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Desperate Romantics (2009)
7.6/10
Director: Diarmuid Lawrence
Starring: Tom Hollander, Zoe Tapper, Amy Manson, Samuel Barnett, Rafe Spall, Aidan Turner
London, 1851. The city is in the throes of the industrial revolution. But amongst the dirty red bricks and smoke stacks are four young, thrill-seeking... Read more
The Hanging Gale (1995)
8.1/10
Director: Diarmuid Lawrence
Starring: Paul McGann, Joe McGann, Mark McGann, Stephen McGann, Michael Kitchen, Fiona Vic...
Ireland, 1846. The four Phelan brothers (played by the four McGann brothers) are torn between non-violent protest and bloody revolt when the injustice... Read more
The Mystery of Edwin Drood (2012)
6.8/10
Director: Diarmuid Lawrence
Starring: Ron Cook, Matthew Rhys, Rory Kinnear, Freddie Fox, Tamzin Merchant
Charles Dickens' famously unfinished work receives an intriguing new adaptation with this British miniseries about troubled choirmaster John Jasper (M... Read more
Emma (TV) (1996)
6.7/10
Director: Diarmuid Lawrence
Starring: Kate Beckinsale, Mark Strong, Samantha Morton
This lavish adaptation brings to life all the glorious wit and sharp humour of arguably Jane Austen's finest novel, recreating her most irritatingly e... Read more
Minette Walters: The Echo (1998)
7.5/10
Director: Diarmuid Lawrence
Starring: Joely Richardson, Clive Owen
Mike Deacon, a tough, lone-wolf reporter discovers that things are not quite what they seem when a tramp is found dead in the garage of a beautiful wo... Read more
Little Dorrit (2008)
8.3/10
Director: Diarmuid Lawrence, Dearbhla Walsh, Adam Smith
Starring: Bill Paterson, Judy Parfitt, Tom Courtenay, Andy Serkis, James Fleet, Alun Armst...
Scandalous secrets, strangling bureaucracy, and crippling debts collide in this compelling adaptation of Charles Dickens' weighty novel, which debuted... Read more
The Jane Austen Collection: Emma / Northanger Abbey / Mansfield Park (2007)
Director: Diarmuid Lawrence, Jon Jones, Iain B MacDonald
Starring: Bernard Hepton, Kate Beckinsale, Mark Strong, Prunella Scales, Samantha Morton,...
English production house ITV presents three adaptations of Austen classics. In 'Mansfield Park', poverty-stricken Fanny Price (Billie Piper) is sent a... Read more
By the Sword Divided: Series 1 (1983)
7.6/10
Director: Henry Herbert, Michael Custance, Brian Farnham, Diarmuid Lawrence
Starring: Julian Glover, Andrew MacLachlan, Rob Edwards, Jeremy Clyde, Tim Bentinck, Lucy...
Produced by the BBC, this epic historical drama series is set during the English Civil War and follows the changing loyalties and wrenching conflict w... Read more