Movies like Hammers Over the Anvil

If you like "Hammers Over the Anvil" you are looking for erotic, sincere and touching movies about / with horse, older woman younger man relationship, youth, true love, sex scene, making love and love triangle themes of Biography, Drama and Romance genre shot in Australia.
Find your next favorite and similar movies in two steps: 1. Identify all themes of interest from this film (block below). 2. Look for them in the presented list.
Hammers Over the Anvil (1993)
 5.6
 643
Hammers Over the Anvil (1993)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Set in the summer of 1910 in Australia the film follows the story of 14 year old Alan Marshall (Alexander Outhread) as he stumbles out of childhood towards the exciting yet forbidding world of adulthood. For Alan, despite the effects of polio, there is only one passion in life - to become a great horseman just like his hero, the reclusive horse trainer East Driscoll (Russell Crowe). Alan is one of East's few friends and also one of the few who knows about the affair between East and the aristocratic English woman Grace McAlister (Charlotte Rampling). Things inevitably take a turn towards the tragic when East becomes determined to force Grace to leave her husband and run away with him. Hammers Over The Anvil is an evocative coming of age film from Australian director Ann Turner.
Style: erotic, sincere, touching, serious, emotional, realistic, independent film, period piece, period drama
Plot: horse, older woman younger man relationship, youth, true love, sex scene, making love, love triangle, family relations, infidelity, disability, forbidden love, human spirit, love and romance, fall in love, couples, tragic love, love affair, teenage life, society, rehabilitation, lifestyle, coming of age, unfulfilled love, hopes, unfulfillment ...
Time: year 1993, 1900s, 20th century
Place: australia, south australia
Keyword: english

Movie in categories

Most similar movies to Hammers Over the Anvil

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, emotional and period drama films with plots about couples, love and romance, couple relations, kiss, husband wife relationship, fall in love and love triangle mostly in Drama, Romance and Biography genres. Some movies like Hammers Over the Anvil: Summer in February (2013), Serenades (2001), The Crossing (1990), The Children of the Century (1999), Three (1969). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Watch Trailers From This List to Choose a Movie
Summer in February (2013)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 100 min.
Story: The Newlyn School of artists flourished at the beginning of the 20th Century and the film focuses on the wild and bohemian Lamorna Group, which included Alfred Munnings and Laura and Harold Knight. The incendiary anti-Modernist Munnings, now ...
Style: touching, sincere, emotional, serious, retro ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: painter, love triangle, infidelity, biopic, love affair, lifestyle, couples, family relations, unfulfilled love, love and romance, fall in love, couple relations ...
Time: 1910s, 1900s, 20th century, year 1915, pre world war one ...
Place: cornwall, england, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
 6.5
 106
Serenades (2001)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A girl is born to an Aboriginal mother and an Afgan father.
Style: serious, touching, captivating, sincere, tense ...
Plot: forbidden love, interracial relations, tragic love, culture clash, human spirit, injustice, true love, parents and children, society, hopes, youth, fall in love ...
Time: 19th century, 1860s
Place: australia, afghanistan
⇓ similarity ⇓
81%
 5.4
 649
The Crossing (1990)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A single day. To challenge the past. To accept the present. To decide the future. Sam arrives in his home town after 18 months away, hopeful that Meg, the girlfriend he abandoned, will go back with him to the city. His return brings the outside ...
Style: serious, realistic, independent film, crying
Plot: car accident, small town, love triangle, tragedy, love, self sacrifice, car race, young love, homecoming, romantic rivalry, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, ex boyfriend ex girlfriend relationship ...
Time: year 1965, 80s
Place: australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
80%
The Children of the Century (1999)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 135 min.
Story: True tale of the tumultuous love affair between two French literary icons of the 19th Century, novelist George Sand and poet Alfred de Musset. But their affair falls apart during an excursion to Venice, Italy where Musset is distracted by drugs and ...
Style: atmospheric, stylized, captivating, sexy, visually stunning ...
Plot: sex, love affair, writers, lifestyle, destructive relationship, love and romance, sexuality, obsessive love, forbidden love, poet, female writer, infidelity ...
Time: 19th century, 1820s, 1830s
Place: paris france, italy, venice, france, europe ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
79%
Movie in collections
 5.7
 368
Three (1969)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Two college friends, traveling in Europe, find themselves rivals for the attentions of a mysterious woman.
Style: realistic, serious, touching, sexual, freeze frame
Plot: male nudity, love triangle, friendship, college, sexual tension, nudity, hitchhiker, college student, criminal heroes, hopes, love and romance, young lovers ...
Time: 60s
Place: france, europe, florence, spain, italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
78%
 5.8
 896
Talk of Angels (1998)
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: This is the story of a young Irish woman who comes to Spain to escape from the pressures she feels about her impending marriage to a political activist in Ireland. But in Spain in the 1930's, taking a job of governess in a wealthy family, she ...
Style: realistic, serious, touching, emotional, sincere ...
Plot: infidelity, forbidden love, fall in love, politics, social differences, love triangle, society, couples, love affair, spanish civil war, extramarital affair, war ...
Time: year 1998, 1930s, year 1936
Place: ireland, europe, madrid, spain
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
The Woodlanders (1997)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 98 min.
Story: The story is set in late 19th century rural corner of South England. The daughter of timber merchant Melbury, Grace, returns to the town after finishing school. Her father now believes she can find a better husband than her childhood sweetheart, ...
Style: costume drama, realistic, serious, independent film, period piece ...
Audience: date night
Plot: love, infidelity, love triangle, social differences, tragic love, looking for love, love affair, unfulfilled love, school, rich and poor, society, fall in love ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era
Place: britain, england, europe, italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
78%
My Brilliant Career (1979)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A young woman who is determined to maintain her independence finds herself at odds with her family who wants her to tame her wild side and get married.
Style: independent film, period piece, historical drama, romantic, uplifting ...
Plot: writers, feminist, ranch, farm, coming of age, biopic, women, woman, female writer, poet, woman power, summer ...
Time: year 1979, victorian era, 20th century, 70s, turn of the century ...
Place: australia, jerusalem, new south wales
⇓ similarity ⇓
77%
Movie in collections
infidelity movies
5709
disability movies
1213
sincere movies
7620
touching movies
11218
 6.2
 36K
Adore (2013)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Australia, France
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Lil and Roz are two lifelong friends, having grown up together as neighbors in an idyllic beach town. As adults, their sons have developed a friendship as strong as that which binds their mothers. One summer, all four are confronted by simmering ...
Style: sexy, emotional, romantic, erotic, disturbing ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, teens, adult
Plot: forbidden love, older woman younger man relationship, infidelity, lust, older woman younger man sex, sexual tension, adultery, sexual relations, love affair, sex, older woman teenage boy relationship, mother son relationship ...
Time: year 2013, 21st century
Place: australia, sydney australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
74%
 6.2
 237
Cactus (1986)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A woman who injured her eyes in car accident and a young blind man fall for each other.
Style: realistic, serious, psychological, emotional, touching ...
Audience: date night
Plot: blind character, blindness, infidelity, nudity, blind man, husband wife relationship, premarital sex, sexual attraction, adultery, extramarital affair, female nudity, bare breasts ...
Time: 80s
Place: australia, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
73%
Swann in Love (1984)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, West Germany
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Swann (Jeremy Irons), an eligible bachelor in the best circles of fin-de-siècle Paris, has also some more vulgar but rich friends, the Verdurins. Through them he meets Odette (Ornella Muti), a courtesan, with whom he falls hopelessly in love. She ...
Style: contemplative, serious, realistic, gloomy, sexual ...
Plot: duchess, love and romance, erotica, sensuality, lovers, fantomas, star crossed lovers, jealousy, obsession, prostitute, french president, couple relations ...
Time: 19th century, 1890s
Place: france, paris france, europe, italy, egypt
⇓ similarity ⇓
72%
The Waterdance (1992)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: An oft overlooked film about struggling to deal with paralysis. Author Joel Garcia breaks his neck while hiking, and finds himself in a rehab center with Raymond, an exaggerating ladies man, and Bloss, a racist biker. Considerable tension builds as ...
Style: realistic, touching, emotional, talky, psychological ...
Plot: disability, friendship, paraplegic, rehabilitation, life philosophy, love and romance, human spirit, society, hopes, human nature, physical disability, male nudity ...
Time: year 1992, 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
72%
 5.9
 2K
Basil (1998)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 113 min.
Story: A lonely young aristocrat in turn-of the century England struggles to meet the approval of his over-bearing, class-conscious father while trying to please the selfish woman he loves.
Style: serious, realistic, sentimental, light, sincere ...
Plot: unfulfilled love, betrayal, fall in love, friendship, couples, love affair, society, father daughter relationship, secret, adultery, extramarital affair, unrequited love ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, year 1998, 90s
Place: england, britain, europe, yorkshire, london ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
72%
 7.2
 7K
Proof (1991)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 86 min.
Story: The life of a blind photographer who is looked after by a housekeeper is disrupted by the arrival of an agreeable restaurant worker.
Style: witty, melancholic, serious, sincere, psychological ...
Plot: blind character, blind man, friendship, obsession, disability, photographer, photograph, photography, blindness, loneliness, character study, couples ...
Time: 90s, year 1991
Place: australia, cannes
⇓ similarity ⇓
72%
 6.3
 2K
Ethan Frome (1992)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Based on the novel of the same name by Edith Wharton, it is about a husband and wife (Ethan and Zeena), who need an extra hand around the house due to Zeena's debilitated body and constant illness. The young woman who joins them is a beautiful, ...
Style: emotional, intense, costume drama, sentimental, captivating ...
Plot: family problems, forbidden love, family relations, dull life, fall in love, love triangle, infidelity, destiny, family drama, true love, love, adultery ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, year 1993, 1800s
Place: usa, massachusetts, america, new england
⇓ similarity ⇓
71%
Heading South (2005)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Canada, Belgium
Duration: 108 min.
Story: A story of three female tourists who visit Haiti, in order to enjoy the sexual nature of the young men.
Style: serious, sincere, disturbing, emotional, erotic ...
Plot: sexual relations, lust, older woman younger man relationship, tourist, looking for love, unfulfillment, lifestyle, love and romance, rivalry, loneliness, resort, jealousy ...
Time: year 2005, 70s, 20th century
Place: haiti, caribbean, africa, boston
⇓ similarity ⇓
70%
Romulus, My Father (2007)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 104 min.
Story: It tells the story of Romulus, his beautiful wife, Christina, and their struggle in the face of great adversity to bring up their son, Raimond. It is a story of impossible love that ultimately celebrates the unbreakable bond between father and son.
Style: serious, touching, sincere, realistic, emotional ...
Plot: family relations, coming of age, isolation, family problems, hopes, impossible love, couples, couple relations, rivalry, love and romance, parents and children, teenage life ...
Time: 20th century, year 2007, 60s
Place: australia, melbourne
⇓ similarity ⇓
70%
Love in the Time of Cholera (2007)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Mexico, UK, Colombia
Duration: 139 min.
Story: In Colombia just after the Great War, an old man falls from a ladder; dying, he professes great love for his wife. After the funeral, a man calls on the widow - she dismisses him angrily. Flash back more than 50 years to the day Florentino Ariza, a ...
Style: psychological, sexy, romantic, costume drama, emotional ...
Audience: teens
Plot: impossible love, new love, love, letter, magic realism, unlikely friendships, betrayal, multiple storylines, justice, visceral, epidemic, diary ...
Time: 19th century, year 2007, 1900s, 20th century, 1890s ...
Place: colombia, latin america, paris france, caribbean
⇓ similarity ⇓
70%
Movie in collections
Charlotte Sometimes (2002)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Michael, a young mechanic, is forced to choose between a daring tryst with an alluring stranger and the habitual comfort of his bittersweet obsession: his beautiful young roommate.
Style: sincere, sexy, light, captivating, romantic drama ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: love triangle, friendship, love and romance, unfulfilled love, lifestyle, youth, infidelity, nightclub, aunt nephew relationship, destructive relationship, unfulfillment, crumbling marriage ...
Place: san francisco
⇓ similarity ⇓
69%
The Great Gatsby (2000)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Stock broker Nick Carraway consents to play Cupid for his rich married first cousin Daisy Buchanen and her former love, successful bootlegger and forger Jay Gatsby.
Style: captivating, stylized, sentimental, serious, realistic ...
Audience: teens
Plot: tragic love, obsession, infidelity, lifestyle, love triangle, love affair, society, haunted by the past, unfulfilled love, social differences, dishonesty, love ...
Time: 1920s, 20th century
Place: new york, usa, yale university, oxford university, chicago
⇓ similarity ⇓
68%
The Heart of Me (2002)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, Germany
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Drama set in 1930s London with two sisters, Madeleine married to Rickie, and Dinah, who falls in love with him. Rickie and Dinah begin an affair which is to have repercussions throughout all their lives.
Style: sentimental, touching, emotional, serious, romantic drama ...
Plot: couples, love affair, infidelity, betrayal, sister sister relationship, pregnancy, fall in love, society, parents and children, haunted by the past, unfaithful husband, forbidden love ...
Time: 1930s, 1940s, year 2002, 20th century, year 1934 ...
Place: london, england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
68%
 7.0
 65K
Becoming Jane (2007)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, Ireland
Duration: 120 min.
Story: A biographical portrait of a pre-fame Jane Austen and her romance with a young Irishman.
Style: romantic, touching, costume drama, period piece, sweet ...
Audience: chick flick, teens, date night, adult
Plot: unfulfilled love, writer's life, love, prejudice, love and romance, love story, couples, fall in love, women, biopic, social differences, society ...
Time: 18th century, 19th century, victorian era, 50s, year 2007 ...
Place: england, ireland, britain, europe, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
68%
 6.8
 6K
Carrington (1995)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, France
Duration: 121 min.
Story: The story of the relationship between painter Dora Carrington and author Lytton Strachey in a World War One England of cottages and countryside. Although platonic due to Strachey's homosexuality, the relationship was nevertheless a deep and ...
Style: costume drama, talky, touching, sexual, emotional ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night
Plot: artist, painter, writers, art, polyamory, lgbt, biopic, art history, glbt, world war one, painting, gay ...
Time: 1930s, 1910s, 1920s, victorian era, year 1915 ...
Place: england, europe, italy, wales, venice ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
Movie in collections
realistic movies
29790
couples movies
13883
As White as in Snow (2001)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: Sweden, Denmark
Duration: 154 min.
Story: Inspired by real-life Elsa Andersson, this mostly fictional movie tells the story of her upbringing as a farmer's daughter, in the early 1900s, who dreams of getting away from the farm and becoming an aviatrix.
Style: serious, realistic, period drama
Plot: airplane, teenage life, youth, fall in love, female pilot, pilot, aviation, female protagonist, farm, woman, explorer, female empowerment ...
Time: 1920s, 20th century, 1900s
Place: berlin germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
Dangerous Beauty (1998)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: Veronica is brilliant, gifted and beautiful, but the handsome aristocrat she loves, Marco Venier, cannot marry her because she is penniless and of questionable family. So Veronica's mother, Paola, teaches her to become a courtesan, one of the ...
Style: romantic, sexual, period piece, witty, sexy ...
Audience: chick flick, adult
Plot: beauty, courtesan, medieval, forbidden love, prostitute, prostitution, love and romance, couple relations, social differences, rich and poor, society, love story ...
Time: 16th century, victorian era, ancient times, year 1998
Place: italy, venice, europe, turkey, cyprus ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
Bride of the Wind (2001)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: UK, Germany, Austria
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A biopic of Alma Mahler, the wife of composer Gustav Mahler (as well as Walter Gropius and Franz Werfel), and the mistress of Oskar Kokoschka.
Style: captivating, realistic, serious, atmospheric, heartbreaking ...
Plot: painter, biopic, fall in love, artist, family relations, infidelity, prodigy, lifestyle, ambition, love affair, couples, remarry ...
Time: edwardian era, year 2001, 1900s, 19th century, 20th century ...
Place: austria, vienna, new york, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
66%
The Last Station (2009)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: Germany, UK, Russia
Duration: 112 min.
Story: A historical drama that illustrates Russian author Leo Tolstoy's struggle to balance fame and wealth with his commitment to a life devoid of material things. The Countess Sofya, wife and muse to Leo Tolstoy, uses every trick of seduction on her ...
Style: sentimental, factual, period piece, touching, melancholic ...
Plot: biopic, adultery, betrayal, love and romance, family relations, loss of virginity, lifestyle, writer's life, parents and children, art, poet, husband wife relationship ...
Time: 1910s, edwardian era, year 2009, 20th century
Place: russia, europe, moscow russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
66%
The Best Intentions (1992)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: Sweden, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, UK, Italy, Norway, Iceland
Duration: 180 min.
Story: The story of Ingmar Bergman's parents. In 1909, poor theology student Henrik Bergman falls in love with Anna Ã…kerbloom, the daughter of a rich family in Uppsala. After their wedding Henrik becomes a priest in the north of Sweden. After a few ...
Style: sincere, manga, emotional, serious, touching ...
Plot: family relations, biopic, clergy, nordic, scandinavian culture, art history, religion, wedding, unfulfillment, society, family problems, couples ...
Time: year 1992, 1900s
Place: eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
65%
Violets Are Blue... (1986)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: After fifteen years of traveling around the world Gussie (Spacek), a famous photographer, returns to the Maryland coastal resort where she grew up
Style: sentimental, contemplative, talky, serious, realistic ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: sailing, small town, high school, destiny, bittersweet, love, photojournalism, sea voyage, fall in love, family relations, photojournalist, friends ...
Time: year 1986, future
Place: maryland
⇓ similarity ⇓
65%
 7.2
 5K
Firelight (1997)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Firelight is a period romance/drama film written and directed by William Nicholson. It was Nicholson's first, and to date only, film as director.
Style: uplifting, serious, touching, feel good, sexy ...
Plot: fall in love, governess, love affair, couples, victorian england, estate, nanny, love and romance, parents and children, hopes, british, love ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, year 1997, 1840s, 1830s ...
Place: england, britain, europe, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
65%
Watch Trailers From This List to Choose a Movie