The Remains of the Day
1993 · 134 min
Directed by James Ivory. Written by Harold Pinter, Kazuo Ishiguro, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala. Starring Anthony Hopkins, Emma Thompson, James Fox, Christopher Reeve.
In interwar Britain, a rule-bound head butler's world of manners and decorum in the household he maintains is tested by the arrival of a new housekeeper. The possibility of romance and his master's cultivation of ties with the Nazi cause challenge his carefully maintained veneer of servitude.
Critics 95% · audiences 89% · streaming on Prime Video, Roku Channel · 8 Oscar nominations