Movies like Tess
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Tess (1979)
20K
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, France
Duration: 186 min.
Story:
This multiple-Oscar-winning film by Roman Polanski is an exquisite, richly layered adaptation of Thomas Hardy’s Tess of the d’Urbervilles. A strong-willed peasant girl (Nastassja Kinski, in a gorgeous breakthrough) is sent by her father to the estate of some local aristocrats to capitalize on a rumor that their families are from the same line. This fateful visit commences an epic narrative of sex, class, betrayal, and revenge, which Polanski unfolds with deliberation and finesse. With its earthy visual textures, achieved by two world-class cinematographers—Geoffrey Unsworth (Cabaret) and Ghislain Cloquet (Au hasard Balthazar)—Tess is a work of great pastoral beauty as well as vivid storytelling.
Style:
period piece, costume drama, scenic, visually appealing, erotic, cerebral, atmospheric, art house, epic, philosophical ...
Plot:
love, breast feeding, rape, tragic love, relationships, literary, beautiful scenery, mansion, nobility, loneliness, dating, peasant, autumn, destiny, landscape, scenery, angel, social climbing, victorian england, tragedy, girl, social injustice, unrequited love, tragic romance, revenge ...
Time:
19th century, year 1979, turn of the century, 1800s, victorian era, 1880s, 18th century ...
Place:
britain, eastern europe, england, europe, brazil
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 180 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Country: UK
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 60 min.
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Story:
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Style:
clever, sincere, costume drama, period piece, realistic ...
Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
england, britain
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
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Style:
atmospheric, period piece, costume drama, romantic, romantic drama ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
unfulfilled love, forbidden love, marriage, poetry, unfulfillment, love and romance, obsession, unrequited love, inheritance, fall in love, victorian england, poet ...
Time:
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Place:
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100%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
england, london
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100%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, UK, USA
Duration: 137 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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100%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA, Russia
Duration: 129 min.
Story:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 143 min.
Story:
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Style:
sexy, realistic, melancholic, costume drama, intense ...
Plot:
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Time:
19th century, 1840s, turn of the century, victorian era, 1830s ...
Place:
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance, War
Country: UK, France, USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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100%
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Country: USA
Duration: 135 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 54 min.
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Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
100%
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Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Country: UK, USA
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Country: UK
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Country: UK, USA
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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50%
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Country: France, Italy, Switzerland
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
france, provence, europe, paris france
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
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50%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Germany, Belgium, USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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Country: Germany, Denmark, Portugal, USA
Duration: 145 min.
Story:
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Country: UK
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 213 min.
Story:
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Style:
atmospheric, touching, emotional, sincere, realistic ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, USA, Germany, Italy, UK, Spain, Austria
Duration: 90 min.
TV show
Story:
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serious, romantic, stylized, captivating, emotional ...
Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Time:
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100%
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Story:
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Story:
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Style:
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Time:
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Place:
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50%
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Country: UK
Duration: 168 min.
Story:
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Style:
scenic, romantic, historical drama, realistic, serious ...
Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
37%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, France, USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Time:
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Place:
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Country: UK, USA
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Story:
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