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    Movies like Pride and Prejudice

    Joe Wright films Austen as weather and longing, all muddy hems and held glances, where a single hand flex carries more charge than most love scenes. If you want romance with wit and restraint instead of melodrama, start here.

    What connects them

    Literate period romances where restraint, wit and longing do the heavy lifting.

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    2. 02Atonement2007
    3. 03Little Women2019
    4. 04Emma2020
    5. 05Jane Eyre2011
    6. 06The Age of Innocence1993
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