Based on Hardy's "Jude the Obscure", with an ace performance by Eccleston (Shallow Grave) as the young stonemason whose scholarly ambitions are scuppered by an unhappy marriage to the local floozy. When he begins an illicit love affair with his beautiful cousin, tragedy is all too inevitable. Bleak but superb. find out more...

Another adaptation of the classic novel sees our hero robbed of everything he holds dear by a jealous friend. Imprisoned, but finding in the dark hell a friend and teacher, Edmond Dantes sets about meticulously plotting his revenge. The Count Of Monte Cristo is a enjoyably old-fashioned swash buckling adventure that makes no attempt to do the book justice. find out more...