Mr Malcolm's List (2022)
Directed by Emma Holly Jones
When she fails to meet an item on his list of requirements for a bride, Julia Thistlewaite is jilted by London’s most eligible bachelor, Mr. Malcolm. Feeling humiliated and determined to exact revenge, she convinces her friend Selina Dalton to play the role of his ideal match. Soon, Mr. Malcolm wonders whether he’s found the perfect woman...or the perfect hoax.
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Pride and Prejudice , of course, serves as a primary source of that inspiration, if only because the eponymous character, an outwardly stern but secretly kind man of exacting manner and particular tastes, so matter-of-factly reflects Mr. Darcy, the most enduring of men from Austen's oeuvre.
The ‘love across class divide’ plot certainly reminds me of Pride and Prejudice .
Our schemer might also be in the vein and a subversion of the title character from Austen's Emma, as she's a matchmaker here—albeit with mean-spirited intentions.