Films based on works by Frances Hodgson Burnett
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1. The Little Princess (1939)
Approved | 93 min | Comedy, Drama, Family
A little girl is left by her father in an exclusive seminary for girls, when her father fights in the Second Boer War. Later, when he is presumed dead she is forced to become a servant.
Directors: Walter Lang, William A. Seiter | Stars: Shirley Temple, Richard Greene, Anita Louise, Ian Hunter
Votes: 6,740
2. A Little Princess (1973– )
25 min | Drama
A young girl is relegated to servitude at a boarding school when her father goes missing and is presumed dead.
Stars: Deborah Makepeace, Lesley Dunlop, Ruth Dunning, Margery Withers
Votes: 87
3. A Little Princess (1986–1987)
TV-G | 163 min | Drama, Family
Sara Crewe enters a London boarding school a wealthy lady when she bids her father farewell as he enters the British Army, but her lifestyle quickly vanishes when her father suddenly dies, and Sara must endure a life of servitude.
Stars: Maureen Lipman, Amelia Shankley, Miriam Margolyes, Annette Badland
Votes: 774
4. A Little Princess (1995)
G | 97 min | Drama, Family, Fantasy
Sara is sent to a strict boarding school after her father enlists in WWI. When he is presumed dead, the headmistress, knowing she will not receive any more money, forces the girl to become a servant.
Director: Alfonso Cuarón | Stars: Liesel Matthews, Eleanor Bron, Liam Cunningham, Rusty Schwimmer
Votes: 36,722 | Gross: $10.02M
5. The Little Princess (1996 Video)
Not Rated | 45 min | Animation, Family
Sarah is going to a boarding school in London while her father is away on a important business trip. She is told however that he was killed and that she is an orphan and she has been indebted to Miss Michen, a evil headmistress.
Director: Laura Shephard | Stars: Melissa Bathory, Lawrence Bayne, Desmond Ellis, Katherine Giaquinto
Votes: 41
6. Malenkaya printsessa (1997)
88 min | Drama, Family
The film is set in 1890s London. Sarah lived happily in India with her father, but when he was drafted into military service he placed Sarah in a boarding school in London. Sarah was lonely... See full summary »
Director: Vladimir Grammatikov | Stars: Anastasiya Meskova, Lyanka Gryu, Igor Yasulovich, Alla Demidova
Votes: 122
7. Sarah... ang munting prinsesa (1995)
TV-G | 90 min | Drama, Family
The adventures of Sarah as she stays at Miss Minchin's boarding school.
Director: Romy Suzara | Stars: Camille Prats, Mat Ranillo III, Jean Garcia, Rio Locsin
Votes: 121
8. The Secret Garden Animated (1991–1992)
30 min | Animation, Drama
At a very young age, Mary loses her parents to the disease, leaving her traumatized and orphaned. From India, she is brought to England with her uncle who has taken on the role of her new guardian.
Stars: Mayumi Tanaka, Mîna Tominaga, Tomoko Munakata, Minami Takayama
Votes: 152
9. Back to the Secret Garden (2000 TV Movie)
G | 100 min | Family, Fantasy
Lizzie, an American orphan with a green thumb, gets to stay at an orphanage at an English manor after WWII, where she explores a secret garden with a magical door.
Director: Michael Tuchner | Stars: Joan Plowright, Cherie Lunghi, Aled Roberts, Florence Hoath
Votes: 1,000
10. The Secret Garden (1975)
G | 210 min | Drama, Family
In 19th-century India, Mary Lennox is suddenly orphaned by cholera. Her only living relative is her uncle, Archibald Craven, so Mary is sent to live at his estate on the Yorkshire moors. Where she discovers a secret garden and a cousin.
Stars: Sarah Hollis Andrews, Hope Johnstone, William Marsh, Jacqueline Hoyle
Votes: 358
11. The Secret Garden (1949)
Approved | 92 min | Drama, Family
A girl is sent to live with her uncle on his estate when her parents die. There she discovers much intrigue, family history and secrets and personal baggage. In particular, a screaming child and...a secret garden.
Director: Fred M. Wilcox | Stars: Margaret O'Brien, Herbert Marshall, Dean Stockwell, Gladys Cooper
Votes: 3,307
12. The Secret Garden (1987 TV Movie)
PG | 100 min | Family, Drama
Mary Lennox is sent to live at Misselthwaite Manor where she befriends a young boy and learns about a secret garden.
Director: Alan Grint | Stars: Gennie James, Barret Oliver, Jadrien Steele, Michael Hordern
Votes: 1,880
13. The Secret Garden (1993)
G | 101 min | Drama, Family, Fantasy
A young, recently-orphaned girl is sent to England after living in India all of her life. Once there, she begins to explore her new, seemingly-isolated surroundings, and its secrets.
Director: Agnieszka Holland | Stars: Kate Maberly, Maggie Smith, Heydon Prowse, Andrew Knott
Votes: 44,493 | Gross: $31.18M
14. The Secret Garden (1960)
30 min | Drama
A young British girl born and raised in India loses her neglectful parents in an earthquake. She is returned to England to live at her uncle's estate. Her uncle is very distant due to the ... See full summary »
Stars: Gillian Ferguson, Hilary Mason, Prunella Scales, Stuart Hutchison
15. The Secret Garden (2020)
PG | 99 min | Drama, Family, Fantasy
An orphaned girl discovers a magical garden hidden at her strict uncle's estate.
Director: Marc Munden | Stars: Dixie Egerickx, Richard Hansell, David Verrey, Tommy Gene Surridge
Votes: 10,059
16. The Secret Garden (2017)
TV-G | 90 min | Family
Steampunk update of the classic tale by Frances Hodgson Burnett, with orphaned teen Mary Lennox discovering the magic and mystery of the secret garden.
Director: Owen Smith | Stars: Glennellen Anderson, Amanda Waters, Max River, Erin Leigh Bushko
Votes: 264
17. El jardín secreto (1984)
100 min | Drama
Lucia is a computer expert who relieves stress through secret nightly s&m sessions, where she plays the sub. One day, a letter from her supposedly dead ex lover arrives, so she and her new partner investigate the matter.
Director: Carlos Suárez | Stars: Assumpta Serna, Xabier Elorriaga, Taida Urruzola, Cecilia Roth
Votes: 70
18. Cedie (1996)
TV-G | 114 min | Family
At an early age, American boy Cedie Erol finds that he is the sole heir to a British earldom and leaves New York to take up residence in his ancestral castle where, after some initial ... See full summary »
Director: Romy Suzara | Stars: Tom Taus, Ronaldo Valdez, Jaclyn Jose, Mark Gil
Votes: 61
19. The Dawn of a Tomorrow (1915)
50 min | Drama
A young girl who lives in the London slums is in love with a cunning thief and persuades him to give up his life of crime. Meanwhile, an eccentric millionaire who has been diagnosed with an... See full summary »
Director: James Kirkwood | Stars: Mary Pickford, David Powell, Forrest Robinson, Robert Cain
Votes: 27
20. The Dawn of a Tomorrow (1924)
60 min | Crime, Drama
Expecting to die soon or to go insane, Sir Oliver Holt disappears into the London slums intending to commit suicide; but he is dissuaded by Glad, a cheerful girl whose sweetheart (a burglar... See full summary »
Director: George Melford | Stars: Jacqueline Logan, David Torrence, Raymond Griffith, Roland Bottomley
Votes: 16
21. The Fair Barbarian (1917)
50 min | Comedy, Romance
An Englishman who has made his fortune in America decides to return to England. He takes his daughter Octavia to pay a visit to her relatives, especially Miss Belinda Bassett, an aunt whom ... See full summary »
Director: Robert Thornby | Stars: Vivian Martin, Clarence Geldert, Douglas MacLean, Jane Wolfe
22. The Family Secret (1924)
70 min | Drama
A modest man unknowingly has a baby with a woman from a affluent family.Through a series of coincidences he is reunited with his daughter, forcing the family to confront its secrets.
Director: William A. Seiter | Stars: Baby Peggy, Gladys Hulette, Edward Earle, Frank Currier
Votes: 180
23. The Flame of Life (1923)
70 min | Drama
Joan Lowrie and her brutal father, Dan, labor in the English coal mines of the 1870's. Fergus Derrick, a new over-man, attempts to make his workers' lives more bearable but incurs Lowrie's ... See full summary »
Director: Hobart Henley | Stars: Priscilla Dean, Robert Ellis, Kathryn McGuire, Wallace Beery
24. A Lady of Quality (1913)
50 min | Drama
News is received by Sir Jeoffrey, a dissolute roué, whose contempt for the other sex extends even to his own daughters, of the arrival of another female child in the family. The mother dies... See full summary »
Director: J. Searle Dawley | Stars: Cecilia Loftus, House Peters, Peter Lang, Hal Clarendon
25. A Lady of Quality (1924)
80 min | Drama
Clorinda Wildairs breaks off an affair with the unscrupulous Sir John Ozen to become engaged to a rich nobleman, Mertoun, the Duke of Osmonde. Clorinda accidentally kills Sir John when he, ... See full summary »
Director: Hobart Henley | Stars: Virginia Valli, Lionel Belmore, Margaret Seddon, Peggy Cartwright
26. L'ultimo lord (1926)
Drama
An American boy turns out to be the long-lost heir of a British fortune. He is sent to live with the cold and unsentimental lord who oversees the trust.
Director: Augusto Genina | Stars: Carmen Boni, Bonaventura Ibáñez, Arnold Kent, Gianna Terribili-Gonzales
27. Little Lord Fauntleroy (1914)
Drama
The earl of Dorincourt is a descendant of a long line of illustrious ancestors whose escutcheon has never been stained by dishonor of any kind. His oldest son and heir, Bevis, grows up to ... See full summary »
Director: F. Martin Thornton | Stars: H. Agar Lyons, Gerald Royston, Jane Wells, Bernard Vaughan
Votes: 18
28. Little Lord Fauntleroy (1921)
Passed | 112 min | Drama
An American boy turns out to be the long-lost heir of a British fortune. He is sent to live with the cold and unsentimental lord who oversees the trust.
Directors: Alfred E. Green, Jack Pickford | Stars: Mary Pickford, Claude Gillingwater, Joseph J. Dowling, James A. Marcus
Votes: 370 | Gross: $0.90M
29. Little Lord Fauntleroy (1936)
Passed | 102 min | Drama, Family
An American boy turns out to be the long-lost heir of a British fortune. He is sent to live with the cold and unsentimental lord who oversees the trust.
Director: John Cromwell | Stars: Freddie Bartholomew, Dolores Costello, C. Aubrey Smith, Guy Kibbee
Votes: 2,521
30. Little Lord Fauntleroy (1980 TV Movie)
103 min | Drama, Family, Romance
An American boy turns out to be the long-lost heir of a British fortune. He is sent to live with the cold and unsentimental Lord, who oversees the trust.
Director: Jack Gold | Stars: Ricky Schroder, Alec Guinness, Eric Porter, Colin Blakely
Votes: 5,261
31. Louisiana (1919)
50 min | Comedy, Romance
Louisiana is a mountain girl living in North Carolina (though named for her mother's home state). A poor girl, she is sent by her father to work in a resort hotel in order to obtain some ... See full summary »
Director: Robert G. Vignola | Stars: Vivian Martin, Robert Ellis, Noah Beery, Arthur Allardt
32. The Making of a Lady (2012 TV Movie)
TV-PG | 95 min | Drama
After losing her employment, Emily accepts a proposal that will give her a secure future. But she soon finds trapped in her new family's deception.
Director: Richard Curson Smith | Stars: Lydia Wilson, Maggie Fox, Sarah Ridgeway, Joanna Lumley
Votes: 1,492
33. The Pretty Sister of Jose (1915)
50 min | Romance, Drama
Pepita, a radiant and merry Spanish beauty, and her playful brother Jose, witness their mother, whose faded beauty led her husband to abandon her for another, plunge a dagger into her ... See full summary »
Director: Allan Dwan | Stars: Marguerite Clark, Jack Pickford, Edythe Chapman, Gertrude Norman
34. Secret Love (1916)
60 min | Drama
In an English mining town during the 1870s, Joan Lowrie falls in love with Fergus Derrick, the new chief engineer who vows to improve working conditions. Joan's father Don, however, runs ... See full summary »
Director: Robert Z. Leonard | Stars: Jack Curtis, Helen Ware, Dixie Carr, Harry Carey
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