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False Witness

2009

False Witness

2009
4.5
A British diplomat is arrested on charges of working with Russian mafia. After death threats to his wife, they are taken into protective custody. Then the MI6 shows up with a new piece of the puzzle.
Dandelion Dead

1994

Dandelion Dead

1994
9
This is a dramatisation of the true story of Major Herbert Rowse Armstrong, a solicitor and magistrate's clerk who lived in the small Welsh town of Hay-on-Wye. In 1921 he was arrested and charged with poisoning his domineering wife, Catherine, and later attempting to poison a business rival, Oswald Martin, by administering arsenic to them. At his trial, Armstrong claimed that he had bought the arsenic simply to kill the dandelions on his lawn. However he was convicted of murder and executed in 1922.
Appropriate Adult

2011

Appropriate Adult

2011
6.8
The extraordinary story of Gloucester housewife Janet Leach who played a key role in the uncovering of the crimes of Fred and Rosemary West.
Monroe

2011

Monroe

2011
7.1
Monroe is a brilliant and unusual neurosurgeon. A flawed genius who never lets anyone forget his flaws or his genius. Each episode will feature one compelling story of the week about life or death situations. The drama will focus on the way in which a serious injury or disease cuts across the lives of everyone involved, from hospital staff to patients to relatives. And how that group become, in an intense few days, a reluctant dysfunctional family united by hopes, fears and grief. At the centre of this stands Monroe, his trainees, his anaesthetist and his poker school - and his female colleague, heart surgeon, Jenny Bremner, who has contempt for his cockiness. The series will tell heightened emotional stories and be shot through with dark humour and portray the pressures and pleasures of high-end surgery in a modern urban hospital.
Byron

2003

Byron

2003
5
Byron revolutionized English poetry and died a hero. He became famous overnight when the poetic record of his adventures abroad was received with rapture. This rich historical drama explores the true identity of the wild poetic genius who broke every taboo in the book. Byron's affairs and his unconventionality, however, were always destined to bring him down.
The Empress of Ayodhaya

2024

The Empress of Ayodhaya

2024
8.3
Ambition, love and betrayal intertwine when a royal concubine secretly plots to claim the throne for her family in the old Thai kingdom.
Real Stories with Christ

0000

Real Stories with Christ

0000
10
Real Stories of Christ is a series that follows the journey of a young Pastor as he encounters challenges faced by his church family, and through his faith, shows that God is always in control.
ANZAC Girls

2014

ANZAC Girls

2014
7
The unique, and rarely told true stories of Australian and New Zealand nurses serving at Gallipoli and the Western Front during the First World War.
Possessed

2017

Possessed

2017
4.7
After becoming a doctor, Büşra returns to her hometown. There, she meets a teacher named Selim. Büşra and Selim, both carrying the scars of the past, set out on a journey with no return.
Fanny by Gaslight

1981

Fanny by Gaslight

1981
6.5
Fanny by Gaslight is a four-part British television miniseries adapted by Anthony Steven from Michael Sadler's 1940 novel of the same mame, directed by Peter Jefferies, and produced by Joe Waters. It initially broadcast from 24 September to 15 October 1981 on BBC One. Victorian orphan Fanny Hooper navigates hardship and scandal, eventually discovering her true parentage and finding love amidst the city's demi-monde.
Super Daddy Yeol

2015

Super Daddy Yeol

2015
5.4
Cha Mi-rae is a doctor and single mother to her young daughter Sa-rang. When she gets diagnosed with terminal cancer and told she has one year left to live, she seeks out her ex-boyfriend Han Yeol, a former baseball player. Mi-rae and Yeol were a couple a decade ago, but she broke up with him to study abroad and because she didn't think much of his prospects. Soon after, a serious injury forced him to retire from the sport, and Yeol became the rehabilitation coach of a major league baseball team. Mi-rae is determined to transform still-single, grungy, irritable Yeol into the best father possible for her daughter.
Scripting Your Destiny

2021

Scripting Your Destiny

2021
4.7
A fantasy romance series between a god who writes people’s destinies, and a person living that life.
María Félix La Doña

2022

María Félix La Doña

2022
8.2
The life story of María Félix, from her humble beginnings as one of fifteen children to her rise to fame and infamy as one of the most storied Mexican actresses of the 1940s and beyond.
Giants

2017

Giants

2017
3.7
Giants is an original scripted drama series about three friends determined to live life on their own terms, no matter the cost. They quickly learn that when life starts to kick your ass, you either lay down, or fight back.
Behaving Badly

1989

Behaving Badly

1989
4.3
Behaving Badly is a 1989 British television serial directed by David Tucker. The teleplay by Catherine Heath and Moira Williams is based on Heath's novel of the same name. It was initially broadcast by Channel 4. The series was released on DVD in 2005. The plot focuses on Bridget Mayor, a middle-aged housewife and part-time teacher who is forced to re-evaluate her life when her husband of twenty years abandons her for a younger woman.
Fortunate Son

2020

Fortunate Son

2020
5
Spy drama set in the social and political chaos of 1968, inspired by a true story. Pursued into Canada by the FBI, the matriarch of an American activist family helps smuggle Vietnam war deserters and draft dodgers across the border. What she doesn't know is that one of the deserters is an agent of the CIA sent to spy on her.
Chimera

2022

Chimera

2022
7.7
In 2012, the security forces won a large-scale war against drug trafficking. The largest shipments were intercepted and supply corridors from Afghanistan and Europe were paralyzed. But in just one year, a new one was created on the ruins of the largest underground market in Europe. And now modern technology and young geniuses have come here, turning the drug trade into a high-tech industrial industry.
Heat of the Sun

1998

Heat of the Sun

1998
6.2
Heat of the Sun is a police drama set in 1930s Kenya produced by Carlton Productions. Starring Trevor Eve as Superintendent Albert Tyburn, a Scotland Yard officer sent to Nairobi after a shooting, the show focuses on the seedier side of the expatriate community in Kenya. It began airing in January 1998 in the UK and was broadcast in the United States in 1999 as part of Mystery!.
One Room Angel

2023

One Room Angel

2023
8.7
Kouki’s empty life shifts after a near-death stab—and waking to find a memoryless angel in his home. One lost soul just met another.
Pavilion Secrets

2024

Pavilion Secrets

2024
General Yun Shu, who is known as the living king of hell, meets Song Huanbei, who approaches her as a male lover, while on a mission. Song Huanbei is the leader of Qianji Pavilion, the first intelligence agency in the martial arts world, and is determined to find the murderer of the Mo family tragedy. Yun Shu, an orphan of the Mo family disguised as a man, falls in love with him during the test...