Christopher Menaul

Christopher Menaul
Total Credits at Criticker: 18 (Director), 1 (Writer)
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Fatherland
Fictional account of what might have happend if Hitler had won the war. It is now the 1960s and Germany's war crimes have so far been kept a secret. Hitler wants to talk peace with the US president. An American journalist and a German homicide cop stumble into a plot to destroy all evidence of the genocide. (imdb)
The Forsyte Saga
In Victorian England, Soames Forsyte, a man from a wealthy and arrogant family, meets a falls in love with Irene Herron, a poor woman. After taking her step-mother's advice, Irene marries Soames. After four years of marriage, Irene is not happy because she does not love him... (imdb)
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Secret Smile
When Miranda (Kate Ashfield) Splits up with her creepy boyfriend Brendan (David Tennant) because he attacked her she finds out that he is now going out with her sister Kerry (Claire Goose) and later proposes to her. Miranda warns her sister, as Brendan swims his way into their family ruining peoples lives. This drama story turns into a Ultimate Terror Twist. (imdb)
Saddam\
A look at the life and crimes of Saddam Hussein through the eyes of his family.
See No Evil: The Moors Murders
A vivid drama that documents the notorious "Moors murderers", Ian Brady and Myra Hindley. (imdb)
Prime Suspect
Prime Suspect (1991) - TV Mini-Series
A female police detective investigates a series of serial murders while dealing with sexist hostility from her male comrades.
The Passion of Ayn Rand
The novelist Ayn Rand engaged in an affair with a psychologist 25 years her junior by the name of Nathaniel Branden. Branden built up an institute to spread Rand's ideas, but the two eventually had a falling out. This is the story of the affair, based on the book by Branden's wife, Barbara. (Martin Lewison)
One Kill
One Kill (2000) - TV Movie
A female Marine officer begins an affair with a more senior officer. Things take a nasty turn and the events lead to the female officer killing her lover.
A Dangerous Man: Lawrence After Arabia
Lawrence and Feisal go to argue for Arab independence at the 1919 Paris Peace Conference. (imdb)
Above Suspicion
Young Detective Constable Anna Travis joins the team led by DCI Langton to investigate a series of gruesome murders of young women,which first began eight years previously.
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1st Night
Adam is a rich industrialist, who aspires to a more cultured world. Spurred on by playful jibes that he is little more than a city suit living the capitalist's dream, this frustrated amateur opera singer decides to throw an opera in his lavish country retreat. Once his friends see him belting out the notes, he feels sure it will spell the end to their shallow taunts...
Summer in February
A true tale of love, liberty and scandal amongst the Edwardian artists' colony of 1913 Cornwall. (imdb)
+9
The Suspicions of Mr Whicher: The Murder in Angel Lane
Whicher,retired from the police after his failure to solve the Road Hill House case,encounters Susan Spencer in a rough tavern,seeking her niece Mary,who came to London to find Stephen Gann,father of her baby. Soon afterwards Mary is found slain and the child missing and Whicher offers to help Susan find the killer. The baby is located at a home for unwed mothers,run by Reverend Marlow,who believes Mary went after Stephen,who rejected her. Whicher learns that Stephen's father was hung for murder (imdb)
+5
Feast of July
After an abandoned young woman in late 19th Century England is taken in by a rural couple with three handsome sons, tragic consequences result. (imdb)
Belonging
Belonging (2004) - TV Movie
Middle-aged Jess Copplestone is left to look after the elderly relatives of her husband Jacob and to make a new life for herself, after he leaves her for a younger woman.
Killing Jesus
A miniseries chronicling the life of Jesus of Nazareth. (imdb)
Another Mother\
Based on the true story of Louisa Gould, the drama is set during World War II on the Nazi-occupied island of Jersey. Lou took in an escaped Russian POW and hid him over the war's course. The tension mounts as it becomes clear that Churchill will not risk an assault to recapture the British soil, and the island-community spirit begins to fray under pressures of hunger, occupation and divided loyalty. (imdb)
+11
Zen
Zen (2011) - TV Mini-Series
The adventures of Italian Police Commissioner Aurelio Zen. Based on the Aurelio Zen detective novels by Michael Dibdin.