The Beggar Bride was a British two-part television programme adapted from the Gillian White novel of the same name.
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The people behind it
Keeley Hawes
Angela Harper
Nicholas Jones
Sir Fabian Ormerod
Joe Duttine
Billy Harper
After losing her job for standing up to her boss's harassment, Li Qinnan accidentally falls into a sewer and dreams she’s transported to the ancient kingdom of Daqi. There, she becomes Qiu Yuke, a noblewoman betrothed to the kingdom’s enigmatic National Advisor, Ming Jingchuan, who has his own secrets. Desperate to escape her arranged marriage, Qiu Yuke crosses paths with Ming, and despite her initial resistance, they begin to form a connection. As they navigate the complexities of love and power, dark forces threaten to disrupt their lives and the kingdom’s stability. Caught in a web of intrigue, Qiu Yuke must make a choice that could alter her fate forever, leading her to confront unexpected challenges and hidden truths.
Nineteen years after being dismissed over a national security leak, former officer Wu Yu has lived on the fringes, relentlessly pursuing the truth behind the betrayal that ruined his life. As he uncovers hidden layers of deception, a new officer, Guo Weijie, inspired by Wu Yu’s determination, grows into a leader in national security. Together, they face mounting dangers to reveal the true traitor.
Li Chuchu, a young woman from a noble family who has been oppressed for years, discovers that her mother’s death was not accidental. Determined to seek justice, she embarks on a mission to uncover the truth. Along the way, she becomes entangled in a complex relationship with her legitimate brother, Li Zhen, as they both wrestle with love, revenge, and their search for justice.
After his wife’s death, retired professor Shen Zhuoran reluctantly returns to dating. He meets four very different women: a compassionate nurse, a brilliant but ill scientist, a strong-willed union leader, and a woman who reminds him of his late wife. Through these encounters, he faces love, loss, and personal growth, ultimately transforming his perspective on life and deeply affecting his family.
A missing person case forces three girls from different walks of life to face life-altering choices, exposing the ups and downs of an ordinary family. The story intertwines the light and dark sides of the city—above ground and in the underground tunnels. As one girl navigates these challenges alone, she uncovers the truth, finds redemption, and moves toward a hopeful future.
Ye Sibei has always endured her parents' favoritism toward her brother, choosing to avoid conflict. Her husband, Qin Nan, deeply loves her but grows frustrated with her reluctance to stand up for herself and files for divorce. However, after Sibei faces a traumatic experience, Qin Nan returns to support her, encouraging her to seek justice.
Lin Zhanqiao, a successful and independent woman, avoids settling for less in love, seeking a genuine connection. After meeting He Han, initial misunderstandings give way to mutual growth in love and career, leading them to realize they are perfect for each other. As they overcome challenges and prepare for marriage, they rediscover the true meaning of love and marriage.
After the sudden loss of her husband, Mingzhu, pregnant and newly married, is forced to confront hidden family secrets. With strength and resilience, she faces numerous challenges and works to rebuild her life, bringing her family together in the process.
Hannah Wells tutors hockey captain Garrett Graham to win over her crush. Their deal becomes real connection as they face their pasts. Friends Logan, Dean, Tucker, and Allie navigate college life and love.
Wealth, lust, and betrayal set in the backdrop of Regency era England, seen through the eyes of the powerful Bridgerton family.
An offbeat love story about campus life around An Ziyan and Mai Ding who start military training as college acquaintances. Mai Ding was the one who made the first move to An Ziyan, they have a good relationship and gradually felt sparks. But after their relationship strengthens, their relationship is obstructed by their family and friends. As a result, An Ziyan secretly asks for help from his ex-girlfriend Bai Xiaosi.
A chance encounter brings the Shen family to Yong'an City, where they meet Lin Yan, a magistrate. Their journey unfolds into a whimsical tale of gourmet delights, local traditions, and an unexpected romance.
A retiree spends nine years relentlessly seeking to prove that his son-in-law, a former Green Beret Army doctor, murdered his pregnant wife and two daughters.
Sherlock Holmes uses his abilities to take on cases by private clients and those that the Scotland Yard are unable to solve, along with his friend Dr. Watson.
The 4077th Mobile Army Surgical Hospital is stuck in the middle of the Korean war. With little help from the circumstances they find themselves in, they are forced to make their own fun. Fond of practical jokes and revenge, the doctors, nurses, administrators, and soldiers often find ways of making wartime life bearable.
Early 20th-century adventurers find themselves fighting for survival after their hot-air balloon crashes into a remote part of the Amazon, stranding them on a prehistoric plateau.
A simple story of our society which revolves around a lively girl, Kiran. Kiran is a fun and loving girl, yet she values herself a lot. Kiran’s parents accept the proposal of Sikander, who is in love with Kiran after meeting her for the first time in a marriage ceremony. After they both get married, Kiran falls madly in love with Sikander, but very soon she discovers a very strange and sudden change in her husband’s behavior.
A year after the disappearance of their son, Gabe and Eve Caleigh and their two daughters attempt to start anew, they head to Crickley Hall - a seemingly perfect countryside house. But when cellar doors start to open on their own, phantom children's cries are heard through the night and a frenzied cane-wielding specter rears its head - the Caleigh's realize the house comes with a lot more than they bargained for. Just as they're ready to move out, Eve Caleigh hears Cam's cries and all bets are off.
In 17th century France, young D'Artagnan wants to join the King's Musketeers, but instead befriends three legendary musketeers—Athos, Porthos, and Aramis—and together, they become embroiled in the political intrigue surrounding King Louis XIII and his adversaries, particularly the powerful Cardinal Richelieu.
Three "good girl" suburban wives and mothers suddenly find themselves in desperate circumstances and decide to stop playing it safe and risk everything to take their power back.
When Lucy Albright and Stephen DeMarco meet at college, they are at that formative age when seemingly mundane choices lead the way to irrevocable consequences. They quickly fall into an addictive entanglement that will permanently alter not only their lives, but the lives of everyone around them.
Inspired by John Ibrahim's best-selling autobiography, this series is an operatic story of two brothers, Sam and John Ibrahim who organize the street but lose each other in their ascent to power. The story tracks John Ibrahim's rise from a poverty-stricken immigrant with no education, no money, and no prospects, to Australia's most infamous nightclub mogul in Sydney's Kings Cross — a mini-Atlantic City, barely half a mile long with every form of criminality on offer.
The adventures of Miss Jane Marple, an elderly spinster living in the quiet little village of St Mary Mead. During her many visits to friends and relatives in other villages, Miss Marple often stumbles upon mysterious murders which she helps solve. Although the police are sometimes reluctant to accept Miss Marple's help, her reputation and unparalleled powers of observation eventually win them over.
In the worlds of politics, academia, and the beaches of Martha’s Vineyard, Talcott Garland is an Ivy League law professor whose quiet life is shattered when his father, Judge Oliver Garland, dies of an apparent heart attack. The nature of the judge’s death is questioned by Tal’s sister, Mariah, a former journalist and inveterate conspiracy theorist, who believes that the judge, a failed Black nominee to the Supreme Court, met with foul play.
A penniless mother makes an impulsive decision in the jewellery shop where she works, and is propelled into a different world.
The epic tale of a proud and passionate family, secret loves, and bloody revolution. The Trueba family's passions, struggles, and secrets span a century of violent social change, culminating in a crisis that hurls the proud, tyrannical patriarch and his beloved granddaughter towards opposite sides of the fence.
A college student is shot in Central Park on July 4, 2003. The investigation connects a series of mysterious citywide fires, the downtown music scene, and a wealthy uptown real estate family fraying under the strain of the many secrets they keep.
Karl Alberg moves to a quiet coastal town to soothe a psyche that has been battered by big-city police work but finds himself needing to call upon all his skills to solve the murders that continue to wash up on his shore.
It is 1986 and Britain is booming. "Rivals" dives headfirst into the cutthroat world of TV where hair-dos are big and ambitions are even bigger. Deals are brokered in boardrooms, as well as bedrooms. Nobody can be sure who will come out on top. With every man and woman out only for themselves, can true love really blossom?
Two college students, Frances and Bobbi, forge a strange and unexpected relationship with a married couple.
After being implicated in a deadly scandal, a trader at a leading London bank fights to clear his name, but instead uncovers an intercontinental conspiracy masterminded by powerful forces operating in the shadows.
A young hitchhiker introduces characters who are about to experience a frightening and sometimes supernatural incident of some kind in this moody anthology series.
This terrifying thriller follows widow Lisey Landon as a series of disturbing events revives memories of her marriage to author Scott Landon and the darkness that plagued him.
A mid-life crisis tale about the unlikely chairman of the English department in a badly underfunded college in the Pennsylvania rust belt.
A critical and often humorous look at the upper class, tracking the protagonist's harrowing odyssey from a deeply traumatic childhood through adult substance abuse and, ultimately, toward recovery.
The spirited and impulsive Charlotte Heywood moves from her rural home to Sanditon, a fishing village attempting to reinvent itself as a seaside resort.
A resilient girl with a tragic past and a heart of gold falls in love with a bad boy race car driver.
Through Julia Child’s life and her singular joie de vivre, the series explores a pivotal time in American history – the emergence of public television as a new social institution, feminism and the women's movement, the nature of celebrity and America's cultural evolution.
After a murder shatters the lives of three best friends, their decades-long bond is tested when an investigation reveals betrayals and shocking truths.
