Some Well-Connected Movies
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
James Ivory
director
The Prince of Tides

A troubled man talks to his suicidal sister's psychiatrist about their family history and falls in love with her in the process.
1991
Nick Nolte
actor
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
Gwyneth Paltrow
actor
James Ivory
director
Nick Nolte
actor
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
writer
Thandie Newton
actor
The Pallbearer

A young man's life is thrown into a loop when he is asked to be a pallbearer for the funeral of a classmate he doesn't remember, and his old high school crush temporarily returns to town.
1996
Gwyneth Paltrow
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
The Thin Red Line

Adaptation of James Jones' autobiographical 1962 novel, focusing on the conflict at Guadalcanal during the second World War.
1998
Nick Nolte
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
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
writer
Mission: Impossible II

"A secret agent is sent to Sydney, to find and destroy a genetically modified disease called """"Chimera""""."
2000
Thandie Newton
actor