The seemingly happy marriage of Tony and Brenda, a rich and socially-connected country couple, is shattered by the arrival of penniless bounder John and the death of their beloved only son. A tale with a sinister twist in its tail. find out more...

Narrated via the memoirs of Captain Charles Ryder while stationed at the Brideshead Castle during WWII, we follow his increasingly intense, confused relationship with the aristocratic Flyte family and in particular brother and sister Sebastian and Julia. An impressive if slightly pointless cinematic adaptation of Waugh's classic much better done in the epic television drama. 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...

Gabriel Garcia Marquez's dark, brooding, atmospheric, humid, immense novel finally, and inevitably, gets a big screen adaptation and, as with that other great South American period epic ‘House of Ghosts', the overwhelming feeling is…why? Don't get me wrong, this is still a gloriously visualised tale of love and obsession through the ages, but it would take a true genius to direct the novel of a true genius. If you've not read the book then there's much to enjoy, if you have…hold tight to your me find out more...