The Secret World of Arrietty (2010), Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1920), Lorna Doone (1922), The Fortunes and Misfortunes of Moll Flanders (1996), Chimes at Midnight - Campanadas a medianoche (1965), A Tale of Two Cities (1935), Pride & Prejudice (2005), The Remains of the Day (1993) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best British Literature movies.
Storyline: A secret friendship blossoms between a human boy and a tiny girl who lives with her family beneath the floorboards of his home.
Plot Keywords: animation, fantasy, adventure, family, adaptation, children, novel adaptation ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Scientist Dr. Henry Jekyll (John Barrymore) is intelligent and diligent, but also uptight and extremely serious about his work. When his friend, Sir George Carew (Brandon Hurst), takes him to a show featuring the sensual Miss Gina (Nita Naldi), an aroused Jekyll sets out on a quest to separate man's saintly and sinful sides. His experiments succeed, and his evil alter ego, Mr. Hyde, is created. As the doctor uncontrollably alternates between Jekyll and Hyde, danger looms.
Plot Keywords: gothic horror, psychological thriller, dual identity, classic adaptation, black and white film, moral dilemma, scientific experiment ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: As a young girl, aristocrat Lorna (Madge Bellamy) meets and befriends John Ridd (John Bowers), a sweet farm boy whom she immediately adores. Soon after, Lorna is kidnapped by Sir Ensor Doone (Frank Keenan) and raised among his band of outlaws, unaware of her royal lineage. Good-natured Sir Ensor protects Lorna from the others -- but when he becomes gravely ill, a young, violent outlaw decides to claim Lorna as his own. She soon realizes that she must somehow contact John, so he can rescue her.
Plot Keywords: romance, drama, historical, adventure, british literature, classic, silent film ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Based on the classic novel by Daniel Defoe, this film adaptation relates the trouble-filled tale of Moll Flanders (Alex Kingston), a young British woman who goes from housemaid to mistress to wife to widow in relatively quick succession. Using deception to her advantage, Moll subsequently becomes involved with a number of men, including the shifty Jemmy Seagrave (Daniel Craig), always seeking financial wealth. Eventually, Moll's scheming ways lead her into some very uncomfortable situations.
Plot Keywords: adventure, drama, historical, romance, crime, female protagonist, british ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Welles' adaptation of "Falstaff" and other Shakespearean works, chronicling the nobleman's relationship with Henry V.
Plot Keywords: shakespeare, play adaptation, historical drama, black and white, british literature, power struggle, betrayal ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Alas, an aristocrat and a barrister on the same plateau. This is the story of a revolution, a revolution that occurred in France known as the Reign of Terror. The barrister, the town alcoholic and man of disrepute, is in love with a beautiful woman, who marries the aristocrat and bears a beautiful baby girl. The baby girl is infatuated with the barrister, and he her because of her mother. The ultimate sacrifice occurs and a man's soul goes forward.
Plot Keywords: historical, drama, romance, revolution, british literature, classic adaptation, charles dickens ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: The story is based on Jane Austen's novel about five sisters - Jane, Elizabeth, Mary, Kitty and Lydia Bennet - in Georgian England. Their lives are turned upside down when a wealthy young man (Mr. Bingley) and his best friend (Mr. Darcy) arrive in their neighborhood.
Plot Keywords: romance, drama, period, british literature, jane austen, social class, marriage ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Rule bound head butler Stevens' (Sir Anthony Hopkins') world of manners and decorum in the household he maintains is tested by the arrival of housekeeper Miss Kenton (Dame Emma Thompson), who falls in love with him in pre-World War II Britain. The possibility of romance and his master's cultivation of ties with the Nazi cause challenge his carefully maintained veneer of servitude.
Plot Keywords: drama, romance, british, historical, adaptation, novel adaptation, aristocracy ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Every year, they come by the thousands. Soldiers, sailors, civilians and students. Veterans of wars gone by and guests from foreign shores. They come to march. They come to sacrifice. They come to honor and pay their respects to the greatest generation of our time. The Bataan Memorial Death March is 26.2 miles through the unforgiving high desert terrain of New Mexico's White Sands Missile Range. And yet, it's more than a marathon. It's more than a road march. It's a reminder for future generations to never forget what's been lost, a model example of our core values, and a testament to the human spirit.—Anonymous
Plot Keywords: drama, romance, classic, british literature, adaptation, rural, fate ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Two male English school chums find themselves falling in love at Cambridge. To regain his place in society, Clive gives up his forbidden love, Maurice (pronounced "Morris") and marries. While staying with Clive and his shallow wife, Anne, Maurice finally discovers romance in the arms of Alec, the gamekeeper. Written from personal pain, it's E.M. Forster's story of coming to terms with sexuality in the Edwardian age.
Plot Keywords: homosexual, british literature, romance, period drama, forbidden love, class divide, self-discovery ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: When cholera takes the parents of Mary Lennox, she is shipped from India to England to live with her Uncle Craven. Archibald Craven's house is dark and drafty, with over 100 rooms built on the edge of the moors. Mary finds that her Uncle does not wish to see her, which is fine with Mary as she herself is rude and spoiled. While walking the gardens the next day, Mary notices that there is a area in the garden surrounded with a high stone wall and no doorway. Dickon, brother of a housemaid, tells her of the garden behind the wall. By the path, the raven unearths the hidden key so that Mary and Dickon are able to enter the walled garden to find it overgrown and neglected. Inside the house, she finds that Archibald has a son named Colin, who is crippled and as spoiled as she. Together these three work to make the secret garden their own world.—Tony Fontana <tony.fontana@spacebbs.com>
Plot Keywords: children, classic, family, fantasy, adventure, coming of age, british literature ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Jack Worthing and Algernon Moncrieff are two men that are both pretending to be someone they are not.—Simone Denvile
Plot Keywords: comedy, romance, classic, british, play adaptation, satire, high society ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Small, plain and poor, Jane Eyre (Joan Fontaine) comes to Thornfield Hall as governess to the young ward of Edward Rochester (Orson Welles). Denied love all of her life, Jane can't help but be attracted to the intelligent, vibrant, energetic Mr. Rochester, a man twice her age. But just when Mr. Rochester seems to be returning the attention, he invites the beautiful and wealthy Blanche Ingraham (Hillary Brooke) and her party to stay at his estate. Meanwhile, the secret of Thornfield Hall could ruin all of their chances for happiness.—A.L.Beneteau <albl@inforamp.net>
Plot Keywords: victorian era, female coming-of-age, moral dilemma, social class, independent woman, dark secret, british literature ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: The English factory town is dreary but Joe Lampton has landed a job with a future. To have something to do at night he joins a theatrical group. His boss's daughter Susan is playing ingenue roles on stage and in real life. She is attracted to Joe and Joe thinks about how much faster he will get ahead if he is the boss's son-in-law. This plan is complicated by his strong desire to be with an older woman who also belongs to the theatrical group. She is French and unhappily married. Joe believes he can get away with seeing both women.—Dale O'Connor <daleoc@interaccess,com>
Plot Keywords: drama, romance, british film, black and white, social class, ambition, marriage ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Director Al Pacino juxtaposes scenes from Richard III, scenes of rehearsals for Richard III, and sessions where parties involved discuss the play, the times that shaped the play, and the events that happened at the time the play is set. Interviews with mostly British actors are also included, attempting to explain why American actors have more problems performing Shakespearean plays than they do.—Ron Kerrigan <mvg@whidbey.com>
Plot Keywords: documentary, shakespeare, drama, film production, actors, american film, director ...
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