Foreign/Indie:

Somewhere

Hors de Prix

Margot at the Wedding

Bella

Rachel Getting Married

Things We Lost in the Fire

Snow Angels?

Starting Out in the Evening

Death at a Funeral

The Secret Life of Words

Local Color

The Reader

The Merry Gentleman

Bollywood:

Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna (Never Say Goodbye)

Jodhaa Akbar

Kisna

Ghajini

Black

Rab ne bana ni jodi

Qayamat Se Qayamat Tak (From The End To The End)

Lagaan: Once Upon A Time In India (Land Tax)- Consistently triumphant, not least because it helped Bollywood penetrate Western movie markets. Everyone loves the underdog and here, we see how humble Indian peasants overcome the struggle of paying high taxes to their unforgiving British rulers. And all by playing on the country’s national love: cricket. An absolute winner.

Lage Raho Munna Bhai (Carry On Munna Bhai)- It’s not just the laughs that the audience love – Sanjay Dutt’s spreading of Ghandism and his sidekick’s unique dialect of ‘Bumbaiya’ Hindi have surprisingly captured Indian culture like no other film. And the film’s love interest is an adorable radio presenter who takes her lead from Robin Williams in Good Morning, Vietnam!

Period dramas:

Garrow’s Law

Our Mutual Friend

The Thorn Birds

Hallmark:

The Valley of Light

Asian:

Bin-jip
Fair Love
Tajomaru
Sukiyaki Western Django

BBC Pride and Prejudice

Sense and Sensibility (- and 2009)

Emma()

Persuasion ()

Northanger Abbey

North and South

Wives and Daughters

Little Dorrit

Daniel Deronda

Victoria and Albert

The Young Victoria

Tess of the D’Urbervilles(Justine Waddell)

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall(Tara Fitzgerald, Toby Stephens)

The Buccaneers

Where Angels Fear to Tread

Bleak House

Under the Greenwood Tree

The Forsyte Saga

Berekeley Square

The White Countess

Hallmark/low-budget romance:

Cupid & Cate – unexceptional but enjoyable

Follow the Stars Home

Hidden Places

Loving Leah – enjoyable but forgettable

Rose Hill

The Magic of Ordinary Days – fantastic – low-key and wonderful

The Love Letter

The Seventh Stream

Oldies:

Casablanca

The African Queen

The Philadelphia Story

It Happened One Night

My Fair Lady

Roman Holiday

Sabrina

Singin’ in the Rain