The Tree of Life (
2011) | IMDb:
6.8
The impressionistic story of a Texas family in the 1950s. The film follows the life journey of the eldest son, Jack, through the innocence of childhood to his disillusioned adult years as he tries to reconcile a complicated relationship with his father. Jack finds himself a lost soul in the modern world, seeking answers to the origins and meaning of life while questioning the existence of faith.
Starring:
Brad Pitt
,
Sean Penn
,
Jessica Chastain
,
Hunter McCracken
,
Laramie Eppler
,
Tye Sheridan
Surviving Picasso (
1996) | IMDb:
6.3
The passionate Merchant-Ivory drama tells the story of Francoise Gilot, the only lover of Pablo Picasso who was strong enough to withstand his ferocious cruelty and move on with her life.
Starring:
Anthony Hopkins
,
Natascha McElhone
,
Julianne Moore
,
Joss Ackland
,
Joan Plowright
,
Dennis Boutsikaris
Jefferson in Paris (
1995) | IMDb:
5.7
His wife having recently died, Thomas Jefferson accepts the post of United States ambassador to pre-revolutionary France, though he finds it difficult to adjust to life in a country where the aristocracy subjugates an increasingly restless peasantry. In Paris, he becomes smitten with cultured artist Maria Cosway, but, when his daughter visits from Virginia accompanied by her attractive slave, Sally Hemings, Jefferson's attentions are diverted.
Starring:
Nick Nolte
,
Greta Scacchi
,
Thandiwe Newton
,
Gwyneth Paltrow
,
Jean-Pierre Aumont
,
Simon Callow
Directed by:
James Ivory
The Remains of the Day (
1993) | IMDb:
7.8
A rule-bound head butler's world of manners and decorum in the household he maintains is tested by the arrival of a housekeeper who falls in love with him in post-WWI Britain. The possibility of romance and his master's cultivation of ties with the Nazi cause challenge his carefully maintained veneer of servitude.
Starring:
Anthony Hopkins
,
Emma Thompson
,
James Fox
,
Christopher Reeve
,
Hugh Grant
,
Peter Vaughan
Howards End (
1992) | IMDb:
7.4
A saga of class relations and changing times in an Edwardian England on the brink of modernity, the film centers on liberal Margaret Schlegel, who, along with her sister Helen, becomes involved with two couples: wealthy, conservative industrialist Henry Wilcox and his wife Ruth, and the downwardly mobile working-class Leonard Bast and his mistress Jackie.
Starring:
Emma Thompson
,
Helena Bonham Carter
,
Anthony Hopkins
,
Samuel West
,
Vanessa Redgrave
,
Adrian Ross Magenty
Directed by:
James Ivory