Two aging sisters befriend a mysterious foreigner who washes up on the beach of their 1930’s Cornish seaside village. Although one of them feels an unfamiliar spark of infatuation for the handsome young musician, propriety suggests the attraction must remain unspoken.
Some British retirees decide to outsource their retirement to exotic, and less expensive, India. Less luxurious than advertised, the Marigold Hotel nevertheless slowly begins to charm in unexpected ways.
Now that The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel is full up with its long-term residents, co-managers Muriel Donnelly and Sonny Kapoor have a dream of expansion, and they’;;ve found just the place: The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel. As his marriage to Sunaina, the love of his life, quickly approaches, Sonny finds his plans for the […]
A world-weary political journalist picks up the story of an Irish woman’;s search for her son, who was taken away from her decades ago after she became pregnant and was forced to live in a convent.
New York City bibliophile Helene Hanff (Anne Bancroft) writes to the London bookshop Marks & Co in search of some titles she has not been able to turn up locally, beginning their two-decade romance via correspondence.
When tragedy strikes close to home, 16-year-old Jacob ‘Jake’ Portman is forced to travel to an island in Wales and uncovers a secret refuge known as Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children. As he learns about the residents and their unusual abilities, Jake realizes that safety is an illusion, and danger lurks in the form […]
One evening, middle-aged schoolteacher Jean Travers, who has never married, invites her friends for a dinner party and ends up with befriending with a mysterious young man. The next morning, the young man returns to see her and suddenly kills himself while waiting for tea. From that moment, Jean’s life begins to turn up-side-down while […]
Queen Victoria strikes up an unlikely friendship with a young Indian clerk named Abdul Karim.
Dames Eileen Atkins, Judi Dench, Joan Plowright and Maggie Smith have let the cameras in on a friendship that goes back more than half a century. The four acting greats discuss their …
The story of Joan Stanley, who was exposed as the KGBs longest-serving British spy.
A tribe of cats called the Jellicles must decide yearly which one will ascend to the Heaviside Layer and come back to a new Jellicle life.
Summer 1939. Influential families in Nazi Germany have sent their daughters to a finishing school in an English seaside town to learn the language and be ambassadors for a future looking …
A spiritualist medium holds a seance for a writer suffering from writers block but accidentally summons the spirit of his deceased first wife, which leads to an increasingly complex love triangle with his current wife of five years.
Now in their 50’s, four friends recreate an inter-rail journey across Europe, but this time 18-year-old Maddie is taking her mother’s place, fulfilling her dying wish. With lost passports, train strikes and romantic entanglements thrown in their way, they must put old feuds aside to complete the journey within five days and remind themselves that […]