Desperate Romantics (2009)
2009 · 1 season · Drama
Six-part drama series set in and among the alleys, galleries and flesh-houses of 19th-century industrial London, following the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, a vagabond group of English painters, poets and critics.
Starring Aidan Turner, Rafe Spall, Tom Hollander, Samuel Barnett and Sam Crane.
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