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Hamnet (2025)
41K
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
The powerful story of love and loss that inspired the creation of Shakespeare's timeless masterpiece, Hamlet.
Style:
bleak, melancholic, lyrical, crying, costume drama, inspirational, depressing, intense, period drama, tragic
Plot:
bare chested male, grief, tragedy, death of child, shakespeare, mourning, literary, family tragedy, mother son relationship, creative process, biopic, bittersweet, death of son, small town, death in the family, dog, cat, forest, wedding, cave, pregnancy, flood, moon, cemetery, bird ...
Time:
16th century
Place:
london
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out period drama, costume drama, serious and realistic films with plots about biopic, kiss, husband wife relationship, marriage, death, mother daughter relationship and family relations mostly in Drama, Biography and Romance genres. Some movies like Hamnet: Mary Shelley (2017), Emily (2022), The Other Boleyn Girl (2008), The Invisible Woman (2013), All Is True (2018). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Romance
Country: UK, Luxembourg, USA, Ireland, Australia
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
The love affair between poet Percy Shelley and Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin resulted in the creation of an immortal novel, “Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus.”
Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Romance
Country: UK, USA, Australia
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
The imagined life of one of the world’s most famous authors, Emily Brontë, as she finds her voice and writes the literary classic Wuthering Heights. Explore the relationships that inspired her – her raw, passionate sisterhood with Charlotte and ...
Style:
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Time:
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Place:
england, yorkshire, brussels belgium
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
A sumptuous and sensual tale of intrigue, romance and betrayal set against the backdrop of a defining moment in European history: two beautiful sisters, Anne and Mary Boleyn, driven by their family's blind ambition, compete for the love of the ...
Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
england, britain, europe, rome italy, london ...
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
In 1857, at the height of his fame and fortune, novelist and social critic Charles Dickens meets and falls in love with teenage stage actress Nelly Ternan. As she becomes the focus of his heart and mind, as well as his muse, painful secrecy is the ...
Style:
costume drama, period piece, sentimental, captivating, serious ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: UK
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
A look at the final days in the life of playwright William Shakespeare.
Style:
frightening, captivating, psychological, tense, touching ...
Audience:
date night, adult
Plot:
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Time:
ancient times, 17th century, medieval times
Place:
united kingdom
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: Australia, UK, France
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
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Place:
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Duration: 125 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
victorian era, 1860s, 1880s, 19th century, 1830s ...
Place:
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Romance
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 135 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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58%
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Romance
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
An aspiring young physician, Robert Merivel found himself in the service of King Charles II and saves the life of someone close to the King. Merivel joins the King's court and lives the high life provided to someone of his position. Merivel is ...
Style:
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Audience:
adult
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
england, london, britain, europe, scotland
Similarity:
56%
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Romance
Country: Spain, Italy, Portugal, France
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
spain, portugal, austria, europe, flanders ...
Similarity:
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Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
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Style:
sexy, period piece, costume drama, sensual, touching ...
Audience:
date night, chick flick
Plot:
painter, love affair, doctor, sex scene, portrait, artist, nude painting, female nudity, adultery, extramarital affair, cheating wife, art history ...
Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
53%
16K
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Place:
france, versailles, europe, austria, vienna ...
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Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Duration: 147 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Country: USA, Israel
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A story about the childhood of Oz in Jerusalem and his youth in the Kibbutz during the British Mandate and the first days of the state of Israel. The plot describes the relationship between young Oz to his mother and his first steps as a writer.
Style:
costume drama, sad, sincere, psychological, suspenseful ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
48%
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
1900s, victorian era, edwardian era, 19th century, 1910s ...
Place:
england, london, britain, europe, san francisco
Similarity:
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: USA, China, Japan
Duration: 141 min.
Story:
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Style:
factual, inspirational, disturbing, exciting, historical drama ...
Audience:
teens, date night, family friendly, adult
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Country: Germany, Austria, Switzerland
Duration: 138 min.
Story:
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Style:
sexy, romantic, realistic, emotional, serious ...
Plot:
writers, love triangle, fall in love, sister sister relationship, sisters, family relations, in love, love affair, family life, love and romance, renaissance, loneliness ...
Time:
18th century, 1780s, 1790s, georgian era
Place:
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Romance
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
About the death and the 'last road' of Aleksandr Pushkin, the leading poet and writer of Russia, who was shot on a duel at age 37. Pushkin was defending the reputation of his wife and mother of his four children - Nataly. She was a center ...
Style:
melancholic, costume drama, period drama
Plot:
writers, poet, death, duel, tragedy, biopic, grief, loss, mourning, tragic hero, honor, russian empire ...
Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Romance
Country: France, Germany, Italy
Duration: 161 min.
Story:
The night of August 24, 1572, is known as the Massacre of St. Bartholomew. In France a religious war is raging. In order to impose peace a forced wedding is arranged between Margot de Valois, sister of the immature Catholic King Charles IX, and the ...
Style:
sexy, period piece, costume drama, epic, visually appealing ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
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Style:
clever, sentimental, emotional, realistic, romantic drama ...
Plot:
fall in love, murder, guilt, friendship, family relations, starting over, haunted by the past, death in the family, family problems, grief, dysfunctional family, boyfriend girlfriend relationship ...
Time:
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Place:
massachusetts, usa
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Place:
london
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Romance
Country: UK, India, Sweden
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
In 1947, Lord Mountbatten assumes the post of last Viceroy, charged with handing India back to its people, living upstairs at the house which was the home of British rulers, whilst 500 Hindu, Muslim and Sikh servants lived downstairs.
Style:
costume drama, sincere, disturbing, factual, touching ...
Plot:
british raj, independence, palace, servant, earl, ethnic conflict, british empire, democracy, economics, promise, governor, celebration ...
Time:
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Place:
india, delhi, pakistan, london, new delhi ...
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Ireland, UK, USA
Duration: 145 min.
Story:
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Style:
sad, touching, depressing, compassionate, serious ...
Audience:
toddlers, teen drama
Plot:
poverty, ira, injustice, parents and children, youth, family relations, depression, life is a bitch, death, children, rich and poor, human nature ...
Time:
1940s, year 1999, 90s, 1930s, 20th century ...
Place:
ireland, new york, brooklyn new york city, europe, usa ...
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
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Style:
captivating, realistic, serious, black and white, independent film ...
Audience:
teens
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 126 min.
Story:
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televangelist, rise and fall, adultery, religion, unfaithful husband, luxury, lgbt, family relations, religious, secret, lie, scandal ...
Time:
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Place:
palm springs california, minneapolis minnesota, minnesota
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: UK
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
The extraordinary true story of eccentric British artist Louis Wain, whose playful, sometimes even psychedelic pictures helped to transform the public's perception of cats forever.
Style:
sad, surreal, dramatic, tragicomedy, stylized ...
Plot:
cat, artist, family relations, childhood trauma, painting, art, life is a bitch, life philosophy, painter, breast cancer, cancer, grief ...
Time:
1890s, 19th century, 1880s, 1900s, victorian era ...
Place:
london, new york
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
Based on her acclaimed autobiographical book, THE WHOLE WIDE WORLD tells the story of Novalyne Price, an attractive feisty West Texas schoolteacher and her bittersweet, romantic and turbulent relationship with Robert E. Howard, the great pulp ...
Style:
period piece, touching, emotional, sentimental, cult classic ...
Plot:
writers, destiny, biopic, love story, friendship, mental disorder, bittersweet, couples, hospital, small town, loneliness, love ...
Time:
1930s, year 1996, year 1933, 20th century
Place:
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Similarity:
36%
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:
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Audience:
chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
artist, writers, painter, polyamory, art, glbt, biopic, male nudity, world war one, passion, art history, lgbt ...
Time:
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Place:
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