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To some extent, the team behind the revival of St. Trinian's were on a bit of a hiding to nothing. The old films, contextualised by a far different age, were knockabout, energetic, yet innocent comedies about the antics of a boisterous girls' school and its inhabitants. Surprisingly though, the remake--again inspired by the Ronald Searle cartoons--manages to sidestep the bulk of the ...

Manufacturer: Entertainment in Video
Starring: Rupert Everett, Colin Firth, Jodie Whittaker, Russell Brand, Tallulah Riley
Directed By: Oliver Parker, Barnaby Thompson

In spite of the quality of the more recent Keira Knightley-starring big-screen interpretation, it's the mid-90s BBC mini-series of Pride and Prejudice that's still regarding by many as the definitive telling of Jane Austen's classic. Featuring, as many swooning admirers will already know, Colin Firth in a career-topping performance as Mr Darcy, Pride and Prejudice is the ...

Manufacturer: 2 Entertain Video
Starring: Jennifer Ehle, Colin Firth, David Bamber, Crispin Bonham-Carter, Anna Chancellor

Manufacturer: Contender Entertainment Group
Starring: Peter Firth, Rupert Penry-Jones, Hermione Norris, Raza Jaffrey, Hugh Simon

Screenwriter Andrew Davies describes Tipping the Velvet, his adaptation of Sarah Waters's acclaimed novel of lesbian love, betrayal and redemption in Victorian England, as "Pride and Prejudice with dirty bits". This three-part BBC production chronicles with relish the story of Nan Astley (Rachael Stirling, the ravishing image of her mother, Diana Rigg), barely 18, and certain that ...

Manufacturer: Contender Entertainment Group
Starring: Rachael Stirling, Keeley Hawes, Anna Chancellor, Jodhi May, Hugh Bonneville
Directed By: Geoffrey Sax

Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Starring: Amanda Bynes, Colin Firth, Kelly Preston, Eileen Atkins, Anna Chancellor
Directed By: Dennie Gordon

A love letter to movies (and the French new wave of the 1960s in particular), Bernardo Bertolucci's The Dreamers starts with a 1968 riot outside of a Parisian movie palace then burrows into an insular love triangle. Matthew (Michael Pitt, Hedwig and the Angry Inch), an expatriate American student, bonds with a twin brother and sister, Isabelle (Eva Green) and Theo (Louis Garrel), ...

Manufacturer: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Starring: Michael Pitt, Louis Garrel, Eva Green, Robin Renucci, Anna Chancellor
Directed By: Bernardo Bertolucci

Manufacturer: ITV DVD
Starring: John Thaw, Anna Chancellor, Geraldine James
Directed By: Ted Childs, Susan Rogers

Manufacturer: MGM Entertainment
Starring: Frankie Muniz, Cynthia Stevenson, Hilary Duff, Keith David, Hannah Spearritt
Directed By: Harald Zwart, Kevin Allen

Manufacturer: Paramount
Starring: Paul McGann, Florence Hoath, Elizabeth Earl, Harvey Keitel, Jason Salkey
Directed By: Charles Sturridge

Manufacturer: Mgm Home Ent. (Europe) Ltd.
Starring: Frankie Muniz, Anthony Anderson, Hannah Spearritt, Cynthia Stevenson, Daniel Roebuck
Directed By: Kevin Allen