Britische Romanverfilmungen

Foundling Heathcliff is raised by the wealthy Earnshaws in Yorkshire but in later life launches a vendetta against the family.

Colin and Mary retreat to Venice to work on their relationship, but an encounter with lyrical local bar owner Robert and his odd, sexually frank wife Caroline leads them into a world of intrigue where their darkest desires are in reach.

After a rich Edwardian widow impulsively marries a handsome but poor Tuscan dentist and dies in childbirth, her English in-laws try to gain custody of the baby.

Cultural mistrust and false accusations doom a friendship in British colonial India between an Indian doctor, an Englishwoman engaged to marry a city magistrate, and an English educator.

A bold new adaptation of Wilkie Collins' classic gothic novel.

The Dorrits are a family whose life revolves around the Marshalsea, a debtor's prison. Amy Dorrit's kind nature brings the family into contact with a wide swath of English society, from the poorest to the richest, and back again.

Thirteen-year-old fledgling writer Briony Tallis irrevocably changes the course of several lives when she accuses her older sister's lover of a crime he did not commit.

BBC adaptation of D.H. Lawrence's novel about a sensitive young man growing up in a Nottinghamshire mining community.

The classic Charles Dickens tale of an orphan boy who escapes the horrors of the orphanage only to be taken in by a band of thieves and pickpockets.

A one-woman show based on the writings of Virginia Woolf, the tragic writer who committed suicide in 1941.

A gentle orphan discovers life and love in an indifferent adult world.

Chronicles the pivotal moments in the lives of 9 influential figures during Britain's Edwardian era, including Rolls-Royce founders, authors and royalty's confidants, offering a glimpse into the era's cultural and political landscape.

A humble orphan suddenly becomes a gentleman with the help of an unknown benefactor.

Old Martin Chuzzlewit is nearing his death. Who will inherit his riches? With such a prize to play for, the Chuzzlewit family bring forth all of their cunning, greed and selfishness. Adapted from the novel by Charles Dickens.

Fanny, born into a poor family, is sent away to live with wealthy uncle Sir Thomas, his wife and their four children, where she'll be brought up for a proper introduction to society.

An orphan named Oliver Twist (Sam Smith) meets a pickpocket on the streets of London. From there, he joins a household of boys who are trained to steal for their master.

A servant in the house of Wuthering Heights tells a traveler the unfortunate tale of lovers Cathy and Heathcliff.

A wealthy Paris lawyer facing execution finds a poor prisoner willing to trade places with him in exchange for promising his fortune to the man's family. After his release, he returns to his old home but doesn't reveal his true identity.

In Victorian England, Laura and her half-sister Marian are entwined in a terrifying web of deceit. Laura's doppelganger, a mysterious woman dressed all in white, may hold the key to unlock the mystery.

A young Englishman becomes convinced that his friend and guardian has been murdered by his mysterious second wife.

In the time of Napoleon, Becky Sharp, a poor orphan girl, schemes for money and position. Her most-used stepladder is her old school friend, Amelia Sedley. Both women marry soldiers, and both of them are affected by the Battle of Waterloo.

Set in the early 20th century, class distinctions and troubled relations affect the relationship between two families and the ownership of a cherished British estate known as Howards End.

Bathsheba Everdene, a willful, flirtatious young woman, unexpectedly inherits a large farm and is romantically pursued by three very different men.

A young man with artistic talent lives in a close-knit coal-mining town and finds himself inhibited by his emotionally manipulative mother.

Two best friends fall in love with a pair of women, but the relationships soon go in very different directions.