The Remains of the Day (1993)

Kazuo 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 with glances and pauses, and the restraint is the tragedy. Dyrham Park stands in for the great house, and the film earned eight Oscar nominations, including Best Picture. Watch it for the moment she catches him reading a romance novel and he cannot admit why.