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- DirectorJohn FordStarsVictor McLaglenHeather AngelPreston FosterIn 1922, an Irish rebel informs on his friend, then feels doom closing in.The Informer by Liam O'Flaherty
- StarsDavid TennantDaniel MaysJason WatkinsIn 1983, Scottish serial killer Dennis Nilsen was arrested after the discovery of human remains which had blocked a drain near his London home.Killing for Company: The Case of Dennis Nilsen by Brian Masters
- DirectorCurtis HansonStarsKevin SpaceyRussell CroweGuy PearceAs corruption grows in 1950s Los Angeles, three policemen - one strait-laced, one brutal, and one sleazy - investigate a series of murders with their own brand of justice.L.A. Confidential by James Ellroy
- CreatorCraig SilversteinStarsJamie BellHeather LindSamuel RoukinA Long Island farmer bands together a group of childhood friends to form an unlikely group of spies who turn the tide in America's fight for independence.Washington's Spies: The Story of America's First Spy Ring by Rose Alexander
- DirectorVal GuestStarsBernard CribbinsBill MaynardJoss AcklandWhen D. C. Dangerous Davies, not held in high regard by his superiors, is assigned to find a notorious criminal kingpin, he uncovers the details of 15 year old cold case.Dangerous Davies: The Last Detective by Thomas Leslie
- DirectorStuart RosenbergStarsJames BrolinMargot KidderRod SteigerNewlyweds and their three children move into a large house where a mass murder was committed. They start to experience strange, inexplicable manifestations which have strong effects on everyone living in or visiting the house.The Amityville Horror by Jay Anson
- DirectorJoseph SargentStarsPatrick DempseyBen KingsleyJulie DelpyA man who is haunted by a murder he committed.Crime & Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
- DirectorMarc EvansStarsDavid WilliamsonStuart TownsendBrenda FrickerBelfast, in 1970s. Victor Kelly is a young protestant man who hates the Catholics so much that one night he begins to brutally murder them. A reporter soon tries to uncover the murder and obtained prestige for himself, while Victor sinks deeper into madness.Resurrection Man by Eoin McNamee
- DirectorColm McCarthyStarsSennia NanuaFisayo AkinadeDominique TipperA scientist and a teacher living in a dystopian future embark on a journey of survival with a special young girl named Melanie.The Girl with All the Gifts by M.R. Carey
- CreatorJoe PenhallStarsJonathan GroffHolt McCallanyAnna TorvIn the late 1970s, two FBI agents broaden the realm of criminal science by investigating the psychology behind murder and end up getting too close to real-life monsters.Mindhunter: Inside the FBI's Elite Serial Crime Unit by John E. Douglas
- DirectorRobert MulliganStarsGregory PeckJohn MegnaFrank OvertonAtticus Finch, a widowed lawyer in Depression-era Alabama, defends a Black man against an undeserved rape charge, and tries to educate his young children against prejudice.To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper lee
- DirectorMark HermanStarsAsa ButterfieldDavid ThewlisRupert FriendThrough the innocent eyes of Bruno, the eight-year-old son of the commandant at a German concentration camp, a forbidden friendship with a Jewish boy on the other side of the camp fence has startling and unexpected consequences.The Boy in the Striped Pajamas by John Boyne
- DirectorDestin Daniel CrettonStarsMichael B. JordanJamie FoxxBrie LarsonWorld-renowned civil rights defense attorney Bryan Stevenson works to free a wrongly condemned death row prisoner.Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption by Bryan Stevenson
- DirectorSidney LumetStarsSean ConneryHarry AndrewsIan BannenIn a North African military prison during World War II, five new prisoners struggle to survive in the face of brutal punishment and sadistic guards.The Hill by Ray Rigby
- DirectorClaude BerriStarsRenaudGérard DepardieuMiou-MiouIn mid-nineteenth-century northern France, a coal mining town's workers are exploited by the mine's owner. One day, they decide to go on strike, and the authorities repress them.Germinal by Émile Zola
- StarsGary OldmanJack LowdenKristin Scott ThomasFollows a team of British intelligence agents who serve as a dumping ground department of MI5 due to their career-ending mistakes.Slow Horses by Mick Herron
- DirectorJosie RourkeStarsSaoirse RonanMargot RobbieJack LowdenMary Stuart's (Saoirse Ronan's) attempt to overthrow her cousin Elizabeth I (Margot Robbie), Queen of England, finds her condemned to years of imprisonment before facing execution.Queen of Scots: The True Life of Mary Stuart by John Guy
- DirectorRonald NeameStarsClifton WebbGloria GrahameRobert FlemyngIn order to fool the Germans into thinking the Allied invasion of Sicily will take place elsewhere, British Military Intelligence comes up with a cunning ruse.Operation Mincemeat: How a Dead Man and a Bizarre Plan Fooled the Nazis and Assured an Allied Victory by Ben Macintyre
- StarsThuso MbeduChase DillonJoel EdgertonA young woman named Cora makes an amazing discovery during her attempt to break free from slavery in the deep south.The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
- DirectorRoman PolanskiStarsLouis GarrelChristophe MaratierPierre PoirotIn 1894, French Captain Alfred Dreyfus is wrongfully convicted of treason and sentenced to life imprisonment at Devil's island.An Officer & A Spy by Robert Harris
- DirectorSteven ZaillianStarsJohn TravoltaRobert DuvallKathleen QuinlanA tenacious lawyer takes on a case involving two companies responsible for causing several children to be diagnosed with leukemia due to the town's water supply being contaminated, at the risk of bankrupting his firm and career.A Civil Action by Jonathan Harr
- StarsGeorge DiCenzoSteve RailsbackNancy WolfeThe investigation and trial of the horrific Tate-LaBianca mass murders orchestrated by the psychotic pseudo-hippie cult leader, Charles Manson.Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders by Vincent Bugliosi
- DirectorPaul VerhoevenStarsRutger HauerJeroen KrabbéSusan PenhaligonDuring World War II, Dutch students join the resistance movement against the German occupation of the Netherlands.Soldier Of Orange by Erik Hazelhoff Roelfzema
- CreatorDavid FarrStarsTom HiddlestonHugh LaurieElizabeth DebickiThe night manager of a Cairo hotel is recruited to infiltrate an arms dealer's inner circle.The Night Manager by John Le Carré
- DirectorTony LuraschiStarsCraig WassonSterling HaydenPatricia QuinnA young American man joins the IRA in Ireland but soon finds out that he is being used for political purposes and propaganda.The Outsider by Colin Leinster
- DirectorAnton CorbijnStarsPhilip Seymour HoffmanRachel McAdamsDaniel BrühlA Chechen Muslim illegally immigrates to Hamburg, where he gets caught in the international war on terror.A Most Wanted Man by John Le Carré
- DirectorChristopher MenaulStarsRutger HauerMiranda RichardsonPeter VaughanIn April 1964, more than twenty years after the Nazis won World War II, S.S. officer Xavier March uncovers a plot to eliminate the attendees of the Wannsee Conference so that Germany can establish better relations with the U.S.Fatherland by Robbert Harris
- StarsJonathan PryceAlexei SayleAlison DoodyThe true story of the biggest fraud in publishing history - the Hitler diaries.Selling Hitler by Robert Harris
- DirectorMarius A. MarkeviciusStarsBel PowleyLisa Loven KongsliMartin WallströmIn 1941, a 16-year-old aspiring artist and her family are deported to Siberia amidst Stalin's brutal dismantling of the Baltic region. One girl's passion for art and her never-ending hope will break the silence of history.Between Shades Of Gray by Ruta Sepetys
- StarsMark RylanceDamian LewisClaire FoyAfter the downfall of Cardinal Wolsey, his secretary, Thomas Cromwell, finds himself amongst the treachery and intrigue of King Henry VIII's court and soon becomes a close advisor to the King, a role fraught with danger.Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
- DirectorSaul DibbStarsMichelle WilliamsKristin Scott ThomasMargot RobbieDuring the early years of German occupation of France in World War II, romance blooms between Lucile Angellier (Michelle Williams), a French villager, and Lieutenant Bruno von Falk (Matthias Schoenaerts), a German soldier.Suite Française by Irène Némirovsky
- StarsJoe McFaddenBill PatersonPeter CapaldiAn adaption of Iain Banks' dark novel, whose central character is a young Scots history student.The Crow Road by Iain Banks
- DirectorGavin MillarStarsJonny Lee MillerBrian CoxKeeley HawesCameron Colley is a young scottish journalist, with an interest in exposing the wrongs committed by the rich and powerful. Life is comfortable enough but uneventful, until someone starts murdering the people in his articles.Complicity by Iain Banks
- DirectorEdward HallStarsMichelle DockeryMichael Peter WillisCharlotte RamplingA young woman finds out that her mother worked as a spy for the British Secret Service during World War II and has been on the run ever since.Restless by William Boyd
- StarsIan McShaneMatthew MacfadyenEddie RedmayneSet against a backdrop of war, religious strife and power struggles which tears lives and families apart.The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett
- StarsBen ChaplinCharlotte RileyNora WaldstättenThe English town of Kingsbridge works to survive as the King leads the nation into the Hundred Years' War with France while Europe deals with the outbreak of the Black Death.World Without End by Ken Follett
- DirectorJon JonesStarsDaniel CraigYekaterina RednikovaGabriel MachtA British college professor, working in Russia, investigates certain mysteries surrounding the life and death of Joseph Stalin.Archangel by Robert Harris
- DirectorJonathan TeplitzkyStarsColin FirthNicole KidmanStellan SkarsgårdA former British Army officer, who was tortured as a prisoner of war at a Japanese labor camp during World War II, discovers that the man responsible for much of his treatment is still alive and sets out to confront him.The Railway Man by Eric Lomax
- StarsAneurin BarnardRebecca FergusonAmanda HaleThree different, yet equally relentless women vie for the throne in 15th-century England.The White Queen by Philippa Gregory
- StarsDavid TennantJanet MontgomeryMarcin DorocinskiA military attaché at the French embassy is drawn into a world of abduction, betrayal and intrigue in the diplomatic salons and back alleys of Warsaw.Spies of Warsaw by Alan Furst
- DirectorGeorge Roy HillStarsMichael SacksRon LeibmanEugene RocheBilly Pilgrim has mysteriously become unstuck in time. He goes on an uncontrollable trip back and forth from his birth in New York to life on a distant planet and back again to the horrors of the 1945 fire-bombing of Dresden.Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
- DirectorRichard MarquandStarsDonald SutherlandKate NelliganStephen MacKennaA ruthless German spy, trying to get out of Britain with vital information about D-Day, must spend time with a young woman and her crippled husband.Eye Of The Needle by Ken Follett
- StarsTamara LawranceHayley AtwellAyesha AntoineAn adaptation of the award-winning novel by Andrea Levy. Set during the final days of slavery in 19th century Jamaica, following the trials, tribulations and survival of July and her odious mistress Caroline on a sugar plantation.The Long Song by Andrea Levy
- StarsNaomie HarrisHugh QuarshieRuth WilsonA gentle Jamaican woman reunited with her husband in post-World War II London encounters both racism and homesickness as she adjusts to her new life.Small Island by Andrea Levy
- DirectorBaz LuhrmannStarsLeonardo DiCaprioCarey MulliganJoel EdgertonA writer and wall street trader, Nick Carraway, finds himself drawn to the past and lifestyle of his mysterious millionaire neighbor, Jay Gatsby, amid the riotous parties of the Jazz Age.The Great Gatsby by Scott F. Fitzgerald
- DirectorRonald NeameStarsMaggie SmithGordon JacksonRobert StephensAn eccentric Scottish schoolteacher's extravagantly romantic ideas about life--and love--overly impress her young pupils and bring her into conflict with her school's conservative headmistress.The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark
- DirectorJohn FrankenheimerStarsMichael CaineAnthony AndrewsVictoria TennantThe son of a German General becomes part of a mysterious conspiracy to gain hidden Nazi funds.The Holcroft Covenant by Robert Ludlum
- DirectorCarol ReedStarsAlec GuinnessMaureen O'HaraBurl IvesJim Wormold, who is a vacuum cleaner salesman, participates as an Agent in the British Secret Service. But he soon realizes that his plans by lying are going to get him into trouble.Our Man in Havana by Graham Greene
- DirectorSam WoodStarsGary CooperIngrid BergmanAkim TamiroffDuring the Spanish Civil War, an American allied with the Republicans finds romance during a desperate mission to blow up a strategically important bridge.For Whom the Bell Tolls by Earnest Hemingway
- DirectorFrank BorzageStarsGary CooperHelen HayesAdolphe MenjouAn American ambulance driver and an English nurse fall in love in Italy during World War I.A Farewell to Arms by Earnest Hemingway
- DirectorJohn FordStarsHenry FondaJane DarwellJohn CarradineAn Oklahoma family, driven off their farm by the poverty and hopelessness of the Dust Bowl, joins the westward migration to California, suffering the misfortunes of the homeless in the Great Depression.The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
- DirectorJoy BatchelorJohn HalasStarsGordon HeathMaurice DenhamA successful farmyard revolution by the resident animals vs. the farmer goes horribly wrong when the victors create a new tyranny among themselves.Animal Farm by George Orwell
- DirectorGary SiniseStarsJohn MalkovichGary SiniseRay WalstonA nomadic farm worker looks after his dimwitted, gentle-giant friend during the Great Depression.Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
- DirectorVolker SchlöndorffStarsDustin HoffmanKate ReidJohn MalkovichAn aging traveling salesman recognizes the emptiness of his life and tries to fix it.Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller
- DirectorBaz LuhrmannStarsLeonardo DiCaprioClaire DanesJohn LeguizamoShakespeare's famous play is updated to the hip modern suburb of Verona still retaining its original dialogue.Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare
- DirectorTerence DaviesStarsKen BlackburnMark BonnarStuart BowmanThe daughter of a Scottish farmer comes of age in the early 1900s.Sunset Song by Lewis Grassic Gibbon
- DirectorTerence YoungStarsChristopher PlummerRomy SchneiderTrevor HowardDuring WW2, convicted bank robber Eddie Chapman becomes a triple agent working for both the British and the Germans.Agent Zigzag: A True Story of Nazi Espionage, Love, and Betrayal by Ben Macintyre
- DirectorJohn SturgesFred ZinnemannStarsSpencer TracyFelipe PazosHarry BellaverAn old Cuban fisherman's dry spell is broken when he hooks a gigantic fish that drags him out to sea.The Old Man and the Sea by Earnest Hemingway
- DirectorBob FosseStarsLiza MinnelliMichael YorkHelmut GriemA female girlie club entertainer in Weimar Republic era Berlin romances two men while the Nazi Party rises to power around them.Goodbye To Berlin by Christopher Isherwood
- DirectorDanny BoyleStarsEwan McGregorEwen BremnerJonny Lee MillerRenton, deeply immersed in the Edinburgh drug scene, tries to clean up and get out despite the allure of drugs and the influence of friends.Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh
- DirectorDanny BoyleStarsEwan McGregorEwen BremnerJonny Lee MillerAfter 20 years abroad, Mark Renton returns to Scotland and reunites with his old friends Sick Boy, Spud, and Begbie.Porno by Irvine Welsh
- DirectorMichael AptedStarsWilliam HurtLee MarvinBrian DennehyA Moscow police officer investigates a vicious triple homicide and stumbles upon a high-level international political conspiracy.Gorky Park by Martin Cruz Smith
- StarsJohn DuttineEmma RelphMaurice ColbourneWhen a comet blinds nearly everyone in the world, a genetically-engineered species of plant takes over.The Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham
- DirectorBen EltonHugh LaurieStarsHugh LaurieJoely RichardsonMatthew MacfadyenA comedy about a couple (Hugh Laurie and Joely Richardson) who are trying to conceive a child.Inconceivable by Ben Elton
- StarsColin FrielsBen EltonDerrick O'ConnorIn the near future, the greenhouse effect has plunged the world into recession, and the unscrupulous Stark Corporation is making as much money as it can from the crisis.Stark by Ben Elton
- DirectorPeter SheridanStarsShawn HatosyDanny DyerEamon GlancyIrish teenager political activist and future writer Brendan Behan is befriended in a British borstal (reformatory) by a liberal warden.Borstal Boy by Brendan Behan
- DirectorJon S. BairdStarsJames McAvoyJamie BellEddie MarsanA corrupt, junkie cop with bipolar disorder attempts to manipulate his way through a promotion in order to win back his wife and daughter while also fighting his own inner demons.Filth by Irvine Welsh
- CreatorIrvine WelshDean CavanaghStarsDougray ScottJoanna VanderhamKen StottWhen an Edinburgh schoolgirl is abducted, DI Ray Lennox investigates her disappearance whilst confronting his own past trauma.Crime by Irvine Welsh
- CreatorLuke DaviesDavid MichôdStarsChristopher AbbottKyle ChandlerDaniel David StewartLimited series adaptation of the classic Joseph Heller novel. Follows Captain John Yossarian and airmen in World War II.Catch 22 by Joseph Heller