Films and programs like Brideshead Revisited

Pride and Prejudice

Series Age rating: 7 Year: 1980 IMDB Rating: 7.4

The arrival of a young, well-off, eligible man named Mr. Bingley sends the Bennet household--with five girls of a marrying age--into a tizzy. But it's the introduction of Mr. Bingley's friend, Mr. Dar...

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Blackeyes

Series Age rating: n/a Year: 1989 IMDB Rating: 7.1

77-year-old Maurice James Kingsley writtes a successful novel about a fashion model, in this Dennis Potter miniseries. But Maurice’s furious niece recognises her life in its pages.

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Behaving Badly

Series Age rating: 7 Year: 1989 IMDB Rating: 6.4

Behaving Badly is a 1989 British television serial directed by David Tucker. The teleplay by Catherine Heath and Moira Williams is based on Heath's novel of the same name. It was initially broadcast b...

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Mansfield Park

Series Age rating: n/a Year: 1983 IMDB Rating: 6.7

Drama series based on the novel by Jane Austen. Mansfield Park is the magnificient country residence of Sir Thomas Bertram and his family. It is here that their poor relation Fanny Price is brought up...

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Boys from the Blackstuff

Series Age rating: 15 Year: 1982 IMDB Rating: 8.5

Alan Bleasdale's five-part series relates the further experiences of unemployed Liverpudlian tarmac layers Dixie, Chrissie, Loggo and Yosser, and their revered older friend, retired longshoreman and u...

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Hammer House of Horror

Series Age rating: 15 Year: 1980 IMDB Rating: 7.5

Anthology series, in which each self-contained episode featured a different kind of horror. These varied from witches, werewolves, ghosts, devil worship and voodoo, but also included non-supernatural...

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To Be the Best

Series Age rating: 15 Year: 1992 IMDB Rating: 4.8

The Barbara Taylor Bradford trilogy that began with "A Woman of Substance", ends with this epic tale. Paula O' Neill feuds with her cousins as she fights to save her grandmother's business, and strugg...

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Sherlock Holmes

Series Age rating: 9 Year: 1984 IMDB Rating: 8.7

Sherlock Holmes uses his abilities to take on cases by private clients and those that the Scotland Yard are unable to solve, along with his friend Dr. Watson.

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Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

Series Age rating: 10 Year: 1979 IMDB Rating: 8.5

George Smiley, the aging master spy of the Cold War and once heir apparent to Control, is brought back out of retirement to flush out a top level mole within the Circus. Smiley must travel back throug...

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