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W.E. (2011)
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W.E. (2011)
Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 119 min.
Story: In 1998, an auction of the estate of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor causes great excitement. For one woman, Wally Winthrop, it has much more meaning. Wally becomes obsessed by their historic love story. As she learns more about the sacrifices involved, Wally gains her own courage to find happiness.
Style: historical drama, sentimental, serious, realistic, melancholic, touching, romantic, breathtaking, costume drama, stylized ...
Audience: date night, chick flick, girls' night
Plot: forbidden love, royal family, true love, royalty, infidelity, obsession, love and romance, couples, love affair, abusive husband, husband wife relationship, extramarital affair, brother brother relationship, monarch, monarchy, world war two, queen, rich man, romantic relationship, destiny, post war, flirting, biopic, ruler, heir ...
Time: 1940s, future, 50s, 20th century, 90s, 70s, 1930s ...
Place: england, london, new york, paris france, brooklyn new york city, manhattan new york city, shanghai ...
Keyword: american

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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 couples, love and romance, costume, infidelity, couple relations, royal family and royalty mostly in Drama, Romance and History genres. Some movies like W.E.: The Young Victoria (2009), Scarlett (1994), Wallis & Edward (2005), Bertie and Elizabeth (2002), Anna Karenina (2012). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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The Young Victoria (2009)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: From Academy Award® winners Graham King and Martin Scorsese, along with the makers of Gosford Park and The Departed, comes the story of Queen Victoria’s early rise to power. From an object of a royal power-struggle to her romantic courtship and ...
Style: period piece, costume drama, romantic, touching, dramatic ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night
Plot: royal family, royalty, marriage, queen, queen of england, queen victoria, politics, aristocracy, royal court, love and romance, british history, love story ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, middle ages, 1800s, edwardian era ...
Place: england, london, britain, buckingham palace, europe ...
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100%
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Scarlett (1994)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, USA, Germany, Italy, UK, Spain, Austria
Duration: 360 min.
TV show
Story: The greatest love story ever told began with Gone with the Wind and continues in this sweeping epic sequel, as Scarlett, Rhett and a host of unforgettable characters go from tragedy to triumph in an action-packed saga of international scope
Style: serious, captivating, stylized, romantic, sentimental ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: love and romance, parents and children, couples, family relations, society, infidelity, fall in love, star crossed lovers, reconciliation, civil war, dysfunctional family, 007 ...
Time: victorian era, 19th century, 1870s
Place: europe, london, ireland, georgia, atlanta georgia ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Wallis & Edward (2005)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 94 min.
Story: In 1936, Edward VIII abdicated in order to marry the woman he loved, Wallis Simpson, a twice divorced American. These events caused a scandal around the world and Wallis has since been demonised as the woman who stole the King of England. Wallis and ...
Style: serious, sentimental, touching, emotional, romantic ...
Plot: love affair, british royal family, royal family, true love, royalty, relationship vs career, politics, follow your dream, moral dilemma, starting over, social differences, couples ...
Time: 1930s, 20th century, year 1936
Place: england, budapest, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
Bertie and Elizabeth (2002)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 99 min.
Story: The duke of York, nicknamed Bertie, was born as royal 'spare heir', younger brother to the prince of Wales, and thus expected to spend a relatively private life with his Scottish wife Elisabeth Bowes-Lyon and their daughters, in the shadow ...
Style: touching, realistic, serious, historical drama, period drama
Plot: royal family, world war two, family relations, couples, family life, political intrigue, infidelity, social differences, head of state, couple relations, love and romance, society ...
Time: 1930s, 1920s
Place: england, europe, britain, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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Anna Karenina (2012)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 129 min.
Story: Trapped in a loveless marriage, aristocrat Anna Karenina enters into a life-changing affair with the affluent Count Vronsky.
Style: costume drama, period piece, emotional, sentimental, stylized ...
Audience: chick flick, teens, girls' night, adult
Plot: high society, forbidden love, imperial russia, tragic love, infidelity, aristocracy, suicide, cuckolded husband, depression, love, adultery, marriage ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, year 2012, 1870s, ancient times ...
Place: russia, moscow russia, st. petersburg russia, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
The Invisible Woman (2013)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: In 1857, at the height of his fame and fortune, novelist and social critic Charles Dickens meets and falls in love with teenage stage actress Nelly Ternan. As she becomes the focus of his heart and mind, as well as his muse, painful secrecy is the ...
Style: costume drama, sentimental, captivating, serious, realistic ...
Plot: love affair, writer's life, biopic, older man younger woman relationship, charles dickens, writers, forbidden love, marital discord, celebrity, scandal, secret, introspection ...
Time: victorian era, 19th century, 1870s, 1860s, ancient times ...
Place: england, britain, london, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
 6.1
 2K
Mayerling (1968)
Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Country: UK, France
Duration: 140 min.
Story: Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria (Omar Sharif) clashes with his father, Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria (James Mason), over implementing progressive policies for their country. Ava Gardner plays his mother Empress Elisabeth. Rudolf soon feels he is ...
Style: serious, realistic, emotional, sentimental, touching ...
Plot: forbidden love, royal family, tragic love, infidelity, politics, revolution, royalty, hopes, rebelliousness, state affairs, fall in love, society ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, 1880s
Place: austria, england, italy, europe, venice ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
The Six Wives of Henry VIII (1970)
Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 540 min.
TV show
Story: On his deathbed, King Henry VIII recalls how he wooed and wed his six wives - and disposed of five of them - in a bid to secure the succession to the throne with a male heir. Despite his many marriages and the crowded court, Henry remains ...
Style: historical drama, spiritual, costume drama, fairy tale, serious ...
Plot: tudors, royalty, monarch, biopic, royal family, monarchy, intrigue, queen, ancient, broadway, british monarchy, peplum ...
Time: 16th century
Place: england, europe, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
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Shakespeare in Love (1998)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, History, Romance
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 123 min.
Story: Young Shakespeare is forced to stage his latest comedy, "Romeo and Ethel, the Pirate's Daughter," before it's even written. When a lovely noblewoman auditions for a role, they fall into forbidden love -- and his play finds a new ...
Style: romantic, inspirational, sweet, sexy, period piece ...
Audience: date night, girls' night, chick flick
Plot: forbidden love, cross dressing, shakespeare, gender disguise, writer's life, love and romance, theater, couples, love story, lovers, playwright, passion ...
Time: 16th century, 90s, middle ages, ancient times, year 1998 ...
Place: england, london, europe, britain
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
 6.8
 3K
Edward II (1991)
Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Country: UK, Japan
Duration: 87 min.
Story: In this Derek Jarman version of Christopher Marlowe's Elizabethan drama, in modern costumes and settings, Plantagenet king Edward II hands the power-craving nobility the perfect excuse by taking as lover besides his diplomatic wife, the French ...
Style: realistic, serious, stylized, factual, homoerotic ...
Plot: gay, gay interest, homosexual, royal family, conspiracy, royalty, lgbt, uncle nephew relationship, brother brother relationship, betrayal, love and romance, state affairs ...
Time: middle ages, year 1991, 90s, 14th century
Place: london
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
The Other Boleyn Girl (2008)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story: A sumptuous and sensual tale of intrigue, romance and betrayal set against the backdrop of a defining moment in European history: two beautiful sisters, Anne and Mary Boleyn, driven by their family's blind ambition, compete for the love of the ...
Style: romantic, sexy, costume drama, period piece, stylized ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: queen, love triangle, royal family, british history, royalty, royal court, king, medieval, intrigue, politics, family relations, betrayal ...
Time: 16th century, middle ages, 19th century, ancient times, 20th century ...
Place: england, britain, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
The Affair of the Necklace (2001)
Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story: In pre-Revolutionary France, a young aristocratic woman left penniless by the political unrest in the country, must avenge her family's fall from grace by scheming to steal a priceless necklace.
Style: costume drama, period piece, factual, realistic, atmospheric ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: countess, politics, conspiracy, royal family, revenge, justice, police investigation, nobility, french revolution, royalty, couples, love and romance ...
Time: 18th century, georgian era, ancient times, year 2001, 1780s ...
Place: france, paris france, versailles, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
 6.6
 10K
Restoration (1995)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Romance
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 117 min.
Story: An aspiring young physician, Robert Merivel found himself in the service of King Charles II and saves the life of someone close to the King. Merivel joins the King's court and lives the high life provided to someone of his position. Merivel is ...
Style: factual, costume drama, intense, serious, emotional ...
Audience: adult
Plot: plague, medicine, redemption, royal family, science, betrayal, fall in love, rise and fall, jealousy, justice, doctor, royalty ...
Time: 17th century, ancient times
Place: england, london, britain, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
 6.9
 87K
The Duchess (2008)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Romance, Thriller
Country: UK, Italy, France, USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: A chronicle of the life of 18th century aristocrat Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, who was reviled for her extravagant political and personal life.
Style: romantic, costume drama, sexy, emotional, dramatic ...
Audience: chick flick, teens
Plot: royalty, love story, duchess, love triangle, love affair, aristocracy, duke, infidelity, adultery, high society, marriage, nobility ...
Time: 18th century, georgian era, 19th century, middle ages, ancient times ...
Place: england, britain, europe, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
The Forsyte Saga (2002)
Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 276 min.
TV show
Story: In 2002, the first two books and the first interlude of John Galsworthy's trilogy The Forsyte Saga were adapted by Granada Television for the ITV network. Additional funding for this production was provided by American PBS station WGBH, the ...
Style: period piece, family saga, realistic, costume drama, serious ...
Plot: high society, love affair, society, love and romance, forbidden love, family relations, couple relations, parents and children, unfulfilled love, rich and poor, power relations, victorian england ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, 1920s, 20th century, 1880s ...
Place: england, britain, europe, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
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 ⇓
30%
 6.5
 4K
Mad Love (2001)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Romance
Country: Spain, Italy, Portugal, France
Duration: 115 min.
Story: The love story who transformed Juana I de Castilla, Queen of Spain, into Juana "The mad". The tragic fate of a Queen madly in love to an unfaithful husband, Felipe el Hermoso, Archduke of Austria.
Style: melancholic, costume drama, stylized, captivating, serious ...
Plot: betrayal, obsession, royal family, intrigue, infidelity, love and romance, politics, tragic hero, royalty, state affairs, society, rivalry ...
Time: 16th century, middle ages, ancient times, 15th century
Place: spain, austria, europe, flanders, portugal
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
 7.2
 16K
Mrs Brown (1997)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Romance
Country: UK, Ireland, USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Queen Victoria is deeply depressed after the death of her husband, disappearing from public. Her servant Brown, who adores her, through caress and admiration brings her back to life, but that relationship creates scandalous situation and is likely ...
Style: costume drama, touching, sentimental, period piece, intense ...
Plot: queen, british history, friendship, politics, victorian england, monarchy, british monarchy, monarch, relationships, widow, love story, biopic ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, 20th century, 1800s, ancient times ...
Place: scotland, england, britain, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
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The Heart of Me (2002)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, Germany
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Drama set in 1930s London with two sisters, Madeleine married to Rickie, and Dinah, who falls in love with him. Rickie and Dinah begin an affair which is to have repercussions throughout all their lives.
Style: sentimental, touching, emotional, serious, romantic drama ...
Plot: couples, love affair, infidelity, betrayal, sister sister relationship, pregnancy, fall in love, society, parents and children, haunted by the past, unfaithful husband, forbidden love ...
Time: 1930s, 1940s, year 2002, 20th century, year 1934 ...
Place: london, england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
 7.0
 3K
Bride Flight (2008)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Netherlands, Luxembourg
Duration: 130 min.
Story: The story of the women on the KLM flight that won the 1953 Air Race from London to Christchurch, New Zealand.
Style: realistic, captivating, emotional, serious, sentimental ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: couples, marriage, infidelity, emigration, unwanted pregnancy, dishonesty, couple relations, love and romance, husband wife relationship, forbidden love, aviation, world war two ...
Time: 20th century, 50s, 1950s, post world war two
Place: new zealand
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
The Other Boleyn Girl (2003)
Genre: Romance, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Based on the controversial novel by Philippa Gregory, "The Other Boleyn Girl" is a fictionalised account of the life of Lady Mary Boleyn (Natascha McElhone) who becomes mistress to England's king, Henry VIII (Jared Harris), before ...
Style: realistic, serious, captivating, stylized, period drama
Plot: royal family, renaissance, mistress, royal court, sister, infidelity, intrigue, uninhibited rivalry, blind ambition, love and romance, state affairs, rise to the top ...
Time: 16th century
Place: europe, england
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
 7.1
 2K
Henry VIII (2003)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 193 min.
Story: Henry VIII is a two-part British television movie produced principally by Granada Television for ITV. It chronicles the life of Henry VIII of England from the disintegration of his first marriage to an aging Spanish princess until his death ...
Style: realistic, captivating, serious, cult classic, period piece ...
Plot: tudors, king of england, royal family, ambition, renaissance, dishonesty, head of state, infidelity, historical event, medieval, royalty, uninhibited rivalry ...
Time: 16th century, middle ages
Place: britain, europe, england
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
Wuthering Heights (1992)
Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Young orphan Heathcliff is adopted by the wealthy Earnshaw family and moves into their estate, Wuthering Heights. Soon, the new resident falls for his compassionate foster sister, Cathy. The two share a remarkable bond that seems unbreakable until ...
Style: gothic, romantic, atmospheric, emotional, period piece ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: obsession, tragic love, forbidden love, social differences, passion, revenge, master and servant, betrayal, haunted by the past, love, love story, love and romance ...
Time: 18th century, 19th century, regency period, 1800s, year 1992 ...
Place: britain, england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
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The End of the Affair (1999)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: On a rainy London night in 1946, novelist Maurice Bendrix has a chance meeting with Henry Miles, husband of his ex-mistress Sarah, who abruptly ended their affair two years before. Bendrix's obsession with Sarah is rekindled; he succumbs to his ...
Style: romantic, erotic, intellectual, heartbreaking, enigmatic ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: world war two, obsessive love, obsession, infidelity, jealousy, love affair, private detective, passion, betrayal, sex scene, adultery, extramarital affair ...
Time: 1940s, year 1999, 1930s, 20th century, year 1946
Place: london, england, brighton, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
 6.2
 38K
The Libertine (2004)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Romance
Country: UK, Australia
Duration: 114 min.
Story: The story of John Wilmot, a.k.a. the Earl of Rochester, a 17th century poet who famously drank and debauched his way to an early grave, only to earn posthumous critical acclaim for his life's work.
Style: period piece, costume drama, melancholic, atmospheric, surreal ...
Plot: writers, libertine, decadence, poet, infidelity, oral sex, biopic, alcoholic, depression, dysfunctional marriage, sexual attraction, lust ...
Time: 17th century, year 2004, ancient times, year 2006, 20th century ...
Place: england, london, britain, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
Before the Rains (2007)
Genre: Drama, History, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA, India, UK
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Set in southern India in the late 1930s, this provocative tale traces the story of three people caught in an inexorable web of forbidden romance and dangerous secrets. After a British spice planter falls in love with his alluring servant, an ...
Style: sincere, touching, sentimental, disturbing, suspense ...
Plot: forbidden love, interracial romance, taboo, master and servant, sex, love affair, social differences, love and romance, society, dishonesty, hindu, hidden treasure ...
Time: 1930s, year 2007, year 1937
Place: india, asia, england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
Farewell, My Queen (2012)
Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Country: France, Spain
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A look at the relationship between Marie Antoinette and one of her readers during the final days of the French Revolution.
Style: stylized, serious, realistic, historical drama, erotic ...
Audience: teens
Plot: lesbian, royal court, king, french revolution, master and servant, royal family, lesbian subtext, female pubic hair, lgbt, lady in waiting, nobility, suicide by hanging ...
Time: 18th century, georgian era, 1780s, ancient times, year 2012 ...
Place: paris france, france, versailles, europe, indiana
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
Edward & Mrs. Simpson (1978)
Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 350 min.
TV show
Story: While still the Prince of Wales, the future Edward VIII meets the married American socialite, Wallis Simpson. Their relationship causes furor in the palace and in parliament, especially when King George V dies, Mrs. Simpson gets divorced, and King ...
Style: costume drama, historical drama, emotional, serious, realistic ...
Plot: royalty, royal family, monarch, wedding, true love, social differences, relationship vs career, couples, family relations, power relations, head of state, love and romance ...
Time: 1930s
Place: england
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
Marie Antoinette (2006)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Romance
Country: USA, France, Japan
Duration: 123 min.
Story: The retelling of France's iconic but ill-fated queen, Marie Antoinette. From her betrothal and marriage to Louis XVI at 15 to her reign as queen at 19 and ultimately the fall of Versailles.
Style: costume drama, period piece, visual, melancholic, visually stunning ...
Audience: girls' night, chick flick, teen drama
Plot: queen, french revolution, historical character, princess, french history, royal family, royal court, aristocracy, decadence, biopic, fashion, royalty ...
Time: 18th century, year 2006, victorian era, ancient times, georgian era ...
Place: france, versailles, europe, austria, vienna ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
The Wings of the Dove (1997)
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, serious, costume drama ...
Plot: love, love triangle, relationships, nudity, death, betrayal, greed, fall in love, literary, power relations, rich and poor, couple relations ...
Time: 1910s, year 1997, victorian era, 20th century, edwardian era
Place: england, london, britain, venice, europe ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
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