Mary Shelley

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Mary Shelley (2017)

Romance, Drama

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2016 ★ 6.5

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2002 ★ 6.0

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The Sleeping Dictionary

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Orlando

Orlando

1992 ★ 6.9

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The Go-Between

The Go-Between

1971 ★ 6.8

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Great Expectations

Great Expectations

1946 ★ 7.3

In this Dickens adaptation, orphan Pip discovers through lawyer Mr. Jaggers that a mysterious benefactor wishes to ensure that he becomes a gentleman. Reunited with his childhood patron, Miss Havisham, and his first love, the beautiful but emotionally cold Estella, he discovers that the elderly spinster has gone mad from having been left at the altar as a young woman, and has made her charge into a warped, unfeeling heartbreaker.

Titanic

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1997 ★ 7.9

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2017 ★ 6.4

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2015 ★ 5.8

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Great Expectations

Great Expectations

2012 ★ 6.4

Orphan Pip discovers through lawyer Mr. Jaggers that a mysterious benefactor wishes to ensure that he becomes a gentleman. Reunited with his childhood patron, Miss Havisham, and his first love, the beautiful but emotionally cold Estella, he discovers that the elderly spinster has gone mad from having been left at the altar as a young woman, and has made her charge into a warped, unfeeling heartbreaker.

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The Lucky One

The Lucky One

2012 ★ 7.2

A Marine travels to Louisiana after serving three tours in Iraq and searches for the unknown woman he believes was his good luck charm during the war.

Far from the Madding Crowd

Far from the Madding Crowd

2015 ★ 7.0

In Victorian England, the independent and headstrong Bathsheba Everdene attracts three very different suitors: Gabriel Oak, a hardworking young sheep farmer; Frank Troy, a handsome and reckless Sergeant; and William Boldwood, a prosperous and mature bachelor.

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