This Academy Award-winning adaptation of Dickens’ Oliver Twist boasts the sort of soundtrack that will have you humming, whistling, and tapping your feet long after the credits roll.

For those who don’t know the story, it tells the tale of a young orphan who escapes the drudgery of a Barnstaple workhouse and makes for London. There, he falls in with the Artful Dodger and a gaggle of pickpocketing street urchins, winds up in trouble with the law, and finds love in the most unexpected of places.

Oliver! is available to rent on Amazon Prime Video.

Great Expectations (1998)

The critics might have hated it, but a lot of people have a soft spot for this oh-so-90s, oh-so-stylised rendition of Dickens’ Great Expectations. Starring Gwyneth Paltrow and Ethan Hawke, it is only loosely based on the original text, which means things get… well, they get a lot steamier than they ever did in the book.

Great Expectations is available to rent on Amazon Prime Video.

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