Wide Sargasso Sea (2006)

Actors: Rafe Spall (actor), Rebecca Hall (actress), Victoria Boydell (editor), Charlotte Brontë (writer), Nina Humphreys (composer), Jack Murphy (miscellaneous crew), Fraser Ayres (actor), James Keaton (miscellaneous crew), Ian Hutchinson (miscellaneous crew), Matt Grimwood (miscellaneous crew), Helen Andre (miscellaneous crew), Brendan Maher (director), Fraser Grant (miscellaneous crew), Les Lansdown (costume designer), Victoria Hamilton (actress),

Plot: In this prequel to Jane Eyre, Edward Rochester finds himself in Jamaica looking to make his fortune. As the second son, the expectation is that his brother will inherit the family estate and so his future must lie elsewhere. He soon meets Antoinette Cosway and is offered a substantial dowry to marry her. Only after the wedding does he learn of her family history, including the madness that afflicted her mother. Their relationship in a constant downward spiral, he decides that they should return to England where he keeps her locked away in her room.

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Jane Eyre (1997)

Actors: Steve Dent (miscellaneous crew), Samantha Morton (actress), Gemma Jones (actress), Ciarán Hinds (actor), David Gant (actor), Peter Wight (actor), Richard Harvey (composer), Delia Fine (producer), Robert Young (director), Barbara Keogh (actress), Sally Head (producer), Joanna Scanlan (actress), Charlotte Brontë (writer), Richenda Carey (actress), Susannah Buxton (costume designer),

Plot: Charlotte Bronte's classic novel is filmed yet again. The story of the Yorkshire orphan who becomes a governess to a young French girl and finds love with the brooding lord of the manor is given a standard romantic flare, but sparks do not seem to happen between the two leads in this version.

Wide Sargasso Sea (1993)

Actors: Martine Beswick (actress), Naomi Watts (actress), Wayne Fitzgerald (miscellaneous crew), John Duigan (director), Michael York (actor), Stewart Copeland (composer), Rachel Ward (actress), Alicia Rivera Frankl (miscellaneous crew), Phillip L. Rosen (miscellaneous crew), Nathaniel Parker (actor), Jane Goldsmith (miscellaneous crew), Michael London (miscellaneous crew), Michael London (miscellaneous crew), Sara Risher (producer), Michael London (actor),

Plot: A young female landowner in 1840s Jamaica marries a just-arrived Englishman to avoid losing her property. All seems to be perfect, love arises, and happiness is on the way, but she is hiding an old secret regarding her childhood and her mother. Slowly, this secret begins to erode this perfect relationship and, perhaps, her mother's story will begin again...with her.

Jane Eyre (1970)

Actors: John Williams (composer), James Franciscus (producer), Jeremy Child (actor), Ian Bannen (actor), Susannah York (actress), Arthur Howard (actor), Jean Marsh (actress), Patrick Jordan (actor), Peter Copley (actor), Clive Morton (actor), George C. Scott (actor), Kenneth Griffith (actor), Jack Hawkins (actor), Delbert Mann (director), Anthony Mendleson (costume designer),

Plot: Jane Eyre is an orphan, sent to Lowood school, and eventually becomes a governess at Thornfield hall to a girl named Adele. While she is there, many strange things happen and eventually she and Edward Rochester, owner of Thornfeild and Adele's guardian, fall in love. Suddenly, when Jane is about to win the happiness she deserves, a dark secret comes to light, and it will take all of her courage, love and understanding to triumph.

Jane Eyre (1968)

Actors: Manos Katrakis (actor), Hristina Sylva (actress), Charlotte Brontë (writer), Michalis Nikolopoulos (actor), Amalia Lahana (actress), Stella Neri (actress), Panos Nikolakopoulos (actor), Yiorgos Lois (producer), Yiorgos Lois (director), Yiorgos Lois (writer), Maria Giourousi (actress), Dimitra Katerinaki (actress), Stavros Christofides (actor), Giorgos Tsitouridis (actor), Giorgos Hristofylakis (actor),

Jane Eyre (1961)

Actors: Fritz Weaver (actor), Zachary Scott (actor), Laurie Main (actor), Sally Ann Howes (actress), Marc Daniels (director), Charlotte Brontë (writer), Bibi Osterwald (actress), Norah Howard (actress), Michael Dyne (writer), Angela Thornton (actress), Barbara Robbins (actress), Dina Paisner (actress), Leslye Hunter (actress),

Plot: This live hour long show has Young Jane Eyre, fresh from the orphanage looking forward to her job as governess to a little girl at Thornfield Hall. Edward Rochester the cold forbidding master of Thornfield Hall brings on a terrifying secret.

Jane Eyre (1934)

Actors: William Burress (actor), Ethel Griffies (actress), Olaf Hytten (actor), Richard Quine (actor), Desmond Roberts (actor), Lionel Belmore (actor), Jameson Thomas (actor), David Torrence (actor), William Wagner (actor), Virginia Bruce (actress), Jean Darling (actress), Claire Du Brey (actress), Edith Fellows (actress), John Rogers (actor), Beryl Mercer (actress),

Plot: Jane Eyre is an orphan who was raised by her aunt until she came to Thornfield Hall as governess to the young ward of Edward Rochester. But Jane is attracted by the intelligent and energetic Sir Rochester, a man of almost twice her age. But just when Sir Rochester seems to pay attention to her, he invites the beautiful and wealthy Blanche Ingram to stay at his house.

Woman and Wife (1918)

Actors: Edward José (director), Elliott Dexter (actor), Alice Brady (actress), Madge Evans (actress), Helen Lindroth (actress), Paul West (writer), Helen Greene (actress), Charlotte Brontë (writer), Victor Benoit (actor), Juliette Moore (actress), Leonora Morgan (actress),

Jane Eyre (1914)

Actors: Irving Cummings (actor), Ethel Grandin (actress), Margery Wilson (actress), Carl Laemmle (producer), Frank Hall Crane (director), Charlotte Brontë (writer), Lois Alexander (actress), John McCabe (actor), Marie Hazelton (actress), Mrs. Hempstone (actress), Miss Burke (actress),

Jane Eyre (1914)

Actors: Martin Faust (director), Alan Hale (actor), Irving Cummings (actor), John W. Kellette (miscellaneous crew), Charlotte Brontë (writer), John Charles (actor), Harrish Ingraham (actor), Dallas Tyler (actress), Lisbeth Blackstone (actress), Alberta Roy (actress), Viola Allen Frayne (actress), Mary Fry Clements (actress),