九岁的小女孩玛丽（艾丽·范宁 Elle Fanning 饰）拥有锦衣玉食的生活，却缺乏父母的陪伴。圣诞节前夜，玛丽收到了叔叔送来的一份珍贵礼物——一个装木偶的小房子和一只胡桃夹子。喜出望外的玛丽将胡桃夹子视作自己的知心伙伴，竟意外地发…

民国年间，以制炮竹致富的大户人家唯一继承人春枝自小被当作男孩抚养，因此长大后仍然是长袍马褂的男装穿戴族老们为防家产落入异姓人手上，在春枝父亲死后作出她永不得嫁人，否则无权继承产业的规定。青年画匠牛宝到春枝家做画，引起了春…

After living in Australia for the past decade, Fitz and Judith return to Manchester in 2004 for their daughter Katie's wedding. Drinking too much at the reception, Fitz stumbles through a rambling toast, which only embar…

Tina and Sean are two of societies rejects. Tina hates her parents and has moved out, living in a squat. Sean stutters badly except when he sings or is angry, which is the case most of the time. They meet in a pub one ni…

The police have a serial killer on their hands. Two women have been killed in virtually identical circumstances, with their throats slit by what they believe is a straight razor. When they find a man unconscious on the s…

Fitz has to increase his lectures at several universities as he is broke. The attentions of one of his pupils leave him unaffected until he realises that she may be involved in murder and harming his family.

Fitz, Penhaligon and the other officers at Anson Road C.I.D. attend Jimmy Beck’s funeral. Fitz meets Beck’s sister who asks him how her brother had gone so badly wr…

After having sex with a prostitute, David Harvey kills her when he finds he is unable to pay and she threatens to tell his wife. The case becomes complicated however when a second prostitute is killed and the forensic ev…