dark academia films
films that display the beauty of period pieces and a dark academia aesthetic.
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Watched
The Princess Bride
Rob Reiner · 1987
In this enchantingly cracked fairy tale, the beautiful Princess Buttercup and the dashing Westley must overcome staggering odds to find happiness amid six-fingered swordsmen, murderous princes, Sicilians and rodents of unusual size. But even death can't stop these true lovebirds from triumphing.
Titanic
James Cameron · 1997
Atlantischer Ozean, 1912: Auf der Jungfernfahrt der Titanic trifft der mittellose Maler Jack Dawson auf die schöne, aber unglückliche Erste-Klasse-Passagierin Rose DeWitt Bukater. Rose reist gemeinsam mit ihrer Mutter und ihrem versnobten Verlobten Cal, den sie aus finanziellen Gründen heiraten soll, aber nicht liebt. Als Jack beobachtet, wie Rose über die Reling klettert, um sich ins Meer zu stürzen, und ihren sicheren Tod abwenden kann, beginnt für beide eine Liebesgeschichte über Klassengrenzen hinweg. Gemeinsam mit Jack entdeckt Rose das ausgelassene Leben der einfachen Passagiere unter Deck der Titanic und das wahre Wesen der Liebe. Währenddessen steuert die als unsinkbar geltende Titanic geradewegs auf einen Eisberg zu.
The Imitation Game
Morten Tyldum · 2014
Nach einer unglücklichen Jugend beginnt der brillante Mathematiker Alan Turing während seines Studiums an der Cambridge-Universität, sein volles Potenzial zu entfalten. Schnell gehört er zu den führenden Denkern des Landes, besonders was seine Theorien zu Rechenmaschinen angeht. Genau diese machen auch den britischen Geheimdienst auf das Genie aufmerksam. Nach einem Test, den Alan mit Leichtigkeit besteht, wird er Mitglied einer geheimen Gruppe. Ihre Aufgabe: im Zweiten Weltkrieg die Kommunikation der Deutschen entschlüsseln. Mit Hilfe von Joan Clarke und Hugh Alexander und unter der Leitung von Stewart Menzies sowie Commander Denniston versucht Alan, den Verschlüsselungsapparat Enigma zu knacken, um an kriegsentscheidende Informationen zu kommen...
The Great Gatsby
Baz Luhrmann · 2013
An adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's Long Island-set novel, where Midwesterner Nick Carraway is lured into the lavish world of his neighbor, Jay Gatsby. Soon enough, however, Carraway will see through the cracks of Gatsby's nouveau riche existence, where obsession, madness, and tragedy await.
Pride & Prejudice
Joe Wright · 2005
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.
Mona Lisa Smile
Mike Newell · 2003
Katherine Watson is a recent UCLA graduate hired to teach art history at the prestigious all-female Wellesley College, in 1953. Determined to confront the outdated mores of society and the institution that embraces them, Katherine inspires her traditional students, including Betty and Joan, to challenge the lives they are expected to lead.
Little Women
Greta Gerwig · 2019
Dopo la fine della guerra di secessione americana le sorelle March dovranno affrontare problemi economici, sentimentali e sociali. Tra tutte spicca la figura di Jo, determinata a trovare la propria libertà e indipendenza, spronando anche le sorelle a dare spazio al proprio talento, nonostante le rigide imposizioni della società di quel periodo.
Harry Potter
A new faithful adaptation of the iconic and megahit J.K. Rowling book series.
Emma.
Autumn de Wilde · 2020
In 1800s England, a well-meaning but selfish young woman meddles in the love lives of her friends.
Emily
Frances O'Connor · 2022
The imagined life of one of the world’s most famous authors, Emily Brontë, as she finds her voice and writes the literary classic Wuthering Heights. Explore the relationships that inspired her – her raw, passionate sisterhood with Charlotte and Anne; her first aching, forbidden love for Weightman and her care for her maverick brother whom she idolises.
Dead Poets Society
Peter Weir · 1989
En un elitista y estricto colegio privado de Nueva Inglaterra, un grupo de alumnos descubrirá la poesía, el significado del "carpe diem" -aprovechar el día- y la importancia vital de luchar por alcanzar los sueños, gracias al Sr. Keating, un excéntrico profesor que despierta sus mentes por medio de métodos poco convencionales.
Crimson Peak
Guillermo del Toro · 2015
In the aftermath of a family tragedy, an aspiring author is torn between love for her childhood friend and the temptation of a mysterious outsider. Trying to escape the ghosts of her past, she is swept away to a house that breathes, bleeds… and remembers.
Colette
Wash Westmoreland · 2018
After marrying a successful Parisian writer known commonly as Willy, Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette is transplanted from her childhood home in rural France to the intellectual and artistic splendor of Paris. Soon after, Willy convinces Colette to ghostwrite for him. She pens a semi-autobiographical novel about a witty and brazen country girl named Claudine, sparking a bestseller and a cultural sensation. After its success, Colette and Willy become the talk of Paris and their adventures inspire additional Claudine novels.
To Watch
The Wonder
Sebastián Lelio · 2022
Haunted by her past, a nurse travels from England to a remote Irish village in 1862 to investigate a young girl's supposedly miraculous fast.
The Theory of Everything
James Marsh · 2014
À l’âge de 21 ans, Stephen Hawking est un brillant étudiant en Cosmologie à l’Université de Cambridge, passionné par les mystères de l’univers. De nouveaux horizons s’ouvrent lorsqu’il tombe amoureux d’une étudiante en arts, Jane Wilde. Mais le jeune homme se heurte alors à un diagnostic médical sans appel qui vient bouleverser ce bonheur. Alors que ses jours sont comptés, l’amour et le soutien sans faille de Jane, vont lui donner la force de s’attaquer aux recherches sur ce qu’il a désormais de plus précieux : le temps. Ensemble, ils défient l’impossible, pour aller au-delà de ce qu’ils auraient pu imaginer : le vingt et unième siècle.
The Phantom of the Opera
Joel Schumacher · 2004
A young soprano becomes the obsession of a disfigured and murderous musical genius who lives beneath the Paris Opera House.
The Duchess
Saul Dibb · 2008
A chronicle of the life of 18th century aristocrat Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, who was reviled for her extravagant political and personal life.
The Dreamers
Bernardo Bertolucci · 2003
París, 1968. Isabelle y su hermano Theo, solos en la ciudad mientras sus padres están de viaje, invitan a su apartamento a Matthew, un joven estudiante americano al que han conocido en un cine. Una vez en casa establecen unas reglas para conocerse mutuamente, explorando emociones y erotismo a través de una serie de juegos extremadamente arriesgados.
The Aftermath
James Kent · 2019
In the aftermath of World War II, a British colonel and his wife are assigned to live in Hamburg during the post-war reconstruction, but tensions arise with the German widower who lives with them.
Ophelia
Claire McCarthy · 2019
Ophelia, es una joven adolescente e impetuosa que reside en el castillo de Elsinore como una de las personas de confianza de la Reina Gertrude. Su personalidad no pasa desapercibida ante los ojos del Príncipe Hamlet, a quien conquista rápidamente. Ambos se enzarzan en un apasionado romance secreto mientras su reino se encuentra al borde de entrar en guerra, plagado de traición y de intrigas palaciegas. Versión de Hamlet desde la perspectiva de Ofelia.
Maurice
James Ivory · 1987
After his lover rejects him, Maurice attempts to come to terms with his sexuality within the restrictiveness of Edwardian society.
Mary Shelley
Haifaa al-Mansour · 2017
The love affair between poet Percy Shelley and Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin resulted in the creation of an immortal novel, “Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus.”
Marie Antoinette
Sofia Coppola · 2006
The retelling of France’s iconic but ill-fated queen, Marie Antoinette. From her betrothal and marriage to Louis XVI at 15 to her reign as queen at 19 and ultimately the fall of Versailles.
Loving Vincent
DK Welchman · 2017
La correspondència entre Vincent Van Gogh i el seu germà Theo serveix per a explicar la vida de l’artista, que va morir sense tastar l’èxit que la història li deparava. A partir dels olis més famosos de Van Gogh i amb una estètica postimpressionista, el jove Armand, fill d’un bon amic de Vincent, intenta esbrinar com va morir el pintor després de perdre el rastre de Theo, a qui havia de lliurar una carta. Van caldre sis anys per a enllestir aquest film, primer filmada amb actors i després animada a partir de 65.000 fotogrames pintats a mà per 125 pintors diferents.
Kill Your Darlings
John Krokidas · 2013
A murder in 1944 draws together the great poets of the beat generation: Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac and William Burroughs.
Jane Eyre
Cary Joji Fukunaga · 2011
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 meet the dark, cold, and abrupt master of the house, Mr. 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 Mr. Rochester's terrible secret be about to destroy it forever?
Far from the Madding Crowd
Thomas Vinterberg · 2015
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.
Dorian Gray
Oliver Parker · 2009
Seduced into the decadent world of Lord Henry Wotton, handsome young aristocrat Dorian Gray becomes obsessed with maintaining his youthful appearance, and commissions a special portrait that will weather the winds of time while he remains forever young. When Gray's obsession spirals out of control, his desperate attempts to safeguard his secret turn his once-privileged life into a living hell.
Atonement
Joe Wright · 2007
En el verano de 1935, Briony Tallis (Saoirse Ronan), una precoz escritora de 13 años, cambia irremediablemente el curso de varias vidas cuando acusa al amante de su hermana Cecilia (Keira Knightley), el joven Robbie Turner (James McAvoy), de haber cometido un crimen. Los productores y el realizador de "Orgullo y prejuicio" vuelven a unirse en este drama.
The Artful Dodger
David Taylor, David Maher, James McNamara · 2023
Es una historia de reinvención, traición, redención y amor. Jack Dawkins es el Artful Dodger, cuyos dedos de carterista se han convertido en las hábiles manos de un cirujano. Se debate entre un amor imposible y el submundo delictivo que anhela en secreto. Esa situación requerirá ingenio.
A Room with a View
Nicholas Renton · 2007
When Lucy Honeychurch and chaperon Charlotte Bartlett find themselves in Florence with rooms without views, fellow guests Mr Emerson and son George step in to remedy the situation. Meeting the Emersons could change Lucy's life forever but, once back in England, how will her experiences in Tuscany affect her marriage plans?
Anna Karenina
2013
Anna y Kitty. Dos vidas. Uno de pasión desesperada que termina en tragedia, el otro, una existencia hecha realidad a través del amor. Dos destinos que se entrelazan, dando lugar a dos historias tan diferentes, pero vividas en pos de un mismo deseo: encontrar un amor que les permita ser plenamente ellos mismos, vivir sin tener que conformarse con las pretensiones de la sociedad.
