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Jane Eyre

Series Age rating: 7 Year: 2006 IMDB Rating: 8.3

Charlotte Bronte's classic about an orphan girl who grows up to become a governess in a gloomy manor in Yorkshire, where she falls in love with the mysterious Edward Rochester.

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Call the Midwife

Series Age rating: 12 Year: 2012 IMDB Rating: 8.6

Drama following the lives of a group of midwives working in the poverty-stricken East End of London during the 1950s, based on the best-selling memoirs of Jennifer Worth.

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Everything I Know About Love

Series Age rating: 17 Year: 2022 IMDB Rating: 7.5

In a 2012 London house-share, childhood best friends Maggie and Birdy — now in their 20s — experience bad dates, heartaches and humiliation. With flashbacks to suburban adolescence in the early nought...

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Little Dorrit

Series Age rating: 10 Year: 2008 IMDB Rating: 8.2

Amy Dorrit spends her days earning money for the family and looking after her proud father who is a long term inmate of Marshalsea debtors' prison in London. Amy and her family's world is transformed...

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Small Island

Series Age rating: 15 Year: 2009 IMDB Rating: 7.5

Follow three intricately connected stories of Jamaicans and Londoners involved in World War Two. Hortense yearns for a new life away from rural Jamaica, Gilbert dreams of becoming a lawyer, and Queeni...

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Love in a Cold Climate

Series Age rating: n/a Year: 2001 IMDB Rating: 7

Dramatization of Nancy Mitford's novel about three aristocratic young girls' adventures in love.

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The History of Tom Jones: A Foundling

Series Age rating: 11 Year: 1997 IMDB Rating: 7.7

Adaptation of the classic novel by Henry Fielding chronicling the life, loves and adventures of the charming Tom.

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The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

Series Age rating: 13 Year: 1996 IMDB Rating: 7.3

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall is a 1996 British television serial adaptation of Anne Brontë's novel of the same name, produced by BBC and directed by Mike Barker. The serial stars Tara FitzGerald as Hel...

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Lady Chatterley

Series Age rating: 15 Year: 1993 IMDB Rating: 6.8

Lady Constance Chatterley is married to the handicapped Sir Clifford Chatterley, who was wounded in the First World War. When they move to his family's estate, Constance (Connie) meets their tough-yet...

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