 | North & South
Buy new: $24.99 / Used from: $23.04 One of the most gorgeous and utterly romantic BBC adaptations I have ever seen...the chemistry between Richard Armitage and Daniela Denby-Ashe is palpable and kinetic...
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 | Pride and Prejudice - The Special Edition (A&E, 1996)
Buy new: $23.99 / Used from: $16.99 I can have lost weekends with this six hour mini-series. Colin Firth and Jennifer Ehle are the quintessential Darcy and Elizabeth Bennett...
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 | Pride & Prejudice
Buy new: $9.49 / Used from: $5.30 While not as comprehensive as the 1996 A&E version, Keira Knightley does a wonderful job as Elizabeth and Matthew McFayden plays a beautifully understated Darcy...very romantic.
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 | Sense & Sensibility (Special Edition)
Buy new: $9.99 / Used from: $4.99 You can hardly go wrong with anything involving the amazing Emma Thompson and Kate Winslet. They play the Dashwood sisters perfectly...and Alan Rickman is supremely delicious as the longsuffering Colonel Brandon.
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 | Persuasion
Buy new: $15.99 / Used from: $13.49 I caught this version of Jane Austen's most grown-up novel on PBS this winter...and cried like a baby. Anne Eliot and Capt. Wentworth make for an interesting, agonizing pair for a romantic like me. Rupert Penry-Jones is pretty amazing to look at, too :-)
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 | Wuthering Heights (1992)
Buy new: $9.99 / Used from: $5.39 This version gets a lot of flack, but I think Ralph Fiennes does a respectable job as Heathcliff. I enjoyed it nonetheless.
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 | Elizabeth I
Buy new: $12.49 / Used from: $9.94 Helen Mirren is perfection as the aging Elizabeth I, and her relationships with Leicester(an exquisite Jeremy Irons) and Essex (an impulsive Hugh Dancy) are brought to life wonderfully here. I've watched this one many times and I never tire of it.
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 | Masterpiece Theatre: Elizabeth I - The Virgin Queen
Buy new: $26.99 / Used from: $17.43 Anne-Marie Duff takes Elizabeth from young girl to slightly scary, third-person speaking monarch and she is phenomenal. Perhaps one of the most accurate portrayals of all the Elizabeth-centered films I have seen. Oh, and Hans Matheson as Essex...fantastic.
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 | Elizabeth (Spotlight Series)
Buy new: $9.49 / Used from: $5.74 Fast and Loose with history as it may be, Cate Blanchett does a great job as the young Elizabeth...I am underwhelmed with the follow-up, merely because Cate Blanchett is too young to play Good Queen Bess at the time it is set and it is even faster...and more loose with history.
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 | Jane Eyre (Masterpiece Theatre, 2006)
Buy new: $17.99 / Used from: $16.45 I was glued to PBS while Masterpiece Theatre aired their latest version of Charlotte Bronte's classic...perfectly somber and gothically romantic. I adore it.
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 | Possession
Buy new: $10.99 / Used from: $2.88 I can watch this movie over and over...I love the mystery twist and Jennifer Ehle and Jeremy Northam as the ill-fated poet lovers...
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 | The Jane Austen Book Club
Buy new: $19.94 / Used from: $5.25 Alright, this is a movie (and a book!) about five women and one man who join together to read the six books of Jane Austen, while each story mirrors their lives. I love Maria Bello as Jocelyn, Emily Blunt as the tightly wound Prudie and of course, Hugh Dancy as the deliciously nerdy and sweet Grigg.
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 | Emma (1996)
Buy new: $9.99 / Used from: $3.99 Jeremy Northam as Mr. Knightley pretty much seals the deal for me. Oh, and it doesn't hurt that Ewan McGregor is in it, too :-)I remember my friend Ashley and I went to see this after school one day, I guess we were about 16...and we both positively loved it.
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 | Wuthering Heights (Masterpiece Theatre, 1998)
Buy new: $14.99 / Used from: $13.35 Wuthering Heights is my favorite book of all time...I think that this version is my favorite thus far...Matthew McFayden shows up as Hareton Earnshaw and he is lovely ;-)
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 | Little Women (Collector's Edition)
Buy new: $8.49 / Used from: $3.39 Everything about this movie is perfection. The score, the casting, everything. Winona Ryder is sublime as Jo March...and I cannot say enough for Christian Bale as Theodore Laurence. Claire Danes is devastatingly fragile as Beth. As a girl, this was my favorite story, and I still can't help but love it.
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 | Anne of Green Gables
Buy new: $17.99 / Used from: $13.89 Yet another childhood favorite that is totally worth mentioning. My grandmother, before I could read, would tell me the story of Anne with an "e." Then she bought me all the books when I was older. I treasure them dearly, and my attachment to this film version won't cease, I am sure.
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 | Becoming Jane
Buy new: $19.99 / Used from: $7.19 I like this movie, but I think the real reason I own it is because I am a Jane Austen-ite and James McAvoy is pretty remarkable.
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 | Howards End - The Merchant Ivory Collection
Buy new: $21.99 / Used from: $17.98 I am not entirely sure what it is about this movie, but everytime it is on television I watch it. Of course, Emma Thompson is divine and Helena Bonham-Carter brings the rebellious twinkle as the younger sister.
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 | Bridget Jones's Diary (Collector's Edition)
Buy new: $9.99 / Used from: $4.55 Colin Firth...as another version of Darcy! Ces't Fantastique! And rather fluffy.
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 | Bride and Prejudice
Buy new: $9.99 / Used from: $5.68 Nothing like a Bollywood meets Hollywood musical version of Pride and Prejudice!
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 | Marie Antoinette
Buy new: $9.99 / Used from: $3.25 I cannot stand Kirsten Dunst, but she does a great job as Madame Deficit in Sofia Coppola's new-wave, punked-out, candy-colored confection. I love this film and the soundtrack.
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 | Kate & Leopold
Buy new: $10.49 / Used from: $2.25 Hugh Jackman is so dapper!
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 | Closer (Superbit Edition)
Buy new: $9.99 / Used from: $0.94 Clive Owen makes me feel dirty...in a good way
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 | Romancing the Stone (Special Edition)
Buy new: $7.49 / Used from: $4.79 I love this movie! A throwback to childhood and full of 80's movie adventure!
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 | Chocolat (Miramax Collector's Series)
Buy new: $9.99 / Used from: $4.98 Johnny Depp is always hot, but in this movie he is smoldering...
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 | Amelie
Buy new: $14.99 / Used from: $8.00 Revolutionary...and gorgeous!
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 | Love Actually by Richard Curtis
Buy new: $13.57 / Used from: $2.33 A wonderful movie with intersecting storylines...oh, and Colin Firth and Alan Rickman, too ;-)
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