Byronic heroes, tragic romances
Dark heroes, bad boys, handsome men, poetically tragic romances - more tragical if you haven't seen these!
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- StarsRomola GaraiJack DavenportAlex O'LoughlinA young woman is transported to the New South Wales penal colony in 1788.Jack Davenport!
- DirectorRoland Suso RichterStarsFelicitas WollJohn LightBenjamin SadlerA romance between a British pilot hiding in Germany and a German nurse is shown on the background of massive allied bombing of Dresden towards the end of World War 2.
- StarsJack DavenportDavid HoweyJanet DaleSet in 1913 Northumbria, England, the story is about Robert Bradley, a strong-willed young worker at a Jarrow shipyard, who arrives home one day to find that his father has died. That leads to a total new set of circumstances in his life.
- DirectorMilos FormanStarsColin FirthAnnette BeningMeg TillyFrance before 1789: When a widow hears that her lover is to marry her cousin's daughter, she asks the playboy Valmont to take the girl's virginity. But first she bets him, with her body as prize, to seduce a virtuous, young, married woman.
- DirectorKevin ReynoldsStarsJames FrancoSophia MylesRufus SewellAn affair between the second in line to Britain's throne and the princess of the feuding Irish spells doom for the young lovers.
- DirectorAndré TéchinéStarsLambert WilsonJuliette BinocheWadeck StanczakDreaming of an actress future, a young girl arrives in Paris. Her personality awakens a glowing passion of several different men.
- DirectorPhilip KaufmanStarsGeoffrey RushKate WinsletJoaquin PhoenixIn a Napoleonic era insane asylum, an inmate, the irrepressible Marquis De Sade, fights a battle of wills against a tyrannically prudish doctor.
- DirectorPredrag AntonijevicStarsDennis QuaidNastassja KinskiPascal RollinA hardened mercenary in the Foreign Legion begins to find his own humanity when confronted with atrocities during the fighting in Bosnia.
- CreatorJeffrey HirschfieldPaul DonovanLex GigeroffStarsBrian DowneyMichael McManusJeffrey HirschfieldA group of disparate fugitives from an interplanetary tyranny find themselves in control of a massively powerful starship.Kai!
- DirectorJôji IidaStarsYôsuke EguchiMiwako IchikawaTakashi KashiwabaraA pair of hard-boiled Tokyo cops are investigating a gruesome murder: after killing the victim, the murderer cut his skull open and cooked his brain in a stew. As they try to track down the killer, they discover that, quite literally, everybody is a suspect. Will they bring the terror to an end, or will they become part of it themselves?
- StarsJemima RooperJamie DavisAmber SainsburyCassie is a shy and lonely student who is only really loved by her best friend Thelma.Azazeal!
- DirectorGraham TheakstonStarsJames D'ArcyRoger MorlidgeGabrielle AnwarEarly in his crime-solving career, Sherlock Holmes attempts to prevent Moriarty from cornering the heroin market.
- DirectorLuis MandokiStarsJennifer LopezJim CaviezelJeremy SistoA mysterious man is drawn to a feisty female police officer and an unusual relationship ensues, as not everything is as it seems.
- DirectorFrancis LawrenceStarsKeanu ReevesRachel WeiszDjimon HounsouDetective Angela approaches Constantine, a demon hunter, to help her investigate her twin sister's mysterious death. As he digs deeper, he realizes that demons are trying to enter the human world.
- CreatorJames Manos Jr.StarsMichael C. HallJennifer CarpenterDavid ZayasHe's smart. He's lovable. He's Dexter Morgan, America's favorite serial killer, who spends his days solving crimes and his nights committing them.
- CreatorJulie PlecKevin WilliamsonStarsNina DobrevPaul WesleyIan SomerhalderThe lives, loves, dangers and disasters in the town, Mystic Falls, Virginia. Creatures of unspeakable horror lurk beneath this town as a teenage girl is suddenly torn between two vampire brothers.
- CreatorJulie PlecStarsJoseph MorganDaniel GilliesClaire HoltA family of power-hungry thousand-year-old vampires look to take back the city that they built and dominate all those who have done them wrong.
- DirectorDavid SladeStarsJosh HartnettMelissa GeorgeDanny HustonAfter an Alaskan town is plunged into darkness for a month, it is attacked by a bloodthirsty gang of vampires.
- DirectorWai-Man ChengStarsLouis KooKristy YeungAlex FongWhen his friend is left paralyzed after a fight, a man joins the attacker's crime ring and works his way up the ranks to wreak vengeance.
- DirectorRoss KettleStarsAriyon BakarePaul BettanyPeter KrummeckSteph, an Afrikaner, struggles with his past and heritage in the new South Africa. When his girlfriend befriends a black South African man called Vusisizwe trouble brews.
- CreatorStephen ChboskyJosh SchaerJonathan E. SteinbergStarsSkeet UlrichLennie JamesAshley ScottA small town in Kansas is literally left in the dark after seeing a mushroom cloud over nearby Denver, Colorado. The townspeople struggle to find answers about the blast and solutions on how to survive.
- DirectorHoward McCainStarsJim CaviezelSophia MylesRon PerlmanDuring the reign of the Vikings, Kainan, a man from a far-off world, crash lands on Earth, bringing with him an alien predator known as the Moorwen. Though both man and monster are seeking revenge for violence committed against them, Kainan leads the alliance to kill the Moorwen by fusing his advanced technology with the Viking's Iron Age weaponry.
- DirectorJerzy KawalerowiczStarsPawel DelagMagdalena MielcarzBoguslaw LindaMarcus Vinicius falls in love with Lygia, but she's Christian. Marcus kidnaps her, but Ursus captures him. After meeting Nero, he returns to Rome to find Lygia.