Angels and Insects 1995  PG-13, 116 min.
Genre: Drama / Romance
Director: Philip Haas
Cast: Jeremy Kemp, Mark Rylance, Patsy Kensit, Kristin Scott-Thomas, Douglas Henshall, Saskia Wickham, Chris Larkin, Annette Badland, Anna Massey, Lindsay Thomas, Jenny Lovell, Clare Lovell, Michelle Sylveste, Oona Haas, Angus Hodder
This film adaptation of A.S. Byatt's "Morpho Eugenia" involves insect collector William Adamson (Mark Rylance) who marries into an aristocratic family, the Alibasters. Their household contains more than a few similarities to the insect world he collects, and both reflect the decadent world of Victorian England in which they reside.
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Anna Karenina 1997  PG-13, 108 min.
Genre: Drama / Romance
aka: Leo Tolstoy's Anna Karenina
Director: Bernard Rose
Cast: Sophie Marceau, Sean Bean, Alfred Molina, Mia Kirshner, James Fox, Fiona Shaw, Danny Huston, Phyllida Law, David Schofield, Saskia Wickham, Anna Calder-Marshall, Niall Buggy, Petr Shelokhonov, Jennifer Hall, Valerie Braddell
This version of Leo Tolstoy's 1878 novel was filmed entirely in Russia and stars Sophie Marceau as the beautiful wife and mother Anna Karenina who leaves her passionless marriage to Karenin (James Fox) when she falls in love with Count Vronsky (Sean Bean). Karenin will not grant her a divorce–even when Anna becomes pregnant with Vronsky's child–and depression and suicidal thoughts set in when Anna finds that happiness is elusive.
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Prince of Jutland 1994 R, 85 min.
Genre: Adventure
aka: Royal Deceit
Director: Gabriel Axel
Cast: Gabriel Byrne, Helen Mirren, Christian Bale, Brian Cox, Steven Waddington, Kate Beckinsale, Tony Haygarth, Tom Wilkinson, Saskia Wickham, Freddie Jones, Brian Glover, Andy Serkis
Shakespeare's "Hamlet" gets a do-over in this film, supposedly presenting a more accurate Danish account of events in the sixth century. Prince Amled (Christian Bale) sees his uncle (Gabriel Byrne) murder the prince's father and brother in order to gain the throne and marry Amled's mother (Helen Mirren). Now Amled starts planning his revenge–starting with feigning madness.
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| 1. Angels and Insects (1995)
2. Anna Karenina (1997)
aka: Leo Tolstoy's Anna Karenina
3. Prince of Jutland (1994)
aka: Royal Deceit
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