Clarissa

Vice was his weapon, virtue hers. Love would destroy them both.

Based on the towering 18th-century novel by Samuel Richardson - the original tale of fatal attraction and the model for all literary dangerous liaisons to come - this acclaimed BBC production features an impressive line-up of stars, including Sean Bean (The Lord of the Rings trilogy, Troy, Lady Chatterley), Saskia Wickham (Angels & Insects, Peak Practice), Hermione Norris (Cold Feet), and Sean Pertwee (Cadfael, Dog Soldiers).

Sean Bean plays Lovelace, a handsome rake determined to seduce - and thus destroy - the beautiful young virgin Clarissa Harlowe (Wickham), a wealthy heiress famed for her virtue. As Clarissa is forced by her scheming family into the predatory Lovelace's arms, it seems certain that he will succeed. But Lovelace has failed to reckon with both Clarissa's strength of character and his one fatal weakness: his own heart. For the first time in his life, he becomes genuinely infatuated with his prey - a failing that drives him to new heights of decadence and sows the seed of his own destruction.