Soundtrack: Richard Robbins

Direction James Ivory

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

Synopsis The Remains of the Day (1993) follows Stevens, a dedicated butler, as he embarks on a journey through the English countryside. Reflecting on his years of service at Darlington Hall, he grapples with memories of loyalty, duty, and unspoken emotions....

Direction James Ivory

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

Synopsis In Howards End (1992), a poignant tale of class and connection unfolds in Edwardian England. The lives of the wealthy Wilcox family, the intellectual Schlegel sisters, and the working-class Basts intertwine through fate and misunderstanding. At the heart of the...

Direction James Ivory

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

Synopsis 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...

Direction James Ivory

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

Synopsis A Room With a View (1985) follows Lucy Honeychurch, a young Englishwoman, as she travels to Florence with her prim chaperone. There, she encounters the free-spirited George Emerson, who challenges her sheltered worldview. Back in England, Lucy becomes engaged to...

Direction James Ivory

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

Synopsis 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 Douglas, a civil servant in the colonial administration, comes to...

Direction James Ivory

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

Synopsis 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 successful author who obviously drinks too much and is starting...

Direction James Ivory

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

Synopsis 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 of his half sister. Gertrude, one of Wentworth's two daughters,...

Direction James Ivory

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

Synopsis 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, while Mr. Bridge works as a lawyer. The children have...

Direction James Ivory

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

Synopsis 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

Synopsis 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, a diminutive crook-back named Lymon. He suggests they open a...

Direction James Ivory

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

Synopsis 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), her husband Stefan (Anthony Higgins), a manipulative English art patron...

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

Synopsis 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 life in the city's bars. Todd Jackson (mid-40s), once an...

Direction James Ivory

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

Synopsis 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 to discover that their respective mates, a beautiful American expatriate...

Direction James Ivory

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

Synopsis 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, bears him two children, is his muse, and paints within...

Direction James Ivory

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

Synopsis 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 leaves him. Ironically, she gets her big break - as...

Direction James Ivory

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

Direction Ismail Merchant

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

Synopsis 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, after residing in New York for 30 years, reclaims her...

Direction Ismail Merchant

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

Synopsis 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 goes through the growing pains of breaking away from colonial...

Direction James Ivory

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

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