Posts Tagged ‘19th-century’

The Elephant Man (1980)

Friday, June 5th, 2009
Genres: Biography | Drama
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Anthony Hopkins | John Hurt | Anne Bancroft | John Gielgud | Wendy Hiller | Freddie Jones | Michael Elphick | Hannah Gordon | Helen Ryan | John Standing | Dexter Fletcher | Lesley Dunlop | Phoebe Nicholls | Pat Gorman | Claire Davenport
Directors: David Lynch
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Based on the true story of Joseph Merrick, a 19th-century Englishman afflicted with a disfiguring congenital disease. With the help of kindly Dr. Frederick Treves, Merrick attempts to regain the dignity he lost after years spent as a side-show freak.

Vanity Fair (2004)

Wednesday, June 3rd, 2009
Genres: Drama | Romance
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Gabriel Byrne | Angelica Mandy | Roger Lloyd-Pack | Ruth Sheen | Kate Fleetwood | Reese Witherspoon | Lillete Dubey | Romola Garai | Tony Maudsley | Deborah Findlay | John Franklyn-Robbins | Paul Bazely | Rhys Ifans | Jonathan Rhys Meyers | Charlie Beall
Directors: Mira Nair
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The British Empire flowers; exotic India colors English imaginations. Becky Sharp, the orphaned daughter of a painter and a singer, leaves a home for girls to be a governess, armed with pluck, a keen wit, good looks, fluent French, and an eye for social advancement. Society tries its best to keep her from climbing. An episodic narrative follows her for 20 years, through marriage, Napoleonic wars, a child, loyalty to a school friend, the vicissitudes of the family whose daughters she instructed, and attention from a bored marquess who collected her father’s paintings. Honesty tempers her schemes. No aristocrat she, nor bourgeois, just spirited, intelligent, and irrepressible.

Persuasion (2007)

Thursday, May 28th, 2009
Genres: Drama | Romance
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Rupert Penry-Jones | Sally Hawkins | Alice Krige | Anthony Head | Julia Davis | Michael Fenton Stevens | Mary Stockley | Peter Wight | Marion Bailey | Amanda Hale | Jennifer Higham | Rosamund Stephen | Stella Gonet | Sam Hazeldine | Louis Shergold
Directors: Adrian Shergold
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On the brink of financial ruin, the Elliot family is forced to vacate their ancestral home in order to recover their debts and avoid losing face amongst their parish. The task of organizing their effects falls to levelheaded Anne Elliot, destined for spinsterhood at age 27 after being persuaded eight years earlier to refuse the proposal of Frederick Wentworth, a dashing (but destitute) naval officer…

Hamlet (1996)

Wednesday, May 6th, 2009
Genres: Crime | Drama | Romance | Thriller
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: John Laurie | Esmond Knight | Anthony Quayle | Niall MacGinnis | Harcourt Williams | Patrick Troughton | Tony Tarver | Peter Cushing | Stanley Holloway | Russell Thorndike | Basil Sydney | Eileen Herlie | Norman Wooland | Felix Aylmer
Directors: Laurence Olivier
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Hamlet, son of the king of Denmark, is summoned home for his father’s funeral and his mother’s wedding to his uncle. In a supernatural episode, he discovers that his uncle, whom he hates anyway, murdered his father. In an incredibly convoluted plot—the most complicated and most interesting in all literature—he manages to (impossible to put this in exact order) feign (or perhaps not to feign) madness, murder the “prime minister,” love and then unlove an innocent whom he drives to madness, plot and then unplot against the uncle, direct a play within a play, successfully conspire against the lives of two well-meaning friends, and finally take his revenge on the uncle, but only at the cost of almost every life on stage, including his own and his mother’s.

Sharpe’s Peril (2008)

Thursday, April 30th, 2009
Genres: Action | Adventure | Drama | War
Countries: UK
Actors: Sean Bean | Daragh O'Malley | Amit Behl | Michael Cochrane | Jonathan Coyne | Martin Hancock | David Henry | Raza Jaffrey | Deepak Jethi | Rajesh Khattar | Pascal Langdale | Jonathan Moore | Ryan Pope | David Robb | Steve Speirs
Directors: Tom Clegg
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Our story begins at the end of Sharpe’s Challenge. Sharpe and Harper are en route to Madras when they encounter a baggage train from the East India Company traveling through hostile territory. Chitu, a legendary bandit leader in control of the area, strikes fear in the members of the party. When an attack occurs Sharpe takes control of the situation, leading the group 300 miles through enemy territory and training the disorganized, rag-tag group to be proper soldiers. Despite all these responsibilities, Sharpe still manages to find time for a little romance…

Anna Karenina (1948)

Wednesday, December 31st, 2008
Genres: Drama | Romance
Countries: UK
Actors: Sophie Marceau | Sean Bean | Alfred Molina | Mia Kirshner | James Fox | Fiona Shaw | Danny Huston | Phyllida Law | David Schofield | Saskia Wickham | Jennifer Hall | Anna Calder-Marshall | Petr Shelokhonov | Valerie Braddell | Niall Buggy
Directors: Bernard Rose
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Stefan and Dolly Oblonsky have had a little spat and Stefan has asked his sister, Anna Karenina, to come down to Moscow to help mend the rift. Anna’s companion on the train from St. Petersburg is Countess Vronsky who is met at the Moscow station by her son. Col. Vronsky looks very dashing in his uniform and it’s love at first sight when he looks at Anna and their eyes meet. Back in St. Petersburg they keep running into each other at parties. Since she has a husband and small son, they must be very discreet if they are going to see each other alone.

Christmas Carol, A (1999)

Thursday, December 18th, 2008
Genres: Drama | Fantasy
Countries: USA
Actors: Patrick Stewart | Richard E. Grant | Joel Grey | Ian McNeice | Saskia Reeves | Desmond Barrit | Bernard Lloyd | Dominic West | Trevor Peacock | Liz Smith | Elizabeth Spriggs | Kenny Doughty | Laura Fraser | Celia Imrie | John Franklyn-Robbins
Directors: David Hugh Jones
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Scrooge is a miserly old businessman in 1840’s London. One Christmas Eve he is visited by the ghost of Marley, his dead business partner. Marley foretells that Scrooge will be visited by three spirits, each of whom will attempt to show Scrooge the error of his ways. Will Scrooge reform his ways in time to celebrate Christmas?

Pride and Prejudice (1940)

Monday, December 15th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Greer Garson | Laurence Olivier | Mary Boland | Edna May Oliver | Maureen O'Sullivan | Ann Rutherford | Frieda Inescort | Edmund Gwenn | Karen Morley | Heather Angel | Marsha Hunt | Bruce Lester | Edward Ashley | Melville Cooper | Marten Lamont
Directors: Robert Z. Leonard
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Mr. and Mrs. Bennet have five unmarried daughters, and Mrs. Bennet is especially eager to find suitable husbands for them. When the rich single gentlemen Mr. Bingley and Mr. Darcy come to live nearby, the Bennets have high hopes. But pride, prejudice, and misunderstandings all combine to complicate their relationships and to make happiness difficult.

The Secret Garden (1993)

Tuesday, June 10th, 2008
Genres: Drama | Family
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Kate Maberly | Heydon Prowse | Andrew Knott | Maggie Smith | Laura Crossley | John Lynch | Walter Sparrow | Irène Jacob | Frank Baker | Valerie Hill | Andrea Pickering | Peter Moreton | Arthur Spreckley | Colin Bruce | Parsan Singh
Directors: Agnieszka Holland
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After losing her self-indulging parents in an earthquake, a bitter young girl named Mary Lennox is sent to live in England with her reclusive Uncle. Eventually she discovers her bedridden cousin and a ’secret garden’ that once belonged to her deceased aunt. With the help of her cousin, the kindly Dikon, and a little ‘magic’, can Mary find a way to bring love back to her family?

The Secret Garden (1993)

Tuesday, June 10th, 2008
Genres: Drama | Family
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Kate Maberly | Heydon Prowse | Andrew Knott | Maggie Smith | Laura Crossley | John Lynch | Walter Sparrow | Irène Jacob | Frank Baker | Valerie Hill | Andrea Pickering | Peter Moreton | Arthur Spreckley | Colin Bruce | Parsan Singh
Directors: Agnieszka Holland
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After losing her self-indulging parents in an earthquake, a bitter young girl named Mary Lennox is sent to live in England with her reclusive Uncle. Eventually she discovers her bedridden cousin and a ’secret garden’ that once belonged to her deceased aunt. With the help of her cousin, the kindly Dikon, and a little ‘magic’, can Mary find a way to bring love back to her family?


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