A Passionate Woman

A Passionate Woman

2010•1h 30m•5.9/10

Drama

Ratings

🎬TMDb

5.9/10(11)

1950s period drama based on the true story of a housewife and mother whose life is turned upside down by a handsome Polish man at her local dance hall.

Open in PickFlick

Language

EN

Status

Ended

First Aired

April 11, 2010

Last Aired

April 18, 2010

Networks

BBC One

Trailers & Videos

Where to Watch

Region US · Lang EN

US

No providers available for this region.

Seasons & Episodes

Select a season to view episodes. Reddit links may contain spoilers.

Season

Part 1

E1

Part 1

Air date: 2010-04-11

Housewife Betty's world is turned upside down when she meets a handsome Polish man.

Part 2

E2

Part 2

Air date: 2010-04-18

An unexpected revelation reveals the consequences of Betty's past affair.

Cast

Sue Johnston

Sue Johnston

Betty (1980s)

Billie Piper

Billie Piper

Betty (1950s)

Joe Armstrong

Joe Armstrong

Donald (1950s)

Alun Armstrong

Alun Armstrong

Donald (1980s)

Theo James

Theo James

Craze

Kelly Harrison

Kelly Harrison

Moira

Recommended

Privileged

Privileged

Megan Smith, a smart and quirky young assistant at a glossy magazine, is fired when her Yale education proves detrimental to getting ahead in the world of tabloid journalism. Her boss takes pity on her and arranges an interview with the wealthy Laurel Limoges to be a live-in tutor for her twin teen granddaughters. The beautiful and rebellious twins are less-than-thrilled with their new tutor, but Megan is determined to win them over as she enjoys the perks of her new job - breathtaking private suite, gorgeous car and live-in chef.

Privileged

2008

7.1

Breaking Bad

Breaking Bad

Walter White, a New Mexico chemistry teacher, is diagnosed with Stage III cancer and given a prognosis of only two years left to live. He becomes filled with a sense of fearlessness and an unrelenting desire to secure his family's financial future at any cost as he enters the dangerous world of drugs and crime.

Breaking Bad

2008

8.9

Brooklyn Nine-Nine

Brooklyn Nine-Nine

A single-camera ensemble comedy following the lives of an eclectic group of detectives in a New York precinct, including one slacker who is forced to shape up when he gets a new boss.

Brooklyn Nine-Nine

2013

8.2

Wednesday

Wednesday

Smart, sarcastic and a little dead inside, Wednesday Addams investigates twisted mysteries while making new friends — and foes — at Nevermore Academy.

Wednesday

2022

8.4

The Office

The Office

Nightmare boss. Tedious colleagues. Pointless tasks. Welcome to Wernham Hogg. Fancy a tea break with David Brent? Classic comedy from the archive.

The Office

2001

7.8

Stranger Things

Stranger Things

When a young boy vanishes, a small town uncovers a mystery involving secret experiments, terrifying supernatural forces, and one strange little girl.

Stranger Things

2016

8.6

Love, Death & Robots

Love, Death & Robots

Terrifying creatures, wicked surprises and dark comedy converge in this NSFW anthology of animated stories presented by Tim Miller and David Fincher.

Love, Death & Robots

2019

8.2

The IT Crowd

The IT Crowd

The comedic misadventures of Roy, Moss, and their grifting supervisor Jen, a 'motley crew' of IT support workers at a large corporation headed by a hotheaded yuppie.

The IT Crowd

2006

8.2

The Man in the High Castle

The Man in the High Castle

Explore what it would be like if the Allied Powers had lost WWII, and Japan and Germany ruled the United States. Based on Philip K. Dick's award-winning novel.

The Man in the High Castle

2015

7.5

Seinfeld

Seinfeld

A stand-up comedian and his three offbeat friends weather the pitfalls and payoffs of life in New York City in the '90s. It's a show about nothing.

Seinfeld

1989

8.3

The Addams Family

The Addams Family

A satirical inversion of the ideal of the perfect American nuclear family, they are an eccentric wealthy family who delight in everything grotesque and macabre, and are never really aware that people find them bizarre or frightening. In fact, they themselves are often terrified by "normal" people.

The Addams Family

1964

8.0

CSI: Crime Scene Investigation

CSI: Crime Scene Investigation

A Las Vegas team of forensic investigators are trained to solve criminal cases by scouring the crime scene, collecting irrefutable evidence and finding the missing pieces that solve the mystery.

CSI: Crime Scene Investigation

2000

7.6

Similar TV Shows

Velvet

Velvet

In 1950s Spain, the heir to a fashion house romances a beautiful seamstress who works for the company, despite the objections of his family.

Velvet

2014

6.2

Carnivàle

Carnivàle

Carnivàle is an American television series set in the United States during the Great Depression and Dust Bowl. In tracing the lives of two disparate groups of people, its overarching story depicts the battle between good and evil and the struggle between free will and destiny; the storyline mixes Christian theology with gnosticism and Masonic lore, particularly that of the Knights Templar.

Carnivàle

2003

7.9

ANZAC Girls

ANZAC Girls

The unique, and rarely told true stories of Australian and New Zealand nurses serving at Gallipoli and the Western Front during the First World War.

ANZAC Girls

2014

7.3

Grantchester

Grantchester

In 1953 at the hamlet of Grantchester, Sidney Chambers—a charismatic, charming clergyman—turns investigative vicar when one of his parishioners dies in suspicious circumstances.

Grantchester

2014

7.3

The Little Murders of Agatha Christie

The Little Murders of Agatha Christie

French adaptations of the stories by Agatha Christie.

The Little Murders of Agatha Christie

2009

7.4

In Cold Blood

In Cold Blood

At the end of the 1950s, in a more innocent America, the brutal, meaningless slaying of a Midwestern family horrified the nation. This film is based on Truman Capote's hauntingly detailed, psychologically penetrating nonfiction novel. While in prison, Dick Hickock, 20, hears a cell-mate's story about $10,000 in cash kept in a home safe by a prosperous rancher. When he's paroled, Dick persuades ex-con Perry Smith, also 20, to join him in going after the stash. On a November night in 1959, Dick and Perry break into the Holcomb, Kansas, house of Herb Clutter. Enraged at finding no safe, they wake the sleeping family and brutally kill them all. The bodies are found by two friends who come by before Sunday church. The murders shock the small Great Plains town, where doors are routinely left unlocked. Detective Alvin Dewey of the Kansas Bureau of Investigation heads the case, but there are no clues, no apparent motive and no suspects...

In Cold Blood

1996

6.0

Shadow Detective

Shadow Detective

In 1930s Shanghai, detective Guan Cen and university student Lu Yizhen, meet during an investigation into a mysterious death at a women’s dormitory. Two years later, Lu Yizhen becomes one of Shanghai’s first female police officers, working directly under Guan Cen. Together, they reopen an unresolved child kidnapping case, uncovering hidden truths and confronting the shadows of the past.

Shadow Detective

2025

8.0

The Tailor

The Tailor

A famous tailor begins to sew a wedding dress for his best friend’s fiancée – but all three have dark secrets that will soon upend their lives.

The Tailor

2023

7.3

Land Girls

Land Girls

The lives, loves and highs and lows of four members of the Women's Land Army working at the Hoxley Estate during World War II.

Land Girls

2009

7.8

Six Sisters

Six Sisters

Six sisters of an upper-class Spanish family experience difficulties in taking over the family's fabrics business after their father's death in 1913.

Six Sisters

2015

6.2

Hell on Wheels

Hell on Wheels

The epic story of post-Civil War America, focusing on Cullen Bohannon, a Confederate soldier who sets out to exact revenge on the Union soldiers who killed his wife. His journey takes him west to Hell on Wheels, a dangerous, raucous, lawless melting pot of a town that travels with and services the construction of the first transcontinental railroad, an engineering feat unprecedented for its time.

Hell on Wheels

2011

7.6

Garrow's Law

Garrow's Law

The true tale of pioneering 18th century barrister William Garrow, who acted as counsel for the accused, introducing the concept of 'innocent until proved guilty' at London's Old Bailey.

Garrow's Law

2009

7.4