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Inspired by his love for Dashiell Hammett novels, nightclub comedian Eddie Ginley puts an ad in the paper as a private eye The case he gets turns out to be a strange setup and as he digs to the bottom of it his lif

Ex private dancer Beth aspires to be a Las Vegas cocktail waitress, when she falls in with Dink, a sports gambler Sparks fly as she proves to be something of a gambling prodigy much to the ire of Dinks wife, Tulip

The story of Florence Foster Jenkins, a New York heiress who dreamed of becoming an opera singer, despite having a terrible singing voice

After the death of Princess Diana, Queen Elizabeth II struggles with her reaction to a sequence of events nobody could have predicted

An Irish sports journalist becomes convinced that Lance Armstrongs performances during the Tour de France victories are fueled by banned substances With this conviction, he starts hunting for evidence that will exp

Set in Ireland, Sharon Curley is a 20 year old living with her parents and many brothers and sisters When she gets herself pregnant and refuses to name the father, she becomes the talk of

A small time conman has torn loyalties between his estranged mother and new girlfriend, both of whom are high stakes grifters with their own angles to play

A young newspaper writer returns to her hometown in the English countryside, where her childhood home is being prepped for sale

A young newspaper writer returns to her hometown in the English countryside, where her childhood home is being prepped for sale

Cold War tensions climb to a fever pitch when a U S bomber is accidentally ordered to drop a nuclear warhead on Moscow

Queen Victoria strikes up an unlikely friendship with a young Indian clerk named Abdul Karim

A housemaid falls in love with Dr Henry Jekyll and his darkly mysterious counterpart, Mr Edward Hyde

A world weary political journalist picks up the story of a womans search for her son, who was taken away from her decades ago after she became pregnant and was forced to live in a convent

British Liberal Party leader Jeremy Thorpe is accused of conspiracy to murder his gay ex lover and forced to stand trial in 1979

An amateur historian defies the stodgy academic establishment in her efforts to find King Richard IIIs remains, which were lost for over 500 years

Alis biggest match, his fight with the US government A film about the politics and hubris surrounding the Vietnam War and the revenge exacted on Americas greatest sportsman of the 20th century because he refused to

Irregular migrants Okwe and Senay work at a posh London hotel and live in constant fear of deportation One night Okwe stumbles across evidence of a bizarre murder, setting off a series of events that could lead to

Laura Henderson Dame Judi Dench buys an old London theater and opens it up as the Windmill, a performance hall which goes down in history for, amongst other things, its all nude revues

The son of a courtesan retreats into a fantasy world after being forced to end his relationship with the older woman who educated him in the ways of love

One hot June day, three friends decide there is nothing they would like to do more than to get away from London A boating holiday with lots of fresh air and exercise would be just the very thing, or so their doctor

When 20 years old Sharon announces that she is pregnant but refuses to tell who the father is, her tight knit Irish family struggles to cope with the news

An ambitious Pakistani Briton and his white boyfriend strive for success and hope when they open a glamorous laundromat

A not so nice man rescues passengers from a crashed airliner, only to see someone else take credit

A housemaid falls in love with Dr Henry Jekyll and his darkly mysterious counterpart, Mr Edward Hyde

Two cowboys have their friendship tested when they fall for the same girl

Biographer John Lahr is writing a book about playwright Joe Orton Joe and Kenneth meet at drama school and live together for ten years as lovers and collaborators Both want to be writers, but only one of them is su

Ten years after ratting on his old mobster friends in exchange for personal immunity, two hit men drive a hardened criminal to Paris for his execution However, while on the way, whatever can go wrong, does go wrong

Rob, a record store owner and compulsive list maker, recounts his top five breakups, including the one in progress

Shes chic, slim and sexy like Brigitte Bardot Shes French But shes not all French women, right

Set in the fictional Dublin suburb of Barrytown, Bimbo is a baker who loses his job after being made redundant Bimbo then acquires the help of his best friend, Larry, to set up a successful burger van

A scheming widow and her manipulative ex lover make a bet regarding the corruption of a recently married woman