10 Movies “Off the Beaten Path”

These movies are not your everyday type of movies, they are special and received acclaim from the few who take the time to discover the beauty of a slow, rhythmic story. Love them.

A Month by the Lake

Vanessa Redgrave, Uma Thurman and Edward Fox in a charming movie of falling in love when not expecting it. A chance to remember that it is never too late. Beautiful scenery.

Being Julia

Set in the London of the 30s, an actress, Annette Benning, finds herself in love, learning new lessons on life and revenge. Endearing movie.

Becoming Jane

The story of how Jane Austin came to be who she was after a lover affair with an Irish young man devoted to his family. Entrancing movie.

Cherie

Michelle Pfeiffer is beautiful, as she educates the son of a courtesan in the ways of love, then has to lose him. Sexy and charming.

The Four Seasons

Four couples, who have known each other for donkey’s years, have to deal with the divorce of one couple and a new partner in the mix. Lovely and honest. Alan Alda and Carol Burnett.

Ladies in Lavender

An elderly English widow lives with her maiden sister, on the Cornish coast, when they find a mysterious foreigner stranded, on the beach. A wonderful story of love and loss. Judi Dench is her usual Mistress of Act with Maggie Smith. Entrancing with its music and charm.

Evening

A dying woman, remembers the defining instances, in her life as she shares them with her daughters. Vanessa Redgrave, Claire Danes and Toni Collette. Lovely movie. Charming and beautiful.

Mask

A woman with a son who has a very obvious deformity of his skull try and live the most normal life possible with mishaps and dilemmas. Good acting, amazing story.

Enchanted April

This is a slow paced movie. Make some tea and enjoy the gentrifying and the civilizing of the people on the screen and yourself, in Italy. Lovely.

The Painted Veil

Heart throb Edward Norton and beautiful Naomi Watts are an estranged, married couple facing colera in rural China. A Somerset Maugham story of betrayal, love and devotion. Enchanting.