250 Years of Jane Austen

A pristine screen adaptation of Jane Austen’s most youthful and optimistic novel, where romantic excess meets sharp social observation, and Felicity Jones shines in an elegant, playful study of the illusions and desires of a girl on the verge of becoming a woman. — A kind-hearted and naive young woman, an avid reader of Gothic novels, makes her first entrance into high society and slowly discovers the difference between imagination and reality.

What would you do if you could step into the shoes of a heroine and live in the world of novels? The present collides Jane Austen's universe when a woman is suddenly swept into the literary world. Who hasn’t wondered what they'd do if they could suddenly take the lead in their most beloved story? - Amanda Price is a modern woman dissatisfied with her life, who discovers a portal in her bathroom that leads straight into the world of Jane Austen’s iconic novel Pride and Prejudice. Amanda ends up switching places with Elizabeth Bennet, who suddenly finds herself transported to present-day London.

The rom-com as we loved it in the 90s returns with the unmistakable ingredients of the Parisian bookstore Shakespeare & Company, Jane Austen and a hopelessly romantic but single protagonist. Comfortingly classic, refreshingly modern and unpretentiously funny. — Agathe finds herself in desperate singlehood. Her dream is to experience love akin to a Jane Austen novel and her ultimate aspiration is to become a writer. Instead, she spends her days selling books in Shakespeare & Co, in Paris. Soon, she must confront her insecurities to finally fulfill her ambition of becoming a novelist and put an end to wasting her sentimental life. — Official Selection | Toronto Film Festival | 2024

Joe Wright’s first feature, with Keira Knightley and Matthew Macfadyen, is the liveliest take on Jane Austen’s beloved novel and never left the culture. Elizabeth Bennet is the second of five daughters in a house with no son and no money, and at a ball a rich, silent man called Darcy insults her. — There are hens in the kitchen of the Bennets’ house in the English countryside, five daughters and no son, and nothing to give any of the girls as a dowry. Elizabeth, the second eldest, is the only one who won’t treat marriage as a transaction. She is also the one the wealthy Mr Darcy insults at a country ball. — Most Promising Newcomer (Joe Wright) | BAFTA Awards | 2006 Nomination for Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role (Keira Knightley) | Oscars | 2006 Nomination for Best Original Score | Oscars | 2006 Nomination for Best Achievement in Costume Design | Oscars | 2006

They were both twenty when they met: he was a penniless law student, and her name was Jane Austen. Anne Hathaway and James McAvoy play the pair, and the story has a postscript, because near the end of his life, by then Chief Justice of Ireland, Tom Lefroy admitted that he had loved her. — In Hampshire in 1795, Jane is twenty, never stops writing and means to marry for love, which is the last thing her parents had planned for. When Tom Lefroy arrives from London and looks down on her writing, she can’t stand him. Love, however, is lurking just around the corner.