Ruth Prawer Jhabvala Movies

A rule-bound head butler's world of manners and decorum in the household he maintains is tested by the arrival of a housekeeper who falls in love...

A saga of class relations and changing times in an Edwardian England on the brink of modernity, the film centers on liberal Margaret Schlegel, who,...

When Lucy Honeychurch and chaperon Charlotte Bartlett find themselves in Florence with rooms without views, fellow guests Mr Emerson and son George...

While visiting her sister in Paris, a young woman finds romance and learns her brother-in-law is a philanderer.

28-year-old Kansas University doctoral student Omar Razaghi wins a grant to write a biography of Latin American writer Jules Gund. Omar must get...

Adam Verver, a US billionaire in London, dotes on daughter Maggie. An impecunious Italian, Prince Amerigo, marries her even though her best friend,...

The passionate Merchant-Ivory drama tells the story of Francoise Gilot, the only lover of Pablo Picasso who was strong enough to withstand his...

Set during World War II, an upper-class family begins to fall apart due to the conservative nature of the patriarch and the progressive values of his...

In London, eccentric piano instructor Madame Sousatzka takes on a new prize protégé, Manek, a teenage Bengali immigrant who displays...

His wife having recently died, Thomas Jefferson accepts the post of United States ambassador to pre-revolutionary France, though he finds it...

A bored lawyer and a suffragette vie for the attention of a faith healer's charismatic daughter.

Anne is investigating the life of her grand-aunt Olivia, whose destiny has always been shrouded with scandal. As Anne delves into the history of her...

The story of a family troupe of English actors who travel around the towns and villages in India giving performances of Shakespearean plays. Through...

When her husband's arrest leaves her penniless, a woman accepts an invitation to move in with a strange couple.

The first definitive feature documentary to lend new and compelling perspectives on the partnership, both professional and personal, of director...

Two teachers vie for the right to stage a play written by Jane Austen when she was twelve years old.

A New England household is upset by the arrival of two cousins from Europe.

Special introducing William Shakespeare to young people through sketches, readings and music.

"Roseland" is made up of three stories, sometimes connecting, all set in the famed New York dance palace, and all having the same theme: finding the...