Tulip Fever (2017)
An artist falls for a young married woman while hes commissioned to paint her portrait during the Tulip mania of seventeenth century Amsterdam
Anna Karenina (2012)
In late 19th century Russian high society, St Petersburg aristocrat Anna Karenina enters into a life changing affair with the dashing Count Alexei Vronsky
Brazil (1985)
A bureaucrat in a dystopic society becomes an enemy of the state as he pursues the woman of his dreams
Empire of the Sun (1987)
A young English boy struggles to survive under Japanese occupation of China during World War II
Enigma (2001)
A young genius frantically races against time to crack an enemy code and solve the mystery surrounding the woman he loves
Shakespeare in Love (1998)
The worlds greatest ever playwright, William Shakespeare, is young, out of ideas and short of cash, but meets his ideal woman and is inspired to write one of his most famous plays
The Romantic Englishwoman (1975)
A marriage crisis between a writer and his wife leads her to flee to Germany and eventually return with another man, through whom the writer is going to overcome his writers block
Billy Bathgate (1991)
In the year 1935, a teen named Billy Bathgate finds first love while becoming the protege of fledgling gangster Dutch Schultz
The Russia House (1990)
A British publisher is sent a manuscript detailing Soviet Union nuclear missile capabilities British Intelligence intercept it and recruit him to investigate the authors editor, a beautiful Russian woman he claims never to have
Vatel (2000)
Vatel is the cook of Prince Conde When the prince invites Louis XIV to hunt, he has to give lavish banquets in order to fall in his favor But when Vatel falls in love with the kings mistress, love and duty come into conflict
Poodle Springs (1998)
An aging Phillip Marlowe gets mixed up with blackmail and murder amongst the elite social set in 1963
Despair (1978)
In early 1930s Berlin, an elegant Russian emigre and eccentric chocolatier convinces himself that he has seen his doppelganger, and hatches a murderous plan to trade his existence for an entirely new one Will he get over the deep
The Human Factor (1979)
When a leak of information in the African section of British Intelligence is discovered, security man Daintry is brought in to investigate
Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead (1990)
Two minor characters from the play Hamlet stumble around unaware of their scripted lives and unable to deviate from them
Three Men in a Boat (1975)
One hot June day, three friends decide there is nothing they would like to do more than to get away from London A boating holiday with lots of fresh air and exercise would be just the very thing, or so their doctors tell them So