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The Way We Live Now (2001)
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 75 min.
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The Way We Live Now is a 2001 four-part television adaptation of the Anthony Trollope novel The Way We Live Now. The serial was first broadcast on the BBC and was directed by David Yates, written by Andrew Davies and produced by Nigel Stafford-Clark. David Suchet starred as Auguste Melmotte, with Shirley Henderson as his daughter Marie, Matthew Macfadyen as Sir Felix Carbury, Cillian Murphy as Paul Montague and Miranda Otto as Mrs Hurtle.
Style:
period piece, costume drama, serious, realistic, captivating, historical drama, witty, biting, romantic drama, suspense ...
Plot:
intrigue, lifestyle, fall in love, couple relations, rise to the top, power relations, rich and poor, greed, victorian england, love and romance, couples, warning, royal family, woman, working class, performer's life, society, social differences, betrayal, life is a bitch, ambition, social decay, prejudice, social climbing, gambling ...
Time:
19th century, 1870s, 1800s, victorian era, victorian
Place:
britain, europe, mexico, england, london
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Most similar movies to The Way We Live Now
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out period drama, realistic, costume drama and historical drama films and TV series with plots about society, love and romance, costume, couples, social differences, family relations and power relations mostly in Drama, Romance and History genres. Some movies like The Way We Live Now: Jane Eyre (2006), Daniel Deronda (2002), Sense and Sensibility (2008), The Forsyte Saga (2002), Howards End (2017). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 58 min.
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In this version of Charlotte Brontë's novel, Jane Eyre (Georgie Henley), a poor relation in the household of her aunt, Mrs. Reed (Tara FitzGerald) is despatched into the care of the callous Mr Brocklehurst at his school at Lowood. As a young ...
Style:
costume drama, romantic, sexy, period piece, atmospheric ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, date night
Plot:
love affair, couple relations, rich and poor, love story, fall in love, estate, unlikely couple, relationships, social differences, love and romance, passion, looking for love ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, ancient times, 1800s, regency period ...
Place:
england, britain, europe, london
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 53 min.
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Daniel Deronda is a British television serial drama adapted by Andrew Davies from the George Eliot novel of the same name. The serial was directed by Tom Hooper, produced by Louis Marks, and was first broadcast in three parts on BBC One from 23 ...
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costume drama, period piece, realistic, serious, captivating ...
Plot:
aristocracy, marriage of convenience, jewess, love triangle, society, drowning, social differences, love affair, rise to the top, fall in love, betrayal, unlikely couple ...
Time:
19th century, middle ages, victorian era, 1870s
Place:
britain, england, europe, london, italy
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100%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 57 min.
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This is the acclaimed 2008 BBC adaptation of the famous Jane Austen novel. While it originally aired as a 3-part miniseries, this home video release includes a single uninterrupted version of the entire film.
Style:
costume drama, period piece, romantic drama, historical drama, sincere ...
Audience:
girls' night, date night
Plot:
countryside, romanticism, love and romance, society, sister sister relationship, love triangle, wooing, manners, rich and poor, rich man poor woman, love story, unrequited love ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, georgian era, regency period
Place:
london, europe, britain, england
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 276 min.
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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, costume drama, realistic, family saga, serious ...
Plot:
love affair, high society, forbidden love, love and romance, victorian england, couple relations, parents and children, society, unfulfilled love, rich and poor, family relations, power relations ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, 20th century, 1920s, 1800s ...
Place:
england, britain, europe, london
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100%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 60 min.
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The social and class divisions in early 20th century England through the intersection of three families - the wealthy Wilcoxes, the gentle and idealistic Schlegels and the lower-middle class Basts.
Style:
costume drama, period piece, captivating, sentimental, psychological ...
Audience:
girls' night, chick flick
Plot:
class differences, social class, wealthy family, class system, house, sister, society, love affair, love and romance, couples, couple relations, middle class ...
Time:
20th century, edwardian era, victorian era, 1910s, 1900s
Place:
england, britain
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 25 min.
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Pride and Prejudice is a 1967 BBC television serial, based on Jane Austen's novel of the same name, originally published in 1813.
This production marked the 150th anniversary of the death of Jane Austen. It was directed by Joan Craft and ...
Style:
costume drama, realistic, clever, semi serious, witty ...
Audience:
girls' night, date night
Plot:
gentleman, wooing, society, family relations, unlikely couple, couples, siblings relations, rich and poor, social differences, love and romance, eligible bachelor, fall in love ...
Time:
19th century, 1810s
Place:
england, europe, britain
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 53 min.
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Based on a little known 1848 novel by Anne Bronte, Tara Fitzgerald stars as an enigmatic young woman who moves to 19th Century Yorkshire with a young son. Distancing herself from everyone in the village and their prying questions, she remains ...
Style:
costume drama, period piece, historical drama, gothic, realistic ...
Plot:
english countryside, victorian england, mathematics, literary, domestic abuse, happy ending, new beginning, troubled marriage, mansion, downfall, unfulfillment, dishonesty ...
Time:
victorian era, 19th century, 1820s
Place:
britain, england, yorkshire
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 54 min.
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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, realistic, serious, period drama
Plot:
victorian england, farm, beach, canceled wedding, unrequited love, age difference, seaside, rich and poor, love affair, wooing, social differences, infidelity ...
Time:
19th century, 1800s, victorian era
Place:
britain, europe, england
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 60 min.
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Forced by poverty to seek support, the innocent Tess Durbeyfield seeks the help of the D'Urbervilles.
Style:
clever, sincere, costume drama, period piece, realistic ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
innocence, couples, society, poverty, master and servant, pregnancy, life is a bitch, unrequited love, dishonesty, village life, love and romance, family relations ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, 1800s, 50s
Place:
england, britain
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 180 min.
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Set in 1870s England, the story tells of Annabella Lagrange and the terrible secret her wealthy parents have kept from her. When she finally learns the truth, she runs away and eventually finds solace in the company of her family's former ...
Style:
costume drama, romantic drama, realistic, sexual, serious ...
Plot:
victorian england, young love, age difference, wedding, friendship, society, family relations, self discovery, working class, youth, love and romance, coming of age ...
Time:
victorian era, 19th century, 1870s
Place:
england, britain
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, USA, Germany, Italy, UK, Spain, Austria
Duration: 90 min.
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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, romantic, stylized, captivating, emotional ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night
Plot:
love and romance, couples, parents and children, family relations, society, fall in love, infidelity, star crossed lovers, reconciliation, civil war, 007, control ...
Time:
victorian era, 19th century, 1870s
Place:
europe, london, savannah georgia, georgia, atlanta georgia ...
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100%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
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Jane Austen's classic novel about the prejudice that occurred between the 19th century classes and the pride which would keep lovers apart.
Style:
romantic, costume drama, atmospheric, stylized, period piece ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, date night, kids
Plot:
prejudice, love and romance, fall in love, aristocracy, wooing, initially antagonists, social differences, looking for love, opposites attract, love story, unlikely couple, countryside ...
Time:
18th century, 19th century, victorian era, 1810s, 1800s ...
Place:
england, britain, europe, london
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100%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
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Powerful historical drama series, based on the lives of real people, telling the story of young 19th-century apprentices taking their lives into their own hands for the first time.
Style:
realistic, captivating, serious, stylized, costume drama ...
Plot:
working class, workplace, society, life is a bitch, factory, parents and children, social differences, family relations, power relations, mechanic, realism, rich and poor ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era
Place:
england, britain
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
An English widow goes to Italy, falls in love with a dentist's son and marries him, against her straitlaced family's wishes.
Style:
costume drama, period piece, historical drama, cult classic, independent film ...
Plot:
sister in law, unrequited love, mother in law, class differences, brother in law, catholicism, marriage for money, railway, defiant, family disapproval, marriage, widow ...
Time:
edwardian era, 1900s, victorian era, year 1991, 90s ...
Place:
italy, england, britain, europe, tuscany
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100%
Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 315 min.
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Story of forbidden love in 1800's India set against the revolution for India's freedom from England.
Style:
atmospheric, historical drama, realistic, serious, romantic drama ...
Plot:
forbidden love, interracial relations, secret relationship, military, victorian england, british raj, culture clash, racism, betrayal, state affairs, love and romance, intrigue ...
Time:
19th century, 1880s, 1870s, victorian era
Place:
india, asia, england, europe, himalaya ...
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100%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 53 min.
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This faithful BBC adaptation once again brings William Makepeace Thackeray's classic satirical novel to the screen. Becky Sharp (Natasha Little) is a beautiful, clever and poor girl determined to earn a higher place in society at any cost. The ...
Style:
costume drama, period piece, historical drama, captivating, serious ...
Plot:
manipulation, passionate love, high society, unrequited love, realism, napoleonic era, time machine, napoleon bonaparte, satire, orphan, strong female presence, couples ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, regency period
Place:
england, europe, london
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
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North & South is a British television drama serial, produced by the BBC and originally broadcast in four episodes on BBC One in November and December 2004. It follows the story of Margaret Hale, a young woman from southern England who has to ...
Style:
touching, period piece, serious, sincere, captivating ...
Audience:
girls' night, chick flick
Plot:
prejudice, initially antagonists, social differences, love and romance, pride and honor, society, young woman, rich and poor, fall in love, couple relations, love affair, owner ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, 50s, turn of the century, 1850s ...
Place:
england, britain, london
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Based on Henry James' novel with the same title. It's the fall of 1850, a few miles outside Boston. The household of the dour Mr. Wentworth receives two unannounced visitors from Europe, Eugenia and Felix, the daughter and son of his half ...
Style:
independent film, costume drama, historical drama, romantic drama, biting ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
culture clash, baroness, couple relations, autumn, sister sister relationship, cousin cousin relationship, incest, uncle nephew relationship, femme fatale, puritan, social climber, expatriate ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, year 1979, 1850s
Place:
massachusetts, usa, europe, boston, vienna ...
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 53 min.
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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: Adventure, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 48 min.
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Four American girls go to England to find husbands.
Style:
period piece, costume drama, historical drama, romantic drama, spooky ...
Audience:
kids, girls' night
Plot:
high society, victorian england, love and romance, looking for love, duchess, cottage, gilded age, love story, abortion, card playing, society, culture clash ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, 1870s
Place:
england, rhode island, britain, london, europe
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, France, USA
Duration: 129 min.
Story:
Pride & Prejudice is a humorous story of love and life among English gentility during the Georgian era. Mr. Bennet is an English gentleman living in Hertfordshire with his overbearing wife and five daughters. If Mr. Bennet dies their house will ...
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 ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 50 min.
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Adaptation from John Galsworthy's novels.
Style:
family saga, costume drama, stylized, period piece, historical drama ...
Plot:
love affair, rich and poor, love and romance, law, love, spirituality, power relations, family problems, couples, family relations, unfulfilled love, dysfunctional family ...
Time:
20th century, 19th century, victorian era
Place:
england, london
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
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Britain is in the grip of a chilling recession... falling wages, rising prices, civil unrest - only the bankers are smiling. It's 1783 and Ross Poldark returns from the American War of Independence to his beloved Cornwall to find his world in ...
Style:
captivating, family saga, costume drama, period piece, realistic ...
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
countryside, estate, love affair, rich and poor, couple relations, love and romance, society, master and servant, poverty, social differences, family relations, english countryside ...
Time:
18th century, victorian era, 1790s, 19th century, 1800s ...
Place:
england, cornwall, britain
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 50 min.
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Adaptation of William Makepeace Thackeray's novel. The first colour production from the BBC.
Style:
costume drama, realistic, serious, captivating, stylized ...
Plot:
manipulation, napoleonic era, satire, deception, treachery, couples, power relations, ambition, couple relations, blind ambition, rise to the top, dishonesty ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era
Place:
england
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 54 min.
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A BBC dramatization of George Eliot's classic novel about the lives and loves of a group of people living on the cusp of the Industrial Revolution in a small town named Middlemarch. These include young Doctor Lydgate, who arrives at Middlemarch ...
Style:
costume drama, period piece, historical drama, romantic drama, clever ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night
Plot:
hospital, victorian england, social differences, intrigue, priest, tragic love, love, doctor, reform, inheritance, politics, journalist ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, 1800s, 1870s, regency period
Place:
england, rome italy, britain, europe
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 180 min.
Story:
Thomas Hardy's classic epic remains one of the most popular novels, this TV adaptation vividly depicts the powerful tale of a peasant girl whose life is torn apart by the love and jealousy of two men. Justine Waddell stars as the hapless Child ...
Style:
period piece, costume drama, historical drama, romantic, realistic ...
Plot:
victorian england, farming, nobility, tragic romance, constable, true love, age difference, feminist, young love, human rights, past, civil rights ...
Time:
middle ages, 1800s, 19th century, victorian era
Place:
england, europe
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 174 min.
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Two sisters of opposing temperaments find love and some heartbreak in Jane Austen's 18th century classic.
Style:
semi serious, realistic, emotional, stylized, witty ...
Audience:
girls' night, date night
Plot:
love, heartbreak, control, love triangle, sisters, power relations, social relations, family relations, couples, society, master and servant, love and romance ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, 18th century, 1800s, regency period
Place:
england, europe, britain
Similarity:
75%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 88 min.
TV show
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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:
100%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
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The lives of two young women collide in Victorian England when a trio of 'fingersmiths' (pick-pockets) concoct an elaborate scam to defraud a young heiress of her inheritance. The story alternates between the twisting back alleyways of ...
Style:
costume drama, serious, realistic, eros, erotic ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
lesbian, lesbian love, lgbt, lesbian relationship, sapphic, gays and lesbians, deception, manipulation, mistaken identity, voice over narration, lesbian teen, thief ...
Time:
victorian era, 19th century, ancient times, 1860s, turn of the century
Place:
london, britain, england, europe
Similarity:
100%
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, realistic, serious, emotional ...
Plot:
royalty, royal family, monarch, true love, wedding, relationship vs career, social differences, love and romance, head of state, society, unfulfillment, moral dilemma ...
Time:
1930s
Place:
england, britain
Similarity:
100%
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