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- DirectorJoe WrightStarsKeira KnightleyMatthew MacfadyenBrenda BlethynSparks fly when spirited Elizabeth Bennet meets single, rich, and proud Mr. Darcy. But Mr. Darcy reluctantly finds himself falling in love with a woman beneath his class. Can each overcome their own pride and prejudice?
- DirectorCary Joji FukunagaStarsMia WasikowskaMichael FassbenderJamie BellA mousy governess who softens the heart of her employer soon discovers that he's hiding a terrible secret.
- DirectorPeter KosminskyStarsJuliette BinocheRalph FiennesJanet McTeerA man becomes obsessed with vengeance when his soul mate marries another man.
- DirectorWilliam OldroydStarsFlorence PughCosmo JarvisPaul HiltonIn 19th-century rural England, a young bride who has been sold into marriage discovers an unstoppable desire within herself as she enters into an affair with a worker on her estate.
- DirectorSophie BarthesStarsMia WasikowskaRhys IfansEzra MillerBored in her marriage to a country doctor and stifled by life in a small town, the restless Emma Bovary pursues her dreams of passion and excitement, whatever they may cost.
- StarsAnna RosemondBernard RandallElsie Plush was a dime novel hero, Laura Jean kind, you know, and it was her boast that there wasn't a thriller published that she hadn't read, in the present Thanhauser picture she purchases n copy of Miss Libby's "A Great Hero" and instantly falls in love with the hero in the book. She forthwith proceeds to measure up the abilities of George Mild, her beau, with those of the Libby hero, and finds that George falls short. When George proposes, Elsie so far forgets the Libby hero as to accept George. Then the Libby hero recurs to her, and it is all off with George. She tells him that he is a worthy enough young man, but he isn't a hero. He is unromantic and ordinary and she knew she couldn't live "happily ever after" with anyone but a full-fledged hero, like the one in Laura Jean's book. Then Elsie meets her hero. He is a handsome military man, resplendent in gold lace and lofty airs. Elsie is pleased to take a stroll with him. He seems all that a hero should be until Elsie falls from a bridge into dangerous depths, when the bold soldier calls for help! So when an athlete responds and rescues Elsie, she scorns the unheroic man of war and gives the athlete her arm. But the athlete also has his weak points, and one of them is inability to manage a horse, hence when he tries to drive Elsie's horse the animal promptly runs away! Luckily an expert horseman happens along, stops the horse, and basks in Elsie's smiles. HE is a REAL hero! Elsie ignores the athlete. The clever horseman takes the seat the athlete has vacated and guides the horse to Elsie's home. But while handy with the reins the horseman is unhandy with his fists, and in an altercation with the pugilist is pounded and pummeled to a finish, right before Elsie's astonished eyes. Leaving the horseman rubbing his braises, the hero-seeker marches off with the victorious shoulder-hitter. An escaped lunatic enters on the scene and the pugilist loses his nerve. Fleeing, he leaves Elsie at the mercy of the maniac. Suddenly she observes n frightened look in the maniac's eyes and turns her head to see hypnotist approaching and cowing the lunatic. The hypnotist succeeds in leading the maniac back to the asylum, and then joins Elsie, who invites the professor to escort her home. The man of the powerful gaze cheerfully accepts and Elsie is sure that she has found a perfect hero until a footpad sticks a revolver under the professor's nose and snarls, "Everything around yer!" In vain does the professor exert his hypnotic power; the gun continues in dangerous proximity and the man behind it means business. So the hypnotist shells up like an ordinary mortal and Elsie loses another ideal, and her jewelry! The policeman who frightens off the highwayman is a sure-enough hero but investigation shows a wife and live youngsters at home. To add to her troubles, Elsie's pocketbook is lifted by a heroic-looking Hamlet who needed the money. Elsie concludes that her hero is perfect and that book heroes are fakes, so when plain, ordinary George swings by in his new Sunday suit, she tells him he's good enough for her, and he slips a gold band on her shapely linger, and, well, what more do you want ?
- DirectorHaifaa Al-MansourStarsElle FanningBel PowleyOwen RichardsLife and facts of Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, who at 16 met 21 year old poet Percy Shelley, resulting in the writing of Frankenstein.
- DirectorSaul DibbStarsKeira KnightleyRalph FiennesDominic CooperA chronicle of the life of 18th-century aristocrat Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, who was revered for her extravagant political and personal life.
- DirectorJoe WrightStarsKeira KnightleyJude LawAaron Taylor-JohnsonIn late-19th-century Russian high society, St. Petersburg aristocrat Anna Karenina enters into a life-changing affair with the dashing Count Alexei Vronsky.
- DirectorThomas VinterbergStarsCarey MulliganMatthias SchoenaertsMichael SheenIn Victorian England, the independent and headstrong Bathsheba Everdene attracts three very different suitors: Gabriel Oak, a sheep farmer; Frank Troy, a reckless Sergeant; and William Boldwood, a prosperous and mature bachelor.
- DirectorAutumn de WildeStarsAnya Taylor-JoyJohnny FlynnMia GothIn 1800s England, a well meaning but selfish young woman meddles in the love lives of her friends.
- DirectorClaire McCarthyStarsDaisy RidleyMia QuineyCalum O'RourkeA reimagining of Hamlet, told from Ophelia's perspective.
- DirectorNikolaj ArcelStarsAlicia VikanderMads MikkelsenMikkel Boe FølsgaardA young queen, who is married to an insane king, falls secretly in love with her physician - and together they start a revolution that changes a nation forever.
- DirectorJulian JarroldStarsAnne HathawayJames McAvoyJulie WaltersA biographical portrait of a pre-fame Jane Austen and her romance with a young Irishman.
- DirectorJoe WrightStarsKeira KnightleyJames McAvoyBrenda BlethynThirteen-year-old fledgling writer Briony Tallis irrevocably changes the course of several lives when she accuses her older sister's lover of a crime he did not commit.
- DirectorJulian JarroldStarsMatthew GoodePatrick MalahideHayley AtwellA poignant story of forbidden love and the loss of innocence set in England prior to World War II.
- DirectorAlan RickmanStarsKate WinsletAlan RickmanStanley TucciTwo talented landscape artists become romantically entangled while building a garden in King Louis XIV's palace at Versailles.
- DirectorAng LeeStarsEmma ThompsonKate WinsletJames FleetRich Mr. Dashwood dies, leaving his second wife and her three daughters poor by the rules of inheritance. The two eldest daughters are the title opposites.
- DirectorJohn MaddenStarsGwyneth PaltrowJoseph FiennesGeoffrey RushThe world's greatest ever playwright, William Shakespeare, is young, out of ideas and short of cash, but meets his ideal woman and is inspired to write one of his most famous plays.
- DirectorGuillermo del ToroStarsMia WasikowskaJessica ChastainTom HiddlestonIn the aftermath of a family tragedy, an aspiring author is torn between love for her childhood friend and the temptation of a mysterious outsider. Trying to escape the ghosts of her past, she is swept away to a house that breathes, bleeds - and remembers.
- StarsSarah GadonEdward HolcroftRebecca LiddiardGrace, an Irish immigrant in 19th-century Canada, is convicted of the murder of her employer. However, things take a different turn when a psychiatrist arrives to analyze her mental state.
- DirectorCharlie StrattonStarsElizabeth OlsenTom FeltonJessica LangeThérèse grows up with her aunt and cousin. Around 1860 the aunt decides they move to Paris and that her son and Thérèse get married. The joy- and loveless life changes when her husband brings a friend home. The affair turns ugly for all.