Mike Barker
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When the beautiful widow Helen Graham moves into the derelict Wildfell Hall with her son, she arouses great curiosity from the local villagers. Gilbert Markham is a handsome young farmer who finds himself drawn to the enigmatic Helen and encourages her to open up to him. But even the sympathetic Markham is unprepared for the secrets Helen will ultimately reveal, secrets which the repressed Victorian society would rather bury forever.
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A French couple is abducted from the Eurotunnel and their traumatized daughter is left behind. French Commander Elise Wasserman and British DCI Karl Roebuck are again assigned to work the dual country investigation and when a plane crashes into the tunnel killing all aboard, they soon find themselves in complicated and sinister game that will change both their lives.
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1645: After years of civil war, King Charles I is overthrown and two heroes have emerged-- Lord General Thomas Fairfax and his best friend and deputy General Oliver Cromwell. Their friendship is threatened when Fairfax and his wife conspire to return the King to power, and Cromwell instead orders his execution, seizing control. His armies spread violence and fear throughout the country, and Fairfax realizes Cromwell must be stopped, and their bond...
5) Lorna Doone
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Retells the high adventure and romantic love story, set in late seventeenth-century England, about Lorna, the granddaughter of the head of a nobly-born family of robbers and outlaws, who falls in love with John Ridd, a man intent on avenging his father's death upon the Doone clan.
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Jane Eyre: Bronte's story of an orphan who grows up to become governess of a mansion, and who carries a tormented love for a man named Mr. Rochester. -- Wuthering Heights: When the dark brooding orphan boy Heathcliff enters the Earnshaw household at Wuthering Heights, he is at first shunned by his new stepsiblings, Catherine and Hindley. Catherine eventually falls in love with Heathcliff, but Hindley's rivalry with Heathcliff only deepens, and...
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THE ROMANCE COLLECTION brings together eight perennial favorites in an extraordinary DVD set sure to delight all fans of sophisticated entertainment. Like no other films ever made, these lavish realizations capture every nuance of the celebrated stories that have enthralled generations of readers. Titles included in this collection are: PRIDE & PREJUDICE: THE SPECIAL EDITION (2 discs), EMMA, JANE EYRE, LORNA DOONE, THE SCARLET PIMPERNEL (3 discs),...