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