Thumbelina

Thumbelina 1994

6.40

Born of a flower and growing to only a couple of inches tall, poor Thumbelina is worried she'll never meet someone her own size, until she happens to catch the eye of Prince Cornelius of the Fairies. Just as soon as she finds love, however, it's torn away from her when she is kidnapped by Ms. Toad. Now Thumbelina has to escape Ms. Toad's grasp and search for Prince Cornelius. Luckily, there's a whole city of animals willing to help her.

1994

Great Expectations

Great Expectations 1946

7.30

In this Dickens adaptation, orphan Pip discovers through lawyer Mr. Jaggers that a mysterious benefactor wishes to ensure that he becomes a gentleman. Reunited with his childhood patron, Miss Havisham, and his first love, the beautiful but emotionally cold Estella, he discovers that the elderly spinster has gone mad from having been left at the altar as a young woman, and has made her charge into a warped, unfeeling heartbreaker.

1946

A Room with a View

A Room with a View 1986

6.96

When Lucy Honeychurch and chaperon Charlotte Bartlett find themselves in Florence with rooms without views, fellow guests Mr Emerson and son George step in to remedy the situation. Meeting the Emersons could change Lucy's life forever but, once back in England, how will her experiences in Tuscany affect her marriage plans?

1986

The Night of the Iguana

The Night of the Iguana 1964

7.20

A defrocked Episcopal clergyman leads a bus-load of middle-aged Baptist women on a tour of the Mexican coast and comes to terms with the failure haunting his life.

1964

Now, Voyager

Now, Voyager 1942

7.30

A woman suffers a nervous breakdown and an oppressive mother before being freed by the love of a man she meets on a cruise.

1942

Rooster Cogburn

Rooster Cogburn 1975

6.44

After a band of drunken thugs overruns a small Indian Nation town, killing Reverend Goodnight and raping the women folk, Eula Goodnight enlists the aid of US Marshal Cogburn to hunt them down and bring her father's killers to justice.

1975

The Heiress

The Heiress 1949

7.70

In 1840s New York, the uneventful and boring days of the daughter of a wealthy doctor come to an end when she meets a dashing poorer man — who may or may not be after her inheritance.

1949

Rosaline

Rosaline 2022

7.15

Left heartbroken after Romeo begins to pursue her cousin Juliet, Rosaline schemes to foil the famous romance and win back her guy in this comedic twist of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet.

2022

The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie 1969

6.82

A headstrong young teacher in a private school in 1930s Edinburgh ignores the curriculum and influences her impressionable 12-year-old charges with her over-romanticized worldview.

1969

Washington Square

Washington Square 1997

6.16

Set in 1870's New York, a spinster heiress is courted by a much younger, penniless man, much to the chagrin of her over-protective father, and must decide whether to spend the rest of her life alone, or marry a man who is interested in her only because of her inheritence.

1997

Quality Street

Quality Street 1937

5.90

In the 1810s, an old maid poses as her own niece in order to teach her onetime beau a lesson.

1937

The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne

The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne 1987

6.60

A penniless middle-aged spinster scrapes by giving piano lessons in the Dublin of the 1950s. She makes a sad last bid for love with a fellow resident of her rundown boarding house, who imagines she has the money to bankroll the business he hopes to open.

1987

Lizzie

Lizzie 1957

6.90

A psychiatrist treats a woman of three faces: neurotic Elizabeth, wanton Lizzie, and charming Beth.

1957

Wetherby

Wetherby 1985

6.00

The mysterious death of an enigmatic young man newly arrived in the suburb of Wetherby releases the long-repressed, dark passions of some of its residents.

1985

Summer and Smoke

Summer and Smoke 1961

6.70

In a small Mississippi town in 1916, an eccentric spinster battles her romantic yearnings for the randy boy next door.

1961

Miss Polly

Miss Polly 1941

5.00

A small-town spinster, who's a born romantic, takes on the strict members of the local "Purity League" by spilling a few of their well-kept secrets. Comedy.

1941

The Sunbeam

The Sunbeam 1912

6.30

Set in a tenement, a lonely confirmed bachelor occupies a room across the hall from a dour spinster. Children run amok in the hallways playing pranks on the two. A little girl from the floor above, now alone in the world, brings the pair together and brightens their lives.

1912

Winter Meeting

Winter Meeting 1948

6.50

A repressed poetess and an embittered war hero help each other cope with their problems.

1948

By Whose Hand?

By Whose Hand? 1932

6.00

On the night express train from Los Angeles to San Francisco everyone’s a suspect when a jewelry magnate is found stabbed to death and an escaped killer is feared on board. It’s up to newspaper reporter Jimmy Hawley (Ben Lyon) to unravel the secrets of the motley group of passengers and find the killer before he strikes again in this tense and atmospheric whodunit.

1932

Holy Matrimony

Holy Matrimony 1943

6.70

An artist returning from years abroad takes the identity of his dead valet and gets married, but then there are complications.

1943

Rising Damp

Rising Damp 1974

7.40

Set in a seedy bedsit, the cowardly landlord Rigsby has his conceits debunked by his long suffering tenants.

1974

Boy Meets Girl

Boy Meets Girl 2015

3.90

A romantic comedy about the unexpected relationship between Judy and Leo, a 40-something transgender woman and a down on his luck, 26-year-old man. Differences mean nothing if love means everything.

2015