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The Woodlanders (1997)
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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, woodsman Giles. She marries handsome young doctor Fitzpiers, but soon finds out he's not the man of her dreams and she still loves Giles.
Style: costume drama, serious, realistic, independent film, period piece, period drama
Audience: date night
Plot: love, love triangle, infidelity, school, forbidden love, rich and poor, love and romance, rise to the top, fall in love, couples, tragic love, love affair, social differences, society, looking for love, unfulfilled love, unfulfillment, couple relations, dancing, horse, passion, forest, wedding, food, first love ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, victorian
Place: britain, england, europe, italy

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, period drama, serious and costume drama films with plots about love and romance, society, couples, couple relations, fall in love, social differences and costume mostly in Drama, Romance and History genres. Some movies like The Woodlanders: Mansfield Park (2007), Far from the Madding Crowd (1998), Great Expectations (2012), Where Angels Fear to Tread (1991), Far from the Madding Crowd (1967). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Mansfield Park (2007)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 88 min.
Story: In Mansfield Park, poverty-stricken Fanny Price is sent away to live with her wealthy uncle and aunt at Mansfield Park. As she struggles to adapt to her new lifestyle she begins to attract the attentions of suitors, learning about the sexual ...
Style: period piece, costume drama, stylized, witty, realistic ...
Plot: love triangle, couples, love and romance, couple relations, class differences, society, fall in love, social differences, unrequited love, unfulfilled love, estate, hypocrisy ...
Time: 18th century, 19th century, victorian era, 1800s, regency period
Place: england, europe, britain
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100%
Far from the Madding Crowd (1998)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 54 min.
Story: This powerful adaptation of Thomas Hardy's classic novel spins a story of passion and destruction set in the nineteenth century. The proud, flighty and bewitching Bathsheba Everdene finds herself entangled into the passions of three men and her ...
Style: historical drama, costume drama, serious, realistic, period drama
Plot: victorian england, farm, beach, seaside, age difference, canceled wedding, unrequited love, social differences, rich and poor, love triangle, unfulfilled love, wooing ...
Time: 19th century, 1800s, victorian era
Place: britain, england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Great Expectations (2012)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 128 min.
Story: Miss Havisham, a wealthy spinster who wears an old wedding dress and lives in the dilapidated Satis House, asks Pip's "Uncle Pumblechook" (who is actually Joe's uncle) to find a boy to play with her adopted daughter Estella. Pip ...
Style: captivating, emotional, serious, realistic, sentimental ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: generosity, unfulfilled love, orphan, love and romance, redemption, social differences, charles dickens, hopes, rise to the top, haunted by the past, youth, benefactor ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, regency period
Place: england, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Where Angels Fear to Tread (1991)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 116 min.
Story: An English widow goes to Italy, falls in love with a dentist's son and marries him, against her straitlaced family's wishes.
Style: costume drama, historical drama, period piece, cult classic, independent film ...
Plot: railway, mother in law, sister in law, brother in law, class differences, unrequited love, marital infidelity, marriage for money, catholicism, family disapproval, widow, marriage ...
Time: edwardian era, 1900s, year 1991, victorian era, 20th century ...
Place: italy, england, britain, europe, tuscany
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Far from the Madding Crowd (1967)
Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 168 min.
Story: Bathsheba Everdine, a willful, flirtatious, young woman, unexpectedly inherits a large farm and becomes romantically involved with three widely divergent men.
Style: scenic, romantic, historical drama, atmospheric, emotional ...
Audience: date night
Plot: unrequited love, literary, farm, dalmatian, love, beach, british soldier, women, love story, amor, myth, alienation ...
Time: victorian era, 19th century, year 1967, 1870s, 1860s
Place: britain, england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Sense and Sensibility (1995)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 136 min.
Story: Rich Mr. Dashwood dies, leaving his second wife and her daughters poor by the rules of inheritance. Two daughters are the titular opposites.
Style: romantic, feel good, sincere, costume drama, dramatic ...
Audience: date night, girls' night, chick flick, kids, adult
Plot: love, love story, happy ending, love triangle, love and romance, love affair, fall in love, sisters, social differences, rich and poor, village life, eligible bachelor ...
Time: 19th century, 18th century, 90s, year 1995, 1800s ...
Place: england, britain, europe, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Forsyte Saga (2002)
Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 276 min.
TV show
Story: In 2002, the first two books and the first interlude of John Galsworthy's trilogy The Forsyte Saga were adapted by Granada Television for the ITV network. Additional funding for this production was provided by American PBS station WGBH, the ...
Style: period piece, family saga, realistic, costume drama, serious ...
Plot: high society, love affair, society, love and romance, forbidden love, family relations, couple relations, parents and children, unfulfilled love, rich and poor, power relations, victorian england ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, 1920s, 20th century, 1880s ...
Place: england, britain, europe, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Far from the Madding Crowd (2015)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story: Based on the literary classic by Thomas Hardy, Far from the Madding Crowd is the story of independent, beautiful and headstrong Bathsheba Everdene, who attracts three very different suitors: Gabriel Oak, a sheep farmer, captivated by her fetching ...
Style: romantic, period piece, emotional, costume drama, sexy ...
Audience: chick flick, teens, date night, girls' night
Plot: couples, couple relations, looking for love, love story, victorian england, english countryside, love and romance, relationships, love affair, dishonesty, countryside, unrequited love ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, year 2015, 1800s
Place: england, britain, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
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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 ⇓
44%
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Jane Eyre (1997)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Charlotte Bronte's classic novel is filmed yet again. The story of the Yorkshire orphan who becomes a governess to a young French girl and finds love with the brooding lord of the manor is given a standard romantic flare, but sparks do not seem ...
Style: costume drama, gothic, atmospheric, emotional, spiritual ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: age difference, literary, couples, society, fall in love, youth, love, haunted house, young love, education, spirituality, victorian england ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era
Place: england, europe, britain
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
Under the Greenwood Tree (2005)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Set in a rustic English village in the mid 19th century, Under The Greenwood Tree tells the story of a poor young man who falls for a middle-class schoolteacher and attempts to win her over.
Style: semi serious, realistic, touching, costume drama, captivating ...
Audience: girls' night, date night
Plot: village life, social differences, fall in love, forbidden love, love and romance, looking for love, unfulfilled love, society, couples, social relations, curses spells and rituals, christmas ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, middle ages, 50s
Place: britain, england
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
The Wings of the Dove (1997)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Kate is secretly betrothed to a struggling journalist, Merton Densher. But she knows her Aunt Maude will never approve of the match, since Kate's deceased mother has lost all her money in a marriage to a degenerate opium addict. When Kate meets ...
Style: sexy, atmospheric, period piece, serious, costume drama ...
Plot: love, love triangle, relationships, nudity, death, betrayal, greed, fall in love, literary, power relations, rich and poor, couple relations ...
Time: 1910s, year 1997, victorian era, 20th century, edwardian era
Place: england, london, britain, venice, europe ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
Tess of the D'Urbervilles (1998)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 180 min.
Story: Thomas Hardy's classic epic remains one of the most popular novels, this TV adaptation vividly depicts the powerful tale of a peasant girl whose life is torn apart by the love and jealousy of two men. Justine Waddell stars as the hapless Child ...
Style: period piece, romantic, historical drama, costume drama, realistic ...
Plot: victorian england, farming, civil rights, feminist, human rights, past, young love, age difference, innocence lost, couples, power relations, injustice ...
Time: middle ages, 1800s, 19th century, victorian era
Place: europe, england
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
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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 ⇓
42%
 6.8
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Onegin (1999)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: In the opulent St. Petersburg of the Empire period, Eugene Onegin is a jaded but dashing aristocrat - a man often lacking in empathy, who suffers from restlessness, melancholy and, finally, regret. Through his best friend Lensky, Onegin is ...
Style: atmospheric, period piece, romantic, costume drama, romantic drama ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: unfulfilled love, forbidden love, tragic love, marriage, unrequited love, book, obsession, unfulfillment, love and romance, couple relations, poetry, inheritance ...
Time: 19th century, 1820s, 1800s, year 1999, victorian era
Place: russia, st. petersburg russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
 5.8
 6K
Angel (2007)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Belgium, UK
Duration: 134 min.
Story: Edwardian England. A precocious girl from a poor background with aspirations to being a novelist finds herself swept to fame and fortune when her tasteless romances hit the best seller lists. Her life changes in unexpected ways when she encounters ...
Style: serious, realistic, talky, witty, clever ...
Plot: adultery, love, writers, infidelity, estate, world war one, writer's life, family relations, rise to the top, ambition, social differences, couple relations ...
Time: 1900s, victorian era, 20th century, edwardian era, year 1914
Place: england, britain, europe, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
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 ⇓
42%
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Jude (1996)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 123 min.
Story: In late 19th-century England, Jude aspires to be an academic, but is hobbled by his blue-collar background. Instead, he works as a stonemason and is trapped in an unloving marriage to a farmer's daughter named Arabella. But when his wife leaves ...
Style: emotional, erotic, period piece, romantic, depressing ...
Plot: love, unhappy marriage, erotica, social injustice, family relations, destiny, forbidden love, sex scene, sex, mentor, adultery, tragedy ...
Time: 19th century, year 1996, victorian era, 1890s, 1880s
Place: england, britain, europe, ancient greece
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
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The Europeans (1979)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Based on Henry James' novel with the same title. It's the fall of 1850, a few miles outside Boston. The household of the dour Mr. Wentworth receives two unannounced visitors from Europe, Eugenia and Felix, the daughter and son of his half ...
Style: historical drama, romantic drama, semi serious, realistic, biting ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: culture clash, couple relations, siblings, american history, marriage, baroness, family relations, love triangle, dysfunctional family, rural setting, unrequited love, autumn ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, year 1979
Place: massachusetts, usa, europe, vienna, boston ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
The Governess (1998)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 115 min.
Story: When the father of privileged Rosina da Silva violently dies, she decides to pass herself off as a gentile and finds employment with a family in faraway Scotland. Soon she and the family father, Charles, start a passionate secret affair.
Style: enigmatic, emotional, colorful, period piece, costume drama ...
Plot: fall in love, couples, society, love affair, loss of virginity, nanny, older man younger woman relationship, jewess, couple relations, master and servant, male nudity, love triangle ...
Time: victorian era, 19th century, year 1998, 1800s
Place: scotland, england, london, britain, middle east ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
Anna Karenina (1997)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Russia, UK
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Anna (Marceau) is a wife and mother who has an affair with the handsome Count Vronsky (Bean). Based on the novel by Tolstoy.
Style: costume drama, romantic, psychological, atmospheric, emotional ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: imperial russia, relationships, infidelity, betrayal, cheating wife, age difference, death, love, true love, american civil war, russian woman, women ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, year 1997, 1880s
Place: russia, st. petersburg russia, moscow russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
 7.3
 18K
Tess (1979)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, France
Duration: 186 min.
Story: This multiple-Oscar-winning film by Roman Polanski is an exquisite, richly layered adaptation of Thomas Hardy’s Tess of the d’Urbervilles. A strong-willed peasant girl (Nastassja Kinski, in a gorgeous breakthrough) is sent by her father to the ...
Style: period piece, scenic, costume drama, visually appealing, atmospheric ...
Plot: tragic love, breast feeding, love, relationships, rape, mansion, beautiful scenery, loneliness, nobility, destiny, peasant, dating ...
Time: 19th century, year 1979, 1800s, victorian era, 1880s
Place: britain, eastern europe, england, europe, brazil
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
 6.8
 10K
Jane Eyre (1996)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Italy, UK, USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Jane Eyre is an orphan cast out as a young girl by her aunt, Mrs. Reed, and sent to be raised in a harsh charity school for girls. There she learns to be come a teacher and eventually seeks employment outside the school. Her advertisement is ...
Style: romantic, costume drama, period piece, melancholic, emotional ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night
Plot: happy ending, orphan, love triangle, fall in love, power relations, family relations, love and romance, love affair, parents and children, haunted by the past, rich and poor, love story ...
Time: 19th century, year 1996, ancient times, victorian era
Place: england, europe, britain
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
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Lady Chatterley's Lover (2015)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 89 min.
Story: An early-20th-century tale of love across class boundaries which tells the legendary and romantic story of Lady Chatterley’s affair with her gamekeeper. Jed Mercurio’s adaptation of DH Lawrence’s classic.
Style: serious, realistic, erotic, costume drama, disturbing ...
Plot: social differences, infidelity, cheating on husband, master and servant, love affair, obsession, society, couples, love and romance, couple relations, power relations, fall in love ...
Time: 20th century, 1910s, 1920s, edwardian era
Place: england, europe, britain
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
Lady Caroline Lamb (1972)
Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Country: UK, Italy
Duration: 123 min.
Story: Lady Caroline Lamb, dissatisfied in her marriage, has an affair with the dashing Romantic poet Lord Byron.
Style: realistic, serious, sexual, crying, period drama
Plot: french revolution, writers, poet, historical event, art, napoleonic wars, politics, obsession, love triangle, infidelity, adultery, extramarital affair ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, regency period, year 1972
Place: england, europe, rome italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
The Golden Bowl (2000)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, France, UK
Duration: 130 min.
Story: An intricately plotted tale of thwarted love and betrayal, "The Golden Bowl" tells the story of an extravagantly rich American widower and his sheltered daughter, both of whom marry only to discover that their respective mates, a beautiful ...
Style: period piece, serious, stylized, realistic, costume drama ...
Plot: adultery, love affair, greed, deception, marriage for money, family problems, couples, society, fall in love, dishonesty, crumbling marriage, parents and children ...
Time: edwardian era, 1900s, victorian era, 20th century
Place: england, italy, britain, rome italy, europe ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
Torrents of Spring (1989)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, France, Italy
Duration: 101 min.
Story: In 1840, a young Russian aristocrat, Dimitri Sanin, is returning home after a long tour of Europe. In Germany, he falls in love with a beautiful pastry shop girl, Gemma Rosselli, who soon starts sharing his feelings. They decide to get married and, ...
Style: serious, realistic, sexual, clever, emotional ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: true love, love, erotica, renaissance, estate, betrayal, love triangle, power relations, couples, love and romance, dishonesty, femme fatale ...
Time: 19th century, year 1989
Place: eastern europe, europe, germany, russia, venice
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
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 ⇓
41%
Madame Bovary (2000)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 180 min.
Story: A young woman in her late teens, a reader of novels and with high hopes of romance and passion, marries a widowed country doctor. Although he dotes on her, she is soon bored and discontent. First, she gives her imagination to a law student in town, ...
Style: period piece, emotional, realistic, psychological, serious ...
Plot: forbidden love, adulteress, love affair, destructive relationship, downfall, infidelity, social relations, society, life is a bitch, crumbling marriage, tragic hero, sexual freedom ...
Time: 19th century, 1800s, victorian era
Place: france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
Daniel Deronda (2002)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 210 min.
TV show
Story: Daniel Deronda is a British television serial drama adapted by Andrew Davies from the George Eliot novel of the same name. The serial was directed by Tom Hooper, produced by Louis Marks, and was first broadcast in three parts on BBC One from 23 ...
Style: costume drama, period piece, serious, realistic, captivating ...
Plot: aristocracy, drowning, love affair, social differences, love triangle, jewess, couples, rise to the top, unlikely couple, betrayal, fall in love, society ...
Time: 19th century, middle ages, 1870s, victorian era
Place: britain, england, europe, london, italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
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