Movies like The Wings of the Dove
If you like "The Wings of the Dove" you are looking for sexy, atmospheric and period piece movies about / with love, nobility, love triangle, literary, death, betrayal and greed themes of Drama and Romance genre shot in USA or UK.
Find your next favorite and similar movies in two steps:
1. Identify all themes of interest from this film (block below).
2. Look for them in the presented list.
The Wings of the Dove (1997)
14K
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 a terminally ill American heiress named Millie traveling through Europe, she comes up with a conniving plan to have both love and wealth.
Style:
sexy, atmospheric, period piece, costume drama, serious, visually stunning, romantic, visual, romantic drama, stylized ...
Plot:
love, nobility, love triangle, literary, death, betrayal, greed, relationships, nudity, forbidden love, fall in love, rich and poor, couple relations, power relations, art, journalist, manipulation, melancholy, bookstore, marriage, passion, high society, temptation, art gallery, erotica ...
Time:
1910s, victorian era, year 1997, 20th century, edwardian era, 19th century, 1920s
Place:
england, london, venice, britain, europe, italy, american
Movie in categories
Most similar movies to The Wings of the Dove
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, period drama, serious and period piece films with plots about couples, love and romance, costume, couple relations, fall in love, love and society mostly in Drama, Romance and History genres. Some movies like The Wings of the Dove: The Age of Innocence (1993), A Room with a View (1985), The Governess (1998), Where Angels Fear to Tread (1991), Howards End (1992). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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 ...
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
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
When the father of privileged Rosina da Silva violently dies, she decides to pass herself off as a gentile and finds employment with a family in faraway Scotland. Soon she and the family father, Charles, start a passionate secret affair.
Style:
enigmatic, period piece, costume drama, emotional, colorful ...
Plot:
fall in love, couples, love affair, jewess, nanny, society, loss of virginity, male nudity, photograph, couple relations, master and servant, love triangle ...
Time:
victorian era, 19th century, 1830s, year 1998, 1800s
Place:
england, london, oxford university, middle east, 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
Similarity:
100%
Movie in collections
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
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, Italy, Morocco, USA
Duration: 133 min.
Story:
Based on Evelyn Waugh's 1945 classic British novel, Brideshead Revisited is a poignant story of forbidden love and the loss of innocence set in England prior to the Second World War.
Style:
sentimental, emotional, sincere, period piece, serious ...
Plot:
friendship, world war two, male nudity, nobility, couples, gay, longing, catholic, religion, menage a trois, oxford, brutality ...
Time:
1920s, 20th century, 50s, 1930s, year 2008 ...
Place:
england, oxford university, britain, venice, morocco ...
Similarity:
100%
2K
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
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%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 144 min.
Story:
Ms. Isabel Archer isn't afraid to challenge societal norms. Impressed by her free spirit, her kindhearted cousin writes her into his fatally ill father's will. Suddenly rich and independent, Isabelle ventures into the world, along the way ...
Style:
period piece, costume drama, psychological, talky, atmospheric ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
manipulation, friendship, depression, impossible love, multiple storylines, couple relations, infidelity, fall in love, relationships, art, women, passionate love ...
Time:
victorian era, 19th century, year 1996, turn of the century, 1870s ...
Place:
europe, england, sicily, florence, london ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
When compulsive gambler Sir Giles Staverley has lost his estate and all his money playing dice, he realises that he only has one thing left of value: his daughter Serena. In a final game, he stakes his daughter's hand in marriage, convinced ...
Style:
gothic, period piece, sweet, cult classic, romantic drama ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
sexual assault, peplum, age difference, gambling, estate, couples, dishonesty, love and romance, ambition, superhero, kidnapping, armed robbery ...
Time:
19th century, 1800s, regency period
Place:
england, europe, london
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
Set in 1870's New York, a spinster heiress is courted by a much younger, penniless man, much to the chagrin of her over-protective father, and must decide whether to spend the rest of her life alone, or marry a man who is interested in her only ...
Style:
costume drama, romantic drama, romantic, stylized, sex comedy ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
father daughter relationship, marriage proposal, love, betrayal, victorian england, forbidden love, older woman younger man relationship, gilded age, american history, couple relations, love and romance, marriage ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, turn of the century, year 1997, 1870s ...
Place:
alps, geneva switzerland, manhattan new york city, america, new york ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Romance, Drama
Country: UK, France, Germany, USA
Duration: 135 min.
Story:
A woman risks losing her chance of happiness with the only man she has ever loved.
Style:
costume drama, period piece, atmospheric, emotional, talky ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
love affair, infidelity, happy ending, destiny, temptation, tragedy, debt, gambling, fall in love, dishonesty, love and romance, couple relations ...
Time:
20th century, edwardian era, 19th century, 2000s, turn of the century ...
Place:
new york, america, britain, usa, mediterranean sea ...
Similarity:
100%
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
Place:
italy, england, britain, europe, london ...
Similarity:
100%
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 ...
Style:
period piece, costume drama, breathtaking, romantic drama, romantic ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
melancholy, nazi, love, nazism, butler, aristocracy, manor, british, class differences, master servant relationship, domestic servant, master and servant ...
Time:
1930s, 1940s, ancient times, 20th century, year 1993 ...
Place:
england, britain, europe, germany
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 53 min.
TV show
Story:
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:
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
Similarity:
100%
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, serious, emotional, touching, erotic ...
Plot:
couples, forbidden love, infidelity, betrayal, unfaithful husband, sister sister relationship, pregnancy, fall in love, society, parents and children, haunted by the past, unfulfillment ...
Time:
1930s, 1940s, year 2002, 20th century, year 1934 ...
Place:
london, england, europe
Similarity:
100%
12K
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
In late 19th-century England, Jude aspires to be an academic, but is hobbled by his blue-collar background. Instead, he works as a stonemason and is trapped in an unloving marriage to a farmer's daughter named Arabella. But when his wife leaves ...
Style:
period piece, erotic, romantic, depressing, bleak ...
Plot:
forbidden love, love, unhappy marriage, scarecrow, family affairs, victorian england, sex scene, sex, social injustice, power of love, making love, family relations ...
Time:
19th century, 1880s, year 1996, turn of the century, 1890s ...
Place:
england, britain, europe, ancient greece, australia
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 53 min.
TV show
Story:
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%
Movie in collections
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:
romantic, atmospheric, gothic, emotional, period piece ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
obsession, forbidden love, revenge, social differences, passion, tragic love, master and servant, love story, childhood sweetheart, betrayal, love triangle, haunted by the past ...
Time:
18th century, 19th century, 1800s, year 1992, regency period ...
Place:
britain, england, europe
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
Superficial people are revealed and drastically changed by circumstance or luck in this a tale of death, seduction, blackmail and theft among British and Americans in Florence in the turbulent days just before World War II.
Style:
serious, atmospheric, suspenseful, stylized, romantic ...
Audience:
girls' night, chick flick
Plot:
blackmail, widow, marriage proposal, refugee, vacation, fall in love, destructive relationship, couples, false accusation, dishonesty, seduction, loveless marriage ...
Time:
1930s, 20th century, year 1938, pre world war two, 19th century
Place:
italy, florence, europe, rome italy, paris france ...
Similarity:
100%
24K
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 58 min.
TV show
Story:
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: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
Veronica is brilliant, gifted and beautiful, but the handsome aristocrat she loves, Marco Venier, cannot marry her because she is penniless and of questionable family. So Veronica's mother, Paola, teaches her to become a courtesan, one of the ...
Style:
romantic, sexy, sexual, period piece, witty ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, adult
Plot:
beauty, courtesan, forbidden love, prostitute, medieval, prostitution, love and romance, couple relations, sex, love story, social differences, rich and poor ...
Time:
16th century, ancient times, victorian era, year 1998
Place:
venice, italy, europe, turkey, cyprus ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
Dangerous Liaisons is the film based on the novel of the same name by Choderlos de Laclos set in 18th century France. Marquise de Merteuil’s asks her ex-lover Vicomte de Valmont to seduce the future wife of another ex-lover of hers in return for ...
Style:
sexy, costume drama, gothic, period piece, sensual ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
aristocracy, sexualized violence, fatal attraction, seduction, casanova, love, sexuality, nobility, decadence, passion, medieval, erotic scene ...
Time:
18th century, georgian era, 20th century, 19th century, victorian era ...
Place:
france, paris france, europe
Similarity:
100%
Movie in collections
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
The story is set in late 19th century rural corner of South England. The daughter of timber merchant Melbury, Grace, returns to the town after finishing school. Her father now believes she can find a better husband than her childhood sweetheart, ...
Style:
costume drama, realistic, serious, independent film, period piece ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
victorian england, love, love triangle, infidelity, social differences, tragic love, love affair, looking for love, forbidden love, unfulfilled love, school, rich and poor ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era
Place:
britain, england, europe, italy
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
Loosely based on the Charles Dickens' classic novel, "Great Expectations" is a sensual tale of a young man's unforgettable passage into manhood, and the three individuals who will undeniably change his life forever. Through the ...
Style:
romantic, heartbreaking, emotional, sexy, costume drama ...
Audience:
girls' night, chick flick, date night
Plot:
inheritance, art, artist, destiny, love story, childhood, passion, literary, amor, fall in love, understanding, stranger ...
Time:
20th century, year 1998, 80s, 90s, 70s ...
Place:
new york, florida, usa, london
Similarity:
100%
97K
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
After a bleak childhood, Jane Eyre goes out into the world to become a governess. As she lives happily in her new position at Thornfield Hall, she meet the dark, cold, and abrupt master of the house, Mr. Rochester. Jane and her employer grow close ...
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: 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%
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, USA
Duration: 131 min.
Story:
Close friends Rupert Birkin and Gerald Crich begin romances with siblings Ursula and Gudrun Brangwen. After the couples wed, they take a joint honeymoon to Switzerland, where things begin happily -- but they become increasingly complicated as the ...
Style:
sexy, erotic, sexual, visual, scenic ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
male nudity, bisexual man, male pubic hair, erotica, sex, skinny dipping, homoerotic fight, love, female nudity, marriage, friendship, literary ...
Time:
1920s, year 1969, 70s
Place:
england, alps, europe, swiss alps, paris france
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
Composer Gustav von Aschenbach, travels to Venice for health reasons. There, he becomes obsessed with the stunning beauty of an adolescent Polish boy named Tadzio who is staying with his family at the same Grand Hôtel des Bains on the Lido as ...
Style:
sentimental, art house, melancholic, scenic, serious ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
obsession, boy, fall in love, lgbtq, hotel, gays and lesbians, love and romance, art, forbidden love, unrequited love, teenage boy, pedophilia ...
Time:
victorian era, edwardian era, 1910s, 20th century, year 1912 ...
Place:
italy, venice, europe, tokyo
Similarity:
100%
Related movie lists
