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David Copperfield (BBC)
(1999) [PG]

Charles Dickens' haunting semi-autobiographical tale of a boy who is sent away by his stepfather after his mother dies but manages to triumph over incredible adversities.  More

The Charge Of The Light Brigade (1936)
(1936) [PG]

Alfred Tennyson's epic poem of the heroic charge at Balaclava during the Crimea War (1853 - 1856), is brought to the screen in all its magnificence and glory. Errol Flynn and Olivia De Haviland head a a stellar cast in this fictionalised portrayal of the events leading to the still unanswered...  More

Snow Falling On Cedars
(1999) [M]

In December 1950, a Japanese-American man named Kazuo Miyamoto is discovered dead in the icy waters, and his friend Carl Heine is the suspected murderer. As the trial gets under way, newspaper journalist Ishmael Chambers (Ethan Hawke) is assigned to cover the proceedings. It is challenging for...  More

The Talented Mr Ripley
(1999) [M]

Nominated for Five Academy Awards in 1999, the Talented Mr Ripely was billed as one of the best films of that year. To be young and carefree amid the idyllic landscape of sun-drenched Italy in the late 1950s... that's la dolce vita Tom Ripley (Damon) craves - and Dickie Greenleaf (Law) leads....  More

The End Of The Affair
(1999) [MA]

When brooding novelist Maurice Bendrix (Ralph Fiennes) meets Mrs Sarah Miles (Julianne Moore) in 1939 war-torn London, their attraction is instant and the two begin a passionate, illicit affair. Their love seems as powerful as the bombs exploding around them, until the day Sarah suddenly and...  More

Angela's Ashes
(1999) [M]

Angela's Ashes tells a powerful, autobiographical story of one boys' upbringing in the 1930s. Born in Brooklyn to recent Irish immigrants, Frank grew up in Limerick after his parents (Robert Carlyle and Emily Watson) returned to Ireland disillusioned with future prospects in America. Based on...  More

Mansfield Park
(1999) [M]

At 10, Fanny Price, a poor relation, goes to live at Mansfield Park, the estate of her aunt's husband, Sir Thomas. Clever, studious, and a writer with an ironic imagination and fine moral compass, she becomes especially close to Edmund, Thomas's younger son. Fanny is soon possessed of beauty as...  More

The Virgin Suicides
(1999) [MA]

Based on the novel by Jeffrey Eugenides, then adapted for the screen and directed by Sofia Coppola, The Virgin Suicides is a story about five sisters and their mysterious existence, told in the words of the neighborhood boys who worshiped them from a distance. It is a solitary story of the girls...  More

Wives And Daughters (2 disc set)
(1999) [PG]

Wives and Daughters is a novel by Elizabeth Gaskell, first published in the Cornhill Magazine as a serial from August 1864 to January 1866 and adapted for television by the BBC in 1999.

The story revolves around Molly Gibson, only daughter of a widowed doctor living in a provincial...  More

All The Pretty Horses
(2000) [M]

Academy Award-winner Matt Damon stars in director Billy Bob Thornton’s action-filled tale of love and loss based on Cormac McCarthy’s best-selling novel. John Grady Cole (Damon) and his best friend Lacey Rawlins (Henry Thomas) leave Texas and head south of the border in search of adventure...  More