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1990s historical romance films
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The list 1990s historical romance films includes
The Piano, The Age of Innocence, Shakespeare in Love, The Wings of the Dove and The Governess.
The list consists of 21 members.
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The Piano
1993 romantic drama film directed by Jane Campion
Overview: The Piano is a 1993 historical drama film written and directed by New Zealand filmmaker Jane Campion. It stars Holly Hunter, Harvey Keitel, Sam Neill, and Anna Paquin in her first major acting role. The ...
Release date: 15 May 1993Genre: Drama, Romance, MusicDirector: Jane CampionProducer: Jan Chapman, Alain DepardieuWriter: Jane CampionIn the mid-19th century a mute woman is sent to New Zealand along with her young daughter and prized piano for an arranged marriage to a farmer, but is ...
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The Age of Innocence
1993 film directed by Martin Scorsese
Overview: The Age of Innocence is a 1993 American historical romantic drama film directed by Martin Scorsese. The screenplay, an adaptation of the 1920 novel by Edith Wharton, is by Scorsese and Jay Cocks. The film ...
Release date: 31 August 1993Genre: Drama, RomanceDirector: Martin ScorseseCast: Daniel Day-Lewis, Michelle Pfeiffer, Winona Ryder, Linda Faye Farkas, Michael Rees Davis, Terry CookProducer: Barbara De Fina, Bruce S. PustinWriter: Edith Wharton, Jay CocksA tale of nineteenth-century New York high society in which a young lawyer falls in love with a woman separated from her husband, while he is engaged to ... 0
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Shakespeare in Love
1998 film by John Madden
Overview: Shakespeare in Love is a 1998 period romantic comedy film directed by John Madden, written by Marc Norman and Tom Stoppard, and produced by Harvey Weinstein. It stars Gwyneth Paltrow, Joseph Fiennes, ...
Release date: 3 December 1998Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance, HistoryDirector: John MaddenProducer: Linda Bruce, Mark CooperWriter: Marc Norman, Tom StoppardThe world's greatest ever playwright, William Shakespeare, is young, out of ideas and short of cash, but meets his ideal woman and is inspired to write ... 0
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Ever After: A Cinderella Story
1998 American romantic drama film
Overview: Ever After (known in promotional material as Ever After: A Cinderella Story) is a 1998 American romantic period drama film inspired by the Charles Perrault fairy tale "Cinderella". It is directed by Andy ...
Release date: 29 July 1998Genre: Romance, Comedy, Drama, FantasyDirector: Andy TennantProducer: Timothy M. Bourne, Melissa CobbWriter: Susannah Grant, Andy TennantThe Brothers Grimm arrive at the home of a wealthy Grande Dame who speaks of the many legends surrounding the fable of the cinder girl before telling the ... 0
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Why Do Fools Fall in Love
1998 film by Gregory Nava
Overview: Why Do Fools Fall in Love is a 1998 American biographical drama film directed by Gregory Nava. Released by Warner Bros. Pictures, it is the true story of Frankie Lymon, lead singer of the pioneering rock ...
Release date: 8 August 1998Genre: Biography, Drama, MusicDirector: Gregory NavaProducer: Mark Allan, Harold BronsonWriter: Tina AndrewsThree women each claim to be the widow of 1950s doo-wop singer Frankie Lymon, claiming legal rights to his estate. 0
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Queen Margot
1994 film by Patrice Chéreau
Overview: La Reine Margot is a 1994 historical romantic drama film directed by Patrice Chéreau, from a screenplay he co-wrote with Danièle Thompson, based on the 1845 historical novel of the same name by Alexandre ...
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Romance, CrimeDirector: Patrice ChéreauCast: Isabelle Adjani, Daniel Auteuil, Jean-Hugues Anglade, Vincent Perez, Virna Lisi, Dominique BlancProducer: Claude Berri, Pierre GrunsteinWriter: Alexandre Dumas, Danièle ThompsonYoung Queen Margot finds herself trapped in an arranged marriage amidst a religious war between Catholics and Protestants. She hopes to escape with a new ... 0
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Indochine
1992 film by Régis Wargnier
Overview: Indochine is a 1992 French period drama film set in colonial French Indochina during the 1930s to 1950s. It is the story of Éliane Devries, a French plantation owner, and of her adopted Vietnamese da ...
Release date: 15 April 1992Genre: Drama, RomanceDirector: Régis WargnierProducer: Alain Belmondo, Gérard CrosnierWriter: Erik Orsenna, Louis GardelEliane adopts Camille, whose Vietnamese parents were friends. In 1930, a French navy officer is interested in Eliane (owns 60km2 plantation) and later ... 0
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Emma
1996 period film directed by Douglas McGrath
Overview: Emma is a 1996 British-American period comedy film based on the 1815 novel of the same name by Jane Austen. Written and directed by Douglas McGrath, and produced by Patrick Cassavetti and Steven Haft ...
Release date: 7 June 1996Genre: Comedy, Romance, DramaDirector: Douglas McGrathProducer: Patrick Cassavetti, Donna GigliottiWriter: Jane Austen, Douglas McGrathWhile matchmaking for friends and neighbours, a young 19th Century Englishwoman nearly misses her own chance at love. 0
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The Wings of the Dove
1997 film based on the novel by Henry James, directed by Iain Softley
Overview: The Wings of the Dove is a 1997 British-American romantic drama film directed by Iain Softley and starring Helena Bonham Carter, Linus Roache, and Alison Elliott. The screenplay by Hossein Amini is based ...
Release date: 4 September 1997Genre: Drama, RomanceDirector: Iain SoftleyCast: Helena Bonham Carter, Linus Roache, Alex Jennings, Charlotte Rampling, Ben Miles, Philip WrightProducer: Mark Cooper, Stephen EvansWriter: Henry James, Hossein AminiAn impoverished woman who has been forced to choose between a privileged life with her wealthy aunt and her journalist lover, befriends an American heiress ... 0
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The Governess
1998 film
Overview: The Governess is a 1998 British period drama film written and directed by Sandra Goldbacher. The screenplay focuses on a young Jewish woman of Sephardic background, who reinvents herself as a gentile ...
Release date: 1 March 1998Genre: Drama, RomanceDirector: Sandra GoldbacherCast: Minnie Driver, Tom Wilkinson, Florence Hoath, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Harriet Walter, Arlene CockburnProducer: Sarah Curtis, Sally HibbinWriter: Sandra GoldbacherIn this sensuous romance, Minnie Driver stars as a governess who is hired into a remote Scottish household and strongly affects all those she comes into ... 0
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Moll Flanders
1996 American film
Overview: Moll Flanders is a 1996 American period drama film starring Robin Wright and Morgan Freeman, loosely based on the 1722 novel of the same name by Daniel Defoe. The film, which vastly differs from the o ...Release date: 14 June 1996Genre: Drama, RomanceDirector: Pen DenshamProducer: Kevan Barker, Terri ClarkWriter: Daniel Defoe, Pen DenshamThe daughter of a thief, young Moll is placed in the care of a nunnery after the execution of her mother... 0
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Mansfield Park
1999 period film directed by Patricia Rozema
Overview: Mansfield Park is a 1999 British romantic comedy-drama film based on Jane Austen's 1814 novel of the same name, written and directed by Patricia Rozema. The film departs from the original novel in several ...
Release date: 27 August 1999Genre: Comedy, Drama, RomanceDirector: Patricia RozemaProducer: David Aukin, Sarah CurtisWriter: Jane Austen, Patricia RozemaAt 10, Fanny Price, a poor relation, goes to live at Mansfield Park, the estate of her aunt's husband... 0
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Howards End
1992 film
Overview: Howards End is a 1992 historical romantic drama film directed by James Ivory, from a screenplay written by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala based on the 1910 novel by E. M. Forster. Marking Merchant Ivory Productions' ...
Release date: 13 March 1992Genre: Drama, RomanceDirector: James IvoryCast: Vanessa Redgrave, Helena Bonham Carter, Joseph Bennett, Emma Thompson, Prunella Scales, Adrian Ross MagentyProducer: Paul Bradley, Ismail MerchantWriter: E.M. Forster, Ruth Prawer JhabvalaA businessman thwarts his wife's bequest of an estate to another woman. 0
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Jing Ke ci Qin Wang
1998 Chinese film
Overview: The Emperor and the Assassin (Chinese: 荊軻刺秦王; pinyin: Jīngkē cì qínwáng; 'Jing Ke Assassinates the King of Qin'), also known as The First Emperor, is a 1998–1999 Chinese historical romance film ...Release date: 8 October 1998Genre: History, DramaDirector: Kaige ChenProducer: Kaige Chen, Peigong Wang 0
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Ethan Frome
1993 film by John Madden
Overview: Ethan Frome is a 1993 historical romantic drama film directed by John Madden from a screenplay by Richard Nelson, based on the 1911 novel of the same name by Edith Wharton. The film stars Liam Neeson ...
Release date: 12 March 1993Genre: DramaDirector: John MaddenProducer: Jolly Dale, Lindsay LawWriter: Richard Nelson, Edith WhartonA new pastor arrives in a stark Vermont village and is intrigued by crippled, misshapen Ethan Frome living on an isolated, hardscrabble farm with his sickly ... 0
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Fools of Fortune
1990 film by Pat O'Connor
Overview: Fools of Fortune is a 1990 Irish romantic drama film directed by Pat O'Connor and written by Michael Hirst based on the 1983 novel by Irish writer William Trevor. It depicts a Protestant family caught ...Release date: 22 June 1990Genre: DramaDirector: Pat O'ConnorCast: Iain Glen, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Sean T. McClory, Frankie McCafferty, Niamh Cusack, Ronnie MastersonProducer: Michael Hirst, William TrevorA Protestant Irish family is caught up in a conflict between Irish Republicans and the British army. 0
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Rajkumar
1996 film by Pankaj Parashar
Overview: Rajkumar (transl. Prince) is a 1996 Indian Hindi historical fantasy film directed by Pankaj Parashar. The film stars Anil Kapoor, Madhuri Dixit, Naseeruddin Shah and Sanjay Mishra. The film was a disaster ...Release date: 22 March 1996Genre: Drama, Thriller, Fantasy, FamilyDirector: Pankaj ParasharProducer: Tutu SharmaRani Maa (Reena Roy) husband is killed by the neighboring kingdom's evil Prime Minister Man Singh (Naseeruddin Shah). The Prime Minister absolves ... 0
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Why Do Fools Fall in Love (soundtrack)
1998 film by Gregory Nava
Overview: Why Do Fools Fall in Love is a 1998 American biographical drama film directed by Gregory Nava. Released by Warner Bros., it is based on the true story of Frankie Lymon, the lead singer of the pioneering ... 0
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Tian ma cha fang
1999 Taiwanese film
Overview: March of Happiness is a 1999 Taiwanese film directed by Lin Cheng-sheng. It tells the story of a teenage romance in a performing troupe set against the backdrop of the Japanese occupation and the 228 ...Release date: 9 September 1999Genre: Drama, War, Romance, HistoryDirector: Cheng-sheng LinProducer: Kang-shing Chen, Chin-sheng YehWriter: So-ching Ko, Daphne Tseng1945-1947, Taiwan. A teenage couple were deeply in love despite objections from the girl's family. Their... 0
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La reine Margot – Soundtrack
1994 film by Patrice Chéreau
Overview: La Reine Margot is a 1994 historical romantic drama film directed by Patrice Chéreau, from a screenplay he co-wrote with Danièle Thompson, based on the 1845 historical novel of the same name by Alexandre ... 0
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