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The Forsytes (2025)
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK
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Story:
Chronicles the lives of four generations of an upper-class family of stockbrokers, set against the backdrop of a rapidly evolving late-Victorian world.
Style:
family saga, costume drama, tense, bleak, melancholic, period drama
Plot:
obsession, jealousy, manipulation, rejection, gender roles, possessiveness, character study, literary, attorney, aristocracy, repression, adaptation, social climbing, inheritance, ambitious, slow burn, victorian england, stock broker, forbidden love, love triangle, tragic romance, dialogue driven
Time:
victorian era, edwardian era, 20th century
Place:
london, england
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out period drama, costume drama, historical drama and period piece films and TV series with plots about victorian england, literary, inheritance, costume, ambition, society and aristocracy mostly in Drama and Crime genres. Some movies like The Forsytes: The Charmer (1987), All Passion Spent (1986), The Spoils of Poynton (1970), Great Expectations (1989), Martin Chuzzlewit (1994). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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