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 come to live nearby, the Bennets have high hopes. But pride, prejudice, and misunderstandings all combine to complicate …their relationships and to make happiness difficult. (Read More)
Themes: | inheritance, wealth, betrayal, money, marriage, love |
Mood: | satire |
Characters: | officer, friend |
Period: | 1810s |
Story: | marriage engagement, rich snob, english literature, piano player, arranged marriage, marriage proposal, refusing a handshake, punch and judy, family disapproval, england uk, social life, feeding someone, jane austen, disgrace, flamboyance, comedy of manners, harp, matchmaker, social climber, snob, elopement, suitor, courtship, opposites attract, music box, sibling, looking out a window, independence, flute, arrogance, horse and carriage, parrot, pride, engagement, english, aunt niece relationship, morality, servant, gossip, scandal, flirting, garden, cousin cousin relationship, 19th century, portrait, apology, dysfunctional family, piano, rural setting, letter, sister sister relationship, singing, dancing, mother daughter relationship, father daughter relationship, husband wife relationship, family relationships, based on novel |
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 their three daughters (Elinor, Marianne, and Margaret) in straitened circumstances. They are taken in by a kindly cousin, but their lack of fortune affects the marriageabil…ity of both practical Elinor and romantic Marianne. When Elinor forms an attachment for the wealthy Edward Ferrars, his family disapproves and separates them. And though Mrs. Jennings tries to match the worthy (and rich) Colonel Brandon to her, Marianne finds the dashing and fiery John Willoughby more to her taste. Both relationships are sorely tried. (Read More)
Themes: | inheritance, marriage, love |
Period: | 1810s |
Story: | rich snob, arranged marriage, jane austen, comedy of manners, suitor, courtship, horse and carriage, parrot, engagement, servant, cousin cousin relationship, 19th century, piano, rural setting, letter, sister sister relationship, singing, dancing, mother daughter relationship, based on novel |
Emma Woodhouse is a congenial young lady who delights in meddling in other people's affairs. She is perpetually trying to unite men and women who are utterly wrong for each other. Despite her interest in romance, Emma is clueless about her own feelings, and her relationship with gentle Mr. Knightly.
Themes: | love |
Mood: | satire |
Characters: | friend |
Period: | 1810s |
Story: | matchmaker, marriage proposal, jane austen, comedy of manners, snob, courtship, 19th century, dysfunctional family, piano, rural setting, singing, dancing, father daughter relationship, based on novel |
The protagonist Elizabeth Bennett is a witty, sarcastic, somewhat stubborn young lady who really has an opinion about quite a lot including why she would not marry simply because of it is expected of her. Mr. Guy Darcy is a shy, rich, man who defiantly believes there is such a thing as superior birt…h. (Read More)
Themes: | marriage, love |
Characters: | friend |
Story: | marriage proposal, jane austen, comedy of manners, elopement, suitor, courtship, pride, engagement, english, gossip, scandal, cousin cousin relationship, 19th century, dysfunctional family, piano, rural setting, letter, sister sister relationship, dancing, mother daughter relationship, father daughter relationship, husband wife relationship, family relationships, based on novel |
The five highly trained Bennett sisters in Georgian England must try to protect themselves from the growing zombie threat, find suitable husbands for themselves, battle marriage proposals and unlikely suitors, and save the country before it's too late.
Themes: | wealth, betrayal, marriage |
Characters: | friend |
Story: | marriage proposal, elopement, suitor, courtship, pride, aunt niece relationship, servant, cousin cousin relationship, 19th century, letter, sister sister relationship, dancing, mother daughter relationship, father daughter relationship, family relationships, based on novel |
The story of independent, beautiful and headstrong Bathsheba Everdene ('Carey Mulligan' (qv)), who attracts three very different suitors: Gabriel Oak ('Matthias Schoenaerts' (qv)), a sheep farmer, captivated by her fetching willfulness; Frank Troy ('Tom Sturridge' (qv)), a handsome and reckless Serg…eant; and William Boldwood ('Michael Sheen (I)' (qv)), a prosperous and mature bachelor. This timeless story of Bathsheba's choices and passions explores the nature of relationships and love - as well as the human ability to overcome hardships through resilience and perseverance. This is why Far From The Madding Crowd (2015) is one of the best movies like Pride And Prejudice (1940). (Read More)
Themes: | inheritance, money, marriage, love |
Characters: | friend |
Story: | piano player, marriage proposal, independence, horse and carriage, pride, aunt niece relationship, servant, 19th century, apology, piano, rural setting, letter, singing, dancing, husband wife relationship, based on novel |
The year is 1795 and young Jane Austen is a feisty 20-year-old and emerging writer who already sees a world beyond class and commerce, beyond pride and prejudice, and dreams of doing what was then nearly unthinkable - marrying for love. Naturally, her parents are searching for a wealthy, well-appoin…ted husband to assure their daughter's future social standing. They are eyeing Mr. Wisley, nephew to the very formidable, not to mention very rich, local aristocrat Lady Gresham, as a prospective match. But when Jane meets the roguish and decidedly non-aristocratic Tom Lefroy, sparks soon fly along with the sharp repartee. His intellect and arrogance raise her ire - then knock her head over heels. Now, the couple, whose flirtation flies in the face of the sense and sensibility of the age, is faced with a terrible dilemma. If they attempt to marry, they will risk everything that matters - family, friends and fortune. (Read More)
Themes: | wealth, betrayal, marriage, love |
Story: | jane austen, marriage proposal, elopement, independence, arrogance, horse and carriage, pride, cousin cousin relationship, piano, rural setting, letter, sister sister relationship, singing, dancing, father daughter relationship, mother daughter relationship, husband wife relationship, family relationships |
Young lovers Hero and Claudio are to be married in one week. To pass the time, they conspire with Don Pedro to set a "lover's trap" for Benedick, an arrogant confirmed bachelor, and Beatrice, his favorite sparring partner. Meanwhile, the evil Don Jon conspires to break up the wedding by accusing Her…o of infidelity. In the end, though, it all turns out to be "much ado about nothing." (Read More)
Themes: | marriage |
Characters: | friend |
Story: | marriage engagement, disgrace, matchmaker, courtship, opposites attract, flute, garden, cousin cousin relationship, singing, dancing, mother daughter relationship, husband wife relationship |
In 1902, in London, the spinster Beatrix Potter lives with her bourgeois parents. Her snobbish mother, Helen Potter, had introduced several bachelors to Beatrix until she was twenty years old, but she had turned them all down. Beatrix Potter has been drawing animals and making up stories about them …since she was a child, but her parents have never recognized her as an artist. One day, Miss Potter offers her stories to a print house, and a rookie publisher, Norman Warne, who is delighted with her tales, publishes her first children's book. This success leads Norman to publish two other books, and Miss Potter meanwhile becomes the best friend of his single sister Millie Warne. Soon Beatrix and Norman fall in love with each other, but Helen does not accept that her daughter would marry a "trader". However, Beatrix's father Rupert Potter proposes that his daughter spend the summer with his wife and him in their country house in Lake District, and if she is still interested in Norman after the summertime, he would bless their marriage. When Miss Potter stops receiving letters from Norman, she is disappointed. Then one day she receives a letter from Millie explaining what had happened to Norman. (Read More)
Themes: | wealth, money, marriage, love |
Characters: | friend |
Story: | marriage engagement, marriage proposal, music box, horse and carriage, english, servant, garden, rural setting, letter, singing, dancing, father daughter relationship, mother daughter relationship, husband wife relationship, family relationships |
Scarlett is a woman who can deal with a nation at war, Atlanta burning, the Union Army carrying off everything from her beloved Tara, the carpetbaggers who arrive after the war. Scarlett is beautiful. She has vitality. But Ashley, the man she has wanted for so long, is going to marry his placid cous…in, Melanie. Mammy warns Scarlett to behave herself at the party at Twelve Oaks. There is a new man there that day, the day the Civil War begins. Rhett Butler. Scarlett does not know he is in the room when she pleads with Ashley to choose her instead of Melanie. (Read More)
Themes: | wealth, money, marriage, love |
Story: | marriage engagement, rich snob, marriage proposal, opposites attract, horse and carriage, aunt niece relationship, servant, gossip, scandal, flirting, cousin cousin relationship, 19th century, apology, letter, sister sister relationship, singing, dancing, mother daughter relationship, father daughter relationship, husband wife relationship, family relationships, based on novel |
Early summer. In a village in northern Turkey, Lale and her four sisters are walking home from school, playing innocently with some boys. The immorality of their play sets off a scandal that has unexpected consequences. The family home is progressively transformed into a prison; instruction in homem…aking replaces school and marriages start being arranged. The five sisters who share a common passion for freedom, find ways of getting around the constraints imposed on them. This is why Mustang (2015) is one of the best movies like Pride And Prejudice (1940). (Read More)
Themes: | money |
Story: | arranged marriage, marriage proposal, looking out a window, aunt niece relationship, gossip, scandal, garden, apology, sister sister relationship, singing, dancing |
Society scion Newland Archer is engaged to May Welland, but his well-ordered life is upset when he meets May's unconventional cousin, the Countess Olenska. At first, Newland becomes a defender of the Countess, whose separation from her abusive husband makes her a social outcast in the restrictive hi…gh society of late-19th Century New York, but he finds in her a companion spirit and they fall in love. (Read More)
Themes: | marriage, love |
Story: | marriage engagement, social climber, suitor, horse and carriage, gossip, scandal, 19th century, based on novel |
Living in India, Mary Lennox, a young, privileged girl, is left orphaned when her parents are killed in an earthquake. She is sent back to England where she goes to live on her uncle's estate. It is a fairly isolated existence and she has to find things to keep herself occupied. She finds a sickly y…oung boy...and a secret garden. (Read More)
Themes: | wealth, love |
Characters: | friend |
Story: | garden, music box, horse and carriage, servant, cousin cousin relationship, 19th century, portrait, rural setting, family relationships, based on novel |
Hunky NY lawyer Jeff Daly finally got engaged to fickle Sarah Huttinger, who presents him to her Pasadena family, who all soon take to him, for her sister's wedding to Scott. But Jeff's clever counting makes Sarah realize her dad Earl isn't her biological father. Once movie clues from family indicat…e as suspect successful author Beau Burroughs, she insists on meeting him. Only like her mother and grandmother, she has a one night-stand with Beau, which may well cost her Jeff. (Read More)
Themes: | wealth, marriage |
Characters: | friend |
Story: | marriage engagement, aunt niece relationship, gossip, scandal, apology, dysfunctional family, sister sister relationship, dancing, father daughter relationship, mother daughter relationship, family relationships |
'Louisa May Alcott' (qv)'s autobiographical account of her life with her three sisters in Concord, Massachusetts in the 1860s. With their father fighting in the American Civil War, sisters Jo, Meg, Amy and Beth are at home with their mother, a very outspoken women for her time. The story tells of ho…w the sisters grow up, find love and find their place in the world. (Read More)
Themes: | marriage, love |
Story: | marriage proposal, horse and carriage, 19th century, dysfunctional family, piano, rural setting, letter, sister sister relationship, singing, dancing, father daughter relationship, mother daughter relationship, husband wife relationship, family relationships, based on novel |
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? This is why Jane Eyre (2011) is one of the best movies like Pride And Prejudice (1940). (Read More)
Themes: | inheritance, love |
Characters: | friend |
Story: | marriage proposal, horse and carriage, aunt niece relationship, servant, 19th century, piano, letter, singing, dancing, based on novel |
Set in 1884 Sudan, this fifth film to be adapted from the A.E.W. Mason novel follows a British officer who resigns his post right before his regiment ships out to battle the rebels. Perceiving his resignation as cowardice, his friends and fiancee give him four white feathers, the symbol of cowardice…, but little do they know he's actually going undercover and plans to redeem his honor. (Read More)
Characters: | officer, friend |
Story: | marriage proposal, disgrace, arrogance, horse and carriage, pride, 19th century, dancing, family relationships, based on novel |
Teenager Andie is one of the not-so-popular girls in high school. She usually hangs out with her friends Iona or Duckie. Duckie has always had a crush on her, but now she has met a new guy at school, Blane. He's one of the rich and popular guys but can the two worlds meet?
Themes: | wealth |
Story: | rich snob, snob, suitor, opposites attract, dysfunctional family, singing, dancing, father daughter relationship |
In 1874, in the Imperial Russia, the aristocratic Anna Karenina travels from Saint Petersburg to Moscow to save the marriage of her brother Prince Oblonsky, who had had a love affair with his housemaid. Anna Karenina has a cold marriage with her husband, Count Alexei Karenin, and they have a son. An…na meets the cavalry officer Count Vronsky at the train station and they feel attracted by each other. Soon she learns that Vronsky will propose to Kitty, who is the younger sister of her sister-in-law Dolly. Anna satisfactorily resolves the infidelity case of her brother and Kitty invites her to stay for the ball. However, Anna Karenina and Vronsky dance in the ball, calling the attention of the conservative society. Soon they have a love affair that will lead Anna Karenina to a tragic fate. (Read More)
Themes: | marriage, love |
Characters: | officer |
Story: | marriage proposal, scandal, flirting, 19th century, dancing, husband wife relationship, based on novel |
After the Battle of Gallipoli, in 1915, an Australian farmer, Connor (Russell Crowe), travels to Turkey to find his 3 missing sons. While staying at a hotel in Istanbul, he meets Ayshe (Olga Kurylenko), the hotel manager. And tries to find a way to Gallipoli.
Themes: | marriage |
Characters: | officer, friend |
Story: | piano player, arranged marriage, horse and carriage, pride, english, apology, piano, singing, dancing, father daughter relationship, mother daughter relationship, husband wife relationship |
This love story has Kitty meeting young, intelligent, shy and somewhat dull Dr. Walter Fane, whose forte is the study of infectious diseases, and the convenient marriage that she finds herself committed to. It is in this web of intrigue that they head for China, only after Walter discovers Kitty's i…nfidelity with one dashing and witty diplomat Charlie Townsend. So much as to hide her from herself and to help thwart a cholera outbreak, this is a marriage more than on the rocks. This is a cold, indifferent and loveless partnership in a vast unknown and deadly environment that will test both these flightless lovebirds and with the hardships and tolerances more than any had ever anticipated. A visual delight amid the pain and suffering of a dying people and failing marriage. Will a cure be found for both, before it's too late? This is why The Painted Veil (2006) is one of the best movies like Pride And Prejudice (1940). (Read More)
Themes: | marriage, money, love |
Story: | english, marriage proposal, servant, gossip, scandal, piano, letter, singing, dancing, father daughter relationship, mother daughter relationship, husband wife relationship, family relationships, based on novel |
In the early 1960's, sixteen year old Jenny Mellor lives with her parents in the London suburb of Twickenham. On her father's wishes, everything that Jenny does is in the sole pursuit of being accepted into Oxford, as he wants her to have a better life than he. Jenny is bright, pretty, hard working …but also naturally gifted. The only problems her father may perceive in her life is her issue with learning Latin, and her dating a boy named Graham, who is nice but socially awkward. Jenny's life changes after she meets David Goldman, a man over twice her age. David goes out of his way to show Jenny and her family that his interest in her is not improper and that he wants solely to expose her to cultural activities which she enjoys. Jenny quickly gets accustomed to the life to which David and his constant companions, Danny and Helen, have shown her, and Jenny and David's relationship does move into becoming a romantic one. However, Jenny slowly learns more about David, and by association Danny and Helen, and specifically how they make their money. Jenny has to decide if what she learns about them and leading such a life is worth forgoing her plans of higher eduction at Oxford. (Read More)
Themes: | wealth, betrayal, money |
Characters: | friend |
Story: | marriage engagement, marriage proposal, engagement, gossip, letter, singing, dancing, father daughter relationship, mother daughter relationship, husband wife relationship, family relationships |
Matko is a small time hustler, living by the river Danube with his 17 year old son Zare. After a failed business deal he owes money to the much more successful gangster Dadan. Dadan has a sister, Afrodita, that he desperately wants to see get married so they strike a deal: Zare is to marry her. But …none of the two care much for an arranged marriage: Zare is in love with Ida, Afrodita is waiting for the man of her dreams. (Read More)
Themes: | wealth, money, marriage, love |
Story: | arranged marriage, engagement, dancing |
In 1660, with the return of Charles II to the English throne, theater, the visual arts, science and sexual promiscuity flourish. Thirteen years later, in the midst of political and economical problems, Charles II asks for the return of his friend John Wilmot, aka the second Earl of Rochester, from e…xile back to London. John is a morally-corrupt drunkard and a sexually- active cynical poet. When the King asks John to prepare a play for the French ambassador so as to please him, John meets the aspiring actress Elizabeth Barry in the playhouse and decides to make her into a great star. He falls in love with her and she becomes his mistress. During the presentation to the Frenchman, he falls into disgrace with the court. When he was thirty-three years old and dying of syphilis and alcoholism, he converts to being a religious man. (Read More)
Themes: | money, love |
Characters: | friend |
Story: | disgrace, horse and carriage, english, servant, scandal, portrait, letter, singing, dancing, husband wife relationship |
At the beginning of the twentieth century, Jews and Orthodox Christians live in the little village of Anatevka in the pre-revolutionary Russia of the Czars. Among the traditions of the Jewish community, the matchmaker arranges the match and the father approves it. The milkman Reb Tevye is a poor man… that has been married for twenty-five years with Golde and they have five daughters. When the local matchmaker Yente arranges the match between his older daughter Tzeitel and the old widow butcher Lazar Wolf, Tevye agrees with the wedding. However Tzeitel is in love with the poor tailor Motel Kamzoil and they ask permission to Tevye to get married that he accepts to please his daughter. Then his second daughter Hodel (Michele Marsh) and the revolutionary student Perchik decide to marry each other and Tevye is forced to accept. When Perchik is arrested by the Czar troops and sent to Siberia, Hodel decides to leave her family and homeland and travel to Siberia to be with her beloved Perchik. When his third daughter Chava decides to get married with the Christian Fyedka, Tevye does not accept and considers that Chava has died. Meanwhile the Czar troops evict the Jewish community from Anatevka. (Read More)
Themes: | marriage, love |
Story: | matchmaker, arranged marriage, marriage proposal, elopement, suitor, flirting, sister sister relationship, father daughter relationship, mother daughter relationship, husband wife relationship, family relationships |
The story of John Lennon's childhood and teenage years from 1944 to 1960, his relationship with his aunt Mimi and his mother Julia -the two dominant women in the first part of his life-, his first meeting with Paul McCartney and George Harrison, their friendship, their love for music and the birth o…f The Beatles. This is why Nowhere Boy (2009) is one of the best movies like Pride And Prejudice (1940). (Read More)
Themes: | money, love |
Characters: | friend |
Story: | piano player, looking out a window, cousin cousin relationship, piano, letter, sister sister relationship, singing, dancing, husband wife relationship |
"All eyes will be on you," says the Austrian Empress, Maria Theresa to her youngest daughter Marie Antoinette. The film, marketed for a teen audience, is an impressionistic retelling of Marie Antoinette's life as a young queen in the opulent and eccentric court at Versailles. The film focuses on Mar…ie Antoinette, as she matures from a teenage bride to a young woman and eventual queen of France. (Read More)
Themes: | marriage |
Story: | harp, horse and carriage, parrot, gossip, scandal, garden, letter, sister sister relationship, singing, dancing, mother daughter relationship, husband wife relationship, family relationships, based on novel |
Anna is a young widow who is finally getting on with her life after the death of her husband, Sean. Now engaged to be married, Anna meets a ten-year-old boy who tells her he is Sean reincarnated. Though his story is both unsettling and absurd, Anna can't get the boy out of her mind. And much to the …concern of her fiance, her increased contact with him leads her to question the choices she has made in her life. (Read More)
Themes: | betrayal, marriage |
Story: | marriage engagement, aunt niece relationship, apology, piano, sister sister relationship, singing, mother daughter relationship, husband wife relationship, family relationships |
It is the mid-nineteenth century. Ada is a mute who has a young daughter, Flora. In an arranged marriage she leaves her native Scotland accompanied by her daughter and her beloved piano. Life in the rugged forests of New Zealand's North Island is not all she may have imagined and nor is her relation…ship with her new husband Stewart. She suffers torment and loss when Stewart sells her piano to a neighbour, George. Ada learns from George that she may earn back her piano by giving him piano lessons, but only with certain other conditions attached. At first Ada despises George but slowly their relationship is transformed and this propels them into a dire situation. (Read More)
Themes: | marriage |
Story: | arranged marriage, 19th century, piano, rural setting, mother daughter relationship |
The son of Zamindar Narayan Mukherjee, Devdas (Shahrukh Khan) was born with a silver spoon in his mouth. He grew up in the lush village of Taj Sonapur, where he spent his childhood, indulged by his lovely playmate Paro (Aishwarya). They grew up sharing a special relationship, in which they existed o…nly to each other. Oblivious of all the differences of status and background, a bond that would never break grew between them. Slowly, it changed to love but it was still unsaid. But the reverie was broken when his family sent Devdas to London for education. Paro's world crashed knowing that her Devdas would be gone and she lit a diya, for it signified the fast coming back of her loved one. Years passed and Devdas returned. Devdas was besotted by her stunning beauty and longed to have her back. But Zamindar Narayan Mukherjee (Vijay Crishna), Devdas' father, met Paro's mother Sumitra's (Kiran Kher) marriage proposal with condescending arrogance. It caused a rift between the families and even though Devdas tried to convince his father, only antagonism came his way. Finally, he moved away from Paro and wrote a letter to her, asking her to forget him. Only, he didn't realize that he would never be able to forget her ever! And much later, when he reached out to her, it was too late as she was far too humiliated. She scorned him for not standing by her and they parted forever with a heart-broken Paro entering into a chaste marriage with a wealthy, much older man, Zamindar Bhuvan (Vijayendra Ghagte), while a shattered Devdas walked towards anguish, alcoholism & Chandramukhi (Madhuri Dixit). Chandramukhi, a stunning courtesan instantly lost her heart to Devdas. A unique bond was formed between both as he could share with her the intense pain of his unfulfilled love for Paro. Meanwhile, Paro, on the other hand, performed her worldly duties sincerely, but inside her heart, she could never forget Devdas for a moment. Strange was the fate of Devdas. Intensely loved by two women, who were never meant to be his. One whom he could never love and one whom he could never stop loving... (Read More)
Themes: | marriage, betrayal, love |
Characters: | friend |
Story: | arranged marriage, marriage proposal, arrogance, horse and carriage, apology, piano, letter, singing, dancing, mother daughter relationship, husband wife relationship, family relationships, based on novel |
No sooner does Italian-American widow Loretta accept a marriage proposal from her doltish boyfriend, Johnny, then she finds herself falling for his younger brother, Ronny. She tries to resist, but Ronny lost his hand in an accident he blames on his brother, and has no scruples about aggressively pur…suing her while Johnny is out of the country. As Loretta falls deeper in love, she comes to learn that she's not the only one in her family with a secret romance. This is why Moonstruck (1987) is one of the best movies like Pride And Prejudice (1940). (Read More)
Themes: | marriage, love |
Story: | marriage proposal, opposites attract, engagement, dysfunctional family, father daughter relationship, mother daughter relationship, husband wife relationship, family relationships |
Pompous phonetics professor Henry Higgins is so sure of his abilities that he takes it upon himself to transform a Cockney working-class girl into someone who can pass for a cultured member of high society. His subject turns out to be the lovely Eliza Doolittle, who agrees to speech lessons to impro…ve her job prospects. Higgins and Eliza clash, then form an unlikely bond -- one that is threatened by an aristocratic suitor. (Read More)
Themes: | inheritance, love |
Story: | snob, suitor, opposites attract, gossip, apology, dancing, father daughter relationship |
The first part of Kieslowski's trilogy on France's national motto: Liberty, Equality, and Fraternity. 'Blue' is the story of Julie who loses her husband, an acclaimed composer and her young daughter in a car accident. The film's theme of liberty is manifested in Julie's attempt to start life anew, f…ree of personal commitments, belongings, grief or love. She intends to numb herself by withdrawing from the world and living completely independently, anonymously and in solitude in the Parisian metropolis. Despite her intentions, people from her former and present life intrude with their own needs. However, the reality created by the people who need and care about her, a surprising discovery and the music around which the film revolves heal Julie and draws her back to the land of the living. (Read More)
Themes: | betrayal, money, love |
Story: | independence, flute, servant, garden, piano, rural setting, mother daughter relationship, father daughter relationship, husband wife relationship |
From July, 1913 to the outbreak of World War I, a series of incidents take place in a German village. A horse trips on a wire and throws the rider; a woman falls to her death through rotted planks; the local baron's son is hung upside down in a mill; parents slap and bully their children; a man is c…ruel to his long-suffering lover; another sexually abuses his daughter. People disappear. A callow teacher, who courts a nanny in the baron's household, narrates the story and tries to investigate the connections among these accidents and crimes. What is foreshadowed? Are the children holy innocents? God may be in His heaven, but all is not right with the world; the center cannot hold. (Read More)
Themes: | wealth |
Story: | marriage proposal, suitor, flute, horse and carriage, servant, gossip, piano, rural setting, singing, dancing, father daughter relationship, husband wife relationship, family relationships |
In 1963, Frances "Baby" Houseman, a sweet daddy's girl, goes with her family to a resort in upstate New York's Catskill Mountains. Baby has grown up in privileged surroundings and all expect her to go on to college, join the Peace Corps and save the world before marrying a doctor, just like her fath…er. Unexpectedly, Baby becomes infatuated with the camp's dance instructor, Johnny Castle, a man whose background is vastly different from her own. Baby lies to her father to get money to pay for an illegal abortion for Johnny's dance partner. She then fills in as Johnny's dance partner and it is as he is teaching her the dance routine that they fall in love. It all comes apart when Johnny's friend falls seriously ill after her abortion and Baby gets her father, who saves the girl's life. He then learns what Baby has been up to, who with and worse - that he funded the illegal abortion. He bans his daughter from any further association with "those people". In the first deliberately willful action of her life, Baby later sneaks out to see Johnny - ostensibly to apologize for her father's rudeness - and ends up consummating her relationship with Johnny. A jealous fellow vacationer sees Baby sneaking out of Johnny's bungalow the next morning, and in an act of retribution, tells management that he is responsible for a theft the evening before, knowing he would not furnish his real whereabouts. (Read More)
Themes: | money, love |
Characters: | friend |
Story: | opposites attract, gossip, apology, rural setting, sister sister relationship, singing, dancing, father daughter relationship, mother daughter relationship, husband wife relationship, family relationships |
When Lucy Honeychurch and chaperone Charlotte Bartlett find themselves in Florence with rooms without views, fellow guests Mr Emerson and son George step in to remedy the situation. Meeting the Emersons could change Lucy's life forever but, once back in England, how will her experiences in Tuscany a…ffect her marriage plans? This is why A Room With A View (1985) is one of the best movies like Pride And Prejudice (1940). (Read More)
Themes: | marriage |
Story: | english literature, comedy of manners, horse and carriage, engagement, cousin cousin relationship, piano, sister sister relationship, singing, dancing, mother daughter relationship, based on novel |
A group of reporters are trying to decipher the last word ever spoken by Charles Foster Kane, the millionaire newspaper tycoon: "Rosebud." The film begins with a news reel detailing Kane's life for the masses, and then from there, we are shown flashbacks from Kane's life. As the reporters investigat…e further, the viewers see a display of a fascinating man's rise to fame, and how he eventually fell off the top of the world. (Read More)
Themes: | wealth, money, marriage |
Characters: | friend |
Story: | rich snob, independence, engagement, servant, scandal, 19th century, portrait, piano, letter, dancing, husband wife relationship |
Based on the true story of Juliet Hulme and Pauline Parker, two close friends who share a love of fantasy and literature, who conspire to kill Pauline's mother when she tries to end the girls' intense and obsessive relationship.
Themes: | wealth, marriage, love |
Characters: | friend |
Story: | opposites attract, aunt niece relationship, apology, letter, singing, dancing, mother daughter relationship, father daughter relationship, husband wife relationship, family relationships |
Japanese warlord Hidetori Ichimonji decides the time has come to retire and divide his fiefdom among his three sons. His eldest and middle sons - Taro and Jiro - agree with his decision and promise to support him for his remaining days. The youngest son Saburo disagrees with all of them arguing that… there is little likelihood the three brothers will remain united. Insulted by his son's brashness, the warlord banishes Saburo. As the warlord begins his retirement, he quickly realizes that his two eldest sons selfish and have no intention of keeping their promises. It leads to war and only banished Saburo can possibly save him. (Read More)
Themes: | inheritance, betrayal, marriage |
Characters: | friend |
Story: | arranged marriage, marriage proposal, flute, servant, apology, letter, singing, father daughter relationship, husband wife relationship |
In stifling Edwardian London, Wendy Darling mesmerizes her brothers every night with bedtime tales of swordplay, swashbuckling, and the fearsome Captain Hook. But the children become the heroes of an even greater story, when Peter Pan flies into their nursery one night and leads them over moonlit ro…oftops through a galaxy of stars and to the lush jungles of Neverland. Wendy and her brothers join Peter and the Lost Boys in an exhilarating life--free of grown-up rules--while also facing the inevitable showdown with Hook and his bloodthirsty pirates. (Read More)
Themes: | betrayal |
Characters: | friend |
Story: | sibling, parrot, aunt niece relationship, gossip, letter, mother daughter relationship, father daughter relationship, husband wife relationship, family relationships, based on novel |
It is the 21st birthday of Prince Akeem of Zamunda and he is to marry a woman he never saw before. Now the prince breaks with tradition and travels to America to look for the love of his life. This is why Coming To America (1988) is one of the best movies like Pride And Prejudice (1940).
Themes: | wealth, money, love |
Mood: | satire |
Story: | arranged marriage, suitor, flirting, dancing, father daughter relationship |
Violet Weston ('Meryl Streep' (qv)) has cancer and a propensity for pills and alcohol. She's a difficult woman to deal with and her husband has finally had enough. Violet's family gathers including middle daughter Ivy, youngest daughter Karen (with her new fiance), eldest daughter Barbara (with her …separated husband and teenage daughter), and her sister Mattie Fae (with her husband and son in tow). A family tragedy causes tensions to run high and secrets to come out. The Weston women will be forced to examine themselves and their lives whether they want to or not. Welcome to Osage County, Oklahoma in the sweltering heat of August. (Read More)
Themes: | money, marriage |
Story: | aunt niece relationship, cousin cousin relationship, apology, dysfunctional family, piano, sister sister relationship, singing, father daughter relationship, mother daughter relationship, husband wife relationship, family relationships |
In late 1951, Eilis Lacey, a young Irish girl, emigrates to Brooklyn. Sponsored by Father Flood, a priest from her native town Enniscorthy, she is assured to find a full-time job there. But the early days are tough, seasickness being soon replaced by loneliness and homesickness, two feelings all the… more acutely felt by Eilis for having had to leave behind her widowed mother and her dear sister Rose. She nevertheless little by little manages to find her footing by adapting to her job as a salesgirl, by studying bookkeeping at Brooklyn College as well as with a little help from both Father Flood and Mrs. Kehoe, the owner of the boarding school she now lives in. And not only does graduation follow but love shows its face in Tony, an Italian-American plumber, full of adoration and respect for her. They end up marrying, although keeping the thing secret. It is at that point that tragedy strikes inciting Eilis to return to Enniscorthy to support her mother morally. And there a strange thing happens : she gradually gets lured by the charms of her native place, going far as to let herself be wooed by Jim Farrell, a young local. (Read More)
Themes: | money, marriage, love |
Characters: | friend |
Story: | marriage engagement, marriage proposal, gossip, apology, letter, sister sister relationship, singing, dancing, mother daughter relationship, husband wife relationship, based on novel |
In 'Gegen die Wand' Cahit, a 40-something male from Mersin in Turkey has removed everything Turkish from his life. He has become an alcoholic drug addict and at the start of the movie wants to end it all. Sibel a 20-something female from Hamburg wishes to please her Turkish parents yet yearns for fr…eedom. She has had her nose broken by her brother for being seen holding hands with a boy and yet she can not break her mother's heart and run away. She too attempts suicide and she first approaches Cahit there at the Hospital. Sibel asks Cahit to marry her, as she believes this to be the way out of her parent's house. She promises Cahit that their relationship will be like roommates, not like a married couple. The film follows Sibel and Cahit as they get married, become closer and eventually fall in love. (Read More)
Themes: | marriage, money, love |
Characters: | friend |
Story: | piano player, marriage proposal, suitor, aunt niece relationship, cousin cousin relationship, apology, piano, letter, singing, dancing, father daughter relationship, mother daughter relationship, husband wife relationship, family relationships |
In 1939, Robbie Turner is a private in the British Army, he and his battalion who are heading to France to fight in the war. A stint in the army is not where his life was headed, which took a radical turn four years earlier at the Tallis estate where he grew up as his mother worked as the Tallis' li…ve-in housekeeper. As such, he grew up with the three Tallis children: son Leon, and daughters Cecilia and Briony. Robbie and Cecilia were just getting to the stage of their lives of being able to confess their true love for each other. But then thirteen year old aspiring writer Briony also had a crush on the older Robbie. Based on two incidents she saw between Cecilia and Robbie (one only from afar), on reading a private letter Robbie wrote to Cecilia and on her own feelings for Robbie, Briony told some truths and half-truths about Robbie which resulted in this turn in his life. Robbie is able to reconnect with Cecilia before he is shipped off to France, and lives only to be able to head back to London to be with Cecilia and make up for the missing four years they could not spend together due to Briony's actions. A year later, Briony, now eighteen, also arrives in London to start working as a nurse to support the war effort. By this time, she is aware of the damage her thirteen year old self caused, and wants to atone for that error to both Cecilia from who she has been estranged, and Robbie who she has not seen since. She will make this atonement even if neither Robbie or Cecilia will ever speak to her, or if it takes the rest of her life. (Read More)
Themes: | betrayal, love |
Story: | letter, morality, servant, garden, cousin cousin relationship, apology, piano, sister sister relationship, singing, father daughter relationship, mother daughter relationship, husband wife relationship, family relationships, based on novel |
In tiny Anarene, Texas, in the lull between World War Two and the Korean Conflict, Sonny and Duane are best friends. Enduring that awkward period of life between boyhood and manhood, the two pass their time the best way they know how -- with the movie house, football, and girls. Jacey is Duane's ste…ady, wanted by every boy in school, and she knows it. Her daddy is rich and her mom is good looking and loose. It's the general consensus that whoever wins Jacey's heart will be set for life. But Anarene is dying a quiet death as folks head for the big cities to make their livings and raise their kids. The boys are torn between a future somewhere out there beyond the borders of town or making do with their inheritance of a run-down pool hall and a decrepit movie house -- the legacy of their friend and mentor, Sam the Lion. As high school graduation approaches, they learn some difficult lessons about love, loneliness, and jealousy. Then folks stop attending the second-run features at the movie house and the time comes for the last picture show. With the closure of the movie house, the boys feel that a stage of their lives is closing. They stand uneasily on the threshold of the rest of their lives. (The movie was adapted from the novel by Larry McMurtry). This is why The Last Picture Show (1971) is one of the best movies like Pride And Prejudice (1940). (Read More)
Themes: | inheritance, wealth, money, marriage, love |
Characters: | friend |
Story: | piano player, elopement, flirting, apology, singing, dancing, mother daughter relationship, father daughter relationship, husband wife relationship, family relationships, based on novel |
When a man selects a mail order bride, he is surprised to see the beauty who appears before him. She alleges that she sent false photos to him to assure that he would love her for what she is and not for her beauty. However, what she is is a con artist, prostitute, and actress, who teams with a fell…ow actor to steal money from men. What she does not expect is that she falls in love with her new husband and ultimately must decide between him and her sadistic former lover. Contains explicit sex including sadistic acts as Thomas Jane cuts Jolie's back with a knife as part of their lovemaking. (Read More)
Themes: | wealth, betrayal, money, marriage, love |
Story: | horse and carriage, servant, piano, letter, sister sister relationship, dancing, husband wife relationship, based on novel |
Texan rancher Bick Benedict visits a Maryland farm to buy a prize horse. Whilst there he meets and falls in love with the owner's daughter Leslie, they are married immediately and return to his ranch. The story of their family and its rivalry with cowboy and (later oil tycoon) Jett Rink unfolds acro…ss two generations. (Read More)
Themes: | wealth, money, marriage, love |
Characters: | friend |
Story: | marriage proposal, elopement, aunt niece relationship, servant, letter, sister sister relationship, singing, mother daughter relationship, father daughter relationship, husband wife relationship, family relationships, based on novel |
The 1950s. Manhattan lavatory attendant, Tom Ripley, borrows a Princeton jacket to play piano at a garden party. When the wealthy father of a recent Princeton grad chats Tom up, Tom pretends to know the son and is soon offered $1,000 to go to Italy to convince Dickie Greenleaf to return home. In Ita…ly, Tom attaches himself to Dickie and to Marge, Dickie's cultured fiancee, pretending to love jazz and harboring homoerotic hopes as he soaks in luxury. Besides lying, Tom's talents include impressions and forgery, so when the handsome and confident Dickie tires of Tom, dismissing him as a bore, Tom goes to extreme lengths to make Greenleaf's privileges his own. (Read More)
Themes: | money, love |
Characters: | friend |
Story: | rich snob, garden, piano, singing, based on novel |
The Father turns 60. His family, which is a big one of the kind, gathers to celebrate him on a castle. Everybody likes and respects the father deeply...or do they? The youngest son is trying to live up to the father's expectations. He is running a grill-bar in a dirty part of Copenhagen. The oldest …son runs a restaurant in France, while the sister is a anthropologist. The older sister has recently committed suicide and the father asks the oldest son to say a few words about her, because he is afraid he will break into tears if he does it himself. The oldest son agrees without argument. Actually he has already written two speeches. A yellow and a green one. By the table, he asks the father to pick a speech. The father chooses green. The oldest son announces that this is the Speech of Truth. Everybody laughs, except for the father who gets a nervous look on his face. For he knows that the oldest son is about to reveal the secret of why the oldest sister killed herself. (Read More)
Mood: | satire |
Characters: | friend |
Story: | disgrace, servant, scandal, apology, dysfunctional family, piano, letter, singing, dancing, father daughter relationship, mother daughter relationship, husband wife relationship, family relationships |