Classic books are considered with a fresh eye. Returning to the authors’ original manuscripts and letters, expert writers and performers bring their personal insights to these great works.

In 1939, boy-wonder Orson Welles leaves New York, where he has succeeded in radio and theater, and, hired by RKO Pictures, moves to Hollywood with the purpose of making his…

At the Castle of Gormenghast, the Groan family has ruled with dusty ceremony for more than seventy generations. A clever and ambitious new kitchen boy, Steerpike, begins to insinuate himself…

In 1840s England, palaeontologist Mary Anning and a young woman sent by her husband to convalesce by the sea develop an intense relationship. Despite the chasm between their social spheres…

Sylvia’s work increasingly takes her away from the three men who help bring up Mary, her daughter. When she decides to move to England and take Mary with her, the…

For want of a nail a shoe was lost, for want of a shoe… a young man’s life is almost lost, which is exactly what this film is all about:…

The story of Captain Richard Francis Burton’s and Lt. John Hanning Speke’s expedition to find the source of the Nile river in the name of Queen Victoria’s British Empire. The…

Jane Eyre is an orphan cast out as a young girl by her aunt, Mrs. Reed, and sent to be raised in a harsh charity school for girls. There she…

Gray Wheeler just lost everything. But it could be the best thing that ever happened to her. After the death of her fiancé, Gray moves in with her late love’s…

Massachusetts, 1892. An unmarried woman of 32 and a social outcast, Lizzie lives a claustrophobic life under her father’s cold and domineering control. When Bridget Sullivan, a young maid, comes…

When her boyfriend Ben suddenly dies in an accident, mother-to-be Charlotte collapses upon receiving the news. She wakes up in Ben’s family home, a crumbling old manor house in the…

After the sudden dying of ex-Secret Intelligence Service man Alexander, his spouse Alison investigates when mysteries from her husband’s previous come knocking.

French novelist, Colette, overcomes an abusive marriage to emerge as a primary writer in her nation and a candidate for the Nobel Prize in Literature.

A safety advisor hunts for a ruthless murderer. Primarily based on the Villanelle novellas by Luke Jennings.

When fun-loving American brokers Dennis Quaid and Kathleen Turner are known back from maternity leave for a particular mission in New Orleans, the spy parents opt to bypass the sitter…

Mario and Luigi, plumbers from Brooklyn, discover themselves in an alternate universe the place developed dinosaurs stay in hi-tech squalor. They’re the one hope to save lots of our universe…

Anna is a wife and mom with an affair with the handsome Count Vronsky. Depending on the book by Tolstoy.

British Ministry representative John Steed, under leadership from “Mother”, investigates a diabolical plot by arch-villain Sir August de Wynter to dominate the entire world with his weather control system. Steed…

Lee Blanchard and Bucky Bleichert are former boxers-turned-cops in 1940s Los Angeles and, when an aspiring younger actress turns up lifeless, Blanchard and Bleichert should grapple with corruption, narcissism, stag…

A vain London play boy offers his spirit in exchange for eternal beauty in this version of this frightening story by author Oscar Wilde. Seduced to the world of Lord…

Teacher Linda Sinclair balances her staid dwelling life with an unbelievable ardour for her topic, however her routine is endlessly altered when a former star pupil and his unsupportive father…

Djata can be actually a care free 12-yearold growing up at a brutal dictatorship closed down by the surface world. After the federal government imprisons his dad, Peter, along with…

Disgraced poet Ted Wallace has been summoned into some close friend’s country man or to explore a number of unexplained wonders.