Lady Chatterley's Lover

Movie · 6.7 / 10 · 22 Nov 2022 · English

After a crippling injury leaves her husband impotent, Lady Chatterly is torn between her love for her husband and her physical desires. With her husband's consent, she seeks out other means of fulfilling her needs.

Brief Encounter

Movie · 7.7 / 10 · 24 Nov 1945 · English

Returning home from a shopping trip to a nearby town, bored suburban housewife Laura Jesson is thrown by happenstance into an acquaintance with virtuous doctor Alec Harvey. Their casual friendship soon develops during their weekly visits into something more emotionally fulfilling than either expected, and they must wrestle with the potential havoc their deepening relationship would have on their lives and the lives of those they love.

Revolutionary Road

Movie · 7.0 / 10 · 19 Dec 2008 · English

A young couple living in a Connecticut suburb during the mid-1950s struggle to come to terms with their personal problems while trying to raise their two children. Based on a novel by Richard Yates.

Love in the Time of Cholera

Movie · 6.7 / 10 · 4 Oct 2007 · English

In Colombia just after the Great War, an old man falls from a ladder; dying, he professes great love for his wife. After the funeral, a man calls on the widow - she dismisses him angrily. Flash back more than 50 years to the day Florentino Ariza, a telegraph boy, falls in love with Fermina Daza, the daughter of a mule trader.

Lady Chatterley's Lover

Movie · 6.3 / 10 · 6 Sept 2015 · English

An early-20th-century tale of love across class boundaries which tells the legendary and romantic story of Lady Chatterley’s affair with her gamekeeper. Jed Mercurio’s adaptation of DH Lawrence’s classic.

Inventing the Abbotts

Movie · 6.3 / 10 · 4 Apr 1997 · English

In the 1950s, brothers Jacey and Doug Holt, who come from the poorer side of their sleepy Midwestern town, vie for the affections of the wealthy, lovely Abbott sisters. Lady-killer Jacey alternates between Eleanor and Alice, wanting simply to break the hearts of rich young women. But sensitive Doug has a real romance with Pamela, which Jacey and the Abbott patriarch, Lloyd, both frown upon.

Pennies from Heaven

Movie · 6.1 / 10 · 11 Dec 1981 · English

During the Great Depression, a sheet music salesman seeks to escape his dreary life through popular music and a love affair with an innocent schoolteacher.

On Swift Horses

Movie · 6.2 / 10 · 21 Apr 2025 · English

In the 1950s, a seemingly sensible newlywed and her wayward brother-in-law undertake parallel journeys of risk, romance, and self-discovery.

Closer

Movie · 6.8 / 10 · 3 Dec 2004 · English

The relationships of two couples become complicated and deceitful when the man from one couple meets the woman of the other.

My Week with Marilyn

Movie · 6.7 / 10 · 23 Nov 2011 · English

London, 1956. Genius actor and film director Laurence Olivier is about to begin the shooting of his upcoming movie, premiered in 1957 as The Prince and the Showgirl, starring Marilyn Monroe. Young Colin Clark, who dreams on having a career in movie business, manages to get a job on the set as third assistant director.

Edward II

Movie · 6.3 / 10 · 11 Sept 1991 · English

England, 14th century. King Edward II falls in love with Piers Gaveston, a young man of humble origins, whom he honors with favors and titles of nobility. The cold and jealous Queen Isabella conspires with the evil Mortimer to get rid of Gaveston, overthrow her husband and take power…

Behind the Candelabra

Movie · 6.6 / 10 · 26 May 2013 · English

Based on the autobiographical novel, the tempestuous 6-year relationship between Liberace and his (much younger) lover, Scott Thorson, is recounted.