Oblomov, a young Russian nobleman, seems incapable of making decisions and spends most of his life in bed.
An eccentric British family is held together by a patient father.
A comic account of a Greek woman’s extraordinary mission to end the Peloponnesian War by denying all the men of the land any sex.
A long-empty country house is reopened in preparation for the annual summer conference of ‘The Identity Club’: a group of psychologists.
A fantasy in the Russian manner on English themes.
The delectable story of Eve, wife of Sir John Brent, who was also a member of the Fifth form at the Euphemia Tadworthy Foundation!
A vampire count lures beauty-contest winners to his castle and uses their blood to revive his dead wife.
An unassuming hobbit is plunged into a battle against the forces of darkness when his uncle bequeaths him a magical ring of immense power.
A disparate group of prisoners of war take refuge in a network of underground tunnels while working in occupied France during the Second World War – but the Allied bombing campaign leaves them trapped for six years.
A man seeks revenge on gangsters who killed his brother.
British and French police combine to prevent an OAS assassination attempt on de Gaulle by use of a professional killer.
A canal barge Casanova is trapped into marriage.
After a lifetime in the spotlight, Lady Slane – the 85-year-old wife of a recently deceased politician – is allowed to shed her public persona and retreat to a cottage in suburban Hampstead.
PC George Dixon and his colleagues at London’s Dock Green police station deal with petty crime.
An unsuccessful inventor rescues a derelict car and gives it magical properties, then helps the children who own it to overthrow the government of a country that hates children.
Dr Chapman conducts a study of female sex behaviour in an American suburb.
Indiana Jones goes in search of his father, who disappeared while looking for the Holy Grail.
Major McBride tries to rescue his old friend from a prehistoric island on which he disappeared in 1916
A profile of the man who, by the age of 30, was the highest-paid writer in the world and a star on the Broadway stage, directing and acting in some of the finest plays and movies of all time.
Life for identical twins Jared and Simon, and their sister Mallory, begins afresh when their mother inherits a spooky mansion.
Unassuming hobbit Bilbo Baggins is pulled out of his comfortable life when Gandalf the wizard volunteers him for a dangerous quest.
A Russian family’s adventures at the time of Napoleon’s invasion.
At the time of the Armada, Spanish privateers terrorise a Cornish seaside village.
A doctor moves into a spacious new apartment, and becomes attracted to her landlord.