Home Fires (Television Series) - A Masterpiece Theater on PBS presentation - Starring Samantha Bond and Francesca Annis as part of a remarkable group of women living in a small rural village during World War II. Separated from husbands, fathers, sons and brothers for years at a time, they find themselves under extraordinary pressures in a rapidly fragmenting world.
Jane Got A Gun - A woman asks her ex-lover for help in order to save her outlaw husband from a gang out to kill him. Stars Natalie Portman, Joel Edgerton, Ewan McGregor. Directed by Gavin O'Connor
London Spy (Television Series) - A chance romance between two people from opposite walks of life: one an antisocial investment banker, the other a slacker romantic, quickly unravels when the banker disappears under suspicious circumstances. Stars: Alex Edwar Holcroft, Ben Whishaw, Charlotte Rampling and Jim Broadbent. Created by best-selling author Tom Rob Smith (Child 44). Directed by: Jakob Verbruggen
Son of Saul (Foreign) - October 1944, Auschwitz-Birkenau. Saul (Géza Röhrig) is a Hungarian member of the Sonderkommando, the group of Jewish prisoners forced to assist the Nazis. While working, Saul discovers the body of a boy he takes for his son. As the Sonderkommando plans a rebellion, Saul decides to carry out an impossible task: save the child's body, find a rabbi to recite the mourner's Kaddish and offer the boy a proper burial. Directed by László Nemes
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