smw's - Rented List

When a wealthy widow is found murdered, her married suitor, Leonard Vole (Tyrone Power), is accused of the crime. Vole's only hope for acquittal is the testimony of his wife (Marlene Dietrich)...but his airtight alibi shatters when she reveals some shocking secrets of her own!

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Beginning where the hit movie 'Unbroken' concludes, the next chapter brings the rest of Louis Zamperini's inspirational true story to life.

After surviving years of torture as a prisoner of war, Louis (Samuel Hunt) returns home from World War II, where he meets and marries Cynthia (Merritt Patterson). Haunted by his past, he is driven deep into despair. But when Cynthia turns to God at the 1949 Billy Graham Crusade, her most fervent prayer for Louis is to find peace and forgiveness.

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As a boy, Louis (Jack O'Connell) is always in trouble but with the help of his older brother he channels his energy into running and becomes a 1936 Olympic competitor. When World War II breaks out, Louis enlists in the military.

After a near-fatal plane crash in WWII, he spends a harrowing 47 days in a raft with two fellow crewmen before he's caught by the Japanese navy and sent to a prisoner-of-war camp. Here he becomes the favourite target of a particularly brutal prison guard because of his Olympic history. An unbelievable and inspiring true story about the resilient power of the human spirit.

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England, 1942.

What would make Liz Grainger (Kate Buffery), a mother with a five-year-old daughter, leave her comfortable life in Devon to be an operative for Britain's secret service? Trained by the Special Operations Executive, she becomes a spy placed into occupied French territories, and her life becomes one of imminent danger as the fear of capture and death follows hard on her heels.

Series One
Liz Grainger joins the SOE and is put into occupied France along with her fellow operative Matty Firman (Suzanna Hamilton). Though trained, nothing can prepare them for life in a country under military occupation.
Series Two
It's now Autumn 1943 and three SOE operatives in France are caught and shot by the Germans. It is imperative they are replaced as quickly as possible, and new recruits are scheduled to go through rigorous training.
Series Three
The Allies are gearing up for an invasion of France. A vital role will be played by the SOE agents behind enemy lines.

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Ecstasy is a twisted tale that explores the euphoric heights and the devastating lows of a chemical romance. Lloyd (Adam Sinclair) is on top of the world - beautiful girls, great club sounds, and a never ending supply of the love drug, sustained by a smuggling sideline for the local drug boss.

But when he meets Heather (Kristin Kreuk) he is forced to question if the love he feels is real or just another chemical high. Cracks start to appear in his world as he realizes he wants out. If he can just pull off one last job he'll be free...

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Burnt-out ex-CIA operative John Creasy (Washington) has lost faith in humanity and is set on a path of self-destruction, until he is hired to protect the young daughter (Dakota Fanning) of a wealthy family in Mexico City.

But, when the little girl is kidnapped, Creasy unleashes a firestorm of relentless vengeance against those responsible.

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Relive the complete first season of ABC's Once Upon A Time, the hit series that boasts unforgettable characters and a tangled web of romance, action and enchantment.

Immerse yourself in the magic and mystery of Sforybrooke - a sleepy little town where every fairy-tale character you've ever known is frozen in time and trapped between two worlds, victims of an evil curse. On her 28th birthday, Emma Swan (Jennifer Morrison) meets Henry (Jared S. Gilmore), the son she gave up for adoption 10 years ago. Henry believes Emma is the daughter of Snow White (Ginnifer Goodwin) and Prince Charming (Josh Dallas), prophesied to break a powerful curse. Unconvinced, Emma returns Henry to Storybrooke, where she encounters the enigmatic Mr. Gold (Robert Carlyle) and clashes with mayor Regina Mills (LanaParrilla)-the boy's adoptive mother-who Henry insists is none other than the Evil Queen!

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Based on the best-selling crime novel from a series by Denise Mina, set in Glasgow in 1982, Paddy Meehan is a young girl in a world of men; a feisty 'copy boy' in the sexist, hard-boozing, cutthroat world of journalism.

Paddy dreams of being an investigative reporter, and she grabs the opportunity when a young boy, Brian Wilcox, is kidnapped and found murdered. Paddy sees connections to a year-old crime that nobody else sees and she is determined to make it her story. But when Paddy crosses the line, she becomes outcast from her devoutly Catholic family and puts the lives of her colleagues, as well as her own, at risk. The closer she gets to the murderer, the closer she gets to murder; and the price of achieving her dream will prove greater than she can ever imagine.

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In this true-life cold war spy thriller, unossuming British businessman Greville Wynne (Benedict Cumberbatch) becomes entangled in one of the greatest international conflicts in history.

Recruited by MI6 and a CIA operative (Rachel Brosnahan), Wynne forms a covert partnership with Soviet officer Oleg Penkovsky (Merab Ninidze), and both men risk everything in a danger-fraught race against time to provide the intelligence needed to prevent nuclear confrontation and end the Cuban Missile Crisis.

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After a year away from home, disgraced physician Jim Hogan (Adrian Dunbar) returns to make amends with his family. With nowhere else to go, he turns to his dutiful but ailing eldest daughter, Fiona (Gráinne Keenan), and her cash-strapped husband, Paul (Ian Lloyd Anderson).

Then, one night, Fiona's car veers off the road and into a canal, leading to a disturbing discovery. As the police start investigating, shocking secrets emerge that deepen the rift within the family and derail Jim's chance at a fresh start. With "exemplary" performances, this "twisty-turner thriller" explores how love and grief can blind people to the truth.

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Hortense (Marianne Jean-Baptiste) is a young, black optometrist whose adoptive parents have recently died. Cynthia (Brenda Blethyn) is a sad, unmarried mother who works in a factory and lives in a shabby terraced house with her confrontational daughter, Roxanne (Claire Rushbrook).

Cynthia's brother Maurice (Timothy Spall) is a successful wedding photographer who lives comfortably in suburbia with his snooty wife Monica (Phyllis Logan). In a misplaced effort to re-unite the family, Maurice and Monica throw a small barbecue party for Roxanne's 21st birthday. When Cynthia brings along her new friend Hortense, chaos ensues as some painful truths are revealed.

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Cat Hogan (Carolina Main) is an isolated woman on the run from her past, a past she is forced to confront when the sudden death of her mother, Mary (Ingrid Craigie), draws her back to the family she has spent the last ten years trying to avoid.

Cat has always been the black sheep of the family and now this uncomfortable reunion awakens sinister demons and shines a suspicious light on her mother's death. Her suspicions start to mount against her father, Jim (Adrian Dunbar) when she begins to notice discrepancies in his story. Is Cat paranoid or has she discovered a terrible truth about her father? Nothing and no one can be taken at face value; the truth depends on who you ask. 'Blood' is an intimate drama and psychological thriller about family, memory, and the impact the past can have on the present.

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Nervous spinster Charlotte Vale (Bette Davis) is stunted from growing up under the heel of her puritanical Boston Brahmin mother (Gladys Cooper), and remains convinced of her own unworthiness until a kindly psychiatrist (Claude Rains) gives her the confidence to venture out into the world on a

South American cruise. On board, she finds her footing with the help of an unhappily married man (Paul Henreid). Their thwarted love affair may help Charlotte break free of her mother's grip - but will she find fulfillment as well as independence?

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Hamburg, the city where the 9/11 bombers lived and plotted, remains on high alert. When a suspected terrorist arrives in the city, he attracts the interest of a secret anti-terror unit who must uncover the truth about his identity and possible connections to high level terrorists.

As the clock ticks down the race is on to establish this most wanted man's true motives - is he an oppressed victim or a militant terrorist hell-bent on destruction?

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Suranne Jones and Lesley Sharp return as Rachel Bailey and Janet Scott in this crime drama exploring the personal and professional lives of two detectives. This series sees Janet and Rachel investigate the sinister world of the Darknet, a place that offers complete anonymity to its users.

A ruthless game is being played - one man challenges another to murder, leaving a chalk mark at the scene as proof. The images are loaded to a website and the baton is passed to the next killer. As more chalk marks are left, identifying more victims, will Janet and Rachel be able to stop these vicious killers before it's too late?