Movies like Great Expectations 1999
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Great Expectations (1999)
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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, Pip believes in a grand plan at the end of which he will be married to Estella. However, when the criminal from his childhood turns up one stormy night and reveals that he, Magwitch, is his benefactor, Pip finds his dreams crumbling. Although initially repulsed by his benefactor, Pip gradually becomes loyal to him and stays with him until his death.
Style:
period piece, costume drama, serious, emotional, sincere, captivating, realistic, period drama, weird
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
couple relations, charles dickens, social differences, rise to the top, society, generosity, hopes, power relations, passionate love, rags to riches, victorian england, makeover, napoleonic era, orphan, obsession, parents and children, destiny, love and romance, fall in love, couples, coming of age, haunted by the past, lawyer, money, criminal ...
Time:
victorian era, 19th century, victorian
Place:
england, london
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, period drama, realistic and costume drama films with plots about society, social differences, costume, love and romance, family relations, victorian england and couples mostly in Drama, Romance and Comedy genres. Some movies like Great Expectations: Wives and Daughters (1999), Flambards (1979), Tess of the D'Urbervilles (1998), Vanity Fair (2004), Our Mutual Friend (1998). 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%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 100 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:
realistic, serious, touching, emotional, contemplative
Plot:
charles dickens, youth, rich and poor, lost love, napoleonic era, hopes, coming of age, orphan, love and romance, criminal heroes, society, lifestyle ...
Time:
1900s, victorian era, 19th century
Place:
england, london
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 75 min.
TV show
Story:
Elizabeth Gaskell's enchanting tale of romance, scandal, and intrigue in a gossipy English town comes to Masterpiece Theatre in a lavish four-part production of Wives and Daughters, adapted by celebrated screenwriter Andrew Davies.Davies, who ...
Style:
period piece, costume drama, uplifting, serious, historical drama ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
prejudice, aristocrat, family relations, estate, love and romance, aristocracy, parent child relationship, secret marriage, marriage, gossip, sibling relationship, parents and children ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, 1820s, 18th century, 1800s ...
Place:
england, europe, london, britain, africa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 60 min.
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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:
historical drama, gothic, atmospheric, costume drama, period piece ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
victorian england, lovers, charles dickens, generosity, destiny, rags to riches, convict, orphan, stranger, society, obsession, hopes ...
Time:
19th century, 1820s, regency period, victorian era
Place:
england, britain, london
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 780 min.
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Story:
In the early 1900s in England, young Christina is orphaned and goes to live with her Uncle Russell, who owns the country estate of Flambards, and has two sons. Mark, the elder, is a wastrel, a roue and, like his father, loves to hunt. The younger ...
Style:
captivating, serious, realistic, emotional, period drama
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
world war one, orphan, country estate, makeover, female protagonist, love and romance, society, couple relations, couples, uneducated, estate, family relations ...
Time:
1910s, 20th century, edwardian era, 1900s
Place:
england, europe
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 180 min.
Story:
Thomas Hardy's classic epic remains one of the most popular novels, this TV adaptation vividly depicts the powerful tale of a peasant girl whose life is torn apart by the love and jealousy of two men. Justine Waddell stars as the hapless Child ...
Style:
period piece, costume drama, historical drama, romantic, realistic ...
Plot:
victorian england, farming, nobility, tragic romance, constable, true love, age difference, feminist, young love, human rights, past, civil rights ...
Time:
middle ages, 1800s, 19th century, victorian era
Place:
england, europe
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, UK, India
Duration: 141 min.
Story:
Beautiful, funny, passionate, and calculating, Becky is the orphaned daughter of a starving English artist and a French chorus girl. She yearns for a more glamorous life than her birthright promises and resolves to conquer English society by any ...
Style:
period piece, costume drama, emotional, melancholic, stylized ...
Audience:
girls' night, chick flick
Plot:
high society, social climbing, lovers, aristocrat, destiny, monarchy, female protagonist, rise to the top, couple relations, rich and poor, society, life turned upside down ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, middle ages, 1820s, 1800s ...
Place:
england, london, britain, europe, germany ...
Similarity:
100%
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 ...
Style:
romantic, heartbreaking, emotional, sexy, costume drama ...
Audience:
girls' night, chick flick, date night
Plot:
inheritance, art, artist, destiny, love story, childhood, passion, literary, amor, fall in love, understanding, stranger ...
Time:
20th century, year 1998, 80s, 90s, 70s ...
Place:
new york, florida, usa, london
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 88 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, unrequited love, makeover, betrayal, dishonesty, lifestyle, life is a bitch, society, love and romance ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, 1800s, 1860s
Place:
britain, london, england, europe
Similarity:
100%
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, atmospheric, emotional, gothic, spiritual ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
literary, victorian england, age difference, couples, society, fall in love, youth, desire, haunted house, love, spirituality, young love ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, georgian era
Place:
england, europe, britain
Similarity:
100%
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:
sexy, tense, stylized, captivating, period piece ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
love affair, love and romance, malice, abbey, class differences, female protagonist, life is a bitch, relationship problems, deception, high society, rich and poor, social problems ...
Time:
victorian era, 19th century, edwardian era, 1900s
Place:
england, britain, london
Similarity:
100%
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:
realistic, serious, touching, sentimental, emotional ...
Plot:
charles dickens, adoption, single parent, boarding school, family relations, down on your luck, dysfunctional family, boarding school life, friendship, social differences, family in danger, rich and poor ...
Time:
victorian era, 19th century, 1830s
Place:
england, europe, yorkshire
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 28 min.
TV show
Story:
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Style:
costume drama, gothic, period piece, sentimental, serious ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
england, britain, europe
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, Sweden, India
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
tragic love, fall in love, couple relations, injustice, culture clash, unfulfillment, innocence lost, society, love and romance, couples, power relations, doomed love ...
Time:
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Place:
india, asia
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 58 min.
TV show
Story:
In this version of Charlotte Brontë's novel, Jane Eyre (Georgie Henley), a poor relation in the household of her aunt, Mrs. Reed (Tara FitzGerald) is despatched into the care of the callous Mr Brocklehurst at his school at Lowood. As a young ...
Style:
costume drama, romantic, sexy, period piece, atmospheric ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, date night
Plot:
love affair, couple relations, rich and poor, love story, fall in love, estate, unlikely couple, relationships, social differences, love and romance, passion, looking for love ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, ancient times, 1800s, regency period ...
Place:
england, britain, europe, london
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
When Lucy Graham (Neve McIntosh) weds the much older Sir Michael Audley (Kenneth Cranham), his nephew Robert (Steven Mackintosh) is suspicious of the lovely young woman's motives. Soon, Robert's friend disappears, and Robert believes Lucy ...
Style:
gothic, captivating, disturbing, serious, costume drama ...
Plot:
love, marriage, deception, false identity, governess, victorian england, bigamy, class society, blackmail, infidelity, family relations, public humiliation ...
Time:
victorian era, 1850s
Place:
britain, london
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: Ireland, USA
Duration: 180 min.
Story:
An orphan with a rough childhood becomes a barrister.
Style:
costume drama, realistic, serious, touching, captivating ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
charles dickens, orphan, coming of age, friendship, social differences, teaching the ways of the world, life is a bitch, society, young heroes, adulthood, child as adult, rich and poor ...
Time:
victorian era, 19th century
Place:
england
Similarity:
30%
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, sentimental, emotional, serious, realistic ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
charles dickens, coming of age, love and romance, age difference, age-gap relationship, family relations, couples, master and servant, couple relations, society, fall in love, rise to the top ...
Time:
19th century, year 1987, victorian era
Place:
england, britain, europe, italy, london ...
Similarity:
29%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, France
Duration: 186 min.
Story:
This multiple-Oscar-winning film by Roman Polanski is an exquisite, richly layered adaptation of Thomas Hardy’s Tess of the d’Urbervilles. A strong-willed peasant girl (Nastassja Kinski, in a gorgeous breakthrough) is sent by her father to the ...
Style:
period piece, costume drama, scenic, visually appealing, erotic ...
Plot:
love, breast feeding, rape, tragic love, relationships, literary, mansion, beautiful scenery, nobility, loneliness, peasant, autumn ...
Time:
19th century, year 1979, 1800s, turn of the century, victorian era ...
Place:
eastern europe, britain, england, europe, brazil
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Set in the early 1920s, the film follows Tom Birkin, who has been employed to carry out restoration work on a Medieval mural discovered in a church in the small rural community of Oxgodby, Yorkshire. The escape to the idyllic countryside is ...
Style:
scenic, realistic, captivating, thought provoking, costume drama ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
world war one veteran, friendship, depression, church, haunted by the past, introspection, escape from reality, healing, mural, gay, friendship between men, summer ...
Time:
1920s, post world war one, year 1987, 1910s, medieval times ...
Place:
england, europe, yorkshire, texas
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 120 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:
captivating, serious, realistic, gloomy, emotional ...
Plot:
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Time:
19th century, victorian era
Place:
europe, england, london
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story:
Adaptation of William Makepeace Thackeray's novel. The first colour production from the BBC.
Style:
costume drama, realistic, serious, captivating, stylized ...
Plot:
manipulation, napoleonic era, satire, deception, treachery, couples, power relations, ambition, couple relations, blind ambition, rise to the top, dishonesty ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era
Place:
england
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 93 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, period piece, captivating, realistic, serious ...
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
charles dickens, coming of age, child abuse, stepfather stepson relationship, step parent, manic, orphan, youth, literary, victorian england, rise to the top, life is a bitch ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, 1830s, edwardian era
Place:
england, london, europe, dover england
Similarity:
24%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 200 min.
Story:
Adaptation of the Dickens novel.
Style:
serious, uplifting, sentimental, atmospheric, touching ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
charles dickens, rich and poor, social differences, dysfunctional family, injustice, family relations, power relations, rivalry, life is a bitch, society, youth, siblings relations ...
Time:
victorian era, 19th century, 1800s
Place:
england, europe, london
Similarity:
24%
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:
costume drama, psychological, serious, atmospheric, emotional ...
Plot:
charles dickens, on the run, gambling, frame up, orphan, countryside, survival, downfall, addiction, unlikely criminals, mysterious character, life is a bitch ...
Time:
victorian era, 19th century
Place:
england, europe, london
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Lucy Honeychurch (Elaine Cassidy, Ghost Squad) and her nervous chaperone embark on a grand tour of Italy. Alongside sweeping landscapes, Lucy encounters a suspect group of characters — socialist Mr. Emerson and his working-class son George, in ...
Style:
period piece, realistic, serious, captivating, touching ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
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Time:
victorian era, edwardian era, 1910s, 1920s, 20th century ...
Place:
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23%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 196 min.
TV show
Story:
Adaptation of Thomas Hardy's novel.
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Style:
costume drama, captivating, serious, emotional, realistic ...
Plot:
victorian england, tragic hero, haunted by the past, redemption, social relations, rise and fall, family problems, hidden truth, society, betrayal, dishonesty, mayor ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, 1800s
Place:
britain, england
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
At the turn of the century, a widow decides to set her dead husbands business back in the black column. Her efforts to get the mill going again, however, are somewhat submarined by problems with an employee who is accused of murder and her sister ...
Style:
realistic, serious, captivating, sincere, stylized ...
Plot:
victorian england, murder, factory, sibling rivalry, mistress, sculptor, false accusation, legal, dishonesty, rise to the top, rivalry, intrigue ...
Time:
victorian era, 19th century, 1880s
Place:
britain, england, yorkshire
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 53 min.
TV show
Story:
This faithful BBC adaptation once again brings William Makepeace Thackeray's classic satirical novel to the screen. Becky Sharp (Natasha Little) is a beautiful, clever and poor girl determined to earn a higher place in society at any cost. The ...
Style:
costume drama, period piece, historical drama, captivating, serious ...
Plot:
manipulation, passionate love, high society, unrequited love, realism, napoleonic era, time machine, napoleon bonaparte, satire, orphan, strong female presence, couples ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, regency period
Place:
england, europe, london
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 48 min.
TV show
Story:
The story of the penniless Mary Thorne, who grows up with her rich aunt/cousins at Greshamsbury Park estate.
Style:
costume drama, period piece, historical drama, captivating, cynical ...
Plot:
aristocrat, english countryside, family drama, ward, physician, family relations, victorian england, social differences, couples, society, intrigue, love and romance ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, 1850s, 1840s
Place:
england, britain
Similarity:
21%
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