James Ivory
Series
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
1990.
Language
English
Description
Story of a Kansas City couple, Mr. and Mrs. Bridge, whose lives are affected in different ways as their children grow up and leave home, and more adventurous friends bring new ideas into their home. Mrs. Bridge questions the life she has led, but her husband remains a firm believer in family and home, regardless of the changes in the world around him.
Series
Publisher
Sony Pictures Classics
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Formats
Description
It's the summer of 1983 in Italy, and Elio, a precocious 17-year-old, spends his days in his family's villa transcribing and playing classical music, reading and flirting with his friend Marzia. One day, Oliver, a charming American scholar arrives as the annual summer intern tasked with helping Elio's father, an eminent professor. Elio and Oliver discover the heady beauty of awakening desire over the course of a summer that will alter their lives...
7) Howards End
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Margaret and Helen Schlegel are sisters from a well-educated European family. A series of events brings them into a relationship with the very English Wilcox family. Both families also come into contact with Leonard Bast and his wife, a couple near the lowest tier of the rigid class system. Leonard's desire for cultural and intellectual status attracts the attention of Helen. Margaret must reconcile her independent spirit with her desire for companionship...
10) Heat and dust
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
Story of a woman who goes to India to find the truth about her aunt who left her British husband for an Indian prince.
11) Howards End
Language
English
Formats
Description
Two sisters have encounters with a wealthy family. The younger sister, Helen, is rejected by the son of the wealthy family. The older sister, Meg, becomes a good friend to Ruth Wilcox, the wealthy mother of the son who rejected her sister. Ruth's most cherished possession is their cottage at Howard's End. She wishes fervently that Meg could live there, as they are kindred spirits. Over the course of years, Meg marries into the wealthy family, but...
12) Golden bowl
Publisher
Lions Gate Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
Set in the early 1900's, Maggie is the daughter of American tycoon Adam Verver, who marries an improvished yet charming Italian aristrocrat, Prince Amerigo. Through a twist of fate, Adam marries the Prince's former lover, Charlotte. Maggie's suspicions deepen to a possible affair between the Prince and Charlotte, when Maggie makes the ill-fated purchase of a golden bowl. It becomes only a matter of time before Maggie unravels the truth from a world...
13) Maurice
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
E.M. Forrester's story of two Edwardian-era Cambridge graduates that fall in love, but must abide by British society's strict norms regarding homosexuality.
14) The wild party
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Since "talking pictures" have come in, Jolly has been losing his boxoffice appeal so he has produced, using all his savings, a film that will be screened for all the studio heads that night at the party.
15) The Bostonians
Language
English
Description
Olive, a militant suffragette, takes on the education of Verena, a brilliantly gifted but naive young girl. Olive wants to mold and use this gift for the feminist cause. But Verena is also loved by Basil Ransom, an impecunious young lawyer with views strenuously opposed to the Boston feminists. The contest is met between Basil and Olive. The prize: possession of Verena.
16) Indian style
Author
Publisher
C.N. Potter
Pub. Date
[1990]
Language
English
Description
"Counter ornament and furniture styles and architectural treatments and decor reveal the essence of Indian culture in more than 500 full-color photographs."--Publisher's description.
Series
Publisher
BBC Video
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Based on the novel by E.M. Forster.
Set in the early 1900's. "Tells the story of the coming of age of Lucy Honeychurch (Helena Bonham-Carter). Longing to burst free from the repression of British upper class manners and mores, she must wrestle with her inner romantic longings to choose between the passionate George (Julian Sands) and the priggish but socially suitable Cecil (Daniel Day-Lewis)"--Container.
18) Heat and dust
Series
Publisher
Entertainment One Film USA LLC
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"Based on the novel by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala about Anne, who is drawn to India to unravel the scandal surrounding her great-aunt's seduction in the 1920s by an Indian prince." --
19) Maurice
Publisher
Cohen Media Group
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"The story of two young men in pre-World War I England who meet at Cambridge, fall in love, and then must struggle with the moral standards of the time."--
20) The householder
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
The story of a shy, Delhi schoolteacher who marries and then, little by little, gets to know his wife during their first year together. This story, derived from the culture of modern India, is able to relate to the problems of young couples everywhere.
