Governess Movies, Movies about Governess

Here we've displayed a list of the best Governess films : The Sound of Music(1965), The Lady Vanishes(1938), The Criminal Life of Archibaldo de la Cruz(1955), Jane Eyre(1944), The Importance of Being Earnest(1952), All This and Heaven Too(1940), Death in Venice(1971), The King and I(1956), Lamhe(1991), Jane Eyre(2011), The Chalk Garden(1964), Firelight(1997) ... ...

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The Sound of Music

A woman leaves an Austrian convent to become a governess to the children of a Naval officer widower.

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The Lady Vanishes

While travelling in continental Europe, a rich young playgirl realizes that an elderly lady seems to have disappeared from the train.

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The Criminal Life of Archibaldo de la Cruz

The delirious journey of a mental disordered man, who is obsessed in making the perfect crime.

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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.

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The Importance of Being Earnest

When Algernon discovers that his friend, Ernest, has created a fictional brother for whenever he needs a reason to escape dull country life, Algernon poses as the brother, resulting in ever increasing confusion.

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All This and Heaven Too

A duchess' irrational behavior toward the governess of her children triggers tragic events that will change her family's lives forever.

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Death in Venice

While recovering in Venice, sickly Composer Gustav von Aschenbach becomes dangerously fixated with teenager Tadzio.

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The King and I

A widow accepts a job as a live-in governess to the King of Siam's children.

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Lamhe

When the young Viren comes to India for the first time, he is captivated by Pallavi. When he learns she is already spoken for, he returns to London a broken man. When he gets the news of ... See full summary »

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Jane Eyre

A mousy governess who softens the heart of her employer soon discovers that he's hiding a terrible secret.

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The Chalk Garden

An elderly woman hires a governess with a mysterious past to look after her disturbed and spoiled teenage granddaughter, who eventually understands the meaning of self-sacrifice, as an example of love, and grows into a better person.

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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, as agreed, gives up the child. Seven ... See full summary »

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Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day

Guinevere Pettigrew, a middle-aged London governess, finds herself unfairly dismissed from her job. An attempt to gain new employment catapults her into the glamorous world and dizzying social whirl of an American actress and singer, Delysia Lafosse.

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Judex

Favraux, an unscrupulous banker, receives a threatening note, signed by "Judex", demanding that he pay back the people he has swindled. He refuses, and apparently dies after a midnight ... See full summary »

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We Are Not Alone

A husband hires a lonely pretty young woman to work as a nanny for his son. His wife becomes instantly jealous and things take turn for the worst. In the background, World War II is in the air, and anti-German sentiment is on the rise.

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The Story of Three Loves

An anthology film consisting of three very different stories about love set in Europe and told in flashback.

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Savage Messiah

Biographical movie of the life of French sculptor Henri Gaudier-Brzeska (Scott Antony).

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Blanche Fury

The childless widow of Allan Fury bequeaths the Fury estate to her Fuller relatives but Allan's illegitimate son who masquerades as a servant hopes to grab the estate for himself.

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Adam Had Four Sons

A governess becomes the center of a wealthy family after her employer's wife dies.

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Murder on the Orient Express

When a murder occurs on the train on which he's travelling, celebrated detective Hercule Poirot is recruited to solve the case.

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House of Dark Shadows

Vampire Barnabas Collins is accidentally released from his centuries-long confinement at his family's estate in Maine. He targets his clueless descendants who live there now and pursues Maggie, the incarnation of his lost love.

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Miss Mary

A young British woman is hired as a governess by a wealthy Argentine family. Through her position, she slowly sees how the upper class of society is slowly crumbling, and how a popular ... See full summary »

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The Governess

When the father of privileged Rosina da Silva violently dies, she decides to pass herself off as a gentile and finds employment with a family in faraway Scotland. Soon she and the family ... See full summary »

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Kathleen

Kathleen is a 12 year old who lives in a big house with a nanny, a butler, maids, no mother and a father who is working most of the time. She dreams of a family with a mother, father and ... See full summary »

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The Youngest Profession

Joan Lyons and her friend Patricia Drew are autograph hounds spending most of their day bumping into, and having tea, with the likes of Greer Garson and Walter Pidgeon. Based on ... See full summary »

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Talk of Angels

A young Irishwoman becomes governess to 3 daughters of a rich family in Spain in 1936, just before the civil war. The mom likes Franco - the dad doesn't. She becomes family. She befriends 5 Irishwomen.

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The Unseen

A secretive widower hires a governess for his children, a willful boy and impressionable girl. Strange occurrences and the governess's curiosity lead her to unlock the secrets of the mysterious and uninhabited brownstone next door.

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East of Sudan

During the Mahdist insurrection in the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, veteran colonial Private Baker teams up with freshly arrived gentleman Murchison, trying to evacuate from southern Barash the ... See full summary »

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Jane Eyre

Charlotte Bronte's gothic heroine (Susannah York) loves her moody employer (George C. Scott), who keeps a dark secret hidden from her.

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Crown for Christmas

After getting fired from her job as a maid at a ritzy New York City hotel, a woman accepts a temporary job as governess to a young girl who is part of a powerful European family.

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