James Ivory
Series
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
1990.
Language
English
Description
Story of a Kansas City couple, Mr. and Mrs. Bridge, whose lives are affected in different ways as their children grow up and leave home, and more adventurous friends bring new ideas into their home. Mrs. Bridge questions the life she has led, but her husband remains a firm believer in family and home, regardless of the changes in the world around him.
Language
English
Description
Olive, a militant suffragette, takes on the education of Verena, a brilliantly gifted but naive young girl. Olive wants to mold and use this gift for the feminist cause. But Verena is also loved by Basil Ransom, an impecunious young lawyer with views strenuously opposed to the Boston feminists. The contest is met between Basil and Olive. The prize: possession of Verena.
Series
Publisher
Sony Pictures Classics
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Formats
Description
It's the summer of 1983 in Italy, and Elio, a precocious 17-year-old, spends his days in his family's villa transcribing and playing classical music, reading and flirting with his friend Marzia. One day, Oliver, a charming American scholar arrives as the annual summer intern tasked with helping Elio's father, an eminent professor. Elio and Oliver discover the heady beauty of awakening desire over the course of a summer that will alter their lives...
8) Howards End
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Margaret and Helen Schlegel are sisters from a well-educated European family. A series of events brings them into a relationship with the very English Wilcox family. Both families also come into contact with Leonard Bast and his wife, a couple near the lowest tier of the rigid class system. Leonard's desire for cultural and intellectual status attracts the attention of Helen. Margaret must reconcile her independent spirit with her desire for companionship...
Series
Publisher
BBC Video
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Based on the novel by E.M. Forster.
Set in the early 1900's. "Tells the story of the coming of age of Lucy Honeychurch (Helena Bonham-Carter). Longing to burst free from the repression of British upper class manners and mores, she must wrestle with her inner romantic longings to choose between the passionate George (Julian Sands) and the priggish but socially suitable Cecil (Daniel Day-Lewis)"--Container.
12) Heat and dust
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
Story of a woman who goes to India to find the truth about her aunt who left her British husband for an Indian prince.
13) The Europeans
Series
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Description
Classic satire about two fortune-seeking expatriates and their sober American relations.
14) Golden bowl
Publisher
Lions Gate Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
Set in the early 1900's, Maggie is the daughter of American tycoon Adam Verver, who marries an improvished yet charming Italian aristrocrat, Prince Amerigo. Through a twist of fate, Adam marries the Prince's former lover, Charlotte. Maggie's suspicions deepen to a possible affair between the Prince and Charlotte, when Maggie makes the ill-fated purchase of a golden bowl. It becomes only a matter of time before Maggie unravels the truth from a world...
15) Maurice
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
E.M. Forrester's story of two Edwardian-era Cambridge graduates that fall in love, but must abide by British society's strict norms regarding homosexuality.
16) Le divorce
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
When Isabel Walker receives word that her pregnant stepsister Roxy has been left by her philandering French husband, artist Charles-Henri de Persand, Isabel travels to Paris to offer her help and moral support. Together, the two young women hit the party scene, living it up with the locals and American expatriates. Eventually, Isabel unexpectedly begins an affair with a septuagenarian Frenchman.
17) Indian style
Author
Publisher
C.N. Potter
Pub. Date
[1990]
Language
English
Description
"Counter ornament and furniture styles and architectural treatments and decor reveal the essence of Indian culture in more than 500 full-color photographs."--Publisher's description.
Series
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Based on E.M. Forster's novel of requited love. A young, independent-minded, upper-class Edwardian woman who is trying to sort out her burgeoning romantic feelings, divided between an enigmatic free spirit she meets on vacation in Florence and the priggish bookworm to whom she becomes engaged back in the more corseted Surrey. Funny, sexy, and sophisticated, this film was a gargantuan art-house hit.
20) Maurice
Publisher
Cohen Media Group
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"The story of two young men in pre-World War I England who meet at Cambridge, fall in love, and then must struggle with the moral standards of the time."--