Ep 4, A Handful of People in the Depths of Silence; Franz goes on a bender and, later, bumps into Meck, who's moved on from hawking porn to selling clothes and seems to be doing well for himself. Meck also admits to having been living with Lina. find out more...

Ep 7, Remember—An Oath can be Amputated; Franz has lost his right arm, but is looked after by Eva and her boyfriend. find out more...

Ep 10, Loneliness Tears Cracks of Madness Even in Walls; Mieze can't have children, but Eva tells her that she'll have a child by Franz for Mieze to raise. Frank gets freaked by the idea, thinking Mieze's trying to dump him on to Eva, and then a rich client turns up to take Mieze away for 3 days. find out more...

Ep 13, The Outside and the Inside and the Secret of Fear of the Secret; Franz tells Eva that Mieze has left him. Meck gets injured in a bank robbery and Franz helps him out. Meck leads the police to Mieze's body. find out more...

Dennis Potter's play is set in the Forest of Dean on a summer day in 1943. Seven children go out to play. The seven children are all played by adult actors to act as 'A magnifying glass to show what it's like to be a child'. find out more...

Chronicles the life and times of Nucky Thompson, the undisputed ruler of Atlantic City, who was equal parts politician and gangster.
High production values and a fine ensemble cast: HBO knows how to do TV.

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The Italian adventurer and libertine Giovanni Jacopo Casanova lived from 1725 to 1798, but in this six-part series Dennis Potter attempted to find a contemporary relevance through his central themes of sex and religion. He commented that Casanova "was concerned with religious and sexual freedom, and these are the things we have to address ourselves to now." Casanova was imprisoned in Venice in 1755, and Potter used that event as a central device, constantly inter-cutting to contrast Casanova's a find out more...

A strange, beautiful film. We watch mother and son as they go about their peculiar daily routine, and we see a dead child in the ocean. It's unnerving and, somehow, everything seems eerily sexual, too. Then we are invited to go underwater where we get a closer look at the strange story science and earth have to tell. There are only mothers and sons in this coastal town. There is routine and control - but who is in control and what happens if someone starts to ask que find out more...

Part 1 of the full length TV version. 8-year-old Fanny and 10-year-old Alexander live with their large and wealthy theatrical family in a Swedish province. But their lives are to change when their father collapses and dies, leaving their mother to be pursued by the puritanical local Bishop. Ingmar Bergman's "swan song"? find out more...

Part 2 of the full length TV version. 8-year-old Fanny and 10-year-old Alexander live with their large and wealthy theatrical family in a Swedish province. But their lives are to change when their father collapses and dies, leaving their mother to be pursued by the puritanical local Bishop. Ingmar Bergman's "swan song"? find out more...