Items12The creator’s order
  1. 1Shakespeare-Wallah (1965)Shakespeare-Wallah (1965) 6.8/10 on IMDbReleased Dec 1, 1965The early black-and-white gem, and the one that shows the partnership's real subject was always people outliving their world. A troupe of English actors tours post-independence India with Shakespeare as audiences drift toward Bombay cinema. The touring family is loosely based on the real Kendal…0
  2. 2The Europeans (1979)The Europeans (1979) 6.2/10 on IMDbReleased May 1, 1979The first of the Henry James adaptations, and the quietest. Two worldly European-raised cousins arrive among their earnest New England relations in the 1850s, and the comedy is all in how each side misreads the other's manners. Lee Remick is superb as the baroness who keeps calculating her…0
  3. 3Quartet (1981)Quartet (1981) 6.2/10 on IMDbReleased Oct 25, 1981The partnership at its least genteel. Adapted from Jean Rhys's 1928 novel and set in 1927 Paris, it follows a young woman whose husband is jailed for selling stolen art, leaving her to lodge with an English couple whose hospitality has a price. Isabelle Adjani won Best Actress at Cannes for this…0
  4. 4Heat and Dust (1983)Heat and Dust (1983) 6.4/10 on IMDbReleased Jan 1, 1983Two love stories, sixty years apart. In 1920s British India, Greta Scacchi's Olivia scandalizes the colonial set with her attachment to Shashi Kapoor's Nawab; in the 1980s strand, Julie Christie plays the great-niece retracing her steps. Ruth Prawer Jhabvala adapted her own Booker Prize-winning…0
  5. 5The Bostonians (1984)The Bostonians (1984) 6.2/10 on IMDbReleased May 1, 1984Henry James's tug-of-war over a gifted young speaker, played as a political drama as much as a romance. Vanessa Redgrave's suffrage campaigner Olive Chancellor and Christopher Reeve's Southern lawyer Basil Ransom both want Madeleine Potter's Verena, and neither is entirely wrong about the…0
  6. 6A Room with a View (1986)A Room with a View (1986) 7.2/10 on IMDbReleased Mar 7, 1986The place to start, and the film that made the name. E. M. Forster's comedy of a young Englishwoman choosing between passion and propriety is lighter and funnier than its reputation, with chapter-title cards borrowed from the novel and a cast that never wastes a line. Helena Bonham Carter had her…0
  7. 7Maurice (1987)Maurice (1987) 7.6/10 on IMDbReleased Sep 18, 1987Forster's novel of a young man discovering he is gay in Edwardian England went unpublished until after the author's death, and Ivory's film treats it with a seriousness the decade rarely allowed. James Wilby's Maurice, Hugh Grant's Clive and Rupert Graves's gamekeeper Alec form a triangle about…0
  8. 8Mr. & Mrs. Bridge (1990)Mr. & Mrs. Bridge (1990) 6.6/10 on IMDbReleased Nov 23, 1990The American outlier, set among a buttoned-up Kansas City family in the 1930s and 1940s, and proof that the partnership's eye for repression traveled well beyond England. Real-life couple Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward play the title pair, a lawyer of fixed habits and a wife too polite to want…0
  9. 9Howards End (1992)Howards End (1992) 7.3/10 on IMDbReleased Mar 13, 1992The peak. Forster's story of the idealistic Schlegel sisters, the wealthy Wilcoxes and a struggling clerk is about who gets to own England, and the house at the center is the prize everyone misunderstands. Emma Thompson won the Best Actress Oscar as Margaret, Anthony Hopkins makes the businessman…0
  10. 10The Remains of the Day (1993)The Remains of the Day (1993) 7.8/10 on IMDbReleased Nov 5, 1993Kazuo Ishiguro's Booker Prize-winning novel becomes the most heartbreaking film here, about a head butler so devoted to service that he cannot see his employer's Nazi sympathies or the housekeeper who loves him. Anthony Hopkins and Emma Thompson, reunited after Howards End, do almost everything…0