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My Brilliant Career (1979)
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A young woman who is determined to maintain her independence finds herself at odds with her family who wants her to tame her wild side and get married.
Style:
period piece, independent film, romantic, historical drama, sentimental, uplifting, touching, feel good, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
ranch, writers, feminist, farm, coming of age, biopic, women, female writer, woman, feminism, career woman, child, female protagonist, art, summer, victorian england, poet, woman power, youth, human spirit, love and romance, fall in love, couples, fighting the system, society ...
Time:
year 1979, victorian era, 1890s, 1900s, 20th century, 70s, 19th century ...
Place:
australia, jerusalem, new south wales, new zealand
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Genre: Drama, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
With their father away as a chaplain in the Civil War, Jo, Meg, Beth and Amy grow up with their mother in somewhat reduced circumstances. They are a close family who inevitably have their squabbles and tragedies. But the bond holds even when, later, ...
Style:
sentimental, costume drama, uplifting, period piece, tear jerker ...
Audience:
girls' night, kids, family outing, teens, date night ...
Plot:
sisters, family values, coming of age, friendship, women, christmas, family bonds, first love, life changing experience, love and romance, everyday life, civil war ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, 1800s, 90s, ancient times ...
Place:
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: Canada, Ireland
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
An unlikely romance in which the reclusive Everett Lewis hires a fragile yet determined woman named Maudie to be his housekeeper. Maudie, bright-eyed but hunched with crippled hands, yearns to be independent, to live away from her protective family ...
Style:
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Audience:
date night
Plot:
painter, disability, painting, aunt niece relationship, dog, happiness, talent, artist, marriage, housekeeper, love, biopic ...
Time:
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Place:
nova scotia, canada, nova scotia, canada, newfoundland
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Sport
Country: Australia
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
The story of Michelle Payne, the first female jockey to win the Melbourne Cup.
Style:
breathtaking, inspirational, sincere, atmospheric, realistic ...
Plot:
jockey, horse race, horse, horse riding, female protagonist, follow your dream, father daughter relationship, family relations, brother sister relationship, tragedy, sports injury, athlete's life ...
Time:
20th century
Place:
australia, melbourne
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
The story of Beatrix Potter, the author of the beloved and best-selling children's book, "The Tale of Peter Rabbit", and her struggle for love, happiness and success.
Style:
touching, sentimental, period piece, costume drama, serious ...
Audience:
family outing, kids, chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
writers, writer's life, biopic, female artist, book, family relations, snobbism, painting, fall in love, art, happy ending, artist ...
Time:
1900s, victorian era, edwardian era, 19th century, 1910s ...
Place:
england, london, britain, europe, san francisco
Similarity:
52%
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, Ireland, USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
A biographical portrait of a pre-fame Jane Austen and her romance with a young Irishman.
Style:
romantic, sweet, touching, costume drama, period piece ...
Audience:
chick flick, teens, date night, girls' night, adult
Plot:
unfulfilled love, love story, couples, writer's life, love and romance, love, prejudice, fall in love, biopic, women, passion, destiny ...
Time:
18th century, 19th century, victorian era, ancient times, 50s ...
Place:
england, ireland, britain, europe, london
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: Australia, UK, France
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
In 1818, high-spirited young Fanny Brawne finds herself increasingly intrigued by the handsome but aloof poet John Keats, who lives next door to her family friends the Dilkes. After reading a book of his poetry, she finds herself even more drawn to ...
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costume drama, heartbreaking, period piece, romantic, sad ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
poet, writers, poetry, love story, love, biopic, tuberculosis, passion, art, friendship, literary, longing ...
Time:
victorian era, 19th century, regency period, ancient times, 1810s ...
Place:
england, europe, britain, rome italy, london ...
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 134 min.
Story:
Based on the well-loved Australian classic by Mrs. Aeneas Gunn, this is the remarkable true story of Jeannie Gunn, a woman who fought to overcome sexual and racial prejudice amid the harsh beauties of the outback. Leaving her Melbourne existence for ...
Style:
independent film, serious, realistic, uplifting, sincere ...
Plot:
australian aboriginal, bride and groom, countryside, aborigine, strong female lead, sexism, australian outback, animal cruelty, killing an animal, racism, feminist, profanity ...
Time:
year 1982, 20th century, 1900s
Place:
australia, melbourne
Similarity:
47%
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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:
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
The Newlyn School of artists flourished at the beginning of the 20th Century and the film focuses on the wild and bohemian Lamorna Group, which included Alfred Munnings and Laura and Harold Knight. The incendiary anti-Modernist Munnings, now ...
Style:
sincere, touching, emotional, serious, retro ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
painter, biopic, couples, love triangle, nudity, infidelity, love affair, lifestyle, family relations, unfulfilled love, fall in love, dishonesty ...
Time:
1910s, 1900s, year 1915, 20th century, year 1914 ...
Place:
cornwall, england, london
Similarity:
44%
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Set in the summer of 1910 in Australia the film follows the story of 14 year old Alan Marshall (Alexander Outhread) as he stumbles out of childhood towards the exciting yet forbidding world of adulthood. For Alan, despite the effects of polio, ...
Style:
erotic, period piece, serious, realistic, sincere ...
Plot:
true love, horse, making love, youth, forbidden love, passion, skinny dipping, desire, sex scene, male female relationship, love triangle, infidelity ...
Time:
year 1993, 1900s, 20th century
Place:
australia, south australia
Similarity:
43%
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
Based on her acclaimed autobiographical book, THE WHOLE WIDE WORLD tells the story of Novalyne Price, an attractive feisty West Texas schoolteacher and her bittersweet, romantic and turbulent relationship with Robert E. Howard, the great pulp ...
Style:
period piece, touching, emotional, sentimental, cult classic ...
Plot:
writers, destiny, biopic, love story, friendship, mental disorder, bittersweet, couples, hospital, small town, loneliness, love ...
Time:
1930s, year 1996, year 1933, 20th century
Place:
louisiana, usa, new mexico, texas, ireland
Similarity:
42%
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:
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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:
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
sexuality, sex, forbidden love, obsessive love, insomnia, love affair, writers, lifestyle, love and romance, destructive relationship, poet, female writer ...
Time:
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Place:
venice, rome italy, paris france, italy, france ...
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
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Style:
costume drama, period piece, sentimental, captivating, serious ...
Plot:
love affair, actress, writers, writer's life, forbidden love, biopic, older man younger woman relationship, secret relationship, affair, scandal, secret, marital discord ...
Time:
victorian era, 19th century, ancient times, 1860s, 1850s ...
Place:
london, england, britain, europe, manchester
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
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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:
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Place:
england, britain, europe, london
Similarity:
40%
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Story of the relationship between the poets Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath.
Style:
depressing, realistic, psychological, serious, heartbreaking ...
Plot:
suicide, writers, drinking, biopic, death, bipolar disorder, poet, couple relations, mental disorder, art, tragic love, writer's life ...
Time:
1950s, 50s, year 2003, 60s, 20th century
Place:
england, europe, new york, london
Similarity:
40%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
Set in 1870's New York, a spinster heiress is courted by a much younger, penniless man, much to the chagrin of her over-protective father, and must decide whether to spend the rest of her life alone, or marry a man who is interested in her only ...
Style:
costume drama, romantic drama, romantic, stylized, sex comedy ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
father daughter relationship, marriage proposal, love, betrayal, victorian england, forbidden love, older woman younger man relationship, gilded age, american history, couple relations, love and romance, marriage ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, turn of the century, year 1997, 1870s ...
Place:
alps, geneva switzerland, manhattan new york city, america, new york ...
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40%
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:
40%
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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
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39%
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, France
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
The story of the relationship between painter Dora Carrington and author Lytton Strachey in a World War One England of cottages and countryside. Although platonic due to Strachey's homosexuality, the relationship was nevertheless a deep and ...
Style:
costume drama, sexual, talky, emotional, touching ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
artist, writers, painter, polyamory, art, glbt, biopic, male nudity, world war one, passion, art history, lgbt ...
Time:
1930s, year 1915, victorian era, 1910s, 1920s ...
Place:
england, wales, europe, italy, venice ...
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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:
39%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 135 min.
Story:
Four sisters come of age in America in the aftermath of the Civil War.
Style:
romantic, sentimental, inspirational, sweet, melancholic ...
Audience:
chick flick, family outing, kids, date night, teens ...
Plot:
love, sisters, coming of age, writers, female protagonist, generosity, friendship, sister sister relationship, publisher, women's rights, sister, aspiring writer ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, 1860s, 2010s, year 2019
Place:
new york, france, paris france, massachusetts, usa
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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 ...
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39%
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 ...
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, France, USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Anne Elliot, the daughter of a financially troubled aristocratic family, is persuaded to break her engagement to Frederick Wentworth, a young sea captain of meager means. Years later, money troubles force Anne's father to rent out the family ...
Style:
period piece, costume drama, romantic, historical drama, heartbreaking ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
passion, love, passionate love, napoleonic wars, literary, admiral, abbey, strong female lead, happy ending, betrayal, prejudice, fall in love ...
Time:
victorian era, regency period, 19th century, 1800s, year 1995 ...
Place:
england, europe, britain
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, Luxembourg, France, Belgium, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
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Style:
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chick flick
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Time:
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Place:
holland, netherlands, europe, america
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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 ...
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:
38%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Coming-of age feature, set in a New South Wales country town in the 1960s, about a 15 year-old boy. It follows his loves and how he copes with life's problems such as death and departure.
Style:
sad, independent film, period piece, sex comedy, retro ...
Audience:
date night, teens
Plot:
coming of age, childhood, small town, first love, relationships, friendship, pregnant teenager, love triangle, forbidden love, love, discrimination, bittersweet ...
Time:
60s, year 1987, 20th century, year 1962, 80s
Place:
australia, new south wales
Similarity:
38%
71K
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, China, USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
In 1800s England, a well-meaning but selfish young woman meddles in the love lives of her friends.
Style:
humorous, feel good, entertaining, period piece, captivating ...
Audience:
date night, chick flick, kids, teens
Plot:
love and romance, male female relationship, estate, couples, friendship, looking for love, female protagonist, fall in love, wedding, prejudice, unrequited love, matchmaking ...
Time:
19th century, 2020s, 1800s, future, victorian era ...
Place:
england, yorkshire
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
A look at the mysterious relationship between Victorian art critic John Ruskin and his teenage bride Effie Gray.
Style:
period piece, costume drama, stylized, emotional, captivating ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
love, biopic, couples, unfulfillment, self discovery, crumbling marriage, love and romance, fall in love, painter, art, writers, love triangle ...
Time:
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Place:
england, britain, europe, london, scotland
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