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1. Emma (1996)
directed by Diarmuid Lawrence
featuring Olivia Williams, Raymond Coulthard, Kate Beckinsale, Mark Strong, Samantha Morton
In this made-for-TV adaptation of Jane Austen's classic novel, Emma Woodhouse (Kate Beckinsale) is a clever young woman from a wealthy family who ... More
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2. The Englishman Who Went up a Hill But Came Down A Mountain (1995)
directed by Christopher Monger
featuring Hugh Grant, Tara Fitzgerald, Colm Meaney, Ian McNeice, Ian Hart
A proud Welsh community finds their civic pride and sense of community threatened by a team of surveyors in this charmingly eccentric comedy. ... More
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3. The Pickwick Papers (1952)
directed by Noel Langley
featuring James Hayter, James Donald, Alexander Gauge, Nigel Patrick, Kathleen Harrison, Lionel Murton, Joyce Grenfell
John Hayter is Samuel Pickwick is this delightful filmization of Dickens' seriocomic novel. Mr. Pickwick is chairman of the Pickwick club, a ... More
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4. Stage Beauty (2004)
directed by Richard Eyre
featuring Billy Crudup, Claire Danes, Rupert Everett, Tom Wilkinson, Ben Chaplin
The true story of two performers whose careers were changed forever by a shift in gender roles on the British stage comes to the screen in this ... More
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5. Cousin Bette (1998)
directed by Des McAnuff
featuring Jessica Lange, Elisabeth Shue, Bob Hoskins, Hugh Laurie, Kelly MacDonald
Acclaimed theater director Des McAnuff made his feature-film directorial debut with this period comedy-drama adapted from Honore de Balzac's novel La ... More
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6. The Madness of King George (1994)
directed by Nicholas Hytner
featuring Nigel Hawthorne, Helen Mirren, Ian Holm, Rupert Everett, Rupert Graves
Based on Alan Bennett's acclaimed play The Madness of George III, The Madness of King George takes a dark-humored look at the mental decline of King ... More
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7. Tolerance (1989)
directed by Pierre-Henri Salfati
featuring Ugo Tognazzi, Rupert Everett, Anne Brochet, Marc de Jonge, Catherine Samie
In the 18th century, English aristocrats had, among their better known strange customs, one really strange one: they kept "ornamental hermits" for ... More
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8. Ridicule (1996)
directed by Patrice Leconte
featuring Charles Berling, Fanny Ardant, Judith Godrèche, Jean Rochefort, Bernard Giraudeau
This is a French costume drama from director Patrice Leconte that recalls both Dangerous Liaisons (1988) and Restoration (1995). Gregoire Ponceludon ... More
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9. La Kermesse Héroïque (1935)
directed by Jacques Feyder
featuring Françoise Rosay, Jean Murat, Louis Jouvet, André Alerme, Lyne Clévers, Micheline Cheirel
Released in France as La Kermesse Heroique, Carnival in Flanders is set during the long-ago war between the Dutch and Spanish. A tiny village in ... More
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10. Madame Sans-Gene (1961)
directed by Christian-Jaque
featuring Sophia Loren, Robert Hossein, Julien Bertheau, Renaud Mary
Based on a 1907 comedy by Victorien Sardou and Emile Moreau, Madame Sans-Gene was first interpreted by Gloria Swanson in 1923. In this version of the ... More
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11. Together (2001)
directed by Lukas Moodysson
featuring Lisa Lindgren, Michael Nyqvist, Gustaf Hammarsten, Anja Lundkvist, Jessica Liedberg
The second feature from Lukas Moodysson, who directed the internationally acclaimed Fucking Åmål, Tillsammans is the tale of life on a Stockholm ... More
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12. La Vie Est Un Roman (1983)
directed by Alain Resnais
featuring Vittorio Gassman, Ruggero Raimondi, Geraldine Chaplin, Fanny Ardant, Sabine Azéma, Pierre Arditi
With Life is a Bed of Roses, filmmaker Alain Resnais wanted to create a lighthearted tribute to three important French directors, each of whom ... More
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13. Cold Comfort Farm (1995)
directed by John Schlesinger
featuring Kate Beckinsale, Sheila Burrell, Eileen Atkins, Ian McKellen, Ivan Kaye
Stella Gibbons' popular novel was published in 1932, and it has been adapted twice for British television, first as a miniseries in 1971, then by ... More
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14. A Good Woman (2006)
directed by Mike Barker
featuring Helen Hunt, Scarlett Johansson, Tom Wilkinson, Stephen Campbell Moore, Mark Umbers
One of Oscar Wilde's most popular plays is given a new screen interpretation in this period comedy. In New York in the early '30s, Mrs. Erlynne ... More
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15. Bright Young Things (2004)
directed by Stephen Fry
featuring Emily Mortimer, Stephen Campbell Moore, James McAvoy, Michael Sheen, David Tennant
British writer/actor Stephen Fry makes his feature-film debut with the witty, sophisticated comedy Bright Young Things, adapted from Evelyn Waugh's ... More
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16. The Cat's Meow (2002)
directed by Peter Bogdanovich
featuring Kirsten Dunst, Eddie Izzard, Edward Herrmann, Cary Elwes, Joanna Lumley
Peter Bogdanovich turns his sights on the 1920s for a fictitious look at the possible reasons for the death of silent movie producer Thomas Ince ... More
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17. Sense and Sensibility (1995)
directed by Ang Lee
featuring Elizabeth Spriggs, Gemma Jones, Emma Thompson, Alan Rickman, Kate Winslet, Hugh Grant, James Fleet, Greg Wise
The recipient of seven Oscar® nominations, this film version of Jane Austen's classic 1811 novel stars Emma Thompson as Elinor Dashwood. With her ... More
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18. A Room With a View (1986)
directed by James Ivory
featuring Maggie Smith, Helena Bonham Carter, Denholm Elliott, Julian Sands, Daniel Day-Lewis
Adapted by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala from the novel by E.M. Forster, A Room with a View is a shining example of Merchant-Ivory's ability to achieve ... More
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19. The Buccaneers (1995)
directed by Philip Saville
featuring Carla Gugino, Alison Elliott, Mira Sorvino
Based on a novel by Edith Wharton, The Buccaneers follows four wealthy young women -- Nan (Carla Gugino), Virginia St. George (Alison Eliott), ... More
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20. A Room With a View (2007)
directed by Nicholas Renton
A precocious Edwardian girl suffocating from the social norms is forced to choose between following her heart and obliging her family's wishes after ... More
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21. Time Regained (2000)
directed by Raúl Ruiz
featuring Marcelo Mazzarella, Emmanuelle Béart, Vincent Perez, John Malkovich, Pascal Greggory, Catherine Deneuve
An ambitious project of Chile-born, Paris-based Raul Ruiz, this psychological drama brings to the screen the famous classic of Marcel Proust with ... More
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22. And the Ship Sails On (1983)
directed by Federico Fellini
featuring Freddie Jones, Barbara Jefford, Victor Poletti, Peter Cellier, Elisa Mainardi
This evocative look at a 1914 ocean voyage to scatter the ashes of a world-famous opera singer (Janet Suzman) is by turns charming, funny, and ... More
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23. Herr Tartuff (1927)
directed by F.W. Murnau
featuring Hermann Picha, Rose Valetti, Werner Krauss, Lil Dagover
How typical of the great German director F. W. Murnau that he used Moliere's scathing satirical comedy Tartuffe as a launching pad for an extended ... More
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24. The Importance of Being Earnest (2002)
directed by Oliver Parker
featuring Rupert Everett, Colin Firth, Frances O'Connor, Reese Witherspoon, Judi Dench
A superb cast brings Oscar Wilde's classic comedy of manners to life in the third big-screen adaptation of this hilarious look at fun, games, and ... More
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25. An Ideal Husband (1999)
directed by Oliver Parker
featuring Rupert Everett, Julianne Moore, Jeremy Northam, Cate Blanchett, Minnie Driver
A romantic and sentimental comedy set at the turn of the 19th century, An Ideal Husband delves into themes of love, passion, and betrayal among the ... More
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