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While the arrival of wealthy gentlemen sends her marriage-minded mother into a frenzy, willful and opinionated Elizabeth Bennet matches wits with haughty Mr. Darcy.

Two vicious step-siblings of an elite Manhattan prep school make a wager: to deflower the new headmaster's daughter before the start of term.

Set in the early 20th century, class distinctions and troubled relations affect the relationship between two families and the ownership of a cherished British estate known as Howards End.

Hotel owner Basil Fawlty's incompetence, short fuse, and arrogance form a combination that ensures accidents and trouble are never far away.

A scheming widow and her manipulative ex-lover make a bet regarding the corruption of a recently married woman.

In 1910s London, snobbish phonetics professor Henry Higgins agrees to a wager that he can make a crude flower girl, Eliza Doolittle, presentable in high society.

Chronicles the lives of three generations of the upper-middle-class British family, the Forsytes, from the 1870s to 1920.

Faithful, enchanting adaptation of Jane Austen's 19th-century tale of Emma Woodhouse, a clever young woman whose mischievous matchmaking schemes nearly end up jeopardizing her own shot at romance.

Drama based on Russian writer Fyodor Dostoevsky's homonymous novel about the proud Karamazov family in 1870s Russia.

A phonetics and diction expert makes a bet that he can teach a cockney flower girl to speak proper English and pass as a lady in high society.

A lonely young aristocrat in turn-of the century England stuggles to meet the approval of his over-bearing, class-conscious father while trying to please the selfish woman he loves.

Adapted from the book, "Mexican Village," by Josefina Niggli, the film tells three interwoven love stories against the background of a feud between two villages. Cyd Charisse and Rick Jason are the lovers in a tender romance; Vittorio Gassman and Yvonne DeCarlo the lovers in a tragic romance; and Pier Angeli and Ricardo Montalban the lovers in a gay romance.

A successful attorney has his Jewish heritage and poverty-stricken background brought home to him when he learns that his wife has been unfaithful.

An English teacher brings soccer from England to Germany in the late 19th Century by teaching it to his class.

After his son dies, an elderly man comes back to Spain from the US and hopes to find out which of his granddaughters is true and which one is bastard.

As her 15th birthday approaches, Miriam doesn't know how to explain to her family that the boyfriend she met online is black.

Anson Page, a lawyer with Southern roots leaves New York, his wife and his kids for Georgia. His assignment is to investigate the case of Garvin Wales, a famous writer, now nearly blind and embittered, whose royalties have apparently never reached him. Back in his native South, Page finds himself immediately exposed to what he had fled - racial and class prejudices. But he also meets his former love, Dinah, now married to go-getter uncouth businessman Mickey Higgins. Will he find out whatever happened to 2,000 dollars in rights Wales did not cash? Will Dinah and Anson renew their love story?

A man from village goes to city, to find a job and marry a wife. But encounters with a lot of troubles he did not expect.

The mistreated maid subdues the lady of the house and takes her place, converting the master in the slave.

A high-class woman with "empty nest syndrome" ends up with one of her maid's granddaughters under her care. She must decide between giving the girl back or keeping her in the family.

Elaine and Emmanuel are a young couple, separated by social classes but united through the passion for music.

A young man arranges for the transformation of a Ghawazee (Gypsy) woman into a society lady.

A look at the reaction and aftermath of the murder of a documentary filmmaker in rural Kentucky in 1967.