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Personalized Viewing Recommendations
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Far from the madding crowd /
In the Victorian English countryside, a headstrong young woman toys with the affections of three very different men with tragic consequences
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Jane Austen book club
Six members of a book club centered on books by Jane Austen realize that her works are similar to their modern relationships
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Jane Eyre
After orphaned governess Jane Eyre arrives at an imposing English manor for a job, she falls in love with her employer and discovers that he is hiding a dark secret from the world
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Age of innocence
Story of the manners and morals of New York society in the later 1800's, focusing on a handsome young lawyer who cannot decide between passion and propriety in his women
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English patient
At the end of World War II, four survivors live in an abandoned villa in Italy: a nurse, her English patient, a thief whose skills were put to heroic use during the war, and an Indian sapper hunting out unexploded bombs
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Pride & prejudice
In late eighteenth-century England, a spirited young Elizabeth Bennet copes with the romantic entanglements of her sisters, and her feelings for wealthy, brooding, and seemingly over-proud Mr. Darcy
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Royal affair
Young Queen Caroline Mathilda, who is married to insane King Christian VII, falls secretly in love with his physician, Johann Struensee and together they propose reforms that start a revolution
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King's speech /
After inheriting the throne when his brother abdicates from it, King George VI hires a speaking coach to help him with a stuttering problem so he can confidently lead his kingdom
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African Queen
A hard-boiled boat captain escorts the respectable sister of a slain missionary on a river journey through Africa to aid in World War I efforts
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Gosford Park
The lives and interactions among a group of upper class and their servants at a weekend hunting party in the English country, and a mysterious murder that occurs among them
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Passage to India
Two Englishwomen experience misunderstanding and the conflict of cultures when they travel to British-occupied India in 1928
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Mrs. Brown
A true-life story of the forbidden love and passion between Queen Victoria and her lowly servant, John Brown
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Mr. Selfridge
Depicts the story of American entrepreneur Harry Gordon Selfridge, the founder of Selfridge's, London's department store
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Cranford
Follows the adventures of the people in the English town of Cranford and their worries about the encroaching railroad
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Grantchester /
A clergyman investigates a series of crimes in the small village of Grantchester
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Wives and daughters
In early nineteenth-century England, a spirited young woman copes with the re-marriage of her father to a manipulative woman
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Lark Rise to Candleford
Depicts country life in late nineteenth-century Oxfordshire through a young woman's experiences in the contrasting communities of Lark Rise, the small hamlet of her childhood, and Candleford, a progressive market town
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