Howards End

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Year:1992
Director:James Ivory
Written by:E.M. Forster (Novel), Ruth Prawer Jhabvala (Screenplay)

Script Synopsis:A saga of class relations and changing times in an Edwardian England on the brink of modernity, the film centers on liberal Margaret Schlegel, who, along with her sister Helen, becomes involved with two couples: wealthy, conservative industrialist Henry Wilcox and his wife Ruth, and the downwardly mobile working-class Leonard Bast and his mistress Jackie.
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The Remains of the Day

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Year:1993
Director:James Ivory
Written by:Kazuo Ishiguro (Novel), Ruth Prawer Jhabvala (Screenplay)

Script Synopsis:A rule bound head butler's world of manners and decorum in the household he maintains is tested by the arrival of a housekeeper who falls in love with him in post-WWI Britain. The possibility of romance and his master's cultivation of ties with the Nazi cause challenge his carefully maintained veneer of servitude.
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