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Cadfael
1994 • Drama • Crime
Brother Cadfael is a twelfth-century Anglo-Welsh monk. A retired crusader disappointed in love, and now a herbalist in charge of the gardens of Shrewsbury Abbey, Brother Cadfae…
Why matched: genres Drama, Crime
I, Claudius
1976 • War & Politics • Drama
Acclaimed blackly comic historical drama series. Set amidst a web of power, corruption and lies, it chronicles the reigns of the Roman emperors - Augustus, Tiberius, Caligula an…
Why matched: genres War & Politics, Drama
Greatest Events of World War II in Colour
2019 • War & Politics • Documentary
Using highly advanced colourisation techniques, critical moments from World War II, from Stalingrad to The Battle of Britain, are shown in a whole new light.
Why matched: genres War & Politics, Documentary
The Lost Pirate Kingdom
2021 • Documentary
The real-life pirates of the Caribbean violently plunder the world's riches and form a surprisingly egalitarian republic in this documentary series.
Why matched: genres Documentary
The History of Love
2016 • Drama • Romance • War
The story of a long-lost book that mysteriously reappears and connects an old man searching for his son with a girl seeking a cure for her mother's loneliness.
Why matched: genres Drama, Romance
Love Is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon
1998 • Drama
In the 1960s, British painter Francis Bacon surprises a burglar and invites him to share his bed. The burglar, a working class man named George Dyer, accepts. After the unique b…
Why matched: genres Drama
A Christmas Carol Goes Wrong
2017 • Comedy • TV Movie
The Mischief Theatre Company return as the Cornley Polytechnic Drama Society who are this time determined to ignore a BBC blacklisting by hijacking a live production of Charles…
Why matched: genres Comedy, TV Movie
Vicious
2013 • Comedy
Freddie and Stuart are an old couple who have been together for decades and bicker constantly. Their lives are turned upside down by their new upstairs neighbor Ash, who is sure…
Why matched: genres Comedy
Titanic: Blood and Steel
2012 • Drama
Belfast, 1909. The Harland and Wolff shipyard has been handed the greatest project in its history. It will build a great, unsinkable ship. And it will be called the RMS Titanic.
Why matched: genres Drama
Last Tango in Halifax
2012 • Drama • Comedy
Celia and Alan are both widowed and in their seventies. When their respective grandsons put their details on Facebook, they rediscover a passionate relationship that started ove…
Why matched: genres Drama, Comedy
Hamlet
1996 • Drama
Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, returns home to find his father murdered and his mother now marrying the murderer... his uncle. Meanwhile, war is brewing.
Why matched: genres Drama
Henry V
1989 • Drama • History • War
In 1415, in the midst of the Hundred Years' War, the young King Henry V of England embarks on the conquest of France.
Why matched: genres Drama, History
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
1982 • Drama • Romance • TV Movie
Quasimodo, the hunchback bellringer of Notre Dame's cathedral, meets a beautiful gypsy dancer, Esmeralda, and falls in love with her. So does Quasimodo's guardian, the archdeaco…
Why matched: genres Drama, Romance
A Bunch of Amateurs
2008 • Comedy
Jefferson Steel, a washed-up Hollywood action star, is desperate to revive his flagging career. When his sleazy agent signs him up for what he believes is a high-profile Royal S…
Why matched: genres Comedy
Dead Again
1991 • Drama • Thriller • Mystery
In 1949, composer Roman Strauss is executed for the murder of his wife. In 1990s Los Angeles, a detective comes across a mute amnesiac woman who is somehow linked to the Strauss…
Why matched: genres Drama, Thriller
The Tenth Man
1988 • Drama • TV Movie
During World War 2 the Germans arrested people at random off the streets of Paris and in retaliation to sabotage by the resistance announced the execution of one in ten prisoner…
Why matched: genres Drama, TV Movie
Branagh Theatre Live: Romeo and Juliet
2016 • Drama • Romance
Live theatre presentation of Shakespeare's classic play about two teenagers from warring families whose love affair ends in tragedy.
Why matched: genres Drama, Romance
Adam Resurrected
2008 • Drama • War
After again attempting to commit murder, a Jewish man with a mysterious past and extraordinary intelligence, charisma, and body control returns to an insane asylum, where he mak…
Why matched: genres Drama, War
The Human Factor
1979 • Thriller
When a leak of information in the African section of British Intelligence is discovered, a security man is brought in to investigate.
Why matched: genres Thriller
Tolkien
2019 • Drama • Romance • War
England, early 20th century. The future writer and philologist John Ronald Reuel Tolkien (1892-1973) and three of his schoolmates create a strong bond between them as they share…
Why matched: genres Drama, Romance