The Remains of the Day (1993), The Innocents (1961), Jane Eyre (2011), Candleshoe (1977), Brideshead Revisited (2008), The Secret of Moonacre (2009), Wuthering Heights (2011), My Cousin Rachel (2017) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Manor movies.
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: In Victorian England, the uncle (Sir Michael Redgrave) of orphaned niece Flora (Pamela Franklin) and nephew Miles (Martin Stephens) hires Miss Giddens (Deborah Kerr) as governess to raise the children at his estate with total independence and authority. Soon after her arrival, Miss Giddens comes to believe that the spirits of the former governess Miss Jessel (Clytie Jessop) and valet Peter Quint (Peter Wyngarde) are possessing the children. Miss Giddens decides to help the children to face and exorcise the spirits.
Plot Keywords: horror, psychological thriller, gothic, supernatural, ghosts, black and white, british film ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: 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 meets 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?
Plot Keywords: romance, drama, british literature, victorian era, female coming-of-age, manor, class divide ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Small-time crook Harry Bundage discovers that the old manor house where Lady St. Edmund resides, with three orphans and her butler Priory is the resting place for a hoard of treasure. Unfortunately, he doesn't know where it is. Bundage recruits urchin Casey Brown to dupe Lady St. Edmund into thinking that she is her long-lost granddaughter, so she can search for clues to the location of the treasure. Unbeknownst to Bundage AND her ladyship, Lady St. Edmund is flat broke, and Priory and the children help her ladyship try to keep her home and pride. Joined by Casey, they do all the chores and Priory acts as the butler, gardener, chauffeur and an old major all at the same time!—David A Sparling <d.a.sparling@bradford.ac.uk>
Plot Keywords: adventure, family, comedy, mystery, treasure hunt, british, disney ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: World War II. Charles Ryder (Matthew Goode), in his civilian life, rose out of his middle class London background, which includes being an atheist and having a distant relationship with his eccentric father, to become an up and coming artist. He is currently an Army officer, who is stationed at a makeshift camp set up at Brideshead estate before imminently getting shipped into battle. The locale, which is not unfamiliar to him, makes him reminisce about what ended up being his doomed relationship with Brideshead's owners, the Flytes, an ostentatiously wealthy family. Charles first met Sebastian Flyte (Ben Whishaw) when they both were students at Oxford, where Sebastian surprisingly welcomed Charles into his circle of equally wealthy, somewhat stuck-up, and flamboyant friends. Charles ended up getting caught up in Sebastian's family struggles, where Sebastian used excessive alcohol to deal with the pain resulting from his family relationships. Although Charles and Sebastian were more ...
Plot Keywords: romance, drama, british, adaptation, novel, historical, religion ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Thirteen-year-old Maria Merryweather (Dakota Blue Richards) discovers that she is the only hope for banishing an ancient curse from a magical kingdom in Director Gabor Csupo's adaptation of author Elizabeth Goudge's 1946 children's book "The Little White Horse".
Plot Keywords: fantasy, adventure, family, magic, fairy tale, coming of age, mystery ...
Movie Details Click Here !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: romance, drama, classic adaptation, british literature, 19th century, manor, revenge ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Philip, an orphan, was taken in and brought up by his cousin Ambrose, a Devon landowner he loves like a father. At a time, Ambrose, who has been advised by his physician a warmer climate, leaves for Tuscany. There he meets and marry Rachel, a half-Italian cousin of his. After an idyllic outset, the situation deteriorates. Shortly before his death, Ambrose manages to alert Philip: his wife is killing him slowly. Willing to sort out the truth, Philip goes to Ambrose's place but he does not find Rachel, who has gone away. Instead he meets Rainaldi, her friend and lawyer, who does not inspire him with confidence. He returns to his estate, persuaded that Rachel is evil and is the direct cause of Ambrose's death. Some time later, Rachel announces her coming. Determined to welcome her coolly, he is stunned to discover a woman not only beautiful but elegant, intelligent and sensitive. Instead of strangling her like he said he would, he falls in love. Madly.
Plot Keywords: drama, romance, mystery, historical, british, adaptation, novel adaptation ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Prequel to the Henry James classic "Turn of the Screw" about the events leading up to the deaths of Peter Quint and Ms. Jessel, and the the slow corruption of the children in their care.—Humberto Amador
Plot Keywords: horror, thriller, mystery, psychological thriller, gothic, prequel, british film ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Young Dutch landscape architect Meneer Chrome comes to a remote English estate where Thomas Smithers lives with his wife, Juliana. Smithers is determined to leave as his legacy a fabulous garden, to be carved from a wild patch of land beside his home. Chrome receives written instructions from his unseen master via a secretary, and the master is Juliana's cousin, Fitzmaurice, who had romance with Juliana when they were young and plans to make Thomas bankrupt via setting up extravagant garden and to make Juliana come back to him.—Anonymous
Plot Keywords: drama, romance, historical, british, period, romantic, manor ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: THE LITTLE STRANGER tells the story of Dr. Faraday, the son of a housemaid, who has built a life of quiet respectability as a country doctor. During the long hot summer of 1948, he is called to a patient at Hundreds Hall, where his mother once worked. The Hall has been home to the Ayres family for more than two centuries. But it is now in decline and its inhabitants - mother, son and daughter - are haunted by something more ominous than a dying way of life. When he takes on his new patient, Faraday has no idea how closely, and how disturbingly, the family's story is about to become entwined with his own.—Focus Features
Plot Keywords: horror, thriller, drama, mystery, gothic, supernatural, psychological horror ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Follows an old-money family still dealing with the death of its youngest daughter several years later. While honoring the daughter's death, a long con, an axe-wielding serial killer, and a vengeful ghost all coalesce in the same night to target the family. Everyone in the family has a secret, nobody wants to face what they did, and for someone to survive, the truth needs to come out - sooner than later.—Tiboriyo
Plot Keywords: horror, thriller, mystery, psychological horror, remake, dark, murder ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A British gentleman's (Laurence Olivier) innocent bride (Joan Fontaine) grapples with intrusive reminders of his deceased wife.
Plot Keywords: mystery, thriller, drama, romance, film noir, gothic, psychological thriller ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: An artist (Anthony Higgins) trades 12 drawings for sex with the mistress (Janet Suzman) of a 17th-century English estate.
Plot Keywords: british film, period drama, art film, black comedy, mystery, 17th century, manor ...
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