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- StarsArthur HughesAnthony BoyleRuby Ashbourne SerkisDuring the dissolution of the monasteries in the Tudor era, Matthew Shardlake is sent by Thomas Cromwell to investigate the death of a commissioner in a remote town of Scarnsea.
- StarsDamian LewisMark RylanceRavi MultaniFollows Cromwell's life during the last four years, completing his transformation from a self-made man to the most powerful and feared person of his era.
- CreatorCharley MilesStarsEsme Creed-MilesÉanna HardwickeMirren MackIris paints dolls for a living, alongside her twin sister. When she meets Silas, and then Louis, she is offered an opportunity to escape and start a new life - but to do so, she must abandon her sister.
- DirectorKarim AïnouzStarsAlicia VikanderEddie MarsanJude LawKatherine Parr, the sixth wife of King Henry VIII, is named regent while the tyrant battles abroad. When the king returns, increasingly ill and paranoid, Katherine finds herself fighting for her own survival.
- DirectorNick HammStarsJonah Hauer-KingRafe SpallBen KingsleyThe narrative unfolds in the 14th Century amidst the days of the Holy Roman Empire where Europe's nations fiercely vie for supremacy and the ambitious Austrians, desiring more land, encroach upon Switzerland, a serene and pastoral nation.
- CreatorHenri HelmanAlain TasmaStarsStanley WeberFreddie DennisJack LaskeyA lively duchess befriends the shy queen of France. The duchess aims to reunite the queen with the aloof king by injecting merriment into the staid royal atmosphere, causing controversy at court.
- DirectorPeter GlanzStarsBel PowleyClaire FoyRichard E. GrantSet in 18th century England during pox outbreak and Jacobite uprising, Sir Chauncey and Lady Savage blindly pursue better life. Their pursuit filled with ironic decadence and bloodshed. A darkly satirical play on class and power.
- DirectorGianluca JodiceStarsGuillaume CanetMélanie LaurentAurore BroutinFollows the last days of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette before they were executed.
- William the Duke of Normandy defeated the Anglo-Saxons at the Battle of Hastings in 1066 to become William I, the first Norman King of England. His wife Matilda of Flanders helped him transform English and European history.
- TV SeriesStarsEleanor TomlinsonMillie GibsonTuppence MiddletonA wealthy solicitor becomes obsessed with a woman who rejects him despite his riches. After marrying, she remains distant, driving him to extreme lengths to control her in this epic early 20th-century family saga
- StarsJulia MessinaCaterina FerioliVittoria PucciniCarolina, Antonia and her mother Maria escape to Milan after murdered her violent father, in the city Antonia seeks to follow her mother's dream of become a singer but shortly after they discover that the true talent lies with Carolina
- DirectorAlejandro MonteverdeStarsCristiana Dell'AnnaJohn LithgowDavid MorseAfter witnessing disease and poverty in the slums of New York, Italian immigrant Francesca Cabrini embarks on a daring journey to persuade the hostile mayor to provide housing and healthcare for hundreds of orphaned children.
- DirectorMaïwennStarsStanislas StanicMaïwennJohnny DeppThe life of Jeanne Bécu, who was born as the illegitimate daughter of an impoverished seamstress in 1743 and went on to rise through the Court of Louis XV to become his last official mistress.
- CreatorMichael Robert JohnsonStarsDaniel Hans ErlendssonAnthony BacigalupoCalum SivyerWilliam of Normandy and Harold of Wessex were two individuals destined to meet at the Battle of Hastings in 1066; they were allies but had no claim to the British monarchy until fate drove them into a conflict over the country's crown.
- DirectorIsabelle BrocardStarsKarin ViardAna GirardotCédric KahnIn the middle of the 17th century, the Marquise de Sévigné wanted to make her daughter a brilliant and independent woman in her own image. But the more she tries to control the young woman's destiny, the more she alienates her. Mother and daughter then experience the throes of a singular and devastating passion. A major work of French literature is born from this devastation.
- DirectorMichiel van ErpStarsJonah Hauer-KingSam HazeldineRuth BecquartThe passionate story of the life and love of Lucia, a renowned veiled courtesan who is the exception to the rule.
- DirectorDurga Chew-BoseStarsChloë SevignyClaes BangLily McInernyFollows Cécile a young woman spending the summer in a villa in the south of France with her widowed father Raymond and his latest love interest, Elsa. Theirs is a lived-in compatibility a world of ease and languor.
- DirectorLuca GuadagninoStarsLéa SeydouxJosh O'ConnorFollows Leo and Thomas' romance, spanning Milan, Paris, London, and Florence over three years.
- DirectorLee TamahoriStarsAdrien BrodySophie CooksonPaz VegaXVI Century. Action epic about young Johanna "Of Ghent", who seeks revenge on the holy Roman Emperor Charles V for the death of her father. It happens in a world of wealth, debauchery, violent retaliations, sex, manipulation, and treason.
- DirectorChad StahelskiStarsHenry CavillAn immortal Scottish swordsman faces off with other immortal warriors in order to obtain a coveted ability.