Norma Shebbeare

A lawyer's agonizing journey to the breaking point of his private and professional lives as he becomes more and more alienated from everyone connected with him.

Dans les années quarante à Londres, John Reginald Christie cache derrière une apparence lisse et son métier de policier une véritable démence meurtrière. En une décennie, il viole, tue et cache les corps de plusieurs femmes, sans jamais éveiller le moindre soupçon. Il réussira même à faire accuser un autre homme pour le meurtre de sa femme et de sa fille. Mais après plus de cinq meurtres, les cadavres s'entassent et ne passent plus inaperçus.

Dans une petite ville minière britannique du début du siècle, Gerard Crich, jeune aristocrate, propriétaire des mines, se lie d’amitié avec l'inspecteur d’école Rupert Bikin. Un drame dans la famille de Crich va le rapprocher encore de Rupert, qui lui fera rencontrer Gudrun dont il va désespérément tomber amoureux.

The Dark Angel is a sensual and stylish adaptation of Uncle Silas - Sheridan le Fanu’s influential Victorian literary masterpiece. Sheltered heiress Maud Ruthyn's troubles begin when her father hires a new governess. Madame De La Rougierre (played with considerable relish by Jane Lapotaire) is a cruel, brandy-swigging schemer with an unhealthy interest in Maud's inheritance and an approach to childcare that would make Mary Poppins faint. When Maud's father dies she has no choice but to live with her wicked uncle Silas, who will inherit the family fortune if Maud should happen to die. This is not a recipe for domestic bliss and soon it seems that everyone but Maud is either bad, mad, or both.

Teenagers Susan and David live with their widowed mother Sheila. They wake up one morning to find no sign of their mother, and organise a party for the evening. They have doubts and worries about what has happened to their mother, which build when she has still not returned the following morning.

Maud Ruthyn, a lovely and sensitive girl, is sent to stay with her Uncle Silas Ruthyn, a charismatic rogue who stands to inherit the family fortune... should anything untoward happen to young Maud. With the tyrannical Madame De La Rougierre as her governess, Maud finds that the estate holds terrors beyond her imaginings