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A story of a woman who is torn between two men in post World War II London.
Hallelujah Anyhow
When local pastor Adlyn meets and falls in love again with her old childhood sweetheart, she is forced to make an agonising choice between her faith and family and her heart.
Korczak
The last days of life of the legendary Polish pedagogue Dr. Janusz Korczak and his heroic dedication to protecting Jewish orphans in the Warsaw Ghetto.
Fellow Traveller
1950s Hollywood: the McCarthy senate committee is conducting a witch-hunt for supposed communists in the entertainment industry and betrayal is in the air. For three friends this proves to be a disaster - for the writer who must work incognito for the emerging ITV in England; for the musician now living in England, a painful renewal of old wounds; and for the star a final performance.
102 Boulevard Haussmann
In 1916 author Marcel Proust is leading a reclusive life in Paris. He hires a quartet of musicians and befriends one of them, a wounded serviceman.
A Private Life
Jack and Stella were unable to marry in South Africa because she was classified as coloured. They persevere by living together in a mixed neighbourhood, but their son Paul will suffer when he is unable to marry his white girlfriend Andrea.
The Laughter of God
Husband and wife are stuck in a loveless marriage because of their kids. They cheat and fantasize about murdering each-other. When an ancient tomb is discovered nearby, one of them gets an idea.
Morphine and Dolly Mixtures
A girl's childhood in the 1950s with her brutal alcoholic father.
Do Not Disturb
When Jenny and Bruce Coldfield bring a curious party of enthusiasts to a remote Norfolk village to visit the hidden world of ghost story writer Eleanor Mont other forces start to stir.
Dreaming
McIlvanney's reworking of his short story, from "Walking Wounded" (Hodder and Stoughton, 1989). Sammy Nelson envisions 'alternatives' to the realities of his day, as he moves from home to Job Centre to home again.
They Never Slept
When plucky Corporal Pru Merriman reports to her superiors, she is catapulted into the murky world of the French Resistance.
Aimée
A white Mercedes, the English countryside, a cathedral city, a haunted figure at the wheel with an overnight bag in the boot. Frank Summers has run away from a career as a fabulously successful rock promoter and an anguished private life. Now he's facing the hardest of all moral choices - a life or death decision which is to have a shattering impact on the lives of new friends who offer shelter, and on the new arrival on the seemingly tranquil scene.