Bright Star (
2009) | IMDb:
6.9
In 1818, high-spirited young Fanny Brawne finds herself increasingly intrigued by the handsome but aloof poet John Keats, who lives next door to her family friends the Dilkes. After reading a book of his poetry, she finds herself even more drawn to the taciturn Keats. Although he agrees to teach her about poetry, Keats cannot act on his reciprocated feelings for Fanny, since as a struggling poet he has no money to support a wife.
Starring:
Abbie Cornish
,
Ben Whishaw
,
Paul Schneider
,
Kerry Fox
,
Edie Martin
,
Thomas Brodie-Sangster
In the Cut (
2003) | IMDb:
5.4
Following the gruesome murder of a young woman in her neighborhood, an English teacher living in New York City — as if to test the limits of her own safety —propels herself into an impossibly risky sexual liaison with a police detective.
Starring:
Meg Ryan
,
Mark Ruffalo
,
Jennifer Jason Leigh
,
Nick Damici
,
Sharrieff Pugh
,
Heather Litteer
Holy Smoke (
1999) | IMDb:
5.9
While on a journey of discovery in exotic India, beautiful young Ruth Barron falls under the influence of a charismatic religious guru. Her desperate parents then hire PJ Waters, a macho cult de-programmer who confronts Ruth in a remote desert hideaway. But PJ quickly learns that he's met his match in the sexy, intelligent and iron-willed Ruth.
Directed by:
Jane Campion
The Piano (
1993) | IMDb:
7.5
When an arranged marriage brings Ada and her spirited daughter to the wilderness of nineteenth-century New Zealand, she finds herself locked in a battle of wills with both her controlling husband and a rugged frontiersman to whom she develops a forbidden attraction.