true "brothers" masquerade as "strangers". Shaughan Seymour stars as Lewis, Sheila Ruskin as his mentally troubled first wife, Sheila, and Cherie Lunghi as his second wife, Margaret. The cast also boasts Anthony Hopkins, Nigel Havers, Peter Sallis and Tom Wilkinson. - Director:
- Ronald Wilson
- Cast:
- Anthony Hopkins, Shaughan Seymour, Paul Hastings
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From 1971 to 1980, millions followed the drama and spectacle of this lavishly-filmed television series following the trials quid triumphs, loves and betrayals, adventures and disasters of James, his family and others in the Onedin Line fleet and boardroom. Five years ha\ e passed and it is now 1875. Although the Age of Steam is corning fastjames is still investing in sail ships - does he know something others don't? The death of Albert Frazer finds Elizabeth taking control of the line and beginning a romance with one of her captains. And, while James is spending more time with, Charlotte and her governess, is his hard-heartedness about to lose him his only real friend? - Director:
- Gerald Blake
- Cast:
- Peter Gilmore, Jessica Benton, Howard Lang
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In a cheap Parisian hotel room Oscar Wilde lies on his death bed and the past floods back. Under the microscope of demise he reviews the flailed attempt to reconcile with his wife Constance, the ensuing reprisal of his fatal love affair with Lord Alfred Douglas and the warmth and devotion of Robbie Ross who tried and foiled to save him from himself. From Dieppe to Naples to Paris, freedom is elusive and Oscar is a penniless vagabond, always moving on, shunned by his old acquaintances, but revered by a strange group of outlaws and urchins to whom he tells the old stories - his incomparable wit still sharp. - Director:
- Rupert Everett
- Cast:
- Rupert Everett, Colin Firth, Emily Watson
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From 1971 to 1980, millions followed the drama and spectacle of this lavishly-filmed television series following the trials and triumphs, loves and betrayals, adventures and disasters of James, his family and others in the 'Onedin Line' fleet and boardroom. James Onedin eyesnew trading opportunities as his ships venture to Brazil, the Baltic and East Africa. But he is not only battling Frazer and Fogarty; James must face the crusading Samuel Plimsoll over his safety record. Meanwhile, six months since the death of James' wife, opportunities arise at home too. Will James propose to the adoring 18-year-old Leonora Biddulph or Caroline Maudslay, a sophisticated wealthy widow? - Director:
- Peter Graham Scott
- Cast:
- Peter Gilmore, Jessica Benton, Michael Billington
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"Narcos" season two picks up right where season one left off, with Escobar all but walking out of his custom-made prison after taking President Cesar Gaviria's right-hand man, vice minister of justice Eduardo Sandoval, hostage. The ensuing military assault on 'La Catedral' provides Escobar with the opportunity to escape through his network of underground tunnels. No longer caged, Escobar is back to doing what he does best: Avoiding capture and staying 10 steps ahead of the Search Bloc and Colombian special forces trying to bring him down. - Director:
- Gerardo Naranjo
- Cast:
- Wagner Moura, Boyd Holbrook, Pedro Pascal
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A 'narco' is a drug lord, and Pablo Escobar was one of the most successful: beginning as a small-time black marketeer in Colombia, by the end of the 1970s he was the main supplier of cocaine to the US. DEA agent Steve Murphy is sent to Colombia on a mission to catch Escobar. Partnered with local agent Javier Pena to help him have Escobar extradited, Murphy is plunged into the middle of a brutal and bloody drug war where one thing is clear - Escobar, aided by corrupt politicians, will stop at nothing to hold onto his power. - Director:
- José Padilha
- Cast:
- Wagner Moura, Boyd Holbrook, Pedro Pascal
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Joan Castleman (Glenn Close) has spent forty years sacrificing her own talent, dreams and ambitions to support her charismatic husband Joe (Jonathan Pryce) and his stellar literary career. Ignoring infidelities and excuses made in the cause of his art, she has put up with his behaviour with undiminished grace and humour. The foundations of their marriage have, however, been built upon a set of uneven compromises and Joan has reached a turning point. On the eve of Joe's Nobel Prize for Literature, the crown jewel rewarding a spectacular body of work, Joan will confront the biggest sacrifice of her life and some long-buried secrets. 'The Wife' is a poignant, funny and emotional journey, a celebration of womanhood, self-discovery and liberation... - Director:
- Björn Runge
- Cast:
- Glenn Close, Jonathan Pryce, Max Irons
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Line of Duty returns for an explosive second series with another high octane police corruption tale. When a police convoy is ambushed by armed criminals, three officers are killed and a protected witness critically injured. Convinced that the gunmen were tipped off by a police source, AC12 - DS Steve Arnott (Martin Compston), DC Kate Fleming (Vicky McClure) and Superintendent Ted Hastings (Adrian Dunbar) joined by DC Georgia Trotman (Jessica Raine) - must track down the leak. Initially AC12's most valuable witness, suspicion soon falls on the sole surviving officer, DI Lindsay Denton (Keeley Hawes). In pursuit of their prey, AC12 find a web of corruption and vice with links to the very top of the force. - Director:
- Douglas Mackinnon
- Cast:
- Michael Nardone, David Maybrick, Antonio Magro
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"Patrick Melrose" is a new kind of family saga which takes a scathing and sardonic view of the upper-classes, shining an unforgiving light on the privilege, greed, cruelty and vulnerabilities that lie within their ranks. Played to perfection by Benedict Cumberbatch, Patrick himself is many things: an aristocratic addict, a rakish and outrageously funny playboy, but he is also a man living as a victim of the sins of his parents (Hugo Weaving and Jennifer Jason Leigh). Based on the celebrated novels by Edward St. Aubyn, this intelligent, beautifully told series, follows Patrick as he embarks on a harrowing yet humorous decades-spanning odyssey to come to terms with the effects of childhood trauma. - Director:
- Edward Berger
- Cast:
- Benedict Cumberbatch, Hugo Weaving, Sebastian Maltz
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From 1971 to 1980, millions followed the drama and spectacle of this lavishly-filmed television series following, the trials and triumphs, loves and betrayals, adventures and disasters of James, his family and others in the 'Onedin Line' fleet and boardroom. Series Two heralds the end of the American Civil War and new opportunities for the shipping trade, but James faces troubles in his business and personal life. As struggling seamen prepare to strike, Anne is torn between her principles and loyalty to her husband and Yellow Fever is putting the whole city in peril. Meanwhile Albert and Elizabeth's marriage has reached breaking point and the rivalry between James and Daniel Fogarty intensifies... - Director:
- Bill Rea
- Cast:
- Peter Gilmore, Anne Stallybrass, Philip Bond
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When Tommy Shelby (Cillian Murphy) receives a mysterious letter on Christmas Eve, he realises that his entire family is in danger of annihilation. As the enemy closes in, Tommy flees his country house and heads to the only safe place he knows. Co-starring Helen McCrory, Paul Anderson, Aidan Gillen, Adrien Brody and Tom Hardy, Steven Knight's beloved crime saga makes a triumphant return to the streets of Birmingham in its most sensational and action-packed chapter yet. - Director:
- David Caffrey
- Cast:
- Cillian Murphy, Helen McCrory, Paul Anderson
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