Jane Austen Movies

While matchmaking for friends and neighbours, a young 19th Century Englishwoman nearly misses her own chance at love.

While matchmaking for friends and neighbours, a young 19th Century Englishwoman nearly misses her own chance at love.

While matchmaking for friends and neighbours, a young 19th Century Englishwoman nearly misses her own chance at love.

Mrs. Dashwood and her two daughters, Elinor and Marianne, are faced with the prospect of Mrs. Dashwood's stepson and his wife moving into their home at Norland.

Eight years earlier, Anne Elliot, the daughter of a financially troubled aristocratic family, was persuaded to break off her engagement to Frederick Wentworth, a young seaman, who, though promising, had poor family connections. When her father rents out the family estate to Admiral Croft, Anne is thrown into company with Frederick, because his sister is Mrs. Croft. Frederick is now a rich and successful Captain, and a highly eligible bachelor. Whom will he marry? One of Anne's sister's husband's sisters? Or will he and Anne rekindle the old flame?

The Bennet family's five unmarried daughters are courted by the wealthy bachelors Mr. Bingley and Mr. Darcy, but misunderstandings and class prejudices threaten to undermine their prospects for love and marriage.

Bennet family's five daughters seek suitors. When wealthy bachelors Bingley and Darcy arrive, initial hopes are complicated by pride, prejudice, and misunderstandings in their pursuit of marital happiness.

Mr. and Mrs. Bennet have five unmarried daughters, and Mrs. Bennet is particularly anxious to find suitable husbands for them.