[Disc 1]. The inheritance (1997; 93 min.) / a Kraft Premier movie ; Alliance Atlantis Communications presents an Alliance Atlantis Communications/Cosgrove Meurer/Televest production ; producer, Ed Self ; teleplay by Maria Nation ; directed by Bobby Roth -- Love among the ruins (1975; 103 min.) / ABC/Circle Films ; produced by Allan Davis ; directed by George Cukor ; written by James Costigan. -- Leo Tolstoy's Anna Karenina (1948; 111 min.) / Twentieth Century Fox ; Alexander Korda's production ; screenplay by Jean Anouilh, Guy Morgan and Julien Duvivier ; directed by Julien Duvivier. -- Robert Louis Stevenson's St. Ives (1999; 90 min.) / a Miramax Films release ; Majestic Films presents a Little Bird production in association with Tatfilm and Compagnie des Phares et Balises ; a film by Harry Hook. [Disc 2]. School for seduction (2004; 104 min.) / an Ipso Facto Films and UKFS 5 LLP production ; written by Sue Heel and Martin Herron ; produced by Steve Bowden, Christine Alderson, Angad Paul ; directed by Sue Heel. -- Dirty pretty things (2002; 97 min.) / Miramax Films and BBC Films present a Celador Films production of a film by Stephen Frears ; produced by Tracey Seaward, Robert Jones ; written by Steven Knight ; directed by Stephen Frears. -- Rogue trader (1999; 102 min.) / Granada and Newmarket Capital Group present a Granada Film/David Paradine production ; written and directed by James Dearden ; produced by James Dearden, Paul Raphael, Janette Day -- Rowing with the wind (1987; 95 min.) / Miramax Home Entertainment presents a Ditirambo Films production in association with Viking Films (Norway) for Iberomericana Films with the participation of Television Espanola S.A. (TVE) ; written and directed by Gonzalo Suarez.
Summary:
Restoration : Robert Merivel is a young man who seems to have everything ... until an affair leads to scandal, suddenly leaving him heartbroken and penniless. An ideal husband : A politician's spotless reputation is threatened by a dark secret from his past. A month by the lake : At a lakeside resort, an attractive older guest has her eye on a well-to-do bachelor. My life so far : Young Fraser Pettigrew has always been an adventurous child. But with the arrival of his sexy French aunt, Heloise, Fraser enters a truly eye-opening summer of discovery. The Englishman who went up a hill but came down a mountain : A young man offends an entire town by declaring their mountain -- a prized local landmark -- to be a hill. Sweet Revenge : A depressed businessman and a quirky aristocrat save each other's lives and then plot a devilish retaliation against those who drove them to the edge. Her majesty, Mrs. Brown : John Brown is a lowly servant who looks after Queen Victoria's horses. Yet when circumstances bring them together, the result is a passionate friendship. Tom & Viv : A passionately rendered story about writer T.S. Eliot's turbulent relationship with his first wife, Vivienne.
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