The Bostonians (1984) (UK-import)
James Ivory directs this romantic drama based on Henry James' novel. In 19th-century Boston, Verena Tarrant (Madeleine Potter) is torn between her feelings for Southern lawyer Basil Ransom (Christopher Reeve), who wants to marry her, and her passionate attachment to suffragette Olive Chancellor (Vanessa Redgrave) and the fledgling Women's Movement.