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The Hardacres (2024)
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK
TV show
Story:
The sweeping rags to riches story of the Hardacres, a working-class family in 1890s Yorkshire who strike it rich and move from a grimy fish dock to a vast estate.
Style:
family saga, historical drama, emotional, costume drama, period drama, nostalgic
Audience:
adult
Plot:
working class, rags to riches, class conflict, social climbing, domestic drama, moral dilemma, manor, inheritance, family secret, slow burn, country estate, class system, family, family secrets
Time:
1890s, victorian era, 19th century, victorian
Place:
yorkshire
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out period drama, costume drama, historical drama and captivating films and TV series with plots about victorian england, inheritance, coming of age, literary, society, costume and betrayal mostly in Drama, Biography and History genres. Some movies like The Hardacres: Great Expectations (1981), Great Expectations (1989), Oliver Twist (1985), The Mayor of Casterbridge (2003), The Barchester Chronicles (1982). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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