Movies like Anna Karenina
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Anna Karenina (2012)
102K
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:
sentimental, emotional, stylized, romantic, colourful, surreal, talky, atmospheric, sexy, fairy tale ...
Audience:
chick flick, teens, girls' night
Plot:
forbidden love, high society, imperial russia, infidelity, tragic love, aristocracy, suicide, adaptation, love triangle, depression, love, adultery, marriage, obsession, moral ambiguity, family relations, love affair, doubts and hesitations, married woman, women, age difference, love story, russian, husband wife relationship, royal family ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, 1930s, 1870s, 18th century, 50s
Place:
russia, st. petersburg russia, moscow russia, europe, saint petersburg
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Most similar movies to Anna Karenina
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, sexy and romantic films with plots about love and romance, couples, love, adaptation, couple relations, betrayal and catastrophe mostly in Drama, Romance and War genres. Some movies like Anna Karenina: Pride & Prejudice (2005), The Age of Innocence (1993), Atonement (2007), Persuasion (2007), The Duchess (2008). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Russia, UK
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Anna (Marceau) is a wife and mother who has an affair with the handsome Count Vronsky (Bean). Based on the novel by Tolstoy.
Style:
sexy, romantic, psychological, atmospheric, emotional ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night
Plot:
imperial russia, relationships, infidelity, betrayal, beautiful scenery, cheating wife, age difference, love, death, loneliness, love story, life philosophy ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, 1880s
Place:
russia, st. petersburg russia, moscow russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, UK, 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, dramatic, captivating, sweet, witty ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, date night, teens, family outing ...
Plot:
prejudice, love, happy ending, fall in love, love and romance, opposites attract, aristocracy, initially antagonists, unlikely couple, wooing, gentleman, social differences ...
Time:
19th century, 18th century, victorian era, 1790s, georgian era ...
Place:
england, britain, london, europe, united kingdom
⇓ similarity ⇓
91%
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:
touching, sexy, stylized, atmospheric, thought provoking ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
high society, love triangle, countess, marriage, infidelity, forbidden love, aristocracy, lawyer, love, destiny, love and romance, lovers ...
Time:
19th century, 18th century, victorian era, 1870s, 1890s
Place:
new york, philadelphia, usa, paris france, washington d.c. ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
285K
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance, War
Country: UK, France, USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
As a 13-year-old, fledgling writer Briony Tallis irrevocably changes the course of several lives when she accuses her older sister's lover of a crime he did not commit.
Style:
touching, emotional, sad, heartbreaking, dramatic ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, teens, adult
Plot:
world war two, wartime, redemption, injustice, love story, tragic love, unfulfilled love, war, love and romance, forbidden love, love, false accusation ...
Time:
1940s, 1930s, post world war two, victorian era, 50s ...
Place:
england, dunkirk, london, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
89%
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Genre: Action, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Persuasion is the newest adaptation of the classic Jane Austen novel of the same name published in 1818. Anne falls deeply in love with handsome young naval officer Frederick Wentworth at the age of nineteen.
Style:
romantic, emotional, sentimental, stylized, dramatic ...
Audience:
girls' night, date night, chick flick
Plot:
fall in love, love affair, love, love and romance, rich and poor, relationships, love story, couple relations, society, spinster, female protagonist, couples ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, regency period, 1810s, georgian era ...
Place:
england, britain
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Movies like Pride & Prejudice
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, sexy, emotional, dramatic, stylized ...
Audience:
chick flick, teens, girls' night
Plot:
love triangle, duchess, love affair, aristocracy, love story, infidelity, duke, adultery, marriage, royalty, high society, marital rape ...
Time:
18th century, georgian era, 19th century, victorian era, middle ages ...
Place:
england, london, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
63%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
In the opulent St. Petersburg of the Empire period, Eugene Onegin is a jaded but dashing aristocrat - a man often lacking in empathy, who suffers from restlessness, melancholy and, finally, regret. Through his best friend Lensky, Onegin is ...
Style:
atmospheric, romantic, sexy, realistic, stylized ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
unfulfilled love, forbidden love, tragic love, fall in love, marriage, obsession, unfulfillment, couple relations, love and romance, unrequited love, inheritance, relationships ...
Time:
19th century, 1820s, victorian era, 18th century
Place:
london, st. petersburg russia, russia, tokyo
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance, War
Country: UK
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
The Edge of love is a love story of two feisty women and a brilliant, charismatic poet who love both women. One woman Vera Phillips who is his first love and whom he lost for ten year, while other one is his present wife Caitlin who is adventurous ...
Style:
romantic, captivating, sincere, melancholic, sweet ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
love triangle, marriage, husband wife relationship, jealousy, rivalry, infidelity, writers, pregnancy, world war two, unfulfillment, intrigue, love ...
Time:
1940s, post world war two, 18th century
Place:
wales, europe, england, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 150 min.
Story:
Tragic Anna leaves her cold husband for dashing Count Vronsky in 19th-century Russia.
Style:
serious, emotional, psychological, realistic, epic ...
Plot:
infidelity, betrayal, tragic love, love triangle, tragic hero, family relations, tragedy, unsupportive spouse, forbidden love, destructive relationship, love affair, fall in love ...
Time:
19th century
Place:
russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Australia, USA
Duration: 143 min.
Story:
An adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's Long Island-set novel, where Midwesterner Nick Carraway is lured into the lavish world of his neighbor, Jay Gatsby. Soon enough, however, Carraway will see through the cracks of Gatsby's nouveau riche ...
Style:
stylized, sentimental, bad ending, romantic, captivating ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, date night, girls' night
Plot:
obsession, love triangle, high society, love story, social differences, loneliness, millionaire, love and romance, rags to riches, unfulfilled love, destructive relationship, love ...
Time:
1920s, 1930s, 20th century
Place:
new york, usa, los angeles, long island, midwest
⇓ similarity ⇓
64%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
In this captivating Depression-era melodrama, impetuous veterinary student Jacob Jankowski joins a celebrated circus as an animal caretaker but faces a wrenching dilemma when he's transfixed by angelic married performer Marlena.
Style:
emotional, romantic, sexy, touching, stylized ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, date night, teens
Plot:
circus, forbidden love, love and romance, older woman younger man relationship, lovers, performer's life, love story, fall in love, couples, couple relations, artists and showbiz, love affair ...
Time:
19th century, 50s, 20th century, 1920s, year 1931 ...
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
80%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, UK
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, sexual, erotic, romantic, atmospheric ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
aristocracy, seduction, sexuality, sex, fatal attraction, female nudity, love, love letter, adultery, casanova, emotional abuse, sexual relations ...
Time:
18th century, georgian era, 19th century, victorian era
Place:
france, paris france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
17K
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 ...
Style:
visually appealing, scenic, erotic, atmospheric, sexy ...
Plot:
tragic love, rape, relationships, breast feeding, beautiful scenery, loneliness, love, destiny, peasant, tragedy, social injustice, marriage ...
Time:
19th century, 18th century, victorian era, 1880s
Place:
england, europe, brazil
⇓ 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:
thought provoking, atmospheric, melancholic, talky, intense ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
infidelity, love affair, destiny, happy ending, tragedy, debt, gambling, fall in love, dishonesty, love and romance, couple relations, husband wife relationship ...
Time:
20th century, 19th century, edwardian era, 90s, turn of the century ...
Place:
new york, usa, mediterranean sea, monte carlo
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 144 min.
Story:
Nick Carraway, a young Midwesterner now living on Long Island, finds himself fascinated by the mysterious past and lavish lifestyle of his neighbor, the nouveau riche Jay Gatsby. He is drawn into Gatsby's circle, becoming a witness to obsession ...
Style:
captivating, stylized, sexy, serious, dramatic ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
infidelity, fall in love, love and romance, society, love triangle, love affair, bittersweet, gangsters, runaway, secrets, writers, mentor ...
Time:
1920s, 20th century, post world war one, 70s
Place:
new york, long island, usa, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Movies like Memoirs of a Geisha
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
Based on the literary classic by Thomas Hardy, Far from the Madding Crowd is the story of independent, beautiful and headstrong Bathsheba Everdene, who attracts three very different suitors: Gabriel Oak, a sheep farmer, captivated by her fetching ...
Style:
romantic, emotional, sexy, talky, scenic ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, date night, teens
Plot:
countryside, couples, couple relations, looking for love, victorian england, english countryside, love story, love and romance, love affair, dishonesty, relationships, love triangle ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, 18th century
Place:
england, london, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Based on the novel of the same name by Edith Wharton, it is about a husband and wife (Ethan and Zeena), who need an extra hand around the house due to Zeena's debilitated body and constant illness. The young woman who joins them is a beautiful, ...
Style:
emotional, intense, sexy, captivating, sentimental ...
Plot:
love triangle, infidelity, family problems, forbidden love, family relations, dull life, fall in love, destiny, true love, love, adultery, women ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, 18th century
Place:
usa, massachusetts, england, new england
⇓ 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:
psychological, intellectual, talky, atmospheric, serious ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
manipulation, friendship, depression, multiple storylines, couple relations, infidelity, fall in love, relationships, art, women, male female relationship, impossible love ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, 1870s, 18th century
Place:
europe, england, california, london, florence ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
11K
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:
emotional, erotic, romantic, sexy, bleak ...
Plot:
love, happy ending, erotica, nude, social injustice, family relations, destiny, forbidden love, beautiful scenery, sex, mentor, tragedy ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, 1890s, 1880s
Place:
england, australia, europe, britain
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Set over three days, two different couples - each comprising of a teacher and a student - spend a life-changing weekend at the seaside resort town of Scarborough to seek an escape from the constraints of every day life.
Style:
romantic
Plot:
older woman younger man relationship, teacher student relationship, older man young girl relationship, age difference, teenage sexuality, sexual tension, older man younger woman relationship, forbidden love, love affair, lovers, secret love, hiding ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Movies similar to Atonement
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
The passionate affair of a young woman trapped in a marriage of convenience unleashes a maelstrom of murder and mayhem on a country estate.
Style:
psychological, cynical, depressing, philosophical, feminist film ...
Plot:
forbidden love, father in law, cruelty, secret lover, sex scene, marriage of convenience, father in law daughter in law relationship, english countryside, neglectful husband, male nudity, forced marriage, adultery ...
Time:
19th century, 1860s, victorian era, year 1865
Place:
england, northern england
⇓ similarity ⇓
80%
Genre: Action, Drama, Romance, War
Country: UK, Belgium, USA
Duration: 287 min.
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Story:
In the years before the First World War, three Britons are drawn into fraught and ultimately tragic relations: Anglican Christopher Tietjens, second son of the lord of the manor of Groby, Yorkshire, who is a disconsolate, Tory statistician in ...
Style:
serious, realistic, clever, stylized, retro
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
world war one, crumbling marriage, love triangle, adultery, high society, lovers, couple relations, estate, marriage, couples, love and romance, countryside ...
Time:
1910s, edwardian era, 20th century
Place:
england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
12K
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Canada, France, Italy, UK, Japan, USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Based on the best-selling novel by Alessandro Baricco, this visually stunning film tells the story of a French trader who finds unexpected love far away from home.
Style:
romantic, stylized, realistic, sentimental, serious ...
Audience:
chick flick, adult
Plot:
love story, betrayal, travel, life philosophy, interracial love relationship, smuggling, love and romance, couple relations, nude, love, obsession, sex ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, edwardian era, 1860s, 1870s
Place:
japan, france, tokyo, asia, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, Italy
Duration: 138 min.
Story:
Director Franco Zeffirelli's beloved version of one of the most well-known love stories in the English language. Romeo Montague and Juliet Capulet fall in love against the wishes of their feuding families. Driven by their passion, the young ...
Style:
romantic, sweet, colourful, emotional, atmospheric ...
Audience:
date night, teens
Plot:
forbidden love, shakespeare, shakespeare's romeo and juliet, tragic love, family feud, fall in love, love story, unfulfillment, love, young love, parents and children, true love ...
Time:
1930s
Place:
italy, paris france, new york, england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
13%
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:
serious, stylized, realistic, sexy, melancholic ...
Plot:
adultery, love affair, love triangle, greed, deception, marriage for money, society, dishonesty, family problems, couples, suspense, fall in love ...
Time:
victorian era, 19th century, 20th century, edwardian era
Place:
england, italy, london, san francisco, new jersey ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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Films like Jane Eyre
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, melancholic ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
obsession, tragic love, forbidden love, social differences, revenge, master and servant, betrayal, haunted by the past, love, love story, love and romance, class differences ...
Time:
18th century, 19th century, regency period, georgian era, 70s
Place:
england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
In this story-within-a-story, Anna is an actress starring opposite Mike in a period piece about the forbidden love between their respective characters, Sarah and Charles. Both actors are involved in serious relationships, but the passionate nature ...
Style:
romantic, emotional, scenic, stylized, atmospheric ...
Plot:
adultery, love affair, love, lieutenant, society, destructive relationship, infidelity, social differences, love story, tragedy, love triangle, star crossed lovers ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, 18th century, 20th century, 80s ...
Place:
england, france, europe, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
12%
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, sexy, intellectual, melancholic ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
world war two, obsession, infidelity, obsessive love, jealousy, love, love affair, private detective, betrayal, sex scene, adultery, extramarital affair ...
Time:
1940s, 19th century, 1930s, 20th century, year 1946
Place:
london, england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
10K
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Italy, UK, USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Jane Eyre is an orphan cast out as a young girl by her aunt, Mrs. Reed, and sent to be raised in a harsh charity school for girls. There she learns to be come a teacher and eventually seeks employment outside the school. Her advertisement is ...
Style:
romantic, melancholic, intense, emotional, realistic ...
Audience:
girls' night, chick flick
Plot:
love, happy ending, orphan, love triangle, fall in love, family relations, power relations, love and romance, parents and children, haunted by the past, rich and poor, love affair ...
Time:
19th century, 18th century, victorian era
Place:
england, europe, britain
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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, emotional, stylized, melancholic, talky ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
english countryside, estate, wealthy family, sister sister relationship, infidelity, beautiful scenery, dysfunctional family, inheritance, greed, character study, country house, love triangle ...
Time:
1910s, 19th century, turn of the century, edwardian era, victorian era ...
Place:
england, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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