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The Wingless Bird (1997)
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 180 min.
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Story:
On the eve of World War I, Agnes Conway manages both the business and the problems of her troubled family. She finds the strength to break class barriers and help her sister Jessie marry a good boy from a family of dockside toughs. Is she strong enough to break them again when Charles Farrier, a gentleman, courts her over his parents' opposition? Agnes faces an added dilemma when she finds her heart divided between Charles and his soldier brother Reginald.
Style:
period piece, sentimental, touching, serious, realistic, costume drama, period drama
Plot:
rich and poor, great war, love triangle, betrayal, family relations, love and romance, couples, love affair, social differences, society, ambition, working class, dishonesty, master and servant, power relations, love, class differences, world war one, romance
Time:
1910s, 20th century, edwardian era, year 1914
Place:
england, northern england
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out period drama, realistic, serious and costume drama films and TV series with plots about society, love and romance, social differences, family relations, couples, power relations and costume mostly in Drama, Romance and War genres. Some movies like The Wingless Bird: Lilies (2007), The Tide of Life (1996), Poldark (2015), North & South (2004), Vanity Fair (2018). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
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Lilies is a British period-drama television series, written by Heidi Thomas, which ran for one eight-episode series in early 2007 on BBC One. The show's tagline was "Liverpool, 1920. Three girls on the edge of womanhood, a world on the ...
Style:
realistic, serious, touching, period piece, sincere ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
england, liverpool
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 180 min.
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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40K
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
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Style:
captivating, family saga, costume drama, period piece, realistic ...
Audience:
family friendly
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Time:
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Place:
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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:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Duration: 60 min.
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An adaptation of the 1848 novel by William Makepeace Thackeray.
Style:
stylized, atmospheric, costume drama, period piece, historical drama ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
england, britain, london
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Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
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Time:
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Place:
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Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Country: UK, Belgium, USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
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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Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
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Style:
realistic, serious, costume drama, captivating, rough ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
england
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100%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 150 min.
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Style:
serious, realistic, stylized, historical drama, costume drama ...
Audience:
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Plot:
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Place:
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100%
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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 ...
Style:
costume drama, period piece, realistic, serious, captivating ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
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sexy, tense, stylized, captivating, period piece ...
Audience:
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Place:
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Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 152 min.
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Place:
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Country: UK, Ireland
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
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Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
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Place:
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Country: UK
Duration: 50 min.
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costume drama, realistic, serious, captivating, stylized ...
Plot:
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TV show
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Anthony Powell's 12 volume novel sequence "A Dance to the Music of Time" has been dramatised for television.
Style:
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK
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captivating, serious, realistic, emotional, period drama
Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
1910s, 20th century, edwardian era, 1900s
Place:
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26%
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Country: UK
Duration: 145 min.
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Style:
costume drama, serious, realistic, period piece, period drama
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
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period piece, costume drama, captivating, touching, realistic ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
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Time:
1930s, 20th century
Place:
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Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
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period piece, touching, serious, realistic, period drama
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Place:
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Country: UK
Duration: 50 min.
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Plot:
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Place:
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Country: UK
Duration: 88 min.
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Audience:
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Place:
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Country: UK
Duration: 360 min.
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 540 min.
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Style:
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Time:
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Place:
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Country: UK, USA
Duration: 60 min.
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Style:
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Time:
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Place:
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Country: UK
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Country: UK
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
england, britain
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Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 276 min.
TV show
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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