Keira arrives on set Credit: Paramount/Vantage

Do you think that your boyfriend or ex is a royal pain? Is he controlling? Does he have a double standard for what he's allowed to do and what you are? Then you can totally identify with Keira Knightley in the feminist period drama The Duchess.

Story goes: In the late 1700's, Georgiana: Duchess of Devonshire (Keira Knightley) was born Spencer (yes, she was an ancestor of Princess Diana and there are some similarities in their lives). When she, at age 16, was married off to middle-aged Duke William Cavendish, (the excellent Ralph Fiennes), it was a cold match meant to produce a male heir and that's about it. All of young Georgiana's romantic dreams were quickly dashed and the marriage tried to crush the hopeful young girl's spirit. In an era of revolution (in the states and upcoming, in France) and Enlightenment in England, people talked of rights and freedom... for all men... uh, forget the women. They were assigned to have babies and shut up.