A Lover's Kiss - Recommendations

• TV (13 eps)
• 1979

The Main character is a 15 year old Isabelle Laustin, other characters being her parents Leon and Marie, Isabelle`s friends Jean and his sister Marie, and Isabelle`s suitor, Captain Victor. When Paris is beseiged and Napoleon III`s army is defeated, Isabelle escapes to London, disguised as a boy, and engages in secret agent stuff.

• OVA (2 eps)
• 2011

• TV (52 eps)
• 2007

Fantine and her daughter Cosette left Paris looking for a new start, but finding a job as a single mother proves impossible in 19th century France. Taking up the offer of an innkeeper couple, Fantine leaves Cosette in the care of the Thenardiers while she moves on to find work. Once Fantine is gone, however, the Thenardiers show their true colors, working Cosette mercilessly while pocketing the money Fantine sends for her support. Years pass and Cosette and Fantine dream of the time when they will be together again, but it seems the years only bring more hardships to both. What will become of little Cosette?

• TV Special (1 ep)
• 2007

• TV (26 eps)
• 1979 - 1980

• TV Special (2 eps)
• 2001

• TV (12 eps)
• 2007

Emma is working as a maid in the countryside, immersed in chores and grief; for her love, William, is engaged to a woman he does not love but whose family name will finally bring the Jouneses the status they have always craved. Resigned to their individual fates, the feelings that blossomed between them in London are seemingly a thing of the past. However, love does not rest so easily. Emma and William soon find themselves thrown together by chance. Once again they must make painful choices – love or prestige, passion or restraint – but this time so much more is at stake...

• TV (12 eps)
• 2005

At the end of the 19th century, in a time when social classes dominate society, a woman named Emma serves as a maid for a retired governess. One fateful day, a man named William from the upper class arrives at the mansion to visit the governess, and leaves having fallen in love with the young maid herself. In a time of such prejudice, love between the classes is frowned upon; but for William and Emma, their hardships are just beginning. Can the two break free of the bonds society has forced on them, or will they succumb to the pressure and banish each other from their hearts?

• OVA (1 ep)
• 1991

Based on the novella A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens.

• TV Special (1 ep)
• 1978

Wealthy miser Ebenezer Scrooge is a mean, stingy old man who never has a kind word for anyone. Lacking both empathy and human compassion, he spends his days greedily exploiting people to make himself richer. On Christmas Eve he is visited by the ghost of his former business partner, Jacob Marley, who warns him that three more spirits are coming to show him the error of his ways. If Scrooge refuses to change, his spirit will be condemned to wander the earth forever!