Good Romance Period Movies / Mini-Series?

Question

I have watched A LOT of these kinds of movies / series and would love a few suggestions. I am not particular about when it was made, but preferably nothing before 1970. Good endings are a must.

Examples of Period Movies I have enjoyed:
> All Jane Austen movies***
> Captain Corelli's Mandolin
> Bright Star
> A Destiny Of Her Own / Dangerous Beauty
> Tristan and Isolde
> Coco Avant Chanel
> The Painted Veil
> Under the Greenwood Tree
> The Duchess
> Firelight
> The Piano

Examples of Period Mini-Series I have enjoyed:
> North & South
> Jane Eyre
> Lost In Austen
> Wives and Daughters
> Little Dorrit
> Bleak House
> The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
> The Paradise

Examples of Period Movies / Mini-Series that I have NOT enjoyed:
> Tess of the D'Urbevilles
> The Crimson Petal and the White
> The Forsyte Saga
> Daniel Deronda
> The Great Gatsby
> Anna Karenina

PLEASE surprise me with wonderful suggestions :)

Answer 1

You can get the 8 hour , 4 disc, DVD mini series "Pillars of the Earth" based on Ken Follet's book of the same name, It was excellent.



There is also a similar dvd mini series for the follow up book....."World Without End



You would probably enjoy both of those immensely.



A good period romance story, is "Somewhere in Time".....a classic.



and the best film version of Les Miserables, (without all the signing) is the 1978 Anthony Hopkins version. By far, the BEST version out there..........do NOT bother watching the Liam Neelson or Gerard Depardeiu versions.......they both seriously sucked.



Liam was okay, but the ending was just............WTF???



and the Gerard version was just really no effort at all.

Answer 2

Romance Period Movies

Answer 3

Northanger Abbey is one that I think you will enjoy. Jane eyre is one of my favourites, too. I have watched five different versions and three of them I have really enjoyed, which are:



2006 BBC1 series with Ruth Wilson and Toby Stephens

1997 TV movie with Ciaran Hinds and Samantha Morton

And the 2011 movie with Michael Fassbender and Mia Wassikowska.

The last two of these are my favourites by far.