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Return with us now to the days of polite society, back when upper lips were stiff, corsetry was tortuous and no one was really happy. Hardly the good old days, but at least everyone looked smart and knew how to behave. From Austen to Dickens we have no end of impeccable period dramas for you to enjoy, films that, for better and for worse, reveal how we used to live.
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 | Jane Eyre(1996)
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A fine adaptation of Charlotte Bronte's timeless story of unrequited love set against the glorious landscape of the English countryside.
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 | Rebecca(1940)
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Drama which centres on a brooding Englishman who is haunted by memories of his first wife who died in a drowning accident. Based on the novel by Daphn...
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 | Cold Mountain
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Based on the novel by Charles Frazier, this drama tells the story of a couple who are in love but are separated by the American Civil War. Ada is left...
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 | Gone With The Wind(1939)
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Absorbing film version of Margaret Mitchell's Pullitzer Prize-winning novel about life in America's Deep South during the Civil War. Winner of ten Aca...
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 | Death In Venice(1971)
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One man becomes so obsessed by the beauty of a young boy in Venice that he cannot bear to leave, even when the city is affected by a plague. Based on ...
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 | Shogun - Part 1
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The story of a shipwrecked English navigator, who becomes a Samurai and trusted retainer to a powerful warlord with ambitions to become Shogun. Part ...
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| Shogun - Part 2
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The story of a shipwrecked English navigator, who becomes a Samurai and trusted retainer to a powerful warlord with ambitions to become Shogun.
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| Shogun - Part 3
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The story of a shipwrecked English navigator, who becomes a Samurai and trusted retainer to a powerful warlord with ambitions to become Shogun.
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| Shogun - Part 4
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The story of a shipwrecked English navigator, who becomes a Samurai and trusted retainer to a powerful warlord with ambitions to become Shogun.
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