Smaragden - Geschichte

Miss Julie

May 1987 •English

Complex battle of the sexes and classes as a neurotic rich woman has an affair with her father's calculating valet.

Who Gets the Dog

December 2007 •English

A drama about a couple on the edge of divorce, their solicitors, their daughter and of course, their dog.

Brave Young Men

March 2009 •English

Owen and Jamie are a pair of nobodies who prevent global disasters with the help of a time-transient civil servant.

Soft Targets

October 1982 •English

Stephen Poliakoff's parody of the spy-thriller genre. A Russian diplomat becomes convinced that he is at the centre of a Foreign Office plot.

The Good Mistress

February 2014 •English

A woman's one-night stand turns out to be her friend's husband, and a local political candidate.

Poodle Springs

July 1998 •English

Private eye Philip Marlowe and his bride move to a desert town, where he uncovers a land scheme.

VIP

September 2008 •Italian

Love Lies Bleeding

February 2006 •English

Self-made millionaire Mark Terry has no idea that his world is about to turn upside down when an old school friend appears with a grudge against him.

Real Men

March 2003 •English

A powerful and disturbing two-part drama about sexual manipulation, the loss of innocence and betrayal of trust, starring Ben Daniels. A policeman's determination to solve the three-year-old case of an abducted schoolboy leads him to uncover a web of systematic abuse that is threatening to destroy the lives of vulnerable children

Sex 'n' Death

December 1999 •English

The host of a British Shock-TV Show blurs the line between show business and life.

Die Mütter-Mafia

May 2014 •German

A mother is good. Several mothers at once are hell! Conny is 37 years old and has so far let her life being arranged by others - especially by her husband Lawrence. Lorenz has made the previous gray mouse, a trophy wife and offers her a carefree life. And so Conny falls from the clouds, when her husband announced her at dinner that he wants a divorce. Of necessity Conny pulls together the two children in the ancient house of Lorenz deceased mother and realized with horror that from now on everything will be different. Since it holds its own for non-viable, she clings to a clique of high-society mothers...

Final Demand

April 2003 •English

Tamzin Outhwaite stars in Deborah Moggach 's dark two-part drama. On the surface Swindon-based Natalie has it all -good looks, a steady job and a reliable boyfriend. In reality she's bored to tears and short of cash, so when she hatches a scam that could be financially beneficial there's no holding her back

Spider's Web

December 1982 •English

Clarissa, the wife of a Foreign Office diplomat, is given to daydreaming. 'Supposing I were to come down one morning and find a dead body in the library, what should I do?' she muses. Clarissa has her chance to find out when she discovers a body in the drawing-room of her house in Kent.

El caso del cadáver descuartizado

May 1985 •Spanish

May 1, 1929. A decomposing headless body is found inside an abandoned wooden box in Madrid's Atocha train station. The victim is later identified as a Barcelona businessman that vanished six months before.

El caso de las envenenadas de Valencia

April 1985 •Spanish

Valencia, 1955. A down-on-her-luck spinster poisons her friend and employers out of envy.

El crimen del capitán Sánchez

April 1985 •Spanish

Madrid, Spring 1913. During a visit to the casino, a beautiful 20 year-old woman catches the eye of a 50 year-old rich widower. But the gamble he is about to commit is far greater than he suspects.

El caso del procurador enamorado

April 1985 •Spanish

Salamanca, 1973. A congressman in love with his daughter's teacher hires an assassin to kill his wife.

Eine zweimalige Frau

September 2004 •German

Les brumes du souvenir

April 2017 •French

Probable Cause

November 1994 •English

A series of cop murders plagues the city. The remaining officers on the force are increasingly worried as the deaths increase with no leads. As the department's finest must solve the case before the killer strikes again.