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Ian Carmichael stars as the aristocratic detective Lord Peter Wimsey in this classic BBC adaptation of the novel by Dorothy L Sayers.

When Captain Cathcart, the fiance of Lord Peter's sister, is murdered and Lord Peter's own brother is accused of the murder, Lord Peter Wimsey decides to join in the investigation in order to find out what really happened. A mysterious letter from Egypt, a grieving fiancee with a suitcase and a bullet destined for one very special Wimsey are uncovered but who is the real murderer?

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Set in the dark heart of Victorian London, follows Detective Inspector Rabbit (Matt Berry), a hardened booze-hound who's seen it all, and his hapless new partner Strauss (Freddie Fox). They are joined by Mabel (Susan Wokoma), the ambitious daughter of police chief Wisbech (Alun Armstrong).

Together they must fight crime while rubbing shoulders with street gangs, crooked politicians, Bulgarian royalty, spiritualists, music hall stars and the Elephant Man. But Rabbit's nemesis, Inspector Tanner (Paul Kaye) is always waiting in the wings to thwart their efforts. Also starring Keeley Hawes (Bodyguard) as the mysterious Lydia and Sally Phillips (Veep) as Princess Violetta of Bulgaria, Jill Halfpenny (Three Girls) is Rabbit's ex, the deadly Flora and Ann Mitchell as barmaid Gwen..

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Ian Carmichael stars as the aristocratic detective Lord Peter Wimsey in this classic BBC adaptation of the novel by Dorothy L. Sayers. Lord Peter is called upon to investigate the death of the aged General Fentiman who apparently died peacefully in his chair by the open fire at the Bellona Club.

It would have been dismissed as simply old age, had the exact timing of the General's death not been vital to the distribution of a huge inheritance. Lord Peter's investigations lead him into deeper water than anyone expects and, when it becomes clear that the General was murdered, the list of suspects is long.

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Glamorous lady detective Phryne Fisher (Essie Davis) returns in a cinematic sequel to the wildly popular television series 'Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries'.

With her trademark wit, impeccable style, and trusty pearl-handled revolver, Phryne fights injustice on an international scale in this globe-trotting adventure. In 1929 Jerusalem, Phryne rescues a young Bedouin girl held captive after a village massacre and reunites her with her uncle at a stately English manor. But then a man claiming to have information for the girl is shot, leaving behind a mysterious pendant. Vowing to find the truth, Phryne enlists the help of handsome detective Jack Robinson (Nathan Page) to uncover priceless treasures, wartime secrets, and an ancient tomb bearing a terrible curse.

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At the Collington Clinic, healthy patients are mysteriously dying.

No one is more baffled than Jennifer Kessler, the Chief of Medical Staff, and her search for the truth behind the deaths leads her from the secretive corridors of a high-tech research lab to the gaudy stage of a seedy strip club and on through a terrifying maze of greed, corruption, fear and futuristic medicine.

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Let others select the sleepwalking scene from Macbeth.

When Miss Marple auditions for a spot in a repertory company, she lets rip with The Shooting of Dan McGrew! She gets the job (the manager thinks she has cash to invest in this floundering troupe), but she’s not giving up sleuthing for grease-paint and applause. She’s convinced one of her fellow actors is playing the part of murderer for real.

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Imagine your husband died suddenly and you found out he'd been having an affair.

Would you want to know more? Could you bear to know more? When Kate Morris's (Liv Ullmann) husband Richard dies away from home, she soon realises that he's been having an affair with his young assistant Josie (Amanda Redmond). Now she must reconsider their whole life together. Did he really love her? Driven by an overwhelming desire to find out more about the affair, Kate confronts Josie - and soon finds that her feelings about Josie are a lot more complicated than simple hate. A lot more complicated. Intelligent, passionate and controversial (at the time) for its frank depiction of a lesbian relationship, Frederic Raphaels screen adaptation of his own novel for Southern Television is an unforgettable story with an unexpected and heartbreaking secret to reveal...

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After just a year of marriage, the immaculate life Georgina (Julia Stiles) has quickly become intoxicated by is blown apart when her art collector husband Constantine is killed in an explosion aboard the yacht of a Russian oligarch.

Believing there to be more to the tragedy, she sets out to uncover what happened. Dark truths about Constantine's dealings emerge and, as she begins to realise who she was really married to, Georgina enters a spiral of moral descent as she becomes immersed a world of lies, double-dealing and criminality. In order to maintain the Clios' legendary Cote d'Azur mansion and protect the family and its fortune, she will have to learn to adapt, survive and ultimately thrive in her dangerous new reality. But as she first proved back in her days as a fine art scholar in the US, she's an A-plus student...

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From Robert Eggers, the visionary filmmaker behind the modern horror masterpiece 'The Witch', comes this hypnotic and hallucinatory tale of two lighthouse keepers (Willem Dafoe and Robert Pattinson) on a remote and mysterious New England island in the 1890's.

As an approaching storm threatens to sweep them from the rock and strange apparitions emerge from the fog, each man begins to suspect that the other has become dangerously unmoored.

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Adapted from the classic novel by Charles Dickens, 'The Personal History of David Copperfield' brings to life one of the author's most cherished characters.

From birth to infancy, from adolescence to adulthood, the good-hearted David Copperfield (Dev Patel) is surrounded by kindness, wickedness, poverty and wealth, as he meets an array of remarkable characters in Victorian England. As David sets out to be a writer, in his quest for family, friendship, romance and status, the story of his life is the most seductive tale of all.

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Dr. Ryan Stone (Sandra Bullock) is a brilliant engineer on her first shuttle mission with veteran astronaut Matt Kowalski (George Clooney). On a seemingly routine spacewalk, disaster strikes.

The shuttle is destroyed, leaving Stone and Kowalski completely alone, tethered to nothing but each other and spiraling out into the darkness. As fear turns to panic, every gulp of air eats away at what little oxygen is left. But the only way home may be to go farther out into the terrifying expanse of space.

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When a group of heavily armed and meticulously trained extremists launch a daring daylight ambush on the White House, the President (Aaron Eckhart) and his staff are taken hostage inside an impenetrable underground bunker. Only former U.S.

Secret Service agent, Mike Banning (Gerard Butler), is left in the besieged building to do the job he has trained for all his life: to protect the President - at all costs. Acting President (Morgan Freeman) must rely on Banning to rescue the President before the terrorists can unleash their ultimate terrifying plan.

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Penniless Lord Whitebait's plan to save his sinking fortunes is to open stately Whitebait Manor to the public.

But the public ignores his gesture, and his fortunes fade even further, with a stream of debts threatening to run into a deluge when his daughter's fiance demands a plush and costly wedding. Where is the cash to come from? Whitebait (Naunton Wayne) and his servant Spankforth's (Charles Heslop)'s answer is a scam involving the theft of a valuable painting from the Manor. How could such a cunningly original ruse fail?

Paddington Station. Next stop…murder! Dozing in her train seat, elderly English gentlewoman Miss Jane Marple awakens just in time to witness a dreadful strangulation aboard a passing train. ‘Murder’, cries truth, even if it means uncovering an extra body or two!

'Locke' is the story of one man's life unravelling in a tension-fuelled race against time. Ivan Locke (Tom Hardy) has the perfect family, his dream job, and tomorrow should be the crowning moment of his career. But one phone call will force him to make a decision that will put it all on the line.