 | Pride and Prejudice - The Special Edition (A&E, 1996)
Buy new: $19.49 / Used from: $16.21 Looooove this...there will never be a better adaptation, ever. Features the most magnetic Mr. Darcy ever, and laugh-out-loud hilarious performances of the Mr. Collins, Kitty, Lydia, and Mr. Bingley characters
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 | A Room with a View (Two-Disc Special Edition)
Buy used from: $9.75 Romantic and extremely funny, as good as the book...or better!
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 | Queen Margot (La Reine Margot)
Buy new: $13.49 / Used from: $4.89 Compelling Medici-era drama, Isabelle Adjani and Vincent Perez are gorgeous leads
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 | Valmont
Buy used from: $7.75 Wickedly entertaining. Colin Firth's portrayal of Valmont is superior to John Malkovich's in Dangerous Liaisons
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 | The Scarlet Tunic
Sweetly romantic
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 | Swept from The Sea
Buy new: $11.49 / Used from: $5.95 Sad and worth watching on a rainy day
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 | Lady Jane
Buy new: $13.49 / Used from: $7.40 Naiively romantic...since it's so far from historical truth, but very sweet
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 | The Buccaneers
Buy new: $8.49 / Used from: $8.11 Fun adaptation of Edith Wharton's least depressing novel
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 | Persuasion
Buy new: $11.49 / Used from: $14.87 Wonderful, particularly the proposal scene
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 | Masterpiece Theatre: Northanger Abbey
Buy new: $16.99 / Used from: $15.14 Sparkling & witty
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 | Sense & Sensibility Collector's Set (Sense & Sensibility 2008 / Miss Austen Regrets / Persuasion 2007)
Buy new: $25.49 / Used from: $21.99 Very entertaining!
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 | Sense & Sensibility (Special Edition)
Buy new: $8.49 / Used from: $3.98 Beautiful (especially the Willoughby horseback and carrying-Marianne-in-the-rain scenes)
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 | The Last of the Mohicans (Director's Expanded Edition)
Buy new: $13.49 / Used from: $5.97 Ruggedly romantic
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 | Aristocrats
Buy new: $40.49 / Used from: $35.27 Addictive
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 | The Horseman on the Roof
Buy new: $12.99 / Used from: $4.75 Subtle and possibly the only French film I've seen that isn't twisted
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 | Love in the Time of Cholera
Buy new: $15.49 / Used from: $1.44 Worth watching...didn't make me feel sick like the book did
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 | Doctor Zhivago (TV Miniseries)
Buy new: $32.99 / Used from: $19.49 Well done, and Keira isn't even pouting that much
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 | Lover's Prayer
Buy used from: $2.96 A good coming-of-age story with perverse undertones
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 | Onegin
Buy new: $14.49 / Used from: $8.92 Loved it
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 | Masterpiece Theatre: Frenchman's Creek
Buy new: $17.49 / Used from: $9.99 Sort of like Du Maurier meets Harlequin
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 | Tess of the D'Urbervilles
Buy new: $10.99 / Used from: $4.17 Tragic
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 | Anna Karenina
Sooo good
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 | Marie Antoinette
Buy new: $10.99 / Used from: $2.50 Refreshingly different
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 | Emma
Buy new: $12.49 / Used from: $3.81 Greatly pleasing
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 | An Ideal Husband
Buy new: $13.49 / Used from: $5.22 Very well done
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 | The Importance of Being Earnest
Buy new: $13.49 / Used from: $3.06 Wonderfully funny
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 | Beau Brummell - This Charming Man
Buy new: $21.99 / Used from: $10.00 Dying to watch this!
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![WAR AND PEACE / VOYNA I MIR / VOINA I MIR [IN RUSSIAN]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41-pmEsBwnL._SL75_.jpg) | WAR AND PEACE / VOYNA I MIR / VOINA I MIR [IN RUSSIAN]
I mean the 2007 Italian-produced Russian one with subtitles. It's EXCELLENT
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 | The Elizabeth Gaskell Collection (Wives and Daughters / Cranford / North and South)
Buy new: $41.49 / Used from: $41.47 Interesting and addictive. Cranford was cute and quaint, W&D was interesting, and North and South so romantic!
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 | The Way We Live Now
Buy new: $17.49 / Used from: $13.99 This was really funny!!! Must see if only for the combined comedic genius of David Suchet in a non-Poirot role, Matthew MacFadyen and Paloma
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 | Daniel Deronda
Buy new: $8.49 / Used from: $5.73 Loved it, especially Ramola Gerai. She's brilliant
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 | Little Dorrit
Buy new: $29.99 / Used from: $26.49 Loved the rags-to-riches premise, the exaggerated characters, and Matthew Macfadyen was more endearing in this than in the Keira Pride & Prejudice
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 | Jane Eyre (Masterpiece Theatre, 2006)
Buy new: $23.49 / Used from: $18.37 (Sigh)...enough said!
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 | Bleak House
Buy new: $21.49 / Used from: $19.62 Really good! Funny and sad simultaneously. And I've never seen Gillian Anderson look so pretty (and botoxed?)
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 | Our Mutual Friend
Buy new: $8.49 / Used from: $8.49 Anna Friel was the best in this but I have to say that whole (Morissey) schoolteacher-Eugene obsession with the Keely Hawes character was ridiculous
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![The Forsyte Saga [Region 2] The Complete 1st & 2nd Series](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51ANHNR3T3L._SL75_.jpg) | The Forsyte Saga [Region 2] The Complete 1st & 2nd Series
Really interesting but really...what was all the fuss about Irene about!!!
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 | Wuthering Heights
Buy new: $19.99 / Used from: $13.36 Heathcliff's perspective and a selfish Cathy! Fascinating
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