Henry James

Henry James, OM (15 April 1843 – 28 February 1916) was an American-born British writer, regarded as one of the key figures of 19th-century literary realism. James alternated between America and Europe for the first 20 years of his life, after which he settled in England, becoming a British subject in 1915, one year before his death. He is primarily known for the series of novels in which he portrays the encounter of Americans with Europe and Europeans. (From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia)

Works

The Beast

In the near future where emotions have become a threat, Gabrielle finally decides to purify her DNA in a machine that will immerse her in her past lives and rid her of any strong feelings. She then meets Louis and feels a powerful connection, as if she had known him forever.

Release Date:2024-02-07

Department:Writing

Job:Short Story

Vote Count:175

The Beast in the Jungle

The club as a place of endless (im)possibilities. A man and a woman wait here together for 25 years for a mysterious, all-changing event to occur. From 1979 to 2004: from disco to techno. A love story and an obsession.

Release Date:2023-08-16

Department:Writing

Job:Short Story

Vote Count:23

The Turn of the Screw - OperaGlass Works

A film of the opera The Turn of the Screw by Benjamin Britten. A young governess arrives at an old house in the country to look after two orphans. What unfolds is a chilling tale as she experiences strange ghostly encounters with some of the previous occupants of the house and finds herself engaged in a battle to protect the children’s souls from evil. Myfanwy Piper’s libretto of Henry James’s famous short story leaves much to our imagination and Britten’s score is haunting, terrifying and brilliant. Shot on location at Wilton's Music Hall, London, the whole space of the venue, not just the stage, is used to tell the story.

Release Date:2021-01-30

Department:Writing

Job:Short Story

The Haunting of Bly Manor

After an au pair’s tragic death, Henry Wingrave hires a young American nanny to care for his orphaned niece and nephew who reside at Bly Manor with the estate’s chef Owen, groundskeeper Jamie and housekeeper, Mrs. Grose. But all is not as it seems at the manor, and centuries of dark secrets of love and loss are waiting to be unearthed in this chilling tale.

Release Date:2020-10-09

Department:Writing

Job:Novel

Episode Count:9

Vote Count:1198

The Turn of the Screw

Louisa Muller makes her Garsington directing debut and we welcome back Richard Farnes (Falstaff, 2018) to conduct with Sophie Bevan (Don Giovanni, 2012) as the Governess and British tenor Ed Lyon making his Garsington debut as Quint. A young governess is sent to a remote country house to care for two children. She becomes increasingly disturbed by their behaviour but is under strict instruction never to bother their guardian in London. Are they innocent or wicked, possessed or just high-spirited?

Release Date:2020-06-19

Department:Writing

Job:Short Story

Vote Count:1

The Turning

A young woman quits her teaching job to be a private tutor for two wealthy young kids, but soon starts to suspect there’s more to their house than what meets the eye.

Release Date:2020-01-23

Department:Writing

Job:Novel

Vote Count:980

The Spellbound

For the "story of the month," Coline, a contributor to a women's magazine, is sent deep into the Pyrenees to interview Simon, a rather wild artist who claims his mother appeared to him at the precise moment she died. Coline is particularly intrigued since her beautiful neighbor Azar insists the same thing happened with her father! On the night they meet, Simon attempts to seduce Coline, who resists but falls in love...

Release Date:2019-12-11

Department:Writing

Job:Author

Vote Count:26

The Beast in the Jungle

Based on the novella by Henry James Beast in the Jungle depicts the enigmatic love story of John Marcher and May Bartram. Their duet around an omnious secret is captured in a style both physical and poetic. Set in a remote countryside mansion the story stretches over a century, spiraling from the Jamesian late 19th century to the global present.

Release Date:2019-03-14

Department:Writing

Job:Novel

Vote Count:11

The Aspern Papers

A young writer tries to obtain romance letters a poet sent to his mistress.

Release Date:2019-01-11

Department:Writing

Job:Novel

Vote Count:19

A Fera na Selva

A story about a man who hopes to see something extraordinary. Based upon the book of Henry James.

Release Date:2017-09-01

Department:Writing

Job:Novel

Vote Count:1

The Tutor

Mona picks up her first job tutoring two orphaned children living in a derelict house in the country. Her obsession with trying to educate these two nearly feral children blinds her to the fact they have other plans for her.

Release Date:2017-01-01

Department:Writing

Job:Original Story

Vote Count:17

Through The Shadow

Laura makes spooky observations as soon as she starts her job as a teacher for two orphan students at a plantation. She concludes that it has something to do with the former caretaker and his romantic partner.

Release Date:2015-11-10

Department:Writing

Job:Novel

Vote Count:23

What Maisie Knew

The story focuses on 6-year-old Maisie, caught in a custody battle between her mother—a rock and roll icon—and her father. What Maisie Knew is an evocative portrayal of the chaos of adult life seen entirely from a child’s point of view.

Release Date:2013-05-02

Department:Writing

Job:Novel

Vote Count:417

The Turn of the Screw

A young governess, Ann, is sent to a country house to take care of two orphans, Miles and Flora. Soon after her arrival, Miles is expelled from boarding school. Although charmed by her young charge, she secretly fears there are ominous reasons behind his expulsion. With Miles back at home, the governess starts noticing ethereal figures roaming the estate's grounds. Desperate to learn more about these sinister sightings she discovers that the suspicious circumstances surrounding the death of her predecessor hold grim implications for herself. As she becomes increasingly fearful that malevolent forces are stalking the children the governess is determined to save them, risking herself and her sanity in the process.

Release Date:2009-12-30

Department:Writing

Job:Novel

Vote Count:33

Le Pendu

A small-town detective unravels a web of secrets after a mysterious hanging jolts the community. As whispers of betrayal surface, he confronts his own demons, navigating the fine line between justice and vengeance in a chilling quest for truth.

Release Date:2007-09-13

Department:Writing

Job:Novel

Vote Count:1

Private Life

Release Date:2007-07-11

Department:Writing

Job:Novel

In a Dark Place

The disturbed arts teacher, Anna Veigh, is hired by Mr. Laing as a governess to raise Flora and her brother Miles. Anna believes that the ghosts of the former governess, Miss Jessel, and housekeeper, Peter Quint, are in the property haunting the children, and she decides to help them to face the spirits and get their souls free.

Release Date:2006-07-21

Department:Writing

Job:Novel

Vote Count:49

The Californians

When real estate mogul Gavin Ransom announces his plan to cover California's northern coast with scores of mini-mansions, his environmentalist sister, Olive, launches a protest to stop him. But there's trouble ahead when Gavin begins falling for the pretty folk singer who's helping Olive's cause.

Release Date:2005-10-21

Department:Writing

Job:Novel

Vote Count:9

Friends of Friends

Dominik Graf relocates the story of the same name by Henry James from the 19th century to the year 2001.

Release Date:2002-07-06

Department:Writing

Job:Short Story

Vote Count:12

Owen Wingrave

Margaret Williams directs this 2001 production of adaptation of Benjamin Britten's television opera based on a short story by Henry James. Performers featured include Gerald Finley, Peter Savidge and Josephine Barstow. The conductor is Kent Nagano. As pertinent now as then, OWEN WINGRAVE was composed by Benjamin Britten at the height of the Vietnam War. The opera poses the question: Is pacifism an act of cowardice? Or rather a desire to escape from the spiral of war and create world peace? To what extent do we determine our own futures? Should we let past events inform the decisions we make? Britten’s characters grapple with timeless issues in this gripping psychodrama.

Release Date:2001-01-01

Department:Writing

Job:Novel

Presence of Mind

A governess, caring for two children at a remote estate, becomes convinced that the grounds are haunted and the children are under an evil influence.

Release Date:2000-09-24

Department:Writing

Job:Novel

Vote Count:16

The Golden Bowl

Adam Verver, a US billionaire in London, dotes on daughter Maggie. An impecunious Italian, Prince Amerigo, marries her even though her best friend, Charlotte Stant, is his lover. She and Amerigo keep this secret from Maggie, so Maggie interests her widowed father in Charlotte, who is happy with the match because she wants to be close to Amerigo. Charlotte desires him, the lovers risk discovery, Amerigo longs for Italy, Maggie wants to spare her father's pain, and Adam wants to return to America to build a museum. Amidst lies and artifice, what fate awaits adulterers?

Release Date:2000-05-14

Department:Writing

Job:Novel

Vote Count:61

The Turn of the Screw

A governess put in charge of two young children begins to see the ghost of her dead predecessor.

Release Date:1999-12-26

Department:Writing

Job:Novel

Vote Count:15

The Haunting of Hell House

A mysterious, morbid professor who has suffered a number of horrid events in his life tries to help a young troubled man, whose girl friend was killed during an illegal abortion.

Release Date:1999-11-16

Department:Writing

Job:Short Story

Vote Count:13

The American

After the horror of the Civil War, 'ignorant' Christopher Newman made his fortune. He travels to France is search of cultural treasures. He won't get past the Paris nightlife. After an affair with a haughty painter, he falls in love with the daughter of the late marquis de Bellegarde. She was married off and traumatized by her abusive late husband for the family's sake. Her elder brother supports their ruthless mother, but junior Valentin is besotted with the artist and strikes a partnership with Christopher.

Release Date:1998-12-26

Department:Writing

Job:Novel

Vote Count:4

Under Heaven

Two young lovers try to con a wealthy woman out of her inheritance by pretending to be brother and sister.

Release Date:1998-07-17

Department:Writing

Job:Novel

Vote Count:3

Washington Square

Set in 1870's New York, a spinster heiress is courted by a much younger, penniless man, much to the chagrin of her over-protective father, and must decide whether to spend the rest of her life alone, or marry a man who is interested in her only because of her inheritence.

Release Date:1997-10-10

Department:Writing

Job:Novel

Vote Count:42

The Wings of the Dove

Kate is secretly betrothed to a struggling journalist, Merton Densher. But she knows her Aunt Maude will never approve of the match, since Kate's deceased mother has lost all her money in a marriage to a degenerate opium addict. When Kate meets a terminally ill American heiress named Millie traveling through Europe, she comes up with a conniving plan to have both love and wealth.

Release Date:1997-09-04

Department:Writing

Job:Novel

Vote Count:114

The Portrait of a Lady

Ms. Isabel Archer isn't afraid to challenge societal norms. Impressed by her free spirit, her kindhearted cousin writes her into his fatally ill father's will. Suddenly rich and independent, Isabelle ventures into the world, along the way befriending a cynical intellectual and romancing an art enthusiast. However, the advantage of her affluence is called into question when she realizes the extent to which her money colors her relationships.

Release Date:1996-10-17

Department:Writing

Job:Novel

Vote Count:235

The Pupil

Morgan, a sensitive 12-year-old, growing up in richness and royalty, finds a true friend in Julien, a young man hired to tutor him.

Release Date:1996-09-11

Department:Writing

Job:Novel

Vote Count:12

Le Fantôme de Longstaff

Wonderful short by Moullet based on a Henry James short story.

Release Date:1996-08-08

Department:Writing

Job:Short Story

Vote Count:3

What Maisie Knew

Paris during the 1920s. Ever since her parents' separation, ten-year-old Maisie has been travelling to and fro between her father Beale Farange and her mother Ida. She spends half a year with each one alternately. But neither parent can provide Maisie with the warmth and affection she so desperately needs.

Release Date:1995-12-22

Department:Writing

Job:Novel

Vote Count:2

The Haunting of Helen Walker

TV remake of the Henry James' classic tale "Turn of the Screw", with changes in location and character names. A live in nanny discovers two children haunted by the spirits and deeds of their former care givers.

Release Date:1995-12-03

Department:Writing

Job:Novel

Vote Count:4

The Turn of the Screw

A young woman is hired by a wealthy but sinister man to tutor his two children at the family's isolated estate. When the woman gets there, she finds that the two children are not quite what they seem to be--in fact, they are possessed by the spirits of the evil Quint and his lover.

Release Date:1992-01-01

Department:Writing

Job:Novel

Vote Count:11

The Turn of the Screw

A governess is hired to look after two neglected children, who show signs of having been corrupted by the insidious influence of the groom Peter Quint. Quint, although hanged for murder, still makes an appearance among the shadows of the manor house along with Miss Jessel, a previous governess who took her own life.

Release Date:1989-08-12

Department:Writing

Job:Novel

Vote Count:1

Turn of the Screw

A young man is hired to take care of two orphaned siblings in a remote seaside mansion and soon realizes that someone... or something from the past is out to get the children.

Release Date:1985-10-10

Department:Writing

Job:Novel

Vote Count:12

The Bostonians

A bored lawyer and a suffragette vie for the attention of a faith healer's charismatic daughter.

Release Date:1984-05-01

Department:Writing

Job:Novel

Vote Count:42

Aspern

A publisher seeks information on a writer who died long ago.

Release Date:1982-06-11

Department:Writing

Job:Novel

The Turn of the Screw

A young governess arrives to a country house to care for two small orphans. Suddenly she realizes that the mansion is infested with ghosts and evil presences that seek to possess and eventually destroy the children.

Release Date:1981-10-30

Department:Writing

Job:Novel

Episode Count:3

The Perfect Presence

An author who falls in love with a girl gets haunted by the ghost of the dead lover of the girl's mother.

Release Date:1981-06-03

Department:Writing

Job:Short Story

Vote Count:1

The Devil's Game

A story about the devil's influence on five people's lives in 20th-century Venice.

Release Date:1981-05-20

Department:Writing

Job:Novel

Episode Count:1

Vote Count:1

The Wings of the Dove

A 20th-century prostitute (Dominique Sanda) arranges for her lover (Michele Placido) to wed a wealthy, dying millionairess (Isabelle Huppert) in Venice.

Release Date:1981-05-06

Department:Writing

Job:Novel

Vote Count:17

The Wings of the Dove

An Italian adaptation of Henry James's 1902 novel of the same name. The series is a dramatic interpretation set in Italy, exploring themes of love, morality, and betrayal, as in the original novel, set against the backdrop of early 20th-century Europe.

Release Date:1981-04-21

Department:Writing

Job:Novel

Episode Count:3

The Europeans

An adaptation of Henry James' novel about the Countess Eugenia Münster and her brother Robert, expatriate Americans who have grown up in Europe. Returning to prosperous relatives in New England, Eugenia hopes to make an advantageous marriage with a wealthy cousin. While Eugenia encounters obstacles, Robert finds his suit bearing fruit.

Release Date:1979-05-01

Department:Writing

Job:Novel

Vote Count:23

The Green Room

A WWI veteran decides to build a memorial to all of the people who have mattered to him but are now dead.

Release Date:1978-04-05

Department:Writing

Job:Novel

Vote Count:76

Listy Juliane

Release Date:1978-01-01

Department:Writing

Job:Novel

Vote Count:1

The Ambassadors

Dramatisation of Henry James's novel. Lambert Strether comes to Europe on a difficult and delicate mission. A chance meeting on arrival with the engaging Maria Gostrey provides him with much-needed support.

Release Date:1977-03-13

Department:Writing

Job:Novel

The Author of Beltraffio

A young American writer visits a famous author in the English countryside, and notices antagonism between the author and his wife over the upbringing of their young son.

Release Date:1976-03-27

Department:Writing

Job:Short Story

Nouvelles d'Henry James

Release Date:1976-03-13

Department:Writing

Job:Novel

Episode Count:5

Georginas Gründe

Adaptation of a story by Henry James.

Release Date:1975-04-27

Department:Writing

Job:Short Story

Affairs of the Heart

Anthology series of one-hour love stories based on the short stories of Henry James.

Release Date:1974-09-29

Department:Creator

Job:Creator

Daisy Miller

Despite mixed emotions, Frederick Winterbourne tries to figure out the bright and bubbly Daisy Miller, only to be helped and hindered by false judgments from their fellow friends.

Release Date:1974-05-22

Department:Writing

Job:Novel

Vote Count:28

The Turn of the Screw

An English governess is hired to take care of two adorable orphans, who turn out to be not exactly what they seem to be.

Release Date:1974-04-15

Department:Writing

Job:Novel

Vote Count:11

Le tour d'écrou

A new governess arrives at a country house to take care of two seemingly angelic young children. But she begins to suspect that the house is haunted, and that the ghosts mean harm to the children.

Release Date:1974-02-25

Department:Writing

Job:Novel

Vote Count:2

The Haunting of Rosalind

Rosalind's romantic attraction for her brother's handsome guest, Arthur, takes a weird turn when he announces that he's going to marry her sister, Perdita. Sensing a sinister presence in the house, Rosalind warns Perdita that it is the spirit of Arthur's first wife, who died under mysterious circumstances, and that the spirit will be coming for her next.

Release Date:1973-04-10

Department:Writing

Job:Short Story

Vote Count:1

The Nightcomers

Prequel to the Henry James classic "Turn of the Screw" about the events leading up to the deaths of Peter Quint and Ms. Jessel, and the slow corruption of the children in their care.

Release Date:1972-02-15

Department:Writing

Job:Characters

Vote Count:68

The Spoils of Poynton

Adele Gereth has taken young Fleda Vetch under her wing. Adele is intensely houseproud, and sees a potential future mistress of the house in Fleda, and an inheritor of her life's work.

Release Date:1970-04-26

Department:Writing

Job:Novel

Episode Count:4

Vote Count:2

Tales to Keep You Awake

Tales of terror by established authors such as Ray Bradbury or Edgar Allan Poe, as well as original scripts.

Release Date:1966-02-04

Department:Writing

Job:Short Story

Episode Count:1

Vote Count:13

The Ghostly Rental

At the end of the 19th Century, young Fanning finishes his studies in theology at the University of Cambridge. During a walk through the countryside, the boy, inspired by the lecture of romantic novels, discovers an abandonned house, from which an old man is coming out. He returns to the house regularly without ever seeing its mysterious inhabitant. Fanning finally surprises the old man while he is sitting on a bench at the cemetery and manages to gain his confidence...

Release Date:1965-04-17

Department:Writing

Job:Novel

Vote Count:3

The Ambassadors

Lambert Strether goes to France to rescue a young American from a European adventuress - only to fall under the spell of Europe himself. 1965 BBC adaptation of the Henry James novel.

Release Date:1965-01-01

Department:Writing

Job:Novel

The Innocents

A young governess for two children becomes convinced that the house and grounds are haunted by ghosts and that the children are being possessed.

Release Date:1961-12-15

Department:Writing

Job:Novel

Vote Count:598

Startime: The Turn of the Screw

A governess put in charge of two young children begins to see the ghost of her dead predecessor.

Release Date:1959-10-20

Department:Writing

Job:Novel

Folio

Folio, a precursor to CBC's renowned fine-arts series Festival, aired for four years starting in 1956. The series showcased original dramas, music compositions, and ballets, many originating from diverse regions across Canada. Notable episodes featured Barry Morse in a new staging of MacBeth, along with performances by Canadian talents like Robert Goulet and Sharon Acker. One of the highlights included a musical adaptation of the beloved Canadian classic, Anne of Green Gables. Airing without sponsorship, Folio thrived until its conclusion in the fall of 1960. Producers: Robert Allen, Harvey Hart, David Greene, Mario Prizek and Ronald Weyman.

Release Date:1955-09-25

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Episode Count:1

The House in the Square

Atomic scientist Peter Standish travels back in time to 1784, an era he has read about in his forefather's diaries. He falls in love with his forefather's cousin, Helen, but his contemporaries of 1784 are perplexed by his strange talk and the odd knowledge he possesses. Remake of Berkeley Square (1933).

Release Date:1951-12-07

Department:Writing

Job:Novel

Vote Count:9

The Heiress

In 1840s New York, the uneventful and boring days of the daughter of a wealthy doctor come to an end when she meets a dashing poorer man — who may or may not be after her inheritance.

Release Date:1949-10-06

Department:Writing

Job:Novel

Vote Count:251

The Lost Moment

In a long flashback, a New York publisher is in Venice pursuing the lost love letters of an early-19th-century poet, Jeffrey Ashton, who disappeared mysteriously. Using a false name, Lewis Venable rents a room from Juliana Bordereau, once Jeffrey Ashton's lover, now an aged recluse. Running the household is Juliana's severe niece, Tina, who mistrusts Venable from the first moment. He realizes all is not right when late one night he finds Tina, her hair unpinned and wild, at the piano. She calls him Jeffrey and throws herself at him. The family priest warns Venable to tread carefully around her fantasies, but he wants the letters at any cost, even Tina's sanity.

Release Date:1947-11-21

Department:Writing

Job:Novel

Vote Count:21

Berkeley Square

A young American man is transported back to London in the time shortly after the American Revolution and meets his ancestors.

Release Date:1933-09-15

Department:Writing

Job:Idea

Vote Count:14