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Great Literature on Film
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The Constant Gardener
(2005) [M]
In a remote area of Northern Kenya, activist Tessa Quayle (Rachel Weisz) is found brutally murdered. Tessa's travelling companion, an African doctor, appears to have fled the scene, and the evidence points to a crime of passion. Members of the British High Commission in Nairobi assume that... More
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Hamlet
(1969) [G]
Nicol Williamson's portrayal of Hamlet was greeted with storms of applause on both the London and Broadway stage. This performance is here captured on film by director Tony Richardson, bringing life to William Shakespeare's immortal play. More
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Sons and Lovers
(1960) [PG]
A visual masterpiece, this is a sensitive tale of the damage caused by people to each other, in the name of love. Adapted from the autobiographical novel of D.H.Lawrence, a Nottinghamshire coal-mining town during the early years of the century provides a close-knit community where what the... More
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Ben-Hur: 4 Disc Special Edition (Discs 1 & 2 of 4)
(1959) [PG]
Ben-Hur: The 1959 movie on 2 discs:
After his boyhood friend Messala's fanatic loyalty to Rome makes him a powerful enemy, Jewish nobleman Judah Ben-Hur (Charlton Heston) is found guilty of an attempted murder he did not commit. His family is banished and he is enslaved on a warship. Yet,... More
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War of the Worlds (2005 2 disc set)
(2005) [M]
An earth-shattering adventure that both "rivets and amazes" (Michael Wilmington, Chicago Tribune), War of the Worlds reunites superstar Tom Cruise and Academy Award-winning director Steven Spielberg for one of the most awe-inspiring cinematic experiences of all time! A contemporary retelling of... More
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The Old Man Who Read Love Stories
(2001) [M]
In the town of El Idilio, buried deep in the jungle on the bank of a small Amazon tributary, lives 60 year old Antonio Bolivar (Richard Dreyfuss). Antonio has lived most of his life in the jungle and knows it intimately. A recluse, he has discovered a quiet passion for romantic tales, which he... More
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The Innocents
(1961) [PG]
Adapted from the Henry James novel 'Turn of the Screw'. Miss Giddens (Deborah Kerr), a repressed spinster-governess, looks after two small children in a lonely mansion haunted by tragedy in this ground breaking horror classic. Widely considered to be the finest ghost story ever filmed, The... More
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The Name of the Rose
(1986) [MA]
Based on Umberto Eco's award-winning bestseller, The Name of the Rose is a chilling tale of dark deeds and murderous mayhem within the shadowy cloisters and forbidding battlements of a 14th-century Italian medieval monastery. One monk has fallen to his death. Or was he pushed? Another is... More
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For the Term of his Natural Life (2 disc set)
(1982) [PG]
For the first time on DVD! Television mini-series set in 1830's England, a young man from a good but troubled family is unjustly convicted of stealing a watch. He's transported to Van Dieman's Land (Tasmania) where he suffers under the enmity of Lt. Frere while falling in love with Sylvia, the... More
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Anna Karenina (1948)
(1948) [PG]
After falling in love with a Russian army officer, Anna scandalizes Moscow by leaving her husband and child to carry on the affair. But when her forbidden lover's ardour cools, she finds herself outcast by an unforgiving society. When her husband refuses to give her a divorce, Anna - in one of... More
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Vanity Fair
(2004) [PG]
One of the great female characters of English literature returns to the big screen. This fresh film version of the classic novel by William Makepeace Thackeray introduces a new audience to the beautiful, funny, passionate and calculating Rebecca (Becky) Sharp (Reese Witherspoon). The daughter of... More
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Billion Dollar Brain
(1967) [PG]
Ken Russell directs this third outing for Len Deighton's spy Harry Palmer. Some time has passed since Harry Palmer (Michael Caine) was in the employment of the British Government and he refuses to go back despite a "friendly" offer from his old boss Colonel Ross (Guy Doleman). However when Harry... More
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The Human Stain
(2003) [M]
Academy Award® winners Anthony Hopkins (The Silence Of The Lambs*) and Nicole Kidman (The Hours**) along with Gary Sinise (Forrest Gump) and Ed Harris (The Hours) star in the dramatic thriller THE HUMAN STAIN, based on the Philip Roth novel and directed by Academy Award® winner Robert Benton... More
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The Day of the Locust
(1974) [M]
Nathaneal West’s novel about Hollywood decadence in the late ‘30’s is a brilliant piece of filmmaking. A deeply insightful work that is powerful in its presentation, staggering in its vision. Director John Schlesinger is masterful in creating a world of platinum blondes, cockfights, glamour... More
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Under the Tuscan Sun
(2003) [M]
Diane Lane plays a San Francisco author whose recent divorce leaves her suffering from depression and a nasty case of writer's block. On the advice of her best friend (Sandra Oh), the 35-year-old woman takes a vacation to the Tuscany region of Italy. She likes it there so much that she buys a... More
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The Man from Snowy River 2
(1988) [PG]
In this sequel to The Man From Snowy River, a frontiersman returns to the Australian highlands after a three-year absence to claim the girl he left behind. He soon discovers he has made an enemy in her father and a rival in an arrogant banker's son. After spending some time away from his... More
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The Cat in the Hat
(2004) [PG]
Mike Myers stars in the title role of Dr. Seuss' The Cat in the Hat, the film adaptation of the beloved literary classic. The Cat in the Hat by Dr. Seuss was first published in 1957, and remains one of the top ten best-selling hardcover children's books of all time. The mischievous feline visitor... More
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Veronica Guerin
(2003) [MA]
Golden Globe winner Cate Blanchett (The Lord Of The Rings, Elizabeth) stars in VERONICA GUERIN, the critically acclaimed, powerful and poignant true story about a journalist who risked her life in search of the truth. In the mid-1990s, Dublin was nothing short of a war zone, with a few powerful... More
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Bright Young Things
(2003) [M]
Known to the press, who follow their every move, as the "Bright Young Things", Adam and his friends are eccentric, wild and entirely shocking to the older generation. They are young, party-going creatures embracing innovations like the gramophone record and the telephone as the self-consciously... More
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Sylvia
(2003) [M]
In Sylvia, Gwyneth Paltrow plays Sylvia Plath, a Cambridge student with some poems already published when she meets Ted Hughes (Daniel Craig). Attracted to each other and full of mutual passion and fire the two quickly fall in love and marry. The film explores their troubled and ultimately tragic... More
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Nicholas Nickleby
(2002) [M]
Young Nicholas and his family enjoy a comfortable life, until Nicholas' father dies and the family is left penniless. Nicholas, his sister and mother venture to London to seek help from their Uncle Ralph, but Ralph's only intentions are to separate the family and exploit them. Nicholas is sent to... More
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Amadeus: The Director's Cut
(1984) [PG]
It's 1781 and Antonio Salieri is the competent court composer to Emperor Joseph II. When Mozart arrives at court, Salieri is horrified to discover that the godlike musical gifts he desires for himself have been bestowed on a bawdy, impish jokester. Maddened by envy, he plots to destroy Mozart by... More
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West Side Story (Special Edition) (2 Disc Set)
(1961) [PG]
Winner of no less than ten 1961 Academy Awards, including a special Oscar for Jerome Robbins for his choreography, West Side Story is Shakespeare's 'Romeo and Juliet' transported to the slums and racial tensions of contemporary New York. A tough and trenchant musical, its highlights include a... More
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West Side Story
(1961) [PG]
Winner of no less than ten 1961 Academy Awards, including a special Oscar for Jerome Robbins for his choreography, West Side Story is Shakespeare's 'Romeo and Juliet' transported to the slums and racial tensions of contemporary New York. A tough and trenchant musical, its highlights include a... More
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Lost in La Mancha (2 Disc Set)
(2002) [M]
In August 2000, master filmmaker Terry Gilliam finally got his oppurtunity to create his dream film he laboured for a decade, The Man Who Killed Don Quixote. Assembling his film crew, he prepares his production in what promises to be the biggest budgeted feature film using only European... More
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A Farewell To Arms
(1957) [PG]
In the Winter of 1917 an American ambulance driver (Rock Hudson) enlists in the Italian army and is wounded in action. He is gradually restored to health by a beautiful young nurse (Jennifer Jones). When they find themselves falling in love, they try to escape the horrors of the war by fleeing to... More
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