The Grass Harp

The Grass Harp 1996

5.80

Based on the novel by Truman Capote, this often-witty coming-of-age drama looks at a young man growing up with an unusual family in the Deep South in the 1940s. Becoming an orphan in 1935, Collin moves to his dad's cousins Verena and Dolly. Verena is a rich, bossy businesswoman. Dolly, Collin and the maid revolt, moving to a tree house.

1996

Dancing at Lughnasa

Dancing at Lughnasa 1998

5.90

Five unmarried sisters make the most of their simple existence in rural Ireland in the 1930s.

1998

The Doctor Takes a Wife

The Doctor Takes a Wife 1940

6.40

A best-selling author of women's issues and a medical academic find it is to their mutual advantage to falsely claim that they are married.

1940

Toys in the Attic

Toys in the Attic 1963

5.96

Julian Berniers returns from Illinois with his young bride Lily Prine to the family in New Orleans. His spinster sisters Carrie and Anna welcome the couple, who arrive with expensive gifts. The sisters hope Julian will help with their expenses, and he tells them that while his profitable factory went out of business, he did manage to save money. It turns out that Julian pulled off a real estate scam and took off with the money. Carrie is obsessed with her brother. Her jealousy of Lily pushes her to discover the shady land deal for herself and she does everything she can to wreck their marriage.

1963

The Beast in the Cellar

The Beast in the Cellar 1971

4.86

Soldiers in a rural English town are being brutally murdered by an unknown creature. Two nearby sisters realise they might understand what's happening.

1971

The Glass Menagerie

The Glass Menagerie 1966

6.40

An aging Southern Belle makes life horrible for her ambitious son and crippled daughter because of her dreams of what life should be.

1966

Double Door

Double Door 1934

6.90

In 1910 Manhattan, Victoria Van Brett, a bitter spinster heiress lives an isolated life with her sister Caroline. Her domineering urges go into overdrive when their half-brother Rip brings a new bride home to the family’s gloomy Fifth Avenue mansion, built by their late industrialist father. The title refers to a secret soundproofed chamber that the villainess uses to entrap her enemies.

1934

The Gilded Age

The Gilded Age 2022

7.61

It’s 1882 and the Gilded Age is in full swing when Marian Brook, a young orphaned daughter of a Southern general, moves in with her rigidly conventional aunts in New York City. With the help of Peggy Scott, an African-American woman masquerading as her maid, Marian gets caught up in the dazzling lives of her rich neighbors as she struggles to decide between adhering to the rules or forging her own path.

2022