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51. Jane Eyre (1997 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 108 min | Drama, Romance
After placing an ad for employment as a governess, Jane Eyre (Samantha Morton) journeys to Thornfield Hall to inquire about a possible position. She is hired by the housekeeper, Mrs. ... See full summary »
Director: Robert Young | Stars: Deborah Findlay, Laura Harling, Joanna Scanlan, Ben Sowden
Votes: 3,293
52. Firelight (1997)
R | 103 min | Drama, Romance
A governess agrees to bear a child to help her father.
Director: William Nicholson | Stars: Sophie Marceau, Stephen Dillane, Dominique Belcourt, Kevin Anderson
Votes: 4,823 | Gross: $0.78M
53. Becky Sharp (1935)
Unrated | 84 min | Drama, Romance, War
Against the backdrop of Napoleon's Waterloo campaign, an ambitious woman from a family of entertainers begins a destructive climb up the social ladder.
Director: Rouben Mamoulian | Stars: Miriam Hopkins, Frances Dee, Cedric Hardwicke, Billie Burke
Votes: 1,300
54. Dark Places (1974)
PG | 91 min | Horror, Romance, Thriller
After the original owner dies in a mental asylum, a man moves into an abandoned mansion with a sordid history. Meanwhile, a few locals conspire to steal a large amount of money, said to be hidden somewhere on the premises.
Director: Don Sharp | Stars: Christopher Lee, Joan Collins, Herbert Lom, Jane Birkin
Votes: 1,181
55. Heidi (1993)
G | 193 min | Drama, Family
After charming her reclusive grandfather and falling in love with the beautiful mountain he calls home, Heidi is uprooted and sent to Frankfurt where she befriends Klara, a young girl confined to a wheelchair.
Stars: Jason Robards, Jane Seymour, Patricia Neal, Siân Phillips
Votes: 1,968
56. House of Dark Shadows (1970)
GP | 97 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Vampire Barnabas Collins is accidentally released from his centuries-long confinement at his family's estate in Maine. He targets his clueless descendants who live there now and pursues Maggie, the incarnation of his lost love.
Director: Dan Curtis | Stars: Jonathan Frid, Grayson Hall, Kathryn Leigh Scott, Roger Davis
Votes: 3,446 | Gross: $4.00M
57. North West Frontier (1959)
Not Rated | 129 min | Adventure, Drama
Set on the North West Frontier of colonial India in 1905. A British Army Officer, Captain Scott is sent to rescue a five year old Indian Prince and his American governess, Catherine Wyatt from certain death at the hands of rebel tribesman.
Director: J. Lee Thompson | Stars: Kenneth More, Lauren Bacall, Herbert Lom, Wilfrid Hyde-White
Votes: 3,059
58. The Chalk Garden (1964)
Approved | 106 min | Drama, Mystery
An elderly woman hires a governess with a mysterious past to look after her disturbed, spoiled teenage granddaughter, who eventually understands the meaning of self-sacrifice as an example of love and grows into a better person.
Director: Ronald Neame | Stars: Deborah Kerr, Hayley Mills, John Mills, Edith Evans
Votes: 2,501
59. Ridicule (1996)
R | 102 min | Comedy, Drama, History
To get royal backing on a needed drainage project, a poor French lord must learn to play the delicate games of wit at court at Versailles.
Director: Patrice Leconte | Stars: Charles Berling, Jean Rochefort, Fanny Ardant, Judith Godrèche
Votes: 8,196 | Gross: $2.50M
60. Adam Had Four Sons (1941)
Passed | 81 min | Drama
A governess becomes the center of a wealthy family after her employer's wife dies.
Director: Gregory Ratoff | Stars: Ingrid Bergman, Warner Baxter, Susan Hayward, Fay Wray
Votes: 1,288
61. Dragonwyck (1946)
Not Rated | 103 min | Drama, Mystery, Romance
A simple Connecticut farm girl is recruited by a distant relative, an aristocratic patroon, to be governess to his young daughter in his Hudson Valley mansion.
Director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz | Stars: Gene Tierney, Walter Huston, Vincent Price, Glenn Langan
Votes: 5,419
62. Anna Karenina (1935)
Passed | 95 min | Drama, Romance
The married Anna Karenina falls in love with Count Vronsky despite her husband's refusal to grant a divorce, and both must contend with the social repercussions.
Director: Clarence Brown | Stars: Greta Garbo, Fredric March, Freddie Bartholomew, Maureen O'Sullivan
Votes: 5,809 | Gross: $0.87M
63. The Lovers (I) (2015)
R | 109 min | Action, Adventure, Romance
An epic, sweeping and riveting tale of an impossible love set across two time periods and continents.
Director: Roland Joffé | Stars: Josh Hartnett, Bipasha Basu, Tamsin Egerton, James Mackay
Votes: 3,435
64. A Dangerous Man: Lawrence After Arabia (1992 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 107 min | Adventure, Biography, Drama
Lawrence and Feisal go to argue for Arab independence at the 1919 Paris Peace Conference.
Director: Christopher Menaul | Stars: Ralph Fiennes, Alexander Siddig, Denis Quilley, Nicholas Jones
Votes: 734
65. Anna Karenina (1948)
Approved | 139 min | Drama, Romance
A married woman's affair with a dashing young officer has tragic results.
Director: Julien Duvivier | Stars: Vivien Leigh, Ralph Richardson, Kieron Moore, Hugh Dempster
Votes: 2,955
66. The Lady Vanishes (1979)
PG | 95 min | Action, Comedy, Mystery
While travelling by rail in interwar Nazi Germany, a young socialite finds that a fellow female passenger has disappeared from the train, but nobody else remembers her having been on board.
Director: Anthony Page | Stars: Elliott Gould, Cybill Shepherd, Angela Lansbury, Herbert Lom
Votes: 2,996
67. The Turn of the Screw (2009 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 93 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
A naive and sexually repressed young governess is haunted by the ghosts of previous occupants of a mansion.
Director: Tim Fywell | Stars: Michelle Dockery, Eva Sayer, Josef Lindsay, Dan Stevens
Votes: 1,712
68. A Woman's Face (1941)
Passed | 106 min | Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller
A female blackmailer with a disfiguring facial scar meets a plastic surgeon who offers her the possibility of looking like a normal woman.
Director: George Cukor | Stars: Joan Crawford, Melvyn Douglas, Conrad Veidt, Osa Massen
Votes: 3,802
69. Finding Vivian Maier (2013)
Not Rated | 83 min | Documentary, Biography, Mystery
A documentary on the late Vivian Maier, a nanny whose previously unknown cache of 100,000 photographs earned her a posthumous reputation as one of the most accomplished street photographers.
Directors: John Maloof, Charlie Siskel | Stars: Vivian Maier, John Maloof, Daniel Arnaud, Simon Amédé
Votes: 15,108 | Gross: $1.51M
70. All This, and Heaven Too (1940)
Approved | 141 min | Drama, Romance
A duchess' irrational behavior toward her children's governess triggers tragic events that will change her family's lives forever.
Director: Anatole Litvak | Stars: Bette Davis, Charles Boyer, Jeffrey Lynn, Barbara O'Neil
Votes: 5,398
71. The Governess (1998)
R | 115 min | Drama, Romance
In this sensuous romance, Minnie Driver stars as a governess who is hired into a remote Scottish household and strongly affects all those she comes into contact with.
Director: Sandra Goldbacher | Stars: Minnie Driver, Tom Wilkinson, Florence Hoath, Jonathan Rhys Meyers
Votes: 3,162 | Gross: $3.90M
72. Heidi's Song (1982)
G | 94 min | Animation, Adventure, Drama
Orphan Heidi lives with her grandpa in Swiss Alps. She brings joy to all there. However, her aunt takes her to the city to live as a servant girl to a cold rich strict family and their nice but sad handicapped daughter.
Director: Robert Taylor | Stars: Lorne Greene, Sammy Davis Jr., Margery Gray, Michael Bell
Votes: 339 | Gross: $5.12M
73. The Criminal Life of Archibaldo de la Cruz (1955)
Not Rated | 89 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
The delirious journey of a mentally disordered man, who is obsessed with committing the perfect crime.
Director: Luis Buñuel | Stars: Ernesto Alonso, Miroslava, Rita Macedo, Ariadne Welter
Votes: 5,910
74. Lamhe (1991)
Not Rated | 187 min | Drama, Musical, Romance
Yash Chopra's most cherished film with soul stirring music is a story of moments - moments of passion, of ecstasy and of life changing love.
Director: Yash Chopra | Stars: Anil Kapoor, Sridevi, Anupam Kher, Waheeda Rehman
Votes: 3,192
75. Attack of the Adult Babies (2017)
84 min | Horror
Three family members break into a remote country house to recover secret documents, but discover a cult of wealthy adults dressed as babies inside with sexy "nurses" as their caretakers.
Director: Dominic Brunt | Stars: Kurtis Lowe, Andrew Dunn, Andy Abrahams, Dominic Brunt
Votes: 671
76. Chinese Roulette (1976)
Not Rated | 86 min | Drama, Thriller
Both parents of a young teen who walks with crutches secretly meet their lovers, who both surprise each other at the family's country home. The daughter arrives and initiates a guessing game of "Chinese roulette."
Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder | Stars: Anna Karina, Margit Carstensen, Brigitte Mira, Ulli Lommel
Votes: 4,743
77. Heidi (1968 TV Movie)
G | 105 min | Drama, Family
Swiss orphan Heidi's Aunt Dete leaves her in her grumpy grandfather's care up in the Alps, where she also meets young goatherd Peter.
Director: Delbert Mann | Stars: Jennifer Edwards, Michael Redgrave, Maximilian Schell, Jean Simmons
Votes: 687
78. Against All Flags (1952)
Approved | 84 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Brian Hawke of the Royal Navy versus the pirates of Madagascar.
Directors: George Sherman, Douglas Sirk | Stars: Errol Flynn, Maureen O'Hara, Anthony Quinn, Alice Kelley
Votes: 2,968
79. In a Dark Place (2006)
R | 95 min | Horror, Thriller
An art teacher is hired as nanny for 2 orphans, a boy and girl, at a huge, isolated country estate. The nanny starts seeing dead, former employees. Is she mad or is the estate haunted?
Director: Donato Rotunno | Stars: Leelee Sobieski, Tara Fitzgerald, Christian Olson, Gabrielle Adam
Votes: 2,750
80. Young Bess (1953)
Approved | 112 min | Biography, Drama, Romance
The early life of Elizabeth I, from her childhood until her accession to the throne of England in 1558.
Director: George Sidney | Stars: Jean Simmons, Stewart Granger, Deborah Kerr, Charles Laughton
Votes: 1,821
81. The Story of Three Loves (1953)
Approved | 122 min | Drama, Fantasy, Music
An anthology film consisting of three very different stories about love set in Europe and told in flashback.
Directors: Vincente Minnelli, Gottfried Reinhardt | Stars: Kirk Douglas, James Mason, Leslie Caron, Farley Granger
Votes: 1,475
82. Anna and the King of Siam (1946)
Passed | 128 min | Biography, Drama, Romance
In 1862, a young Englishwoman becomes royal tutor in Siam and befriends the King.
Director: John Cromwell | Stars: Irene Dunne, Rex Harrison, Linda Darnell, Lee J. Cobb
Votes: 2,645
83. Haba-baba-doo! Puti-puti-poo! (1998)
90 min | Comedy, Family
Two men were going on a job at the house sitting and take care of the 7 children, who created chaos against them. Meanwhile, the landlady always give warnings to the children and men as she makes a task for it.
Director: Efren Jarlego | Stars: Babalu, Redford White, Princess Punzalan, Paolo Contis
Votes: 77
84. The Eddy Duchin Story (1956)
Approved | 123 min | Biography, Drama, Music
The life story of the famous pianist and band leader of the 1930s and 1940s.
Director: George Sidney | Stars: Tyrone Power, Kim Novak, Victoria Shaw, James Whitmore
Votes: 2,161
85. The Cherry Orchard (1999)
Not Rated | 141 min | Drama
Abandoned by her lover, the aristocratic Madame Lubov Ranevskaya returns to Russia, only to see her fragrant cherry orchard in full bloom: a painful reminder of her dire economic state and the imminent foreclosure of the enviable property.
Director: Michael Cacoyannis | Stars: Charlotte Rampling, Alan Bates, Tushka Bergen, Frances de la Tour
Votes: 710 | Gross: $0.14M
86. Photographing Fairies (1997)
R | 106 min | Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
Photographer Charles Castle is dazed with grief after the death of his girlfriend. He goes off to war and works in the trenches as photographer. After the war, still grieving, Charles receives some photographs that claim to be of fairies.
Director: Nick Willing | Stars: Toby Stephens, Emily Woof, Ben Kingsley, Frances Barber
Votes: 2,855
87. Chained Heat 2001: Slave Lovers (2001 Video)
R | 93 min | Action, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
There is no possibility of escape from slavery in the New Territories: the choice is simple, the mine slave mines or love slave.
Director: Lloyd A. Simandl | Stars: Klara Hlouska, Kira Reed Lorsch, David O'Kelly, Olga Casl
Votes: 90
88. Presence of Mind (1999)
TV-14 | 94 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller
A governess hired to care for children at a wealthy estate encounters supernatural occurrences tied to former staff. Clashing with the housekeeper, she tries to safeguard the children while uncovering the property's dark history.
Director: Antoni Aloy | Stars: Sadie Frost, Lauren Bacall, Ella Jones, Nilo Zimmerman
Votes: 752
89. Crown for Christmas (2015 TV Movie)
TV-G | 86 min | Comedy, Drama, Family
After getting fired from her job as a maid at a ritzy New York City hotel, Allie reluctantly accepts a temporary gig as the governess to a young girl who is part of a powerful family in Europe that lives in a castle.
Director: Alex Zamm | Stars: Danica McKellar, Rupert Penry-Jones, Ellie Botterill, Pavel Douglas
Votes: 5,657
90. The Unseen (1945)
Approved | 80 min | Drama, Film-Noir, Horror
A secretive widower hires a governess for his children, a willful boy and impressionable girl. Strange occurrences and the governess's curiosity lead her to unlock the secrets of the mysterious and uninhabited brownstone next door.
Director: Lewis Allen | Stars: Joel McCrea, Gail Russell, Herbert Marshall, Phyllis Brooks
Votes: 616
91. Picture Mommy Dead (1966)
Unrated | 82 min | Horror, Thriller
Teenage Susan Shelley is released from an asylum where she's been confined after the shock she suffered from her glamorous socialite mother Jessica's fiery death. Her father has a new wife,... See full summary »
Director: Bert I. Gordon | Stars: Don Ameche, Martha Hyer, Susan Gordon, Zsa Zsa Gabor
Votes: 730
92. Die, Mommie, Die! (2003)
R | 90 min | Comedy
An ex-pop singer kills her much-hated husband to be with her young lover. Her daughter plots Electra-like revenge.
Director: Mark Rucker | Stars: Charles Busch, Natasha Lyonne, Jason Priestley, Angela Paton
Votes: 2,138
93. Forbidden (1932)
Approved | 85 min | Drama, Romance
A librarian takes a cruise and falls for an unobtainable man, a district attorney married to an invalid.
Director: Frank Capra | Stars: Barbara Stanwyck, Adolphe Menjou, Ralph Bellamy, Dorothy Peterson
Votes: 1,711
94. To the Ends of the Earth (1948)
Approved | 109 min | Crime, Film-Noir, Thriller
After witnessing an incident on a foreign ship off California coast, a U.S. Treasury agent aboard a Coast Guard vessel decides to further investigate the matter by following a crime trail leading to China, Egypt, Lebanon and Cuba.
Director: Robert Stevenson | Stars: Dick Powell, Signe Hasso, Maylia, Ludwig Donath
Votes: 956
95. Dil Tera Aashiq (1993)
151 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Vijay falls in love with Soniya in the dancing school where both are dance instructors. Thakur who is a confirmed bachelor is also drawn towards Savitri Devi; who is being impersonated by Soniya.
Director: Lawrence D'Souza | Stars: Madhuri Dixit, Salman Khan, Kader Khan, Govardhan Asrani
Votes: 899
96. Yaarana (1981)
Not Rated | 138 min | Action, Comedy, Drama
Bishan loses his fortune while helping his friend Kishan in his singing career. Now successful, would Kishan return the favour?
Director: Rakesh Kumar | Stars: Amitabh Bachchan, Neetu Singh, Tanuja Samarth, Aruna Irani
Votes: 1,965
97. Talk of Angels (1998)
PG-13 | 96 min | Drama, Romance, War
A young Irishwoman becomes governess to 3 daughters of a rich family in Spain in 1936, just before the civil war. The mom likes Franco - the dad doesn't. She becomes family. She befriends 5 Irishwomen.
Director: Nick Hamm | Stars: Polly Walker, Vincent Perez, Franco Nero, Frances McDormand
Votes: 899 | Gross: $0.02M
98.
Sunday Premiere (1986–1988)
Episode:
The Happy Valley
(1986)
PG-13 | 90 min
In 1940 Kenya as their country prepares for war, the local aristocratic social set lives a decadent, self-indulgent lifestyle that leads to murder.
Director: Ross Devenish | Stars: Denholm Elliott, Holly Aird, Kathryn Pogson, Michael Byrne
Votes: 173
99. C'est la vie (1990)
110 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
The July 1958 vacation, on a beach on the Atlantic coast. Little Sophie, 8 years old, and her big sister Frédérique suffer from the bad understanding between their parents, presenting the drama of divorce which will not fail to occur.
Director: Diane Kurys | Stars: Nathalie Baye, Julie Bataille, Richard Berry, Zabou Breitman
Votes: 918 | Gross: $0.81M
100. Widziadlo (1984)
90 min | Drama, Horror, Romance
Piotr Strumienski (Roman Wilhelmi) is driven to the edge by haunting memories of his dead wife Angelika, and because of his obsession, his new wife Ola is driven to taking a lover - who ... See full summary »
Director: Marek Nowicki | Stars: Roman Wilhelmi, Marzena Trybala, Hanna Mikuc, Mariusz Benoit
Votes: 215