A Room with a View (1985)

Travel to Florence with one of Merchant Ivory production's most beloved E.M. Forster adaptations featuring a cast of legendary actors, including Helena Bonham Carter in her breakout role and Maggie Smith playing the perfect acerbic matriarch decades before Downton Abbey.  A lush Victorian romance, A Room with a View remains unforgettable on the big screen.

Lucy Honeychurch (Bonham-Carter), a young Englishwoman, is touring Italy with her older cousin (Smith). At a hotel in Florence, Lucy meets the charming and free-spirited George Emerson (Julian Sands). Although intrigued by George, once she's back in England Lucy ponders settling down with the wealthy, staid Cecil Vyse (Daniel Day-Lewis). When George reappears in her life, Lucy must decide between him and Cecil.

Directed by James Ivory, UK 1985. Runtime 117 mins