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The Scarlet Tunic (1998)
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The Scarlet Tunic (1998)
Genre: Drama, History, Romance, War
Country: UK
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Passions erupt between a German hussar (Jean-Marc Barr) serving with King George III's personal cavalry and the only daughter of an English solicitor (Emma Fielding) in this period tearjerker adapted from a short story by Thomas Hardy. Longing to escape their own personal imprisonments -- he, his service to the king, and she, her engagement to a man she doesn't love -- they find solace in each other's arms.
Style: independent film, serious, realistic, period drama, weird
Audience: girls' night
Plot: napoleonic wars, military, soldier, countryside, war, forbidden love, love and romance, couples, love affair, military life, ego clash, love, horse, village, passion, army, mercenary, religion, death, murder, unrequited love, genie, recluse, sword, sadist ...
Time: 19th century, georgian era, victorian era, victorian
Place: britain, england, europe
Keyword: german, reading

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, period drama and costume drama films with plots about love and romance, couples, death, society, horse, love and love affair mostly in Drama, Romance and War genres. Some movies like The Scarlet Tunic: The Woodlanders (1997), Far from the Madding Crowd (1998), Far from the Madding Crowd (1967), Lady Caroline Lamb (1972), Far from the Madding Crowd (2015). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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The Woodlanders (1997)
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: love, infidelity, love triangle, social differences, tragic love, looking for love, love affair, unfulfilled love, school, rich and poor, society, fall in love ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era
Place: britain, england, europe, italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
Far from the Madding Crowd (1998)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 54 min.
Story: This powerful adaptation of Thomas Hardy's classic novel spins a story of passion and destruction set in the nineteenth century. The proud, flighty and bewitching Bathsheba Everdene finds herself entangled into the passions of three men and her ...
Style: historical drama, costume drama, serious, realistic, period drama
Plot: victorian england, farm, beach, seaside, age difference, canceled wedding, unrequited love, social differences, rich and poor, love triangle, unfulfilled love, wooing ...
Time: 19th century, 1800s, victorian era
Place: britain, england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
Far from the Madding Crowd (1967)
Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 168 min.
Story: Bathsheba Everdine, a willful, flirtatious, young woman, unexpectedly inherits a large farm and becomes romantically involved with three widely divergent men.
Style: scenic, romantic, historical drama, atmospheric, emotional ...
Audience: date night
Plot: unrequited love, literary, farm, dalmatian, love, beach, british soldier, women, love story, amor, myth, alienation ...
Time: victorian era, 19th century, year 1967, 1870s, 1860s
Place: britain, england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
82%
Lady Caroline Lamb (1972)
Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Country: UK, Italy
Duration: 123 min.
Story: Lady Caroline Lamb, dissatisfied in her marriage, has an affair with the dashing Romantic poet Lord Byron.
Style: realistic, serious, sexual, crying, period drama
Plot: french revolution, writers, poet, historical event, art, napoleonic wars, politics, obsession, love triangle, infidelity, adultery, extramarital affair ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, regency period, year 1972
Place: england, europe, rome italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
73%
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Far from the Madding Crowd (2015)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story: Based on the literary classic by Thomas Hardy, Far from the Madding Crowd is the story of independent, beautiful and headstrong Bathsheba Everdene, who attracts three very different suitors: Gabriel Oak, a sheep farmer, captivated by her fetching ...
Style: romantic, period piece, emotional, costume drama, sexy ...
Audience: chick flick, teens, date night, girls' night
Plot: couples, couple relations, looking for love, love story, victorian england, english countryside, love and romance, relationships, love affair, dishonesty, countryside, unrequited love ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, year 2015, 1800s
Place: england, britain, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
73%
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Firelight (1997)
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: uplifting, serious, touching, feel good, sexy ...
Plot: fall in love, governess, love affair, couples, victorian england, estate, nanny, love and romance, parents and children, hopes, british, love ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, year 1997, 1840s, 1830s ...
Place: england, britain, europe, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
72%
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 823
St. Ives (1998)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Germany, Ireland, UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story: In 1813, Capitaine Jacques St. Ives, a Hussar in the Napoleonic wars, is captured and sent to a Scottish prison camp. He's a swashbuckler, so the prison's commander, Major Farquar Bolingbroke Chevening, asks for lessons in communicating ...
Style: exciting, serious, captivating, stylized, costume drama ...
Plot: prison, adventurer, fall in love, haunted by the past, soldier, escapades, captivity, battles, military, napoleonic wars, napoleon bonaparte, escape ...
Time: 19th century, 18th century, 1800s, 1810s, regency period
Place: scotland, europe, britain, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
70%
Passion of Love (1981)
Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 117 min.
Story: In the 1860's, Giorgio (Giraudeau), a young Italian soldier is sent to a remote post, far away from his lover, Clara (Antonelli). He is lodged in the house of the colonel (Girotti). He becames friends with the colonel and the local doctor ...
Style: novela, serious, realistic, witty, offbeat ...
Plot: obsession, duel, illness, broadway, soldier, female nudity, relationships, loneliness, amor, military, love triangle, infidelity ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, year 1981, 1860s
Place: italy, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
65%
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Basil (1998)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 113 min.
Story: A lonely young aristocrat in turn-of the century England struggles to meet the approval of his over-bearing, class-conscious father while trying to please the selfish woman he loves.
Style: serious, realistic, sentimental, light, sincere ...
Plot: unfulfilled love, betrayal, fall in love, friendship, couples, love affair, society, father daughter relationship, secret, adultery, extramarital affair, unrequited love ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, year 1998, 90s
Place: england, britain, europe, yorkshire, london ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
59%
Battle of the Brave (2004)
Genre: Drama, History, Romance, War
Country: Canada, UK, France
Duration: 143 min.
Story: In the mid-18th Century, as England and France battle over control of Canada, an epic romance between a peasant woman and a trapper unfurls
Style: realistic, emotional, serious, crying, weird
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Time: 18th century, georgian era
Place: england, quebec, france, canada, europe ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
59%
The Land Girls (1998)
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: UK, France
Duration: 111 min.
Story: During World War II, the organisation "The Women's Land Army" recruited women to work on British farms while the men were off to war. Three such "land girls" of different social backgrounds - quiet Stella, young hairdresser ...
Style: period piece, touching, sentimental, realistic, historical drama ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: world war two, friendship, love, wartime life, working class, war, countryside, farm, woman, women, wine, world war ...
Time: 1940s, year 1998, 20th century
Place: england, united kingdom, english channel, europe, britain ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
The Desert of the Tartars (1976)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Italy, France, West Germany
Duration: 140 min.
Story: Lieutenant Giovanni Drogo is assigned to the old Bastiani border fortress where he expects an imminent attack by nomadic fearsome Tartars.
Style: atmospheric, psychological, serious, realistic, bleak ...
Plot: desert, military, destiny, war, fortress, literary, conformity, french foreign legion, minimalism, battles, isolation, soldier ...
Time: year 1976, 1910s, 70s, turn of the century
Place: austria
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
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
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
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Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 105 min.
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Audience: girls' night
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⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
The Brylcreem Boys (1998)
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: UK
Duration: 106 min.
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Style: realistic, serious, sex comedy, independent film
Plot: world war two, anti war, love triangle, fall in love, love and romance, human spirit, war, rescue, pow, german officer, hopes, prisoner ...
Time: 1940s, year 1998
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⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
Colonel Chabert (1994)
Genre: Drama, History, Romance, War
Country: France
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Colonel Chabert has been severely wounded in the French-Russian Napoleonic war to the point that the medical examiner has signed his death certificate. When he regains his health and memory, he goes back to Paris, where his "widow", Anne ...
Style: harsh, stylized, talky, disturbing, sentimental ...
Plot: napoleonic wars, betrayal, battles, war, military, haunted by the past, homecoming, aristocracy, dishonesty, life is a bitch, infidelity, missing person ...
Time: 19th century, year 1994, 1810s, 18th century, 1800s
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⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
Forever Nevermore (2014)
Genre: Drama, History, Romance, War
Country: Brazil
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A dramatic novel that presents the submission in a relationship between an Italian settler and a Brazilian woman in 1932. Luiza is a generation of women who were sent to convents to be educated, many of the high cost of permanency option ran out and ...
Style: serious, realistic, emotional, touching, gloomy ...
Plot: forbidden love, love affair, couples, revolution, vengeance, rivalry, society, love and romance, life is a bitch, wartime life, war, unsupportive spouse ...
Time: 1930s, 20th century
Place: brazil, latin america
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
A Soldier's Tale (1989)
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: New Zealand
Duration: 96 min.
Story: In the days following the D-Day invasion in Normandy, France, a British platoon leader named Saul (Gabriel Byrne) and his corporal (Paul Wyett) reach an isolated farmhouse and encounter a beautiful French girl named Belle (Marianne Basler). Love ...
Style: realistic, serious, tense, emotional
Audience: girls' night
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Time: 20th century, 1940s
Place: france, europe, normandy
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
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Genre: Drama, History, War
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Duration: 138 min.
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Style: realistic, epic, factual, suspense, psychological ...
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Time: 19th century, victorian era, 1800s, ancient times, 1870s
Place: africa, south africa, britain, united kingdom
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
An Unforgettable Summer (1994)
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: Romania, France
Duration: 82 min.
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Style: meditative, melancholic, talky, light, atmospheric ...
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Time: year 1994, 1920s
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⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
 7.0
 3K
Jane Eyre (1997)
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, gothic, atmospheric, emotional, spiritual ...
Audience: girls' night
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⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: UK
Duration: 89 min.
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Audience: girls' night
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⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
The Governess (1998)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 115 min.
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Style: enigmatic, emotional, colorful, period piece, costume drama ...
Plot: fall in love, couples, society, love affair, loss of virginity, nanny, older man younger woman relationship, jewess, couple relations, master and servant, male nudity, love triangle ...
Time: victorian era, 19th century, year 1998, 1800s
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⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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Genre: Drama, History, Romance, War
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Style: touching, emotional, realistic, harsh, visually stunning ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
The Four Feathers (2002)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Romance, War
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 132 min.
Story: The story, set in 1875, follows a British officer (Heath Ledger) who resigns his post when he learns of his regiment's plan to ship out to the Sudan for the conflict with the Mahdi. His friends and fiancée send him four white feathers which ...
Style: costume drama, period piece, serious, captivating, touching ...
Audience: chick flick
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⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
Tess of the D'Urbervilles (1998)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 180 min.
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Style: period piece, romantic, historical drama, costume drama, realistic ...
Plot: victorian england, farming, civil rights, feminist, human rights, past, young love, age difference, innocence lost, couples, power relations, injustice ...
Time: middle ages, 1800s, 19th century, victorian era
Place: europe, england
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
 6.8
 8K
Onegin (1999)
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, romantic, costume drama, romantic drama ...
Audience: girls' night
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Time: 19th century, 1820s, 1800s, year 1999, victorian era
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⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
 6.8
 1K
Camila (1984)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Argentina, Spain
Duration: 107 min.
Story: In Buenos Aires of the 1840s, a young Jesuit and a wealthy socialite fall in love and begin a torrid affair. They escape from the city, and, in disguise, set up house in a village, assuming they are safe and beyond the cares of anyone. However, both ...
Style: romantic, cult classic, manga, captivating, serious ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: forbidden love, priest in love, love, girl, first love, religion, sensuality, tragic love, village life, village, social differences, small town ...
Time: 19th century, 1840s
Place: argentina, latin america, buenos aires argentina
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
Wuthering Heights (2011)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 129 min.
Story: A poor boy of unknown origins is rescued from poverty and taken in by the Earnshaw family where he develops an intense relationship with his young foster sister, Cathy. Based on the classic novel by Emily Bronte.
Style: realistic, atmospheric, serious, emotional, costume drama ...
Audience: girls' night, date night
Plot: forbidden love, true love, family relations, orphan, obsession, countryside, siblings relations, society, social differences, rich and poor, young lovers, literary ...
Time: 19th century, 18th century, victorian era
Place: england, britain, northern england, europe, yorkshire
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
Hornblower: Mutiny (2001)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, History, War
Country: UK
Duration: 98 min.
Story: The Hornblower series is based on C.S. Forester's classic maritime adventures - the story of one young man's struggle to become a leader of men. Set against the back drop of the 18th century Anglo-French wars, the bloodiest time in British ...
Style: serious, exciting, realistic, captivating, suspense ...
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