Soundtrack: Richard Robbins

Direction James Ivory

Cast Anthony Hopkins · Emma Thompson · James Fox · Christopher Reeve

Plot A rule bound head butler's world of manners and decorum in the household he maintains is tested by the arrival of a housekeeper who falls in love with him in...

Direction James Ivory

Cast Emma Thompson · Anthony Hopkins · Samuel West · Helena Bonham Carter

Plot The dying Ruth Wilcox (Vanessa Redgrave) wishes to leave her country home, Howards End, to Margaret Schlegel (Emma Thompson), a modest woman of little means who will soon be forced...

Direction James Ivory

Cast Hugh Grant · Simon Callow · James Wilby · Denholm Elliott

Plot 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...

Direction James Ivory

Cast Helena Bonham Carter · Maggie Smith · Denholm Elliott · Julian Sands

Plot Helena Bonham Carter stars as a young Englishwoman, Lucy Honeychurch. When Lucy and her spinster chaperone, Charlotte Bartlett (Maggie Smith), travel to Florence, they meet an unconventional Englishman, Mr. Emerson...

Direction James Ivory

Cast Julie Christie · Greta Scacchi · Julian Glover · Susan Fleetwood

Plot Anne is investigating the life of her grand-aunt Olivia, whose destiny has always been shrouded with scandal. The search leads back to the early 1920s, when Olivia, recently married to...

Direction James Ivory

Cast Kris Kristofferson · Barbara Hershey · Leelee Sobieski · Jane Birkin

Plot This fictionalized story, based on the family life of writer James Jones, is an emotionless slice-of-life story. Jones here is portrayed as Bill Willis, a former war hero and now...

Direction James Ivory

Cast Lee Remick · Robin Ellis · Wesley Addy · Tim Choate

Plot It's the fall of 1850, a few miles outside Boston. The household of the dour Mr. Wentworth receives two unannounced visitors from Europe, Eugenia and Felix, the daughter and son...

Direction James Ivory

Cast Paul Newman · Joanne Woodward · Blythe Danner · Simon Callow

Plot It's about a five member family. The father is a conservative and traditional person who directs the family. The mother is at home, she tries to hold together the family,...

Direction James Ivory

Cast Vanessa Redgrave · Christopher Reeve · Madeleine Potter · Jessica Tandy

Plot 19th-century Boston woman dedicated to the suffrage movement, meets a faith healer's daughter, a Mississippi lawyer also has eyes for the young woman.

Direction Simon Callow

Cast Vanessa Redgrave · Keith Carradine · Rod Steiger · Cork Hubbert

Plot A tangled triangle. In the rural South of the early 20th century, Miss Amelia is the town eccentric, selling corn liquor and dispensing medicine. She takes in her half-sister's son,...

Direction James Ivory

Cast Alan Bates · Isabelle Adjani · Maggie Smith · Anthony Higgins

Plot Adapted from the 1928 autobiographical novel by Jean Rhys, Quartet is the story of a love quadrangle between a complicated young West Indian woman named Marya (played by Isabelle Adjani),...

Direction Nicole García

Cast Catherine Deneuve · Jean-Pierre Bacri · Emmanuelle Seigner · Jacques Dutronc

Direction James Ivory

Cast Ralph Fiennes · Natasha Richardson · Vanessa Redgrave · Lynn Redgrave

Plot Set in Shanghai in the late 1930s, this is the story of the relationship between a disillusioned former US diplomat and a refugee White Russian countess reduced to a sordid...

Direction James Ivory

Cast Nick Nolte · Uma Thurman · Kate Beckinsale · Jeremy Northam

Plot An intricately plotted tale of thwarted love and betrayal which tells the story of an extravagantly rich American widower (Nolte) and his sheltered daughter (Beckinsale), both of whom marry only...

Direction James Ivory

Cast Anthony Hopkins · Natascha McElhone · Julianne Moore · Joss Ackland

Plot In 1943, a young painter, Françoise Gilot (1921- ) meets Pablo Picasso (1881-1973), already the most celebrated artist in the world. For the next ten years, she is his mistress,...

Direction James Ivory

Cast Bernadette Peters · Madeleine Potter · Chris Sarandon · Adam Coleman Howard

Plot Eleanor lives with the artist Stash. Just like his artist friends, he is completely unknown but is waiting for the big break. Stash is mean to her and finally she...

Direction James Ivory

Cast Nick Nolte · Greta Scacchi · Gwyneth Paltrow · Bruno Putzulu

Direction Ismail Merchant

Cast Jeanne Moreau · Sean Young · Sam Waterston · Nell Carter

Plot Thinly disguised as a returning-to-your-roots and facing-your-ghosts drama, film is actually a celluloid shrine to its Gallic star, the legendary Moreau, who plays a legendary Gallic novelist, Adrienne Mark. Mark,...

Direction Ismail Merchant

Cast Greta Scacchi · Madhur Jaffrey · James Wilby · Neena Gupta

Plot On the Malabar Coast in the early 1950s, a British family finds itself in the midst of a cultural clash, instigating a reevaluation of traditional and colonial attitudes. As India...

Direction James Ivory

Cast Anne Baxter · Robert Powell · Michael Wager · Tim Choate

Plot Two teachers vie for the right to stage a play written by Jane Austen when she was twelve years old.