Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
Publisher
Columbia Tristar Home Video
Pub. Date
p2001
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 134 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The story of blind devotion and repressed love between a fanatically proper butler and a high-spirited, strong-minded young housekeeper employed by a British lord who is unwittingly a Nazi dupe.
4) Howards End
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (ca. 142 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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...
Publisher
Lions Gate Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2001]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (130 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Set in the early 1900's, Maggie is the daughter of American tycoon Adam Verver, who marries an impoverished yet charming Italian aristrocrat, Prince Amerigo. Through a twist of fate, Adam marries the Prince's former lover, Charlotte. Maggie's suspicions deepen as 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...
Series
Publisher
Home Vision Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (91 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A sophisticated European brother and sister turn up unexpectedly on the doorstep of their staid American cousins. The fortune-hunting Eugenia and her high-spirited brother Felix turn this Puritan world upside down.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2004
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (117 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The story of the coming of age of Lucy Honeychurch. 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 and the priggish but socially suitable Cecil.
Publisher
Touchstone Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2004, c1995
Physical Desc
1 DVD (139 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In the mid-1780s, widower Thomas Jefferson replaces Benjamin Franklin as the U.S. representative to French regents Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette. He tries to resist the beautiful Mrs. Cosway. Also in Paris is Jefferson's daughter Patsy; when another daughter dies back in Virginia, Jefferson sends for his youngest, who brings along her slave, Sally Hemings, then 15, whom he also finds irresistible.
10) Howards End
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (142 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A story about class divisions in Edwardian England, and the tragic series of events that occurs when two impulsive middle-class sisters become involved with a working class couple and a wealthy family.
Series
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2015
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (ca. 117 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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 gargantuan art-house hit.
"Impeccably cast and perfectly executed...highly recommended."--Video...
12) Le divorce
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2003
Physical Desc
1 DVD (117 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
When Isabel Walker receives word that her pregnant stepsister Rosy has been left by her philandering French husband, artist Charles-Henri de Persand, Isabel travels to Paris to offer her help and moral support.
13) The Bostonians
Publisher
Home Vision Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2003
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (122 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Olive, a militant 19th century suffragette, takes on the education of a young girl with the gift of oratory. Olive hopes to use her gift for the feminist cause, but finds her student involved in a love triangle with Basil Ransom, a young lawyer from Mississippi, who is strongly opposed to the feminists in Boston.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, Inc
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (134, 136 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The remains of the day : The story of blind devotion and repressed love between a fanatically proper butler and a high-spirited, strong-minded young housekeeper employed by a British lord who is unwittingly a Nazi dupe.
Sense and sensibility: Tells of the Dashwood sisters, sensible Elinor and passionate Marianne, whose chances at marriage seem doomed by their family's sudden loss of fortune.