LITERATURE ON DVD

ALLS WELL THAT ENDS WELL (U) UK 1981  MOSHINSKY, ELIJAH £12.99  

    Stars  Michael Hordern.   

ANTHONY AND CLEOPATRA (U) UK 1981MILLER, JONATHAN £12.99 

    Stars Colin Blakely.  

COMEDY OF ERRORS (PG) UK 1983 JONES, SIMON CELLAN £12.99   

    Stars Cyril Cusack and Roger Daltrey. 

CORIOLANUS (PG) UK 1984  MOSHINSKY, ELIJAH £12.99 

    Alan Howard, Joss Ackland and Irene Worth.  

CYMBELINE (12) UK 1983 MOSHINSKY, ELIJAH £12.99  

    Stars  Robert Lindsay and Helen Mirren.

HAMLET (U) UK 1980  BENNETT, RODNEY  £12.99

    Stars  Derek Jacobi, Claire Bloom and Patrick Stewart.

HENRY IV PT. 1 (U) UK 1979 GILES, DAVID  £12.99

    Stars  David Gwillim.

HENRY IV PT. 2 (U) UK 1979 GILES, DAVID  £12.99

    Stars  David Gwillim.

HENRY V (U) UK 1979 GILES, DAVID £12.99

    Stars  David Gwillim.

HENRY VI PT. 1 (PG) UK 1983 POWELL, JANE £12.99

    Stars Bernard Hill and Brenda Blethyn.

HENRY VI PT. 2 (12) UK 1983  POWELL, JANE £12.99 

    Stars  Bernard Hill.

HENRY VI PT. 3 (PG) UK 1983  POWELL, JANE £12.99 

    Stars Bernard Hill.

HENRY VIII (PG) UK 1979 BILLINGTON, KEVIN £12.99 

    Stars Claire Bloom, Julian Glover and Thimothy West. 

THE HOLLOW CROWN: THE WARS OF THE ROSES (15) 2016   3 DVDS   £26.99

  BBC's adaptations of Shakespeare's 'History Plays', comprising 'Henry VI: Part One', 'Henry VI: Part Two', 'Henry VI: Part Three' and 'Richard III'.

JULIUS CAESAR (U) UK 1979 WISE, HERBERT £12.99

    Stars  Charles Gray.

KING LEAR (PG) UK 1982 MILLER, JONATHAN   £12.99

    Stars  Michael Hordern.

LIFE AND DEATH OF KING JOHN (U) UK 1984 GILES, DAVID £12.99

    Stars  John Thaw.  

LOVES LABOUR LOST (PG) UK 1979 MOSHINSKY, ELIJAH £12.99 

    Stars Maureen Lipman and Jenny Agutter.

MEASURE FOR MEASURE (U) UK 1981 DAVIS, DESMOND £12.99 

    Stars Tim Piggott-Smith.  

MERCHANT OF VENICE (U) UK 198O GOLD, JACK £12.99

    Stars  Warren Mitchell.  

MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR (U) UK 1982 JONES, DAVID  £12.99

    Stars Prunella Scales.

MIDSUMMER NIGHTS DREAM (U) UK 1981 MOSHINSKY, ELIJAH £12.99

    Stars Robert Lindsay.  

MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING (U) UK 1984 BURGE,  STUART    £12.99

    Stars Robert Lindsay.

OTHELLO (U) UK 1981 LOWERY, COLIN     £12.99 

    Stars Anthony Hopkins. 

PERICLES (PG) UK 1984  JONES,  DAVID  £12.99  

    Stars  Juliet Stevenson. 

RICHARD II (U) UK 1979  GILES, DAVID   £12.99  

    Stars Michael Hordern, Alan Rickman. 

RICHARD III (U) UK 1980 HOWELL, JANE  £12.99

    Powerful BBC production.

ROMEO AND JULIET (PG) UK 1979  RAKOFF,  ALVIN    £12.99

    Stars John Geilgud and Derek Jacobi.

TAMING OF THE SHREW(U) UK 1980 MILLER, JONATHAN £12.99

    Stars  John Cleese. 

TEMPEST (U) UK 1980  GORRIE, JOHN  £12.99

    Stars Michael Hordern.

TIMON OF ATHENS (12) UK 1981 MILLER, JONATHAN £12.99 

    Stars  Jonathan Pryce.

TITUS ANDRONICUS (PG) UK 1985 POWELL, JANE £12.99

    Stars  Edward Hardwicke.

TROILUS AND CRESSIDA(12) UK 1981 MILLER, JONATHAN £12.99 

    Stars Charles Gray.

TWELFTH NIGHT  (U) UK 1980  GORRIE, JOHN  £12.99

    Stars  Robert Hardy and Felicity Kendal.

TWO GENTLEMAN OF VERONA (PG) UK 1983 TAYLOR, DON £12.99

    Stars  Tessa Peake-Jones.

WINTERS TALE (PG) UK 1981 OWELL, JANE £12.99 

    Stars Jeremy Kemp.

BBC TV SHAKESPEARE COLLECTION (12) UK 1979-1985   £199.99. 

    Contains all 37 plays.

SHAKESPEARE AT THE BBC: COMEDIES (PG) 1984 £23.99

  Collection of five BBC dramatisations of Shakespeare's comedic plays. Titles are -  A Midsummer Night's Dream (1981) ,  Much Ado About Nothing (1984) ,  The Taming of the Shrew (1980) ,  The Winter's Tale (1981) and  Twelfth Night (1980) .

SHAKESPEARE AT THE BBC: TRAGEDIES (PG) 1984 £23.99

 Features -  Hamlet (1980), King Lear (1982), Macbeth (1983),  Othello (1981) and Romeo and Juliet (1978). 

GLOBE THEATRE PRODUCTIONS ON DVD  

A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM: SHAKESPEARE'S GLOBE(E) 2014 DROMGOOLE, DOMINIC £19.99

    The play tells the story of Hermia (Olivia Ross) and Lysander (Luke Thompson), two young people who have fallen in love.

ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA: SHAKESPEARE'S GLOBE (E) 2014 MUNBY, JONATHAN £19.99

 Live performance staring Jolyon Coy and James Hayes. 

AS YOU LIKE IT: GLOBE THEATRE (E) 2009 SHARROCK, THEA £19.99

   2009 production with Naomi Frederick as Rosalind and Jack Laskey as Orlando.

THE GLOBE COLLECTION - SHAKESPEARE 400 1616-2016 (E) 2014   £97.99

   Collection of 20 performances commemorating the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's death. Recorded at Shakespeare's Globe between 2009 and 2014, the collection includes: 'Romeo and Juliet', 'As You Like It', 'Love's Labour's Lost', 'The Merry Wives of Windsor', 'Henry VII', 'Henry IV: Part I', 'Henry IV: Part II', 'All's Well That Ends Well', 'Much Ado About Nothing', 'Henry V', 'Twelfth Night', 'The Taming of the Shrew', 'The Tempest', 'Macbeth', 'A Midsummer Night's Dream', 'Titus Andronicus', 'Julius Caesar', 'Antony and Cleopatra', 'The Comedy of Errors' and 'Doctor Faustus'.

HENRY IV - PART 1: GLOBE THEATRE(E) 2012 DROMGOOLE, DOMINIC £19.99

    King Henry (Oliver Cotton) is troubled by the behaviour of his son and heir, Prince Hal (Jamie Parker), who has forsaken the Royal Court.

HENRY IV - PART 2: GLOBE THEATRE(E) 2012 DROMGOOLE, DOMINIC £19.99

     King Henry IV (Olivier Cotton) is serious ill and  his son, Hal (Jamie Parker), will shortly become King.

HENRY V: SHAKESPEARE'S GLOBE (E) 2012 DROMGOOLE, DOMINIC  £19.99

    Live performance of Shakespeare's historical play at the reconstructed Globe Theatre.

HENRY VIII : GLOBE THEATRE(E) 2010  HESS, NIGEL £19.99

    Henry VIII (Dominic Rowan) is involved in a passionate tryst with Anne Boleyn (Miranda Raison).

JULIUS CAESAR: SHAKESPEARE'S GLOBE (E) 2014  DROMGOOLE, DOMINIC £19.99

 Live performance of Shakespeare's tragedy recorded at the Globe Theatre in London.

MACBETH: SHAKESPEARE'S GLOBE (E) 2014  BEST, EVE    £19.99

    Live performance recorded at the reconstructed Globe Theatre in London.

MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR: GLOBE THEATRE (E) 2010 LUSCOMBE,  CHRISTOPHER £19.99

    Christopher Benjamin leads the cast as the  rogue Sir John Falstaff

OTHELLO (E)  2007   £19.99

     Starring Eamonn Walker and Tim McInnerny and performed at the Globe Theatre.

RICHARD II: SHAKESPEARE'S GLOBE (E) 2015   GODWIN, SIMON (0809478012177) £19.99

  Live performance of Shakespeare's tragic tale of the corrupting influence of power, recorded at the Globe Theatre in London.

SHAKESPEARE'S GLOBE COLLECTION: KINGS AND ROGUES (E) (0809478010920)  49.99

    A collection contains -  'Henry IV: Part One' and 'Henry IV: Part Two', 'Henry VIII' and  'The Merry Wives of Windsor'.

SHAKESPEARE'S GLOBE: COMEDY, ROMANCE, TRAGEDY  (E) (0809478010425)  49.99

    A collection contains -  'As You Like It' ,  'Love's Labour's Lost' and 'Romeo and Juliet'.

THE TAMING OF THE SHREW: SHAKESPEARE'S GLOBE (E) 2012     FROW, TOBY    £19.99

 Recorded at the reconstructed Globe Theatre, the production features, among others, Michael Bertenshaw, Pearce Quigley and Samantha Spiro.

THE TEMPEST: SHAKESPEARE'S GLOBE (E) 2013     HERRIN, JEREMY    £19.99

    Live performance of William Shakespeare's play, recorded at the reconstructed Globe Theatre in 2013.

TITUS ANDRONICUS: SHAKESPEARE'S GLOBE (E) 2014 BAILEY, LUCY £19.99

     The story follows Roman army general Titus Andronicus (William Houston), who sacrifices the eldest son of Tamora Queen of the Goths (Indira Varma) to avenge his sons who were killed in war.

TWELFTH NIGHT: SHAKESPEARE'S GLOBE (E) 2013 CARFOL,TIM £19.99

    Shipwrecked Viola (Johnny Flynn)  disguises herself as a man to work for the charming Duke Orsino (Liam Brennan).

TWELFTH NIGHT: SHAKESPEARE'S GLOBE (TBA) 2017 RICE, EMMA (0809478012795)  £19.99

 Live performance of Shakespeare's comedy, recorded at the Globe Theatre, staring Anita-Joy Uwajeh

ROYAL SHAKESPEARE COMPANY PRODUCTIONS ON DVD  

ANTONY & CLEOPATRA: ROYAL SHAKESPEARE COMPANY (TBA) 2017 KHAN, IQBAL  £17.99

 RSC live stage performance of Shakespeare's epic tragedy staring Antony Byrne and Josette Simon.

CYMBELINE: ROYAL SHAKESPEARE COMPANY (12A) 2016 STILL,  MELLY   £17.99

 Live performance of Shakespeare's romance at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon.

HENRY IV - PART I: ROYAL SHAKESPEARE COMPANY (E) 2014  DORAN, GREGORY £19.99

  Shakespeare's historical plays performed at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon in 2014.

HENRY IV - PART 2: ROYAL SHAKESPEARE COMPANY (E) 2014  DORAN, GREGORY £19.99

   Royal Shakespeare Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon in 2014.

HENRY IV - PART I AND II: ROYAL SHAKESPEARE COMPANY (E) 2014  DORAN, GREGORY £29.99

  Shakespeare's historical plays performed at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon in 2014.

HENRY V: ROYAL SHAKESPEARE COMPANY (E) 2015  DORAN, GREGORY £19.99

   Live performance with Alex Hassell as King Henry 

KING & COUNTRY - SHAKESPEARE'S GREAT CYCLE OF KINGS (E) 2015  DORAN, GREGORY DVD - £49.99 BLU RAY - £59.99

   Royal Shakespeare Company's Great Cycle of Kings collection featuring  Richard II, Henry IV Parts I & II and Henry 

LOVE'S LABOUR'S LOST: ROYAL SHAKESPEARE COMPANY (E) 2015  CHRISTOPHER LUSCOMBE £19.99

  Christopher Luscombe's 2015 Royal Shakespeare Company production of this comedy.

LOVE'S LABOUR'S WON: ROYAL SHAKESPEARE COMPANY (E) 2015  CHRISTOPHER LUSCOMBE £19.99

  RSC comedy which sees soldiers Claudio (Tunji Kasim) and Benedick (Edward Bennett) battling to win the hearts of those they love. 

LOVE'S LABOUR'S LOST/LOVE'S LABOUR'S WON: RSC (E) 2015  CHRISTOPHER LUSCOMBE £33.99

   Double bill of performances by the Royal Shakespeare Company.

MACBETH (PG) UK 1978  CASSON, PHILIP £12.99               

    Television performance of Trevor Nunn's acclaimed RSC production with Ian McKellan and Judi Dench.  

MACBETH (PG) 2003   UK         DURAN, GREGORY   £19.99           

    RSC production with Antony Sher.

THE MERCHANT OF VENICE: ROYAL SHAKESPEARE COMPANY (E) 2015  FINDLAY, POLLY £19.99

    RSC production of the Shakespeare play.

MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM (PG) 1996  UK NOBLE, ADRIAN  £9.99            

    Film adaptation of the Royal Shakespeare Company's 1996 version of 'A Midsummer Night's Dream'. With Lindsay  Duncan And Alex  Jennings.  

RICHARD II: ROYAL SHAKESPEARE COMPANY (E) 2014  DORAN, GREGORY £19.99

     Live performance of the historical play by William Shakespeare with David Tennant playing the title role. Richard II.

TITUS ANDRONICUS: ROYAL SHAKESPEARE COMPANY (E) 2017  MCINTYRE,  BLANCHE  £19.99

  David Troughton plays Titus Andronicus in this live performance of Shakespeare's violent tragedy recorded at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre in Stratford-Upon-Avon.

THE TWO GENTLEMEN OF VERONA: ROYAL SHAKESPEARE COMPANY (E) 2013  GODWIN, SIMON £19.99

     The story follows two best friends Valentine and Proteus (Michael Marcus and Mark Arends) who travel to Milan in search of adventure

THE WAR OF THE ROSES: ROYAL SHAKESPEARE COMPANY (E) 1965 HALL, P/BARTON, J £27.99

   Royal Shakespeare Company production adapted from Shakespeare's plays 'Henry VI: Parts 1-3' and 'Richard III'. Filmed in 1965 and presented as three plays, the performance features, among others, Ian Holm, Peggy Ashcroft, David Warner and Janet Suzman.

WINTER'S TALE   £19.99            

    RSC Production.  

OTHER SHAKESPEARE TITLES ON DVD

THE GIRL WHO PLAYED WITH FIRE (15) 2009    SWEDEN    ALFREDSON,  DANIEL  DVD - £17.99   BLU RAY - £199

    This Swedish mystery thriller marks the second instalment in the trilogy of films based on the bestselling 'Millennium'  novels by Stieg Larsson.     

GLASS MENAGERIE (PG) USA 1973  HARVEY, ANTHONY   £15.99 

     Broadway Theatre  adaptation of Tennessee Williams play.

GO-BETWEEN (PG) UK 1970  JOSEPH LOSEY        £15.99

     Adaptation of the novel by L P Hartley, scripted by Harold Pinter.

GOD'S POCKET (15) 2014   SLATTERY, JOHN DVD -   £15.99 BLU RAY - £17.99

     Adaptation of Pete Dexter novel, which is set in  the working-class town of God's Pocket in the 1970s. Both small time crook, Mickey Scarpato (Philip Seymour Hoffman) and well-known journalist Richard Shellburn (Richard Jenkins) are investigating a death.

GONE GIRL (18) 2014 FINCHER,  DAVID  

  DVD - £19.99   BLU RAY - £27.99

   Adaptation of the novel by Gillian Flynn about a husband who is exposed to the glare of the mass media when his wife's disappearance raises suspicions.

GORMENGHAST (12)     £29.99

     Dark fantasy series from the BBC  featuring Stephen Fry, Christopher Lee and Fiona Shaw.

THE GOSPEL OF US (15) 2011    MCKEAN, DEAN    £15.99

    Feature-length film version of the Easter Passion play written by Owen Sheers and starring Michael Sheen. Also included is a documentary giving a behind-the scenes look at the Welsh National Theatre's production of the play, performed in the streets of Port Talbot over Easter 2011.

GRAPES OF WRATH (PG) 1940B/W   FORD, JOHN     £12.99 

     John Ford’s film of the Steinbeck novel.

GREAT EXPECTATIONS (PG) 1967 (5019322675389)  £16.99

    Ten episode adaptation of the classic novel by Charles Dickens.

GREAT EXPECTATIONS (12) 2012 UK     NEWELL, MIKE    £19.99

    Adaptation staring  Ralph Fiennes and Helena Bonham Carter.

GREAT EXPECTATIONS (PG) UK 1946 LEAN, DAVID   £19.99 

      Classic adaptation of the play.          

GREAT EXPECTATIONS (PG) UK 1974 HARDY, JOSEPH     £9.99 

     With Michael York.  

GREAT EXPECTATIONS (15) 1998     CUARÓN, ALFONSO    £9.99

    This modern-day version of the famous Charles Dickens novel begins when ten-year-old Finn Bell is coerced by the convict Lustig (Robert De Niro) into helping him escape from the authorities.

GREAT EXPECTATIONS (PG) UK 1999  JARROLD, JULIAN    £16.99 

     Anthony Hopkins stars in this ITV  version.

THE GREAT GATSBY (12) 2013 USA   LUHRMANN , BAZ    £19.99

    Baz Luhrmann writes, directs and produces this adaptation of the F. Scott Fitzgerald novel starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Tobey Maguire and Carey Mulligan.

THE GREAT WAR POETS (E) 2014   £10.99

      This powerful documentary hosted by Emmy Award  winning writer and film maker Bob Carruthers revisits the battlefields where the war poets found their inspiration and presents a moving and comprehensive survey of their lives and work.

GULLIVER’S TRAVELS (U) UK  1976  PETER HUNT     £5.99   

     Stars Richard Harris.

GULLIVER’S TRAVELS (U) UK  1976  STURRIDGE , CHARLES    £9.99 

     Stars Ted Danson.

HANDMAID'S TALE (15) 1990 UK SCHLONDORFF, VOLKER   £15.99

 The end of the 20th Century finds a repressed society run by puritans and the majority of women barren. Under this new regime fertile women are handmaids and are placed among important childless couples to become pregnant. An adaptation 

of Margaret Atwood's novel, with the screenplay scripted by Harold Pinter.

HARLOT'S PROGRESS (15) UK 2006    £12.99

     TV drama looking at the life of artist William Hogarth.

HARRY POTTER AND THE PHILOSOPHER’S STONE (PG) USA 2001 COLUMBUS, C.  £22.99 

     Best selling book turn into a movie blockbuster. 

HARRY POTTER AND THE CHAMBER OF SECRETS (PG) USA 2002 COLUMBUS, C.  £22.99 

HARRY POTTER AND THE PRISONER OF AZKABAN (12) USA 2004  CUARON, A.  £22.99  

HARRY POTTER AND THE HALF-BLOOD PRINCE (15) 2008 USA YATES, DAVID £24.99

 The sixth in the sequence of films based on the phenomenally successful books by J.K Rowling.

HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS: PART ONE (12)   2010  YATES, DAVID    £24.99

    First slice of the two-part final instalment in the fantasy adventure film series based on the bestselling books by J.K. Rowling.  BLU RAY - £24.99

HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS: PART TWO (12)   2011  YATES, D.  £24.99

    The final instalment in the fantasy adventure film series .

HE KNEW HE WAS RIGHT  (PG) UK  2004  VAUGHAN, TOM   £24.99

 TV adaptation of the Trollope novel.

HELEN (PG) 2008 UK  MOLLOY, CHRISTINE/LAWLOR, JOE £19.99

     Helen is asked to play a missing woman, Joy,  in a police reconstruction. Gradually she immerses herself in the role, and by borrowing elements of Joy's life begins herself to flower.

THE HELP (12) 2011 USA  TAYLOR, TATE    £19.99

    Set against the backdrop of the 1960s American civil rights movement, based on the best-selling novel by Kathryn Stockett. 

It is 1964 and racism is rife in Jackson, Mississippi. Skeeter (Emma Stone), the strong-willed daughter of a well-to-do family,  returns to the town from college to take up a role at the local newspaper.

HENRY VIII AND HIS SIX WIVES (PG) UK 1972 HUSSIEN, WARIS    £9.99

     Powerful period drama with a host of stars. 

HIGH-RISE (15) 2016 WHEATLEY, BEN  £19.99

 Adapted of J.G. Ballard dystopian novel about an insular community living in a luxury high-rise building in  1975 London.

HISTORY BOYS (15) UK 2006  HYTNER,  NICHOLAS   £19.99

     Starring the original stage cast, and based on the play by Alan Bennett, the film brings

together eight bright, funny history students in the north of England in the mid ’80s.

HISTORY OF MR POLLY (U) UK 1949  PELISSIER, ANTHONY    £12.99

     John Mills stars in this celebrated adaptation of H G Wells’s classic.

HITCHHIKERS GUIDE TO THE GALAXY   (15) UK 1980  BELL, ALAN  £24.99  

      TV version of the science fiction comedy.

THE HOBBIT: AN UNEXPECTED JOURNEY (12) 2012     JACKSON, PETER    

     DVD - £19.99   BLU RAY - £24.99

    The first of three epic instalments in director Peter Jackson's blockbuster prequel to his 'Lord of the Rings' trilogy.

THE HOBBIT: THE DESOLATION OF SMAUG (12) 2013 JACKSON. PETER  

    DVD - £19.99   BLU RAY - £24.99

    Second film instalments of this classic work of literature.

HOLES (PG)  2003   DAVIS, ANDREW  (5017188811507)     £12.99

    Adaptation nof Louis Sachar's   book about a juvenile who is sent to a correctional facility

HOMBRE (PG) 1967    RITT, MARTIN        £9.99

    This adaptation of Elmore Leonard's novel stars Paul Newman as a cowboy who has been raised by Apache Indians.

HOMECOMING (12) UK 1973  HALL, PETER       £19.99 

     American Film Theatre adaptation of the Harold Pinter play.

HOTEL DU LAC (PG)   £15.99

     BBC TV adaptation of the award-winning novel by Anita Brookner.

HOWARDS END (PG)  2017     £19.99

 Matthew Macfadyen and Hayley Atwell star in this four-part drama miniseries adapted from E.M. Forster's novel.

HUGO (U) 2012  USA  SCORSESE, MARTIN  £19.99

    Martin Scorsese makes his first foray into children's cinema with this semi-fantastical drama based on a book by Brian Selznick.

THE HUNGER GAMES (12A) 2011        ROSS, GARY    DVD - £19.99  BLU RAY - £26.99   

    Sci-fi action film based on the best-selling novel by Suzanne Collins. Jennifer Lawrence stars as 16-year-old Katniss Everdeen, a citizen of the totalitarian post-apocalyptic country of Panem, formerly the United States. Every year, the all-powerful ruling agency known as the Capitol selects one boy and one girl from each of Panem's 12 impoverished rival districts to fight to the death on live national television in a contest known as 'The Hunger Games', in which the winner is given food to feed their entire district for a year. 

THE HUNGER GAMES: CATCHING FIRE (12) 2013   LAWRENCE, FRANCIS

    DVD - £19.99  BLU RAY - £26.99

    Jennifer Lawrence reprises her role as Katniss Everdeen in the second instalment of the sci-fi adventure trilogy based on the novel by Suzanne Collins.

IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST (U) UK 2002  PARKER, OLIVER    £19.99

     Stars Rupert Everett and Colin Firth.

THE INFORMER (PG) UK 1929   ROBINSON, ARTHUR  DUAL DVD + BLU-RAY £19.99

   Gripping silent thriller about love, remorse and betrayal set among a group of revolutionaries in the newly independent Ireland of 1922.  The film is based on Liam O’Flaherty’s novel.

THE INVISIBLE WOMAN (12) 2013     FIENNES, RALPH   -MARC   DVD - £17.99    BLU RAY - £21.99

Ralph Fiennes directs and stars in this romantic drama adapted from Clare Tomalin's book about the relationship between celebrated 19th-century novelist Charles Dickens and his mistress.

IRVINE WELSH'S ECSTASY (18) 2011        HEYDON, ROB        £17.99

    Dark-tinged indie romantic comedy based on Irvine Welsh's novella 'The Undefeated'

JAMES AND THE GIANT PEACH (U) 1996 USA  SELICK, HENRY    £19.99 

     Animated version of the Roald Dahl story.    

JANE EYRE (12) 2011        FUKUNAGA, CARY    £19.99

    Adaptation of the classic novel by Charlotte Bronte in which a young governess falls in love with her master. Jane Eyre (Mia Wasikowska) emerges from a troubled childhood to take on the position of governess at Thornfield Hall. Thornfield is owned by the passionate and impulsive Rochester (Michael Fassbender), who pays Jane unusual attention for someone below his station.

JANE EYRE (PG) 1996  ZEFFIRELLI,  FRANCO     £12.99

     Stars William Hurt. 

JANE EYRE (PG)  1943 B/W  STEVENSON, ROBERT     £9.99 

     Orson Welles and Joan Fontaine star.

JANE EYRE (12) UK 2006   WHITE, SUSANNA     £24.99

     Latest BBC adaptation of this classic. 

JANE AUSTEN BOOK CLUB (12) 2007 SWICORD,  ROBIN £19.99

     Life imitates art in this adaptation of Karen Joy Fowler's bestselling novel about a book group reading the work of Jane Austen.

JANE AUSTEN COLLECTION (PG)  £69.99

     Collection of six of the BBC's lavish Jane Austen adaptations. Includes PRIDE AND PREJUDICE, SENSE AND SENSIBILITY, MANSFIELD PARK, EMMA and PERSUASION.

JANE AUSTEN'S LIFE (E)  £10.99

     Profile of the novelist and her literary works.

JANE AUSTEN'S SOCIETY    £10.99

     Profile of the novelist, her literary works and early 19th century society.

JANE AUSTEN'S WORKS (E)  £10.99

JEWEL IN THE CROWN BOX SET (15) UK 1984  MORAHAN,C/O BRIEN,J  £39.99  

     Award winning TV series.  

JOURNEY'S END (12) 2017   DIBB, SAUL £17.99

  Set during WWI and adapted from the R. C. Sherriff's play, the film follows new recruit Raleigh who  joins up with his prospective brother-in-law Captain Stanhope. The officers  do their best to keep up moral of the company, all the while knowing the regiment could be sent out into the field at any time with no reinforcements and little hope of survival.

JUDE (15) 1996 UK     WINTERBOTTOM, MICHAEL      £17.99

     Adaptation of the Hardy novel stars Kate Winslet.     

JUNGLE BOOK (U) 1942 KORDA, ZOLTAN       £8.99 

      Alexander Korda’s critically acclaimed film.  

KIDNAPPED (PG) 1971   MANN,  DELBERT   £9.99

   Faithful  adaptation of the R.L. Stevenson novel, set in the 18th century.

LADY CHATTERLEY’S LOVER (18) 1981 RUSSELL, KEN       £15.99

      Adaptation of the D H Lawrence novel.  

LADY MACBETH (15) 2016 UK OLDROYD, WILLIAM  DVD - £13.99  BLU RAY - £17.99

 Adapted from Nikolai Leskov's novel. Set in the remote English countryside, unhappy teenage bride Katherine is forced to marry shady mining boss,  but she finds an escape in the form of servant Sebastian.

LADY WINDERMERE’S FAN (E) UK 1916 SILENT B/W FRED PAUL £12.99

     Early film version of the Wilde drama.

LARK RISE TO CANDLEFORD - SERIES 1 (PG) UK    2008   GREENING, J.  £34.99

      Ten-part BBC adaptation of Flora Thompson's classic novel tells the story of two Oxfordshire communities at the end of the 19th century.

LARK RISE TO CANDLEFORD - SERIES 2 (PG) UK    2008   GREENING, J.   £34.99

LARK RISE TO CANDLEFORD - SERIES 3 (PG) UK    2010     £34.99

LARK RISE TO CANDLEFORD: SERIES 4 (PG) 2011            £19.99

    The complete fourth season of the BBC historical drama series based on the autobiographical books by Flora Thompson.

THE LAST ACT (15) 2014   BARRY LEVINSON £15.99

  Al Pacino and Greta Gerwig star in this comedy drama adapted from Philip Roth's novel 'The Humbling'.

LAST OF THE MOHICANS (15) 1993   MANN, M.  £19.99  

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LAYER CAKE (15) UK 2004 VAUGHN   £12.99

     Based upon JJ Connelly’s London crime novel.

LIFE AND ADVENTURES OF NICHOLAS NICKLEBY (PG)  NUNN, TREVOR  £39.99

     Nine  hour adaptation of Dickens’ classic novel originally seen on the stages of London and Broadway.

LIFE AND ADVENTURES OF NICHOLAS NICKLEBY (U) 1947 UK   CAVALCANTI, ALBERTO £15.99

    Ealing production of Charles Dickens' novel stars Cedric Hardwicke as the eponymous hero. The duplicitous scheming of an avaricious uncle robs Nicholas Nickleby of his rightful inheritance. In order to care for his family, Nicholas is forced to leave his schoolmaster's post, and seek his fortune as a travelling entertainer.

LIFE OF PI (PG) 2012            LEE, ANG        £19.99

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LINE OF BEAUTY (18) UK 2006 DIBB, SAUL   £15.99

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LITTLE DORRIT (12) UK 2008  WALSH D/SMITH A £34.99

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LITTLE DORRIT (1U) UK 1987  EDZARD, CHRISTINE £24.99

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LITTLE DORRIT (U) UK  1988  EDZARD, CHRISTINE £24.99

     Six Hour adaptation of the Dickens novel.

THE LITTLE DRUMMER GIRL (15) 2018 £22.99

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LITTLE WOMEN (U) 1994 USA  ARMSTRONG, GILLIAN    £14.99 

       Classic story staring Susan Sarandon and Winona Ryder.    

LOLITA (18) 1997 USA ADRIAN LYNE     £19.99 

     Film version of the infamous Nabokov novel.      

LONELINESS OF THE LONG DISTANCE RUNNER (12) UK 1962  RICHARDSON,  TONY DVD - £19.99 BLU RAY -  £22.99

     Alan Sillitoe's autobiographical novel about a rebellious 18-year-old living in dreary Lancashire. 

LONG AND THE SHORT AND THE TALL   (PG) UK 1960 LESLIE, NORMAN  £12.99

     Based on the  play by Willis Hall about a British patrol in Burma who are determined to kill an innocent Japanese prisoner in a revenge for atrocities against British prisoners

LONG DAY'S JOURNEY INTO NIGHT (PG) 1973 UK  WOOD PETER   £12.99

    Laurence Olivier stars in this National Theatre Company production of Eugene O'Neill's Pulitzer Prize-winning play. Part of the ITV 'Sunday Night Theatre' strand, the play covers one day in 1912.

LOOK BACK IN ANGER (U) UK 1989  DENCH, JUDI/Jones, david   £12.99 

     Renaissance Theatre Company’s production of the  John Osborne play.

LOOK BACK IN ANGER (PG) 1969 UK RICHARDSON, TONY  £15.99

     Richard Burton plays angry young man Jimmy Porter in Tony Richardson's screen-adaptation of John Osborne's  ground breaking stage play.

LOOT (15)  1970 NARIZZANO, SILVIO  £17.99

  British comedy adapted from the play by Joe Orton. Two bank robbers, Dennis (Hywel Bennett) and Hal (Roy Holder), are on the run from the police after a successful heist. Needing somewhere to hide the loot, they turn to a funeral parlour where they can stash the cash in Hal's recently-deceased mother's coffin.

LORD OF THE FLIES (PG) UK 1963 B/W  BROOK, PETER    £19.99   

      Classic film version of the book. 

LORD OF THE FLIES (15) USA 1990 HOOK, HARRY    £12.99 

     Second big screen adaptation of the Golding novel.

LORD OF THE RINGS -FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING (PG) 2001  JACKSON, PETER £14.99

      Blockbuster adaptation of  Tolkien’s work.

LORD OF THE RINGS -TWO TOWERS (12) 2002    JACKSON, PETER  £14.99  

LORD OF THE RINGS - RETURN OF THE KING (12)  2003  JACKSON, PETER. £14.99

     Final chapter of the Lord of the Rings trilogy. 

LORNA DOONE (12) 1976  CRAFT, JOAN £23.99

  All five episodes of the TV series, adapted from R.D. Blackmore's classic novel, originally broadcast by the BBC. 

LOST BETJEMAN (EX) UK 1962-4   £12.99

     Featuring the  towns: Weston-Super-Mare, Bath, Malmesbury, Marlborough, Bristol My Home, and Clevedon.

LOVE & FRIENDSHIP (U) 2016  STILLMAN, WHIT   £19.99

  Witty adaptation of Jane Austen's novella staring Kate Beckinsale  as Lady Susan, a high-class widow whose waning finances threaten her status and lifestyle.

LOVE IN A COLD CLIMATE (15)  HOOPER, TOM  £15.99

     BBC adaptation of Nancy Mitford novel about three upperclass girls in 1930s England.

LOVELY BONES (12) 2009 USA    JACKSON, PETER    DVD -  £19.99  BLU RAY - £24.99

    Drama based on the bestselling novel by Alice Sebold,  about a 14-year-old girl who was murdered in 1973 and now watches over her family from heaven, trying to find ways to communicate with them how to find her hidden body and solve  her murder. 

LUCKY JIM  (U)  UK  1967  BOULTING, ROY  £9.99         

      Classic adaptation of the book.

LUTHER (PG) USA 1973 GREEN, GUY    £19.99

     Stacey Keach stars in this American Film Theatre adaptation of John Osbourne’s play.

MAKING WAR HORSE (E) 2009   PHIL GRABSKY, P./BICKERSTAFF, D.      £10.99

    Channel 4 documentary following the staging by the National Theatre of the celebrated children's novel 'War Horse' by Michael Morpurgo.

MAHABHARATA (U) 1989   BROOK, PETER      £39.99 

       Based on an epic Indian tale.       

MAN IN THE IRON MASK (12) USA 1998  WALLACE,RANDALL £15.99

      With Gerard Depardieu, John Malkovich and Jeremy Irons.

THE MAN WHO LOVED REDHEADS (PG) 1955    FRENCH, HAROLD   £9.99

    Romantic comedy based on the stage play 'Who Is Sylvia?' by Terence Rattigan. 

MANSFIELD PARK (U) UK 1983  £24.99

     BBC adaptation of the novel by Jane Austen.

MANSFIELD PARK (15)   ROZEMA, PATRICIA  £15.99

     Stars Frances O'Connor and Lindsay Duncan.

MANSFIELD PARK (PG) UK 2007   MACDONALD, IAN £17.99

     ITV production with Billie Piper.

MASTERS OF AMERICAN LITERATURE: HERMAN MELVILLE (E) 2003    £29.99

    Documentary exploring the life and works of Herman Melville, one of America's most renowned 19th century authors. In his novels 'Typee', 'Omoo' and 'Moby Dick', Melville demonstrates his mastery of the epic sea story, with 'Moby Dick' considered by many to be the pre-eminent American novel.

MASTERS OF AMERICAN LITERATURE: MARK TWAIN (E) 2003    £29.99

    Documentary exploring the life and works of Mark Twain, one of America's most significant 19th century authors. Twain worked variously as an essayist, journalist, novelist and riverboat pilot, achieving literary success in 1885 with the publication of 'The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn'.

MASTERS OF AMERICAN LITERATURE: NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE (E) 2003    £29.99

    Documentary exploring the life and works of Nathaniel Hawthorne, one of the most significant figures in 19th century American literature. The film focuses in depth on Hawthorne's masterpiece 'The Scarlet Letter', a novel that still reflects the moral and ethical dilemmas men and women face today.

MAYOR OF CASTERBRIDGE (PG) UK 2003  THACKER, DAVID  £17.99

     TV adaptation.

MAYOR OF CASTERBRIDGE (PG) UK 2003  GILES, DAVID   £15.99

     Stars Alan Bates and Anna Massey.

MEMOIRS OF A SURVIVOR (18) 1981  GLADWELL, DAVID   £9.99

Award-winning film version of Doris Lessing’s dystopian novel staring Julie Christie.

MICKYBOY AND ME (15) UK 2004   LOANE, TERRY £15.99

     Set in a divided Belfast in 1970, this is the story of two boys whose

friendship breaks down the barriers. Based on Owen McCafferty’s play.

MIDDLEMARCH (U)  1993  PAGE, ANTHONY     £24.99

     A BBC/WGBH production dramatizing George Eliot's saga of English society at the verge of the Industrial Revolution.

MIDNIGHT'S CHILDREN (12) 2012        MEHTA, DEEPA     £19.99

    Based on Salman Rushdie magic realist novel, the film is set against the backdrop of India's independence from British rule and the resulting partition of India. 

LES MISERABLES (12) 2019 (5051561043239)  £19.99

  Six-part BBC adaptation of Victor Hugo's novel starring Dominic West, David Oyelowo and Lily Collins.

LES MISÉRABLES (12A) 2012       HOOPER, TOM            £19.99

    Academy Award-winning big-screen adaptation of the stage musical based on Victor Hugo's classic novel.

LES MISERABLES (1935)/LES MISERABLES (1952) (U)         £9.99

    Two big screen versions of Victor Hugo's classic tale, set in early 19th-century France. The story follows Jean Valjean (played by Fredric March in the 1935 version, and by Michael Rennie in the 1952 film), a prisoner who breaks his parole and spends the next two decades fleeing from obsessive police inspector Javert (Charles Laughton/Robert Newton). In his quest for personal redemption, Valjean adopts Cosette (Rochelle Hudson/Debra Paget), daughter of impoverished prostitute Fantine (Florence Eldridge/Sylvia Sydney), and is eventually elected as town mayor.But it's not long before Valjean's past, in the shape of Inspector Javert, comes back to haunt him.

LES MISÉRABLES - FROM BOOK TO STAGE AND SCREEN (E) 2012    £12.99

    Documentary about Victor Hugo's classic nineteenth-century story and its subsequent adaptations to stage and screen

MISS AUSTEN REGRETS, (PG) UK 2007 LOVERING, JEREMY  £14.99

     Film of Jane Austen’s romantic life, inspired by the great writer’s own novels, letters and diaries.

MISS JULIE (15)  UK  2001 FIGGIS, MIKE £12.99  

     Based on the Strindberg play. 

MOBY DICK (PG) USA 1956  HUSTON, JOHN      £12.99

      Classic film version of this novel. 

MOBY DICK (PG) USA 1997   £14.99

     Twenty  million dollar adaptation of the Herman  Melville novel.         

MODERN MOLIÈRE: TARTUFFE(E) 2011        £29.99

    Modern adaptation of Molière's famous play. Aimed at mature learners, this contemporary update of the classic play is set in present day Los Angeles, but retains the key themes explored by Molière in the 17th century. The story of a religious imposter who endeavours to embezzle a wealthy man out of his wife, family and fortune is one of the most famous in the literary canon and offers a cutting critique of those who seek to profit through hypocrisy and the feigning of virtue.

MODERN MOLIÈRE: THE MISANTHROPE (E)             £29.99

    Modern adaptation of Molière's famous play. Aimed at mature learners, this contemporary update of the classic play is set in present day Los Angeles, but retains the key themes explored by Molière in the 17th century. The tale of a societal recluse who falls in love with a beautiful but shallow woman, the play offers a critique of the hypocrisy and injustice of the 17th century French aristocracy.

MOLL FLANDERS (18) 1996 UK      £19.99

     ITV version.

THE MONUMENTS MEN (12) 2013   CLOONEY GEORGE    £19.99

    Adaptation of Robert M. Edsel's book that follows the men tasked with saving the world's greatest works of art from the Nazis during WWII.

MOONSTONE(PG) UK  1972  RUSSELL, PADDY  £19.99 

      TV series based on the Wilkie Collins novel.

MOTHER NIGHT (15)  USA 1997  GORDON, KEITH  £14.99

     Based on the  Kurt Vonnegut novel of an American writer who reflects on his life as a double agent and perceived Nazi collaborator.

MR STINK (U) 2012        LOWNEY, DECLAN     £12.99

    Hugh Bonneville stars as the eponymous tramp who reunites a young girl's family in this TV adaptation of David Walliams' comic festive tale.

THE MUSKETEERS (12) 2013   DVD - £24.99   BLU RAY - £24.99

    BBC drama inspired by Alexandre Dumas's novel 'The Three Musketeers'.

MY SISTER'S KEEPER (12) 2008 USA CASSAVETES,  NICK DVD - £19.99  BLU RAY - £24.99

 Adaptation of   Jodi Picoult novel about  13-year-old girl who was conceived by IVF in order to be a genetic match for her older sister  who has battled leukemia since childhood.

MYSTERY OF CHARLES DICKENS (PG) UK 2002  GARLAND, PETER  £17.99      

     Film of Simon Callow’s one man show at the Albery Theatre.        

NEVER LET ME GO (12) 2010    ROMANEK, MARK    £19.99

    Writer Alex Garland adapts Kazuo Ishiguro's novel for the big screen

NICHOLAS NICKLEBY (PG) UK    £19.99 

      TV adaptation with Charles Dance.     

NO SEX PLEASE, WERE BRITISH (PG) UK 1973  OWEN, PETER    £9.99

     Based on the long-running London stage play.

NOCTURNAL ANIMALS (15) 2016   FORD , TOM   £19.99

 Thriller adapted from Austin Wright's novel. Years after leaving her first husband, Susan Morrow  receives a letter asking her to read the manuscript of his first novel. Although worried that reading the book may unearth unpleasant memories long forgotten, Susan reluctantly begins to read.

THE NORMAN CONQUESTS (12) UK 1978  £22.99   

     TV adaptation of Alan Ayckbourn’s. three interconnected plays that recount the events of a single weekend.

NORTHANGER ABBEY (PG)  UK 1986  FOSTER, GILES £15.99

     BBC drama adapted from the novel by Jane Austen.

NORTHANGER ABBEY (PG)  UK 2007   £17.99

     ITV adaptation with Felicity Jones.

OF HUMAN BONDAGE (PG) USA 1934 B/W    £12.99 

     Movie version of the Somerset Maugham’s classic novel.

OLD CURIOSITY SHOP (TBA) 1934 UK     BENTLEY, THOMAS £15.99

    Hay Petrie stars as the villainous Mr Quilp in this 1934 adaptation of Charles Dickens's classic novel.

OLD MAN AND THE SEA (PG) UK 1989  TAYLOR, JUD   £12.99

     Film adaptation of the  Hemingway work. 

OLIVER TWIST (U) UK 1948   LEAN, DAVID           £9.99 

      Stars Alec Guinness. 

OLIVER TWIST (PG) USA 1997   BILL, TONY.     £15.99 

     Stars Richard Dreyfuss. 

OLIVER TWIST (12)   UK   2007      £19.99

     BBC adaptation  starring Timothy Spall.       

OLIVER TWIST (PG) UK  1999 RYE, RENNY   £19.99

     Alan Bleasdale pens this original television adaptation of Dickens’ classic novel. 

OLIVER TWIST (PG) UK  2005  POLANSKI, ROMAN  £15.99 

     Stars Ben Kingsley as Fagin.

OLIVER TWIST  (PG) UK 19562 (5019322696612)  £19.99 

  Bruce Prochnik stars in this BBC  adaptation.

ON THE ROAD (15) 2012      SALLES, WALTER        £17.99

    Brazilian director Walter Salles helms this adaptation of the iconic novel by Jack Kerouac that defined the Beat Generation.

ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO’S NEST (18) USA 1975   FOREMAN, MILOS  £12.99

     Jack Nicholson in award winning film of Ken Kesey  book.  

ORANGES ARE NOT THE ONLY FRUIT (15) UK 1990 KIDRON, BEEBAN   £15.99

      BAFTA  Award Winning BBC drama based on the acclaimed novel by Jeanette Winterson.

ORLANDO (PG) 1992  POTTER, SALLY  £15.99

     Sally Potter's adaptation of Virginia Woolf's witty modernist novel took eight years to make it to the screen and is a meticulously crafted commentary on all things English as well as being a wonderfully romantic tale.

THE OTHER MAN (15) 2008 USA EYRE, RICHARD  £15.99

 Film adaptation of Bernhard Schlink's novel. Liam Neeson stars as a husband  looking for his missing wife when he discovers a tangled web of secrets relating to his wife and consequently finds himself forming an unusual bond with her lover.

OUR KIND OF TRAITOR (15)   2015  WHITE, SUSANNA   £19.99

 Adaptation of the novel by John le Carré starring Ewan McGregor and Naomie Harris.

OUR MUTUAL FRIEND (15) UK 1976  FARINO, JULIAN      £19.99

     BBC adaptation of one of Charles Dickens’ most celebrated novels.

OUR MUTUAL FRIEND (15) UK 1998        £24.99

     BBC adaptation with Paul McGann.

OUT OF THE UNKNOWN (15) 1971 7 DISCS £69.99

   All 20 surviving episodes of the BBC sci-fi series. The collection features adaptations of stories by famous  science fiction writers and dramatists such as J.B. Priestly, Ray Bradbury, J.G.

OUT OF THIS WORLD: LITTLE LOST ROBOT (PG) 1962     £19.99

    The last surviving episode of the 1960s sci-fi series, an adaptation of Isaac Asimov's 'Little Lost Robot'

PAPA, THE MAN, THE MYTH, THE LEGEND (E) 2018 RHODES, JORDAN  £17.99

  Stage play depicting the life of American writer Ernest Hemingway. Beginning on the day of his suicide in 1961, Hemingway reflects upon some of the key events in his life, including his time as an ambulance driver in the First World War, his work as a young journalist, witnessing the running of the bulls in Pamplona, his four marriages and hunting on the plains of Africa.

PAPILLON (18) USA 1980   SCHAFFER, FRANKLIN     £19.99 

     Dustin Hoffman and Steve McQueen in this classic escape  story.

PASSION OF AYN BAND (15) UK 1999 MENUAL, CHRISTOPHER  £9.99 

     Helen Mirren stars in the true story of the troubled life of  author Ayn Rand.

PERSUASION (U) UK 1995 MICHELL, ROGER  £19.99

     A lavish BBC production of Jane Austen's love story .

PERSUASION (U) UK 2007 SHERGOLD, ADRIAN  £17.99

     Stars Rupert Penry-Jones and Sally Hawkins.

THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA (PG) 1925  JULIAN, RUPERT   DVD - £15.99 BLU RAY - £19.99

    Cinema adaptation of Gaston Leroux's novel which gave Lon Chaney his most famous role, and is celebrated today as one of the great classics of American silent film.

PINTER AT THE BBC   £43.99

 Collection of 10 Harold Pinter plays adapted for the BBC from 1965-1988. The adaptations are: 'Tea Party' (1965), 'The Basement' (1967), 'A Slight Ache' (1967), 'A Night Out' (1967), 'Monologue' (1973), 'Old Times' (1975), 'The Hothouse' (1982), 'Landscape' (1983), 'The Birthday Party' (1987) and 'Mountain Language' (1988).

POLDARK (12) 2015       £24.99

   New adaption of the  historical novels by Winston Graham which are set in Cornwall. 

Staring Aidan Turner stars as Captain Ross Poldark

PORTERHOUSE BLUE (15) UK 19987     £19.99.

     Based on the Tom Sharpe novel. 

THE PORTRAIT OF A LADY (12) UK 1996  CAMPION, JANE  £17.99

     Jane Campion’s haunting adaptation of the Henry James novel.

THE POSTMAN ALWAYS RINGS TWICE  (PG) USA 1946 GARNETT, TAY     £12.99

     Adaptation of the James Cain novella.  

PRIDE AND PREJUDICE (PG) UK  2005  WRIGHT, JOE   £15.99

     Stars Keira Knightley. 

PRIDE AND PREJUDICE (U)1995 LANGTON,SIMON  £19.99

     The bicentennial production of Jane Austen's novel is given the most lavish treatment yet, in this acclaimed television mini-series.

PRIDE AND PREJUDICE - HAVING A BALL (E) 2013        £19.99

    Film offer new insight into Jane Austen's novel 'Pride and Prejudice' by recreating the Netherfield ball which provides the setting for the two lead characters' first meeting. Amanda Vickery and Alastair Sooke, along with a team of professionals, put on a regency ball at Chawton House, taking into account various aspects including music, dance, food and clothing.

PRIDE AND PREJUDICE AND ZOMBIES (15) 2016  STEERS, BURR £19.99

 Comedy horror retelling of Jane Austen's classic based on Seth Grahame-Smith's parody novel.

PRIEST OF LOVE (15) UK 2001  MILES, CHRISTOPHER      £19.99

     Biopic of D.H. Lawrence staring Ian McKellen.

THE PRIME OF MISS JEAN BRODIE (12) 1969 UK    NEAME,  RONALD     £16.99

    Maggie Smith stars as the titular Edinburgh schoolmistress, a role for which she received a Best Actress Oscar.

PRIVATE PEACEFUL (12) 2012         O'CONNOR, PAT    £12.99

    Coming-of-age war drama based on the novel by Michael Morpurgo. The outbreak of World War One shatters the family's rural idyll as two teenaged brothers join up, leaving behind the beautiful Molly (Alexandra Roach), with whom they are both passionately in love.

PYGMALION (U) UK 1938  HOWARD, L/ASQUITH, A   £19.99

     Film of George Bernard Shaw’s comedy of manners.

QUIET DAYS IN CLICHY (18) 1970 DENMARK  THORSEN, JENS JORGEN   £14.99

    Sexually explicit drama based on the long-banned novel by Henry Miller.

THE RAILWAY CHILDREN: YORK THEATRE ROYAL (U) 2015 CRUDEN, DAMIAN £15.99

  Stage adaptation of the novel by E. Nesbit in a live recording at the National Railway Museum in York. 

RAINBOW (15) UK 1988      RUSSELL, KEN        £19.99

     Based on the D H Lawrence novel.

A RATHER ENGLISH MARRIAGE (15) UK 1998  £12.99

     Albert Finney and Tom Courtenay star in this touching portrait  of two old crusty widowers.

REBECCA (PG) USA 1940 HITCHCOCK, ALFRED           £17.99. 

     Classic adaptation of the novel.    

REVOLUTIONARY ROAD (15) 2009 USA    MENDES, SAM   £17.99

     Emotional drama based on the 1961 novel by Richard Yates. Stars Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet

THE ROAD (15) USA 2009     HILLCOAT  JOHN    DVD -  £19.99     BLU RAY - £19.99

        Adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, set in  the burnt-out wasteland of a post-apocalyptic America.

ROALD DAHL'S ESIO TROT (U) 2015    WALSH, DEARBHLA    £19.99

   Dustin Hoffman and Judi Dench star in this adaptation of Roald Dahl's book.

THE ROMAN SPRING OF MRS STONE (15) 2013  ACKERMAN, ROBERT ALLAN £19.99

   Helen Mirren and Anne Bancroft star in this adaptation of Tennessee Williams' love story.

ROSEWATER (15) 2014   STEWART, JON £17.99

  Biographical drama adapted from the memoirs of Iranian Canadian journalist Maziar Bahari. The film tells the story behind Bahari (Gael García Bernal)'s imprisonment by the Iranian government after an appearance on the US late-night talk show .

ROSENCRANTZ AND GUILDENSTERN ARE DEAD (PG) 1990 STOPPARD, TOM £19.99

 Adaptation of Stoppard’s play in which two minor characters from 'Hamlet' amble unknowingly toward their inevitable demise.

SATURDAY NIGHT AND SUNDAY MORNING (PG) UK 1960 REISZ, KAREL DVD - £19.99  BLU RAY - £22.99

 Based on the autobiographical novel by Alan Sillitoe,  Albert Finney stars as Arthur, a hardworking factory worker  with a fiercely individualist streak and general contempt for the establishment.   

THE SCARLET PIMPERNEL (PG) 1982    DONNER, CLIVE        £17.99

    Anthony Andrews stars as the Scarlet Pimpernel, scourge of the French Revolution and rescuer of the aristocracy from the executioner's guillotine.

SCARLET AND BLACK (15) 1993   BOLT, BEN   £19.99

Ewan McGregor stars in this adaptation of Stendahl's classic novel. 

SCARLET PIMPERNEL  (12) UK 1999      £14.99   

     Collection of three SCARLETT PIMPERNELL films.

THE SCHOOL FOR SCANDAL  (E)    £15.99

    Live performance of Richard Brinsley Sheridan's play, recorded at London's Greenwich

THE SCHOOL FOR SCANDAL (3 DISC EDUCATION AND LIBRARY PACK EDITION) (E)    £59.99

    Live performance of Richard Brinsley Sheridan's play, recorded at London's Greenwich Theatre. An Interactive CD-Rom so a student can edit their own version of one of the scenes filmed.

SCROOGE (U) UK 1951  HURST, BRIAN D.     £12.99.

      Lively and enjoyable version.     

SCROOGED (PG) USA 1988   DONNER, RICHARD     £19.99.

     Stars Bill Murray.  

THE SEA (12) 2013 BROWN, STEPHEN £12.99

An Art historian returns to the seaside town where he used to spend summers as a youth in a bid to come to terms with the loss of his wife. Adapted from John Banville's Man Booker Prize-winning novel

SECRET LIFE OF WALTER MITTY (PG) 2013    STILLER, BEN 

    DVD - £19.99 BLU RAY - £27.99

    Ben Stiller directs and stars in this reimagining of the classic James Thurber story. 

SENSE AND SENSIBILITY (U) USA 1995  LEE, ANG   £12.99

     Emma Thompson won a Oscar for her screenplay.

SENSE & SENSIBILITY (U)  BBC 2008  £19.99

     From writer Andrew Davies comes this new adaptation of Jane Austen’s classic novel about love and marriage.

SIGNALMAN (pg) uk 1976  WYETH, CARINA        £15.99

     BBC adaptation of the Dickens short story.   

SILAS MARNER (PG) 1985 UK £15.99

 BBC adaptation of George Eliot's novel. In 18th century England a Scrooge-like weaver named Silas Marner (Ben Kingsley) hordes his gold and steers clear of all human contact. His whole world is subsequently turned upside down when his riches are stolen and a little lost girl comes wandering into his life.

A SINGLE MAN (12A) USA 2009   FORD, TOM    DVD  - £15.99   BLU RAY - £19.99

    Drama based on a short story by Christopher Isherwood, a middle-aged English

professor in 1960s Los Angeles  is grieving the recent death of his long-time partner Jim. 

THE SISTERS (15) USA 2005    SEIDELMANN, ARTHUR        £9.99

    Drama based on the Chekhov play 'The Three Sisters'    

SIX PLAYS BY ALAN BENNETT: THE COMPLETE SERIES (12) £24.99

 Collection of six plays written by Alan Bennett and produced by Stephen Frears. The set consists of - 'Me! I'm Afraid of Virginia Woolf' (1978), 'Doris and Doreen' (1978), 'The Old Crowd' (1979), 'One Fine Day' (1979),  'Afternoon Off' (1979) and 'All Day On the Sands' (1979).

SMALL ISLAND (15) 2009  ALEXANDER, JOHN    £19.99

    BBC drama based on the award-winning novel by Andrea Levy. Set in Jamaica and London in the aftermath of the Second World War.

SMILEY’S PEOPLE (15)  UK 1982 LANGTON, SIMON  £15.99

     Alec Guinness reprises his superb, definitive nuanced role as Smiley in this masterful Cold War thriller.

SNAPPER (15) 1993  FREARS, STEPHEN  £12.99

     Second part of Roddy Doyle's 'Barrytown' trilogy.

SNOW WHITE AND THE SEVEN DWARFS  (U)   1937 USA £21.99

       Disney's classic animated adaptation of the famous fairytale.

SOUTH RIDING (15) 2011            £19.99

    Andrew Davies adapts Winifred Holtby's novel for this three-part BBC period drama set after the First World War about a  modern, forward-thinking career woman full of drive and ambition.

SPARKHOUSE  (15) UK  2002  SHEPPERD, ROBIN       £15.99

     Carol and Andrew have been in love ever since junior schooldays  but Andrew’s parents prevent their relationship from being perfect. Inspired by Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights.

THE SPOILS OF POYNTON (U) 1970 UK  SASDY, PETER   £19.99

    Four-part BBC adaptation of the Henry James novel that follows the unseemly battle for the estate of the deceased Mr Gereth, Lord of Poynton Park.

STRINDBERG AND HIS WOMEN (E) 2010  AZZOPARDI,  ANTHONY    £24.99

    Produced using austere settings and understated costumes, the plays explore the familiar Strindberg themes of love, ambition, religion, friendship, trust and duty. Plays included in this collection are 'The Stronger', 'Motherlove' and 'The Pelica   

TALES OUT OF SCHOOL - FOUR PLAYS BY DAVID LELAND (18)     £24.99

    Collection of four made-for-TV films, written by David Leland, which paint a picture of Thatcher's Britain in the early 1980s. Contains - 'Flying Into the Wind' (1982),  'Made in Britain' (1982) , 'Birth of a Nation' (1982) and  'R.H.I.N.O.' (1982).

TARNISHED ANGEL  (U)  1953   USA     SIRK, DOUGLAS  £9.99

     Drama  based on the novel ‘Pylon’ by William Faulker.

TENANT OF WILDFELL HALL (15) UK  1996   BARKER, MIKE £15.99

     A period drama based on the novel by Anne Bronte.

TESS (PG) 1979 UK   POLANSKI, ROMAN    £12.99

      Oscar wining film based on the Thomas  Hardy novel.

TESS OF THE D’UBERVILLES (PG)     1998    SHARP, IAN    £9.99

      Lavish production with Justine Waddell.

TESTAMENT OF YOUTH (12) 2015   KENT, JAMES 

   DVD - £19.99 BLU RAY - £24.99

  Adaptation of Vera Brittain's autobiography. With the outbreak of the First World War Brittain decides to sacrifice her studies and become a volunteer nurse on the Western Front.

TESTAMENT OF YOUTH (PG) UK 1979     ARMSTRONG,  MOIRA     £19.99

    Adaptation of Vera Brittain's autobiography. In 1913, Brittain is set to take up a place at Oxford University, but with the outbreak of the Great War  opts to become a volunteer nurse, working at the Western Front. Here Brittain witnesses the harsh realities of war first hand.

THIRD MAN (PG) 1949 B/W  UK  REED, CAROL     £19.99

     Classic Carol Reed thriller based an a Graham Greene story. 

THIRTY NINE STEPS (U) 1935 B/W UK  HITCHCOCK, ALFRED   £15.99 

      Classic film version of John Buchan’s story.    

THIS FILTHY EARTH (15)  UK 2001  KOTTING,  ANDREW £19.99 

    Unsettling drama based on the novel 'La Terre' by Emile Zola about two sisters whose lives are turned upside down by a villager bent on seizing their land.

THIS SPORTING LIFE (12) UK  1963  ANDERSON, LINDSAY £14.99

 Gritty, unblinking look at life in the coal mining region of Northern England as seen through the eyes of Frank Machin. Adapted from David Storey's novel.

THREE SISTERS (U) 1970 UK OLIVIER, LAURENCE    £15.99  

     Laurence Olivier directs this film version of Chekhov’s play.

TO HELL AND BACK (PG) 1955 USA    DRAKE, CHARLES  £15.99

 Audie Murphy, the most decorated American soldier in World War Two, stars as himself in this action-packed war drama based on his autobiography.

TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD (PG) 1962 USA MULLIGAN, ROBER    £19.99 

     Gregory Peck gives an Oscar winning performance.  

TOM BROWN’S SCHOOLDAYS (U) 1971  UK  DAVIES, GARETH    £24.99 

      Classic adaptation of the Thomas Hughes  novel.  

TOM BROWN’S SCHOOLDAYS (U) 2004  UK  FRY, STEPHE   £16.99 

      Stephen Fry co-stars in this TV adaptation.

TRACK 29 (18)  1988 UK NICOLAS ROEG,    £15.99

    Dennis Potter penned this psychological drama when a women meets mysterious young British hitchhiker Martin (Gary Oldman), and wonders if he could be the son she gave up for adoption at birth while she was still in her teens

THE TRIAL (PG) 1963 USA WELLES, ORSON £15.99

    Adaptation of Kafka's nightmarish novel, about a man lost in a system of intractable bureaucracy.

TRISHNA (15) 2011    WINTERBOTTOM, MICHAEL    £15.99

    The film transposes the tragic tale of 'Tess of the d'Urbervilles' to modern-day India in this loose adaptation of the Thomas Hardy classic.

UNDER MILK WOOD (15) 2015  ALLEN, KEVIN   £17.99

 Adaptation of Dylan Thomas's 1954 radio play. 

UNDER THE SKIN (15) 2013    GLAZER, JONATHAN   £19.99

    Scarlett Johansson stars in this sci-fi thriller adapted from Michel Faber's novel.

UNDER THE VOLCANO (15) 1984  HUSTON, JOHN £14.99

   Albert Finney stars in this adaptation of Malcolm Lowry's  novel, set  in the small Mexican town of Quauhnahuac in 1938.

UPSTAIRS DOWNSTAIRS (PG) 2011        LYN,  EUROS    £19.99

    BBC remake of the 1970s period drama series of the same name, charting the exploits of one middle-class family and their working-class servants in the Victorian/Edwardian era.

VANITY FAIR(PG) UK 1998  MUNDEN, MARC       £19.99

     Well received costume BBC drama based on the Thackeray Novel.

VICTOR FRANKENSTEIN (12) 2015  MCGUIGAN, PAUL   

  DVD - £19.99 BLU RAY - £27.99

    James McAvoy and Daniel Radcliffe star in this sci-fi horror based on the contemporary adaptations of the 1818 novel by Mary Shelley.

VOLPONE (E)    £15.99

    Live performance of Ben Jonson's comedy, recorded at London's Greenwich Theatre.

VOLPONE (3 DISC EDUCATION AND LIBRARY PACK EDITION) (E)    £59.99

    Live performance of Ben Jonson's comedy, recorded at London's Greenwich Theatre. An Interactive CD-Rom so a student can edit their own version of one of the scenes filmed.

WALKABOUT (12) UK 1970  ROEG, NICOLAS £17.99  

     Two children are stranded in the Australian outback. Based on a novel by James Vance Marshall.      

WALLANDER: COLLECTED FILMS 1-7(15) 2005 SWEDEN    £49.99

    Contains the  opening seven 90 minute episodes of the acclaimed Swedish crime drama series based on the novels by Henning Mankel.

WALLANDER: COLLECTED FILMS 8-13 (15) 2006 SWEDEN    £49.99

   Episodes are: 'The Photographer', 'The Container Lorry', 'The Castle Ruins', 'Blood Line', 'The Joker' and 'The Secret'.

WALLANDER: COLLECTED FILMS 14-20 (15) SWEDEN  DUE 26 SEPTEMBER 2011 £49.99

    Contains - 'The Revenge', 'The Guilt', 'The Courier', 'The Thief', 'The Cellist', 'The Priest' and 'The Leak'.

WAR AND PEACE (15) 2016 £25.99

    BBC adaptation of the literary classic.

WAR AND PEACE  (PG)  1967 RUSSIA  BONDARCHUK, SERGEI 3 DISCS    £24.99

 Oscar-winning  version of Tolstoy’s classic work.  

WAR AND PEACE (12) 2007   DORNHELM, ROBERT   £19.99

Clémence Poésy and Alessio Boni star in this dramatisation of Tolstoy's epic novel.

WAR HORSE (12) 2012 USA     SPIELBERG, STEVEN        £19.99

    Drama based on Michael Morpurgo's novel about a boy who searches for his horse after it is taken away to serve in World War I.

MAKING WAR HORSE (E) 2009       PHIL GRABSKY, P/BICKERSTAFF, D   £10.99

    Channel 4 documentary following the staging by the National Theatre of the celebrated children's novel 'War Horse' by Michael Morpurgo.

WAR OF THE WORLDS (PG) USA 1953 HASKIN, BYRON £19.99   

      Loose adaptation of H.G.Wells novel set in  1950’s USA.

WARNING TO THE CURIOUS  (PG) UK 1972 CLARK,  L. G.    £15.99 

     BBC adaptation of the M R James Ghost story. 

WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT KEVIN (15) 2011 UK  RAMSAY, LYNNE    £17.99

    Adaptation of the bestselling novel by Lionel Shriver. Tilda Swinton stars as Eva, the afflicted and angst-ridden mother who fails to bond with her son Kevin.

WHAT MAISIE KNEW (15) 2012        MCGEHEE, S/SIEGEL, D  

    DVD - £15.99    BLU RAY - £19.99

    Adaptation of Henry James's novel set in present day New York where six-year-old Maisie  is caught in the crossfire of her parent's tumultuous divorce.

WHERE ANGELS FEAR TO TREAD (PG) 1991  STURRIDGE, CHARLES     £12.99

    Edwardian period piece based on the EM Forster  novel.

WHISTLE AND I’LL COME TO YOU (PG) UK 1968 MILLER,  JONATHAN   £19.99

      Adaptation of the M R James story.  

WHEN EIGHT BELLS TOLL (15) 1971 PERIER, ETIENNE   £6.99 

     Based on Alistair Maclean’s story, with Anthony Hopkins.

THE WHITE QUEEN: THE COMPLETE SERIES (15) 2013        £19.99

    The complete series of the BBC drama based on the historical novels by Philippa Gregory.

WHITE TEETH (15) 2002        £19.99

TV adaptation of Zadie Smith's award-winning novel that charts the lives of two wartime friends and their families through the cultural 'melting pot' of 1970s England and into the 1990s.

THE WIND IN THE WILLOWS (U) 1983    HALL, MARK EDWARD     £5.99

    Animated version of Kenneth Grahame's much-loved children's tale. 

THE WIND IN THE WILLOWS WITH GRIFF RHYS JONES (E) 2012    £15.99

    Griff Rhys Jones presents this documentary about Kenneth Grahame's classic children's novel 'The Wind in the Willows' 

WINGS OF THE DOVE (15) UK 1998 SOFTLEY, IAIN  DVD ONLY £15.99

     Adaptation of the Henry James Novel staring  Helen  Bonham Carter.

WINSLOW BOY (U) UK 1948  ASQUITH, ANTHONY    £10.99

     Based on the Terrence Ratigan Play. 

WINSLOW BOY (U) UK 1999 MAMET, DAVID      £19.99

     Stars Nigel Hawthorne.  

WINTER'S BONE (15) 2010 USA            GRANIK,  DEBRA    £15.99

    Tense thriller/drama based on the novel by Daniel Woodrell, set in the poverty-stricken backwoods of the Ozarks.

WITCHES OF EASTWICK (18) USA 1987 MILEER. GEORGE  £12.99

        Jack Nicholson leads strong cast in the film version of  John  Updike’s novel.          

WIVES AND DAUGHTERS (U) 1999 RENTON, NICHOLAS £24.99

      BBC presents Elizabeth Gaskell's timeless tale of romance in 19th-century England.

WHO'S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF? (12) 1966  NICHOLS, MIKE £9.99

     Adaptation of Edward Albee's controversial stage play, starring husband-and-wife Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor.

WODEHOUSE PLAYHOUSE - ANSELM GETS HIS CHANCE(PG) UK 1976 £19.99

     Classic adaptations of P G Wodehouse’s short stories.

THE WOMAN IN BLACK (12) 2011    WATKINS, JAMES LOUIS         £19.99

    Supernatural drama, based on the novel by Susan Hill, in which a young lawyer finds himself battling to contain the ghost of a dead woman bent on destruction.

WOMEN IN LOVE (18) UK 1969 RUSSEL, KEN    £12.99

     Groundbreaking adaptation of Lawrence’s novel. 

WONDROUS OBLIVION (PG) UK 2003 MORRISON, PAUL  £17.99 

     Set in 1960s England a bullied young boys interest in cricket is encouraged by the  West Indian family living next door.        

WUTHERING HEIGHTS (15) 2011 UK  ARNOLD, ANDREA  £15.99

    Andrea Arnold ('Red Road', 'Fish Tank') directs this gritty, pared-down version of Emily Brontë's classic Gothic novel.

WUTHERING HEIGHTS (12) UK 1992  DAVID  SKYNNER     £9.99  

     TV Adaptation with Orla Brady and Robert Cavanah.

WUTHERING HEIGHTS (12) UK 1992 PETER KOSMINSKY     £5.99

     Stars Juliette Binoche and Ralph Fiennes.

WUTHERING HEIGHTS (15) 2009 GIEDROYC,  COKY £19.99

     Stars Tom Hardy and Charlotte Riley as the ill-fated Heathcliff and Cathy.

WUTHERING HEIGHTS (PG)   1967                £29.99

    All episodes from the 1967 BBC series staring  Ian McShane stars as Heathcliff.

THE WYVERN MYSTERY (12) 2000       PILLAI, ALEX    £12.99

    Film based on Sheridan Le Fanu's the classic gothic novel.

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