Seen through the eyes of a young girl, we observe her life, and that of her parents, in a Brooklyn tenement at the turn of the 19th Century. Dad is a hopeless, but loveable dreamer, the mother a hardened realist, struggling to keep the family together. Directed by Elia Kazan, who would go on to Academy recognition with A Street Car Named Desire and On The Waterfront, and taken from Betty Smith's acclaimed novel; A Tree Grows In Brooklyn is a deeply moving and beautifully evoked drama. find out more...

Winner of four Oscars, this film is shot with the most beautifully scenic backgrounds and with great attention to costume detail. An Irish adventurer, Barry Lyndon, crosses Europe from woman to job, but in the end returns to Britain seeking a wealthy marriage. find out more...

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Episodes 4 to 7; Sebastian Against The World, A Blow Upon, A Bruise, Julia and The Unseen Hook. More of Evelyn Waugh's tale of upper-class manners with Seb's drinking problem predominating. find out more...

The final episodes (the episodes on our VHS tapes are numbered from 1-15 but contain exacltly the same material) 8 to 11; Brideshead Deserted, Orphans Of The Storm, A Twitch Upon The Thread, Brideshead Revisited. The years pass Charles becomes an artist and loses contact for 10 yrs. Following a change meeting, Charles and Julia start a long suppressed affair, but she won't marry him. Lady Marchmain is dying and asks Charles, who is painting in Paris, to help find Seb. Rex and Julia are having pr find out more...

Episodes 4 to 7; Sebastian Against The World, A Blow Upon, A Bruise, Julia and The Unseen Hook. More of Evelyn Waugh's tale of upper-class manners with Seb's drinking problem predominating. find out more...

Episodes 8 to 11; Brideshead Deserted, Orphans Of The Storm, A Twitch Upon The Thread, Brideshead Revisited. The years pass Charles becomes an artist and loses contact for 10 yrs. Following a change meeting, Charles and Julia start a long suppressed affair, but she won't marry him. Lady Marchmain is dying and asks Charles, who is painting in Paris, to help find Seb. Rex and Julia are having problems getting married because she is Catholic and he is Protestant. Meanwhile Charles finds Seb impover find out more...

Episodes 12 to 15. Lady Marchmain is dying and asks Charles, who is painting in Paris, to help find Seb. Rex and Julia are having problems getting married because she is Catholic and he is Protestant. Meanwhile Charles finds Seb impoverished and dying of drink in North Africa. find out more...

Harold Pinter's debut as a film director sees Alan Bates reprise his role as Ben Butley, a university don, as he struggles to stay on top of his increasingly chaotic career. The film portrays Butley's anxieties as a teacher no longer convinced that his role in life is worthwhile, with his passion for the profession falling victim to cynicism and a moral malaise. The film's strength lies in its dialogue, with the vicious banter between warring academics showing their intelligence, and the frustra find out more...

Torrid passion and family feuding in the Deep South from the novel by Tennessee Williams. Taylor is the bitchy wife of Newman, the favourite son, who is unable to face the responsibility of marriage, and Jack Carson connives for the favours of his dying father, superbly played by Burl Ives. Melodramatic. find out more...