The Governess

The Governess

1998115 min5.8 / 10

A period drama centered on a forbidden romance between a grieving woman passing as gentile and her employer, shadowed by deception, class tension, and the threat of discovery.

When the father of privileged Rosina da Silva violently dies, she decides to pass herself off as a gentile and finds employment with a family in faraway Scotland. Soon she and the family father, Charles, start a passionate secret affair.

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