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Mansfield Park
Iain B. MacDonald · 2007
In Mansfield Park, poverty-stricken Fanny Price is sent away to live with her wealthy uncle and aunt at Mansfield Park. As she struggles to adapt to her new lifestyle she begins to attract the attentions of suitors, learning about the sexual politics of high society along the way.
Lejos del mundanal ruido
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.
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.
La letra escarlata
Roland Joffé · 1995
Set in puritanical Boston in the mid 1600s, the story of seamstress Hester Prynne, who is outcast after she becomes pregnant by a respected reverend. She refuses to divulge the name of the father, is "convicted" of adultery and forced to wear a scarlet "A" until an Indian attack unites the Puritans and leads to a reevaluation of their laws and morals.
La casa de la alegría
Terence Davies · 2000
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.
La abadía de Northanger
Jon Jones · 2007
A young woman's penchant for sensational Gothic novels leads to misunderstandings in the matters of the heart.
Madame Bovary
Claude Chabrol · 1991
Bored with the limited and tedious nature of provincial life in 19th-century France, the fierce and sensual Emma Bovary finds herself in calamitous debt and pursues scandalous sexual liaisons with absolute abandon. However, when her volatile lifestyle catches up to her, the lives of everyone around her are endangered.
Cumbres borrascosas
Peter Kosminsky · 1992
Young orphan Heathcliff is adopted by the wealthy Earnshaw family and moves into their estate, Wuthering Heights. Soon, the new resident falls for his compassionate foster sister, Cathy. The two share a remarkable bond that seems unbreakable until Cathy, feeling the pressure of social convention, suppresses her feelings and marries Edgar Linton, a man of means who befits her stature. Heathcliff vows to win her back.
La sociedad literaria y el pastel de piel de patata
Mike Newell · 2018
Free-spirited writer Juliet Ashton forms a life-changing bond with the delightful and eccentric Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, when she decides to write about the book club they formed during the occupation of Guernsey in WWII.
La joven Jane Austen
Julian Jarrold · 2007
A biographical portrait of a pre-fame Jane Austen and her romance with a young Irishman.
La edad de la inocencia
Martin Scorsese · 1993
In 19th century New York high society, a young lawyer falls in love with a woman separated from her husband, while he is engaged to the woman's cousin.
María Antonieta
Sofia Coppola · 2006
Mitte des achtzehnten Jahrhunderts wird die 14-jährige Marie Antoinette von ihrer Mutter, der österreichischen Kaiserin, mit dem französischen Thronerben Ludwig XVI. verheiratet. Ein großer Druck lastet auf dem jungen Paar, denn sie müssen nicht nur repräsentieren, sondern für einen Erben sorgen. Doch Ludwig verweigert sich allnächtlich, seinen ehelichen Pflichten nachzukommen. Marie langweilt das Leben zu Hofe und so beginnt sie jeden Tag zu einem Fest zu machen. Sie lebt ein pompöses und dekadentes Leben. Dann kommt eines Tages die Revolution über Frankreich und auch Versailles ist nicht mehr sicher.
La favorita
Giórgos Lánthimos · 2018
England, early 18th century. The close relationship between Queen Anne and Sarah Churchill is threatened by the arrival of Sarah's cousin, Abigail Hill, resulting in a bitter rivalry between the two cousins to be the Queen's favourite.
Colonia
Florian Gallenberger · 2015
A young woman's desperate search for her abducted boyfriend draws her into the infamous Colonia Dignidad, a sect nobody ever escaped from.
El curandero
Michał Gazda · 2023
A once-respected surgeon who's lost his family and his memory gets a chance at redemption when he reconnects with someone from his forgotten past.
Sentido y sensibilidad
Ang Lee · 1995
The Dashwood sisters, sensible Elinor and passionate Marianne, whose chances at marriage seem doomed by their family's sudden loss of fortune. When Henry Dashwood dies unexpectedly, his estate must pass on by law to his son from his first marriage, John and wife Fanny. But these circumstances leave Mr. Dashwood's current wife, and daughters Elinor, Marianne and Margaret, without a home and with barely enough money to live on. As Elinor and Marianne struggle to find romantic fulfillment in a society obsessed with financial and social status, they must learn to mix sense with sensibility in their dealings with both money and men.
Victoria
Daisy Goodwin · 2016
La vida de la joven Victoria se transforma completamente cuando se convierte en reina de Inglaterra. Una adolescente que tuvo que aprender a gobernar bajo la mirada y el juicio de toda la opinión pública británica. Las luchas de poder y las relaciones personales en el entorno de las altas esferas de la familia real forjarán la personalidad de una nueva reina: una mujer fuerte, compleja y obstinada que debe, de alguna manera, convertirse en un icono mundial.
El jardín secreto
Agnieszka Holland · 1993
A young British girl born and reared in India loses her neglectful parents in an earthquake. She is returned to England to live at her uncle's castle. Her uncle is very distant due to the loss of his wife ten years before. Neglected once again, she begins exploring the estate and discovers a garden that has been locked and forgotten. Aided by one of the servants' boys, she begins restoring the garden, and eventually discovers some other secrets of the manor.
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?
Los Bridgerton
Chris Van Dusen · 2020
Wealth, lust, and betrayal set in the backdrop of Regency era England, seen through the eyes of the powerful Bridgerton family.
Emma.
Autumn de Wilde · 2020
In 1800s England, a well-meaning but selfish young woman meddles in the love lives of her friends.
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Mujercitas
Gillian Armstrong · 1994
Con su marido en la guerra civil americana, Marmee se queda sola con sus cuatro hijas; sus “mujercitas”: Jo, un torbellino de energía; Meg, más formal; la frágil Beth y la romántica Amy. A medida que pasan los años, las hermanas comparten algunos de sus recuerdos más queridos y dolorosos, mientras Marmee y la tía March les orientan sobre cuestiones como la independencia, el amor y la importancia de la familia.
Anne with an E
Moira Walley-Beckett · 2017
Anne Shirley es una niña huérfana que vive en un pequeño pueblo llamado Avonlea que pertenece a la Isla del Príncipe Eduardo, en el año 1890. Después de una infancia difícil, donde fue pasando de orfanato a hogares de acogida, es enviada por error a vivir con una solterona y su hermano. Cuando cumple 13 años, Anne va a conseguir transformar su vida y el pequeño pueblo donde vive gracias a su fuerte personalidad, intelecto e imaginación. Basada en la inolvidable novela.
Ammonite
Francis Lee · 2020
In 1840s England, palaeontologist Mary Anning and a young woman sent by her husband to convalesce by the sea develop an intense relationship. Despite the chasm between their social spheres and personalities, Mary and Charlotte discover they can each offer what the other has been searching for: the realisation that they are not alone. It is the beginning of a passionate and all-consuming love affair that will defy all social bounds and alter the course of both lives irrevocably.
Expiación, más allá de la pasión
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.
Orgullo y prejuicio
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.
