Movies like I Capture the Castle
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I Capture the Castle (2003)
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
A love story set in 1930s England that follows 17-year-old Cassandra Mortmain, and the fortunes of her eccentric family, struggling to survive in a decaying English castle. Based on Dodie Smith's 1948 novel with the same name.
Style:
atmospheric, touching, period piece, stylized, lyrical, romantic, romantic drama, colorful, intense, sex comedy ...
Audience:
girls' night, chick flick
Plot:
castle, writers, coming of age, family drama, beautiful scenery, eccentricity, eccentric family, siblings relations, unrequited love, sisters, first love, sister sister relationship, couples, bittersweet, ex convict, writer's block, wedding, love, adultery, poverty, dysfunctional family, marriage proposal, life, past, age difference ...
Time:
1930s, year 1936, year 2003, 20th century, 30s
Place:
england, europe, london, american
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Most similar movies to I Capture the Castle
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, period drama, period piece and costume drama films with plots about love and romance, couples, family relations, love, fall in love, couple relations and society mostly in Romance, Drama and Comedy genres. Some movies like I Capture the Castle: A Room with a View (1985), The Governess (1998), Brideshead Revisited (2008), A Hazard of Hearts (1987), Jane Eyre (2011). 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 ...
Similarity:
100%
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:
100%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, Italy, Morocco, USA
Duration: 133 min.
Story:
Based on Evelyn Waugh's 1945 classic British novel, Brideshead Revisited is a poignant story of forbidden love and the loss of innocence set in England prior to the Second World War.
Style:
sentimental, emotional, sincere, period piece, serious ...
Plot:
friendship, world war two, male nudity, nobility, couples, gay, longing, catholic, religion, menage a trois, oxford, brutality ...
Time:
1920s, 20th century, 50s, 1930s, year 2008 ...
Place:
england, oxford university, britain, venice, morocco ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
When compulsive gambler Sir Giles Staverley has lost his estate and all his money playing dice, he realises that he only has one thing left of value: his daughter Serena. In a final game, he stakes his daughter's hand in marriage, convinced ...
Style:
gothic, period piece, sweet, cult classic, romantic drama ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
sexual assault, peplum, age difference, gambling, estate, couples, dishonesty, love and romance, ambition, superhero, kidnapping, armed robbery ...
Time:
19th century, 1800s, regency period
Place:
england, europe, london
Similarity:
100%
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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%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 62 min.
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Story:
Emma Woodhouse seems to be perfectly content, a loving father whom she cares for, friends, and a home. But Emma has a terrible habit - matchmaking. She cannot resist finding suitors for her friends, most of all Harriet Smith. Emma is desperate for ...
Style:
costume drama, period piece, feel good, sweet, light ...
Audience:
girls' night, date night, kids
Plot:
marriage, aristocracy, love and romance, female protagonist, couples, lovers, fall in love, looking for love, love, love story, friendship, naivete ...
Time:
19th century, regency period, 1800s, georgian era, victorian era ...
Place:
england, london
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
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Story:
In this eleven parts British television serial, Charles Ryder's involvement with members of the aristocratic Marchmain/Flyte family is followed throughout the years between the two World Wars.
Style:
costume drama, avant garde, historical drama, sitcom, spiritual ...
Plot:
world war two, friendship, closeted homosexual, gay, atheist, homosexuality, catholicism, homosexual subtext, voice over narration, religion, forbidden love, illicit love ...
Time:
1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 20th century, year 1981
Place:
oxford university, england, venice, paris france
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
In this adaptation of the satirical British novel, Flora Poste, a plucky London society girl orphaned at age 19, finds a new home with some rough relatives, the Starkadders of Cold Comfort Farm. With a take-charge attitude and some encouragement ...
Style:
period piece, offbeat, humorous, talky, cult classic ...
Audience:
girls' night, date night
Plot:
farce, orphan, flapper, biplane, marriage proposal, sexual attraction, summer, world war one, literary, landscape, farm, wedding ...
Time:
1930s, 1920s, 20th century, 19th century
Place:
london, england, europe
Similarity:
100%
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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, 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:
19th century, ancient times, year 1996, victorian era, 18th century
Place:
england, europe, britain
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: Italy, UK, France
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
Lucy Harmon, an American teenager is arriving in the lush Tuscan countryside to be sculpted by a family friend who lives in a beautiful villa. Lucy visited there four years earlier and exchanged a kiss with an Italian boy with whom she hopes to ...
Style:
sexy, erotic, teen, sensual, visually appealing ...
Audience:
chick flick, teens, adult
Plot:
virginity, virgin, coming of age, first sexual experience, sex scene, innocence lost, female nudity, sex, sexual awakening, nymphet, couple relations, female masturbation ...
Time:
90s, year 1996
Place:
italy, tuscany, mediterranean sea, france, europe
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, France, USA
Duration: 129 min.
Story:
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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:
50%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, Luxembourg, Italy
Duration: 131 min.
Story:
In 16th century Venice, when a merchant must default on a large loan from an abused Jewish moneylender for a friend with romantic ambitions, the bitterly vengeful creditor demands a gruesome payment instead.
Style:
sexy, period piece, costume drama, visually stunning, talky ...
Plot:
shakespeare, renaissance, love and romance, religious intolerance, tudors, women, gay subtext, friends, judaism, culture clash, trial, prejudice ...
Time:
16th century, middle ages, ancient times, year 2004, medieval times ...
Place:
venice, italy, israel, middle east, europe ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Three teenage girls come of age while working at a pizza parlor in Mystic Connecticut.
Style:
sentimental, sweet, teen, melancholic, feel good ...
Audience:
chick flick, teens, date night, girls' night, teen drama
Plot:
small town, coming of age, pizza, wedding, friendship, food, canceled wedding, adultery, pizzeria, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, mother daughter relationship, heartbreak ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
connecticut, new england, usa, london, england
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Ireland, USA, UK
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
'Circle Of Friends' is set in 1950's Ireland. The movie focuses on Benny Hogan and her best friend, Eve Malone. The story centers around Benny and Eve as they enter student life at University College, Dublin. Here Benny and Eve ...
Style:
emotional, period piece, sentimental, realistic, sweet ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night, chick flick, teens
Plot:
friendship, coming of age, small town, pregnancy, college, class differences, college life, student, catholic, voice over narration, sexual awakening, heartbreak ...
Time:
1950s, 20th century, 50s, year 1957, year 1949
Place:
ireland, dublin ireland, europe
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:
22%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA, Ireland
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
A young woman's penchant for sensational Gothic novels leads to misunderstandings in the matters of the heart.
Style:
costume drama, gothic, romantic, period piece, realistic ...
Plot:
love and romance, estate, fall in love, aristocracy, love, friendship, passionate love, family relations, abbey, literary, passion, countryside ...
Time:
18th century, victorian era, 19th century, ancient times, 1800s ...
Place:
england, europe
Similarity:
21%
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:
21%
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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:
20%
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:
20%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Set in rural England in the 1950s Eva (Samantha Morton) fantasises about her handsome, worldly cousin Joseph Lees (Rupert Graves), with whom she fell in love as a girl. However, stuck in a closed community she becomes the object of someone ...
Style:
emotional, serious, realistic, atmospheric, touching ...
Plot:
unrequited love, obsession, bittersweet, forbidden love, love, father daughter relationship, sister sister relationship, farm, male female relationship, post war, love triangle, love affair ...
Time:
year 1999, 20th century, 50s, 1950s
Place:
england, europe, italy
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Comedy, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Ten-year-old Gabe was just a normal kid growing up in Manhattan until Rosemary Telesco walked into his life, actually into his karate class. But before Gabe can tell Rosemary how he feels, she tells him she will not be going to public school any ...
Style:
romantic, feel good, sentimental, romantic comedy, sweet ...
Audience:
kids, teens, chick flick, pre-teens, girls' night ...
Plot:
first love, children, coming of age, childhood love, couples, child romance, child, school, love, boy, friendship, love story ...
Time:
year 2005, 21st century
Place:
new york, manhattan new york city, usa
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:
19%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, France, USA
Duration: 135 min.
Story:
Follows seemingly unrelated people as their lives begin to intertwine while they fall in – and out – of love. Affections languish and develop as Christmas draws near.
Style:
romantic, feel good, sentimental, touching, rom com ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night, girls' night, teens, kids
Plot:
christmas, love, holiday, multiple storylines, love story, love and romance, couples, fall in love, relationships, marriage, first love, couple relations ...
Time:
year 2003, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
london, england, europe, britain, united kingdom ...
Similarity:
19%
7K
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Emma Woodhouse has a rigid sense of propriety as regards matrimonial alliances. Unfortunately she insists on matchmaking for her less forceful friend, Harriet, and so causes her to come to grief. Through the sharp words of Mr. Knightley, and the ...
Style:
costume drama, period piece, historical drama, realistic, semi serious ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night
Plot:
literary, marriage proposal, passionate love, abbey, young lovers, unlikely couple, couple relations, unrequited love, girl, age difference, young love, friends in love ...
Time:
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Place:
england, europe, britain
Similarity:
19%
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:
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Time:
19th century, victorian era, year 1979, 1850s
Place:
massachusetts, usa, europe, boston, vienna ...
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
This fun and sexy comedy tells a timelessly entertaining story where wealthy, secret passions and mischievous women put love to the test.. When a spirited young woman, Fanny Price, is sent away to live on the great country estate of her rich ...
Style:
period piece, costume drama, sexy, witty, romantic ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
fall in love, country estate, couple relations, literary, women, love, love and romance, feminist, love story, estate, abbey, society ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, middle ages, ancient times, year 1999 ...
Place:
england, britain, europe, london
Similarity:
19%
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:
19%
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:
18%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 180 min.
Story:
The year is 1675. England is threatened by religious and political rivalries. King Charles II's Catholic brother, James, is next in line for the throne, but many Protestants put their faith in Charles' illegitimate son, The Duke of ...
Style:
realistic, emotional, serious, captivating, stylized ...
Audience:
girls' night, date night
Plot:
forbidden love, countryside, revenge, love, state affairs, love and romance, uninhibited rivalry, vengeance, political unrest, rivalry, politics, historical event ...
Time:
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Place:
england, scotland, europe
Similarity:
18%
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