The Fifteen Streets

About The Fifteen Streets

In northern England around 1900, the worker John O'Brien lives near poverty in a small house in the worker's district. He falls in love with Mary, the teacher of his highly intelligent younger sister Kathy and daughter of a rich family.

The Fifteen Streets is a 1989 history romance film directed by David Wheatley. At 104 minutes long, it arrived in August 1989.

The film is filed under 1900s, poverty, sibling rivalry, and british class system. The film began as a novel.

Owen Teale takes the lead as John O'Brien, Sean Bean as Dominic O'Brien, Clare Holman as Mary Llewellyn, and Billie Whitelaw as Beatrice Llewellyn. The screenplay is by Rob Bettinson. It streams on Amazon Prime Video, Amazon Prime Video with Ads, and BritBox in the United States.

Legends of the Fall, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, and There Will Be Blood make useful companions to The Fifteen Streets, all filed under teacher.