Unexpected events occur when Pat, a glamorous British-born star of American soaps, returns home to plug her auto-biography on television and meets, for the first time since they were teenagers, Margaret her plain and frumpy younger sister. The meeting is painful for both women highlighting the vast differences in their lives and resurrecting painful memories of their unhappy childhood with an uncaring, errant mother. The tabloid press smell a juicy story and a race ensues to trace the whereabouts of the long lost parent.
In 1981, Gerd Heidemann (Jonathan Pryce), a war correspondent and reporter with the German magazine Stern, makes what he believes is the literary and historical scoop of the century: the personal diaries of Adolf Hitler. Over the next two years, Heidemann and the senior management figures at Stern secretly pay 10 million German marks to a mysterious 'Dr Fischer' (Alexei Sayle) for the sixty volumes of 'Hitler's diaries'. However, to the dismay of all, it is discovered after the publication of first extract that the diaries are crude forgeries, faked by Stuttgart criminal Konrad Kujau.
Comedia que adapta la popular novela de Tom Sharpe. Henry Wilt (Griff Rhys Jones) es un tímido profesor de un conflictivo instituto de formación profesional a punto de ser adquirido por los japoneses. En una obra de construcción de al lado del centro escolar, aparece un cuerpo del que se sospecha que es la mujer del propio Wilt, quien se convertirá en el principal inculpado del asesinato.
Después de tener un encuentro casual y mantener una conversación indiscreta, dos amigos de la infancia, Tommy Beresford y Tuppence Cowley, se ven envueltos en una enrevesada intriga manejada desde las sombras por un hombre misterioso conocido simplemente como Mr. Brown.
When his wife stops writing to him and his letters are returned unanswered, Dan becomes extremely concerned about her welfare. He returns home but is only able to meet with her briefly before she is found murdered. Dan is the obvious suspect but has only 36 hours to find out who murdered her. In so doing he uncovers a shocking catalogue of his wife's past affairs and an identity that he knew nothing about.
An amateur detective races against time to clear the name of his cousin, who is accused of murdering her husband. It is based on the novel Whispering Woman by Gerald Verner.
A husband cheats on his disabled wife--who has been paralyzed in a car accident--with her sister. When the sister is murdered he is accused of the crime, but it turns out that he may not be the killer after all.
Durante la II Guerra Mundial (1939-1945), un barco cargado de whisky naufraga en una isla de Escocia. Los isleños, que no han podido beber alcohol desde hace tiempo, empiezan a idear toda clase de estratagemas para burlar a las autoridades y apoderarse del cargamento.
