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All the book-based movies and TV shows featuring Martin Compston, ranked
James and Tully form a deep friendship in a small Scottish town in 1986. During one weekend, they make a pact to approach life in a new way. However, 30 years later, living separate lives, James receives a devastating phone call from Tully.
During the summer of 1995, two teenage girls who were in a vulnerable state, were accused of killing their schoolteacher. Poppy was charged with the murder and the two girls separated for seventeen years. In present-day, Serena, now a happily married mother, returns to the same seaside town to take care of her ailing mother, Rachel. Meanwhile, Poppy, who spent seventeen years in prison for a crime she claims she didn’t commit, is determined to uncover the truth about Marcus’ murder.
Caught in a dilemma involving his ailing father, his overbearing friend and guardian Antonio, the conflicts in the neighborhood, and the seductive allure of youthful desires, Dito grapples with the urge to break free, ultimately choosing to flee from all that is familiar to him.
In 1561, nineteen-year-old Mary Stuart, Catholic Queen of Scotland, returns to her home country from France following the death of her husband, Francis II, to take up her throne, where she is received by her half brother, the Earl of Moray. Seeking to weaken her cousin’s threat to her sovereignty, Elizabeth arranges for Mary, whom English Catholics recognize as their rightful Queen, to be married to an Englishman.
Barney Thomson, a socially awkward and timid barber from Glasgow, Scotland, leads a life characterized by profound mediocrity. However, his mundane existence is suddenly catapulted into a whirlwind of chaos and dark humor as he finds himself thrust into the bizarre and grotesque realm of a serial killer.
Fi Lawson, a woman who returns home after a weekend away to discover strangers moving into her house — and her husband Bram and children nowhere in sight. The new owners insist that Bram and Fi have been across every part of the sale, but she has no recollection of any of it.
A deadly assassin is marked for death when he can’t bring himself to kill a young woman. Now, protecting the woman he was sent to kill, the two flee from the powerful forces that will stop at nothing to kill them both.