Mark | imdb: 7.2 |
Genre | drama |
Country | United Kingdom, USA |
Duration | 01:10 |
In a world where everyone is striving for what is not worth having, no one is more determined to climb to the heights of English society than Becky Sharp.
Mark | imdb: 8.3 |
Genre | drama |
Country | United Kingdom, USA |
Duration | 01:00 |
A rich and comic drama about the people of Cranford, a small Cheshire town on the cusp of change in the 1840s. Adapted from the novels by Elizabeth Gaskell.
Mark | imdb: 8.2 |
Genre | comedy, melodrama, biography, history |
Country | United Kingdom, USA |
Duration | 00:56 |
Halifax, West Yorkshire, England, 1832. Anne Lister attempts to revitalize her inherited home, Shibden Hall. Most notably for the time period, a part of her plan is to help the fate of her own family - by taking a wife.
Mark | imdb: 7.5 |
Genre | melodrama, drama |
Country | United Kingdom |
Duration | 00:59 |
Follow Sugar into the underbelly of Victorian London seething with vitality, sexuality, ambition and emotion.
Mark | imdb: 8.1 |
Genre | comedy, melodrama, drama |
Country | United Kingdom |
Duration | 04:00 |
Nothing delights Emma more than meddling in the love lives of others. But when she takes protege Harriet Smith under her wing, her plans can only end in disaster...
Mark | imdb: 7.1 |
Genre | melodrama, drama, detective |
Country | United Kingdom |
Duration | 03:00 |
Adaptation of PD James's bestselling homage to Pride and Prejudice. Elizabeth and Darcy, now six years married, are preparing for their annual ball when festivities are brought to an abrupt halt.
Mark | imdb: 7.6 |
Genre | action, melodrama, drama, military |
Country | United Kingdom |
Duration | 00:59 |
The story of a love triangle between a conservative English aristocrat, his mean socialite wife and a young suffragette in the midst of World War I and a Europe on the brink of profound change.
Mark | imdb: 6.7 |
Genre | melodrama, drama |
Country | United Kingdom |
Longing for love, obsessed with sex, Linda is on the hunt for the perfect lover. But finding Mr Right is much harder than she thought.
Mark | imdb: 7.5 |
Genre | melodrama, drama |
Country | United Kingdom, USA |
A tale of secrets and scandals set in 1840s London. When the Trenchards accept an invitation to the now legendary ball hosted by the Duchess of Richmond on the fateful evening of the Battle of Waterloo, it sets in motion a series of events that will have consequences for decades to come as secrets unravel behind the porticoed doors of London’s grandest postcode.
Mark | imdb: 6.2 |
Genre | melodrama, drama, history |
Country | India |
Duration | 00:21 |
Jodha Akbar is an epic drama about a sixteenth century story of the political marriage of convenience between a Mughal emperor Abu'l-Fath Jalal ud-din Muhammad Akbar and a Rajput princess Jodha Bai. The show focuses on how their political marriage brings love between them to an extent that it changed the fate of India. This period drama also portrays the wars of that time along with the relations between the Mughals and the Rajputs. The drama also focuses on the functioning of the queens, the courts, courtesans, the ministers and their influence on the love story of Jalal ud-din Muhammad Akbar and Jodha Bai. The show also highlights on how Mughal emperor Jalal ud-din Muhammad acquires the title of Akbar from the people.
Mark | imdb: 7.5 |
Genre | melodrama, drama |
Country | United Kingdom |
Duration | 00:25 |
Dates is a British television romantic drama series created by Bryan Elsley, who also created Skins, which first aired on Channel 4 on 10 June 2013, at 22:00, as part of its "Mating Season" programming, illustrating a series of first dates between online dating service users. The show's target audience is "ABC1".
Mark | imdb: 8.2 |
Genre | melodrama, drama, detective |
Country | United Kingdom, USA |
Duration | 00:30 |
Amy Dorrit spends her days earning money for the family and looking after her proud father who is a long term inmate of Marshalsea debtors' prison in London. Amy and her family's world is transformed when her employer's son, Arthur Clennam, returns from overseas to solve his family's mysterious legacy and discovers that their lives are interlinked.
Mark | imdb: 8.1 |
Genre | melodrama, drama |
Country | United Kingdom |
Duration | 00:52 |
Set in the small hamlet of Lark Rise and the wealthier neighbouring market town, Candleford, the series chronicles the daily lives of farm-workers, craftsmen and gentry at the end of the 19th Century. Lark Rise to Candleford is a love letter to a vanished corner of rural England and a heart-warming drama series teeming with wit, wisdom and romance.
Mark | imdb: 8.3 |
Genre | melodrama, drama, history |
Country | United Kingdom |
Duration | 01:44 |
Britain is in the grip of a chilling recession... falling wages, rising prices, civil unrest - only the bankers are smiling. It's 1783 and Ross Poldark returns from the American War of Independence to his beloved Cornwall to find his world in ruins: his father dead, the family mine long since closed, his house wrecked and his sweetheart pledged to marry his cousin. But Ross finds that hope and love can be found when you are least expecting it in the wild but beautiful Cornish landscape.
Mark | imdb: 7.7 |
Genre | drama |
Country | United Kingdom |
Duration | 00:59 |
An intoxicating love story set in England's first department store in the 1870s. The Paradise revolves around the lives of the people who live and work in the store, each bound in their own way by the power of the world they live in, and the pasts that follow them there. A love story, mystery, and social comedy all in one.
Mark | imdb: 6.9 |
Genre | thriller, melodrama, drama, military, history |
Country | Germany, Canada, United Kingdom, Hungary |
Two hundred years after the construction of the great cathedral, the medieval town of Kingsbridge is taken under siege by Queen Isabella. Caris, a visionary young woman, inspires her people to stand up for their rights and revolt against to the most powerful forces of her time, the Church and the Crown.
Mark | imdb: 7 |
Genre | fantasy, melodrama, drama, adventure, detective |
Country | Canada, USA |
Duration | 00:43 |
In Victorian England, the young and beautiful Alice tells a tale of a strange new land that exists on the other side of a rabbit hole. Thinking Alice insane, her doctors aim to make her forget everything. While Alice is ready to put it all behind her, she knows this world is real. In the nick of time, the Knave of Hearts and the White Rabbit save her from a doomed fate. Together, the trio tumble down the rabbit hole to Wonderland, where nothing is impossible.
Mark | imdb: 7.2 |
Genre | melodrama, drama, military, history |
Country | United Kingdom |
Drama series set in the mid-sixties, in which a unit of Royal Military Police officers and their families deal with the challenges of politics, love and war in British-controlled Aden.
Mark | imdb: 7.8 |
Genre | melodrama, drama |
Country | United Kingdom |
Duration | 04:40 |
Jim Broadbent, Matthew Macfadyen and Sam Claflin take on the lead role of Logan Mountstuart in William Boyd's adaptation of his best-selling novel. From one man's emotional, tumultuous and unpredictable journey through the 20th century comes a funny, moving and ambitious four-part drama. Told through Logan's intimate journals, beginning with the idealism and arrogance of his youth, through the triumphs and tragedies of middle-age, to the unexpected dramas of his twilight years - his story reveals that all our lives are ultimately random, and defined by luck and seemingly inconsequential choices. Hayley Atwell, Natasha Little, Emerald Fennell, Ed Stoppard, Samuel West and Kim Cattrall star alongside Gillian Anderson and Tom Hollander as the lovers, wives, friends and infamous figures he encounters throughout his ordinary and yet utterly extraordinary life.
Mark | imdb: 7.4 |
Genre | thriller, melodrama, drama, crime, detective |
Country | United Kingdom |
Duration | 00:30 |
Danny is a gregarious, hedonistic romantic who gets drawn into the dangerous world of British espionage in this contemporary, emotional thriller. He falls for the anti-social but enigmatic Alex, both from opposite worlds, and they soon realise they’re perfect for each other. But when Alex suddenly disappears, Danny is utterly ill-equipped to take on his complex and codified world. Young, innocent and adrift he needs to decide whether he’s prepared to fight for the truth?
Mark | imdb: 7.9 |
Genre | melodrama, drama |
Country | United Kingdom |
Duration | 00:30 |
A love story in two films charts the very different challenges to happiness for Michael and Thomas in the aftermath of World War 2, and to Adam and Steve in the present day.
Mark | imdb: 7.7 |
Genre | drama |
Country | United Kingdom |
Duration | 00:45 |
Mr. Selfridge recounts the real life story of the flamboyant and visionary American founder of Selfridge's, London's lavish department store. Set in 1909 London, when women were reveling in a new sense of freedom and modernity, it follows Harry Gordon Selfridge ('Mile a Minute Harry'), a man with a mission to make shopping as thrilling as sex. Pioneering and reckless, with an almost manic energy, Harry created a theater of retail where any topic or trend that was new, exciting, entertaining - or just eccentric - was showcased.
Mark | imdb: 8.1 |
Genre | melodrama, drama, military, history |
Country | Republic of Ireland, Canada, USA, United Kingdom |
Duration | 00:53 |
The Tudors is a history-based drama series following the young, vibrant King Henry VIII, a competitive and lustful monarch who navigates the intrigues of the English court and the human heart with equal vigor and justifiable suspicion.
Mark | imdb: 7.3 |
Genre | drama |
Country | United Kingdom |
Set during the final days of slavery in 19th century Jamaica, we follow the trials, tribulations and survival of plantation slave July and her odious mistress Caroline.
Mark | imdb: 7.4 |
Genre | action, comedy, melodrama, drama, adventure |
Country | United Kingdom |
Duration | 00:43 |
Robin Hood is a British television programme, produced by independent production company Tiger Aspect Productions for BBC One, with co-funding from the BBC America cable television channel in the United States. Based on the traditional stories of legendary English folk hero Robin Hood, the programme started on 7 October 2006. Series two commenced broadcasting on 6 October 2007 with the final two episodes on 29 December 2007. Series three began airing on 28 March 2009 for a thirteen episode run. The series was axed by the BBC after series three following the departure of multiple characters, including lead actor Jonas Armstrong.
Mark | imdb: 6.3 |
Genre | drama, adventure, detective |
Country | United Kingdom, New Zealand |
The 19th-century tale of love, murder and revenge as men and women travel across the world to make their fortunes on the wild West Coast of New Zealand's South Island.
Mark | imdb: 7.6 |
Genre | melodrama, drama |
Country | United Kingdom, USA |
Duration | 04:00 |
The story of Tess Durbeyfield, a low-born country girl whose family find they have noble connections.
Mark | imdb: 7.5 |
Genre | thriller, melodrama, drama, crime, detective |
Country | United Kingdom, USA |
Duration | 03:06 |
Jack the Ripper is a 1988 two-part television film/miniseries portraying a fictionalized account of the hunt for Jack the Ripper, the unidentified serial killer responsible for the Whitechapel murders of 1888. The series coincided with the 100th anniversary of the murders.
Mark | imdb: 6 |
Genre | melodrama, drama |
Country | United Kingdom |
We arrive with New York heiress Lucy Savage fresh off the transatlantic steamer and ready for love and marriage in exotic climes. But when her husband Hugo does not receive her in the way she expected, she spins off into the surprising, diverse and degenerate world of Tangier in 1955.
Mark | imdb: 7.6 |
Genre | drama |
Country | United Kingdom |
Dickensian intertwines the realm of fictional characters in Charles Dickens’ novels—including Scrooge, Fagin and Miss Havisham—in half-hour episodes, as their lives intertwine in 19th century London. The Old Curiosity Shop sits next door to The Three Cripples Pub, while Fagin’s Den is hidden down a murky alley off a bustling Victorian street.
Mark | imdb: 7.4 |
Genre | drama |
Country | United Kingdom |
Duration | 01:00 |
Powerful historical drama series, based on the lives of real people, telling the story of young 19th-century apprentices taking their lives into their own hands for the first time.
Mark | imdb: 7.2 |
Genre | melodrama, drama |
Country | United Kingdom, USA |
Duration | 02:30 |
The social and class divisions in early 20th century England through the intersection of three families - the wealthy Wilcoxes, the gentle and idealistic Schlegels and the lower-middle class Basts.
Mark | imdb: 7.4 |
Genre | drama |
Country | United Kingdom |
Duration | 07:30 |
An explosive 1930s drama following a jazz band in London at a time of huge change.
Mark | imdb: 7.7 |
Genre | drama |
Country | United Kingdom |
The Defoes, a family of female divorce lawyers, are forced to face their past following the return of their estranged father after a 30 year absence.
Mark | imdb: 7.4 |
Genre | horror, thriller, fantasy, melodrama, drama, adventure, family, detective |
Country | United Kingdom, USA |
Duration | 00:22 |
House of Anubis is a jointly Nickelodeon British, American, and Belgian mystery television series based on the Dutch-Belgian television series Het Huis Anubis aired in the Netherlands and Belgium. The series was created by Hans Bourlon and Gert Verhulst and premiered on Nickelodeon on New Year's Day 2011 in the United States and on 25 February 2011 in the United Kingdom. The series is the first Nickelodeon series to be filmed overseas, the first soap opera created by Nickelodeon and the channel's first soap opera aimed at children and teenagers. As of 25 February, the program will be broadcast on TeenNick. The show has since concluded its third season and as of 28 September 2013 Nickelodeon has not announced a fourth season.
Mark | imdb: 7.8 |
Genre | melodrama, drama, history |
Country | United Kingdom, USA |
Duration | 00:59 |
France, 1815. Jean Valjean, a common thief, is released from prison after having lived a hell in life for 19 years, but a small mistake puts the law again on his trail. Ruthless Inspector Javert pursues him thorough years, driven by a twisted sense of justice, while Valjean reforms himself, thrives and dedicates his life to good deeds. In 1832, while the revolution ravages the streets of Paris, Valjean and Javert cross their paths for the last time.
Mark | imdb: 8 |
Genre | fantasy, comedy, melodrama, drama |
Country | South Korea |
At this mysterious late-night food cart run by an equally mysterious woman and her part-timer, customers are provided a space for respite and counseling through their dreams. But most importantly, everyone here is treated equally—living or dead.
Mark | imdb: 6.7 |
Genre | comedy, drama |
Country | United Kingdom |
Duration | 00:20 |
Paul Pennyfeather is an inoffensive divinity student at Oxford University in the 1920s who is wrongly dismissed for indecent exposure having been made the victim of a prank by The Bollinger Club.
Mark | imdb: 7.1 |
Genre | thriller, melodrama, drama |
Country | USA, United Kingdom |
Duration | 00:43 |
Meet Savi, a successful career woman working toward the next phase in her life -- both professional and personal -- simultaneously bucking for partner at her law firm while she and her husband, Harry, try to start a family of their own. Savi's free-spirited and capricious baby sister, Josselyn, couldn't be more different - living single, serial dating and partying, and regularly leaning on her big sister along the way. Their common best friend, April, a recent widow and mother of two, is rebuilding her life after tragedy and learning to move forward, with the support and guidance of her closest girlfriends. And friend Karen, a successful therapist with her own practice, reconnects with the girls after her involvement in a complicated relationship with a patient goes far too deep.
Mark | imdb: 8.2 |
Genre | comedy, melodrama, drama, biography |
Country | United Kingdom |
Duration | 01:05 |
In 1935, financially strapped widow Louisa Durrell, whose life has fallen apart, decides to move from England, with her four children (three sons, one daughter), to the island of Corfu, Greece. Once there, the family moves into a dilapidated old house that has no electricity and that is crumbling apart. But life on Corfu is cheap, it's an earthly paradise, and the Durrells proceed to forge their new existence, with all its challenges, adventures, and forming relationships.
Mark | imdb: 7.5 |
Genre | action, thriller, comedy, melodrama, drama, adventure, family |
Country | United Kingdom, USA |
Everything changes when Alex Rider learns that his uncle Ian has actually been killed in the line of duty as a British spy. The normal teen is approached by the head of The Department and pressured to help investigate his uncle's death. Alex reluctantly assumes a new identity and goes undercover in a remote boarding school called Point Blanc.
Mark | imdb: 8.8 |
Genre | drama, crime |
Country | United Kingdom |
Duration | 01:00 |
A gangster family epic set in 1919 Birmingham, England and centered on a gang who sew razor blades in the peaks of their caps, and their fierce boss Tommy Shelby, who means to move up in the world.
Mark | imdb: 6.2 |
Genre | drama, military, history |
Country | United Kingdom |
New Worlds is a gripping 4 part mini series dealing with love, loss and the human price paid for the freedoms and liberties we enjoy today. We follow the fortunes of four young people - Beth, Hope, Abe and Ned - from across both sides of the Atlantic, caught up in these turbulent times. We see them struggle as they are torn between love and ideals in the harsh reality of the changing world. In England, the restored monarchy of Charles II has betrayed its promises and reverted to tyranny. Behind the decadence of the Court, a terror machine is repressing the freedoms won for the people with so much blood during the Civil War of England when Charles I was executed. In America, the tentacles of state terror reach the English colonists of New England who are struggling to throw off the shackles of the English Crown. At the same time the colonists are ruthlessly staking their claim to the territories occupied by the Native American Indians, and shedding much of the American Indian's blood in the process - in a chilling echo of the tyrannical behaviour that they sought to escape from when they crossed the Atlantic
Mark | imdb: 7.6 |
Genre | drama |
Country | United Kingdom, USA |
Drama about a fictional British Royal family set in modern day London, who inhabit a world of opulence and regal tradition that caters to any and every desire, but one that also comes with a price tag of duty, destiny and intense public scrutiny.
Mark | imdb: 8.4 |
Genre | comedy, drama |
Country | United Kingdom |
Duration | 02:11 |
Inexperienced Otis channels his sex therapist mom when he teams up with rebellious Maeve to set up an underground sex therapy clinic at school.