The well known Edwardian romance set in Tuscany. A young English girl is torn between a romantic free-thinker and the stuffy suitor that social convention has in store for her. Deservedly, a much acclaimed movie.

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The beautiful Venice waterfront scenery and frustated emotions abound in this cinema classic from Thomas Mann's novel. Dirk Bogarde is an ageing gay man who fantasises whistfully about a young boy who is in the same hotel on the Lido. A revealing tale as much about old age grieving for lost youth as it is about obsession and homosexuality. find out more...

David Lean's epic romance set against the turbulant backdrop of the Russian revolution. One man's struggle for moral political and personal survival amidst the complex web of intrigue and tangled loyalties that accompanied the fall of the Tsar.

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An atmospheric and emoptionally charged adaptation of Steinbeck's most powerful novel. Adam, the father of Cal and Aaron lives with the painful memory of having been deserted by the boys' mother, the only woman he ever loved. Having been told that their mother was dead, Cal's discovery that she is alive and running a brothel in Monterey sends him half mad. Obsessed with the fact that he inherited his badness from his mother, Cal grapples with notions of free will and the essential nature of good find out more...

Encounter of three social classes in England at the beginning of the century; the capitalists, the Wilcoxes, whose only god is money, consider themselves as aristocrats, the enlightened bourgeois Schlegels and the proletarian Basts. The Schlegel sisters' humanism will be torn apart as they try both to softly knock down the Wilcox's prejudices and to help the Basts. Essentially the same story as Room With A View, nobody marries beneath their station and class is everything, but with a distinct el find out more...

Set against the background of a grimy village near Nottingham, this story of a coal-miner's son with promising artistic talent unfolds with sensitivity and intelligence in Jack Cardiff's adaptation of DH Lawrence's semi-autobiographical novel. Caught up between his mother's possessiveness and his father's violent bouts, Paul Morel sacrifices both the chance to study art in London and the local girl he loves, eventually becoming involved in a damaged relationship with a woman separated from her h find out more...

An ageing bachelor reminisces of the long hot 1900 summer of his youth. Leo is 13 and a guest at a grand home in rural Norfolk, where he becomes a go-between in the love affair between the daughter of the affluent country family and a local farmer. An absolute cinema classic successfully adapted from Hartley's novel of the same name, a powerful and beautiful tale. find out more...

Lily Bart is a beautiful and charming young socialite who is beginning to realise the tenuous nature of her world. She has reached a point within it where she must take the first steps on a path that will define the rest of her life, but despite Lily's intelligence and opportunities she seems incapable of making the right decision and her world begins to slide irredeemably towards tragedy. The House Of Mirth is a sumptuous adaption of Edith Wharton's novel, faithful to the novel, intelligent and find out more...

Marcel Proust (1871-1922) is on his deathbed; looking at photographs brings memories of his childhood, his youth, his lovers and the way the Great War put an end to a stratum of society. His memories are in no particular order, they move back and forth in time. Marcel at various ages interacts with Odette, with the beautiful Gilberte and her doomed husband, with the pleasure seeking Baron de Charlus, with Marcel's lover Albertine, and with others; present also in memory are Marcel's beloved moth find out more...