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1) Jane Eyre
Series
Publisher
WGBH Boston Video
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Friendless, orphaned Jane Eyre takes a job as governess to a lively French girl. In time, she finds herself in love with the child's guardian. When she saves him from a fire, she finds that there are many secrets to learn ... secrets that could destroy her happiness.
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
When Lovejoy's home and headquarters are repossessed, the antiques dealer lands in dire straits. The financial blow forces him and his associates into some of their seediest jobs yet. From ripping off an eccentric Dutch art dealer and making a real Stradivarius seem fake, to conning an entire viewing audience on national television, Lovejoy pushes himself to the limit.
Series
Publisher
WGBH Boston Video
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Romance novel addict Catherine Morland is taken to Bath, England by the wealthy Mr. and Mrs. Allen and introduces her to Georgian society. She meets the social-climbing Isabella and John Thorpe. She also meets the handsome Henry Tilney and his elegant sister, Eleanor. After making an impression on Henry and Eleanor's father, the Tilneys invite her to their country mansion, Northanger Abbey. Catherine falls in love with Henry but soon realizes that...
Series
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
At the turn of the century, a young widow moves with her daughter into a cottage on the English coast. Soon she learns that the cottage is haunted by the ghost of its former owner, a sea captain. When he finds he can't scare her away, they soon fall into a most unlikely love affair!
6) The Bookshop
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
England, 1959. Free-spirited widow Florence Green (Emily Mortimer) risks everything to open a bookshop in a conservative East Anglian coastal town. While bringing about a surprising cultural awakening through works by Ray Bradbury and Vladimir Nabokov, she earns the polite but ruthless opposition of a local grand dame (Patricia Clarkson) and the support and affection of a reclusive book loving widower (Bill Nighy). As Florence's obstacles amass and...
Publisher
BBC
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
A hauntingly atmospheric and star-studded adaptation of Henry James' classic gothic horror story. A young, inexperienced governess is hired to look after two small children abandoned by their uncle, following the death of their parents, at his grand country house. Unsettled by glimpses of ghostly figures that only she can see, she quickly believes that something malevolent is stalking the children in her care.
9) If
Series
Criterion collection volume 391
Language
English
Formats
Description
Three British boarding school students (Malcolm McDowell, David Wood, Richard Warwick) decide to revolt and turn their repressive school upside down. Nominated for Best English-Language Foreign Film at the **Golden Globes.** Nominated for Best Director and Best Screenplay at the **BAFTA Awards**. Winner of the Palme d'Or at the **Cannes Film Festival.** *"A film of tremendous resonance, coming when it did in 1968 with the force of a grenade." - Elliott...
10) Straw dogs
Series
Criterion collection volume 182
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
A young mathematician, David Summer, and his English wife, Amy, move to a Cornish village, seeking the quiet life. But beneath the seemingly peaceful isolation of the village lies savagery and violence.
Publisher
A & E Home Video
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Poirot investigates the murder of an American heiress on the Blue Train. A young heiress is set to inherit her husband's considerable fortune until his family investigates further. Cora Abernathy calls on Poirot to investigate her brother's death, but his work is interrupted when Cora herself is murdered. Mr. Shaitana, a wealthy but mysterious Londoner, invites Poirot and others to an evening of dinner and bridge, but the affair turns deadly when...
Publisher
RLJ Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
The English village mystery gets a contemporary spin in this deliciously sinister British series that has earned a worldwide following. Bucolic settings harbor macabre crimes and eccentric characters that are no match for DCI John Barnaby and his assistant, DS Charlie Nelson. In A Christmas Haunting, Barnaby and Nelson investigate a stabbing death during a ghost-hunting party at the Morton Shallows manor house.
Publisher
Starz Media, LLC
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
One fateful night in a small English regional theatre during World War II, a troupe of touring actors stage a production of Shakespeare's "King Lear." Bombs are falling, sirens are wailing, the curtain is up in an hour but the actor/manager "Sir" who is playing Lear is nowhere to be seen. His dresser "Norman" must scramble to keep the production alive but will Sir turn up in time? And if he does, will he be able to perform that night?
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Harry, Ron, and Hermione, now teenagers, return for their third year at Hogwarts. There they are forced to face escaped prisoner Sirius Black, who poses a great threat to Harry. Harry must overcome the threats of Dementors, outsmart a werewolf, and finally deal with the truth about Sirius and his relationship with his parents. Harry and friends master advanced magic classes, cross time barriers, and change the course of more than one life.
Publisher
Acorn
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
The English village mystery gets a contemporary spin in this hit British television series that has earned a worldwide following. Bucolic settings harbor macabre crimes and eccentric characters that are no match for DCI John Barnaby and his assistant, DS Jamie Winter.
20) Broken
Series
Publisher
Film Movement
Language
English
Formats
Description
11 year-old Skunk's innocence begins to vanish as her home, neighborhood and school all become treacherous environments where the happy certainties of childhood give way to fear-filled doubt. Official Selection at the **Cannes Film Festival**.
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