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2) Lorna Doone
Series
Publisher
A&E Television Networks
Pub. Date
2001, c2000
Language
English
Description
In late seventeenth-century England, Lorna - the granddaughter of the head of a nobly-born family of robbers and outlaws - falls in love with John Ridd, a man intent on avenging his father's death upon the Doone clan.
3) Persuasion
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
1999, c1995
Language
English
Description
Anne Elliot, persuaded by family and friends that Frederick Wentworth is not worthy of her regard, questions her decision to send him away until he returns seven years later.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2005, c2004
Language
English
Description
The peaceful life of two aging sisters is shattered when they take in a young Polish violinist who they find injured after having been washed ashore near their coastal English home. Their town is suspicious of any visitors and things get worse when he befriends a Russian woman who is visiting the town.
5) Ivanhoe
Series
Publisher
A&E Television Networks
Pub. Date
2002, c1997
Language
English
Description
During the year of Richard the Lionheart's return to England, the Saxon knight Ivanhoe joins with Robin Hood to battle against knights loyal to Prince John.
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Three years after his daughter went missing, children's author Stephen Lewis struggles to find purpose in his life without her. His wife Julie has left him, and his best friends Charles and Thelman have retired to the countryside, battling demons of their own. With tenderness and insight, the movie explores a marriage devastated, the loss of childhood, the fluidity of time, grief, hope, and acceptance.
7) Middlemarch
Series
Publisher
BBC Video
Pub. Date
2005, c1994
Language
English
Description
Follows the love and financial problems of Dorothea Brooke, a crusader, who is prevented from being with the man she loves, and of the idealistic Dr. Lydgate, who succumbs to materialism.
9) Flawless
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2008, c2006
Language
English
Description
In 1960s London, Laura Quinn, a bright, driven and beautiful executive at the London Diamond Corporation, finds herself frustrated by a glass ceiling after years of faithful employment, and is persuaded by Hobbs, a disgruntled janitor with detailed knowledge of the company's security, to help pull off a daring heist.
11) The big sleep
Publisher
Artisan Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2002, c1978
Language
English
Description
Philip Marlowe is hired by a retired general to find out who has been blackmailing his daughters. Marlowe's search leads him through the London underworld to Eddie Mars, gang boss and nightclub owner.
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
1999, c1979
Language
English
Description
In Depression era New England, heartless finance company president Benedict Slade ruins Christmas by repossessing his debtors' belongings and firing his assistant. Then he is visited by three ghosts who show him the error of his ways.
13) Charlotte Gray
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2002, c2001
Language
English
Description
Charlotte Gray, a young Scottish woman, parachutes into Vichy France to act as a liaison between the English government and the French Resistance so she can search for her lover after she learns his plane was lost over France.
Publisher
Weinstein Company
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Colin Clark, an ambitious twenty-three-year-old assistant director forms a friendship with American actress Marilyn Monroe on her first trip to London to film "The Prince and the Showgirl," butwhen Monroe's husband, playwright Arthur Mill er leaves for a trip to Paris, Clark seizes the opportunity to introduce Monroe to a world away from her Hollywood fame.
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