Persuasion (1995) more movies like this

directed by Roger Michell
featuring Corin Redgrave, Fiona Shaw, John Woodvine, Amanda Root, Ciarán Hinds, Susan Fleetwood

Adapted from what is arguably Jane Austen's most mature and subtlest novel, Persuasion is somewhat more nuanced and restrained than the more frequently adapted Emma and Pride and Prejudice. The protagonist, Anne (Amanda Root), is, by the conventions of society, considered an old maid when she remains unmarried at 27. However, a second chance ...

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The Forsyte Saga (2002) more movies like this

directed by Christopher Menaul, David Moore
featuring Damian Lewis, Gina McKee, Rupert Graves, Gillian Kearney, Amanda Root, Ioan Gruffudd

The Forsyte Saga was a remake of the classic 1960s British miniseries which put the PBS anthology Masterpiece Theatre on the map. Whereas the original version covered all of John Galsworthy's novels about the upper-crust Forsyte clan, requiring 26 episodes to do so, the remake took in only the first two books, running five episodes in Great ...

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Catherine Cookson's The Man Who Cried (1993) more movies like this

directed by Michael Whyte
featuring Ciarán Hinds, Amanda Root, Kate Buffery, Daniel Massey

The Man Who Cried was one of many miniseries adaptations of the works of Catherine Cookson which aired on British television in the 1990s. Set during the Depression years, the series starred Ciaran Hinds as unhappily married Abel Mason. Attempting to escape his insufferable wife Lena (Angela Walsh), Abel flees to Yorkshire, where he enters into an ...

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