Patricia Hodge

When Joan’s husband dies, she is shocked to discover he had invented an elixir which makes the drinker look young again. Sharing it with her two friends, the three women paint the town red but soon discover that they are no longer equipped to be young in the modern world.

Antoine Verlaque, Investigating Judge in Aix-en Provence with his romantic partner Marine Bonnet investigates the murders, mysteries, and dark underbelly of their idyllic home in the south of France. (imdb)

A married couple on the brink of disillusion allows a stranger to live with them in their idyllic cottage. Will this stranger push their fragile state over the edge? (imdb)

Two sisters and their families spend - or rather, endure - Christmas at their late parents' dilapidated country house. (imdb)

British politician Jeremy Thorpe is accused of conspiracy to murder his ex-lover and is forced to stand trial in 1979. (imdb)

Miranda is a clumsy woman who lives upstairs from her work. While her friend Stevie has a hard time coping with her at work. (imdb)

Robert Maxwell's world is collapsing. Cracks are appearing in his multi-billion business empire, his marriage is in difficulties and his weight has ballooned dangerously. He owns some of the world's best known media companies - Macmillan Publishing; the New York Daily News and the Daily Mirror. But his obsession with both power and his great rival, Rupert Murdoch, is causing his downfall. With time running out he retreats to the heart of his web and sets about saving his skin. (Google Video)

Twenty years ago, Britain went to war to regain the Falkland Islands. The Falklands Play is a gripping account of how Margaret Thatcher's government handled the biggest crisis in British foreign affairs since Suez. (imdb)

Dr. Lauren Graham (Gina Gershon), a psychologist from America staying in Prague for a conference, falls in love with Czech writer Jiri Kolmar (Rade Serbedzija), whose family suffered through Nazi concentration camps for opposing popular political views. As Lauren learns more about her own roots, she discovers her family is hiding some awful secrets that could jeopardize her relationship with Jiri. (Netflix)

Successful playwright Felix Webb has a new play, 'The Hit Man', in rehearsal. Directed by his old friend Humphrey, it is already being hailed as a masterpiece; but Felix can't enjoy his success. He has fallen passionately in love with Hilary, a beautiful, fiesty young actress, and is preparing to desert his perfect family, his wife Elena and three lively children. His intolerable situation is further complicated when Humphrey casts Hilary as one of the leads in 'The Hit Man'. (imdb)

Joanna once was married to Carl May, a very rich and powerful nuclear energy magnate. They love each other, but had to divorce after Joanna was caught on an incidental love affair. Since then Carl has made Joanna's life impossible. 10 years later she's fed up with the situation and decides to visit him, only to find that once he made three copies of her. (imdb)

When the man who left a package in his care is found murdered, detective Tim Diamond suddenly has every major gangster in the city after him. With only the package and the help of his little brother, Diamond sets out to unravel the mysterious plot. (imdb)

Ruth has everything. A large, warty body, a standard house in the suburbs, two whiney children, a dog, a cat and a guinea pig. She also has Bobo, her unfaithful accountant husband who resents her very existence. Bobo wants, and is wanted by, Mary Fisher. Mary Fisher lives in a lighthouse by the sea and writes about love. When Bobo leaves Ruth for the novelist, she decides that Mary Fisher doesn't know the first thing about love. Ruth intends to teach her.

Pinter's semi-autobiographical play examining the surprise attraction, shy first steps, gradual flowering... (imdb)

The life and times of Quentin Crisp, an outrageous and flamboyant homosexual, coming of age and growing into old age in conservative England. (imdb)