  | African Queen Huston, John 2000/09 - Warner Home Video BL04013DVD Check Our Catalog A gin-swilling riverboat captain is persuaded by a strait-laced missionary to use his boat to attack an enemy warship. ...More |
 | The Age of Innocence Scorsese, Martin 2003/03 - Columbia Tri-Star BL10014DVD Check Our Catalog Edith Wharton's sprawling, Pulitzer Prize-winning novel about manners in 1870s New York society transfers to the screen in fine fashion ...More |
 | Doctor Zhivago Lean, David 2002/09 - Warner Home Video BL08051DVD Check Our Catalog A poet and surgeon, husband and lover finds his life disrupted by war. It alters the lives of many, including Tonya, the gentle woman he marries and Lara, the woman he cannot forget. ...More |
 | Gone With The Wind Fleming, Victor 2004/02 - Warner Studios BL06041DVD Check Our Catalog Vivien Leigh is Scarlett to Clark Gable's Rhett in cinema's greatest epic of passion and adventure. With its immortal cast, magnificent cinematography and sweeping score, this cherished classic continues to thrill audiences today. ...More |
 | The Grapes of Wrath Ford, John Fonda, Henry 2004/10 - Twentieth Century-Fox 5559477907 Check Our Catalog John Steinbeck's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of the Great Depression translates beautifully to the big screen with a young Henry Fonda at his best ...More |
 | Great Expectations 2004/09 - Wgbh Wholesale 1593752067 Check Our Catalog YOUNG PIP IS EXPECTED TO BECOME A BLACKSMITH, BUT, HATING THE SOOT AND SMOKE, HE SECRETLY DREAMS OF BECOMING A GENTLEMAN. WHEN HE MEETS THE MYSTERIOUS MISS HAVISHAM AND HER HAUGHTY NIECE ESTELLA, PIP IS CONFIDENT THAT HIS DREAM IS TO COME TRUE. ...More |
 | The Great Gatsby Clayton, Jack 2003/12 - Paramount Home Video BL02960DVD Check Our Catalog About a mysterious American millionaire whose efforts to recapture the sweetheart of his youth results in tragedy. ...More |
 | Hamlet Zeffirelli, Franco 2004/02 - Warner Home Video BL05044DVD Check Our Catalog From director Franco Zeffirelli this two-hour version of Shakespeare's play stars Mel Gibson as the Danish prince. The supporting cast is outstanding, including Glenn Close as Gertrude, Alan Bates as Claudius, Ian Holm as Polonius, and Helena Bonham Carter as Ophelia. ...More |
 | Jane Eyre-Masterpiece Theater 2007/02 - Wgbh Wholesale 5557890092 Check Our Catalog |
 | Lolita 2007/10 - Warner Home Video 141986372X Check Our Catalog Professor Humbert Humbert marries a widow to be near her nymphet daughter. Directed by Stanley Kubrick. From the Vladimir Nabokov novel. ...More |
 | The Maltese Falcon Huston, John 2000/02 - Warner Studios BL07048DVD Check Our Catalog The classic film starring Humphrey Bogart as private eye Sam Spade. Following the death of Sam's partner, Sam is engulfed in a quest for a priceless Maltese Falcon statuette. ...More |
 | The Mill on the Floss Wilson, Ronald Blake, Christopher Cornwell, Judy 2007/04 - Warner Home Video 141982578X Check Our Catalog The tragic tale of Maggie Tulliver, the miller's daughter, who defies her embittered brother in standing by the man she loves - shocking the stifling society in which she lives - in an attempt to pursue her blighted dreams. ...More |
 | Les Miserables August, Bille 2003/04 - Columbia Tri-Star BL03058DVD Check Our Catalog Victor Hugo's story of escaped convict Jean Valjean, who is pursued relentlessly by the fanatical Inspector Javert. ...More |
 | Moby Dick Huston, John Huston, John Huston, John 2002/08 - Tcfhe/MGM 0792850149 Check Our Catalog Captain Ahab is a surly sailor who loses his leg to a gigantic, crafty white whale and becomes obsessed with hunting it down in this stunning visual tribute to Herman Melville's great literary classic. ...More |
 | The Old Man and the Sea 2005/02 - Warner Home Video 0790732815 Check Our Catalog Hemingway's old Cuban fisherman in a small wooden boat relives his youth as he fights a huge marlin. ...More |
 | Oliver Twist Polanski, Roman Kingsley, Ben Clark, Barney 2007/05 - Sony Pictures Home Ent 1404913963 Check Our Catalog ABANDONED AT AN EARLY AGE, OLIVER TWIST IS FORCED TO LIVE IN A WORKHOUSE LORDED OVER BY THE AWFUL MR BUMBLE, WHO CHEATS THE BOYS OF THEIR MEAGER RATIONS. DESPERATE YET DETERMINED, OLIVER MAKES HIS ESCAPE TO THE STREETS OF LONDON WHERE HE IS LURED INTO A WORLD OF CRIME BYT THE SINISTER FAGAN. ...More |
 | A Passage to India Lean, David Davis, Judy Banerjee, Victor 2001/03 - Sony Pictures Home Ent 5550006391 Check Our Catalog Set in the late 1920s, a young, headstrong British woman goes to India, accompanied by the mother of her fiance. Tensions between the East and the West heat up when the British tourist accuses a young Indian doctor of rape during her visit to the caverns. ...More |
 | Persuasion Shergold, Adrian 2008/01 - BBC Warner BL02896DVD Check Our Catalog Anne Elliot fell deeply in love with the handsome young naval officer Frederick Wentworth at the age of nineteen. But with neither fortune nor rank to recommend him, Anne was persuaded to break off her engagement. Eight years later, Anne has lived to regret her decision. She never stopped loving Wentworth, and when he returns from sea with a fortune and rank, she can only watch as every eligible young woman in the district falls at his feet. ...More |
 | Pride and Prejudice Wright, Joe 2006/02 - MCA Home Video BL03065DVD Check Our Catalog In this retelling of Jane Austen's novel set in 19th century England, Mrs. Bennet is all atwitter in hopes of marrying her daughters to prosperous gentlemen callers, especially when a wealthy bachelor moves nearby. Headstrong daughter Elizabeth meets her match in Mr. Darcy, but misinterprets Darcy's honorable intentions and jeopardizes her chance at love. ...More |
 | A Room with a View Ivory, James Carter, Helena Bonham Smith, Maggie 2005/04 - Warner Home Video 5559809527 Check Our Catalog "Lucy, a perfectly proper young Edwardian lady, is escorted by her even more proper Aunt Charlotte to the sensuous landscape of Florence. But after the merest hint of scandal, Charlotte whisks her back to the serene English countryside where she is betrothed to a supposedly suitable gentleman. ...More |
 | To Kill A Mockingbird Mulligan, Robert 2002/01 - Universal Studios BL03048DVD Check Our Catalog The award winning story of a small child who learns that there is evil in world. Set in the backdrop of the South, during the Depression, a white woman accuses a black man of rape. And while he is obviously innocent only one man will step up to defend him. ...More |
 | Treasure Island Haskin, Byron Driscoll, Bobby Newton, Robert 2007/01 - Buena Vista Home Entertainment 5552303482 Check Our Catalog Young Jim Hawkins has a map, and pirate Long John Silver wants it. From the Robert Louis Stevenson novel. ...More |
 | Vanity Fair Nair, Mira 2005/02 - Universal Studios BL05966DVD Check Our Catalog Becky Sharp is a lower-class girl who uses her considerable wit to climb her way up the precipitous ladder of 1820s London society in this latest, faithful film version of William Makepeace Thackeray's famous novel. ...More |
 | Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights Wgbh 2005/08 - Wgbh Wholesale 1593754663 Check Our Catalog |
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You could also add The Scarlet Letter or any other Shakespeare to this list.
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