The Secret Diaries of Miss Anne Lister (2010)

Directed by

Perturbator

Genre

biographical film, romance film, drama television series, LGBTQ-related film

Country

United Kingdom

Runtime

1h 30m

Rated

12

Rating

6.5 of 10 from 62 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A 19th century Yorkshire landowner named Anne Lister secretly records her love affairs with women in a coded diary. The story follows her relationships and her efforts to live independently as an industrialist in a repressive society.

intimateearnestperiodromanticpersonalrestrainedmelancholicquietly defying

What happens

The Secret Diaries of Miss Anne Lister is a 2010 British biographical historical drama film about 19th-century Yorkshire landowner Anne Lister. Made for television, the film was directed by James Kent and starred Maxine Peake as Lister. The script by Jane English drew from Lister's diaries, written in code, and decoded many years after her death. The story follows Lister's lesbian relationships and her independent lifestyle as an industrialist. The Secret Diaries of Miss Anne Lister held its world premiere screening at the London Lesbian and Gay Film Festival in March 2010 and was broadcast in the United Kingdom by the BBC in May 2010. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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