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Easy Virtue (2008)
(2008) [M]
Late 1920s England. Young upper-class John Whittaker (Ben Barnes) returns home from holiday married to the wrong sort of girl. Larita (Jessica Biel) is a widow and a racing car driver, sophisticated, fiercely independent and - gasp! - American. John's frosty mother Veronica (Kristen Scott... More
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Brideshead Revisited
(2008) [PG]
Whilst at Oxford University a chance encounter with the charming and decadent Sebastian Flyte, son of Lord Marchmain, draws Charles Ryder into the exclusive world of British high society. For the impressionable Charles, Sebastian's world of money, glamour and outrageous behaviour makes for a... More
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Othello (2007)
(2007) [PG]
Performed for the first time at Shakespeare's Globe Theatre, with its racing concentrated plot and intense dramatic detail, Othello is one of Shakespeare's most exciting, atmospheric and heartbreaking plays.
This is a tale of uncontrollable jealousy, deception and murder driven by one... More
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Love in the Time of Cholera
(2007) [M]
In Colombia just after the Great War, an old man falls from a ladder; dying, he professes great love for his wife. After the funeral, a man calls on the widow - she dismisses him angrily. Flash back more than 50 years to the day Florentino Ariza, a telegraph boy, falls in love with Fermina Daza,... More
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The Duchess
(2008) [M]
Based on the remarkable, true story of the beautiful, powerful and notoriously scandalous Duchess of Devonshire. The Duchess unfolds the tale of a woman who became one of the world’s first celebrities, who was adored by all the people of England, save one: her husband, the Duke. Once she... More
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Monkey Magic
(2007) [M]
The "irrepressible" Monkey is back in a brand new adventure! Again we find our favourite companions on their journey headed west.
On the way they encounter a beautiful princess Reimi from the Tiger Kingdom which has been ravaged and turned into a desert wasteland by two evil brothers... More
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Moliere
(2007) [PG]
Beginning in Paris the 22-year-old Jean Baptiste Poquelin, also known as Moliere, is not yet the writer that history recognises as the father and true master of comic satire. Far from it. He is, in fact, a failed actor.
Director Laurent Tirard roots the story in an intriguing fact... More
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Une vieille maitresse (An Old Mistress)
(2007) [R]
Set in 1835 - the century in which LES LIAISONS DANGEREUSES was penned - AN OLD MISTRESS is a Parisian tale of lust, longing and the torments of passion.
Vicomte de Prony, a dapper aristocrat, loves nothing more than to observe and comment upon the romances of his similarly... More
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My Boy Jack
(2007)
It's 1914. Rudyard Kipling (David Haig from Four Weddings And A Funeral), the British Empire's greatest supporter, is at the peak of his literary fame. Kipling's son, Jack (Daniel Radcliffe from the Harry Potter films), is determined to play his part in the imminent war with Germany, but finds... More
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There Will Be Blood (Blu-Ray)
(2007) [M]
The story chronciles the life and times of one Daniel Plainview (Daniel Day-Lewis), who transforms himself from a down and out silver miner raising a son on his own into a self-made oil tycoon.
When Plainview gets a mysterious tip off that there's a little town out West where an ocean of oil... More
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There Will Be Blood
(2007) [M]
The story chronciles the life and times of one Daniel Plainview (Daniel Day-Lewis), who transforms himself from a down and out silver miner raising a son on his own into a self-made oil tycoon.
When Plainview gets a mysterious tip off that there's a little town out West where an ocean of oil... More
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Braveheart
(1995) [MA]
Rousing Hollywood epic about Scottish rebels fighting English oppression. Packed with idyllic scenery and brutally realistic battles. William Wallace (Mel Gibson) sets out to avenge the deaths of his Scottish relatives by raising an army and taking on the might of the English More
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The Last Emperor (Director's Cut)
(1987) [M]
Bernardo Bertolucci’s masterpiece won nine Oscars (including Best Picture and Best Director), and remains one of the greatest historical dramas ever put to film. This sweeping cinematic spectacle follows the tumultuous life of Pu Yi, the last Chinese emperor, from his elite origins in the... More
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Two English Girls
(1971) [M]
Among the great Francois Truffaut films, this lavish period drama follows a doomed romantic triangle and is inevitably compared to Jules and Jim, another three-way love story based on a novel by Henri-Pierre Roche. Truffaut regular Jean-Pierre Leaud (who played Antoine Doinel in five Truffaut... More
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The Umbrella Woman
(1987) [M]
Marge, a sensuous but proper wife, lives with her quiet lumberjack husband Sonny in a remote Aussie town. Lonely and unfulfilled, Marge is both aroused and revolted when the town’s sexy new bartender, Neville, unsuccessfully forces his attentions on her.
However, with her passions unleashed... More
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A Breath of Scandal
(1960) [G]
It's 1907 in Vienna, the "City of the Waltz." Beautiful Sophia Loren is the Austrian princess who, despite her exile from the familial estate for "scandalous indiscretions," scorns her mother's wish to marry a prince. Instead, she sets her sights on handsome John Gavin, a visiting American mining... More
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Black Venus
(1983) [R]
Former Miss Bahamas Josephine Jacqueline Jones sparked an international firestorm with her debut starring role as Venus, the stunning ebony seductress whom no man - or woman - can possibly resist. But when Venus becomes the muse and lover of an impoverished young sculptor, she succumbs to a... More
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The Duchess of Duke Street - BBC TV (Disc 5 of 5)
(1976) [PG]
London at the turn of the century is a city of horse-drawn cabs, gas lighting, great wealth and even greater poverty… and it's a city of opportunity for scullery maid Louisa Trotter, who rises to become hostess, entertainer and friend of princes and kings.
Beautifully presented in a... More
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The Duchess of Duke Street - BBC TV (Disc 4 of 5)
(1976) [PG]
London at the turn of the century is a city of horse-drawn cabs, gas lighting, great wealth and even greater poverty… and it's a city of opportunity for scullery maid Louisa Trotter, who rises to become hostess, entertainer and friend of princes and kings.
Beautifully presented in a... More
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The Duchess of Duke Street - BBC TV (Disc 3 of 5)
(1976) [PG]
London at the turn of the century is a city of horse-drawn cabs, gas lighting, great wealth and even greater poverty… and it's a city of opportunity for scullery maid Louisa Trotter, who rises to become hostess, entertainer and friend of princes and kings.
Beautifully presented in a... More
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The Duchess of Duke Street - BBC TV (Disc 2 of 5)
(1976) [PG]
London at the turn of the century is a city of horse-drawn cabs, gas lighting, great wealth and even greater poverty… and it's a city of opportunity for scullery maid Louisa Trotter, who rises to become hostess, entertainer and friend of princes and kings.
Beautifully presented in a... More
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The Duchess of Duke Street - BBC TV (Disc 1 of 5)
(1976) [PG]
London at the turn of the century is a city of horse-drawn cabs, gas lighting, great wealth and even greater poverty… and it's a city of opportunity for scullery maid Louisa Trotter, who rises to become hostess, entertainer and friend of princes and kings.
Beautifully presented in a... More
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Pride and Prejudice: BBC TV mini-series (2 disc set)
(1995) [G]
The arrival of the wealthy Mr Darcy in the neighbourhood causes great excitement within the Bennet family. One of her five daughters, Mrs Bennet feels, is sure to capture the heart of the wealthy young aristocrat.
Judging him on first impressions and the malicious gossip of friends, she... More
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The Others (2 Disc Set)
(2001) [M]
A woman named Grace retires with her two children to a mansion on Jersey, towards the end of the Second World War, where she's waiting for her husband to come back from battle. The children have a disease which means they cannot be touched by direct sunlight without being hurt in some way. They... More
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The Forsyte Saga - Series 2: To Let (2 disc set)
(2003) [M]
To Let Continues the powerful story of the Fosyte Saga, a bitter legacy of power, money, love and betrayal.
It is twenty years since Queen Victoria died and while Soames Forsyte struggles with the spirit of the social revolution following WW1, his daughter Fleur is falling in love. With no... More
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The Forsyte Saga : Series 1 (2 disc set)
(2002) [M]
All 6 episodes from the first series on 2 DVDs. A classic of English literature, The Forsyte Saga paints a fascinating picture of early twentieth century London life, charting the progress of a great dynasty from the height of the Victorian era through the turbulent transition into the modern... More
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Chokher Bali
(2003) [PG]
Mahendra is a doctor circa British rule in India, who lives a comfortable life in a city in Bengal (which is now known as Bangla Desh). He is friendly with a young man, a bachelor named Behari. Both Mahendra and Behari are of marriage age, and do get a lot of proposals. One day they receive a... More
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Samurai III - Duel At Ganryu Island
(1956) [M]
The final instalment of the Oscar winning Samurai trilogy follows the hero Musahi Miyamoto on his quest for enlightenment. Renouncing his samurai skills in favor of a search for inner peace, Musahsi is drawn into protecting a village from violent bandits. Followed by the obsessive swordsman... More
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Wuthering Heights (Granada-TV)
(1998) [M]
Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights remains one of the most powerful and passionate novels ever written. It is a classic tale of love, jealousy and pain that defies social boundaries and challenges death itself.
This acclaimed adaptation of Bronte's classic novel stars Orla Brandy (The Heart... More
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Tess of the D'Urbervilles
(1998) [M]
This made-for-T.V. movie is based very closely on Thomas Hardy's novel. The film stars Teresa "Tess" Derbeyfield, the sinister Alec D'Urbervilles, and the handsome Angel Clair, with the bleak background of rural Victorian England. Follow Tess through her life, starting as a young and naive... More
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