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Anna Massey
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Midsomer Murders - Secrets And Spies
on DVD
(2009)
Starring: Jane Wymark, Alice Krige, Jason Hughes
Director: Renny Rye
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A local cricket match turns ugly when a visiting dignitary winds up dead on the pitch. Suspecting foul play, Detective Chief Inspector Barnaby (John Nettles) springs into action but finds that his investigation into the homicide is blocked at every turn.
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70%
from 31 members
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Tess Of The D'Ubervilles
(2 discs)
on DVD
(2008)
Starring: Gemma Arterton, Eddie Redmayne, Hans Matheson
Director: David Blair
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A passionate, sensual and very modern version of Thomas Hardy's infamous novel, combining young, upcoming acting talent with recognisable and much-loved faces. When the beautiful and innocent Tess Durbeyfield is driven by family poverty to claim kinship with the wealthy D'Urbervilles and seek a ..read more »
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77%
from 1,015 member
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Affinity
on DVD
(2008)
Starring: Anna Madeley, Zoe Tapper, Domini Blythe
Director: Tim Fywell
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A grieving upper class woman becomes a "Lady Visitor" at Millbank prison, hoping to escape her troubles and be a guiding figure in the lives of the female prisoners. Of all her friendships with prisoners, she is most fascinated by Selina - a medium. Set in the 1870s.
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57%
from 1,727 member
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The Gigolos
on DVD
(2006)
Starring: Sacha Tarter, Trevor Sather, Susannah York
Director: Richard Bracewell
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Meet Sacha and Trevor - the smooth-talking favourite young gigolo of the over-50s of Mayfair and Piccadilly, and his awkward valet who takes his management role very seriously. Together, they are a force to be reckoned with. But when Sacha is forced to take a rest, the pressure is on the shy and ..read more »
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38%
from 542 members
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Mrs Palfrey At The Claremont
on DVD
(2005)
Starring: Joan Plowright, Zoe Tapper, Rupert Friend
Director: Dan Ireland
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An elderly widow dumped in a 'retirement hotel' by her family strikes up an unlikely friendship with an aspiring young writer. Her disappointment at the sight of her new lodgings is soon tempered by the young man's joie de vivre as she discovers a whole new lease on life. MRS PALFREY AT THE ..read more »
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68%
from 233 members
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The Importance Of Being Earnest
on DVD
(2002)
Starring: Colin Firth, Rupert Everett, Reese Witherspoon
Director: Oliver Parker
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In his second adaptation of an Oscar Wilde play, writer-director Oliver Parker (AN IDEAL HUSBAND) assembles a peerless cast to engage in this witty comedy of manners and mistaken identity. In 1890s London, rakish Algernon Montcrieff (Rupert Everett, who also starred in HUSBAND) runs into his friend,..read more »
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65%
from 5,328 members
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An Angel For May
on DVD
(2002)
Starring: Tom Wilkinson, Hugo Speer, Anna Massey
Director: Harley Cokeliss
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After stumbling upon a portal to the past in the ruins of an old Yorkshire farmhouse, Tom, a troubled schoolboy, is whisked back to the time of the Second World War. With a loveable sheep dog named Tess as his only guide, he meets Sam Wheeler, a kindly farmer (Tom Wilkinson) and May, an orphaned ..read more »
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65%
from 131 members
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Dark Blue World
on DVD
(2001)
Starring: Tara Fitzgerald, Charles Dance, Ondrej Vetchy
Director: Jan Sverak
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In 1939, as Hitler and Germany ran roughshod over Eastern Europe, many people escaped, including Czech pilots who joined up with the British Royal Air Force to fight the Nazis. Jan Sverak's moving war drama, DARK BLUE WORLD, details the story of one such group of Czech pilots who are at first ..read more »
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68%
from 982 members
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Room To Rent
(2000)
Starring: Rupert Graves, Juliette Lewis, Said Taghmaoui
Director: Khaled Hagar
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Ali is a young Egyptian screenwriter who is determined to make it big in London, however, the odds are stacked against him, he has no money, nowhere to live and his visa is about run out...
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40%
from 3 members
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Captain Jack
on DVD
(1998)
Starring: Bob Hoskins, Sadie Frost, Peter McDonald
Director: Robert Young
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Bob Hoskins stars in this charming high seas adventure as Captain Jack, a tough, aging seaman whose travels are now restricted to ferrying tourists around Whitby Bay. Fed up with his now staid life, Jack to decides to retrace the steps of his hero, Captain Scorseby, who sailed from England to Jan ..read more »
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55%
from 252 members
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Driftwood
on DVD
(1997)
Starring: James Spader, Anne Brochet, Barry McGovern
Director: Ronan O'Leary
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On a desolate shore searching for driftwood, Sarah discovers a man lying on the water's edge in need of help. Back in her wooden cottage she tries to find out where he has come from and how he came to be on the shore. She soon becomes obsessed with her handsome find and tries to convince him that ..read more »
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43%
from 139 members
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Angels And Insects
on DVD
(1995)
Starring: Patsy Kensit, Douglas Henshall, Mark Rylance
Director: Philip Haas
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This is a sumptuous and erotic drama where the insect world becomes a metaphor for the depravity and decadence of the upper class in this visually enticing period piece. Set at the height of British colonialism William, a penniless entomologist, falls in love with the eldest daughter of Sir ..read more »
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50%
from 557 members
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Impromptu
on DVD
(1990)
Starring: Judy Davis, Julian Sands, Emma Thompson
Director: James Lapine
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An exploration of the relationship between female writer George Sand and composer Frederic Chopin. Sand (Judy Davis) who dresses up as a man, becomes enraptured by Chopin (Hugh Grant). Life becomes rather amusing when Sand shows up as an unexpected party guest at the royal mansion of the Baron and ..read more »
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54%
from 347 members
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A Hazard Of Hearts
(1987)
Starring: Helena Bonham-Carter, Edward Fox, Fiona Fullerton
Director: John Hough
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Based on the best-selling book by Barbara Cartland, this romantic story follows the life of Serena, the daughter of a gambling-mad Lord. Her life seems doomed when she is married off to a debauched nobleman to pay off a gambling debt, until the handsome Lord Vulcan intervenes.
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61%
from 169 members
Not currently released
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Hotel Du Lac
on DVD
(1986)
Starring: Anna Massey, Denholm Elliott, Patricia Hodge
Director: Giles Foster
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BBC TV adaptation of the award-winning novel by Anita Brookner, which vividly brings to life the characters and atmosphere of the elegant Hotel Du Lac. It is a production of wit, charm, and beautifully observed detail filmed amid the mountains and lakes of Switzerland.
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61%
from 437 members
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The Chain
(1985)
Starring: Warren Mitchell, Nigel Hawthorne, Denis Lawson
Director: Jack Gold
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Comical British comedy which takes a sideways look at the potential minefield of moving house, a minefield made even more explosive by the inclusion of such virulent vices as ..read more »
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64%
from 38 members
Not available for rental
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Another Country
on DVD
(1984)
Starring: Rupert Everett, Colin Firth, Anna Massey
Director: Marek Kanievska
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He rebelled against his family. He outraged his friends. Finally he betrayed his country. Rupert Everett turns in an electric performance as Guy Burgess, a key figure in the Cambridge spy ring of the 1940's, who eventually defected to Russia in 1951.
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56%
from 3,178 members
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Mansfield Park - BBC
(2 discs)
on DVD
(1983)
Starring: Bernard Hepton, Anna Massey, Angela Pleasence
Director: David Giles
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Poverty-stricken Fanny Price goes to live with her prosperous aunt and cousins at their country home. As she struggles to adapt to her new lifestyle she begins to attract the attentions of suitors. A BBC adaptation of the novel by Jane Austen.
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56%
from 727 members
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Mayor Of Casterbridge
(2 discs)
on DVD
(1978)
Starring: Alan Bates, Anna Massey, Anne Stallybrass
Director: David Giles
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Alan Bates stars as the tormented Michael Henchard in this adaptation of Thomas Hardy's classic novel 'The Mayor Of Casterbridge'. One day, in a destitute and drunken state, Henchard sells his wife and daughter to a sailor at a county fair. Haunted by the memory of this betrayal, the itinerant ..read more »
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64%
from 441 members
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Vault Of Horror
on DVD
(1973)
Starring: Curt Jurgens, Terry-Thomas, Denholm Elliott
Director: Roy Ward Baker
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Made by Amicus—the studio that dripped blood—and directed by Roy Ward Baker (ASYLUM), THE VAULT OF HORROR is a collection of five horror tales taken from the E.C. Comic books of the 1950s. The stories are revealed by five men in the form of their recurring dreams.
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62%
from 423 members
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Frenzy
on DVD
(1972)
Starring: Jon Finch, Alec McCowen, Barry Foster
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
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FRENZY was Alfred Hitchcock's penultimate film--and the first film he'd made in England in 20 years. Based on an Arthur La Bern novel, the film focuses on many of the same motifs that Hitchcock had obsessively examined throughout his life's work: the wrong man theme, doubling (in which one person ..read more »
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66%
from 2,248 members
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Bunny Lake Is Missing
(1965)
Starring: Laurence Olivier, Carol Lynley, Keir Dullea
Director: Otto Preminger
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This classic psychological thriller from Otto Preminger (BONJOUR TRISTESSE, THE MAN WITH THE GOLDEN ARM) stars Carol Lynley as Ann Lake, a single mum who has just moved to London with her young daughter, Bunny. When she arrives to pick Bunny up from nursery school, she finds that her daughter has ..read more »
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66%
from 12 members
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Peeping Tom
on DVD
(1959)
Starring: Carl Boehm, Moira Shearer, Anna Massey
Director: Michael Powell
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Mark Lewis, assistant cameraman at a London film studio, aspiring movie director, part-time taker of pornographic pictures, and amateur documentary film-maker, has begun murdering women. He kills them, literally, with his camera and films the attacks and the murders. He also surrepititiously films ..read more »
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64%
from 3,298 members
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Sweet William
on DVD
Starring: Sam Waterston, Jenny Agutter, Anna Massey
Director: Claude Whatham
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As soon as she meets William (Sam Waterston), Ann (Jenny Agutter) finds herself drawn to him. Their whirlwind romance is rapidly consummated and they decide to live together in Ann's flat. However, Ann soon discovers that William is also in a relationship with her friend Pamela…and is also married…..read more »
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51%
from 33 members
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The Robinsons
on DVD
Starring: Hugh Bonneville, Richard Johnson, Anna Massey
Director: Mark Busell, Justin Sbresni
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Set in Wimbledon, South London, THE ROBINSONS is focuses of the dysfunctional family of the title and revolves around Ed; recently divorced at 32 and living in his aunt’s spare room, he’s considered to be the black sheep of the family. But when the family in question counts his miserable older ..read more »
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64%
from 39 members
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The Machinist
to Watch Now
(2004)
Starring: Christian Bale, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Aitana Sanchez-Gijon
Director: Brad Anderson
Certificate: 
Watch now: £2.49
Run time: 102 minutes
Trevor Reznik (Christian Bale) hasn't slept in a year. The shocking deterioration of his physical and mental health has made his every waking moment an unrelenting state of confusion, paranoia, guilt, anxiety and terror. His only solace from this living nightmare comes from an affectionate ..read more »
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78%
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Enchanting...... 10 November 2004
...A beautifully acted and observed piece of drama with both Anna Massey and Denholm Elliot particularly shining. Some of the characters may have been a little stereotypical ...
