Old-Fashioned Movies


Each picture is a link to a trailer or other information for the movie.

(Movies [mostly the major ones] based on books by classic authors that I can recommend. And I 'graded' them all.)

Jane Austen movies


Pride and Prejudice (1995)
mini-series
(A+)


Emma (2009)
mini-series
(A+)


Emma (1996, A&E)
(A)


Emma (1996, Miramax)
(B+)


Sense and Sensibility (1995)
(A)

Sense and Sensibility (2008)
mini-series
([A], excluding the opening scene,
which I recommend skipping.)


Mansfield Park (1983)
mini-series
(B)


Persuasion (1995)
(A-)


Persuasion (2007)
(A)


Elizabeth Gaskell movies

North & South (2004)
mini-series
(A)


Wives and Daughters (1999)
mini-series
(A-)


Cranford (2007)
mini-series
(B+)
Return to Cranford (2009)
mini-series
(B+)


Charles Dickens movies

Little Dorrit (2008)
long mini-series
([A] excluding a few scenes, mainly
from episode 2. More info in...


Bleak House (2005)
long mini-series
(A-)
my review (guest post)


A Christmas Carol (1984)
(A)
This is by far my favorite version!


Our Mutual Friend (1998)
mini-series
(A-)
There's at least one
 scene I suggest skipping


Nicholas Nickleby (2002)
(A-)
There's a sort of review in this post


David Copperfield (1999)
mini-series
(B+)

Charlotte Bronte

Jane Eyre (1983)
mini-series
(B)


Jane Eyre (1996)
(B+)

Jane Eyre (2011)
(A-)
I can only recommend this with some scenes skipped.

Other old-fashioned movies I recommend

Anne of Green Gables (1985)
(A+)


Anne of Green Gables:
The Sequel (1987)
(A+)

Little Women (1994)
(A)

Lorna Doone (2000)
(A)

The Moonstone (1997)
(B+)

The Scarlet Pimpernel (1982) 
(A)

Miss Potter (2006)
(A-)


The Love Letter (1998)
(A)


A Little Princess (1986)
mini-series
(A)


The Secret Garden
(B+)

TV Shows

Road to Avonlea TV Series
(7 seasons)
(A+)
my review (guest post)

Wind At My Back
(From the same makers of the
Anne movies & Road to Avonlea)
(A-)

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