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All Day on the Sands (1979)
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Mr and Mrs Cooper are staying at a boarding-house in the seaside resort of Morecambe with their small children, Colin and Jennifer. Mr Cooper has just been made redundant, but the family are trying to keep this a secret from the other guests. Also staying at the hotel are Keith and Jo, a young couple on their honeymoon, and an older couple, Mr and Mrs Thornton. Waking early one morning, Colin amuses himself by dangling one of his sister's sandals out of the window on a piece of string. The sandal accidentally lands on a flat roof just outside the window of the honeymooning couple, and his father's now straitened financial circumstances mean Colin has to get it back, by fair means or foul.

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Consuming Passions (1988)
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other title: Pasión devoradora / 消費激情 …
Adapted from a play written by two Monty Python vets, this toothy satire launches with a tragic accident at Chumley's chocolate factory when hapless manager Ian Littleton accidentally knocks several employees into a huge chocolate vat. The tragic mishap at the chocolate factory results in candy lovers getting an unexpected 'extra' in their sweets.

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Screen Two: Northanger Abbey (1987)
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贾尔斯·福斯特 actor: Katharine Schlesinger / 彼得·弗斯 …
other title: 诺桑觉寺
Catherine Morland is a young women who enjoys reading Gothic Novels. She is invited to Bath by a family friend, Mrs. Allen, and there she meets Henry Tilney and his sister Eleanor. Upon returning to her home with her family Eleanor invites Catherine to come along as her guest and companion. There Catherine's imagination continues to flourish and she beings to suspect a dark secret at Northanger Abbey.

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Adam Bede (1992)
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贾尔斯·福斯特 actor: Iain Glen / 詹姆斯·维尔比 …
other title: 亚当·贝德 / 亞當·貝德
Rich and languorous, this adaptation of George Eliot's classic tale perfectly evokes rural England in the 18th Century. But beneath the tranquil surface of this pastoral idyll run deep passions and the bitter gall of betrayal.

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The Prince and the Pauper (2001)
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other title: 王子与贫儿
爱德华(Jonathan Timmins 饰)是含着金汤匙出生,自幼成长在宫廷之中高高在上的王子,虽然享受着衣食无忧荣华富贵的生活,却没有半点自由。汤姆(Robert Timmins 饰)出生在贫困的家庭里,年纪虽小就已经要开始为了生计奔波,虽然生活得无拘无束,却要饱受穷困之苦。 一次偶然中,爱德华和汤姆相遇了,令两人感到震惊的是,他们竟然有着几乎一模一样的样貌。爱德华羡慕汤姆的自由,汤姆倾心于爱德华的富有,一拍即合的两人交换了身份,想要体验一下彼此的生活。哪知道刚一进入宫廷,汤姆就必须面对复杂而又充满了危险的王位之争,与此同时,身无长技的爱德华亦不知道如何靠着双手劳作来填饱肚子。

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Bertie and Elizabeth (2002)
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贾尔斯·福斯特 actor: 詹姆斯·维尔比 / Alan Bates …
other title: 伯蒂与伊丽莎白 / 白金汉宫之恋 …
The duke of York, nicknamed Bertie, was born as royal 'spare heir', younger brother to the prince of Wales, and thus expected to spend a relatively private life with his Scottish wife Elisabeth Bowes-Lyon and their daughters, in the shadow of their reigning father, George V, and next that of his elder brother who succeeded to the British throne as Edward VIII. However Edward decides to put his love for a divorced American, Wallis Simpson, above dynastic duty, and ends up abdicating the throne, which now falls to Bertie, who reigns as George VI. Now he expects to be, as constitutional monarch, little more then a figure head, but again faith has more in store for him: Nazi Germany proves such a formidable war challenger to the British Empire that the nearly desperate nation looks to its royal couple as comforting symbol of the unbroken spirit, a part they play with great success, while hosting chased monarchs and governments from continental Europe...