Colin Firth and Jennifer Ehle took the famous romance of Pride & Prejudice for off-screen too.

Some movie couples make their affections immediately obvious but there’s something elegantly intense about smoldering hidden passions.

Torn straight from the pages of Jane Austin’s classic literature Elizabeth Bennett and Mr Darcy have been sharing the same intense gaze through hundreds of years and countless big screen outings of Pride and Prejudice.

The reason that we’re continually captivated by this comparatively chaste couple is that they perfectly encapsulate the notion of longing.

Whether welcome or not, most people can immediately relate to an uncontrolled yearning for someone else.

No matter how much the world changes one thing has remained romantically constant; a lingering look between two people can still be just as significant and emotionally explosive as the wildest embrace.