Movies like Great Expectations 1998
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Great Expectations (1998)
60K
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
Loosely based on the Charles Dickens' classic novel, "Great Expectations" is a sensual tale of a young man's unforgettable passage into manhood, and the three individuals who will undeniably change his life forever. Through the surprising interactions of these vivid characters, "Great Expectations" takes a unique and contemporary look at life's great coincidences.
Style:
romantic, heartbreaking, emotional, sexy, erotic, costume drama, touching, light, melancholic, serious ...
Audience:
girls' night, chick flick, date night
Plot:
inheritance, art, artist, destiny, love story, childhood, passion, literary, amor, fall in love, social differences, painting, stranger, understanding, passionate love, love and romance, couples, fashion, coming of age, biopic, love, happy ending, cat, brother sister relationship, waltz ...
Time:
20th century, year 1998, 80s, 90s, 70s, 18th century, 19th century
Place:
new york, florida, usa, london
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, romantic, emotional and sentimental films with plots about love, love and romance, love story, storytelling, fall in love, relationships and catastrophe mostly in Drama, Romance and Mystery genres. Some movies like Great Expectations: Jane Eyre (2011), The Great Gatsby (2013), Blue Valentine (2010), Little Women (2019), Bounce (2000). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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:
costume drama, period piece, captivating, emotional, realistic ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
generosity, orphan, charles dickens, unfulfilled love, benefactor, love and romance, redemption, social differences, rise to the top, hopes, haunted by the past, youth ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, regency period
Place:
england, london
Similarity:
100%
97K
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
After a bleak childhood, Jane Eyre goes out into the world to become a governess. As she lives happily in her new position at Thornfield Hall, she meet the dark, cold, and abrupt master of the house, Mr. Rochester. Jane and her employer grow close ...
Style:
romantic, touching, gothic, atmospheric, visually appealing ...
Audience:
girls' night, date night, chick flick
Plot:
love, love and romance, couples, forbidden love, social differences, power of love, young woman, unlikely couple, fall in love, orphan, older man younger woman relationship, estate ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, 1840s, ancient times, 1800s ...
Place:
england, britain, europe, yorkshire
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Australia, USA
Duration: 143 min.
Story:
An adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's Long Island-set novel, where Midwesterner Nick Carraway is lured into the lavish world of his neighbor, Jay Gatsby. Soon enough, however, Carraway will see through the cracks of Gatsby's nouveau riche ...
Style:
romantic, sentimental, bad ending, stylized, colorful ...
Audience:
chick flick, teens, girls' night, date night, adult
Plot:
high society, obsession, love, social differences, loneliness, love triangle, millionaire, couples, love and romance, love story, destructive relationship, infidelity ...
Time:
1920s, year 2013, 2010s, 90s, 1900s ...
Place:
usa, new york, los angeles, long island, midwest
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Dean and Cindy live a quiet life in a modest neighborhood. They appear to have the world at their feet at the outset of the relationship. However, his lack of ambition and her retreat into self-absorption cause potentially irreversible cracks in ...
Style:
sexy, romantic, emotional, psychological, romantic drama ...
Audience:
date night, chick flick, adult
Plot:
marriage, depression, dysfunctional family, couple relations, lust, husband wife relationship, passion, crumbling marriage, sexual content, lovers, love story, sex ...
Time:
year 2010, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
new york, pennsylvania, usa, brooklyn new york city, florida
Similarity:
100%
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280K
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 135 min.
Story:
Four sisters come of age in America in the aftermath of the Civil War.
Style:
romantic, sentimental, inspirational, sweet, melancholic ...
Audience:
chick flick, family outing, kids, date night, teens ...
Plot:
love, sisters, coming of age, writers, female protagonist, generosity, friendship, sister sister relationship, publisher, women's rights, sister, aspiring writer ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, 1860s, 2010s, year 2019
Place:
new york, france, paris france, massachusetts, usa
Similarity:
100%
22K
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
A man switches plane tickets with another man who dies in that plane in a crash. The man falls in love with the deceased one's wife.
Style:
sentimental, emotional, melancholic, romantic, touching ...
Audience:
girls' night, date night, chick flick
Plot:
widow, redemption, betrayal, starting over, love and romance, haunted by the past, hopes, love, guilt, advertising, aviation, grief ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
los angeles, chicago, palm springs california, usa, new york ...
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
Nine years ago two strangers met by chance and spent a night in Vienna that ended before sunrise. They are about to meet for the first time since. Now they have one afternoon to find out if they belong together.
Style:
philosophical, emotional, sentimental, romantic, sexy ...
Audience:
girls' night, date night, chick flick
Plot:
relationships, couples, dialogue, love story, lovers reunited, love and romance, true love, chance meeting, one day, lovers, passion, destiny ...
Time:
year 2004, 20th century, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
paris france, france, europe, new york, warsaw poland ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 136 min.
Story:
Rich Mr. Dashwood dies, leaving his second wife and her daughters poor by the rules of inheritance. Two daughters are the titular opposites.
Style:
romantic, costume drama, feel good, sincere, sentimental ...
Audience:
girls' night, date night, chick flick, kids, adult
Plot:
love story, love, happy ending, love triangle, love and romance, sisters, fall in love, love affair, social differences, rich and poor, true love, village life ...
Time:
19th century, 18th century, 90s, regency period, 1810s ...
Place:
england, britain, europe, london, seattle
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
As children, Kathy, Ruth, and Tommy spend their childhood at an idyllic and secluded English boarding school. As they grow into adults, they must come to terms with the complexity and strength of their love for one another while also preparing for ...
Style:
sad, melancholic, depressing, psychological, heartbreaking ...
Audience:
teens, date night, girls' night, chick flick, adult ...
Plot:
dystopia, boarding school, existentialism, distopia, childhood, cloning, sadness, friendship, transplant, couples, love story, love and romance ...
Time:
year 1978, 2010s, 50s, year 2010, 70s ...
Place:
england, europe
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, France, USA
Duration: 129 min.
Story:
Pride & Prejudice is a humorous story of love and life among English gentility during the Georgian era. Mr. Bennet is an English gentleman living in Hertfordshire with his overbearing wife and five daughters. If Mr. Bennet dies their house will ...
Style:
romantic, costume drama, sweet, sexy, captivating ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, date night, teens, family friendly ...
Plot:
prejudice, love, fall in love, happy ending, women, strong female character, love and romance, opposites attract, aristocracy, initially antagonists, wooing, social differences ...
Time:
19th century, 18th century, victorian era, 1790s, georgian era ...
Place:
england, britain, united kingdom, europe, london ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Kate is secretly betrothed to a struggling journalist, Merton Densher. But she knows her Aunt Maude will never approve of the match, since Kate's deceased mother has lost all her money in a marriage to a degenerate opium addict. When Kate meets ...
Style:
sexy, atmospheric, period piece, costume drama, serious ...
Plot:
love, nobility, love triangle, literary, death, greed, betrayal, relationships, nudity, forbidden love, fall in love, power relations ...
Time:
1910s, year 1997, victorian era, 20th century, edwardian era ...
Place:
england, london, venice, britain, europe ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: China, Canada, USA, Hong Kong
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
A British medical doctor fights a cholera outbreak in a small Chinese village, while also being trapped at home in a loveless marriage to an unfaithful wife.
Style:
touching, emotional, scenic, captivating, costume drama ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
infidelity, loveless marriage, love story, love and romance, cheating wife, couple relations, extramarital affair, couples, marriage, cholera, adultery, unfaithful wife ...
Time:
1920s, 20th century, year 2006, 19th century, 50s
Place:
china, shanghai, africa, london, asia ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
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Style:
philosophical, cerebral, sexy, sentimental, romantic ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night, girls' night
Plot:
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Place:
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Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
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Style:
bad ending, depressing, heartbreaking, sad, romantic drama ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night, chick flick
Plot:
marriage, abortion, adultery, depression, passion, death of wife, destiny, under the surface, dysfunctional family, deadend life, mental illness, existentialism ...
Time:
1950s, 50s, year 2008, 20th century, 1940s ...
Place:
usa, new york, paris france, connecticut, california
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Turkey
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
Year 1977, a September morning in Ankara... Yilmaz tries to rush his pregnant wife Neriman to the hospital and he crashes into Omer's car. The causes Omer's pregnant wife Inci, who was in the back seat, to have a pre-term labor. The babies ...
Style:
romantic, sentimental, emotional, inspirational, dramatic ...
Audience:
girls' night, date night, chick flick
Plot:
true love, destiny, couples, life, hopes, power of love, love triangle, love and romance, fall in love, childhood memory, love, life philosophy ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
turkey, middle east, istanbul turkey
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
A depressed man moves back in with his parents following a recent heartbreak and finds himself with two women.
Style:
depressing, psychological, emotional, romantic, realistic ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
melancholy, couples, suicide attempt, young lovers, fall in love, lust, desire, character study, neighbor, love triangle, passion, life turned upside down ...
Time:
year 2008, 2000s, 70s, 21st century
Place:
new york, brooklyn new york city, usa, new jersey, california
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
In a small North Carolina town, Paul, a womanizer, meets Noel, a confused intellectual returning home for the first time in years since she left for boarding school. The film depicts the typical romance of a good girl and a bad boy, in an ...
Style:
sexy, romantic, melancholic, independent film, atmospheric ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, date night
Plot:
womanizer, small town, coming of age, regret, depression, existentialism, love, crumbling relationship, introspection, human nature, relationships, friendship ...
Time:
year 2003, 21st century
Place:
north carolina, southern usa, usa, california
Similarity:
100%
250K
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
A witty, romantic, and very dangerous love story about chance meetings, instant attractions, and casual betrayals. Two couples disintegrate when they begin destructive adulterous affairs with each other.
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sexy, psychological, erotic, cynical, romantic ...
Audience:
girls' night, chick flick, adult
Plot:
infidelity, love triangle, adultery, love affair, lovers, passion, marriage, sex, stripper, couples, photographer, desire ...
Time:
year 2004, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
london, united kingdom, europe, new york, manhattan new york city ...
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, India, Australia, New Zealand, USA, Canada
Duration: 133 min.
Story:
A lighthouse keeper and his wife living off the coast of Western Australia raise a baby they rescue from an adrift rowboat.
Style:
touching, melancholic, unusual plot structure, sentimental, heartbreaking ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night, girls' night, kids
Plot:
lighthouse, lighthouse keeper, love, island, husband wife relationship, isolation, trying to get pregnant, missing child, adoption, miscarriage, motherhood, marriage ...
Time:
1920s, year 2015, victorian era, 20th century, year 1918
Place:
australia, new zealand
Similarity:
100%
1.4M
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 194 min.
Story:
84 years later, a 101-year-old woman named Rose DeWitt Bukater tells the story to her granddaughter Lizzy Calvert, Brock Lovett, Lewis Bodine, Bobby Buell and Anatoly Mikailavich on the Keldysh about her life set in April 10th 1912, on a ship called ...
Style:
romantic, emotional, touching, sentimental, dramatic ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night, girls' night, kids, family friendly ...
Plot:
titanic, love story, disaster, love, ship, tragedy, forbidden love, love and romance, ocean, fall in love, tragic love, survival ...
Time:
20th century, 1910s, year 1997, edwardian era, 90s ...
Place:
atlantic ocean, britain, iran, nova scotia, america ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 126 min.
Story:
Homer is an orphan who was never adopted, becoming the favorite of orphanage director Dr. Larch. Dr. Larch imparts his full medical knowledge on Homer, who becomes a skilled, albeit unlicensed, physician. But Homer yearns for a self-chosen life ...
Style:
touching, heartbreaking, sentimental, visually stunning, sad ...
Audience:
teens, date night, kids
Plot:
abortion, coming of age, orphan, adoption, childhood, mentor protege relationship, storytelling, justice, love triangle, sexual attraction, unwanted pregnancy, sick child ...
Time:
1940s, 1920s, year 1999, 90s, year 1943 ...
Place:
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Similarity:
100%
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:
period piece, costume drama, serious, emotional, captivating ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
couple relations, charles dickens, social differences, society, rise to the top, hopes, power relations, generosity, passionate love, rags to riches, victorian england, napoleonic era ...
Time:
victorian era, 19th century
Place:
england, london
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Harvard Law student Oliver Barrett IV and music student Jennifer Cavilleri share a chemistry they cannot deny - and a love they cannot ignore. Despite their opposite backgrounds, the young couple put their hearts on the line for each other. When ...
Style:
touching, emotional, romantic, sentimental, sad ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, date night, teens
Plot:
love, fall in love, college, tragedy, death, true love, ice hockey, love story, dying young, graduation, cancer, tragic love ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, 60s
Place:
new york, bronx new york city, paris france, boston, massachusetts ...
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, History, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
Young Shakespeare is forced to stage his latest comedy, "Romeo and Ethel, the Pirate's Daughter," before it's even written. When a lovely noblewoman auditions for a role, they fall into forbidden love -- and his play finds a new ...
Style:
romantic, sexy, inspirational, period piece, sweet ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night, chick flick
Plot:
forbidden love, cross dressing, love and romance, shakespeare, lovers, gender disguise, couples, writer's life, tudors, literary, passionate love, monarchy ...
Time:
16th century, ancient times, middle ages, medieval times, 90s ...
Place:
england, london, europe, britain
Similarity:
100%
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
Plot:
infidelity, love and romance, society, longing, love triangle, lost love, fall in love, love affair, literary, fashion, american history, power of love ...
Time:
1920s, 20th century, post world war one, 70s
Place:
rhode island, long island, new york, usa, manhattan new york city ...
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100%
679K
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
An epic love story centered around an older man who reads aloud to a woman with Alzheimer's. From a faded notebook, the old man's words bring to life the story about a couple who is separated by World War II, and is then passionately ...
Style:
touching, romantic, emotional, sentimental, sweet ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night, girls' night, teens, adult
Plot:
love story, love, love and romance, fall in love, true love, rich woman poor man, youth, forbidden love, power of love, love of one's life, young lovers, love triangle ...
Time:
1940s, year 2004, post world war two, year 1941, 50s ...
Place:
north carolina, charleston south carolina, southern usa, iran, usa ...
Similarity:
50%
2.5M
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 142 min.
Story:
A man with a low IQ has accomplished great things in his life and been present during significant historic events - in each case, far exceeding what anyone imagined he could do. Yet, despite all the things he has attained, his one true love eludes ...
Style:
inspirational, touching, feel good, sentimental, uplifting ...
Audience:
girls' night, date night, chick flick, kids, teens ...
Plot:
life philosophy, philosophy, life, mentally challenged, destiny, storytelling, love, rise to the top, human spirit, selflessness, vietnam war, life & death ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, 50s, 60s, 1950s ...
Place:
china, alabama, vietnam, america, savannah georgia ...
Similarity:
67%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Poland, France
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
Set in the late '20s. A thirtyish young man, who heads a small factory, faints at the funeral of a close friend. He decides to go home to his aunt and uncle for a while, but gets involved with a family of five women who had been in love with ...
Style:
existential, contemplative, serious, psychological, realistic ...
Plot:
reminiscence, renaissance, uncle nephew relationship, family relations, female nudity, sister sister relationship, passion, electricity, nude girl, first love, love letter, immortality ...
Time:
1920s, 20th century
Place:
poland, eastern europe, europe, warsaw poland
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Young writer, Richard Collier is met on the opening night of his first play by an old lady who begs him to, "Come back to me." Mystified, he tries to find out about her, and learns that she is a famous stage actress from the early 1900s. ...
Style:
romantic, sentimental, period piece, sweet, heartbreaking ...
Audience:
date night, chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
time travel, love story, passion, obsession, time, hotel, playwright, love triangle, supernatural, love and romance, fall in love, love affair ...
Time:
1900s, 80s, year 1980, victorian era, edwardian era ...
Place:
usa, chicago, america, michigan, north america
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Romance, Drama
Country: UK, France, Germany, USA
Duration: 135 min.
Story:
A woman risks losing her chance of happiness with the only man she has ever loved.
Style:
costume drama, period piece, atmospheric, emotional, talky ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
love affair, infidelity, happy ending, destiny, temptation, tragedy, debt, gambling, fall in love, dishonesty, love and romance, couple relations ...
Time:
20th century, edwardian era, 19th century, 2000s, turn of the century ...
Place:
new york, america, britain, usa, mediterranean sea ...
Similarity:
100%
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