Movies tagged as "aristocrat"

Age of Innocence, The [1993, USA ] starting from $1.99

In a world of tradition. In an age of innocence. They dared to break the rules.

Genres: Drama, Romance Actors: Daniel Day-Lewis, Michelle Pfeiffer, Winona Ryder, Alexis Smith, Geraldine Chaplin, Mary Beth Hurt, Alec McCowen, Richard E. Grant, Miriam Margolyes, Robert Sean Leonard, Siân Phillips, Jonathan Pryce, Michael Gough, Joanne Woodward, Stuart Wilson, Directors: Martin Scorsese Download: DVD   DivX   PDA   Society scion Newland Archer is engaged to May Welland, but his well-ordered life is upset when he meets May's unconventional cousin, the Countess Olenska. At first, Newland becomes a defender of the Countess, whose separation from her abusive husband makes her a social outcast in the restrictive high society of late-19th Century New York, but he finds in her a companion spirit and they fall in love.

Anna Karenina [1997, USA ] starting from $1.99

In a world of power and privilege, one woman dared to obey her heart.

Genres: Drama, Romance Actors: Sophie Marceau, Sean Bean, Alfred Molina, Mia Kirshner, James Fox, Fiona Shaw, Danny Huston, Phyllida Law, David Schofield, Saskia Wickham, Jennifer Hall, Anna Calder-Marshall, Petr Shelokhonov, Valerie Braddell, Niall Buggy, Directors: Bernard Rose Download: DVD   DivX   PDA   Anna is a young and elegant wife of Mr. Karenin, who is wealthy and old. She meets the handsome Count Vronsky. Anna and Vronsky fall in love with each other, and he comes to be with her in St. Petersburg. They are very happy together and make a great looking couple, but soon their happiness gets under social pressures. Anna is hopelessly begging Mr. Karenin for a divorce, but he wants to keep the mother of their child. She has another baby born from her lover Vronsky. Conflict between her untamed desires and painful reality causes her a depression...

Australia [2008, Australia, USA ] starting from $1.99

Genres: Adventure, Drama, War, Western Actors: Bryan Brown, David Gulpilil, Hugh Jackman, Jacek Koman, Ben Mendelsohn, Barry Otto, Jack Thompson, Brandon Walters, David Wenham, Essie Davis, Nicole Kidman, Directors: Baz Luhrmann Download: DVD   DivX   PDA   Set in northern Australia before World War II, an English aristocrat who inherits a sprawling ranch reluctantly pacts with a stock-man in order to protect her new property from a takeover plot. As the pair drive 2,000 head of cattle over unforgiving landscape, they experience the bombing of Darwin, Australia, by Japanese forces firsthand.

Brideshead Revisited [2008, UK ] starting from $1.99

Love is not ours to control

Genres: Drama Actors: Matthew Goode, Thomas Morrison, Anna Madeley, David Barrass, Sarah Crowden, Stephen Carlile, Peter Barnes, Hayley Atwell, Patrick Malahide, Richard Teverson, Joseph Beattie, Ben Whishaw, Roger Walker, Rita Davies, Ed Stoppard, Directors: Julian Jarrold Download: DVD   DivX   PDA   The memoirs of Captain Charles Ryder who is stationed at Brideshead Castle during WWII and remembers his involvement with the owners of the Brideshead estate: the aristocratic yet Catholic Flyte family and in particular brother and sister Sebastian and Julia.

Dracula [1992, USA ] starting from $1.99

Beware

Genres: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Romance, Thriller Actors: Gary Oldman, Winona Ryder, Anthony Hopkins, Keanu Reeves, Richard E. Grant, Cary Elwes, Bill Campbell, Sadie Frost, Tom Waits, Monica Bellucci, Michaela Bercu, Florina Kendrick, Jay Robinson, I.M. Hobson, Laurie Franks Directors: Francis Ford Coppola, Download: DVD   DivX   PDA   This version of Dracula is closely based on Bram Stoker's classic novel of the same name. A young lawyer (Jonathan Harker) is assigned to a gloomy village in the mists of eastern Europe. He is captured and imprisoned by the undead vampire Dracula, who travels to London, inspired by a photograph of Harker's betrothed, Mina Murray. In Britain, Dracula begins a reign of seduction and terror, draining the life from Mina's closest friend, Lucy Westenra. Lucy's friends gather together to try to drive Dracula away.

Fame [1980, USA ] starting from $1.99

If they've really got what it takes, it's going to take everything they've got.

Genres: Drama, Music Actors: Eddie Barth, Eddie Barth, Irene Cara, Irene Cara, Lee Curreri, Lee Curreri, Laura Dean, Laura Dean, Antonia Franceschi, Antonia Franceschi, Boyd Gaines, Boyd Gaines, Albert Hague, Albert Hague, Tresa Hughes, Tresa Hughes, Steve Inwood, Steve Inwood, Paul McCrane, Paul McCrane, Anne Meara, Anne Meara, Joanna Merlin, Joanna Merlin, Barry Miller, Barry Miller, Jim Moody, Jim Moody, Gene Anthony Ray, Gene Anthony Ray, Directors: Alan Parker, Alan Parker Download: DVD   DivX   PDA   At the New York City High School for the Performing Arts, students get specialized training that often leads to success as actors, singers, etc. This movie follows four students from the time when they audition to get into the school, through graduation. They are the brazen Coco Hernandez, shy Doris Finsecker, sensitive gay Montgomery MacNeil, and brash, abrasive Raul Garcia.

Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles [1994, USA ] starting from $1.99

Drink From Me And Live Forever

Genres: Drama, Fantasy, Horror Actors: Tom Cruise, Brad Pitt, Kirsten Dunst, Stephen Rea, Antonio Banderas, Christian Slater, Virginia McCollam, John McConnell, Mike Seelig, Bellina Logan, Thandie Newton, Indra Ové, Helen McCrory, Lyla Hay Owen, Lee E. Scharfstein Directors: Neil Jordan, Download: DVD   DivX   PDA   It hadn't even been a year since a plantation owner named Louis had lost his brother, and now he had lost his will to live. A vampire named Lestat takes a liking to Louis and offers him the chance to become a creature of the night: a vampire. Louis accepts, and Lestat drains Louis' mortal blood and then replaces it with his own turning Louis into a vampire. Louis must learn from Lestat the ways of the vampire.

Lion in Winter, The [1968, UK ] starting from $1.99

The most significant reserved seat attraction of the year!

Genres: Drama, History Actors: Peter O'Toole, Katharine Hepburn, Anthony Hopkins, John Castle, Nigel Terry, Timothy Dalton, Jane Merrow, Nigel Stock, Kenneth Ives, O.Z. Whitehead, Fran Stafford, Ella More, Kenneth Griffith, Henry Woolf, Karol Hagar, Directors: Anthony Harvey Download: DVD   DivX   PDA   In 1183 Henry II summonses his sons Richard, John, and Geoffrey to join him and his prison-bound wife Eleanor at Chinon for a family Christmas, along with King Philip II of France and his sister Alais, Henry's mistress. Philip is insisting Alais now marries John as agreed years before else he wants her dowry, the lands of the Vexen, back. As Eleanor has already given the province of Aquitaine to Richard, the outcome of this may decide the very future of England. Everyone present except perhaps Alais are masters of double-dealing and deceipt, so it could be a lively Yuletide.

Living and the Dead, The [2006, UK ] starting from $1.99

Terror by good intentions.

Genres: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller Actors: Roger Lloyd-Pack, Leo Bill, Neil Conrich Directors: Download: DVD   DivX   PDA   A descent into Hell is triggered when "Ex-Lord" Donald Brocklebank finds that he must leave Longleigh House for London to find a way to pay for the medical treatments for his wife Nancy. Alone, his over-protected, delusional, adult son, James, fancies himself in charge of the manor house with his terminally ill mother, and barricades the two of them into the house for a series of ever more panicked home treatments, mistakenly protecting her from the arrival of Nurse Mary and any outside help.

Magnificent Ambersons, The [1942, USA ] starting from $1.99

From the Man who Made "The Best Picture of 1941"

Genres: Drama Actors: Joseph Cotten, Dolores Costello, Anne Baxter, Tim Holt, Agnes Moorehead, Ray Collins, Erskine Sanford, Richard Bennett, Orson Welles, Edwin August, Jack Baxley, William Blees, Lyle Clement, Bobby Cooper, Don Dillaway, Directors: Fred Fleck Download: DVD   DivX   PDA   The young, handsome, but somewhat wild Eugene Morgan wants to marry Isabel Amberson, daughter of a rich upper-class family, but she instead marries dull and steady Wilbur Minafer. Their only child, George, grows up a spoiled brat. Years later, Eugene comes back, now a mature widower and a successful automobile maker. After Wilbur dies, Eugene again asks Isabel to marry him, and she is receptive. But George resents the attentions paid to his mother, and he and his whacko aunt Fanny manage to sabotage the romance. A series of disasters befall the Ambersons and George, and he gets his come-uppance in the end.

Mannequin: On the Move [1991, USA ] starting from $1.99

A lively comedy about a living doll.

Genres: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance Actors: Kristy Swanson, William Ragsdale, William Ragsdale, Meshach Taylor, Meshach Taylor, Terry Kiser, Terry Kiser, Stuart Pankin, Cynthia Harris, Cynthia Harris, Andrew Hill Newman, Julie Foreman, John Edmondson, Phil Latella, Mark Gray, Directors: Stewart Raffill Download: DVD   DivX   PDA   Once upon a time, the prince of kingdom Hauptman-Koenig was deeply in love with the farmer's daughter Jessie. But his mother didn't approve this and cursed her to stiffen to a statue for 1000 years. Now, almost 1000 years later, she's brought to a department store for an exhibition. Unknowingly trainee Jason, who remarkably looks like the prince, removes the necklace that keeps her bewitched and awakes her. She immediately insists that he's the love of her life... and he takes over the sweet task to introduce her to the comforts of modern civilization. But there's still another person who has a claim on her and tries to use the spell to manipulate her.

Oliver Twist [2005, UK, Czech Republic, France, Italy ] starting from $1.99

Genres: Drama, Family Actors: Barney Clark, Jeremy Swift, Ian McNeice, Richard Durden, Timothy Bateson, Andy de la Tour, Filip Hess, Andreas Papadopoulos, Laurie Athey, Joseph Tremain, Peter Copley, Andy Linden, John Nettleton, Tony Noble, Michael Heath, Directors: Roman Polanski Download: DVD   DivX   PDA   Oliver Twist (Clark) is an orphan, who is soon kicked out of the orphanage and thrown into a terrible home. The bad treatment Oliver receives, forces him to run off to London. Here, he is soon picked up by the Artful Dodger (Eden) and taken to Fagin (Kingsley). Fagin treats Oliver well, but is it the life Oliver really wants?

Penelope [2006, UK, USA ] starting from $1.99

A fairytale like no other.

Genres: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy Actors: Christina Ricci, James McAvoy, Catherine O'Hara, Reese Witherspoon, Peter Dinklage, Richard E. Grant, Simon Woods, Ronni Ancona, Jason Thornton, Russell Brand, Martin Nigel Davey, Michael Feast, Christopher Fosh, Nick Frost, Burn Gorman, Directors: Mark Palansky Download: DVD   DivX   PDA   This is the story of a named Penelope, who is the victim of a curse placed on a wealthy family by a witch. After generations ago, a witch placed a curse on the Wilhern family that would result in the next girl being born into the clan having the face of a pig. The otherwise-normal girl Penelope is forced to endure life with a pig's snout instead of a conventional nose, which has sent many a potential suitor running off into the streets, shouting in terror. Eventually, she runs away from her sheltered existence and overprotective parents, to explore the world on her own. As she meets new friends and a potential lover who doesn't run away, she begins to discover happiness - while all the while her parents believe the only way she can be happy is through an arranged marriage, which will hopefully break her curse.

Persuasion [2007, UK, USA ] starting from $1.99

A new adaptation of Jane Austen's classic

Genres: Drama, Romance Actors: Rupert Penry-Jones, Sally Hawkins, Alice Krige, Anthony Head, Julia Davis, Michael Fenton Stevens, Mary Stockley, Peter Wight, Marion Bailey, Amanda Hale, Jennifer Higham, Rosamund Stephen, Stella Gonet, Sam Hazeldine, Louis Shergold, Directors: Adrian Shergold Download: DVD   DivX   PDA   On the brink of financial ruin, the Elliot family is forced to vacate their ancestral home in order to recover their debts and avoid losing face amongst their parish. The task of organizing their effects falls to levelheaded Anne Elliot, destined for spinsterhood at age 27 after being persuaded eight years earlier to refuse the proposal of Frederick Wentworth, a dashing (but destitute) naval officer...

Vanity Fair [2004, UK, USA ] starting from $1.99

In a time of social climbers, Becky Sharp is a mountaineer.

Genres: Drama, Romance Actors: Gabriel Byrne, Angelica Mandy, Roger Lloyd-Pack, Ruth Sheen, Kate Fleetwood, Reese Witherspoon, Lillete Dubey, Romola Garai, Tony Maudsley, Deborah Findlay, John Franklyn-Robbins, Paul Bazely, Rhys Ifans, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Charlie Beall, Directors: Mira Nair Download: DVD   DivX   PDA   The British Empire flowers; exotic India colors English imaginations. Becky Sharp, the orphaned daughter of a painter and a singer, leaves a home for girls to be a governess, armed with pluck, a keen wit, good looks, fluent French, and an eye for social advancement. Society tries its best to keep her from climbing. An episodic narrative follows her for 20 years, through marriage, Napoleonic wars, a child, loyalty to a school friend, the vicissitudes of the family whose daughters she instructed, and attention from a bored marquess who collected her father's paintings. Honesty tempers her schemes. No aristocrat she, nor bourgeois, just spirited, intelligent, and irrepressible.