The Grand Budapest Hotel (
2014) | IMDb:
8.1
The Grand Budapest Hotel tells of a legendary concierge at a famous European hotel between the wars and his friendship with a young employee who becomes his trusted protégé. The story involves the theft and recovery of a priceless Renaissance painting, the battle for an enormous family fortune and the slow and then sudden upheavals that transformed Europe during the first half of the 20th century.
Starring:
Ralph Fiennes
,
F. Murray Abraham
,
Tony Revolori
,
Mathieu Amalric
,
Adrien Brody
,
Willem Dafoe
Hanna (
2011) | IMDb:
6.8
Raised by her father, an ex-CIA agent, in the wilds of Finland, Hanna's upbringing has been geared to making her the perfect assassin. Sent into the world by her father on a mission, Hanna journeys across Europe, eluding agents dispatched after her by a ruthless intelligence operative. As she nears her ultimate target, Hanna faces startling revelations about her existence.
Starring:
Saoirse Ronan
,
Eric Bana
,
Cate Blanchett
,
Tom Hollander
,
Olivia Williams
,
Jason Flemyng
Atonement (
2007) | IMDb:
7.8
As a 13-year-old, fledgling writer Briony Tallis irrevocably changes the course of several lives when she accuses her older sister's lover of a crime he did not commit.
Starring:
Keira Knightley
,
James McAvoy
,
Romola Garai
,
Saoirse Ronan
,
Brenda Blethyn
,
Vanessa Redgrave
Pride & Prejudice (
2005) | IMDb:
7.8
A story of love and life among the landed English gentry during the Georgian era. Mr. Bennet is a gentleman living in Hertfordshire with his overbearing wife and five daughters, but if he dies their house will be inherited by a distant cousin whom they have never met, so the family's future happiness and security is dependent on the daughters making good marriages.
Starring:
Keira Knightley
,
Matthew Macfadyen
,
Brenda Blethyn
,
Donald Sutherland
,
Rosamund Pike
,
Jena Malone
Vanity Fair (
2004) | IMDb:
6.2
Beautiful, funny, passionate, and calculating, Becky is the orphaned daughter of a starving English artist and a French chorus girl. She yearns for a more glamorous life than her birthright promises and resolves to conquer English society by any means possible. A mere ascension into the heights of society is simply not enough. So Becky finds a patron in the powerful Marquess of Steyne whose whims enable Becky to realise her dreams. But is the ultimate cost too high for her?
Starring:
Reese Witherspoon
,
James Purefoy
,
Jonathan Rhys Meyers
,
Romola Garai
,
Gabriel Byrne
,
Rhys Ifans
Directed by:
Mira Nair
Captain Corelli's Mandolin (
2001) | IMDb:
5.9
When a fisherman leaves to fight with the Greek army during World War II, his fiancée falls in love with the local Italian commander.
Notting Hill (
1999) | IMDb:
7.2
William Thacker is a London bookstore owner whose humdrum existence is thrown into romantic turmoil when famous American actress Anna Scott appears in his shop. A chance encounter over spilled orange juice leads to a kiss that blossoms into a full-blown affair. As the average bloke and glamorous movie star draw closer and closer together, they struggle to reconcile their radically different lifestyles in the name of love.