Movies and TV shows like Oliver Twist 2007
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Oliver Twist (2007)
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Genre: Drama, History
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 35 min.
TV show
Story:
Oliver is born into poverty and misfortune - the son of an unmarried mother, who dies shortly after his birth. He is soon delivered to the workhouse, where the cruel Mr. Bumble oversees children tormented by starvation and suffering. When Oliver dares to ask for more gruel, he finds himself cast out and forced to make his own way in the world...
Style:
costume drama, sentimental, touching, sincere, captivating, juvenile, historical drama, bleak, realistic, gloomy ...
Plot:
victorian england, orphan, child's point of view, child abuse, friendship, street kid, social decay, youth, life is a bitch, injustice, society, danger, theft, thief, world war one, child, kidnapping, friends, down on your luck, urban, child in peril, bittersweet, streetwise, charles dickens, poverty ...
Time:
victorian era, 19th century, 1830s, victorian
Place:
england, london, europe
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Most similar movies to Oliver Twist
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out period drama, serious, realistic and costume drama films and TV series with plots about society, victorian england, costume, charles dickens, orphan, family relations and youth mostly in Drama, History and Crime genres. Some movies like Oliver Twist: David Copperfield (1999), Bleak House (2005), Lark Rise to Candleford (2008), The Secret Garden (1987), Dickensian (2015). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Czech Republic, UK, France, USA
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
Oliver Twist the modern filmed version of Charles Dickens bestseller, a Roman Polanski adaptation. The classic Dickens tale, where an orphan meets a pickpocket on the streets of London. From there, he joins a household of boys who are trained to ...
Style:
emotional, atmospheric, sentimental, costume drama, period piece ...
Audience:
family outing, teens, kids
Plot:
orphan, redemption, childhood, poverty, child abuse, boyhood, boy, injustice, orphanage, chess, children, corporal punishment ...
Time:
victorian era, 19th century, middle ages, 1800s, year 2005 ...
Place:
london, england, europe
Similarity:
67%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 93 min.
TV show
Story:
Charles Dickens' haunting semi-autobiographical tale of a boy who is sent away by his stepfather after his mother dies but manages to triumph over incredible adversities.
Style:
costume drama, period piece, captivating, realistic, serious ...
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
charles dickens, coming of age, child abuse, stepfather stepson relationship, step parent, manic, orphan, youth, literary, victorian england, rise to the top, life is a bitch ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, 1830s, edwardian era
Place:
england, london, europe, dover england
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 386 min.
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Story:
Based on Charles Dickens' novel, this adaptation traces the childhood of an orphan whose mother dies giving birth to him in an English work-house in the 1820s.
Style:
costume drama, period piece, emotional, gloomy, bleak ...
Audience:
kids, family outing
Plot:
orphan, charles dickens, child abuse, injustice, society, danger, young heroes, life is a bitch, coming of age, confined, youth, rich and poor ...
Time:
victorian era, 19th century, 1830s
Place:
london, europe, england
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 540 min.
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Story:
Young Nicholas Nickleby sets out to make his fortune in order to prevent his mother and sister from depending upon his uncle, Ralph Nicklby. But he finds his first job as master at a Yorkshire school to be cruel, and runs away with one of the ...
Style:
realistic, serious, touching, sentimental, emotional ...
Plot:
charles dickens, adoption, single parent, boarding school, family relations, down on your luck, dysfunctional family, boarding school life, friendship, social differences, family in danger, rich and poor ...
Time:
victorian era, 19th century, 1830s
Place:
england, europe, yorkshire
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story:
A suspenseful tale about the injustices of the 19th Century English legal system.
Style:
costume drama, period piece, serious, bleak, historical drama ...
Plot:
charles dickens, estate, inheritance, aristocracy, orphan, secret, investigation, uncover truth, abbey, social differences, injustice, society ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, turn of the century
Place:
england, britain, london, europe
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 53 min.
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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: Family, Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
When a spoiled English girl living in 19th century India loses both parents in a cholera epidemic, she is sent back to England to live in a country mansion. The lord is a strange old man-- frail and deformed, immensely kind but so melancholy. She ...
Style:
touching, sincere, sentimental, light, captivating ...
Audience:
family outing, pre-teens, kids
Plot:
orphan, garden, little girl, child's point of view, family relations, uncle, friendship, mansion, family problems, mischievous children, family life, cholera ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era
Place:
england, europe, yorkshire
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Adventure, Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
Dickensian intertwines the realm of fictional characters in Charles Dickens’ novels—including Scrooge, Fagin and Miss Havisham—in half-hour episodes, as their lives intertwine in 19th century London. The Old Curiosity Shop sits next door to ...
Style:
costume drama, period piece, serious, captivating, stylized ...
Plot:
victorian england, charles dickens, murder investigation, investigation, private investigation, christmas, murder, family problems, money problems, social problems, city life, financial problem ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, 1800s, 1840s
Place:
england, britain, london
Similarity:
100%
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643
Genre: Drama, History
Country: UK
Duration: 180 min.
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Story:
Seperated from her prostitute mother as the woman flees on foot down the filthy mid-19th century streets of Newcastle from the police, ten year old Millie is taken under the wing of rag lady Aggie Winkovski and her crippled helper, Ben. Young Millie ...
Style:
costume drama, serious, realistic, touching, period drama
Plot:
victorian england, british history, age difference, pimp, prostitute, friendship, kids in trouble, homeless, friends, starting over, society, young heroes ...
Time:
victorian era, 19th century, 1800s, 1850s
Place:
britain, england, europe
Similarity:
42%
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: Canada
Duration: 60 min.
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Story:
A coming-of-age story about an outsider who, against all odds and numerous challenges, fights for love and acceptance and for her place in the world. The series centers on a young orphaned girl in the late 1890’s, who, after an abusive childhood ...
Style:
compassionate, touching, sincere, realistic, emotional ...
Audience:
teens, family friendly, teen drama
Plot:
friendship, orphan, teenage life, small town, coming of age, feminism, child's point of view, family relations, children's home, society, school, parents and children ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, 1800s, 1890s
Place:
canada
Similarity:
33%
310
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
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Story:
Bold and irreverent drama following the fortunes of a group of servants in an 1850s English country house.
Style:
costume drama, captivating, disturbing, tension, satirical ...
Plot:
victorian england, aristocracy, manor, servant, maid, butler, country estate, housekeeper, master servant relationship, domestic servant, estate, workplace situations ...
Time:
victorian era, 1850s, 19th century, 1800s
Place:
england
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 88 min.
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Story:
Intertwining tales of love, greed, and secret identities in Charles Dickens's 1860s London.
Style:
costume drama, period piece, historical drama, realistic, serious ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
victorian england, charles dickens, inheritance, love, unrequited love, makeover, betrayal, dishonesty, lifestyle, life is a bitch, society, love and romance ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, 1800s, 1860s
Place:
britain, london, england, europe
Similarity:
34%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Charles Dickens' classical story about the young orphan boy in 1837 England is again re-filmed in grand fashion. Richard Dreyfuss portrays Fagin, the unscrupulous leader of the young pick-pockets Oliver (Alex Trench) initially falls in with ...
Style:
serious, realistic, gloomy, touching, sentimental ...
Audience:
family outing, kids
Plot:
orphan, charles dickens, youth, oliver twist, children, control, injustice, friends, friendship, kidnapping, social decay, coming of age ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, 1830s
Place:
london, europe, england
Similarity:
34%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 60 min.
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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:
50%
Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 50 min.
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Story:
Three young women from very different backgrounds meet, become friends and share experiences when they all gain positions as nannies in the wealthy households of London's exclusive Berkeley Square.
Style:
period piece, costume drama, historical drama, serious, realistic ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
nanny, abbey, family relations, child abuse, spanish civil war, civil rights, human rights, colleague, feminist, butler, bittersweet, lifestyle ...
Time:
1900s, middle ages, edwardian era, 19th century, victorian era ...
Place:
london, england, britain, europe
Similarity:
30%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 196 min.
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Story:
Adaptation of Thomas Hardy's novel.
At a country fair, young hay-trusser Michael Henchard quarrels with his wife Susan, and in a drunken fit decides to auction off his wife and baby to a sailor for five guineas. The next day, realising his ...
Style:
costume drama, captivating, serious, emotional, realistic ...
Plot:
victorian england, tragic hero, haunted by the past, redemption, social relations, rise and fall, family problems, hidden truth, society, betrayal, dishonesty, mayor ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, 1800s
Place:
britain, england
Similarity:
29%
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 120 min.
TV show
Story:
An exploration of Charles Dickens's unfinished work in which the mystery of the murder of Edwin Drood is examined.
Style:
tense, atmospheric, serious, captivating, psychological ...
Plot:
murder, stalking, obsession, orphan, human nature, small town, missing person, uncover truth, victorian england, perversion, danger, world war one ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era
Place:
england, britain, europe
Similarity:
28%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 48 min.
TV show
Story:
The story of the penniless Mary Thorne, who grows up with her rich aunt/cousins at Greshamsbury Park estate.
Style:
costume drama, period piece, historical drama, captivating, cynical ...
Plot:
aristocrat, english countryside, family drama, ward, physician, family relations, victorian england, social differences, couples, society, intrigue, love and romance ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, 1850s, 1840s
Place:
england, britain
Similarity:
27%
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Genre: Drama, History
Country: France, Italy, Spain, Germany, USA
Duration: 180 min.
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Story:
The scene is set during the French Restoration at the beginning of the 19th century. Jean Valjean, a galley slave who was sent to prison for stealing food, is now released after serving nineteen years. At first he only encounter mistrust and closed ...
Style:
period piece, costume drama, suspense, emotional, melancholic ...
Plot:
redemption, justice, injustice, depression, mayor, on the run, thief, haunted by the past, ex convict, napoleonic era, revolution, manhunt ...
Time:
19th century, regency period, 1830s, 18th century
Place:
europe, paris france, france
Similarity:
27%
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:
27%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 200 min.
Story:
Adaptation of the Dickens novel.
Style:
serious, uplifting, sentimental, atmospheric, touching ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
charles dickens, rich and poor, social differences, dysfunctional family, injustice, family relations, power relations, rivalry, life is a bitch, society, youth, siblings relations ...
Time:
victorian era, 19th century, 1800s
Place:
england, europe, london
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Drama, History
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
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Story:
Drama following the lives of a group of midwives working in the poverty-stricken East End of London during the 1950s, based on the best-selling memoirs of Jennifer Worth.
Style:
costume drama, sincere, touching, realistic, stylized ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
midwife, childbirth, pregnancy, convent, nursing, friends, doctor, nurse, medical, family life, home birth, friendship ...
Time:
50s, 60s, 1950s, year 1961, 2010s ...
Place:
england, london, europe, britain
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Drama, History
Country: UK
Duration: 180 min.
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Story:
Featuring true cases, characters and events taken from the London Hospital records, nurse's ward diaries and intimate memoirs, these gritty medical series show the lives – and forbidden romances – of pioneering doctors and nurses a hundred ...
Style:
emotional, sentimental, sincere, touching, period piece ...
Plot:
hospital, workplace, doctors and patients, couple relations, cure, workplace situations, workplace romance, public health, workplace intrigue, medicine, multiverse, extreme ...
Time:
victorian era, 1900s
Place:
england, europe, london
Similarity:
26%
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
A made for TV movie of the Charles Dickens' classic novel, turns Dickens' picaresque tale into an extended flashback, with David Copperfield Robin Phillips as a young man, brooding on a deserted beach, recalling his youth. The characters ...
Style:
captivating, serious, realistic, gloomy, emotional ...
Plot:
coming of age, david copperfield, swing, orphan, boarding school, power relations, family relations, family problems, life is a bitch, youth, society, young heroes ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era
Place:
europe, england, london
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
TV show
Story:
Set in post-war Britain, ten year-old Lewis Aldridge is grief-stricken as he struggles to cope with the death of his beloved mother. Left under the care of his emotionally distant father Gilbert, whom he barely knows and who quickly remarries, Lewis ...
Style:
touching, captivating, atmospheric, serious, gloomy ...
Plot:
friendship, family problems, teenage life, youth, estrangement, death of mother, parent child relationship, love, father son relationship, friends, dealing with death, death in the family ...
Time:
20th century, 50s, post world war two
Place:
england
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 69 min.
TV show
Story:
Follow Sugar into the underbelly of Victorian London seething with vitality, sexuality, ambition and emotion.
Style:
historical drama, costume drama, serious, realistic, captivating ...
Plot:
victorian england, prostitute, social climbing, love affair, rich and poor, mistress, social differences, power relations, couples, society, high society, diary ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, 1880s, 1870s
Place:
england, london, britain, europe
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 385 min.
TV show
Story:
Martin Chuzzlewit is an old man with a large fortune and an even larger set of family and friends. A portrait of greed and selfishness, this magnificent adaptation of Dickens' comic masterpiece features an all-star cast.
Style:
costume drama, serious, realistic, captivating, stylized ...
Plot:
charles dickens, victorian england, inheritance, blackmail, literary, tribe, social climbing, social relations, self involved, family relations, dishonesty, intrigue ...
Time:
19th century, 1830s, victorian era
Place:
britain, england, usa
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Drama, History
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, period piece, stylized, realistic ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
fashion, workplace situations, rise to the top, high society, success, workplace, love affair, nouveau riche, love and romance, department store, hot and sexy, workplace problem ...
Time:
19th century, 1900s, victorian era, 1870s, 20th century ...
Place:
england, britain
Similarity:
25%
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:
25%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 303 min.
TV show
Story:
Phillip Pirrip, known as Pip, meets a convict or two in a graveyard and sets into motion a series of events that lead him from a comfortable life in his brother-in-law's forge to a mysterious inheritance and his acquaintance with the eerie Miss ...
Style:
melancholic, gothic, atmospheric, psychological, bleak ...
Plot:
charles dickens, victorian england, literary, coming of age, social class, ambition, unrequited love, identity, character study, madness, betrayal, manor ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era
Place:
london
Similarity:
25%
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