Films like The Portrait of a Lady
Ms. Isabel Archer isn't afraid to challenge societal norms. Impressed by her free spirit, her kindhearted cousin writes her into his fatally ill father's will. Suddenly rich and independent, Isabelle ventures into the world, along the way befriending a cynical intellectual and ro...
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The Heiress
Film · 1949 · also drama and romanceIn 1840s New York, the uneventful and boring days of the daughter of a wealthy doctor come to an end when she meets a dashing poorer man — who may or may not be after her...
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Mansfield Park
Film · 1999 · also drama and romanceFanny Price is sent to live with her wealthy relatives, the Bertrams, where she is treated poorly by most except her cousin Edmund. Her life is complicated by the arrival...
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Hester Street
Film · 1975 · also drama and romanceA Russian emigre prides himself on the way he's molded himself into a real Yankee in the USA, though the world he lives in, New York's Lower East Side in the late 19th ce...
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When Nietzsche Wept
Film · 2007 · also drama and romanceViennese doctor Josef Bruer meets with philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche to help him deal with his despair.
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Women in Love
Film · 1969 · also drama and romanceGrowing up in the sheltered confines of a 1920s English coal-mining community, free-spirited sisters Gudrun and Ursula explore erotic love with a wealthy playboy and a ph...
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Great Expectations
Film · 2012 · also drama and romanceOrphan Pip discovers through lawyer Mr. Jaggers that a mysterious benefactor wishes to ensure that he becomes a gentleman. Reunited with his childhood patron, Miss Havish...
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Anna Karenina
Film · 2012 · also drama and romanceIn Imperial Russia, Anna, wife of the officer Karenin, goes to Moscow to visit her brother. On the way, she meets charming cavalry officer Vronsky, to whom she's immediat...
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The Man from Elysian Fields
Film · 2001 · also drama and romanceA failed novelist's inability to pay the bills strains relations with his wife and leads him to work at an escort service, where he becomes entwined with a wealthy woman...
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Pride & Prejudice
Film · 2005 · also drama and romanceA 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 dau...
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Howards End
Film · 1992 · also drama and romanceA saga of class relations and changing times in an Edwardian England on the brink of modernity, the film centers on liberal Margaret Schlegel, who, along with her sister...
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