Silas Marner (1985) more movies like this

directed by Giles Foster
featuring Ben Kingsley, Jenny Agutter, Patrick Ryecart, Jonathan Coy, Freddie Jones

This TV adaptation of George Elliot's 1861 novel Silas Marner was one of the rare single-episode presentations of PBS' Masterpiece Theatre. Ben Kingsley plays Silas Marner, who after being falsely accused of a crime and banished from his own town, becomes a miserly recluse in the small British community of Raveloe. When his precious cache of money ...

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Northanger Abbey (1987) more movies like this

directed by Giles Foster
featuring Katherine Schlesinger, Peter Firth, Googie Withers, Robert Hardy

Northanger Abbey was filmed in England and first telecast in the U.S. on December 2, 1987. This 90-minute adaptation of Jane Austen's 1818 novel incorporates the author's usual interconnecting themes of true love and acquisition of wealth, and tosses in a little Gothic mystery for good measure. Katherine Schlesinger stars as the 17-year-old ...

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Coming Home (1998) more movies like this

directed by Giles Foster
featuring Peter O'Toole, Joanna Lumley, Emily Mortimer

Adapted from a novel by Rosamunde Pilcher, the two-part British miniseries Coming Home re-created the years between 1936 and 1941 as experienced by a brace of young and impressionable girls. Meeting in a boarding school, Judith Dunbar and Loveday Carey-Lewis became close friends, though they were miles apart in terms of social status. But when ...

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Adam Bede (1992) more movies like this

directed by Giles Foster
featuring Patsy Kensit, James Wilby, Iain Glen, Susannah Harker

Written by George Eliot (of Silas Marner fame), the 1859 novel Adam Bede trenchantly addresses the issues of ingrained social prejudices. Played in this British TV adaptation by Iain Glen, the titular Adam Bede is a humble carpenter, enamored of the beautiful but shallow Hetty Sorel (Patsy Kensit). Surrendering to the "political correctness" of ...

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Dutch Girls (1987) more movies like this

directed by Giles Foster

In this sophomoric comedy, a lusty adolescent British hockey team heads for Holland where they find something far more interesting than tulips and windmills--gorgeous, lusty women. They are so busy pursuing romance that they forget all about their upcoming match. Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide

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Consuming Passions (1988) more movies like this

directed by Giles Foster
featuring Vanessa Redgrave, Jonathan Pryce, Tyler Butterworth, Freddie Jones, Sammi Davis

A British production created by Monty Python alumni, this film concerns an inept chocolate-factory executive (Tyler Butterworth) who accidentally knocks three workers into a vat. The product is an incredible hit with consumers, though one of the workers' widows (Vanessa Redgrave) is considering blackmail. John Bush, All Movie Guide

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Oliver's Travels (1995) more movies like this

directed by Giles Foster

The title character in this five-part British miniseries was a university lecturer (Alan Bates) with a fondness for anagrams and crossword puzzles. Laid off from his academic job, Oliver embarks upon a search for Aristotle, his favorite crossword compiler and creator of the intellectual game Mastermind. Following the trail to Wales, Oliver and his ...

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The Rector's Wife (1994) more movies like this

directed by Giles Foster
featuring Lindsay Duncan, Stephen Dillane, Ronald Pickup, Jonathan Coy

The wife of a kind but uninteresting preacher is scorned by her community for supplementing the family income by taking a job at the local grocery store in this drama starring Lindsay Duncan and based on the book by Joanna Trollope. Anna Bouverie's husband has been passed over for a job promotion, leaving her family financially destitute. ...

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Bertie & Elizabeth (2002) more movies like this

directed by Giles Foster
featuring James Wilby, Juliet Aubrey, Alan Bates, Eileen Atkins, Charles Edwards

The fascinating story of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth is recounted in this British made-for-TV effort. It all begins in 1920, when the then-Duke of York Albert (James Wilby), known affectionately as Bertie, meets and falls in love with the aristocratic, 19-year-old Elizabeth Bowes-Lytton (Juliet Aubrey). Although their marriage makes ...

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