Stanley Kubrick, Hardy Krüger, Ryan O'Neal, Marisa Berenson, William Makepeace Thackeray, Patrick Magee

Barry Lyndon is a movie starring Ryan O'Neal, Marisa Berenson, and Patrick Magee. An Irish rogue wins the heart of a rich widow and assumes her dead husband's aristocratic position in 18th-century England.

Cedric Hardwicke, Frances Dee, Francis Edward Faragoh, Miriam Hopkins, Rouben Mamoulian, Billie Burke, William Makepeace Thackeray, Lowell Sherman, Langdon Mitchell

Becky Sharp is a movie starring Miriam Hopkins, Frances Dee, and Cedric Hardwicke. Set against the background of the Battle of Waterloo, Becky Sharp is the story of Vanity Fair by Thackeray. Becky and Amelia are girls at school...

Reese Witherspoon, Mira Nair, Matthew Faulk, Mark Skeet, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Romola Garai, Julian Fellowes, James Purefoy, William Makepeace Thackeray

Vanity Fair is a movie starring Reese Witherspoon, Romola Garai, and James Purefoy. Growing up poor in London, Becky Sharp defies her poverty-stricken background and ascends the social ladder alongside her best friend, Amelia Sedley.