90% from 2 members
Love Actually
Curtis at his comical best
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Love Actually
on DVD
(2003)
Starring: Hugh Grant, Liam Neeson, Colin Firth
Director: Richard Curtis
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Written and directed by Richard Curtis and produced by Duncan Kenworthy (the team behind NOTTING HILL and FOUR WEDDINGS AND A FUNERAL) this zingy Brit-com weaves a vivid crazy quilt of interlocking or unrelated vignettes all dealing with the subject of love over the Christmas holidays in London. ..read more »
67%
from 76,952 members
Valmont
The much underrated but arguably better version of 'Dangerous Liasons' with Colin Firth as the quirkily irresistible lead
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Valmont
on DVD
(1989)
Starring: Colin Firth, Annette Bening, Meg Tilly
Director: Milos Forman
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Set in Baroque France, a scheming widow and her lover look for an easy prey in a a beautiful young woman. The lover, Valmont, bets that he can seduce her, even though she is an honorable woman. If he wins, he can have his lover to do as he will. However, in the process of seducing the married woman,..read more »
60%
from 659 members
The Importance Of Being Earnest
Add Rupert Everett, Colin Firth and Judy Dench to an Oscar Wilde script and you have perfection
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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 »
65%
from 5,355 members
An Ideal Husband
Rupert Everett at his obnoxious best.
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An Ideal Husband
on DVD
(1999)
Starring: Minnie Driver, Rupert Everett, Cate Blanchett
Director: Oliver Parker
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In a moment of youthful indiscretion, Sir Robert Chiltern provided an Austrian baron with secret Foreign Office information. As payment he received the money that became the basis of his fortune and of his splendid, otherwise unimpeachable government career. Years later, he is blackmailed by a ..read more »
62%
from 3,598 members
Monty Python's Life Of Brian
The reason us Brits don't need canned laughter!
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Monty Python's Life Of Brian
on DVD
(1979)
Starring: Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam
Director: Terry Jones
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Monty Python delivers a scathing, anarchic satire of both religion and Hollywood's depiction of all things biblical with their second--and tightest--full-length film. The setting is the Holy Land in 33 A.D., a time of poverty and chaos, with no shortage of messiahs, followers willing to believe in ..read more »
78%
from 53,533 members
Rebecca
Brilliant book, Brilliant film...and Mrs Danvers is the scariest character ever invented
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Rebecca
on DVD
(1940)
Starring: Laurence Olivier, Joan Fontaine, George Sanders
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
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A string of classic suspense films produced in England had earned Alfred Hitchcock a reputation in the United States, and his first American production, REBECCA, cemented his fame. Based on the novel by Daphne du Maurier, REBECCA was conceived to rival producer David O. Selznick's previous epic, ..read more »
73%
from 7,596 members
Emma
Remember it's Jane Austen and forget Gwyneth Paltrow's American then get yourself comfy
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Emma
on DVD
(1996)
Starring: Gwyneth Paltrow, Toni Collette, Alan Cumming
Director: Douglas McGrath
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Douglas McGrath's film is an elegant and entertaining adaptation of Jane Austen's 1816 novel about Emma (Gwyneth Paltrow), a well-to-do young woman whose kindhearted attempts at matchmaking mask her own lack of romantic attachment. She takes it upon herself to find the perfect man for her friend ..read more »
67%
from 6,149 members
Sense And Sensibility
Emma Thompson, Kate Winslet, Alan Rickman, Hugh Grant, Ewan McGregor...what else is there to say?
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Sense And Sensibility
on DVD
(1995)
Starring: Emma Thompson, Alan Rickman, Kate Winslet
Director: Ang Lee
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When Henry Dashwood dies unexpectedly, his estate must pass on by law to his son from his first marriage, John and wife Fanny. But these circumstances leave Mr. Dashwood's current wife, and daughters Elinor, Marianne and Margaret, without a home and with barely enough money to live on. Though John ..read more »
74%
from 11,080 members
Peter's Friends
Britain's classier, cleverer answer to the brat pack
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Peter's Friends
on DVD
(1992)
Starring: Hugh Laurie, Kenneth Branagh, Stephen Fry
Director: Kenneth Branagh
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Ten years after leaving university, Peter and his best friends reunite for a New Year's party to end all parties. Having weathered most of life's triumphs and disasters, there doesn't seem to be much left to shock them - but Peter has a special surprise that will test their friendship to the utmost...read more »
68%
from 2,552 members
The Statement
Something refreshingly different
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The Statement
on DVD
(2003)
Starring: Michael Caine, Tilda Swinton, Jeremy Northam
Director: Norman Jewison
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While a secret society of Catholic priests hide him in various French abbeys, a network of bitter Jewish assassins track him, and a determined judge attempts to use the law to pin a prison sentence on him. This highly wanted man is Pierre Brossard (Michael Caine) who committed war crimes--not only ..read more »
51%
from 1,625 member
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