George Eliot

Born Mary Ann Evans in 1819, the novelist George Eliot was a woman ahead of her time: a proud and determined individual who continually broke the sexual, religious and social rules of Victorian society. George Eliot: A Scandalous Life explores how the scandals and rumours that plagued her life, never defeated her will or her literary genius; and how, against all odds, she went on to write some of the world's greatest novels including Middlemarch, The Mill on the Floss, and Silas Marner.

Lawyer Wakem takes the mill on the river Floss away from Edward Tulliver (whose ancestors have owned it for 300 years) and becomes the worst enemy of Tulliver's family. When Edward's daughter, Maggie, grows up, she falls in love with Wakem's son Philip. However, her brother Tom (true to the memory of their father) forbids her to meet him again. When she visits her cousin Lucy Deane, Lucy's fiance, Stephen Guest, falls in love with Maggie at first sight, further complicating matters.

이웃들에게는 미스테리에 쌓인 과거를 지닌 은둔자로 알려진 케비넷 제조업자 마이클 맥킨(Michael McCann: 스티브 마틴 분)은 사회 생활에서 은퇴해 고독하고 구속없는 삶을 영위하고 있다. 어느 날, 눈 속에서 얼어죽은 젊은 여자의 귀여운 딸이 마을에서 떨어진 마이클의 집으로 걸어 들어온다. 그 때부터 그는 삶의 변화한다. 마이클과 꼬마 마틸다 사이에 강한 애정이 싹트고, 침울했던 마이클은 마틸다를 입양한다. 한쌍의 부녀는 새로운 행복한 삶을 시작했고 서로 아끼며 매일매일 세상의 어느 부모와 자식도 누리지 못할 아주 특별한 경험들로 채워 나간다. 하지만 마이클이 알지 못하는 딸의 친아버지는 지방 정치가인 존 뉴랜드(John Newland: 가브리엘 바이른 분)로 태어날 때 자신이 버렸던 자식을 차지하려는 계획을 꾸미면서 멀리서 딸의 성장을 지켜보고 있었는데...

Rich and languorous, this adaptation of George Eliot's classic tale perfectly evokes rural England in the 18th Century. But beneath the tranquil surface of this pastoral idyll run deep passions and the bitter gall of betrayal.

Adaption of George Eliot's novel. When a respectable weaver is wrongfully accused of theft, he becomes a virtual hermit until his own fortune is stolen and an orphaned child is found on his doorstep.

Adaptation of the George Eliot novel.

A 1940 film directed by William Rowland.

Romeo and Juliet in 1930s England. The owner of the mill and the local lord are in conflict over water rights. The lord wins threatening the mill owner with financial ruin.

In Renaissance Florence, a Florentine trader meets a shipwrecked stranger, who introduces himself as Tito Melema, a young Italianate-Greek scholar. Tito becomes acquainted with several other Florentines, including Nello the barber and a young girl named Tessa. He is also introduced to a blind scholar named Bardo de' Bardi, and his daughter Romola. As Tito becomes settled in Florence, assisting Bardo with classical studies, he falls in love with Romola.

Based on the short story from George Eliot's 1857 work Scenes of a Clerical life. A chaplain to an aristocratic British family falls in love with their ward, a young Italian woman, who he marries. Tragedy strikes when she dies only a few months later leaving him in a state of grief.

'1850. Squire's grandson saves farmer's niece from charge of murdering illegitimate baby.' (British Film Catalogue)

After having been wrongly accused of murder and robbery, a heretofore kindly and gregarious weaver becomes a nasty, bitter, lonely old miser. Originally a seven-reel picture, a three-reel re-release survives.