Highest-Rated Movies about 'Victorian England', Sort by Popularity
Hysteria (2011), The Limehouse Golem (2016), Wuthering Heights (2011), Effie Gray (2014), Konga (1961) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Victorian England movies.
#1. Hysteria (2011)
Storyline: In 1880 pioneering doctor Mortimer Granville,sacked from various hospitals for challenging his superiors' out-moded methods,gets a job with Dr Dalrymple,who relieves female patients' frustrations - or hysteria - with pelvic massages which allow orgasm. The handsome young doctor attracts a large female clientele and gets engaged to Dalrymple's studious younger daughter Emily but after the constant massaging brings on a carpal injury he is sacked. Fortunately an enterprising inventor friend has come up with a power operated feather duster which will soon be transformed into a vibrator and make Mortimer a fortune. Along the way he also realises that his heart really lies with Emily's older sister Charlotte,an outspoken suffragette who runs a home for disadvantaged women in London's East End.
Plot Keywords: doctor, specialist, adolescent, emotional, victorian england, london, hysteria ...
Movie Details Click Here!#2. The Limehouse Golem (2016)
Storyline: In Victorian London, a Scotland Yard inspector hunts down the sadistic killer behind a series of gory, Jack the Ripper-Like murders.
Plot Keywords: serial killer, inspector, murder victim, young woman, bleak, gripping, dark ...
Movie Details Click Here!#3. Wuthering Heights (2011)
Storyline: A poor boy of unknown origins is rescued from poverty and taken in by the Earnshaw family where he develops an intense relationship with his young foster sister, Cathy.
Plot Keywords: sister, adult, couple, emotional, victorian england, obsession, love ...
Movie Details Click Here!#4. Effie Gray (2014)
Storyline: Based on the real-life scandal that shocked Victorian-era England, this movie tells the story of Euphemia "Effie" Gray (Dakota Fanning). At nineteen, she married the prominent art historian and critic John Ruskin (Greg Wise), but Ruskin refused to consummate their marriage. Lonely and frustrated, Effie is drawn to pre-Raphaelite painter John Everett Millais (Tom Sturridge), and finds a friend and champion in Lady Elizabeth Eastlake (Dame Emma Thompson). After five years trapped in a loveless marriage, Effie will defy the rules of Victorian society.—L. Hamre
Plot Keywords: art critic, wife, artist, bleak, sultry, brooding, engaging ...
Movie Details Click Here!#5. Konga (1961)
Storyline: Dr.Decker comes back from Africa after a year, presumed dead. During that year, he came across a way of growing plants and animals to an enormous size. He brings back a baby chimpanzee to test out his theory. As he has many enemies at home, he decides to use his chimp, 'Konga' to 'get rid of them'. Then Konga grows to gigantic proportions and reaks havoc all over the city of London!!—Graeme Huggan <hia95gh@sheffield.ac.uk>
Plot Keywords: gorilla, monster, botanist, mad scientist, chimpanzee, professor, incredible ...
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