The Remains of the Day (1993)

A rule-bound head butler's world of manners and decorum in the household he maintains is tested by the arrival of a housekeeper who falls in love with him in post-WWI Britain. The possibility of romance and his master's cultivation of ties with the Nazi cause challenge his carefully maintained veneer of servitude.

Director:

James Ivory

Stars:

Anthony Hopkins (James Stevens), Emma Thompson (Miss Kenton), James Fox (Lord Darlington), Christopher Reeve (Jack Lewis), Hugh Grant (Reginald Cardinal), Peter Vaughan (William Stevens)