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  • Auntie Danielle

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    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 character, who mourns the death of her husband by tormenting everyone she meets. Eventually, she moves in with her nephew and his vain wife. Soon, her family is…

  • Presence of Mind

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    A governess, caring for two children at a remote estate, becomes convinced that the grounds are haunted and the children are under an evil influence.

  • Lady Audley’s Secret

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    When Lucy Graham (Neve McIntosh) weds the much older Sir Michael Audley (Kenneth Cranham), his nephew Robert (Steven Mackintosh) is suspicious of the lovely young woman’s motives. Soon, Robert’s friend disappears, and Robert believes Lucy may be involved. But as he attempts to unearth the truth about Lucy’s past, he finds himself irresistibly drawn to…

  • Firelight

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    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, as agreed, gives up the child. Seven years later she is hired as governess to a girl on a remote Sussex estate. The father of the girl, Charles Godwin,…

  • The Turn of the Screw

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    A governess put in charge of two young children begins to see the ghost of her dead predecessor.

  • Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day

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    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 city, a series of fortunate circumstances lead her to meet Delysia LaFosse, a glamorous and dazzling American jazz singer whose life is a chaos ruled by indecision,…

  • The Awakening

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    In post–War England, a writer and sometime-ghost hunter investigates a reported haunting at a boys boarding school.

  • Crown for Christmas

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    Allie Foster, a struggling New York artist, reluctantly accepts to act as a governess to a rebellious Princess Theodora of Winshire. When Allie forms an unlikely bond with the princess, she attracts the attention of the handsome King Maximillian, who’s facing an arranged marriage against his heart’s wishes. As Christmas Eve draws near, Allie finds…

  • Buffalo Kids

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    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 journey aboard a transcontinental “Orphan Train” where they meet an extraordinary new friend who will change their lives forever.