The Secret Scripture

Movie · 7.2 / 10 · 23 Mar 2017 · English

The hidden memoir of an elderly woman confined to a mental hospital reveals the history of her passionate yet tortured life, and of the religious and political upheavals in Ireland during the 1920s and 30s.

Jane Eyre

Movie · 6.9 / 10 · 24 Dec 1943 · English

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 meets the dark, cold, and abrupt master of the house, Edward 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 Rochester's terrible secret be about to destroy it forever?

The House of Mirth

Movie · 6.3 / 10 · 13 Oct 2000 · English

In early 20th century New York City, an impoverished socialite desperately seeks a suitable husband as she gradually finds herself betrayed by her friends and exiled from high society.

Never Let Me Go

Movie · 6.9 / 10 · 18 Mar 2010 · English

As children, Kathy, Ruth, and Tommy spend their childhood at an idyllic and secluded English boarding school. As they grow into adults, they must come to terms with the complexity and strength of their love for one another while also preparing for the haunting reality awaiting them.

Persuasion

Movie · 7.2 / 10 · 1 May 1995 · English

In early 19th-century England, dire financial straits reacquaint the aristocratic Anne Elliot with her wealthy ex-fiance Frederick Wentworth. The two must choose between either putting the past behind them or listening to their hearts.

Past Lives

Movie · 7.7 / 10 · 2 Jun 2023 · English

After decades apart, childhood friends Nora and Hae Sung are reunited in New York for one fateful weekend as they confront notions of destiny, love, and the choices that make a life.

Persuasion

Movie · 7.2 / 10 · 1 Apr 2007 · English

Anne Elliot was once in love with Frederick Wentworth, a commander in the Royal Navy who was rejected by her snobby parents eight years ago. When the family hits hard times and are forced to rent out their mansion to his brother-in-law, Frederick returns as a captain - but will he remember Anne?

Come See the Paradise

Movie · 6.3 / 10 · 17 Aug 1990 · English

In this drama from director Alan Parker, on-the-lam Jack McGurn flees to Los Angeles and takes a job as a projectionist at a movie theater owned by a Japanese-American man. Jack falls for the owner's daughter, Lily, but they are forced to elope to Seattle when her father forbids the relationship. The couple marry and have a daughter, but when World War II breaks out, Jack is powerless to stop his new family's forced internment.

Dot the I

Movie · 6.0 / 10 · 31 Oct 2003 · English

A fiery Spanish woman is about to marry a kind British man when she meets a Brazilian actor who ignites in her a flame of lust she can't ignore.

Everything, Everything

Movie · 7.2 / 10 · 18 May 2017 · English

A teenager who's lived a sheltered life because she's allergic to everything, falls for the boy who moves in next door.

Rebel in the Rye

Movie · 6.6 / 10 · 15 Sept 2017 · English

The life of celebrated but reclusive author J.D. Salinger, who gained worldwide fame with the publication of his novel The Catcher in the Rye.

It Ends with Us

Movie · 6.9 / 10 · 7 Aug 2024 · English

When a woman's first love suddenly reenters her life, her relationship with a charming, but abusive neurosurgeon is upended, and she realizes she must learn to rely on her own strength to make an impossible choice for her future.