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CertificationPG Our Rating

Jim Carrey dominates this latest version of the classic Dickens story in which an elderly Victorian miser is taken on a redemptive trip through his past, present and future. Using 'performance capture' animation this stylish film sticks closely to the book, though with added ghoulishness.
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CertificationU Our Rating

The traditional video for Christmas day afternoon viewing. Scrooge, Bob Cratchet and of course Tiny Tim in this glossy, though faithful adaption, of the Charles Dickens classic. If this one doesn't bring a tear to your eye... Humbug! And the glorious town of Shrewsbury has never looked so good... find out more...

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An adaptation of Henrik Ibsen's play, which caused such a scandal with its critical stance on marriage. The film was shot entirely on location in Norway and features a haunting score by Michel Legrand. find out more...

Certification15 Our Rating

Romantic period drama, adapted from the novel by Joseph Conrad. Cornish servant girl Amy is an outcast in her small community, shunned even by her own family and suspected of being a witch by the locals. When a Ukranian ship is wrecked in a storm, Amy claims the sole survivor, Yanko, as her own. But the villagers, who believe Amy conjured up the storm herself, conspire to keep the lovers apart. A windswept epic. find out more...

Certification12 Our Rating

'An Ideal Husband' (1969) revolves around the lives of two men, sucessful political figure Sir Robert Chiltern and his friend the uninspired but utterly charming Lord Arthur Goring. Chiltern's life is perfect thanks to the help of his loving and brillant wife Gerturde and the support of his quick witted sister Mabel. Goring's life is one of lounging, flirting with Mabel, and avoiding his father's instance that he should marry. The world of these men is turned upside down by the arrival of an old find out more...

Certification12 Our Rating

This version of the Tolstoy classic lingers longer in Moscow during the weeks that follow the initial meeting of the starstruck lovers-to-be Vronsky and Anna Karenina. The story focuses on Kitty, a young woman who is related to Anna's sister-in-law whose marital rift has brought Anna to Moscow. Until Anna shows up, Kitty had hopes of getting Vronsky, who is single and well connected, to propose to her. Ignored by Vronsky, Kitty turns her attention to another suitor, a man who seems to have a find out more...


Certification12 Our Rating

A sumptuous adaptation by Tom Stoppard of Leo Tolstoy’s epic novel about forbidden passion in the twilight years of the Russian aristocracy.

 

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CertificationPG Our Rating

Remake of the Garbo classic, with Leigh as the ill-starred Anna, who leaves her stuffy husband for the eminently more exciting Vronsky. But forbidden love turns sour when Vronsky puts his duty above his mistress, leaving Anna alone to face the cruelty of a disapproving society. Tragic melodrama. find out more...

Certification15 Our Rating

Tolstoy's classic comes to the screen once more, this time courtesy of Channel 4. Set in 19th Century Russia and beginning in the ostentatious wealth of St Petersburg; Anna is trapped in a loveless marriage and rushing headlong into a passionate but reckless affair with a dashing young army officer. Along Anna's journey we meet Levin, who has adopted a simple rural life in an attempt to give his life some meaning, and Anna's brother, whose serial adultery threatens to destroy him and those he l find out more...

Certification15 Our Rating

Tolstoy's classic comes to the screen once more, this time courtesy of Channel 4. Set in 19th Century Russia and beginning in the ostentatious wealth of St Petersburg; Anna is trapped in a loveless marriage and rushing headlong into a passionate but reckless affair with a dashing young army officer. Along Anna's journey we meet Levin, who has adopted a simple rural life in an attempt to give his life some meaning, and Anna's brother, whose serial adultery threatens to destroy him and those he lo find out more...