1. "Belle"
This is the true story of Dido Elizabeth Belle who was the mixed-race daughter of a navy admiral. Her father leaves her to be raised in aristocratic society by her great-uncle in the 18th century England.
2. "Brooklyn"In the 1950s, an Irish woman immigrates to Brooklyn where she falls in love with a local. Her past falls apart, causing her to choose between her new and old home.
3. "Suite Française"
During the Nazi occupation of France in World War II, romance blossoms between a French woman and German soldier. This piece was originally written by a Jewish woman in hiding during the Nazi occupation.
4. "Atonement"
Briony, a thirteen-year-old girl, changes her elder sister’s life when she accuses her sister’s lover of a crime.
5. "Little Women"
During post-Civil War America, the March sisters struggle to support their family and keep the household running while their father is away.
6. "Ever After: A Cinderella Story"
Grande Dame tells the story of Cinderella as if it had actually happened in The Brothers Grimm.
7. "Becoming Jane"
Before Jane Austen became famous, she fell in love with a young Irishman.
8. "The Painted Veil"
In Imperial China, a couple in a loveless marriage find themselves in a small Chinese village where the husband, a British doctor, fights a cholera epidemic.
9. "The Theory of Everything"
A telling of Stephen Hawking’s and his wife’s marriage.
10. "The Young Victoria"
A story about Queen Victoria’s first years of rule and her enduring love with Prince Albert.
11. "Testament of Youth"Based upon Vera Brittain’s own work, Testament of Youth shows Vera herself coming of age during World War I.
12. "Far from the Madding Crowd"
A stubborn and independent woman attracts three suitors as she takes on the responsibility of running a large farm.
13. "The English Patient"
As WWII comes to an end, a nurse tends to a burned victim who reveals through flashbacks of his involvement in a fated love affair.
14. "Jane Eyre"
A young governess with a wretched circumstance finds happiness, only to find her love is hiding an awful secret.
15. "The Dressmaker"
A seamstress, who has long been running from her past, returns to her small town in rural Australia to enact revenge upon those who had done her wrong.
16. "Bright Star"
John Keats, a 19th-century poet, falls in love with Fanny Brawn near the end of his life.
17. "Miss Potter"
The author of “The Tale of Peter Rabbit” is a peculiar and wonderful woman who struggles for love, success and happiness in life.
18. "The Light Between Oceans"
A lighthouse keeper and his wife rescue a baby from a boat adrift and decide to raise her. Conflict arises when the baby’s mother returns believing she has lost both her husband and child.
19. "Pride and Prejudice"
A retelling of Jane Austen’s classic novel about the prejudice between classes during the 19th century and the pride that can keep lovers blinded.
20. "Sophie's Choice"
An aspiring writer falls in love with his neighbor’s girlfriend who harbors secrets he could not possibly comprehend.
21. "Anna Karenina"
St. Petersburg aristocrat Anna Karenina enters into a scandalous affair with Count Alexei Vronsky and quickly becomes the talk of Russia.