Drama > 5 GBP to 10 GBP Drama > by Award

Advantages: Quite funny, direction and cinematography
Disadvantages: Guaranteed to offend 99% of people

The Esperance's were a once noble and revered French family who owned a multitude of lands, recently however they have fallen on hard times. They live in a crumbling house and their future now depends on an arranged marriage between their goofy son Mathurin (Pierre Benedetti) and an English noblewoman, Lucy Broadhurst (Lisbeth Hummel). From the outset it is obvious that there is something not right with the family and especially with Mathurin. The ...
...he won't return their calls. The younger sister of the family, who is a bit of a hippy, is supposed to be babysitting but locks up the kids in the wardrobe so she can have sex with the black servant Ifany, but they keep being interrupted leaving the girl to finish herself of with the bed post. Also Mathurin, who has a dark secret, is more interested in watching his horses have sex. Lucy is left to wander the mansion herself and finds the diary of ... Read review

Advantages: funny, well acted, love story
Disadvantages: none

...put out on the bbc, casanova was a three part drama series. An all star cast perform in this, with Peter o'toole, David Tennant, Rose Byrne, Laura Fraser, Rupert Penry Jones, Nina Sosanya, and Matt Lucas. The young Casanova is played by David Tennant, who we know now as the star of Dr who, also on the bbc. He has also starred in harry potter and the goblet of fire as Barty Crouch junior (also my wife loves him, so i believe him to be a good looking ...
...close, and exiled from venice, casanova becomes a librarian in a castle. A young parlour maid comes to him, and he is taken again by the one thing that kept him so alive when he was in his prime. Sex. One last pursuit, to see if the magic has died. So, he tells her his story. And as it goes on, edith, the made, comes to feel for him, and to grow fond of him. He tells, if you pick through the crazier exploits, a love story. When in naples, he meets ... Read review

Advantages: Fantastic film that might have passed you by
Disadvantages: may cause swooning

...U, nothing offensive here! Persuasion won the National Review Board's Best Picture award in 1995. * A side note, I am pretty sure "Persuasion" was largely the plot "inspiration" for the second Bridget Jones installment (more noticeable in the book as the film chopped it to pieces), if anyone wants to compare. (Pride & Prejudice is more obviously recognised as the inspiration for Bridget Jones' Diary down to Mark Darcy). This is clear in Bridget ... Read review

Advantages: An interesting and unusual detective series
Disadvantages: Some minor storyline elements are not explained clearly

...first meet the amiable James Hazell as he embarks on his first case, for hard-nosed solicitor Gordon Gregory. Life is looking up for the smooth-talking cockney, with a smart Triumph Stag and a plush rent-free apartment (looking after it for a friend of a friend, currently serving 7 years at Her Majesty's pleasure). Every silver lining has a cloud of course, and the rookie investigator often meets trouble, usually of the violent kind, although his ...
...is an area the streetwise Hazell knows well. There are authentically shabby locations inhabited by equally shabby characters - a motley crew of small-time gangsters, cheats and drunks for the most part. The people supposedly on his side aren't much better. There's cousin Tel, the wheeler dealer of the family, and 'Choc' Minty, a dour dry-humoured Scotsman and former colleague, still a Detective Inspector, who has a habit of appearing just at the ... Read review

Advantages: Colour, Glamour, Passion- Truly Bollywood
Disadvantages: The beginning is slow, could have been better editing

Background: Story: Devdas and Paro are childhood sweethearts who are parted originally through ambition, then parted through censure and finally, through death. Devdas is a classic Indian story of great drama, great intensity, and great feeling. The issue of 'suitability' of marriage partners is never to far away in what is portrayed as a society that judges people according to whom they marry, what their occupation is, and what caste they belong ...
...in their way, Devdas and Paro's love for each other grows deeper and deeper until a truly tragic ending that is very reminiscent of Shakespeare's masterpiece, Romeo and Juliet. Indeed, although forbidden love is a common theme in many Bollywood movies, none perhaps display an individual's anguish at being denied what they believe was destined to be theirs as accurately and poignantly as Devdas. Setting: This is by far the biggest budget Bollywood ... Read review