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Desperate Romantics (2009)

TV Series · Drama · ⭐ 7.4/10 · 1 season

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.

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