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On a girl's night out, Melanie (Rachacl Blake) meets a handsome stranger (Sam Neill). Seduced by his charms, when the evening draws to a close she agrees to go back to his boat, moored in the town's harbour.

The next morning Melanie wakes and is stunned to discover they're at sea and bound for the stranger's home - a rundown shack on a remote island. Cut off from the world she knows, the shocking truth begins to dawn.... she's been kidnapped. But why? As all too quickly her captor's desire becomes obsession, Melanie can only be certain of one thing... she has to escape.

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The Agatha Christie Hour is a collection of ten hour-long dramas based on short stories by the most popular novelist in history. Some were romances, some had supernatural themes and a couple were adventures.

The common link was that all came from the talented pen of Agatha Christie, all were entertaining and each drama was carefully crafted and well cast with many of Britain's best known actors of the time represented.

The Mystery of the Blue Jar
Playing golf early one morning, Jack Harrington hears a cry, "Murder! Help!" from a nearby cottage. He runs up to find a beautiful French girl, Felise, placidly weeding the garden, oblivious to any disturbance. When the Jack hears the same cries for many days he begins to think he might be mad. But are more sinister forces at work?
The Red Signal
Dermot West is invited to dinner at the home of Jack and Claire Trent. The first is his best friend, the second, the woman he loves. During the evening the conversation turns to the supernatural; Dermot admits he frequently gets what he calls 'the red signal' to warn him of impending danger. He neglects to mention that he is getting the signal strongly that night!

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Rosemary, a beautiful disturbed murderer at the centre of this powerful cocktail of family saga and crime drama which spans nearly thirty years. The story opens in London in the present day with a tense kidnap drama which leads to tragedy.

Gradually a dark past and a childhood surrounded by people who could have saved her or stopped her earlier is revealed - and we witness the terrible consequences of their choices. Each episode rewinds back a decade earlier in this haunting tale of the making of a murderer - from adult, to teenager to toddler. David Byfield, an Anglican vicar and Rosemary's father; he blames himself for her evil, but must learn that he was not the only one to contribute to her nurture as she grew up. Family friend Wendy holds the key to the roots of Rosemary's problems and the very beginning of her descent into murder. Only by tracing events backwards through time can the truth be pieced together. A gripping and unsettling journey ensues, as we strip away layer after layer of a sociopath's history to discover the truth inside Rosemary's twisted mind and her sick soul.

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Fred has fallen on hard times and finds himself living in his car with little hope of improving his situation. That all changes when he forms an unlikely friendship with Cathal, a dope-smoking 21-year-old with a positive attitude, and his new 'neighbour' in the Dublin car park they call home.

Cathal is determined to help Fred sort his life out. He modifies his car, helps him sign on the dole and make a friend in Jules, an attractive music teacher. But as Fred struggles with his pride to tell Jules about his 'home', and Cathal's drug habit spirals out of control, their friendships are tested as their lives change forever.

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A funny, intelligent and delighfully adult fairytale set in Edwardian England, Dean Spanley will be unlike anything else that you've seen lately.

Peter O'Toole delivers a mesmerising performance as a misanthropic curmudgeon who cannot come to terms with his elder son's death, and has little time or affection for his younger son (Jeremy Northam). But when the pair visit an eccentric mystic, they start a strange journey that eventually allow the old man to find his heart.

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The Agatha Christie Hour is a collection of ten hour-long dramas based on short stories by the most popular novelist in history. Some were romances, some had supernatural themes and a couple were adventures.

The common link was that all came from the talented pen of Agatha Christie, all were entertaining and each drama was carefully crafted and well cast with many of Britain's best known actors of the time represented.

The Case of the Middle-Aged Wife
When Mrs. Packington, whose husband is paying more attention to his young secretary, answers an ad in the papers reading, Are you happy? If not, consult Mr. Parker Pyne, she soon finds herself being dazzled and swept off her feet by the handsome Claude Luttrell.
In a Glass Darkly
Matthew Armitage is startled by a vision in his mirror: he sees a man with a scarred neck strangling a beautiful blonde. He later meets the woman in his vision, Sylvia, and notes her fiance's scarred neck. Mathew tells Sylvia of his premonition, and the engagement is broken off. But is that all there is to it?

Based on the true story of Miss Shepherd (Maggie Smith), a woman of uncertain origins "temporarily" parks her van in Alan Bennett's (Alex Jennings) London driveway and proceeds to live there for 15 years. What begins as a begrudged favour becomes a relationship that will change both their lives.

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The Agatha Christie Hour is a collection of ten hour-long dramas based on short stories by the most popular novelist in history. Some were romances, some had supernatural themes and a couple were adventures.

The common link was that all came from the talented pen of Agatha Christie, all were entertaining and each drama was carefully crafted and well cast with many of Britain's best known actors of the time represented.

Magnolia Blossom
Theodora Darrell is running away with her lover - and business associate of her husband - Vincent Easton, when she learns her husband Richard is facing financial ruin. Old loyalties resurface and she returns home to see if she can fix the situation.
The Case of the Discontented Soldier
The recently retired Major Wilbraham is bored and unhappy so he answers Parker Pyne's newspaper ad. Before long the Major finds himself rescuing Freda Clegg from two burly attackers; with Freda in tow, he embarks on a daring adventure to find treasure in the wilds of Africa! Another charming love story of an autumn romance.

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Joel Fleishman (Rob Morrow) is a new medical college graduate. Due to a clause in the small print of his scholarship contract he finds himself in the remote and decidedly bizarre town of Cicely, Alaska.

Warmly welcomed by the founder of Cicely, Maurice Minnifield (Barry Corbin), an ex NASA astronaut and the other collection of misfits and eccentrics that make up the populace, Joel finds it increasingly hard to leave the town that he has unwittingly found himself in. This is complicated by the prescence of Maggie O'Connell (Janine Turner), the Mayor of Cicely and local pilot, a beautiful, but completely independent woman. All set to the musical and philosphical radio show hosted by Chris on KBER.

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Dr. Robert Laing (Tom Hiddleston) feels like he's made it - he's moved into a luxury high-rise, seeking soulless anonymity.

However, the building's residents have no intention of leaving him alone and it isn't long before the veneer of civilisation begins to collapse, and darker human urges begin to surface, and Laing's good manners and sanity disintegrate along with the building.

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Whilst touring in France, a young couple (Rex and Saskia) stop for a break at a roadside service station. Saskia (Johanna ter Steege) leaves Rex (Gene Bervoets) to browse around the shops and vanishes leaving no clues as to her whereabouts.

Three years later Rex begins to receive taunting postcards from Saskia's supposed abductor and is drawn into a terrifying battle of cat and mouse in his desperate quest to discover the fate of his missing lover.

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An old, but beautiful farm in Belgium is home to Pascale (Isabelle Huppert) and her twin sons Thierry (Jérémie Renier) and Francois (Yannick Renier). Although loving and ostensibly supportive of one another, each is still reeling from the divorce that divided the family some years earlier.

Now in their late teens, the boys have begun to move in different directions but neither seems compelled to embrace adulthood or the responsibilities that come with it. When Pascale falls in love again and dreams of beginning a new life she finds herself unable to rise from the shadow of her ex-husband and selfish children. Helpless and in a bid for survival, Pascale leaves the house in the hands of Thierry and Francois, never suspecting that in her absence, a fratricidal war will change their family forever.

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"The Out-Laws" draws you into the lives of the Goethals sisters - tied together by the premature death of their parents, they've clung to each other like a real clan. But ever since their fifth sister's marriage the bond has frayed.

Together, the four of them plot the murder of their brother-in-law, Jean-Claude, a pain in the ass just asking to be liquidated. Clever and quick-witted, the sisters devise a whole host of ingenious schemes. But while planning a murder is easy, committing it is another story...and with each mounting failure, the collateral damage grows...

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Odd Horten (Baard Owe) has driven the same train route every day for so long that the rest of his life has become a routine of comfortable rituals. But the time has come for the 67-year-old engineer to retire after forty years of dutiful service.

His orderly, solitary existence is about to give way to a future of perplexing questions. The only thing for certain is that Horten is first in line for some absurd adventures and quirky encounters.

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At the age of 21, Tim is told an incredible family secret by his father: all the men in his family have the ability to relive their past. He can revisit any moment in his life to try things differently until he gets them perfectly right.

He decides to use his special new gift to win the heart of the beautiful Mary, but finds that the course of true love can be hilariously difficult - even with the ability to try, try and try again.