Recommend a film to me please?

[LylaLee]

I'd say Atonement was one of my favourite films. I also loved Gosford Park & Remains of the Day.

I feel like I have watched everything in that category. Could you tell me any of your favourites, in case one slipped through the net.

Thanks!

Yes, so did I.

Try the Grand Budapest Hotel. It's beautiful, funny and sweet.

It sounds awful but is v good- the bonfire of destiny on Netflix. French subtitled

Agreed!

I've watched LoTF and P&P - will add the rest to my list.

Darkest Hour
Imitation Game
Both have Keira Knightly in 1940s mode.

Possession, The Age of Innocence, Little Women (the Winona Ryder one is the best imho), Mona Lisa Smile

How about The Go Between, either version?

The green dress in Atonement has a wide following. But the film/book are so tragic.
If you like films with important costumes I’ve just seen Last Night in Soho on Netflix by the same director as Sean of the Dead, Hot Fuzz. Set in the 60s with songs by Dusty Springfield, Cilla Black etc.
The last third was a bit silly, though.

Halloween

The Reader.

The Theory of Everything

Sense and Sensibility. Bit saccharine but even so.

Remains of the Day is one of my absolute favourite films EVER.

Gone with the wind. 1939

Last of the Mohicans might work for you.

Hidden Women

There’s also a pretty recent film of Jane Austen’s Emma which is really great. Funny and very well-styled, with Johnny Flynn and Anya Taylor-Joy. I love it!

The Dig (Netflix)

I loved The Wingless Bird, it's a Catherine Cookson adaptation with some now famous actors, worth a watch, I've seen it a few times

Loved the Forsythe Saga too

I also enjoyed Poldark, it's a lengthy series but it's got everything!

Mr Selfridge was good too

Churchill
Housewife 49
Goodbye mr Chips
And a couple of 'curved ball' ones: 'The time of their lives'; 'Edie'.

American Friends is lovely, set in Victorian times. It tells the story of an Oxford don who takes himself off on a walking holiday in the Alps where he meets a couple of American women and is then quite surprised to meet up with them again when he's back home. It's written by and stars Michael Palin in a straight role (there's plenty of humour but it's not 'funny') based on diaries of his great-great grandfather. Scenery is lovely and it's available on YouTube (added by the film company). Mild peril, happy ending:

Dean Spanley is Edwardian-set starring Sam Neill, Jeremy Northam, Peter O'Toole and Judy Parfitt. It's a gentle comedy (some laugh out loud bits) mingled with some rather moving scenes on death and loss (set after the Boer War, the family has lost a son). It's also fairly bonkers. Streaming but doesn't seem to be on YouTube.

The Dish is much more recent (a 2000 film about the Moon landings), set in Australia, with Sam Neill and Patrick Warburton. It's about the large radiotelescope that helped decode the television signals broadcast live from the Moon which were broadcast around the world. Very funny. For some happy reason it's on the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/TheDish2000

Other films not in your main category but which you might like (and which are also available to watch on the Internet Archive) are -

• The Night of the Hunter https://archive.org/details/the-night-of-the-hunter-1955
• I'm All Right Jack https://archive.org/details/ImAllRightJack1960
• School for Scoundrels https://archive.org/details/SchoolForScoundrels1959
• Hobson's Choice https://archive.org/details/HobsonsChoiceZo
• The Lavender Hill Mob https://archive.org/details/TheLavenderHillMob1951
• Kind Hearts and Coronets https://archive.org/details/KindHeartsAndCoronets1949
• The Man In The White Suit https://archive.org/details/TheManInTheWhiteSuit1951_201810
• The Ladykillers (1955) https://archive.org/details/the-ladykillers_202105

Jo

The Wings of the Dove.

There's a film on Amazon Prime with James McAvoy, Emily Mortimer & Micheal Sheen. It's like an Evelyn Waugh and is about the Bright Young Things. It's not going to be anyone's favourite film, but it's worth a watch.