Richard Blackford

Andrew Christie runs the traditional Dolphin hotel in Cornwall, specialized in weddings and honeymoons, but competition from cheap holidays overseas becomes crushing. After his disloyal wife Nell deserts to apply as manager in the Maldives, their main tour operator intends to cancel, which would spell bankruptcy. Andrew comes up with a modern alternative, hosting traditional weddings for Indian couples. to sell the idea, he pretends to be backed by an Indian wife. To fill the part urgently, he enlists part-time maid Rajani Sharma, a, art student, whose father, banker Murali Sharma, wants to go ahead with her arranged marriage to Tarun, from India.

Andrew Christie runs the traditional Dolphin hotel in Cornwall, specialized in weddings and honeymoons, but competition from cheap holidays overseas becomes crushing. After his disloyal wife Nell deserts to apply as manager in the Maldives, their main tour operator intends to cancel, which would spell bankruptcy. Andrew comes up with a modern alternative, hosting traditional weddings for Indian couples. to sell the idea, he pretends to be backed by an Indian wife. To fill the part urgently, he enlists part-time maid Rajani Sharma, a, art student, whose father, banker Murali Sharma, wants to go ahead with her arranged marriage to Tarun, from India.

London lawyer Owen Lockhart inherited a distant uncle's grand but run-down Cornish coastal estate and moves in with the intent to sell it. Senior constable Maxwell Breckett's wife Adele, his late uncle's secretary, hopes to change Owen's mind by rallying local clients and hiring as cook foxy local agricultural engineer Holly Heston, fatherless boarding school pupil Toby's single mother. She's in love with constable Lucas Corbin, the only one into whom she confided a grim family secret, but he finds out about her fast-budding affair with Owen.

London lawyer Owen Lockhart inherited a distant uncle's grand but run-down Cornish coastal estate and moves in with the intent to sell it. Senior constable Maxwell Breckett's wife Adele, his late uncle's secretary, hopes to change Owen's mind by rallying local clients and hiring as cook foxy local agricultural engineer Holly Heston, fatherless boarding school pupil Toby's single mother. She's in love with constable Lucas Corbin, the only one into whom she confided a grim family secret, but he finds out about her fast-budding affair with Owen.

Emma Waters convinces her friend Julia Adams to have a hen party. When Julia has to auction a kiss, she can't believe who the lucky winner is.

A wife nursing her terminally ill husband finds herself falling for his friend.

Penelope Keeling, a sixty-four-year-old daughter of a famous artist, reflects on her life, and the fate and choices that defined it, when she arrives in the Mediterranean to stay with her headstrong daughter. Shifting through time, and falling into place like the pieces of a jigsaw, the truth of Penelope's rich, heartbreaking and surprising life unfolds.

인종차별정책이 막 시작되던 1950년대 남아프리카 공화국. 흑인 사업파트너와 함께 레스토랑을 운영하는 아미나는 인도 이민자 커뮤니티의 전통과 인종차별적 규제들을 수시로 어기는 자유로운 영혼의 소유자이다. 헌신적인 아내이자 두 아이의 엄마로 살아온 미리엄은 자유로운 아미나를 만나자 그녀에게 강렬히 이끌리고, 자신을 얽매던 규범들에 의문을 던지기 시작한다. 감독은 1950년대 할리우드 멜로드라마를 떠올리게 하는 서사와 미장센을 통해 이성애 규범의 정상성을 뒤엎고 레즈비언 멜로드라마를 구축한다. 여성억압이 만연한 사회에서 두 여성의 비밀스런 사랑은 사회적 편견과 억압을 뛰어넘어 그녀들을 위한 자유의 공간을 창조한다. 카메라는 아름다운 남아프리카의 풍광과 재즈 선율 속에서 인종혐오, 여성억압, 섹슈얼리티의 문제를 생생하게 포착해내고 있다. 감독 자신의 유명한 동명소설을 영화화한 이 작품은 정통 멜로드라마의 규범을 전유한 웰메이드 레즈비언 멜로드라마이다. (서울국제여성영화제)

Colonel Mortimer's son Gregory, his pride and joy, returns to the ancestral Cornish estate by the sea for the summer after loosing that year's only Horse Guards officer promotion to his neighbor-buddy Eric. By ancestral tradition, that means another delay too for his long-planned marriage with neighbor's daughter Rebecca, who already doubts if the are actually in love. Mortimer's new housekeeper Elisabeth proves irresistible for father (platonically) and son, but is held back by a family secret concerning her late mother Catherine. Eric also has a confession to make.

Diana and Andrew Chelsom have been married and have now lived separated for a long time.Anne Chelsom ,their daughter comes now to Cornwall to spend some days with her mother.By chance Diana meets Andrew in the fruit market and Andrew presents her his new girlfriend Shirley (who is quite younger as their daughter Anne).Other surprise: Andrew has bought a mansion,the Wilson House as gift for Shirley in the wedding day.Anne will also encounter a surprise coming from the past the Doctor Justin Giggs.

Summer Solstice is a collection of love stories about, and for, people of all different ages and generations. Each character's tale connects, weaving in and out of the others, mirroring and countering them so that, as the long hot summer draws to its close, each is forced to examine their lives and decide to whom their loyalties lie or else risk loosing everything they hold so dear.

A beautiful Chinese girl, Meiling, has a forbidden love affair with a young American man in Singapore. He leaves Singapore and never returns. Meiling gives birth to their Eurasian daughter whom she names Perfect Harmony. When she grows up, Perfect Harmony journeys to America to search for her father.

William Franklin is a teacher who was born in Ireland and moved to the United States only to repatriate in 1939 after his leftist political views cause him to lose his job. Franklin becomes the first non-cleric instructor at St. Jude's, a school for wayward boys run by Brother John, who is a firm believer in strong discipline.

The twin sisters Flora and Rose were separated after giving birth. The mother left the father to go to America. At the age of 22, the two girls met again by accident in London. It is a shock for both of them, since they believed until then that they had no siblings.

The young Prue Shackleton travels from London to Cornwall to visit her beloved aunt Phoebe, who has just become a widow. On the train she meets Charlotte, a sad little girl who comes from a broken home.