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Death Defying Acts (2007)
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Death Defying Acts (2007)
Genre: Drama, History, Romance, Thriller
Country: UK, Australia, USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: On a tour of Britain in 1926, Harry Houdini enters into a passionate affair with a psychic out to con the famous magician.
Style: exciting, atmospheric, serious, suspense, suspenseful, tense, romantic, sweet, surreal, sex comedy ...
Plot: supernatural ability, cons and scams, parents and children, love affair, dishonesty, magic, paranormal phenomena, juggling, magician, clairvoyant, psychic, castle, world war one, witchcraft, past, romantic relationship, escape artist, devastation, wizard, biopic, seance, family relations, love and romance, contact, redemption ...
Time: 1920s, 20th century, year 2007, 20s
Place: scotland, europe, edinburgh scotland, montreal, montreal quebec canada
Keyword: gold digger, movie theatre, scottish

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, atmospheric and crying films with plots about love and romance, husband wife relationship, kiss, dancing, couples, dancer and couple relations mostly in Drama, Romance and Thriller genres. Some movies like Death Defying Acts: The Prestige (2006), The Immigrant (2013), Serena (2014), Asylum (2005), First Snow (2006). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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The Prestige (2006)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 130 min.
Story: A mysterious story of two magicians whose intense rivalry leads them on a life-long battle for supremacy -- full of obsession, deceit and jealousy with dangerous and deadly consequences.
Style: surprise ending, twist ending, clever, atmospheric, psychological ...
Audience: family friendly, teens, chick flick
Plot: twists and turns, obsession, plot twist, magic, magician, secret, rivalry, uninhibited rivalry, magic trick, illusionist, illusion, deception ...
Time: victorian era, 19th century, year 2006, edwardian era, future ...
Place: london, colorado, britain, peru, los angeles ...
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The Immigrant (2013)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: In 1921 New York. an immigrant woman is tricked into a life of burlesque and vaudeville until a dazzling magician tries to save her and reunite her with her sister who is being held in the confines of Ellis Island.
Style: atmospheric, harsh, emotional, suspenseful, captivating ...
Audience: teens
Plot: prostitution, immigrant, immigration, corruption, family relations, confession, american dream, love affair, exploitation, society, forceful separation, sisters ...
Time: 1920s, year 2013, 20th century
Place: poland, israel, america, usa, new york ...
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Serena (2014)
Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Country: France, USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: North Carolina mountains at the end of the 1920s – George and Serena Pemberton, love-struck newly-weds, begin to build a timber empire. Serena soon proves herself to be equal to any man: overseeing loggers, hunting rattle-snakes, even saving a ...
Style: suspense, emotional, depressing, intense, melancholic ...
Audience: girls' night, teens
Plot: jealousy, obsession, twists and turns, tragedy, loneliness, writers, marriage, greed, brutality, family business, illegitimate son, couple relations ...
Time: 1920s, 1930s, year 2014, 20th century, year 1929 ...
Place: north carolina, usa
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25%
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Asylum (2005)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: Ireland, UK
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A woman becomes very curious about one of her psychiatrist husband's inmates, a man who was found guilty in the murder and disfigurement of his former wife.
Style: psychological, serious, suspenseful, atmospheric, tense ...
Plot: psychiatrist, couple relations, obsession, love, love and romance, destructive relationship, hospital, affair, crumbling marriage, family problems, infidelity, love triangle ...
Time: 20th century, year 2005, 50s, 1950s, 60s
Place: europe, london, wales, united kingdom, england
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First Snow (2006)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: A psychic's ominous reading sends a man into a tailspin.
Style: psychological, suspenseful, intense, atmospheric, tense ...
Plot: desert, betrayal, manic, character study, psychic power, couples, couple relations, dishonesty, a vision, business venture, business deal, secrets ...
Time: year 2006
Place: new mexico, usa, dallas texas, oklahoma city
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24%
The Affair of the Necklace (2001)
Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story: In pre-Revolutionary France, a young aristocratic woman left penniless by the political unrest in the country, must avenge her family's fall from grace by scheming to steal a priceless necklace.
Style: costume drama, period piece, factual, realistic, atmospheric ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: countess, politics, conspiracy, royal family, revenge, justice, police investigation, nobility, french revolution, royalty, couples, love and romance ...
Time: 18th century, georgian era, ancient times, year 2001, 1780s ...
Place: france, paris france, versailles, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
Imagining Argentina (2003)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: Spain, UK, USA, Argentina
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Set during the unsettling disappearances in Buenos Aires during the dictatorship of the 1970s, the film involves theater director Carlos Rueda and his wife Cecilia. Shortly after Cecilia writes an editorial commentary questioning the mysterious ...
Style: serious, bleak, tense, psychological, suspenseful ...
Plot: politics, disappearance, uncover truth, danger, political unrest, father daughter relationship, compassion, sex crime, revolution, political intrigue, inspiration, basement ...
Time: year 2003, 70s, year 1976
Place: latin america, buenos aires argentina, argentina, europe, venice ...
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23%
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 ⇓
23%
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Before the Rains (2007)
Genre: Drama, History, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA, India, UK
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Set in southern India in the late 1930s, this provocative tale traces the story of three people caught in an inexorable web of forbidden romance and dangerous secrets. After a British spice planter falls in love with his alluring servant, an ...
Style: sincere, touching, sentimental, disturbing, suspense ...
Plot: forbidden love, interracial romance, taboo, master and servant, sex, love affair, social differences, love and romance, society, dishonesty, hindu, hidden treasure ...
Time: 1930s, year 2007, year 1937
Place: india, asia, england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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Ophelia (2018)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story: Ophelia comes of age as lady-in-waiting for Queen Gertrude, and her singular spirit captures Hamlet's affections. As lust and betrayal threaten the kingdom, Ophelia finds herself trapped between true love and controlling her own destiny.
Style: scenic, stylized, exciting, inspirational, colorful ...
Audience: date night, adult
Plot: castle, medieval, imaginary kingdom, murder, crown prince, shakespeare, hamlet, adaptation, storytelling, revenge, love, male female relationship ...
Time: middle ages, ancient times, medieval times
Place: denmark
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
Reflections in a Golden Eye (1967)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Bizarre tale of sex, betrayal, and perversion at a military post.
Style: psychological, atmospheric, suspenseful, serious, sexual ...
Plot: military, voyeurism, gay, marriage, infidelity, obsession, sex, soldier, couples, lgbt, solace, sexual dysfunction ...
Time: 20th century, 1940s
Place: georgia
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
Wide Sargasso Sea (1993)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 99 min.
Story: In the wake of Jamaican emancipation, French colonist Annette Cosway falls into poverty and marries racist Englishman Paul Mason. But when Annette's young son dies in a fire started by former slaves, Mason flees to England, leaving his ...
Style: sexy, erotic, sexual, sensual, gothic horror ...
Audience: girls' night, adult
Plot: erotica, infidelity, lust, adultery, sex, female pubic hair, madness, topless woman, voodoo, obsession, slavery, wedding ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, 1840s, year 1993
Place: jamaica, caribbean, england, europe, britain
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
 6.0
 60K
Original Sin (2001)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA, Mexico, France, UK
Duration: 116 min.
Story: A young man is plunged into a life of subterfuge, deceit and mistaken identity in pursuit of a femme fatale whose heart is never quite within his grasp
Style: sexy, romantic, erotic, suspense, atmospheric ...
Audience: chick flick, date night, adult
Plot: femme fatale, obsession, sex, couple relations, dangerous attraction, erotica, passion, passionate sex, love story, husband wife relationship, ex boyfriend ex girlfriend relationship, sex scene ...
Time: 19th century, year 2001, victorian era, 20th century, 1900s
Place: iran, cuba, morocco, havana cuba, delaware ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
The Portrait of a Lady (1996)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 144 min.
Story: Ms. Isabel Archer isn't afraid to challenge societal norms. Impressed by her free spirit, her kindhearted cousin writes her into his fatally ill father's will. Suddenly rich and independent, Isabelle ventures into the world, along the way ...
Style: psychological, period piece, costume drama, talky, atmospheric ...
Audience: girls' night
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Time: 19th century, victorian era, year 1996, 1870s
Place: europe, england, florence, london, italy ...
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21%
 7.3
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I Origins (2014)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: I Origins follows a molecular biologist studying the evolution of the human eye. He finds his work permeating his life after a brief encounter with an exotic young woman who slips away from him. As his research continues years later with his lab ...
Style: thought provoking, spiritual, mind bending, philosophical, enigmatic ...
Plot: reincarnation, eye, metaphysics, spirituality, religion, genetics, buddhism, atheism, evolution, society, love story, elevator ...
Time: year 2014, 2010s, 90s, year 1998, year 2012 ...
Place: india, usa, new york, asia, new haven connecticut ...
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100%
 6.9
 87K
The Duchess (2008)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Romance, Thriller
Country: UK, Italy, France, USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: A chronicle of the life of 18th century aristocrat Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, who was reviled for her extravagant political and personal life.
Style: romantic, costume drama, sexy, emotional, dramatic ...
Audience: chick flick, teens
Plot: royalty, love story, duchess, love triangle, love affair, aristocracy, duke, infidelity, adultery, high society, marriage, nobility ...
Time: 18th century, georgian era, 19th century, middle ages, ancient times ...
Place: england, britain, europe, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
 6.2
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Tulip Fever (2017)
Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: An artist falls for a married young woman while he's commissioned to paint her portrait. The two invest in the risky tulip market in hopes to build a future together.
Style: costume drama, period piece, touching, suspense, sincere ...
Audience: chick flick, date night
Plot: painter, adultery, doctor, sex scene, artist, portrait, extramarital affair, nude painting, love affair, female nudity, thief, female orgasm ...
Time: 17th century, year 2017
Place: netherlands, amsterdam
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
 6.2
 38K
The Libertine (2004)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Romance
Country: UK, Australia
Duration: 114 min.
Story: The story of John Wilmot, a.k.a. the Earl of Rochester, a 17th century poet who famously drank and debauched his way to an early grave, only to earn posthumous critical acclaim for his life's work.
Style: period piece, costume drama, melancholic, atmospheric, surreal ...
Plot: writers, libertine, decadence, poet, infidelity, oral sex, biopic, alcoholic, depression, dysfunctional marriage, sexual attraction, lust ...
Time: 17th century, year 2004, ancient times, year 2006, 20th century ...
Place: england, london, britain, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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No Reservations (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Master chef Kate Armstrong runs her life and her kitchen with intimidating intensity. However, a recipe for disaster may be in the works when she becomes the guardian of her young niece while crossing forks with the brash sous-chef who just joined ...
Style: feel good, romantic, sentimental, sweet, uplifting ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, date night
Plot: cooking, restaurant, chef, love, love story, cooking and food, opposites attract, fall in love, initially antagonists, guardian, love and romance, food ...
Time: year 2007, 21st century
Place: new york, italy, usa, manhattan new york city
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20%
The Great Gatsby (1974)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 144 min.
Story: Nick Carraway, a young Midwesterner now living on Long Island, finds himself fascinated by the mysterious past and lavish lifestyle of his neighbor, the nouveau riche Jay Gatsby. He is drawn into Gatsby's circle, becoming a witness to obsession ...
Style: period piece, stylized, captivating, visual, serious ...
Audience: girls' night
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Time: 1920s, 20th century, post world war one
Place: rhode island, new york, long island, usa, manhattan new york city ...
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Mrs Brown (1997)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Romance
Country: UK, Ireland, USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Queen Victoria is deeply depressed after the death of her husband, disappearing from public. Her servant Brown, who adores her, through caress and admiration brings her back to life, but that relationship creates scandalous situation and is likely ...
Style: costume drama, touching, sentimental, period piece, intense ...
Plot: queen, british history, friendship, politics, victorian england, monarchy, british monarchy, monarch, relationships, widow, love story, biopic ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, 20th century, 1800s, ancient times ...
Place: scotland, england, britain, europe
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Music, Romance
Country: USA, UK, Hungary
Duration: 130 min.
Story: Biography of the African-American who became a major performer in the Paris cabarets of the 1920's and 1930's. The film follows her life beginning as a struggling performer in 1917 St. Louis, her frustrations leading to her move to France, ...
Style: realistic, captivating, emotional, serious, entertaining ...
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Time: 1930s, victorian era, 1920s, 1910s, 1950s ...
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20%
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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: romantic, sexy, costume drama, period piece, stylized ...
Audience: chick flick
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Time: 16th century, middle ages, 19th century, ancient times, 20th century ...
Place: england, britain, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
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Style: emotional, serious, realistic, disturbing, sincere ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: dysfunctional family, teenage girl, addiction, redheaded woman, life is a bitch, coping, happy ending, family relations, loneliness, friendship, ambition, love affair ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, louisiana, new orleans, iowa, chicago
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20%
 7.2
 803
Shadow Magic (2000)
Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Country: China, Germany, Taiwan, USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story: Beijing, 1902: an enterprising young portrait photographer named Liu Jinglun, keen on new technology, befriends a newly-arrived Englishman who's brought projector, camera, and Lumière-brothers' shorts to open the Shadow Magic theater. ...
Style: touching, serious, realistic, emotional
Plot: culture clash, father daughter relationship, friendship, introspection, lifestyle, social differences, couple relations, love and romance, society, human nature, fish out of water, parents and children ...
Time: 90s, 1900s, 1890s, 20th century, 19th century ...
Place: china, asia
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19%
Wuthering Heights (1992)
Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Young orphan Heathcliff is adopted by the wealthy Earnshaw family and moves into their estate, Wuthering Heights. Soon, the new resident falls for his compassionate foster sister, Cathy. The two share a remarkable bond that seems unbreakable until ...
Style: gothic, romantic, atmospheric, emotional, period piece ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: obsession, tragic love, forbidden love, social differences, passion, revenge, master and servant, betrayal, haunted by the past, love, love story, love and romance ...
Time: 18th century, 19th century, regency period, 1800s, year 1992 ...
Place: britain, england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus (2006)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story: In 1958 New York Diane Arbus is a housewife and mother who works as an assistant to her husband, a photographer employed by her wealthy parents. Respectable though her life is, she cannot help but feel uncomfortable in her privileged world. One ...
Style: atmospheric, intellectual, intense, surreal, enigmatic ...
Plot: photographer, biopic, photography, art, artist, photograph, couples, bdsm, fall in love, love story, friends, love and romance ...
Time: 20th century, 50s, 1950s
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
Comes a Bright Day (2012)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A romantic thriller set during the armed robbery of one of London’s most exclusive jewellers. Sometimes funny, often dark, always captivating and never what you expect.
Style: exciting, suspenseful, realistic, serious, interesting
Plot: wrong place wrong time, fall in love, love and romance, chases and races, danger, disorder, woman in danger, confined, forced into action, twists and turns, robbery, violent content ...
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Place: england, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
Winter Sleepers (1997)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 122 min.
Story: Young blonde translator Rebecca lives with her boyfriend ski instructor Marco in a mountain villa owned by her friend, nurse Laura. Rene, local cinema projectionist, steals Marco's car and gets into a car crash with local Theo, whose daughter, ...
Style: psychological, sexual, realistic, serious, gloomy ...
Plot: winter, mountain, amnesia, hospital, memory loss, male nudity, snow, coma, photography, death, infidelity, drinking ...
Time: 90s
Place: germany, bavaria, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
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The Tunnel (2001)
Genre: Drama, History, Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 150 min.
Story: Inspired by true events, Olympic swimmer Harry Melchior defects from East Germany in the 1960s and hatches a daring plot to help his sister and others flee East Berlin through a 145-yard underground tunnel.
Style: suspense, suspenseful, tense, political, compassionate ...
Plot: berlin wall, tunnel, politics, communism, betrayal, cold war, breast feeding, political unrest, wartime, freedom, brutality, heroes ...
Time: 60s, ancient times, year 2001
Place: east germany, germany, berlin germany, west berlin west germany, german democratic republic ...
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