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Love in the Time of Cholera (2007)
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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 telegraph boy, falls in love with Fermina Daza, the daughter of a mule trader.
Style:
costume drama, sexy, sexual, psychological, emotional, erotic, romantic, serious, sentimental, atmospheric ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
impossible love, love, new love, love triangle, letter, magic realism, power of love, epidemic, betrayal, justice, multiple storylines, visceral, funeral, diary, writers, looking for love, love and romance, love affair, sex scene, love story, cholera, making love, illicit affair, passionate love, husband wife relationship ...
Time:
19th century, turn of the century, year 2007, 20th century, 1900s, 1870s, 1890s ...
Place:
colombia, latin america, paris france, caribbean
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out period drama, realistic, serious and period piece films with plots about husband wife relationship, love, death, couples, love and romance, nude and marriage mostly in Drama, Romance and War genres. Some movies like Love in the Time of Cholera: The Painted Veil (2006), The Governess (1998), The Notebook (2004), Onegin (1999), Lady Chatterley's Lover (2022). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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 ...
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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%
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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:
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%
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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
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
A penniless middle-aged spinster scrapes by giving piano lessons in the Dublin of the 1950s. She makes a sad last bid for love with a fellow resident of her rundown boarding house, who imagines she has the money to bankroll the business he hopes to ...
Style:
serious, realistic, psychological, touching, gloomy ...
Plot:
boarding house, spinster, hotel, female nudity, desperation, piano, loneliness, psychopath, aging, mental disorder, nude girl, betrayal ...
Time:
year 1987, 1950s, 50s
Place:
ireland, dublin ireland, europe, new york, usa ...
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
As Constance (Natasha Richardson) and Nina (Toni Collette) gather at the deathbed of their mother, Ann (Vanessa Redgrave), they learn for the first time that their mother lived an entire other lifetime during one evening 50 years ago. In vivid ...
Style:
touching, sentimental, romantic, intense, realistic ...
Audience:
girls' night, chick flick
Plot:
wedding, beautiful scenery, power of love, closeted homosexual, secrets, mother, haunted by the past, writers, dying, death of mother, summer, bittersweet ...
Time:
year 2007, 50s, 20th century, 1950s, 21st century
Place:
rhode island, usa, england
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, Germany, USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
A young Englishman is dispatched to Sarawak to become part of the British colonial government. He encounters some unorthodox local traditions, and finds himself faced with tough decisions of the heart involving the beautiful Selima, the unwitting ...
Style:
sexy, romantic, erotic, scenic, period piece ...
Audience:
chick flick, teens, girls' night
Plot:
love story, forbidden love, culture clash, interracial romance, jungle, stereotypes, husband wife relationship, opposites attract, love and romance, impossible love, sex scene, love ...
Time:
1930s, 20th century
Place:
borneo, malaysia, england, ireland, paris france
Similarity:
86%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Ireland, UK, Canada, USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
In 1950s Ireland and New York, young Ellis Lacey has to choose between two men and two countries.
Style:
touching, sentimental, sweet, romantic, period piece ...
Audience:
girls' night, chick flick, date night
Plot:
immigrant, love and romance, starting over, sex scene, marriage proposal, hopes, immigration, friendship, female protagonist, true love, love affair, homesickness ...
Time:
1950s, 50s, 2010s, year 2015, 1900s ...
Place:
ireland, brooklyn new york city, new york, coney island brooklyn new york city, america ...
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67%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Mexico
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Tita is passionately in love with Pedro, but her controlling mother forbids her from marrying him. When Pedro marries her sister, Tita throws herself into her cooking and discovers she can transfer her emotions through the food she prepares, ...
Style:
touching, sentimental, sexy, sweet, emotional ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night, chick flick, adult
Plot:
cooking, magic realism, food, forbidden love, wedding, cooking and food, nudity, mexican revolution, sex, sisters, love story, family drama ...
Time:
20th century, 19th century, 1910s, 1930s, 1890s ...
Place:
mexico, latin america, texas, usa, san antonio texas
Similarity:
100%
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%
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: 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:
100%
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: UK, France, USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
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Style:
touching, romantic, sincere, uplifting, period piece ...
Audience:
chick flick, teens
Plot:
world war two, german occupation, writers, marriage proposal, letter, friendship, fiance fiancee relationship, nazi occupation, german soldier, strong female character, female writer, unwed mother ...
Time:
1940s, post world war two, year 1941, year 1946
Place:
england, london
Similarity:
75%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, USA, UK
Duration: 137 min.
Story:
Urbane professor Humbert Humbert marries a New England widow to be near her nymphet daughter.
Style:
sexy, erotic, sexual, controversial, melancholic ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama, adult
Plot:
obsession, older man younger woman relationship, forbidden love, lolita, pedophile, girl man relationship, age difference, teenage girl, lust, nymphet, older man young girl relationship, love affair ...
Time:
1940s, 1950s, 20th century, 1920s, year 1947 ...
Place:
cannes, new england
Similarity:
67%
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: USA, Germany, United Arab Emirates
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
In the aftermath of World War II, a British colonel and his wife are assigned to live in Hamburg during the post-war reconstruction, but tensions arise with the German widower who lives with them.
Style:
philosophical, realistic, melancholic, serious, romantic ...
Audience:
chick flick, boys' night
Plot:
post war germany, extramarital affair, unfaithful wife, cheating wife, husband wife relationship, adultery, horny wife, infidelity, love hate relationship, world war two, love triangle, cheating on husband ...
Time:
post world war two, 1940s, year 1945, year 2019, year 1942 ...
Place:
hamburg germany, alps, london, northern germany
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Country: France, USA, Czech Republic, Canada
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
North Carolina mountains at the end of the 1920s – George and Serena Pemberton, love-struck newly-weds, begin to build a timber empire. Serena soon proves herself to be equal to any man: overseeing loggers, hunting rattle-snakes, even saving a ...
Style:
depressing, emotional, teen, suspense, melancholic ...
Audience:
girls' night, teens, chick flick, kids
Plot:
jealousy, illegitimate son, twists and turns, brutality, family in crisis, obsession, cutting down a tree, miscarriage, tragedy, writers, loneliness, marriage ...
Time:
1920s, 1930s, year 2014, 20th century, future ...
Place:
north carolina, usa, new jersey
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Poland, France
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
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
An artist falls for a married young woman while he's commissioned to paint her portrait. The two invest in the risky tulip market in hopes to build a future together.
Style:
sexy, period piece, costume drama, sensual, touching ...
Audience:
date night, chick flick
Plot:
painter, love affair, doctor, sex scene, portrait, artist, nude painting, female nudity, adultery, extramarital affair, cheating wife, art history ...
Time:
17th century, year 2017
Place:
netherlands, amsterdam
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Belgium, Canada, Spain
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
An adaptation of Milena Agus' eponymous novel set after WWII, "Mal de Pierres" ("Mal di Pietre") spans 20 years, following the destiny of a passionate, free-spirited woman who is in a loveless marriage and falls for another ...
Style:
sexy, sexual, erotic, psychological, suspense ...
Plot:
unrequited love, twists and turns, female protagonist, pain, mountain, war veteran, delusional woman, doctor, marriage, baby, soldier, passionate love ...
Time:
post world war two, 50s, future, 1950s
Place:
provence, south of france, somalia, france, alps
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
In 1962 England, a young couple finds their idyllic romance colliding with issues of sexual freedom and societal pressure, leading to an awkward and fateful wedding night.
Style:
costume drama, period piece, novela, serious, sensitive ...
Plot:
wedding night, sexual revolution, frigidity, beach, awkwardness, asexual, male virgin, honeymoon, newlyweds, brain damage, virgin, marriage ...
Time:
year 1962, year 2007, year 1975, 60s
Place:
berlin germany
Similarity:
100%
15K
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, UK, USA
Duration: 137 min.
Story:
Set in Baroque France, a scheming widow and her lover make a bet regarding the corruption of a recently married woman. The lover, Valmont, bets that he can seduce her, even though she is an honorable woman. If he wins, he can have his lover to do as ...
Style:
sexy, period piece, costume drama, independent film, realistic ...
Audience:
girls' night, adult
Plot:
infidelity, betrayal, virgin, couple relations, manipulation, seduction, hypocrisy, virginity, tragedy, manipulative woman, love triangle, marriage ...
Time:
18th century, year 1989, georgian era, 20th century, 80s ...
Place:
france, paris france, eastern europe, europe
Similarity:
21%
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:
20%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 144 min.
Story:
Ms. Isabel Archer isn't afraid to challenge societal norms. Impressed by her free spirit, her kindhearted cousin writes her into his fatally ill father's will. Suddenly rich and independent, Isabelle ventures into the world, along the way ...
Style:
period piece, costume drama, psychological, talky, atmospheric ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
manipulation, friendship, depression, impossible love, multiple storylines, couple relations, infidelity, fall in love, relationships, art, women, passionate love ...
Time:
victorian era, 19th century, year 1996, turn of the century, 1870s ...
Place:
europe, england, sicily, florence, london ...
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 ...
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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:
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Time:
19th century, victorian era
Place:
britain, england, europe, italy
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Firelight is a period romance/drama film written and directed by William Nicholson. It was Nicholson's first, and to date only, film as director.
Style:
erotic, feel good, touching, sexy, uplifting ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
fall in love, victorian england, love affair, governess, couples, hopes, marriage proposal, estate, love and romance, parents and children, happy ending, british ...
Time:
19th century, 1840s, victorian era, year 1997, 1830s ...
Place:
england, britain, europe, london, san francisco
Similarity:
19%
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:
19%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy, Turkey, Portugal, UK
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Overburdened and stuck in a greying marriage, Giovanna takes to caring for a Jewish Holocaust survivor her husband brings home. As she begins to reflect on her life, she turns to the man who lives across from her.
Style:
emotional, psychological, sincere, touching, erotic ...
Plot:
gay, lgbt, friendship, fall in love, self discovery, love affair, family problems, memory loss, haunted by the past, memory, relationships, illicit affair ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century
Place:
italy, rome italy, europe
Similarity:
18%
24K
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Cultural critic David Kepesh finds his life -- which he indicates is a state of "emancipated manhood" -- thrown into tragic disarray by Consuela Castillo, a well-mannered student who awakens a sense of sexual possessiveness in her teacher.
Style:
sexy, sincere, suspenseful, enigmatic, erotic ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
older man younger woman relationship, age difference, obsession, teacher student sex, male teacher female student affair, couples, infidelity, love and romance, male female relationship, hospital, love story, hedonism ...
Time:
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Place:
manhattan new york city, new york
Similarity:
18%
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