W.E. (15)

Madonna’s award winning film about Wallis Simpson and Edward VIII

In 1998, lonely New Yorker Wally Winthrop (Abbie Cornish) is obsessed with what she perceives as the ultimate love story: King Edward's VIII's abdication of the British throne for the woman he loved, American divorcee Wallis Simpson.

But Wally's research, including several visits to the Sotheby's auction of the Windsor Estate, reveals that the couple's life together was not as perfect as she thought. Directed by Madonna, this story weaves back and forth in time, from Wally's journey of discovery in modern New York to Wallis (Andrea Riseborough) and Edward (James D'Arcy) as they struggle to come with the decisions they have made.