Two sisters who set up a London fashion house for society of the early 1920s.
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Evangeline Eliott
Beatrice Eliott
Tilly Watkins
Jack Maddox
Agnes Clarke
In the Ming Dynasty, Crown Prince Zhu Zhanji races 2,200 miles from Nanjing to Beijing in 15 days to save himself and the empire.
Xu Qi’an, a recent police academy graduate, awakens in a strange world filled with Confucians, Taoists, Buddhists, demons, and warlocks. Facing imminent exile to a remote frontier town, he seizes the chance to change his fate by joining a powerful organization of guardians.
The story follows Li Shande, a man deceived by his colleagues and demoted from his supervisory role. Now forced to become the “Lychee Envoy,” he faces a near-impossible mission to deliver fresh lychees from Lingnan to Chang’an as a birthday gift for the Noble Consort. The saying goes that lychees change color in one day, lose their fragrance in two, and their flavor in three days. With more than 5,000 li between Lingnan and Chang’an, and under tight deadlines with limited resources, how can he possibly pull it off?
Food blogger La Xiaoxiao, who, after accidentally arriving in the Da Qi Dynasty, faces various challenges in her entrepreneurial journey. She inherits her predecessor's memories, overcomes traps, and partners with the determined Mo Yuncheng to achieve a dramatic comeback.
This is a dramatisation of the true story of Major Herbert Rowse Armstrong, a solicitor and magistrate's clerk who lived in the small Welsh town of Hay-on-Wye. In 1921 he was arrested and charged with poisoning his domineering wife, Catherine, and later attempting to poison a business rival, Oswald Martin, by administering arsenic to them. At his trial, Armstrong claimed that he had bought the arsenic simply to kill the dandelions on his lawn. However he was convicted of murder and executed in 1922.
A mischievous little pig demon attempts to steal a magical monster-catching gourd from the powerful half-god Feng Pan, only to end up captured and kept by his side. Together, this unlikely pair—a god and a demon—set off on a funny, touching journey filled with monster-catching escapades.
Hua Zhuyu, a woman disguised as a man and a skilled warrior, is betrothed to Feng Junli, a prominent young noble of the Southern Dynasty. However, on her wedding night, her family's fall from grace forces Zhuyu to partner with Feng Junli as she navigates treacherous court politics and mysterious events. Together, they face challenges, united in their quest for justice and love.
The selfish and vain fourth daughter of the Zhen family plots to fall into a body of water with the son of Duke Zhen Guo firmly in tow. But her plans go awry when a cute and dorky girl with a healthy appetite from the future falls into the water simultaneously, traveling back in time to replace her body and soul.
Assassin Lin Mimi, determined to kill the feared demon Ye Xun, unexpectedly becomes his bride, forcing them into a reluctant partnership that gradually turns into love as they face traitors, rival clans, and hidden conspiracies in the martial arts world.
A group of Cantonese merchants during the late Qing Dynasty navigates the turbulent tides of history, exploring the form and spirit of national identity amid cultural clashes between East and West.
Fang Yi, an ordinary city dweller, accidentally falls into a martial arts world, expecting adventure and heroism. Instead, she encounters Rong Shuang, a once-great swordsman now struggling with lost skills. Rescued by the ruthless bounty hunter Yan Shao, she is taken to the enigmatic Yuchi Manor, where she discovers a world filled with intrigue and hidden emotions.
The young and dashing general Xiao Chuyi and his childhood sweetheart, Lu Yunxi, share a deep and loving relationship. However, after Xiao Chuyi's exile and near-death experience, he returns to find that Lu Yunxi has moved on. Amid tangled emotions of love and hatred, Xiao Chuyi and Lu Yunxi navigate a complex and forbidden romance as their feelings become increasingly entangled.
On the eve of her wedding, Shang You, a young woman from the Holy Spirit Tribe, unexpectedly rescues Si Yuan, the Dark Lord of the Underworld Tribe. However, on her wedding day, her entire tribe is wiped out. To resurrect her people, Shang You disguises herself as Meng Li, a deer demon, and infiltrates the Underworld Tribe to steal the Dark Lord's Amber Heart. During their time together, she unexpectedly falls in love with her enemy. Despite this, she still chooses to take Si Yuan's heart to revive her tribe, only to later discover that her real enemy was someone else all along.
Wu Baobao, the daughter of the leader of Wufeng Village, sought to save her father and the villagers poisoned by Wu Teng. She encountered Song Lian, a wicked thief and descendant of a witch doctor, and they joined forces to find the world’s only antidote, Wu Ying. Along their journey, they faced challenges and relied on each other, all while unraveling secrets hidden in their pasts.
After her untimely death, the soul of traveling doctor Zhao Qingqing, bound to the "Twin Blossom Mirror," allows her to inhabit the body of Su Nanyan, the skilled daughter of a general due to their shared birthdates. Together, the two women—one clever, the other fierce—unite in a single body to seek justice and uncover the truth in a quest for revenge within the imperial court.
Qi Zhi, the imperial chicken caretaker, is unexpectedly appointed as a secret imperial inspector tasked with identifying princes with ambitions for the throne. Partnering with the crown prince and Princess Ouyang Yan of Yan Kingdom, he uncovers a series of conspiracies, navigating a string of hilarious and unpredictable adventures.
Lilies is a British period-drama television series, written by Heidi Thomas, which ran for one eight-episode series in early 2007 on BBC One. The show's tagline was "Liverpool, 1920. Three girls on the edge of womanhood, a world on the brink of change." Due to lower than expected ratings, the BBC did not commission a second series.
After being exiled for offending a powerful minister, Wang Yangming experiences profound enlightenment and develops a new philosophy. He works to rectify corruption and restore order by setting an example of moral integrity, refusing to form alliances, teaching his philosophy, and spreading knowledge.
In the second year of Hongdao, the Tang Dynasty is engulfed in turmoil as strange phenomena emerge across the land, instilling fear in the populace. Detectives Zhuge Qin and Huang Yi, along with Cui Yaoguang, a female official from the Bureau of Celestial Measurements, are assigned to investigate and quell these disturbances. As they delve deeper into the mysteries, these three ordinary individuals find themselves unwittingly caught in a deadly power struggle within the court—an intricate conflict they never intended to be part of.
A gripping family drama and entrepreneurial fable, set in a post-war Paris fashion house. It exposes the grit behind the glamour of a rising business, spearheaded by two clashing brothers.
England, 1925. At a lavish country house party, a practical joke appears to have gone horribly, murderously wrong. It will be up to the unlikeliest of sleuths—the fizzingly inquisitive Lady Eileen 'Bundle' Brent—to unravel a chilling plot that will change her life, cracking wide open the country house mystery.
A group of fun-loving American girls burst onto the scene in tightly corseted 1870s London, kicking off an Anglo-American culture clash. Sent to secure husbands and status, the buccaneers' hearts are set on much more than that.
An intoxicating love story set in England's first department store in the 1870s. The Paradise revolves around the lives of the people who live and work in the store, each bound in their own way by the power of the world they live in, and the pasts that follow them there. A love story, mystery, and social comedy all in one.
Belgravia, 1871. When Lord Frederick Trenchard meets Clara Dunn, their courtship is full of passion. But after they marry, the scandalous world of high society and a long-buried family secret threaten to unravel their happiness.
Margaret Hale is a southerner from a country vicarage newly settled in the industrial northern town of Milton. In the shock of her move, she misjudges charismatic cotton mill-owner John Thornton, whose strength of purpose and passion are a match for her own pride and willfulness. When the workers of Milton call a strike, Margaret takes their side, and the two are brought into deeper conflict. As events spiral out of control, Margaret - to her surprise - begins to fall in love with Thornton...
After a crippling injury leaves her husband impotent, Lady Chatterly is torn between her love for her husband and her physical desires. With her husband's consent, she seeks out other means of fulfilling her needs.
When Eliza Scarlet's father dies, he leaves her penniless, but she resolves to continue his detective agency. To operate in a male-dominated world, though, she needs a partner... step forward a detective known as the Duke. Eliza and The Duke strike up a mismatched, fiery relationship as they team up to solve crime in the murkiest depths of 1880’s London.
A rich and comic drama about the people of Cranford, a small Cheshire town on the cusp of change in the 1840s. Adapted from the novels by Elizabeth Gaskell.
Sense and Sensibility is a 2008 British television drama, based on Jane Austen's 1811 novel of the same name. The screenplay was written by Andrew Davies, who said that the aim of the series was to make viewers forget Ang Lee's 1995 film version. As such, this series was more overtly sexual than previous Austen adaptations, and Davies included scenes featuring a seduction and a duel that are suggested in Austen's novel but absent from the feature film. A story of two sisters attempting to find happiness in the tightly structured society of 18th century England. Elinor, disciplined, restrained and very conscious of the manners of the day, represents sense. Outspoken, impetuous, emotional Marianne represents sensibility.
Toronto’s only female private detective in the 1920s takes on the cases the police don’t want or can’t handle. From airplanes and booze running to American G-men, Communists and union busters, Frankie’s fearless sense of adventure gets her into all kinds of trouble, but she always manages to find her way out.
Our lady sleuth sashays through the back lanes and jazz clubs of late 1920’s Melbourne, fighting injustice with her pearl handled pistol and her dagger sharp wit. Leaving a trail of admirers in her wake, our thoroughly modern heroine makes sure she enjoys every moment of her lucky life. Based on author Kerry Greenwood's Phryne Fisher Murder Mystery novels.
The shocking story of how fashion icon Christian Dior and his contemporaries including Coco Chanel, Pierre Balmain, and Cristóbal Balenciaga navigated the horrors of World War Il and launched modern fashion.
The spirited and impulsive Charlotte Heywood moves from her rural home to Sanditon, a fishing village attempting to reinvent itself as a seaside resort.
Based on a novel by Clara Darling, about a college grad who heads to a big city looking for work and discovers her older sister, who's been living there for years, is a model.
A series of British television films featuring William Shakespeare's History Plays.
Dickensian intertwines the realm of fictional characters in Charles Dickens’ novels—including Scrooge, Fagin and Miss Havisham—in half-hour episodes, as their lives intertwine in 19th century London. The Old Curiosity Shop sits next door to The Three Cripples Pub, while Fagin’s Den is hidden down a murky alley off a bustling Victorian street.
Mr. Selfridge recounts the real life story of the flamboyant and visionary American founder of Selfridge's, London's lavish department store. Set in 1909 London, when women were reveling in a new sense of freedom and modernity, it follows Harry Gordon Selfridge ('Mile a Minute Harry'), a man with a mission to make shopping as thrilling as sex. Pioneering and reckless, with an almost manic energy, Harry created a theater of retail where any topic or trend that was new, exciting, entertaining - or just eccentric - was showcased.
The early 17th Century story of three courageous, dynamic women who leave their dark pasts behind in England, and make the journey of a lifetime across the ocean for a new life in America.
A biography series based on the life of Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald, the brilliant, beautiful and talented Southern Belle who becomes the original flapper and icon of the wild, flamboyant Jazz Age in the 20s. Z starts before Zelda Fitzgerald meets the unpublished writer F. Scott Fitzgerald and moves through their passionate, turbulent love affair and their marriage-made in heaven, lived out in hell as the celebrity couple of their time.