Great Expectations (1946)

In this Dickens adaptation, orphan Pip discovers through lawyer Mr. Jaggers that a mysterious benefactor wishes to ensure that he becomes a gentleman. Reunited with his childhood patron, Miss Havisham, and his first love, the beautiful but emotionally cold Estella, he discovers that the elderly spinster has gone mad from having been left at the altar as a young woman, and has made her charge into a warped, unfeeling heartbreaker.

Genres: Drama, Romance

What to watch after Great Expectations

• Oliver Twist (1948) — Same subject: orphan
• A Christmas Carol (1984)
• Scrooge (1970) — Charles Dickens wrote the source material both are based on
• The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1969) — Ronald Neame worked on both
• Hobson's Choice (1954) — David Lean directed both
• Ryan's Daughter (1970) — Same feel: dramatic, melancholy