Screenplay: Jane Austen

Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Jane Austen. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.


Pride and Prejudice (TV Miniseries)

1995 · Series · 300 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Simon Langton

Cast Colin Firth · Jennifer Ehle · David Bamber · Crispin Bonham-carter

Plot An adaptation of Jane Austen's classic novel, set in the 19th century, about the prejudice and the class differences which would keep lovers apart.

7.8

5K votes

7.8

5K votes

The Lizzie Bennet Diaries (TV Series)

2012 · Movie · 3 min. · United States

Direction Hank Green · Bernie Su · Margaret Dunlap

Cast Ashley Clements · Julia Cho · Laura Spencer · Mary Kate Wiles

Plot A modern day retelling of Pride and Prejudice, the series is told in vlog-style by Lizzie Bennet as she narrates the trials and tribulations of her family life with the...

7.6

44 votes

7.6

44 votes

Sense and Sensibility

1995 · Movie · 135 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Ang Lee

Cast Emma Thompson · Kate Winslet · Hugh Grant · Alan Rickman

Plot When Mr. Dashwood dies, he must leave the bulk of his estate to the son by his first marriage, which leaves his second wife and three daughters (Elinor, Marianne, and...

7.1

37K votes

7.1

37K votes

Pride and Prejudice

2005 · Movie · 127 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Joe Wright

Cast Keira Knightley · Matthew Macfadyen · Brenda Blethyn · Donald Sutherland

Plot 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...

7.1

49K votes

7.1

49K votes

Emma (TV Miniseries)

2009 · Series · 240 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Jim O'Hanlon

Cast Romola Garai · Rupert Evans · Louise Dylan · Michael Gambon

Plot Emma Woodhouse (Romola Garai) seems to be perfectly content, a loving father whom she cares for, friends, and a home. But Emma has a terrible habit - matchmaking. She cannot...

7.0

1K votes

7.0

1K votes

Sense and Sensibility (TV Miniseries)

2008 · Series · 174 min. · United Kingdom

Direction John Alexander

Cast Hattie Morahan · Charity Wakefield · Lucy Boynton · David Morrissey

Plot TV Miniseries (2008). 3 Episodes. A tv adaptation of the classic Jane Austen tale of love and class conflict. Marianne Dashwood (Wakefield) has fallen deeply in love with John Willoughby...

7.0

841 votes

7.0

841 votes

Pride and Prejudice

1940 · Movie · 117 min. · United States

Direction Robert Z. Leonard

Cast Greer Garson · Laurence Olivier · Mary Boland · Edna May Oliver

Plot Mr. and Mrs. Bennet have five unmarried daughters, and Mrs. Bennet is especially eager to find suitable husbands for them. When the rich single gentlemen Mr. Bingley and Mr. Darcy...

6.7

639 votes

6.7

639 votes

Persuasion

1995 · Movie · 102 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Roger Michell

Cast Amanda Root · Ciarán Hinds · Susan Fleetwood · Corin Redgrave

Plot Eight years earlier, Anne Elliot, the daughter of a financially troubled aristocratic family, was persuaded to break off her engagement to Frederick Wentworth, a young seaman, who, though promising, had...

6.7

731 votes

6.7

731 votes

Persuasion (TV)

2007 · Movie · 100 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Adrian Shergold

Cast Sally Hawkins · Rupert Penry-Jones · Alice Krige · Anthony Head

Plot A new adaptation of Jane Austen's classic. Anne Elliot fell deeply in love with the handsome young naval officer Frederick Wentworth at the age of nineteen. But with neither fortune...

6.5

1K votes

6.5

1K votes

Sanditon (TV Miniseries)

2019 · Series · 60 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Oliver Blackburn · Lisa Clarke · Charles Sturridge

Cast Alexandra Roach · Crystal Clarke · Charlotte Spencer · Kate Ashfield

Plot TV Mini-series (2019). 8 Episodes. About Charlotte Heywood, a spirited and impulsive woman who moves from her rural home to Sanditon, a fishing village attempting to reinvent itself as a...

6.4

341 votes

6.4

341 votes

Death Comes to Pemberley (TV)

2013 · Movie · 180 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Daniel Percival

Cast Matthew Rhys · Anna Maxwell Martin · Jenna Coleman · Matthew Goode

Plot TV Miniseries (2013). Three episodes. Elizabeth and Darcy, now six years married and with two young sons, are preparing for the lavish annual ball at their magnificent Pemberley home. The...

6.2

569 votes

6.2

569 votes

Miss Austen Regrets (TV)

2008 · Movie · 90 min. · United States

Direction Jeremy Lovering

Cast Samuel Roukin · Olivia Williams · Greta Scacchi · Imogen Poots

Plot In the later years of her life, as she's approaching the age of forty, the novelist Jane Austen helps her niece find a husband.

6.2

286 votes

6.2

286 votes

Emma.

2020 · Movie · 124 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Autumn de Wilde

Cast Anya Taylor-Joy · Angus Imrie · Letty Thomas · Mia Goth

Plot Handsome, clever, and rich, Emma Woodhouse is a restless queen bee without rivals in her sleepy little town. In this glittering satire of social class and the pain of growing...

6.2

4K votes

6.2

4K votes

Mansfield Park

2000 · Movie · 108 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Patricia Rozema

Cast Frances O'Connor · Embeth Davidtz · Jonny Lee Miller · Alessandro Nivola

Plot Fanny Price, a precociously intelligent young woman, is sent by her impoverished parents to live with her mother's wealthy sisters and family in order to benefit from the intellectual and...

6.1

1K votes

6.1

1K votes

Northanger Abbey (TV)

2007 · Movie · 95 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Jon Jones

Cast Felicity Jones · JJ Feild · Carey Mulligan · William Beck

Plot When Catherine Morland is given the opportunity to stay with the childless Allen family in Bath, she is hoping for an adventure of the type she has been reading in...

6.1

1K votes

6.1

1K votes

Emma

1996 · Movie · 120 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Douglas McGrath

Cast Gwyneth Paltrow · Toni Collette · Alan Cumming · Jeremy Northam

Plot Based on the Jane Austen novel, "Emma" tells the story of a young woman in England who plays her town's matchmaker. When attempting to match up her friend with the...

6.0

4K votes

6.0

4K votes

Sense and Sensibility (TV Miniseries)

1981 · Series · 174 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Rodney Bennett

Cast Irene Richard · Tracey Childs · Annie Leon · Robert Swann

Plot Two sisters of opposing temperaments find love and some heartbreak in Jane Austen's 18th century classic.

6.0

110 votes

6.0

110 votes

Wishbone (TV Series)

1995 · Series · 30 min. · United States

Direction Rick Duffield · Ken Harrison · Fred Holmes · Bert Guthrie

Cast Larry Brantley · Jordan Wall · Christie Abbott · Adam Springfield

Plot An intelligent and witty dog imagines himself in the role of characters from classic books and gets involved in similar real-life adventures.

5.8

21 votes

5.8

21 votes

Emma (TV)

1996 · Movie · 107 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Diarmuid Lawrence

Cast Kate Beckinsale · Bernard Hepton · Mark Strong · Samantha Bond

Plot Emma Woodhouse (Kate Beckinsale) has a rigid sense of propriety as regards matrimonial alliances. Unfortunately she insists on matchmaking for her less forceful friend, Harriet, and so causes her to...

5.8

311 votes

5.8

311 votes

Love and Friendship

2016 · Movie · 94 min. · Ireland

Direction Whit Stillman

Cast Kate Beckinsale · Xavier Samuel · Chloë Sevigny · Stephen Fry

Plot In 1790s England, Lady Susan Vernon tries to find husbands for herself and her daughter, as rumors fly about her personal life.

5.7

2K votes

5.7

2K votes