Immaculate costumes, a brilliant script and two star-crossed lovers in a battle of wits in this tale of the unconsummated romance between Thailand's reformist King Mongkut (Rama 4) and Anna Leonowens, his son's English tutor. All this set a backdrop of court intrigue against the still running Rama dynasty. Very good.
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HEAVEN'S GATE (1980)
Certification18 Our Rating
Internationally acclaimed, but one of the biggest and most expensive box-office flops in movie history. As the rich cattle barons legally kill the poor immigrant farmers who have taken to illegal rustling to feed their starving families, the local law can only uneasily enforce what has become a mockery, or lapse into alcoholism. Moral compromise on a national scale is in question here and the US media hated this film. A portrayal of the problems faced by the first European immigrants in the Wyom
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NORTH AND SOUTH DISC 1 (2004)
Certification12 Our Rating
A powerful adaptation of Elizabeth Gaskell's feisty and passionate love story, set across the social divides in the changing world of Victorian industrial society. Margaret Hale is one of literature's most original heroines, a southerner from a country vicarage newly settled in the industrial northern town of Milton. In the shock of her move, she misjudges charismatic cotton mill-owner John Thornton, whose strength of purpose and passion are a match for her own pride and wilfulness. When the wor
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NORTH AND SOUTH DISC 2 (2004)
Certification12 Our Rating
A powerful adaptation of Elizabeth Gaskell's feisty and passionate love story, set across the social divides in the changing world of Victorian industrial society. Margaret Hale is one of literature's most original heroines: a southerner from a country vicarage newly settled in the industrial northern town of Milton. In the shock of her move, she misjudges charismatic cotton mill-owner John Thornton, whose strength of purpose and passion are a match for her own pride and wilfulness. When the wor
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THE YOUNG VICTORIA (2009)
Certification15 Our Rating
Young Victoria grew up in a stifling environment surrounded by manipulative relatives and a control freak for a mother, without the rough and tumble of childhood relationships that the rest of us went through. On becoming Queen, at the tender age of 18, she was forced to mature very fast and this she did with the fortuitous love and support of arranged husband Prince Albert. This is very much their story.
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