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Great Expectations (2012)
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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 begins to visit Miss Havisham and Estella, with whom he falls in love,then Pip a humble orphan suddenly becomes a gentleman with the help of an unknown benefactor.
Style:
costume drama, period piece, captivating, emotional, sentimental, serious, realistic, gothic, sex comedy, cult classic ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
generosity, orphan, charles dickens, unfulfilled love, benefactor, love and romance, social differences, redemption, rise to the top, haunted by the past, hopes, youth, literary, escaped prisoner, love, world war one, summer, victorian england, adaptation, british history, obsession, destiny, fall in love, society, coming of age ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, regency period, victorian
Place:
england, london
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Most similar movies to Great Expectations
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out period drama, realistic, costume drama and period piece films with plots about love and romance, society, costume, love, social differences, couples and fall in love mostly in Drama, Romance and Mystery genres. Some movies like Great Expectations: Lark Rise to Candleford (2008), Far from the Madding Crowd (2015), Where Angels Fear to Tread (1991), Little Dorrit (2008), Tess of the D'Urbervilles (1998). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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:
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%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 53 min.
TV show
Story:
Set in the small hamlet of Lark Rise and the wealthier neighbouring market town, Candleford, the series chronicles the daily lives of farm-workers, craftsmen and gentry at the end of the 19th Century. Lark Rise to Candleford is a love letter to a ...
Style:
costume drama, sentimental, sincere, period piece, realistic ...
Audience:
girls' night, kids
Plot:
village life, friendship, social relations, hopes, small town, abbey, true love, victorian england, father son relationship, employer employee relationship, neighbor neighbor relationship, father daughter relationship ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, 1800s
Place:
england, britain, europe
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%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
Based on the literary classic by Thomas Hardy, Far from the Madding Crowd is the story of independent, beautiful and headstrong Bathsheba Everdene, who attracts three very different suitors: Gabriel Oak, a sheep farmer, captivated by her fetching ...
Style:
romantic, costume drama, sexy, period piece, emotional ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, date night, teens
Plot:
victorian england, couples, relationships, love story, looking for love, countryside, couple relations, love and romance, love affair, love, unrequited love, wooing ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, 1800s, year 2015, 18th century
Place:
england, britain, europe, london
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
An English widow goes to Italy, falls in love with a dentist's son and marries him, against her straitlaced family's wishes.
Style:
costume drama, period piece, historical drama, cult classic, independent film ...
Plot:
sister in law, unrequited love, mother in law, class differences, brother in law, catholicism, marriage for money, railway, defiant, family disapproval, marriage, widow ...
Time:
edwardian era, 1900s, victorian era, year 1991, 90s ...
Place:
italy, england, britain, europe, tuscany
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, Mystery, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 34 min.
TV show
Story:
The series tells the story of Amy Dorrit, who spends her days earning money for the family and looking after her proud father, who is a long term inmate of Marshalsea debtors' prison in London. Amy and her family's world is transformed ...
Style:
costume drama, sincere, period piece, captivating, historical drama ...
Audience:
girls' night, kids
Plot:
poverty, young woman, life is a bitch, uncover truth, passionate love, passion, rich and poor, love and romance, employer employee relationship, financial problem, dysfunctional family, social problems ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, regency period, 1800s, georgian era ...
Place:
england, britain, europe, 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%
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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, 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:
romantic, atmospheric, gothic, emotional, period piece ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
obsession, forbidden love, revenge, social differences, passion, tragic love, master and servant, love story, childhood sweetheart, betrayal, love triangle, haunted by the past ...
Time:
18th century, 19th century, 1800s, year 1992, regency period ...
Place:
britain, england, europe
Similarity:
100%
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:
100%
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
The Earnshaws are Yorkshire farmers during the early 19th Century. One day, Mr. Earnshaw returns from a trip to the city, bringing with him a ragged little boy called Heathcliff. Earnshaw's son, Hindley, resents the child, but Heathcliff ...
Style:
costume drama, gothic, romantic drama, atmospheric, period piece ...
Audience:
girls' night, date night, chick flick
Plot:
forbidden love, true love, vengeance, doomed romance, wuthering heights, murder, jealousy, passion, brother sister relationship, star crossed lovers, unrequited love, haunted house ...
Time:
19th century, 18th century, victorian era, 1800s, 1920s ...
Place:
yorkshire, england, europe
Similarity:
100%
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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%
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: Biography, Drama, History, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
An outwardly confident but unmarried woman on the verge of her fortieth birthday reflects on her past suitors and the choices she once made while attempting to help her marriage minded niece choose between a number of potential suitors in this tale ...
Style:
period piece, realistic, stylized, captivating, melancholic ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
introspection, love and romance, regret, looking for love, society, maid, countryside, sister sister relationship, marriage proposal, women, love, cottage ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, regency period, georgian era
Place:
england, london, europe, britain
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 158 min.
Story:
An adaptation of the successful stage musical based on Victor Hugo's classic novel set in 19th-century France, in which a paroled prisoner named Jean Valjean seeks redemption.
Style:
inspirational, historical drama, epic, emotional, period piece ...
Audience:
chick flick, teens, date night, adult
Plot:
redemption, rebellion, arrest, parole, historical character, broadway, dying man, historical event, prostitute, orphan, father daughter relationship, revolution ...
Time:
19th century, 2010s, year 2012, 1800s, 18th century ...
Place:
france, paris france, seattle, europe, london
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, Australia, USA
Duration: 132 min.
Story:
After a childhood of abuse by his evangelistic father, misfit Oscar Hopkins becomes an Anglican minister and develops a divine obsession with gambling. Lucinda Leplastrier is a rich Australian heiress shopping in London for materials for her newly ...
Style:
costume drama, romantic, melancholic, surreal, captivating ...
Plot:
gambling, religion, obsession, wager, inheritance, friendship, fall in love, obsessive quest, love and romance, introspection, church, destiny ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, ancient times, turn of the century, year 1997 ...
Place:
australia, england, britain, europe, sydney australia ...
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%
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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: UK, USA
Duration: 53 min.
TV show
Story:
Daniel Deronda is a British television serial drama adapted by Andrew Davies from the George Eliot novel of the same name. The serial was directed by Tom Hooper, produced by Louis Marks, and was first broadcast in three parts on BBC One from 23 ...
Style:
costume drama, period piece, realistic, serious, captivating ...
Plot:
aristocracy, marriage of convenience, jewess, love triangle, society, drowning, social differences, love affair, rise to the top, fall in love, betrayal, unlikely couple ...
Time:
19th century, middle ages, victorian era, 1870s
Place:
britain, england, europe, london, italy
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, Germany, USA
Duration: 134 min.
Story:
Jean Valjean, a Frenchman imprisoned for stealing bread, must flee a police officer named Javert. The pursuit consumes both men's lives, and soon Valjean finds himself in the midst of the student revolutions in France.
Style:
touching, sincere, costume drama, epic, period piece ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
redemption, hopes, literary, going straight, rise to the top, revenge, prison escape, prisoner, ex convict, prejudice, christian, napoleonic era ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, ancient times, 1800s, year 1998
Place:
paris france, france, 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, 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:
100%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 28 min.
TV show
Story:
After living a miserable life with her aunt, orphaned Jane Eyre is sent to Lowood, a residential school for children of limited means. Jane takes the advice of her friend and over many years takes her studies seriously, eventually advertising for a ...
Style:
costume drama, gothic, period piece, sentimental, serious ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
love and romance, estate, proposal, couple relations, power of love, society, rich and poor, governess, fall in love, social differences, orphan, strong female presence ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era
Place:
england, britain, europe
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, France, Italy, USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Jane Eyre is an orphan cast out as a young girl by her aunt, Mrs. Reed, and sent to be raised in a harsh charity school for girls. There she learns to be come a teacher and eventually seeks employment outside the school. Her advertisement is ...
Style:
romantic, costume drama, period piece, melancholic, intense ...
Audience:
girls' night, chick flick
Plot:
happy ending, nobility, orphan, love triangle, fall in love, power relations, family relations, love and romance, haunted by the past, rich and poor, parents and children, love affair ...
Time:
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Place:
england, europe, britain
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
In Mansfield Park, poverty-stricken Fanny Price is sent away to live with her wealthy uncle and aunt at Mansfield Park. As she struggles to adapt to her new lifestyle she begins to attract the attentions of suitors, learning about the sexual ...
Style:
period piece, costume drama, realistic, stylized, witty ...
Plot:
love triangle, couples, couple relations, love and romance, fall in love, class differences, unrequited love, social differences, society, unfulfilled love, estate, infidelity ...
Time:
18th century, 19th century, victorian era, 1800s, regency period ...
Place:
england, europe, britain
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, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
In the opulent St. Petersburg of the Empire period, Eugene Onegin is a jaded but dashing aristocrat - a man often lacking in empathy, who suffers from restlessness, melancholy and, finally, regret. Through his best friend Lensky, Onegin is ...
Style:
atmospheric, period piece, costume drama, romantic, romantic drama ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
unfulfilled love, forbidden love, marriage, poetry, unfulfillment, love and romance, obsession, unrequited love, inheritance, fall in love, victorian england, poet ...
Time:
19th century, 1820s, 1830s, year 1999, 1800s ...
Place:
st. petersburg russia, russia, london, tokyo
Similarity:
100%
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:
100%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 46 min.
TV show
Story:
A tale of secrets and scandals set in 1840s London. When the Trenchards accept an invitation to the now legendary ball hosted by the Duchess of Richmond on the fateful evening of the Battle of Waterloo, it sets in motion a series of events that will ...
Style:
costume drama, period piece, captivating, romantic, historical drama ...
Plot:
high society, aristocracy, estate, twists and turns, aristocrat, country estate, family secret, merchant, life, palace, family life, conflict ...
Time:
19th century, future, regency period, victorian era, 1840s ...
Place:
london, england, britain
Similarity:
100%
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