Elizabeth Spriggs

Sir John Falstaff devises a plan to seduce both Mistress Page and Mistress Ford, the wives of two wealthy burgesses of Windsor. But the ladies resolve to play a number of cruel tricks on him and he soon finds himself the butt of their jokes. As his humiliation escalates, Falstaff's hopes are finally and cruelly dashed late one night in Windsor Forest.

A strike of 30,000 clothing industry workers stands for a commendable cause, but is undermined by the union itself.

The presence of a strange old lady at Violet Moon's séance awakens a spirit she hoped would sleep forever and her plots and plans to keep the past from catching up with her become more and more outrageous. Sinister sibling rivalry, bitter jealousy, clandestine passions, ghostly revenge and murderous intentions conspire to create a complex thriller with chilling psychological implications.

A young Austrian comedian struggles with the nightmare of his family's past and the memory of his sister, who died in a Nazi concentration camp.

Facing poverty after their father's death, three sisters are obliged to rely on the generosity of others in this adaptation of the Jane Austen novel.