In 1978, the BBC set itself the task of filming all of William Shakespeare’s plays for television. The resulting productions, renowed for their loyalty to the text, utilised the best theatrical and television directors and brought great performances from leading contemporary actors.

Two households, both alike in dignity, in fair Verona where we lay our scene, from ancient grudge break to new mutiny where civil blood makes civil hands unclean. From forth the fatal loins of these two foes a pair of star-cross’d lovers take their life whose misadventur’d piteous overthrows doth with their death bury their parents’ strife.

Romeo and Juliet.mkv

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https://nitro.download/view/29CAD4E93798C7A/Romeo.and.Juliet.1978.x264.mkv

Language(s):English
Subtitles:English

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Based on Noël Coward’s play “Still Life,” Brief Encounter is a romantic, bittersweet drama about two married people who meet by chance in a London railway station and carry on an intense love affair. Sentimental yet down-to-earth and set in pre-World War II England, the film follows British housewife Laura Jesson (Celia Johnson), who is on her way home, but catches a cinder in her eye. By chance, she meets Dr. Alec Harvey (Trevor Howard), who removes it for her. The two talk for a few minutes and strike immediate sparks, but they end up catching different trains. However, both return to the station once a week to meet and, as the film progresses, they grow closer, sharing stories, hopes, and fears about their lives, marriages, and children. One day, when Alec’s train is late, both become frantic that they will miss each other. When they finally find each other, they realize that they are in love. But what should be a joyous realization is fraught with tragedy, since both care greatly for their families. Howard and Johnson give flawless performances as two practical, married people who find themselves in a situation in which they know they can never be happy.

Brief.Encounter.1945.576p.BDRip.x264.FLAC-Q0S.mkv

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Runtime:	1h 26mn
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#1:	English 1.0ch FLAC
#2:	English 1.0ch AAC (Audio commentary on Brief Encounter by film historian Bruce Eder)

https://nitro.download/view/A4BE9D88527F88F/Brief.Encounter.1945.576p.BDRip.x264.FLAC-Q0S.mkv

Language(s):English
Subtitles:English

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Synopsis:
David Lean brings to vivid emotional life Noël Coward’s epic chronicle of a working-class family in the London suburbs over the course of two decades. Robert Newton and Celia Johnson are surpassingly affecting as Frank and Ethel Gibbons, a couple with three children whose modest household is touched by joy and tragedy from the tail end of the First World War to the beginning of the Second. With its mix of politics and melodrama, This Happy Breed is a quintessential British domestic drama, featuring subtly expressive Technicolor cinematography by Ronald Neame and a remarkable supporting cast including John Mills, Stanley Holloway, and Kay Walsh.

2.74GB | 1 h 51 min | 790×576 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/947B06F0CEFD0FA/This.Happy.Breed.1944.576p.BluRay.AAC.x264-HANDJOB.mkv

https://tezfiles.com/file/3252fb0f9ec8f/This.Happy.Breed.1944.576p.BluRay.AAC.x264-HANDJOB.mp4

Language:English
Subtitles:English (muxed)

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