In this comedy of manners, Frederick Winterbourne tries to figure out the bright and bubbly Daisy Miller, only to be helped and hindered by false judgments from their fellow friends.
Four wealthy Victorian gentlemen led by Samuel Pickwick set forth on an objective study of human behavior, thwarted by con artist Mr. Jingle and one of his schemes leading to Pickwick being put on trial for breaking a promise to marry.
To get royal backing on a needed drainage project, a poor French lord must learn to play the delicate games of wit at court at Versailles.
In 1934, an English widow moves to Widows' Peak, Ireland. She befriends other widows and the son of one. Hostility escalates between her and an Irish spinster.
In 17th-century Italy, a Spanish prince searching for a bride falls in love with a beautiful local peasant girl.
Orphaned at a young age, naive Fanny Hill moves to London to make her fortune but is soon lured into the seedy world of prostitution in the bawdy houses of the city.
