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Mark | imdb: 7.1 |
Genre | melodrama, drama, biography, history |
Country | United Kingdom, USA |
Duration | 01:30 |
An outwardly confident but unmarried woman on the verge of her fortieth birthday reflects on her past suitors and the choices she once made while attempting to help her marriage minded niece choose between a number of potential suitors in this tale inspired by the life and letters of Jane Austen. Jane Austen is about to turn forty, but she still hasn't found her ideal man. When Jane is approached by her niece Fanny and asked to help select the perfect husband for the young girl, the aging spinster begins to wonder why it is that she never found a man to share her own life with. Perhaps if Jane had accepted the proposal of a wealthy landowner she could have saved her family from financial ruin, and what of the handsome young physician who once warmed to Jane after tending to her ailing family members?
Mark | imdb: 7.3 |
Genre | melodrama, drama, biography |
Country | United Kingdom |
Duration | 01:44 |
BELLE is inspired by the true story of Dido Elizabeth Belle, the illegitimate mixed race daughter of a Royal Navy Admiral. Raised by her aristocratic great-uncle Lord Mansfield and his wife, Belle's lineage affords her certain privileges, yet the color of her skin prevents her from fully participating in the traditions of her social standing. Left to wonder if she will ever find love, Belle falls for an idealistic young vicar's son bent on change who, with her help, shapes Lord Mansfield's role as Lord Chief Justice to end slavery in England
Mark | imdb: 6.8 |
Genre | fantasy, comedy, melodrama, drama, biography |
Country | United Kingdom |
Duration | 01:34 |
Exploring the somewhat darker and more mysterious side of the Lewis Carroll's classic book, the movie follows Alice Liddell (the book's inspiration) as an old woman who is haunted by the characters she was once so amused by. As she thinks back on it, she starts to see her relationship with the shy author/professor in a new way and realizes the vast change between the young Alice and the old.
Mark | imdb: 6.3 |
Genre | melodrama, drama, biography |
Country | United Kingdom |
Duration | 01:54 |
Story of the relationship between the poets Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath.
Mark | imdb: 7 |
Genre | melodrama, drama, biography |
Country | United Kingdom, Germany, Russia |
Duration | 01:53 |
A historical drama that illustrates Russian author Leo Tolstoy's struggle to balance fame and wealth with his commitment to a life devoid of material things. The Countess Sofya, wife and muse to Leo Tolstoy, uses every trick of seduction on her husband's loyal disciple, whom she believes was the person responsible for Tolstoy signing a new will that leaves his work and property to the Russian people.
Mark | imdb: 6.9 |
Genre | melodrama, drama, biography, history |
Country | Brazil |
Duration | 01:58 |
In 1951, New York poet Elizabeth Bishop travels to Rio de Janeiro to visit Mary, a college friend. The shy Elizabeth is overwhelmed by Brazilian sensuality. She is the antithesis to Mary’s dashing partner, architect Lota de Macedo Soares. Mary is jealous, but unconventional Lota is determined to have both women at all costs. This eternal triangle plays out against the backdrop of the military coup of 1964. Bishop’s moving poems are at the core of a film which lushly illustrates a crucial phase in the life of this influential Pulitzer prize-winning poet.
Mark | imdb: 5.8 |
Genre | melodrama, drama, biography |
Country | United Kingdom, Republic of Ireland |
Socialite Vita Sackville-West and literary icon Virginia Woolf run in different circles in 1920s London. Despite the odds, the magnetic Vita and the beguiling Virginia forge an unconventional affair, set against the backdrop of their own strikingly contemporary marriages; which inspired one of Woolf's most iconic novels, 'Orlando'.
Mark | imdb: 6.4 |
Genre | comedy, melodrama, drama |
Country | Republic of Ireland, France, Netherlands |
Duration | 01:52 |
From Jane Austen’s novella, the beautiful and cunning Lady Susan Vernon visits the estate of her in-laws to wait out colorful rumors of her dalliances and to find husbands for herself and her daughter. Two young men, handsome Reginald DeCourcy and wealthy Sir James Martin, severely complicate her plans.
Mark | imdb: 6.7 |
Genre | melodrama, drama, biography |
Country | United Kingdom |
Duration | 02:10 |
Liverpool, 1978: What starts as a vibrant affair between a legendary femme-fatale, the eccentric Academy Award-winning actress Gloria Grahame, and her young lover, British actor Peter Turner, quickly grows into a deeper relationship, with Turner being the person Gloria turns to for comfort.
Mark | imdb: 6.7 |
Genre | melodrama, drama, biography, history |
Country | United Kingdom, USA, France, Hungary, Netherlands |
Duration | 02:37 |
After marrying a successful Parisian writer known commonly as Willy, Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette is transplanted from her childhood home in rural France to the intellectual and artistic splendor of Paris. Soon after, Willy convinces Colette to ghostwrite for him. She pens a semi-autobiographical novel about a witty and brazen country girl named Claudine, sparking a bestseller and a cultural sensation. After its success, Colette and Willy become the talk of Paris and their adventures inspire additional Claudine novels.
Mark | imdb: 7.1 |
Genre | melodrama, drama |
Country | United Kingdom, USA |
Duration | 02:33 |
Based on the literary classic by Thomas Hardy, Far from the Madding Crowd is the story of independent, beautiful and headstrong Bathsheba Everdene, who attracts three very different suitors: Gabriel Oak, a sheep farmer, captivated by her fetching willfulness; Frank Troy, a handsome and reckless Sergeant; and William Boldwood, a prosperous and mature bachelor. This timeless story of Bathsheba's choices and passions explores the nature of relationships and love – as well as the human ability to overcome hardships through resilience and perseverance.
Mark | imdb: 6.4 |
Genre | melodrama, drama, biography, history |
Country | United Kingdom, Luxembourg, USA, Republic of Ireland, Australia |
Duration | 02:05 |
The love affair between poet Percy Shelley and Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin resulted in the creation of an immortal novel, “Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus.”
Mark | imdb: 7.2 |
Genre | melodrama, drama |
Country | United Kingdom, USA, Republic of Ireland |
Duration | 01:24 |
A young woman's penchant for sensational Gothic novels leads to misunderstandings in the matters of the heart.
Mark | imdb: 6.9 |
Genre | melodrama, drama, biography, history |
Country | Czech Republic, United Kingdom, France, USA |
Duration | 02:31 |
The inspiring true story of Seretse Khama, the King of Bechuanaland (modern Botswana), and Ruth Williams, the London office worker he married in 1948 in the face of fierce opposition from their families and the British and South African governments. Seretse and Ruth defied family, Apartheid and empire - their love triumphed over every obstacle flung in their path and in so doing they transformed their nation and inspired the world.
Mark | imdb: 7.3 |
Genre | melodrama, drama, biography, history |
Country | United Kingdom, USA |
Duration | 01:40 |
From Academy Award® winners Graham King and Martin Scorsese, along with the makers of Gosford Park and The Departed, comes the story of Queen Victoria’s early rise to power. From an object of a royal power-struggle to her romantic courtship and legendary marriage to Prince Albert, Emily Blunt (The Devil Wears Prada) gives a stunning performance as the young Victoria. Packed with drama, romance, breath-taking cinematography, lavish costumes and featuring an outstanding British cast including Jim Broadbent, Harriet Walter, Mark Strong, Paul Bettany, Miranda Richardson, and Rupert Friend, The Young Victoria has captivated British audiences, and is the film that Company magazine called “an epic British film, which will sweep you up in her remarkable story.”
Mark | imdb: 7.5 |
Genre | melodrama, drama |
Country | United Kingdom, Canada, Republic of Ireland |
Duration | 02:42 |
In 1950s Ireland and New York, young Ellis Lacey has to choose between two men and two countries.
Mark | imdb: 7.2 |
Genre | fantasy, melodrama, drama, biography |
Country | United Kingdom, Russia, Italy, France, Netherlands |
Duration | 01:34 |
England, 1600. Queen Elizabeth I promises Orlando, a young nobleman obsessed with poetry, that she will grant him land and fortune if he agrees to satisfy a very particular request.
Mark | imdb: 5.9 |
Genre | drama, biography |
Country | Republic of Ireland, United Kingdom, Italy, Germany |
Duration | 01:46 |
In 1904, in Dublin, James Joyce chats up Nora Barnacle, a hotel maid recently come from Galway. She enchants him with her frank, direct and uninhibited manner, and before long, he's convinced her to come with him to Trieste, where he has a job with Berlitz. Over time, Nora pulls him through phobias, tolerates his drinking, takes in his brother Stan, and bests Joyce at 'the writin' game' to bring him back to Italy from Dublin where he's gone to open a cinema. But his sexual jealousy threatens the relationship and sends her back to Galway with the children. Is there any way to tame Jim's green-eyed monster? And, will the lad ever get his stories published?
Mark | imdb: 7.8 |
Genre | melodrama, drama |
Country | United Kingdom, France, USA |
Duration | 02:09 |
Pride & Prejudice is a humorous story of love and life among English gentility during the Georgian era. Mr. Bennet is an English gentleman living in Hertfordshire with his overbearing wife and five daughters. If Mr. Bennet dies their house will be inherited by a distant cousin whom they have never met, so the family's future happiness and security is dependent on the daughters making good marriages.
Mark | imdb: 4.9 |
Genre | melodrama, drama, biography |
Country | United Kingdom, USA |
Duration | 01:23 |
William & Kate is the first of two unrelated American television films about the relationship between Prince William and Catherine "Kate" Middleton (now The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge), directed by Mark Rosman and written by Nancey Silvers. The film was a ratings success, despite the negative reception from critics. The second film William & Catherine: A Royal Romance was produced by a different company and released in August 2011.
Mark | imdb: 6.1 |
Genre | melodrama, drama, biography, history |
Country | United Kingdom |
Duration | 01:51 |
In 1857, at the height of his fame and fortune, novelist and social critic Charles Dickens meets and falls in love with teenage stage actress Nelly Ternan. As she becomes the focus of his heart and mind, as well as his muse, painful secrecy is the price both must pay.
Mark | imdb: 6.9 |
Genre | melodrama, drama, music, biography |
Country | USA, France, United Kingdom |
Duration | 02:11 |
A biography of the dancer Isadora Duncan, the 1920s dancer who forever changed people's ideas of ballet. Her nude, semi-nude, and pro-Soviet dance projects as well as her attitudes on free love, debt, dress, and lifestyle shocked the public of her time.
Mark | imdb: 5.6 |
Genre | action, melodrama, drama, adventure, military, biography, history |
Country | USA, United Kingdom, Germany, Netherlands, France, Italy, Morocco, Thailand |
Duration | 02:55 |
Alexander, the King of Macedonia, leads his legions against the giant Persian Empire. After defeating the Persians, he leads his army across the then known world, venturing farther than any westerner had ever gone, all the way to India.
Mark | imdb: 6.4 |
Genre | comedy, melodrama, drama, biography |
Country | United Kingdom |
Duration | 01:50 |
A British writer struggles to fit in at a high-profile magazine in New York. Based on Toby Young's memoir "How to Lose Friends & Alienate People".
Mark | imdb: 7.3 |
Genre | melodrama, drama |
Country | United Kingdom, USA |
Duration | 02:00 |
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 meet the dark, cold, and abrupt master of the house, Mr. 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 Mr. Rochester's terrible secret be about to destroy it forever?
Mark | imdb: 7.4 |
Genre | melodrama, drama, biography |
Country | United Kingdom |
Duration | 02:11 |
C.S. Lewis, a world-renowned writer and professor, leads a passionless life until he meets spirited poet Joy Gresham
Mark | imdb: 6.9 |
Genre | melodrama, drama, biography |
Country | United Kingdom, Japan, Germany |
Duration | 01:58 |
The story of Oscar Wilde, genius, poet, playwright and the First Modern Man. The self-realisation of his homosexuality caused Wilde enormous torment as he juggled marriage, fatherhood and responsibility with his obsessive love for Lord Alfred Douglas.
Mark | imdb: 7.1 |
Genre | melodrama, drama, biography |
Country | United Kingdom |
Duration | 02:37 |
Based on the true story of Robin, a handsome, brilliant and adventurous man whose life takes a dramatic turn when polio leaves him paralyzed.
Mark | imdb: 7.4 |
Genre | melodrama, drama, music, biography |
Country | United Kingdom, USA |
Duration | 02:01 |
The life and death of the legendary Ludwig van Beethoven. Beside all the work he is known for, the composer once wrote a famous love letter to a nameless beloved and the movie tries to find out who this beloved was. Not easy as Beethoven has had many women in his life.
Mark | imdb: 6 |
Genre | melodrama, drama, biography |
Country | United Kingdom |
Duration | 01:44 |
A look at the mysterious relationship between Victorian art critic John Ruskin and his teenage bride Effie Gray.
Mark | imdb: 7.4 |
Genre | melodrama, drama |
Country | United Kingdom, USA |
Duration | 02:25 |
A small town girl is caught between dead-end jobs. A high-profile, successful man becomes wheelchair bound following an accident. The man decides his life is not worth living until the girl is hired for six months to be his new caretaker. Worlds apart and trapped together by circumstance, the two get off to a rocky start. But the girl becomes determined to prove to the man that life is worth living and as they embark on a series of adventures together, each finds their world changing in ways neither of them could begin to imagine.
Mark | imdb: 6.6 |
Genre | melodrama, drama, biography, history |
Country | USA, United Kingdom |
Duration | 01:57 |
An aspiring young physician, Robert Merivel found himself in the service of King Charles II and saves the life of someone close to the King. Merivel joins the King's court and lives the high life provided to someone of his position. Merivel is ordered to marry his King's mistress in order to divert the queens suspicions. He is given one order by the king and that is not to fall in love. The situation worsens when Merivel finds himself in love with his new wife. Eventually, the King finds out and relieves Merivel of his position and wealth. His fall from grace leaves Merivel where he first started. And through his travels and reunions with an old friend, he rediscovers his love for true medicine and what it really means to be a physician.
Mark | imdb: 7 |
Genre | melodrama, drama, biography |
Country | United Kingdom, USA |
Duration | 01:28 |
The story of Beatrix Potter, the author of the beloved and best-selling children's book, "The Tale of Peter Rabbit", and her struggle for love, happiness and success.
Mark | imdb: 7 |
Genre | melodrama, drama, biography |
Country | United Kingdom, USA |
Duration | 02:35 |
The story of Richard and Mildred Loving, an interracial couple, whose challenge of their anti-miscegenation arrest for their marriage in Virginia led to a legal battle that would end at the US Supreme Court.
Mark | imdb: 6.7 |
Genre | melodrama, drama, biography, history |
Country | United Kingdom, India, Sweden |
Duration | 02:21 |
In 1947, Lord Mountbatten assumes the post of last Viceroy, charged with handing India back to its people, living upstairs at the house which was the home of British rulers, whilst 500 Hindu, Muslim and Sikh servants lived downstairs.
Mark | imdb: 7 |
Genre | melodrama, drama, military |
Country | United Kingdom |
A woman during the Second World War opens her heart to an evacuee after initially resolving to be rid of him.
Mark | imdb: 6.8 |
Genre | melodrama, drama, military, biography |
Country | USA |
Duration | 01:47 |
England, early 20th century. The future writer and philologist John Ronald Reuel Tolkien (1892-1973) and three of his schoolmates create a strong bond between them as they share the same passion for literature and art, a true fellowship that strengthens as they grow up, but the outbreak of World War I threatens to shatter it.
Mark | imdb: 6.6 |
Genre | action, thriller, melodrama, drama, adventure, biography |
Country | USA, Hong Kong, Iceland |
Duration | 02:28 |
A true story of survival, as a young couple's chance encounter leads them first to love, and then on the adventure of a lifetime as they face one of the most catastrophic hurricanes in recorded history.
Mark | imdb: 4.8 |
Genre | melodrama, drama, military |
Country | India, United Kingdom |
Duration | 02:42 |
A war, religious conflicts, and misunderstandings create obstacles for a couple of different faiths.