Movies like David Copperfield 2000

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David Copperfield (2000)
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David Copperfield (2000)
Genre: Drama
Country: Ireland, USA
Duration: 180 min.
Story: An orphan with a rough childhood becomes a barrister.
Style: touching, serious, realistic, captivating, costume drama, juvenile, period drama
Audience: girls' night
Plot: coming of age, charles dickens, friendship, social differences, teaching the ways of the world, rich and poor, life is a bitch, society, adulthood, child as adult, young heroes, orphan, youth, poverty, david copperfield, boarding school, gentleman, transportation, betrayal, family relations, parents and children, grownups, down on your luck, boarding school life, nightmare comes true ...
Time: victorian era, 19th century, victorian
Place: england

Most similar movies to David Copperfield

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, emotional and touching films with plots about society, social differences, family relations, youth, orphan, coming of age and power relations mostly in Drama, Romance and Comedy genres. Some movies like David Copperfield: Great Expectations (1999), Great Expectations (1974), Our Mutual Friend (1998), Boy Called Twist (2004), The Old Curiosity Shop (2007). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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David Copperfield (1999)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 185 min.
TV show
Story: Charles Dickens' haunting semi-autobiographical tale of a boy who is sent away by his stepfather after his mother dies but manages to triumph over incredible adversities.
Style: costume drama, captivating, uplifting, realistic, serious ...
Audience: family friendly
Plot: charles dickens, coming of age, step parent, orphan, youth, child abuse, stepfather stepson relationship, literary, power relations, family relations, life is a bitch, society ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, edwardian era
Place: england, europe, london, dover england
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100%
The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby (1982)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 540 min.
TV show
Story: Young Nicholas Nickleby sets out to make his fortune in order to prevent his mother and sister from depending upon his uncle, Ralph Nicklby. But he finds his first job as master at a Yorkshire school to be cruel, and runs away with one of the ...
Style: serious, realistic, touching, sentimental, emotional ...
Plot: charles dickens, adoption, single parent, family relations, boarding school, boarding school life, siblings relations, dysfunctional family, family in danger, rich and poor, social differences, down on your luck ...
Time: victorian era, 19th century, 1830s
Place: england, europe, yorkshire
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
David Copperfield (1970)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 118 min.
Story: A made for TV movie of the Charles Dickens' classic novel, turns Dickens' picaresque tale into an extended flashback, with David Copperfield Robin Phillips as a young man, brooding on a deserted beach, recalling his youth. The characters ...
Style: serious, realistic, captivating, gloomy, emotional ...
Plot: coming of age, charles dickens, david copperfield, swing, orphan, boarding school, family relations, family problems, power relations, youth, life is a bitch, young heroes ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era
Place: europe, england
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
Great Expectations (1999)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 168 min.
Story: A young boy called Pip stumbles upon a hunted criminal who threatens him and demands food. A few years later, Pip finds that he has a benefactor. Imagining that Miss Havisham, a rich lady whose adopted daughter Estella he loves, is the benefactor, ...
Style: serious, emotional, costume drama, period piece, sincere ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: couple relations, charles dickens, social differences, society, rise to the top, power relations, hopes, generosity, rags to riches, makeover, napoleonic era, orphan ...
Time: victorian era, 19th century
Place: england, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
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The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 200 min.
Story: Adaptation of the Dickens novel.
Style: serious, uplifting, sentimental, atmospheric, touching ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: rich and poor, charles dickens, dysfunctional family, social differences, injustice, family relations, power relations, youth, life is a bitch, rivalry, society, siblings relations ...
Time: victorian era, 19th century, 1800s
Place: england, europe, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
The Personal History of David Copperfield (2019)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story: A fresh and distinctive take on Charles Dickens’ semi-autobiographical masterpiece, The Personal History of David Copperfield, set in the 1840s, chronicles the life of its iconic title character as he navigates a chaotic world to find his elusive ...
Style: costume drama, atmospheric, touching, sentimental, semi serious ...
Plot: charles dickens, poverty, victorian england, orphan, aunt, kite, child's point of view, children, blackmail, betrayal, society, guardian ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, 1800s, future, 1840s
Place: england, europe, dover england, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
Great Expectations (1974)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story: Charles Dickens' classic tale of Pip, a poor orphan who befriends an escaped convict and who grows up in the company of a bitter old woman, Miss Havisham, and her haughty young ward, Estella. Pip learns the rewards of both vindictiveness and ...
Style: contemplative, realistic, serious, emotional, touching
Plot: charles dickens, youth, rich and poor, napoleonic era, social differences, humble, generosity, haunted by the past, unfulfilled love, boarding school life, once in a lifetime opportunity, teaching the ways of the world ...
Time: 1900s, 19th century, victorian era
Place: england, london
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37%
Our Mutual Friend (1998)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 350 min.
TV show
Story: Intertwining tales of love, greed, and secret identities in Charles Dickens's 1860s London.
Style: costume drama, period piece, historical drama, realistic, serious ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: victorian england, charles dickens, inheritance, love, makeover, betrayal, unrequited love, lifestyle, dishonesty, life is a bitch, love and romance, society ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, 1800s
Place: britain, england, london, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
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Boy Called Twist (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: South Africa
Duration: 115 min.
Story: The harrowing tale of a South African street-kid's search for love, based on Dickens' classic story. Growing up neglected in a rural orphanage, Twist escapes to the unpredictable freedom of Cape Town, where he falls in with Fagin's ...
Style: serious, touching, emotional, sincere, realistic ...
Plot: youth, street kid, juvenile delinquency, young heroes, danger, gang, society, orphan, dishonesty, life is a bitch, rich and poor, cons and scams ...
Time: 21st century
Place: south africa, africa, cape town south africa
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30%
The Old Curiosity Shop (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, USA, Ireland
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A kindly shop owner whose overwhelming gambling debts allow a greedy landlord to seize his shop of dusty treasures. Evicted and with no way to pay his debts, he and his granddaughter flee.
Style: atmospheric, emotional, psychological, serious, costume drama ...
Plot: on the run, frame up, gambling, orphan, countryside, survival, downfall, addiction, life is a bitch, society, mysterious character, self discovery ...
Time: victorian era, 19th century
Place: europe, england, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
Little Dorrit (1987)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 357 min.
Story: A drama based on the novel by Charles Dickens which tells the story of Arthur Clennam who is thrown into a debtor's prison. There he meets a young seamstress whose father has been imprisoned for twenty-five years. A film in originally released ...
Style: captivating, emotional, sentimental, realistic, serious ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: charles dickens, coming of age, love and romance, age difference, age-gap relationship, couples, family relations, rise to the top, life is a bitch, fall in love, society, master and servant ...
Time: 19th century, year 1987, victorian era
Place: england, britain, europe, italy, london ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
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 ⇓
29%
The Mayor of Casterbridge (2003)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 196 min.
Story: Adaptation of Thomas Hardy's novel. At a country fair, young hay-trusser Michael Henchard quarrels with his wife Susan, and in a drunken fit decides to auction off his wife and baby to a sailor for five guineas. The next day, realising his ...
Style: captivating, emotional, serious, realistic, costume drama ...
Plot: haunted by the past, tragic hero, redemption, hidden truth, social relations, rise and fall, betrayal, society, family problems, victorian england, dishonesty, mayor ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, 1800s
Place: britain, england
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
A Hidden Life (2001)
Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Young girl, born and raised in an isolated farm, is brought to a small town to live with her cousins, her only relatives. Once in town, she encounters great difficulty adapting to city life.
Style: serious, emotional, touching, sentimental, sincere ...
Plot: social differences, country girl, master and servant, society, youth, teaching the ways of the world, strong female presence, estate, power relations, city life, relationships, lifestyle ...
Time: 19th century
Place: brazil
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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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 ⇓
23%
Surviving with Wolves (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Belgium, Germany
Duration: 118 min.
Story: In 1942, the young Jewish girl Misha, her Russian mother Gerusha and her German father Reuven hide from the Germans in a small house in Ardennes, Belgium. Misha is very connected to her mother that advises her that if one day a person comes to her ...
Style: touching, uplifting, realistic, serious, emotional ...
Plot: wolf, world war two, orphan, survival, feral child, little girl, human animal relationship, young heroes, danger, obsessive quest, missing person, wilderness ...
Place: belgium, germany, ukraine, europe, brussels
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Little Men (1998)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 98 min.
Story: In this adaptation of the classic novel by Louisa May Alcott, two street kids from Boston find themselves at Plumfield, a rural boarding school run by Jo and her husband -- and they soon learn academic and life lessons they won't ever forget.
Style: juvenile, independent film, touching, sentimental, feel good ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: christmas, past, coming of age, prairie, school, boarding school, family relations, orphan, boy, family life, power relations, society ...
Time: year 1998, 19th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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Buddenbrooks (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 151 min.
Story: Mid-19th-century, Baltic Sea port city of Lubeck, Germany. Follows the fourth generation of the Buddenbrook mercantile family as Tony and Thomas reach the age of marriage. Fatefully impeded every step of the way, the Buddenbrooks struggle as ...
Style: saga, realistic, emotional, psychological, captivating ...
Plot: family relations, family business, fall in love, workplace, society, parents and children, unfulfillment, relationship vs career, rivalry, inheritance, friendship, german history ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era
Place: germany, europe, northern germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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The Making of a Lady (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 95 min.
Story: 1901:- Poor but intelligent Emily Fox Seton accepts a marriage proposal from the older Lord James Walderhurst,a widower pushed into providing an heir by his haughty aunt Maria,
Style: stylized, suspense, captivating, tense, romantic drama ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: love and romance, love affair, malice, class differences, female protagonist, high society, social problems, life is a bitch, rich and poor, relationship problems, deception, rich man ...
Time: victorian era, 19th century, edwardian era, 1900s
Place: england, britain, london
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22%
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Oliver Twist (1999)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 386 min.
TV show
Story: Based on Charles Dickens' novel, this adaptation traces the childhood of an orphan whose mother dies giving birth to him in an English work-house in the 1820s.
Style: costume drama, period piece, serious, realistic, emotional ...
Audience: kids, family outing
Plot: orphan, charles dickens, child abuse, youth, confined, life is a bitch, society, danger, young heroes, coming of age, injustice, apprentice ...
Time: victorian era, 19th century, 1830s
Place: london, europe, england
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22%
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Oliver Twist (2005)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: France, UK, Czech Republic
Duration: 130 min.
Story: Oliver Twist the modern filmed version of Charles Dickens bestseller, a Roman Polanski adaptation. The classic Dickens tale, where an orphan meets a pickpocket on the streets of London. From there, he joins a household of boys who are trained to ...
Style: emotional, costume drama, atmospheric, serious, touching ...
Audience: family outing, teens, kids
Plot: boy, orphan, orphanage, poverty, child abuse, childhood, children, child, friendship, kidnapping, death sentence, apprentice ...
Time: victorian era, 19th century, middle ages, year 2005, 1800s ...
Place: england, london, europe
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21%
Goodbye, Mr. Chips (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 99 min.
Story: In the later years of the nineteenth century Latin master Mr. Chipping is the mainstay of Brookfields boys boarding school, a good teacher and a kindly person but he is considered to be married to the job so that it is a surprise when, on a walking ...
Style: sentimental, emotional, touching, serious, realistic
Audience: kids
Plot: boarding school, tragic hero, dedicated educator, society, idealism, social differences, friendship, family relations, youth, teachers and students, teacher, husband wife relationship ...
Time: 19th century, year 1914, edwardian era
Place: england, europe
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21%
Great Expectations (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: 'Great Expectations' opens with Pip as a boy (played as an young man by newcomer Douglas Booth, 'The Pillars of the Earth') on the marshes near his home, where he encounters the desperate escapee Magwitch (Winstone). Pip is ...
Style: atmospheric, historical drama, serious, realistic, emotional ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: generosity, victorian england, charles dickens, lovers, rags to riches, orphan, convict, stranger, society, redemption, obsession, hopes ...
Time: 19th century, 1820s, victorian era, regency period
Place: britain, london, england
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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Due East (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 104 min.
Story: The movie spotlights an intelligent high school senior and National Merit Scholar (Bryant) who has never been part of the "in crowd." She teaches a high school equivalency night class, tends to the needs of her widower father, Jesse ...
Style: serious, realistic, emotional, sincere, contemplative ...
Audience: date night, girls' night, teen drama
Plot: single parent, teenage pregnancy, small town, coming of age, teenage life, destructive relationship, couples, family relations, parents and children, lifestyle, love and romance, youth ...
Time: 21st century
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The Mill (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Powerful historical drama series, based on the lives of real people, telling the story of young 19th-century apprentices taking their lives into their own hands for the first time.
Style: realistic, stylized, captivating, serious, psychological ...
Plot: working class, workplace, factory, society, life is a bitch, workplace situations, realism, social differences, rich and poor, mechanic, family relations, parents and children ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era
Place: england, britain
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21%
Master Harold ... and the Boys (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: South Africa
Duration: 87 min.
Story: This movie is of Hally, an adolescent white South African. He is stuck between his intolerant father's outlook of him and those of his caretaker, Sam. Sam is a black waiter and Hally's friend and teacher. Hally is required to laugh at his ...
Style: touching, serious, emotional, captivating, realistic ...
Plot: youth, interracial relations, racism, friendship, dysfunctional family, redemption, life is a bitch, social decay, family problems, human spirit, hopes, parents and children ...
Time: 21st century
Place: south africa, africa
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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A Simple Heart (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Unable to forget her first love, Félicité, a simple and kind maid, devotes herself completely to her new master, Mathilde Aubain. As the passing of time doesn't heal her wounds, she gives love to all those who surround her: Mathilde's ...
Style: serious, sentimental, realistic, emotional, touching
Audience: girls' night
Plot: servant, social differences, family relations, friendship, hopes, unfulfilled love, family life, power relations, friends, master and servant, introspection, women ...
Time: 19th century
Place: europe, france, normandy
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20%
The Black Velvet Gown (1991)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 103 min.
Story: In the 1830's in northern England, Riah Millican, a widow with three children, takes a job as housekeeper to a reclusive former teacher, Percival Miller. Miller makes Riah the gift of a black velvet gown, and even educates her children. But ...
Style: serious, costume drama, historical drama, realistic, period drama
Plot: servant, housekeeper, family life, working class, social differences, eviction, family relations, power relations, society, love and romance, idealism, single parent ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, 1830s, 1840s
Place: england, britain, europe, france
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20%
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Toe to Toe (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Out on the lacrosse pitch, wealthy but troubled Jesse and poor but driven Tosha form an easy and deep bond, but their relationship is threatened once they enter the hallways of an elite prep school they attend in Washington, D.C. There, they must ...
Style: captivating, realistic, psychological, sentimental, sexy ...
Audience: teens
Plot: lacrosse, friendship, teenage life, self discovery, coming of age, youth, social differences, racism, strong female lead, teen rebel, female bonding, rebel ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, washington d.c.
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My Friend Victoria (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Aged eight, Victoria spends a night in the home of a wealthy white family; years later, she encounters them again and her life is changed forever.
Style: realistic, serious, touching, emotional
Plot: interracial couple, adoption, family life, family relations, hopes, youth, society, rich and poor, parents and children, class differences, family reunited, orphan ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: paris france, france
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20%
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