Set against the conditions leading up to the French Revolution and the Reign of Terror, French doctor Alexandre Manette serves an 18-year imprisonment in the Bastille in Paris, followed by his release to live in London with the daughter he has never met.
Chris Sarandon
Sydney Carton / Charles Darnay
Peter Cushing
Dr. Alexander Manette
Alice Krige
Lucie Manette
Kenneth More
Dr. Jarvis Lorry
Barry Morse
Marquis St. Evremonde
Flora Robson
Miss Pross
Billie Whitelaw
Madame Therese Defarge
Nigel Hawthorne
Mr. CJ Stryver
Norman Jones
Monsieur Ernest Defarge
Set against the conditions leading up to the French Revolution and the Reign of Terror, French doctor Alexandre Manette serves an 18-year imprisonment in the Bastille in Paris, followed by his release to live in London with the daughter he has never met.
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A young woman's penchant for sensational Gothic novels leads to misunderstandings in the matters of the heart.
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After a bleak childhood, Jane Eyre goes out into the world to become a governess. As she lives happily in her new position at Thornfield Hall, she meets the dark, cold, and abrupt master of the house, Edward Rochester. Jane and her employer grow close in friendship and she soon finds herself falling in love with him. Happiness seems to have found Jane at last, but could Rochester's terrible secret be about to destroy it forever?
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