It is based on the popular West End stage comedy by Terrence Rattigan. It all begins when Diana (Ellen Drew), the sister of a British boy studying in France, arrives in town to flirt with all of her brothers' schoolmates. Alan (Ray Milland), one of the students, successfully resists Diana's charms-meaning of course that Alan and Diana will be in each other's arms by fadeout time. (AllMovie)

Set before the Battle of Trafalgar, this is the story of relationship between Admiral Lord Nelson and Lady Hamilton during the Napoleonic Wars.

In Praise of Love is the first part of a 1973 double-bill play by the English playwright Terence Rattigan (the second half being Before Dawn, a burlesque of the opera Tosca)- it was the penultimate play he wrote and was inspired by the true-life relationship between Rex Harrison and Kay Kendall and follows her illness and death.

The magnificent Helen Mirren soars through British TV movie Cause Célèbre, a true-life story of a scandalous murder in 1930s England. Soon after Alma Rattenbury (Mirren) hires an 18-year-old named Bowman (David Morrissey) to help around the house, she falls into an affair with the much younger man. Madly in love with her and jealous of her much older husband, Bowman rashly murders the elderly man. When the lovers are put on trial, the tabloids rant less about the murder and more about the sin of Alma's middle-aged passion.

当陷入婚姻倦怠的法官之妻Hester Collyer（海伦•麦克洛瑞饰演）被邻居们发现自杀未遂的时候，她和前皇家空军飞行员Freddie（汤姆•伯克饰演）的婚外恋情以及和丈夫William Collyer感情破裂的事实浮出水面。寂寞、压抑和情感渴求，在二战后虚伪而脆弱的复苏表象背后，有一种残酷的渴望和绝望在燃烧。
该剧为英国舞台剧作家泰伦斯•拉提根（Terence Rattigan）创作于1952年的作品，故事有他自己一段隐秘情事的影子，同年即在英美两国相继上演，此后多次重排，并且被翻拍成影视剧作品，著名版本包括1955年费雯•丽主演的电影版，2011年蕾切尔•薇兹、汤姆•希德勒斯顿和西蒙•拉塞尔•比尔主演的电影版，及1994年科林•费尔斯的电视版，其经典程度可见一斑。
海伦•麦克洛瑞（Helen McCrory）在《美狄亚》和The Last of the Haussmans之后再度回归英国国家剧院！再度与导演凯莉•克拉克奈尔（Carrie Cracknell）导演复排的经典剧目《蔚蓝深海》。
The Deep Blue Sea begins with the discovery by her neighbours of Hester Collyer who has tried and failed to commit suicide. Some time before, she left her husband, a respectable High Court Judge, for a semi-alcoholic former R.A.F. pilot, 'Freddy Page'. The relationship was physical and passionate but his ardour has cooled, leaving her emotionally stranded and desperate. The aftershocks of her attempted suicide unravel even the remnants of this relationship, but by the end she is brought to a hard decision to live, partly through the intercession of another resident of the tenement house, Mr. Miller, an ex-doctor, struck off for what seems to have been a homosexual offence. These two outcasts, socially ostracised for their 'excessive' loves, find a curious and moving kinship.

Hester Collyer is rescued by a neighbor after attempting suicide in the flat she shares with her young lover, ex-RAF pilot Freddie Page. The neighbors alert her husband, who arrives at the flat only to find her fully recovered...

Framed in flashback, The Man Who Loved Redheads is an anecdotal comedy about a man (John Justin) whose life is defined by his first romantic experience. That liaison occurred in Justin's youth, when the young man matures and enters the diplomatic world, he spends the rest of his career searching for his first love.

Early 20th century England: while toasting his daughter Catherine's engagement, Arthur Winslow learns the royal naval academy expelled his 14-year-old son, Ronnie, for stealing five shillings. Father asks son if it is true; when the lad denies it, Arthur risks fortune, health, domestic peace, and Catherine's prospects to pursue justice.

A woman is unhappy in her marriage to a boring, stiff judge, so she takes up with a wild-living RAF pilot, who ends up being more than she can handle.

A flat in Ladbroke Grove, West London. 1952.
When Hester Collyer is found by her neighbours in the aftermath of a failed suicide attempt, the story of her tempestuous affair with a former RAF pilot and the breakdown of her marriage to a High Court judge begins to emerge.
With it comes a portrait of need, loneliness and long-repressed passion. Behind the fragile veneer of post-war civility burns a brutal sense of loss and longing.