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Great Literature on Film

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20,000 Leagues Under the Sea

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20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
(1954) [PG]


The oceans during the late 1860-92s are no longer safe; many ships have been lost. Sailors have returned to port with stories of a vicious narwhal (a giant whale with a long horn) which sinks their ships. A naturalist, Professor (Pierre) Aronnax, his assistant, Conseil, and a professional whaler,...  More


 
Daisy Miller

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Daisy Miller
(1974) [G]


Cybill Shepherd is Daisy Miller, a woman who did as she pleased, but seldom pleased anyone except herself. Peter Bogdanovich's Daisy Miller is adapted from Henry James’ classic novella about an expatriate American living abroad in Europe with her daffy mother and bratty kid brother. Daisy is...  More


 
Nowhere in Africa

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Nowhere in Africa
(2001) [MA]


A beautifully realised World War II-set love story spanning two continents, Nowhere In Africa (the 2003 Oscar winner of Best Foreign Language Film) is the extraordinary true tale of a Jewish family who flee the Nazi regime at the very last moment for a remote farm in Kenya. Torn from her...  More


 
The Four Feathers

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The Four Feathers
(2002) [MA]


Set in 1898 Sudan, this fifth film to be adapted from the A.E.W. Mason novel follows a British officer who resigns his post right before his regiment ships out to battle the rebels. Perceiving his resignation as cowardice, his friends and fiancee give him four white feathers, the symbol of...  More


 
Jack Kerouac: On The Road With The King Of The Beats

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Jack Kerouac: On The Road With The King Of The Beats
(2001) [PG]


This is the award - winning biography of the King of the Beat Generation. Jack Kerouac's writings, including his extraordinary novel "On The Road," took American literature to new levels of creativity and in the process inspired unprecedented social and cultural change. Kerouac's life is examined...  More


 
The Lord Of The Rings: The Two Towers  (2 disc set)

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The Lord Of The Rings: The Two Towers (2 disc set)
(2002) [M]


Sauron's forces increase. His allies grow. The Ringwraiths return in an even more frightening form. Saruman's army of Uruk Hai is ready to launch an assault against Aragorn and the people of Rohan. Yet, the Fellowship is broken and Boromir is dead. For the little hope that is left, Frodo and Sam...  More


 
The Importance Of Being Earnest

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The Importance Of Being Earnest
(2002) [G]


Starring Reese Witherspoon, Colin Firth and Rupert Everett, here is the hilarious adventure of two dashing young bachelors and the outrageous deceptions they find themselves in over love! Whenever Worthing (Firth) wants to leave his dull country life behind, he makes visits to the city posing as...  More


 
The Sum Of All Fears

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The Sum Of All Fears
(2002) [M]


Ben Affleck is ready for action, commanding the role of CIA agent Jack Ryan in this thrilling adventure based on the Tom Clancy bestseller. America's Cold War fears are rekindled after the President of Russia dies and is succeeded by a man with a cryptic past. But East-West tensions erupt when...  More


 
The Count Of Monte Cristo

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The Count Of Monte Cristo
(2002) [M]


Alexander Dumas’ classic story of an innocent man wrongly accused but deliberately imprisoned is given an exciting treatment by director Kevin Reynolds (Robin Hood Prince Of Thieves, Waterworld). Dashing young sailor Edmond Dantes (Jim Caviezel) is a guileless and honest young man whose...  More


 
The Shipping News

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The Shipping News
(2001) [M]


Kevin Spacey and Judi Dench join talents with Julianne Moore and Cate Blanchett in this deeply moving motion picture from director Lasse Hallstrom. After tragedy strikes, Quoyle (Spacey) moves with his daughter from upstate New York to his ancestral home in a small Newfoundland fishing village....  More


 
Iris

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Iris
(2001) [M]


Here is the powerful true story based on John Bayley's novels that earned Jim Broadbent an Academy Award for Best supporting Actor and Academy Award Nominations for Best Actress Judi Dench and Best Supporting Actress Kate Winslet. Judi Dench (Shakespeare In Love) and Kate Winslet (Titanic) bring...  More


 
Hearts In Atlantis

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Hearts In Atlantis
(2001) [M]


When middle-aged photographer Bobby Garfield (David Morse) returns to his hometown for the funeral of a childhood friend, the unforgettable memories of 1960, his eleventh summer, come flooding back. It all began with the arrival of a mysterious stranger, Ted Brautigen (Anthony Hopkins), who...  More


 
The Golden Bowl

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The Golden Bowl
(2000) [M]


Adam Verver, a US billionaire in London, dotes on daughter Maggie, an innocent abroad. An impecunious Italian, Prince Amerigo, marries her even though her best friend, Charlotte Stant, an alabaster beauty with brains, no money, and a practical and romantic nature, is his lover. She and Amerigo...  More


 
All The Pretty Horses

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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


 
Wives And Daughters (2 disc set)

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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


 
The Virgin Suicides

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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


 
Mansfield Park

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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


 
Angela's Ashes

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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


 
The End Of The Affair

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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


 
The Talented Mr Ripley

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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


 
Snow Falling On Cedars

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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 Charge Of The Light Brigade (1936)

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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


 
David Copperfield (BBC)

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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 Winslow Boy

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The Winslow Boy
(1999) [G]


Based on real life events in 1912 England, this exquisitely crafted film tells of Ronnie Winslow, a 13-year-old navel cadet expelled from the Academy for stealing a five-shilling postal note, and his father, London Banker Arthur Winslow's (Nigel Hawthorne) all-consuming attempt to prove his...  More


 
Exodus

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Exodus
(1960) [PG]


Adapted from Leon Uris’ international bestseller by Dalton Trumbo, Otto Preminger's Exodus is an exciting, panoramic and deeply moving masterpiece. Ari Ben Canaan (Paul Newman), a commander of the Israeli underground, manages to lead 600 Jews from the detention camps of Cyprus onto a large...  More


 
Lolita

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Lolita
(1997) [R]


When schoolteacher Humbert Humbert (Jeremy Irons), marries his landlady, Charlotte Haze (Melanie Griffith), it's purely to get close to her daughter Lolita (Dominique Swain) who reminds him of the childhood sweetheart he lost in tragic circumstances. But Humbert's forbidden love becomes an...  More


 
The Age Of Innocence

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The Age Of Innocence
(1993) [G]


Society scion Newland Archer is engaged to May Welland, but his well-ordered life is upset when he meets May's unconventional cousin, the Countess Olenska. At first, Newland becomes a defender of the Countess, whose separation from her abusive husband makes her a social outcast in the restrictive...  More


 
Hurly Burly

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Hurly Burly
(1998) [MA]


Hurly Burly is an adaptation of David Rabe's well known play about the intersecting and decadent lives of several Hollywood players and wannabes whose personal lives threaten to veer into a catastrophe more interesting than anything peddled by the studios.  More


 
Mrs. Dalloway

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Mrs. Dalloway
(1997) [M]


Clarissa Dalloway sets out on a beautiful morning; she's shopping for flowers for her party that evening. At the same time in London, a young man is suffering from a nightmarish delayed-onset (the year is 1923) form of shell-shock. Clarissa's nearly-grown daughter is distant, and preoccupied. In...  More


 
The Horse Whisperer

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The Horse Whisperer
(1998) [M]


Academy Award winner Robert Redford (Up Close & Personal, Indecent Proposal) stars with Academy Award nominee Kristin Scott Thomas (The English Patient) in this landmark epic adapted from one of the most acclaimed novels of our time! After a devastating riding accident, a young girl and her...  More


 
 
 

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