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Lark Rise to Candleford (2008)
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Lark Rise to Candleford (2008)
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 vanished corner of rural England and a heart-warming drama series teeming with wit, wisdom and romance.
Style: costume drama, sincere, sentimental, period piece, realistic, historical drama, semi autobiographical, serious, stylized, period drama ...
Audience: girls' night, kids
Plot: english countryside, friendship, village life, society, social relations, new job, small town, hopes, father son relationship, father daughter relationship, mother daughter relationship, husband wife relationship, employer employee relationship, neighbor neighbor relationship, abbey, social differences, ancient, woman, resistance, realism, love story, british history, literary, village, poverty ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, 1800s, victorian
Place: england, britain, europe
Keyword: bbc, english

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out period drama, costume drama, realistic and period piece films and TV series with plots about society, love and romance, costume, family relations, social differences, couples and rich and poor mostly in Drama, Romance and War genres. Some movies like Lark Rise to Candleford: Cranford (2007), Pride and Prejudice (1995), Sense and Sensibility (2008), Under the Greenwood Tree (2005), Wives and Daughters (1999). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Cranford (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 469 min.
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Story: In the 1840s, Cranford is ruled by the ladies. They adore good gossip; and romance and change is in the air, as the unwelcome grasp of the Industrial Revolution rapidly approaches their beloved rural market-town.
Style: sincere, atmospheric, costume drama, clever, period piece ...
Audience: girls' night
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Time: victorian era, 19th century, 1840s
Place: england, britain, europe
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Pride and Prejudice (1995)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 327 min.
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Story: Jane Austen's classic novel about the prejudice that occurred between the 19th century classes and the pride which would keep lovers apart.
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Time: 18th century, 19th century, victorian era, 1810s, 1800s ...
Place: england, britain, europe
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Sense and Sensibility (2008)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 174 min.
TV show
Story: This is the acclaimed 2008 BBC adaptation of the famous Jane Austen novel. While it originally aired as a 3-part miniseries, this home video release includes a single uninterrupted version of the entire film.
Style: costume drama, period piece, historical drama, sincere, sweet ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: english countryside, society, sister sister relationship, romanticism, love and romance, love triangle, countryside, rich and poor, wooing, rich man poor woman, unrequited love, manners ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, georgian era, regency period
Place: london, europe, britain, england
⇓ similarity ⇓
92%
Under the Greenwood Tree (2005)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Set in a rustic English village in the mid 19th century, Under The Greenwood Tree tells the story of a poor young man who falls for a middle-class schoolteacher and attempts to win her over.
Style: semi serious, realistic, touching, costume drama, captivating ...
Audience: girls' night, date night
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Time: 19th century, victorian era, middle ages, 50s
Place: britain, england
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100%
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Wives and Daughters (1999)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 301 min.
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Story: Elizabeth Gaskell's enchanting tale of romance, scandal, and intrigue in a gossipy English town comes to Masterpiece Theatre in a lavish four-part production of Wives and Daughters, adapted by celebrated screenwriter Andrew Davies.Davies, who ...
Style: uplifting, period piece, costume drama, serious, historical drama ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: prejudice, aristocrat, family relations, love and romance, estate, aristocracy, secret marriage, marriage, gossip, sibling relationship, parent child relationship, parents and children ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, 1800s, 18th century, 1820s ...
Place: england, europe, london, britain, africa
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100%
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The Paradise (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
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Story: An intoxicating love story set in England's first department store in the 1870s. The Paradise revolves around the lives of the people who live and work in the store, each bound in their own way by the power of the world they live in, and the ...
Style: captivating, costume drama, stylized, realistic, period piece ...
Audience: girls' night
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Time: 19th century, victorian era, 1900s, 1870s, 20th century ...
Place: england, britain
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Home Fires (2015)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: UK
Duration: 45 min.
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Story: The story of a group of inspirational women in a rural Cheshire community with the shadow of World War II casting a dark cloud over their lives. As the conflict takes hold and separates the women from their husbands, fathers, sons and brothers, the ...
Style: captivating, realistic, serious, psychological, historical drama ...
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Time: 1940s, 20th century, 1930s
Place: england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Downton Abbey (2010)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 3110 min.
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Story: A chronicle of the lives of the aristocratic Crawley family and their servants in the post-Edwardian era—with great events in history having an effect on their lives and on the British social hierarchy.
Style: captivating, costume drama, realistic, serious, period piece ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, teen drama
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 246 min.
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Style: period piece, witty, feel good, costume drama, light ...
Audience: girls' night, date night, kids
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Time: 19th century, regency period, 1800s, georgian era, victorian era
Place: england
⇓ similarity ⇓
89%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 136 min.
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Style: romantic, feel good, sincere, costume drama, dramatic ...
Audience: date night, girls' night, chick flick, kids, adult
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Time: 19th century, 18th century, 90s, year 1995, 1800s ...
Place: england, britain, europe, london
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 239 min.
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Audience: girls' night
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Place: england, britain, europe
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Genre: Drama, Romance
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Mansfield Park (1983)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 261 min.
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 50 min.
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
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Country: UK
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Style: realistic, stylized, captivating, serious, psychological ...
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100%
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Country: UK, USA
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⇓ similarity ⇓
80%
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Country: UK
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 174 min.
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 60 min.
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100%
The Way We Live Now (2001)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 300 min.
TV show
Story: The Way We Live Now is a 2001 four-part television adaptation of the Anthony Trollope novel The Way We Live Now. The serial was first broadcast on the BBC and was directed by David Yates, written by Andrew Davies and produced by Nigel ...
Style: period piece, serious, costume drama, realistic, historical drama ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
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Story: The spirited and impulsive Charlotte Heywood moves from her rural home to Sanditon, a fishing village attempting to reinvent itself as a seaside resort.
Style: costume drama, period piece, historical drama, romantic drama, heartbreaking ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
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Story: The Village is a BBC TV series written by Peter Moffat. The drama is set in a Derbyshire village in the 20th century. The first series of what Moffat hopes will become a 42-hour TV drama was broadcast in spring 2013 and covered the years 1914 to ...
Style: realistic, serious, captivating, rough, costume drama ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
Call the Midwife (2012)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
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Style: sincere, touching, realistic, stylized, costume drama ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Daniel Deronda (2002)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 210 min.
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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, serious, realistic, captivating ...
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Time: 19th century, middle ages, 1870s, victorian era
Place: britain, england, europe, london, italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Pride and Prejudice (1967)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 25 min.
TV show
Story: Pride and Prejudice is a 1967 BBC television serial, based on Jane Austen's novel of the same name, originally published in 1813. This production marked the 150th anniversary of the death of Jane Austen. It was directed by Joan Craft and ...
Style: costume drama, clever, realistic, semi serious, witty ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
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Time: 1810s, 19th century
Place: england, europe, britain
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Buccaneers (1995)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 212 min.
TV show
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Style: period piece, costume drama, romantic drama, historical drama, spooky ...
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Time: victorian era, 19th century, 1870s
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100%
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