Some Well-Connected Movies
Jefferson in Paris

One of the obsessive speculations in American history is whether Thomas Jefferson, in the years before he became president, had an affair with (and fathered a child with) his 15-year-old ...
1995
James Ivory
director
The Remains of the Day

A butler who sacrificed body and soul to service in the years leading up to World War II realizes too late how misguided his loyalty was to his lordly employer.
1993
Kazuo Ishiguro
writer
Spider

A mentally disturbed man takes residence in a halfway house. His mind gradually slips back into the realm created by his illness, where he replays a key part of his childhood.
2002
Lynn Redgrave
actor
Maid in Manhattan

A senatorial candidate falls for a hotel maid, thinking she is a socialite when he sees her trying on a wealthy woman's dress.
2002
Natasha Richardson
actor
The White Countess
Set in 1930s Shanghai, where a blind American diplomat develops a curious relationship with a young Russian refugee who works odd -- and sometimes illicit -- jobs to support members of her dead husband's aristocratic family.
2005
James Ivory
director
Kazuo Ishiguro
writer
Lynn Redgrave
actor
Natasha Richardson
actor
The City of Your Final Destination

28-year-old Kansas University doctoral student Omar Razaghi wins a grant to write a biography of Latin American writer Jules Gund. Omar must get through to three people who were close to ...
2009
James Ivory
director
Never Let Me Go

The lives of three friends, from their early school days into young adulthood, when the reality of the world they live in comes knocking.
2010
Kazuo Ishiguro
writer
My Dog Tulip

The story of a man who rescues a German shepherd and how the two become fast friends.
2009
Lynn Redgrave
actor