Season 9 · Episode 2 — Edward II
In this Derek Jarman version of Christopher Marlowe's Elizabethan drama, in modern costumes and settings, Plantagenet king Edward II hands the power-craving nobility the perfect excuse by taking as lover besides his diplomatic wife, the French princess Isabel, not an acceptable lady at court but the ambitious Piers Gaveston, who uses his favour in bed even to wield political influence - the stage is set for a palace revolt which sends the gay pair from the throne to a terminal torture dungeon.
Season 9 episodes
E1Margaret would really rather become a nun than a housewife, but the wedding is all arranged, the guests have begun to arrive, so what can b…
E2In this Derek Jarman version of Christopher Marlowe's Elizabethan drama, in modern costumes and settings, Plantagenet king Edward II hands…
E3An elderly woman learns that she is dying of cancer. She and her husband leave their small farm on the Isle of Skye to visit their children…
E4The tantalizing beauty and vivacity of the irresistible Maddalena has a devastating effect on nearly every man she meets - sometimes with u…
E5Madeleine Severn is a teacher and a virgin in a small town searching for Mr. Right. She falls in love with Bernard, a fellow teacher but is…
E6Inheriting a remote house in Snowdonia seems like a dream come true. But the dream becomes a nightmare for a family who discover it's not t…
E7Alexander (Alan Cumming) is a young, emotionally-repressed Scot who, upset by his Czechoslovakian mother's death, journeys to Prague to sca…
E8Sir Archie and Cuckoo Peveril have lived in elegant splendour on Cap Ferrat since the end of the war. But the heady days of extravagant soc…
E9Maria is a dancer who becomes pregnant, unexpectedly, and has to decide whether or not to keep the baby. When her live-in boyfriend, who is…
E10When 20 years old Sharon announces that she is pregnant but refuses to tell who the father is, her tight-knit Irish family struggles to cop…
E11Harold Pinter's screen adaptation of Franz Kafka's enigmatic masterpiece. The story of a man who gets drawn into a world of lies and corrup…
E12A Northern Irish artist, widowed by an IRA bomb, embarks on a new life on the coast with her teenaged son. Romance slowly blossoms when she…
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