The Sound of Music
In the years before the Second World War, a tomboyish postulant at an Austrian abbey is hired as a governess in the home of a widowed naval captain...
release : 1965.03.29popularis : 37.338
The Innocents
A young governess for two children becomes convinced that the house and grounds are haunted by ghosts and that the children are being possessed.
release : 1961.12.15popularis : 23.629
Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day
London, England, on the eve of World War II. Guinevere Pettigrew, a strict governess who is unable to keep a job, is fired again. Lost in the hostile...
release : 2008.03.07popularis : 11.732
Buffalo Kids
Mary and Tom are parentless Irish siblings who arrive in New York City via ocean liner in 1886 and quickly find themselves on a wild, cross-country...
release : 2024.08.14popularis : 17.616
Firelight
In 1838, lovely governess Elisabeth agrees to bear a child of anonymous English landowner, and he will in return pay her father's debt. At birth she,...
release : 1998.05.27popularis : 12.102
Heidi
Heidi is orphaned and her uncaring maternal Aunt Dete takes her to the mountains to live with her reclusive, grumpy paternal grandfather, Adolph...
release : 1937.10.15popularis : 9.234
Crown for Christmas
Allie Foster, a struggling New York artist, reluctantly accepts to act as a governess to a rebellious Princess Theodora of Winshire. When Allie forms...
release : 2015.11.27popularis : 10.929
The Awakening
In post–War England, a writer and sometime-ghost hunter investigates a reported haunting at a boys boarding school.
release : 2011.08.17popularis : 10.041
Heidi
Heidi is an orphaned girl initially raised by her aunt Dete in Maienfeld, Switzerland. In order to get a job in Frankfurt, Dete brings 5-year-old...
release : 1968.11.17popularis : 6.924
Chinesisches Roulette
A husband and wife lie to each other about their weekend travel plans, only to both show up at the family's country house with their lovers.
release : 1977.02.23popularis : 11.365
Jane Eyre
After a harsh childhood, orphan Jane Eyre is hired by Edward Rochester, the brooding lord of a mysterious manor house to care for his young daughter.
release : 1943.12.24popularis : 11.248
Tatie Danielle
Tatie Danielle is a black comedy about a widow who is intent on ruining the lives of her great-nephew and his wife. Tsilla Chelton plays the title...
release : 1990.04.04popularis : 6.89
A Woman's Face
A female blackmailer with a disfiguring facial scar meets a plastic surgeon who offers her the possibility of looking like a normal woman.
release : 1941.05.09popularis : 9.594
The Chalk Garden
The peculiar antics of Laurel, an emotionally troubled young girl, are the focus of The Chalk Garden – a stately household drama set on the...
release : 1964.04.02popularis : 7.932
All This, and Heaven Too
When lovely and virtuous governess Henriette Deluzy comes to educate the children of the debonair Duc de Praslin, a royal subject to King...
release : 1940.07.05popularis : 5.376
The Turn of the Screw
A young woman is hired by a wealthy but sinister man to tutor his two children at the family's isolated estate. When the woman gets there, she finds...
release : 1992.01.01popularis : 4.054
Jane Eyre
A young governess falls in love with her mysterious employer, but a terrible secret puts their happiness at risk.
release : 1983.10.09popularis : 45.128
The Lost Prince
The life of Prince John, youngest child of Britain's King George V and Queen Mary, who died at the age of 13 in 1919.
release : 2003.01.19popularis : 14.35
The Turn of the Screw
A young governess arrives to a country house to care for two small orphans. Suddenly she realizes that the mansion is infested with ghosts and evil...
release : 1981.10.30popularis : 14.053