The Europeans (1979)

The 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 chances, and the autumn New Hampshire and Massachusetts locations give the film its glowing reds and oranges. It competed at Cannes and drew an Oscar nomination for its costumes. Slow by modern standards, so pick it for a mood rather than a plot.