Movies like The Remains of the Day
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The Remains of the Day (1993)
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 134 min.
Story:
A rule bound head butler's world of manners and decorum in the household he maintains is tested by the arrival of a housekeeper who falls in love with him in post-WWI Britain. The possibility of romance and his master's cultivation of ties with the Nazi cause challenge his carefully maintained veneer of servitude.
Style:
period piece, costume drama, breathtaking, romantic drama, romantic, sad, visually stunning, sincere, touching, depressing ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
melancholy, nazi, love, nazism, butler, aristocracy, manor, british, class differences, master servant relationship, domestic servant, master and servant, unrequited love, servant, anti semitism, estate, eternal love, housekeeper, maid, high society, mission, amor, literary, loneliness, fascism ...
Time:
1930s, 1940s, ancient times, 20th century, 90s, victorian era, year 1993 ...
Place:
england, britain, europe, germany, american
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out period piece, period drama, realistic and atmospheric films with plots about love and romance, love, couples, love story, betrayal, mentor and costume mostly in Drama, Romance and Biography genres. Some movies like The Remains of the Day: Howards End (1992), Shadowlands (1993), A Room with a View (1985), Northanger Abbey (2007), 84 Charing Cross Road (1987). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, Japan, USA
Duration: 142 min.
Story:
A saga of class relations and changing times in an Edwardian England on the brink of modernity, the film centers on liberal Margaret Schlegel, who, along with her sister Helen, becomes involved with two couples: wealthy, conservative industrialist ...
Style:
romantic, costume drama, emotional, period piece, cerebral ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
estate, inheritance, sister sister relationship, wealthy family, country house, aristocrat, rich snob, family drama, passion, sword, arrest, terminal illness ...
Time:
1910s, turn of the century, edwardian era, year 1992, 19th century ...
Place:
england, oxford university, britain, london
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100%
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 131 min.
Story:
C.S. Lewis, a world-renowned writer and professor, leads a passionless life until he meets spirited poet Joy Gresham
Style:
sentimental, heartbreaking, sweet, touching, melancholic ...
Audience:
kids, teens, girls' night
Plot:
poet, writers, marriage, husband wife relationship, death, terminal illness, professor, biopic, cancer, bachelor, college, honesty ...
Time:
1950s, 60s, 20th century, 50s, year 1993
Place:
england, europe
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
When Lucy Honeychurch and chaperon Charlotte Bartlett find themselves in Florence with rooms without views, fellow guests Mr Emerson and son George step in to remedy the situation. Meeting the Emersons could change Lucy's life forever but, once ...
Style:
touching, scenic, period piece, sexy, costume drama ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, date night
Plot:
couples, hotel, travel, self discovery, female protagonist, country estate, piano, passion, male nudity, nude bathing, happy ending, comedy of manners ...
Time:
1900s, edwardian era, victorian era, 19th century, year 1985 ...
Place:
italy, england, europe, florence, britain ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA, Ireland
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
A young woman's penchant for sensational Gothic novels leads to misunderstandings in the matters of the heart.
Style:
costume drama, gothic, romantic, period piece, realistic ...
Plot:
love and romance, estate, fall in love, aristocracy, love, friendship, passionate love, family relations, abbey, literary, passion, countryside ...
Time:
18th century, victorian era, 19th century, ancient times, 1800s ...
Place:
england, europe
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
When a humorous script-reader in her New York apartment sees an ad in the Saturday Review of Literature for a bookstore in London that does mail order, she begins a very special correspondence and friendship with Frank Doel, the bookseller who works ...
Style:
sweet, romantic, touching, sincere, feel good ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
book, bookstore, correspondence, friendship, writers, love, post war, pen pal, bittersweet, death, longing, kindness ...
Time:
1940s, 1950s, year 1987, 20th century, 50s ...
Place:
london, new york, england, europe, usa
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100%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
In this story-within-a-story, Anna is an actress starring opposite Mike in a period piece about the forbidden love between their respective characters, Sarah and Charles. Both actors are involved in serious relationships, but the passionate nature ...
Style:
costume drama, emotional, romantic, scenic, stylized ...
Plot:
adultery, love, love affair, filmmaking, lieutenant, infidelity, destructive relationship, society, social differences, love story, doomed romance, love triangle ...
Time:
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Place:
england, britain, france, europe, london
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, China, USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
The beloved Crawleys and their intrepid staff prepare for the most important moment of their lives. A royal visit from the King and Queen of England will unleash scandal, romance and intrigue that will leave the future of Downton hanging in the ...
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costume drama, family saga, sincere, captivating, period piece ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
estate, aristocracy, intrigue, servant, butler, country estate, closeted homosexual, domestic servant, country house, class differences, aristocrat, british royal family ...
Time:
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Place:
england, yorkshire, london
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 139 min.
Story:
Tale of 19th century New York high society in which a young lawyer falls in love with a woman separated from her husband, while he is engaged to the woman's cousin.
Style:
sexy, touching, atmospheric, period piece, stylized ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
high society, lovers, infidelity, forbidden love, destiny, countess, marriage, aristocracy, love, couple relations, love triangle, lawyer ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, 20th century, turn of the century, 90s ...
Place:
new york, america, philadelphia, usa, paris france ...
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100%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
In Victorian England, wealthy patriarch Sir Harald Alabaster invites an impoverished biologist, William Adamson, into his home. There, William tries to continue his work, but is distracted by Alabaster's seductive daughter, Eugenia. William and ...
Style:
period piece, costume drama, erotic, stylized, thought provoking ...
Plot:
incest, brother sister sex, sex with brother, brother sister incest, erection, male nudity, sex with sister, nudity, female pubic hair, sex, family secret, victorian england ...
Time:
1860s, victorian era, 19th century, 18th century
Place:
england, britain, europe
Similarity:
100%
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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, period piece, light ...
Plot:
unfulfilled love, betrayal, fall in love, friendship, victorian england, couples, love affair, society, secret, father daughter relationship, adultery, unrequited love ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, year 1998, 90s
Place:
england, britain, europe, cornwall, ireland ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Romance, War, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 133 min.
Story:
An epic tale of three brothers and their father living in the remote wilderness of 1900s USA and how their lives are affected by nature, history, war, and love.
Style:
emotional, touching, serious, sentimental, sincere ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night, adult
Plot:
world war one, revenge, love triangle, lovers, love, death, relationships, brother brother relationship, native american, suicide, ranch, love story ...
Time:
1910s, 1900s, 19th century, 1920s, year 1994 ...
Place:
america, usa, montana
Similarity:
100%
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 ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, Italy, Morocco, USA
Duration: 133 min.
Story:
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Style:
sentimental, emotional, sincere, period piece, serious ...
Plot:
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1920s, 20th century, 50s, 1930s, year 2008 ...
Place:
england, oxford university, britain, venice, morocco ...
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Country: UK, USA
Duration: 136 min.
Story:
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Style:
romantic, costume drama, feel good, sincere, sentimental ...
Audience:
girls' night, date night, chick flick, kids, adult
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
england, britain, europe, london, seattle
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60%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 145 min.
Story:
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Style:
captivating, sentimental, dramatic, serious, romantic ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, girls' night, teen drama
Plot:
love story, geisha, women, age difference, japanese culture, older man younger woman relationship, brothel, beauty, orphan, love and romance, mentor, femininity ...
Time:
1920s, 1940s, 1930s, ancient times, 20th century ...
Place:
japan, asia, china, east asia, america ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Romance, Drama
Country: Germany, Hungary
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Budapest in the thirties. The restaurant owner Laszlo hires the pianist András to play in his restaurant. Both men fall in love with the beautiful waitress Ilona who inspires András to his only composition. His song of Gloomy Sunday is, at first, ...
Style:
sexy, sentimental, sincere, harsh, emotional ...
Plot:
sex, holocaust, sexual harassment, suicide, love triangle, affair, jealousy, nazi, wartime, fascism, unrequited love, manipulation ...
Time:
1940s, 1930s, 20th century
Place:
germany, eastern europe, budapest, europe, hungary ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 135 min.
Story:
Photographer Robert Kincaid wanders into the life of housewife Francesca Johnson for four days in the 1960s.
Style:
romantic, atmospheric, touching, sad, sentimental ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
love story, photographer, adultery, love affair, passion, impossible love, relationships, housewife, couples, photography, extramarital affair, lovers ...
Time:
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Place:
iowa, usa, midwest
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, France, USA
Duration: 129 min.
Story:
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Style:
romantic, costume drama, sweet, sexy, captivating ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, date night, teens, family friendly ...
Plot:
prejudice, love, fall in love, happy ending, women, strong female character, love and romance, opposites attract, aristocracy, initially antagonists, wooing, social differences ...
Time:
19th century, 18th century, victorian era, 1790s, georgian era ...
Place:
england, britain, united kingdom, europe, london ...
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100%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 60 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:
costume drama, captivating, historical drama, realistic, serious ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, teen drama
Plot:
aristocracy, estate, traditional versus modern, relatives, manners, countryside, high society, servant, country estate, butler, family life, aristocrat ...
Time:
20th century, 1910s, edwardian era, 1920s, 50s ...
Place:
england, britain, hawaii, europe, yorkshire ...
Similarity:
100%
97K
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
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Style:
romantic, touching, gothic, atmospheric, visually appealing ...
Audience:
girls' night, date night, chick flick
Plot:
love, love and romance, couples, forbidden love, social differences, power of love, young woman, unlikely couple, fall in love, orphan, older man younger woman relationship, estate ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, 1840s, ancient times, 1800s ...
Place:
england, britain, europe, yorkshire
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 150 min.
Story:
Stingo, a young writer, moves to Brooklyn in 1947 to begin work on his first novel. As he becomes friendly with Sophie and her lover Nathan, he learns that she is a Holocaust survivor. Flashbacks reveal her harrowing story, from pre-war prosperity ...
Style:
depressing, sad, serious, heartbreaking, crying ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
holocaust, world war two, against humanity, nazi, concentration camp, relationships, writers, wartime life, passion, melancholy, obsession, tragedy ...
Time:
20th century, 1940s, year 1982, 1930s, year 1947 ...
Place:
poland, new york, middle east, usa, brooklyn new york city ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Ireland, UK, France
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
Albert Nobbs struggles to survive in late 19th century Ireland, where women aren't encouraged to be independent. Posing as a man, so she can work as a butler in Dublin's most posh hotel, Albert meets a handsome painter and looks to escape ...
Style:
touching, sad, costume drama, period piece, stylized ...
Plot:
gender, loneliness, cross dressing, lesbian, lgbtq, master and servant, woman dressed as man, relationships, society, death, maid, gender disguise ...
Time:
19th century, 1890s, 1800s, victorian era, turn of the century ...
Place:
ireland, england, britain, dublin ireland, europe
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100%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, Australia
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
The wife of a British Judge is caught in a self-destructive love affair with a Royal Air Force pilot.
Style:
sexy, romantic, emotional, intense, period piece ...
Plot:
love affair, infidelity, unhappy marriage, forbidden love, husband wife relationship, judge, unfulfilled love, suicide attempt, depression, family problems, love and romance, crumbling marriage ...
Time:
1950s, 50s, post world war two, 20th century, 1930s ...
Place:
london, england, europe
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 144 min.
Story:
Nick Carraway, a young Midwesterner now living on Long Island, finds himself fascinated by the mysterious past and lavish lifestyle of his neighbor, the nouveau riche Jay Gatsby. He is drawn into Gatsby's circle, becoming a witness to obsession ...
Style:
period piece, stylized, captivating, visual, serious ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
infidelity, love and romance, society, longing, love triangle, lost love, fall in love, love affair, literary, fashion, american history, power of love ...
Time:
1920s, 20th century, post world war one, 70s
Place:
rhode island, long island, new york, usa, manhattan new york city ...
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK, Italy, USA
Duration: 137 min.
Story:
Multiple storylined drama set in 1932, showing the lives of upstairs guest and downstairs servants at a party in a country house in England.
Style:
detective, period piece, costume drama, biting, satirical ...
Plot:
murder, whodunit, society, murder mystery, country estate, estate, high society, murder investigation, butler, police investigation, twists and turns, servant ...
Time:
1930s, year 1932, 20th century, pre world war two, year 2001 ...
Place:
england, detroit, london
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100%
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Country: UK, USA
Duration: 132 min.
Story:
The familiar story of Lieutenant Bligh, whose cruelty leads to a mutiny on his ship. This version follows both the efforts of Fletcher Christian to get his men beyond the reach of British retribution, and the epic voyage of Lieutenant Bligh to get ...
Style:
costume drama, period piece, captivating, sexy, epic ...
Plot:
ship, mutiny, sea, island, sea voyage, colonialism, storm at sea, journey, royal navy, lifeboat, pacific island, captain ...
Time:
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Place:
england, tahiti, britain, pacific ocean, europe
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Genre: Drama, History, Romance, War
Country: UK, Germany, China, USA
Duration: 135 min.
Story:
The last movie from the team of Ismail Merchant, James Ivory, and Kazuo Ishiguro. Set in 1930s Shanghai, "The White Countess" is both Sofia (Natasha Richardson), a fallen member of the Russian aristocracy, and a nightclub created by a ...
Style:
romantic, sentimental, emotional, period piece, costume drama ...
Plot:
love story, couples, blindness, fall in love, couple relations, politics, nobility, countess, friendship, love and romance, unlikely couple, world war two ...
Time:
1930s, year 2005, 20th century, year 1937, year 1936 ...
Place:
china, shanghai, asia, hong kong, macau ...
Similarity:
100%
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
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
This fun and sexy comedy tells a timelessly entertaining story where wealthy, secret passions and mischievous women put love to the test.. When a spirited young woman, Fanny Price, is sent away to live on the great country estate of her rich ...
Style:
period piece, costume drama, sexy, witty, romantic ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
fall in love, country estate, couple relations, literary, women, love, love and romance, feminist, love story, estate, abbey, society ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, middle ages, ancient times, year 1999 ...
Place:
england, britain, europe, london
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, France, UK
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
An intricately plotted tale of thwarted love and betrayal, "The Golden Bowl" tells the story of an extravagantly rich American widower and his sheltered daughter, both of whom marry only to discover that their respective mates, a beautiful ...
Style:
period piece, costume drama, serious, stylized, realistic ...
Plot:
adultery, love affair, deception, greed, couples, family problems, fall in love, dishonesty, society, crumbling marriage, parents and children, affair ...
Time:
edwardian era, victorian era, 1900s, 20th century, 19th century
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italy, england, britain, europe, london ...
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