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...

Episodes 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 problems getting married because she is Catholic and he is Protestant. Meanwhile Charles finds Seb impover find out more...

Kline and Judd combine well in this delightful homage to the life and times of Cole and Linda Porter, man and wife, composer and muse, a couple who led a life of glamour and indulged eccentricity. There's no shortage of the man's music, which is unfortunately sometimes murdered by using a series of unsuitable singers; "It's De-Lovely" by Robbie Williams, "Let's Do It (Let's Fall In Love)" by Alanis Morissette, "Begin The Beguine" by Sheryl Crow, "Let's Misbehave" by Elvis Costello, "Be a Clown" find out more...

Texan rancher Bick Benedict visits a Maryland farm to buy a prize horse. Whilst there he meets and falls in love with the owner's daughter Leslie, they are married immediately and return to his ranch. The story of their family and its rivalry with cowboy and (later oil tycoon) Jett Rink unfolds across two generations. James Dean earned his second Oscar nomination in this tale of frustration and revenge, wealth and racial oppression in Texas. find out more...

Donat is perfectly cast as the lovable teacher, in this classic British drama, reminiscing about his career and personal life over the decades, his rise from lowly Latin master to headmaster of a public school and the joys and tragedies which moulded his transformation. The film won a staggering seven Academy Awards. Hugely enjoyable. find out more...

Young provincial waiter Jan Dite may be short in height but his aspirations are lofty, he is determined to become a millionaire and he knows just how to do it. Continually watching and listening to his superiors and his high-flying, big-spending customers, Jan learns how to succeed by pleasing others. Based on the novel by Czech author Bohumit Hrabal, and directed by the Academy Award winning maker of ‘Closely Observed Trains', 'I Served The King' is a beguiling comedy about opportunism, identit find out more...

Madrid, 1922; a young Salvador Dali arrives at university and meets the likes of Luis Bunuel and Federico Garcia Lorca, the latter of whom he has a brief affair with. Later, moving to Paris, Dali's life is altered by another affair, with married woman, Gala, to the intense heartbreak of besotted Garcia Lorca. 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...