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Foyle’s war (2002)
English detective Christopher Foyle solves crimes on the home front while he reluctantly sits out World War II.

Goodnight Mister Tom (1999)
A reclusive old man reluctantly takes in an abused boy who is evacuated from London in World War II.

House of cards (1990)
Chief Whip Francis Urquhart manipulates people and circumstances to achieve his ambitions in Parliament.

I, Claudius (1976)
Emperor Claudius narrates his life in the Roman Empire, teeming with intrigue, schemes, and double-crosses.

Jane Eyre (2006)
An orphan takes a job as a governess and finds that her employer, with whom she is falling in love, has dangerous secrets.

Jeeves & Wooster (1990)
Sagacious butler Jeeves bails lovable, upper-class twit Bertie Wooster out of comic misadventures.

Lord Mountbatten: the last Viceroy (1986)
Mountbatten must work with Gandhi and others to partition India at the end of British rule.

Mansfield Park (2007)
Fanny Price goes to live with prosperous relatives and must navigate a labyrinth of intrigues and affairs.

Middlemarch (1994)
Naïve Dorothea’s ill-advised marriage to Rev. Casaubon sets in motion a chain of events that will change the town of Middlemarch.

Mrs. Brown (1997)
The relationship of widowed Queen Victoria and her closest companion, a male servant, causes scandal.

Murder must advertise (1973)
Lord Peter Wimsey goes undercover to investigate the murder of a copy writer at an ad agency.

My boy Jack (2008)
Due to poor eyesight, Kipling’s son is rejected for duty in WW I, but his father users his influence to get him a commission.

My family and other animals (2005)
An eccentric English family relocates to Greece for the summer before World War II.

Northanger Abbey (2007)
From Jane Austen’s novel; Catherine hopes dreams will come true at Northanger Abbey, but the castle hides dark secrets.

Our mutual friend (1998)
Two love affairs play out against a web of corruption and betrayal in 1860s London in this adaptation of Charles Dickens’ novel.

Our town (2003)
Thornton Wilder’s play is a study of life, love, and death in a New England town at the turn of the 20th Century.

Painted lady (1997)
A former blues singer infiltrates the shadowy world of the illegal art trade when her friend is murdered and his painting is stolen.

Persuasion (1995)
Anne and Wentworth's passion was once thwarted, but can it be revived?

Persuasion (2008)

Rebecca (1997)
A young woman marries a widower whose home is haunted by the memory of his first wife in this adaptation of a Daphne DuMaurier novel.

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