Pride & Prejudice

Movie · 8.1 / 10 · 16 Sept 2005 · English

A story of love and life among the landed English gentry during the Georgian era. Mr. Bennet is a gentleman living in Hertfordshire with his overbearing wife and five daughters, but if he 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.

Wuthering Heights

Movie · 6.6 / 10 · 16 Oct 1992 · English

Young orphan Heathcliff is adopted by the wealthy Earnshaw family and moves into their estate, Wuthering Heights. Soon, the new resident falls for his compassionate foster sister, Cathy. The two share a remarkable bond that seems unbreakable until Cathy, feeling the pressure of social convention, suppresses her feelings and marries Edgar Linton, a man of means who befits her stature. Heathcliff vows to win her back.

Far from the Madding Crowd

Movie · 7.0 / 10 · 23 Apr 2015 · English

In Victorian England, the independent and headstrong Bathsheba Everdene attracts three very different suitors: Gabriel Oak, a hardworking young sheep farmer; Frank Troy, a handsome and reckless Sergeant; and William Boldwood, a prosperous and mature bachelor.

Mansfield Park

Movie · 6.7 / 10 · 12 Nov 1999 · English

Fanny Price is sent to live with her wealthy relatives, the Bertrams, where she is treated poorly by most except her cousin Edmund. Her life is complicated by the arrival of the worldly Mary and Henry Crawford.

Tristan & Isolde

Movie · 6.7 / 10 · 7 Apr 2006 · English

An affair between the second in line to Britain's throne and the princess of the feuding Irish spells doom for the young lovers.

The Bridges of Madison County

Movie · 7.7 / 10 · 2 Jun 1995 · English

Photographer Robert Kincaid wanders into the life of housewife Francesca Johnson for four days in the 1960s.

Jude

Movie · 6.3 / 10 · 6 Feb 1996 · English

In late 19th-century England, Jude aspires to be an academic, but is hobbled by his blue-collar background. Instead, he works as a stonemason and is trapped in an unloving marriage to a farmer's daughter named Arabella. But when his wife leaves him, Jude sees an opportunity to improve himself. He moves to the city and begins an affair with his married cousin, Sue, courting tragedy every step of the way.

The Choice

Movie · 7.2 / 10 · 4 Feb 2016 · English

Travis and Gabby first meet as neighbors in a small coastal town and wind up in a relationship that is tested by life's most defining events.

Safe Haven

Movie · 7.2 / 10 · 7 Feb 2013 · English

A young woman with a mysterious past lands in Southport, North Carolina where her bond with a widower forces her to confront the dark secret that haunts her.

Dragonwyck

Movie · 6.6 / 10 · 10 Apr 1946 · English

A simple Connecticut farm girl is recruited by a distant relative, an aristocratic patroon, to be governess to his young daughter in his Hudson Valley mansion.

Endless Love

Movie · 6.9 / 10 · 12 Feb 2014 · English

A privileged girl and a charismatic boy's instant desire sparks a love affair made only more reckless by parents trying to keep them apart.

Howards End

Movie · 7.0 / 10 · 13 Mar 1992 · English

A saga of class relations and changing times in an Edwardian England on the brink of modernity, the film centers on liberal Margaret Schlegel, who, along with her sister Helen, becomes involved with two couples: wealthy, conservative industrialist Henry Wilcox and his wife Ruth, and the downwardly mobile working-class Leonard Bast and his mistress Jackie.