Screenwriter Andrew Davies describes Tipping the Velvet, his adaptation of Sarah Waters's acclaimed novel of lesbian love, betrayal and redemption in Victorian England, as "Pride and Prejudice with dirty bits". This three-part BBC production chronicles with relish the story of Nan Astley (Rachael Stirling, the ravishing image of her mother, Diana Rigg), barely 18, and certain that ...

Manufacturer: Contender Entertainment Group
Starring: Rachael Stirling, Keeley Hawes, Anna Chancellor, Jodhi May, Hugh Bonneville
Directed By: Geoffrey Sax

If the third season was marked by transitions, The L Word's fourth concerns growing up--or trying to, at any rate. Shane (Katherine Moennig) becomes her brother Shay's guardian, Bette (Jennifer Beals) and Tina (Laurel Holloman) stop fighting over their daughter Angelica, and Bette's new boss, Phyllis (a very game Cybill Shepherd), decides it's time to embrace her true nature. So, after 25 ...

Manufacturer: MGM Entertainment
Starring: Jennifer Beals, Leisha Hailey, Laurel Holloman, Mia Kirshner, Katherine Moennig

Manufacturer: TLA Releasing
Starring: Brad Rowe, Tina Holmes
Directed By: Jonah Markowitz

Manufacturer: MGM Entertainment
Starring: Terence Stamp, Hugo Weaving, Guy Pearce, Bill Hunter
Directed By: Stephan Elliott

In his aim to make an honest film about sex, John Cameron Mitchell (Hedwig and the Angry Inch) has taken a somewhat documentary approach to Shortbus, a film describing various New Yorkers' sexual pathos. Framed by shots roving a homemade diorama of the city, Shortbus is comprised of vignettes featuring actors who helped craft this story of people's disconnect in sexual ...

Manufacturer: Universal Pictures Video
Starring: Yolanda Ross, Lindsay Beamish, Sook-Yin Lee, Paul Dawson, PJ DeBoy
Directed By: John Cameron Mitchell

A sad, melancholy ache pervades Brokeback Mountain, Ang Lee's haunting, moving film that, like his other movies, explores societal constraints and the passions that lurk underneath. This time, however, instead of taking on ancient China, 19th-century England, or '70s suburbia, Lee uses the tableau of the American West in the early '60s to show how two lovers are bound by their expected ...

Manufacturer: Entertainment in Video
Starring: Jake Gyllenhaal, Heath Ledger, Michelle Williams, Anne Hathaway, Randy Quaid
Directed By: Ang Lee

Manufacturer: TLA Releasing
Starring: Charlie David, Jon Fleming, Thea Gill, Gregory Michael, William Gregory Lee

Manufacturer: Freemantle
Starring: Sally Hawkins, Elaine Cassidy, Rupert Evans, Charles Dance, Estelle Harris
Directed By: Aisling Walsh

The drama was poured on aplenty in the second season of The O.C. , as the sun-dappled denizens of Orange County found their lives massively upended and then some. At the end of the first season, the Cohen household had been reduced to two--parents Sandy and Kirsten (Peter Gallagher and Kelly Rowan)--as the boys had flown the coop, moody Ryan (Benjamin McKenzie) back to Chino and goofy Seth ...

Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Starring: Peter Gallagher, Chris Carmack, Kelly Rowan, Benjamin McKenzie, Mischa Barton

Manufacturer: Sony Pictures Home Ent. UK
Starring: Lucy Liu, Frances O'Connor, Miranda Otto, Bonnie Sommerville