Adrian Shergold
1) Early Doors
Publisher
BBC Studios
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Comedy set in The Grapes, an old-fashioned Manchester pub where the daily life of the locals - among them jack-the-lads Joe and Duffy, beer-bellied landlord Ken and his police officer cronies Phil and Nige, miserable old git Tommy and single mum Janice - revolves around love, loneliness and blocked urinals. The regulars rib each other and discuss the minutiae of everyday life, each bringing their own faults and foibles with them to the bar.
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Albert Pierrepoint (Timothy Spall) finds great success as Britain's most famous public executioner and his notoriety rises to a new level after he is selected to hang Nazi war criminals after the Nuremberg trials. The experience changes him, and he begins to question the morality of his vocation at the same time that abolitionists begin a campaign to end hanging.
Publisher
Hart Sharp
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
A darkly funny, quirky, and poignant story of a man with obsessive-compulsive disorder and Tourette syndrome negotiating his way through divorce, his friend's matchmaking efforts, and a woman who introduces him to therapy, filth, and unconditional love.
4) Persuasion
Publisher
BBC Studios
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
At the age of nineteen, Anne Elliot fell deeply in love with handsome young naval officer Frederick Wentworth. But with neither fortune nor rank to recommend him, Anne's family were against the match and persuaded her to break off the engagement. Now twenty-seven, Anne has lived to regret her decision. She has never stopped loving Wentworth, and when he returns from sea having made his fortune and reputation, she can only watch as every eligible young...
5) Vera
Publisher
Distributed by Acorn Media
Language
English
Description
Follows a solitary, obsessed, cantankerous investigator-- who happens to be pure genius at her job.
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
With her English accent and her London ways, Rose Coyne is the only 'stranger' in her rural Northern Ireland town, until 4,000 Americans arrive at the nearby WWII airbase. As Rose finds herself acting as peacekeeper between the disgruntled locals and the soldiers, she is also drawn to the engaging young Captain Dreyfuss. Will Rose risk her family for this forbidden love?