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Planespotting (2005)
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Television drama based on a true story about a group of planespotters wrongly accused of being spies. 14 planespotters are arrested for behaving 'suspiciously' at an air base in Greece and are accused of being spies because of the telescopes, radio scanners and aircraft serial numbers they have in their possession. They plead their innocence but the farce turns into a nightmare when the group are held in squalid Greek prisons.

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State of Mind (2003)
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Reeling from the discovery of her husband's adultery, Grace moves back to her family home with her son. Amidst all this emotional turmoil, forensic psychologist Grace is asked by police to determine the guilt or innocence a man who killed his wife.

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The Suspicions of Mr Whicher: The Murder in Angel Lane (2013)
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other title: 威彻尔先生的猜疑:天使巷的凶手 / 威彻尔先生的猜疑 第二部
Crime drama featuring the pioneering 19th-century detective Jack Whicher. After leaving the Metropolitan Police, Whicher saves a respectable country lady from a violent robbery in a dangerous quarter of London. Susan Spencer is desperately hunting for her vulnerable niece Mary, who came to London in search of Stephen Gann, the young man who had made her pregnant. Susan commissions Jack Whicher as a private inquiry agent to find her niece and the young man. Soon, Whicher is irresistibly drawn into a disturbing and puzzling murder case, bringing him up against wealthy and powerful figures and throwing him into conflict with his former colleagues in the Metropolitan police. The investigation leads to a private lunatic asylum where Whicher himself must confront the darkness of his own demons.

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好工作/Nice Work (1989)
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根据David Lodge同名小说改编的BBC4集电视剧。 Dr Robyn Penrose is a lecturer in English at Rummidge University. Vic Wilcox is the Managing Director of Pringle's, an engineering firm in Rummidge. They meet when Robyn is told by her Head of Department to "shadow" Vic as part of Industry Year. They are initially hostile to each other but gradually come to understand each other's point of view.

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Feast of July (1995)
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other title: 情定七月天
本剧根据H.E. Bates 同名小说改编。《窗外有蓝天》、《此情可问天》、《长日将尽》原班制作搭档再一经典之作! 这是一段发生在十九世纪末叶英格兰的爱情故事,一位女子无意中介入一家人的生活,并出人意料地决定嫁给其中的儿子。 但是,无法逃避的过去始终缠绕着她,曾经山盟海誓而最终弃她而去的情人又来到了她的身边,他的出现引起了一连串的事件……

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Summer in February (2013)
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★ 5.1 11 ratings
other title: 二月之夏
The film will start shooting in January. Jonathan Smith adapted from his own novel and Christopher Menual (Prime Suspect) will direct. The story is about the bohemian artists group Lamorna at the start of the 20th century, including a love triangle that plays out on the Cornish coast.

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Another Mother's Son (2017)
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other title: 他人之子
根据路易莎·古尔德(Louisa Gould)的真实故事改编。二战期间,位于英吉利海峡的泽西群岛(Jersey)是纳粹德国唯一占领的英国领土,希特勒命令不在岛上出生的英国家庭均被流放德国,而欧洲大陆的战俘则被带到该岛强制劳动。路易莎作为岛上居民,战争中拯救了出逃的俄国战俘。尽管在得知战争中英国不会冒险优先夺回该岛后,岛上的居民在饥饿和恐惧中变得日益焦躁,但路易莎依然不改初心,保护自己拯救的俄国男孩,并将他视若己出。

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主要嫌疑犯1:致命代价 (1991)
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★ 8.8 12 ratings
other title: Prime Suspect / 首席嫌疑犯 …
D.C.I. Jane Tennison is a skilled, top-class detective, battling to prove herself in a male world. While investigating a murder, her strength of character and skills as a detective are put to the test as she exposes a cover-up within the force. And when a second murder victim is discovered, the inquiry turns into a grisly investigation stretching back over ten years.

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Great Performances - A Dangerous Man: Lawrence After Arabia (1992)
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★ 7.7 6 ratings
other title: 一个危险的男人:阿拉伯的劳伦斯 / 人性的邪恶 …
In 1919, the great English military man T. E. Lawrence tries to help Emir Feisal, ruler of Arabia, retain his political power during the Conference of Peace in Paris.

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Fatherland (1994)
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★ 6.8 5 ratings
other title: 祖国 / 假想于二战之后 …
Fictional account of what might have happened if Hitler had won the war. It is now the 1960s and Germany's war crimes have so far been kept a secret. Hitler wants to talk peace with the US president. An American journalist and a German homicide cop stumble into a plot to destroy all evidence of the genocide.