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Are you looking for a romantic period drama to snuggle up in front of? If so, this blog is for you!
Click on the title of the film to watch the full adaptations on YouTube! The period dramas are ordered by writer, title and year. There are several versions of most of them, which one is your favourite? If you are looking for anything in particular, look under "labels" to the left, for "feel-good" films or a particular writer.
The past few years, I have spent many mornings under a blanket with a cup of tea in my hands, watching these beautiful romantic stories. There is something about them that just lifts my spirits and inspires me.
Perhaps this site will help enthusiatic newcomers to more easily find what they are looking for! I have often reached a point where I thought there were no more period dramas left to watch, but so far I always manage to find just one more...
Enjoy!
Hornblower 1998
with Ioan Gruffudd and Robert Lindsay
Here is the full series about young Horatio Hornblower, a (fictional) Royal Naval officer during the French Revolutionary Wars and the Napoleonic Wars. Honour wit and bravery! I wish you all many hours of entertainment.
Thank you Janice for this addition to the collection, and for your lovely email! :)
// Dimsy
Capturing Mary 2007
with Maggie Smith and David Williams
A Ghost in Monte Carlo 1990
with Sarah Miles and Oliver Reed
Doctor Zhivago 2002
with Keira Knightley and Sam Neill
A Town Like Alice 1981
with Helen Morse and Bryan Brown
The Journey 1959
with Deborah Kerr and Yul Brynner
The Duccess Of Malfi 1972
with Eileen Atkins and Michael Bryant
A Royal Scandal 1945
with Tallulah Bankhead and Charles Coburn
The Remains Of The Day 1993
with Anthony Hopkins and Emma Thompson
Strauss Dynasty 1991
with Anthony Higgins and Stephen McGann
Onegin 1999
with Ralph Fiennes and Liv Tyler
Songcatcher 2000
with Janet McTeer and Aidan Quinn
Valmont 1989
with Colin Firth and Annete Bening
Marie Antoinette 2006
with Kirsten Dunst and Jason Schwartzman
Silk 2007
with Michael Pitt and Keira Knightley
The Intended 2002
with Janet McTeer and Olympia Dukakis
Lilies 2007
with Catherine Tyldesley and Kerrie Hayes
Scarlett 1994
with Timothy Dalton and Joanne Whalley
The Buccaneers 1995
with Carla Gugino and Alison Elliott
The Three Sisters 1970
with Laurence Olivier and Jeanne Watts
Quartet 1981
with Alan Bates and Maggie Smith
Lorna Doone 2000
with Richard Coyle and Amelia Warner
I Capture The Castle 2003
with Ramola Garai and Rose Byrne
A Month In The Country 1987
with Colin Firth and Vanessa Redgrave
If you want to know more about the story behind the film,
read a great article on it
afterwards (as it does kind of tell the story)
here.
Atonement 2007
with James McAvoy and Keira Knightley
Her Majesty, Mrs Brown 1997
with Judi Dench and Billy Connolly
Thanks to
Carmel for recommending it!
/Dimsy
Wallis and Edward 2005
with Joely Richardson and Steven Campbell Moore
"This is a very sympathetic depiction of Wallis Sympson"
Thank you to
Carmel - for recommending it!
/Dimsy
Brideshead Revisited 2005
with Jeremy Irons and Anthony Andrews
"Two young men meet at Oxford. Charles Ryder, though of no family or money, becomes friends with Sebastian Flyte when Sebastian throws up in his college room through an open window. He then invites Charles to dinner after his teddy bear Aloysius 'refuses to talk to him' unless he is forgiven. Charles becomes involved with Sebastian's family, Catholic peers of the realm in Protestant England. The story is told in flashback as Charles, now an officer in the British Army, is moved with his company to an English country house that he discovers to be Brideshead, Sebastian's family home where Charles has a series of memories of his youth and young manhood, his loves, life, and a journey of faith and anguish."
Thank you again to
Carmel - for recommending it!
/Dimsy
Shadowlands 1993
with Anthony Hopkins and Debra Winger
Thank you to
Carmel - for recommending it!
/Dimsy
This is a sequel to "Jean de Florette",
best viewed after it's predecessor!
Enjoy! - Dimsy
Manon de Sources 1987
with Emmanuelle Béart and Yves Montand
Thank you to
Carmel - for recommending it!
/Dimsy
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