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Fanny Hill

Fanny Hill

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Series Age rating: 16 Year: 2007 IMDB Rating: 6.6

Two-part TV drama based on the novel by John Cleland. Set in the 18th century, the story of a young country girl who through financial neccessity falls into prostitution.

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The Secret Agent

The Secret Agent

Film Age rating: 7 Year: 1992 IMDB Rating: 6.6

1992 BBC adaptation of the Joseph Conrad novel of 1907 concerning the mostly inactive spy Alfred Verloc, who is ordered by his superior Mr Vladimir to carry out a terrorist act. Verloc reluctantly pla...

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Stark

Stark

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Series Age rating: 15 Year: 1993 IMDB Rating: 6.6

Stark is a 1993 British-Australian television miniseries, based on the bestselling novel Stark by comedian Ben Elton. The three-episode series, directed by Nadia Tass, was an international co-producti...

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War of the Worlds

War of the Worlds

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Series Age rating: 13 Year: 2019 IMDB Rating: 6.5

When astronomers detect a transmission from another galaxy, it is definitive proof of intelligent extra-terrestrial life. The world’s population waits for further contact with bated breath. They do no...

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Starting Over

Starting Over

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Film Age rating: 7 Year: 2007 IMDB Rating: 6.5

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Hold the Dream

Hold the Dream

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Series Age rating: 10 Year: 1986 IMDB Rating: 6.5

The follow-up to A Woman of Substance with Emma Harte at age eighty in the last winter of her life and dealing with her granddaughter Paula, as well as her respected advisor Henry Rossiter and Blackie...

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The Casual Vacancy

The Casual Vacancy

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Series Age rating: 13 Year: 2015 IMDB Rating: 6.5

The citizens of the small British town of Pagford fight for the spot on the parish council after Barry Fairbrother dies.

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The Larkins

The Larkins

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Series Age rating: 11 Year: 2021 IMDB Rating: 6.5

Set in the late 1950’s, The Larkins follows the golden-hearted wheeler dealer Pop Larkin and his wife Ma, together with their six children, including the beautiful Mariette, as they bask in their idyl...

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Archangel

Archangel

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Series Age rating: 15 Year: 2005 IMDB Rating: 6.4

Fluke Kelso, a dissipated, middle-aged former Oxford historian, who is in Moscow to attend a conference on the newly opened Soviet archives, receives in his hotel a very unexpected visitor.

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Jamaica Inn

Jamaica Inn

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Series Age rating: 15 Year: 2014 IMDB Rating: 6.4

Set in 1820 against the forbidding backdrop of windswept Cornish moors, the story follows the journey of young and spirited Mary who is forced to live with her Aunt Patience after the death of her mot...

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