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Heat and Dust (1983)
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
The parallel story of Anne and her grand-aunt Olivia in their experiences in India
Style:
realistic, costume drama, romantic drama, historical drama, serious, contemplative, crying, independent film, period drama, baroque
Plot:
love triangle, colonialism, prince, nobleman, orgasm, scandal, flashback, post colonialism, jazz, british empire, interracial love relationship, extramarital affair, indian woman, interracial relations, self discovery, family history, british raj, parallel story, love and romance, couples, love affair, social differences, society, opposites attract, introspection ...
Time:
1920s, year 1983, 20th century, 80s, 20s
Place:
india, asia, kashmir
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, period drama and sexy films with plots about couples, love and romance, couple relations, infidelity, society, love triangle and love mostly in Drama, Romance and History genres. Some movies like Heat and Dust: A Room with a View (1985), The Painted Veil (2006), The Golden Bowl (2000), The Europeans (1979), A Passage to India (1984). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
When Lucy Honeychurch and chaperon Charlotte Bartlett find themselves in Florence with rooms without views, fellow guests Mr Emerson and son George step in to remedy the situation. Meeting the Emersons could change Lucy's life forever but, once ...
Style:
touching, scenic, period piece, sexy, costume drama ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, date night
Plot:
couples, hotel, travel, self discovery, female protagonist, country estate, piano, passion, male nudity, nude bathing, happy ending, comedy of manners ...
Time:
1900s, edwardian era, victorian era, 19th century, year 1985 ...
Place:
italy, england, europe, florence, britain ...
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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, France, UK
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
An intricately plotted tale of thwarted love and betrayal, "The Golden Bowl" tells the story of an extravagantly rich American widower and his sheltered daughter, both of whom marry only to discover that their respective mates, a beautiful ...
Style:
period piece, costume drama, serious, stylized, realistic ...
Plot:
adultery, love affair, deception, greed, couples, family problems, fall in love, dishonesty, society, crumbling marriage, parents and children, affair ...
Time:
edwardian era, victorian era, 1900s, 20th century, 19th century
Place:
italy, england, britain, europe, london ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Based on Henry James' novel with the same title. It's the fall of 1850, a few miles outside Boston. The household of the dour Mr. Wentworth receives two unannounced visitors from Europe, Eugenia and Felix, the daughter and son of his half ...
Style:
independent film, costume drama, historical drama, romantic drama, biting ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
culture clash, baroness, couple relations, autumn, sister sister relationship, cousin cousin relationship, incest, uncle nephew relationship, femme fatale, puritan, social climber, expatriate ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, year 1979, 1850s
Place:
massachusetts, usa, europe, boston, vienna ...
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, History
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 164 min.
Story:
The film is set during the period of growing influence of the Indian independence movement in the British Raj. It begins with the arrival in India of a British woman, Miss Adela Quested (Judy Davis), who is joining her fiancé, a city magistrate ...
Style:
epic, costume drama, scenic, suspense, talky ...
Plot:
british raj, politics, british empire, lawyer, small town, racism, tourist, colonialism, culture clash, investigation, false accusation, dishonesty ...
Time:
1920s, 20th century, year 1984, 70s
Place:
india, asia, london, kashmir, himalaya ...
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Genre: Drama, Romance
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Duration: 118 min.
Story:
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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
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100%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 126 min.
Story:
Lady Chatterley, a woman born into a life of wealth and privilege, finds herself married to a man that she eventually falls out of love with. She engages in a torrid affair with a gamekeeper on their English estate, discovering more desire and ...
Style:
sexy, period piece, costume drama, captivating, psychological ...
Plot:
sexual awakening, extramarital affair, unfaithfulness, sexual frustration, outdoor sex, rough sex, passion, adultery, impotent husband, butt, sexual tension, desire ...
Time:
1920s
Place:
london
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
Tale of torrid and forbidden love between Christie and Bates in the English countryside.
Style:
sexy, disturbing, contemplative, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
forbidden love, coming of age, class differences, summer, love, literary, countryside, first love, curse, magician, country estate, man boy relationship ...
Time:
1900s, 19th century, 20th century, 1950s, year 1900 ...
Place:
england, america, europe
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Romance
Country: USA, France
Duration: 139 min.
Story:
His wife having recently died, Thomas Jefferson accepts the post of United States ambassador to pre-revolutionary France, though he finds it difficult to adjust to life in a country where the aristocracy subjugates an increasingly restless ...
Style:
costume drama, dramatic, historical drama, romantic drama, political ...
Plot:
slavery, biopic, president, interracial romance, revolution, french revolution, u.s. president, american revolution, politics, renaissance, african american, slave ...
Time:
18th century, ancient times, georgian era, 1780s, 19th century
Place:
france, paris france, europe, versailles, tokyo ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy, UK
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
When an African dictator jails her husband, Shandurai goes into exile in Italy, studying medicine and keeping house for Mr. Kinsky, an eccentric English pianist and composer. She lives in one room of his Roman palazzo. He besieges her with flowers, ...
Style:
erotic, emotional, melancholic, meditative, serious ...
Plot:
white male black female relationship, interracial relations, unrequited love, politics, jail, sensuality, pianist, fall in love, social differences, opposites attract, society, husband wife relationship ...
Time:
year 1998, 90s
Place:
africa, italy, rome italy, europe, tokyo ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, France
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Quartet is the story of a girl who, adrift with her feckless husband amidst the literati of glittering Paris in the 1920s, becomes entrapped by a rich and sybaritic English couple. Adapted from the wistful, melancholy autobiographical novel by Jean ...
Style:
romantic drama, costume drama, independent film, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
couples, male pubic hair, hotel, dancing, prison, theft, performer's life, dishonesty, lifestyle, couple relations, womanizer, artists and showbiz ...
Time:
1920s, year 1981
Place:
paris france, france, europe
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, Germany
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Drama set in 1930s London with two sisters, Madeleine married to Rickie, and Dinah, who falls in love with him. Rickie and Dinah begin an affair which is to have repercussions throughout all their lives.
Style:
sentimental, serious, emotional, touching, erotic ...
Plot:
couples, forbidden love, infidelity, betrayal, unfaithful husband, sister sister relationship, pregnancy, fall in love, society, parents and children, haunted by the past, unfulfillment ...
Time:
1930s, 1940s, year 2002, 20th century, year 1934 ...
Place:
london, england, europe
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, Japan, USA
Duration: 142 min.
Story:
A saga of class relations and changing times in an Edwardian England on the brink of modernity, the film centers on liberal Margaret Schlegel, who, along with her sister Helen, becomes involved with two couples: wealthy, conservative industrialist ...
Style:
romantic, costume drama, emotional, period piece, cerebral ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
estate, inheritance, sister sister relationship, wealthy family, country house, aristocrat, rich snob, family drama, passion, sword, arrest, terminal illness ...
Time:
1910s, turn of the century, edwardian era, year 1992, 19th century ...
Place:
england, oxford university, britain, london
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
When the father of privileged Rosina da Silva violently dies, she decides to pass herself off as a gentile and finds employment with a family in faraway Scotland. Soon she and the family father, Charles, start a passionate secret affair.
Style:
enigmatic, period piece, costume drama, emotional, colorful ...
Plot:
fall in love, couples, love affair, jewess, nanny, society, loss of virginity, male nudity, photograph, couple relations, master and servant, love triangle ...
Time:
victorian era, 19th century, 1830s, year 1998, 1800s
Place:
england, london, oxford university, middle east, britain ...
Similarity:
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
Based on Henry James's novel of the same name. This bittersweet tragicomedy centers on an odd triangle of characters: Basil Ransom, a political conservative from Mississippi; Olive Chancellor, Ransom's cousin and a Boston feminist; and ...
Style:
serious, stylized, realistic, talky, romantic drama ...
Plot:
lesbian, post civil war, lawyer, feminist, american history, couple relations, couples, love affair, infidelity, love triangle, fall in love, battle of the sexes ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, 1870s
Place:
boston, massachusetts
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
The story is set in late 19th century rural corner of South England. The daughter of timber merchant Melbury, Grace, returns to the town after finishing school. Her father now believes she can find a better husband than her childhood sweetheart, ...
Style:
costume drama, realistic, serious, independent film, period piece ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
victorian england, love, love triangle, infidelity, social differences, tragic love, love affair, looking for love, forbidden love, unfulfilled love, school, rich and poor ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era
Place:
britain, england, europe, italy
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Mexico, UK, Colombia
Duration: 139 min.
Story:
In Colombia just after the Great War, an old man falls from a ladder; dying, he professes great love for his wife. After the funeral, a man calls on the widow - she dismisses him angrily. Flash back more than 50 years to the day Florentino Ariza, a ...
Style:
costume drama, sexy, sexual, psychological, emotional ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
impossible love, love, new love, love triangle, letter, magic realism, power of love, epidemic, betrayal, multiple storylines, visceral, justice ...
Time:
19th century, turn of the century, year 2007, 1900s, 20th century ...
Place:
colombia, latin america, caribbean, paris france
Similarity:
20%
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:
20%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Stock broker Nick Carraway consents to play Cupid for his rich married first cousin Daisy Buchanen and her former love, successful bootlegger and forger Jay Gatsby.
Style:
captivating, stylized, sentimental, serious, realistic ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
tragic love, obsession, infidelity, lifestyle, love triangle, love affair, society, social differences, unfulfilled love, haunted by the past, dishonesty, love ...
Time:
1920s, 20th century
Place:
new york, usa, oxford university, yale university, chicago
Similarity:
19%
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:
19%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
In this story-within-a-story, Anna is an actress starring opposite Mike in a period piece about the forbidden love between their respective characters, Sarah and Charles. Both actors are involved in serious relationships, but the passionate nature ...
Style:
costume drama, emotional, romantic, scenic, stylized ...
Plot:
adultery, love, love affair, filmmaking, lieutenant, infidelity, destructive relationship, society, social differences, love story, doomed romance, love triangle ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, 80s, 20th century, 70s ...
Place:
england, britain, france, europe, london
Similarity:
19%
2K
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
A lonely young aristocrat in turn-of the century England struggles to meet the approval of his over-bearing, class-conscious father while trying to please the selfish woman he loves.
Style:
serious, realistic, sentimental, period piece, light ...
Plot:
unfulfilled love, betrayal, fall in love, friendship, victorian england, couples, love affair, society, secret, father daughter relationship, adultery, unrequited love ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, year 1998, 90s
Place:
england, britain, europe, cornwall, ireland ...
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, West Germany
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Swann (Jeremy Irons), an eligible bachelor in the best circles of fin-de-siècle Paris, has also some more vulgar but rich friends, the Verdurins. Through them he meets Odette (Ornella Muti), a courtesan, with whom he falls hopelessly in love. She ...
Style:
sexual, contemplative, serious, realistic, gloomy ...
Plot:
duchess, prostitute, love and romance, erotica, french president, lesbian lover, high society, nobility, valet, promiscuity, female nudity, brothel ...
Time:
19th century, 1890s
Place:
france, paris france, europe, italy, egypt
Similarity:
18%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
A young Jew in 1911 Wales tries to make his living by selling fabrics door to door, but to do so he must hide his nationality. On one of his sales he meets and falls in love with a demure young woman with a strong-willed father and a Jew-hating ...
Style:
sad, historical drama, independent film, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
forbidden love, interfaith relationship, anti semitism, couples, death of lover, conquering, family relations, bittersweet, opposites attract, life is a bitch, love and romance, society ...
Time:
edwardian era, year 1999, 1910s, 20th century
Place:
wales, england
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
An English novelist travels to Bombay to watch one of her novels translated to film. She chases after the Movie's leading man while the Screenwriter chases after her.
Style:
romantic drama, contemplative, serious, realistic, talky ...
Plot:
indian woman, extramarital affair, filmmaking, culture clash, lifestyle, society, couple relations, writer's life, love and romance, human nature, introspection, artists and showbiz ...
Time:
60s
Place:
england, india, bombay india
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
A beautiful but amoral model sleeps her way to the top of the London fashion scene at the height of the Swinging Sixties.
Style:
independent film, cynical, biting, witty, clever ...
Plot:
social climber, infidelity, fashion, model, unrequited love, swing, homosexuality, satire, hedonism, kitchen sink realism, fashion model, greed ...
Time:
60s, year 1965, 70s, 50s, 1950s
Place:
england, london, italy, paris france, europe
Similarity:
18%
6K
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Belgium, UK
Duration: 134 min.
Story:
Edwardian England. A precocious girl from a poor background with aspirations to being a novelist finds herself swept to fame and fortune when her tasteless romances hit the best seller lists. Her life changes in unexpected ways when she encounters ...
Style:
period piece, talky, witty, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
love, adultery, writers, estate, infidelity, world war one, unrequited love, lesbian subtext, marriage proposal, reception, writer's life, family relations ...
Time:
1900s, edwardian era, victorian era, 20th century, year 1914
Place:
england, britain, europe, london
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Japan, USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
The story of Hong Kong, from New Year's Day to June 30th, 1997, when the British left their colony and turned it over to the People's Republic of China.
Style:
atmospheric, independent film, contemplative, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
unrequited love, abuse, love, death, colonialism, culture clash, photography, politics, couples, husband wife relationship, fear, british empire ...
Time:
year 1997, 90s, 20th century
Place:
china, hong kong, asia, beijing china, north korea
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 143 min.
Story:
Bored with the limited and tedious nature of provincial life in 19th-century France, the fierce and sensual Emma Bovary finds herself in calamitous debt and purses scandalous sexual liaisons with absolute abandon. However, when her volatile ...
Style:
sexy, realistic, melancholic, costume drama, intense ...
Plot:
infidelity, adultery, tragic hero, family life, hopes, village life, destructive relationship, dull life, love affair, husband wife relationship, adulterer, male female relationship ...
Time:
19th century, 1840s, turn of the century, victorian era, 1830s ...
Place:
normandy, france, europe, switzerland, london
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 134 min.
Story:
A rule bound head butler's world of manners and decorum in the household he maintains is tested by the arrival of a housekeeper who falls in love with him in post-WWI Britain. The possibility of romance and his master's cultivation of ties ...
Style:
period piece, costume drama, breathtaking, romantic drama, romantic ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
melancholy, nazi, love, nazism, butler, aristocracy, manor, british, class differences, master servant relationship, domestic servant, master and servant ...
Time:
1930s, 1940s, ancient times, 20th century, year 1993 ...
Place:
england, britain, europe, germany
Similarity:
18%
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