Movies like Madame Bovary 2014
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Madame Bovary (2014)
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Germany, Belgium, USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
The classic story of Emma Bovary, the beautiful wife of a small-town doctor in 19th century France, who engages in extra marital affairs in an attempt to advance her social status.
Style:
period piece, costume drama, serious, captivating, psychological, emotional, historical drama, sentimental, stylized, existential ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
bored housewife, couples, adultery, infidelity, love affair, tragic hero, society, social relations, crumbling marriage, dull life, village life, dishonesty, sex addict, husband and wife, husband wife relationship, loveless marriage, scandal, literary, hunting, desire, housewife, social climber, wedding day, newlywed, victorian england ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, 1850s, 1800s
Place:
france, europe
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Most similar movies to Madame Bovary
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out period drama, realistic, serious and costume drama films with plots about society, love and romance, couples, love, fall in love, couple relations and costume mostly in Drama, Romance and Mystery genres. Some movies like Madame Bovary: Anna Karenina (2012), Anna Karenina (1997), Ethan Frome (1993), Anna Karenina (1985), Jane Eyre (2011). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 143 min.
Story:
Bored with the limited and tedious nature of provincial life in 19th-century France, the fierce and sensual Emma Bovary finds herself in calamitous debt and purses scandalous sexual liaisons with absolute abandon. However, when her volatile ...
Style:
sexy, realistic, melancholic, costume drama, intense ...
Plot:
infidelity, adultery, tragic hero, family life, hopes, village life, destructive relationship, dull life, love affair, husband wife relationship, adulterer, male female relationship ...
Time:
19th century, 1840s, turn of the century, victorian era, 1830s ...
Place:
normandy, france, europe, switzerland, london
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA, Russia
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, sentimental, historical drama, colorful ...
Audience:
chick flick, teens, girls' night, adult
Plot:
high society, forbidden love, imperial russia, infidelity, tragic love, aristocracy, marriage, suicide, adultery, cuckolded husband, love, depression ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, ancient times, year 2012, 1800s ...
Place:
moscow russia, russia, st. petersburg russia, europe
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, Russia, USA
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:
costume drama, romantic, romantic drama, psychological, atmospheric ...
Audience:
girls' night, date night
Plot:
imperial russia, relationships, infidelity, true love, betrayal, cheating wife, victorian england, age difference, forbidden love, love, death, cuckolded husband ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, year 1997, turn of the century, 1880s
Place:
russia, st. petersburg russia, moscow russia
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:
costume drama, emotional, intense, captivating, sentimental ...
Plot:
true love, forbidden love, infidelity, family problems, dull life, family relations, fall in love, love triangle, destiny, family drama, adultery, love ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, turn of the century, year 1993, 1800s ...
Place:
usa, massachusetts, america, new england, england
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 135 min.
Story:
Tragic Anna leaves her cold husband for dashing Count Vronsky in 19th-century Russia.
Style:
serious, emotional, psychological, realistic, gloomy ...
Plot:
infidelity, forbidden love, betrayal, tragic love, love triangle, family relations, tragic hero, tragedy, unsupportive spouse, destructive relationship, fall in love, love affair ...
Time:
19th century
Place:
russia
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%
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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:
period piece, costume drama, scenic, visually appealing, erotic ...
Plot:
love, breast feeding, rape, tragic love, relationships, literary, mansion, beautiful scenery, nobility, loneliness, peasant, autumn ...
Time:
19th century, year 1979, 1800s, turn of the century, victorian era ...
Place:
eastern europe, britain, england, europe, brazil
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
A landscape gardener is hired by famous architect Le Nôtre to construct the grand gardens at the palace of Versailles. As the two work on the palace, they find themselves drawn to each other and are thrown into rivalries within the court of King ...
Style:
romantic, light, period piece, costume drama, melancholic ...
Audience:
date night, chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
gardener, love story, royal court, garden, female protagonist, aristocracy, jealousy, infidelity, intrigue, voyeurism, adultery, extramarital affair ...
Time:
18th century, 17th century, victorian era, 60s, 1930s ...
Place:
france, paris france, versailles, europe, england ...
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 180 min.
Story:
A young woman in her late teens, a reader of novels and with high hopes of romance and passion, marries a widowed country doctor. Although he dotes on her, she is soon bored and discontent. First, she gives her imagination to a law student in town, ...
Style:
period piece, costume drama, emotional, realistic, serious ...
Plot:
forbidden love, female nudity, sexual freedom, adulteress, love affair, destructive relationship, infidelity, social relations, society, life is a bitch, crumbling marriage, tragic hero ...
Time:
19th century, 1800s, victorian era
Place:
france, europe
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Germany
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
Following her parents' wishes, spirited seventeen-year-old Effi Briest marries Baron von Innstetten – a former admirer of her mother – who is twenty years Effi's senior. This marriage of prudence heralds the beginning of a humdrum ...
Style:
atmospheric, serious, realistic, emotional, gloomy ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
cheating wife, marriage proposal, society, couple relations, family relations, love affair, fall in love, couples, introspection, village, village life, mother daughter relationship ...
Time:
19th century, 1890s
Place:
germany, europe, northern germany, berlin germany
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, Australia
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
The wife of a British Judge is caught in a self-destructive love affair with a Royal Air Force pilot.
Style:
sexy, romantic, emotional, intense, period piece ...
Plot:
love affair, infidelity, unhappy marriage, forbidden love, husband wife relationship, judge, unfulfilled love, suicide attempt, depression, family problems, love and romance, crumbling marriage ...
Time:
1950s, 50s, post world war two, 20th century, 1930s ...
Place:
london, england, europe
Similarity:
18%
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:
36%
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:
18%
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:
35%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
In Mansfield Park, poverty-stricken Fanny Price is sent away to live with her wealthy uncle and aunt at Mansfield Park. As she struggles to adapt to her new lifestyle she begins to attract the attentions of suitors, learning about the sexual ...
Style:
period piece, costume drama, realistic, stylized, witty ...
Plot:
love triangle, couples, couple relations, love and romance, fall in love, class differences, unrequited love, social differences, society, unfulfilled love, estate, infidelity ...
Time:
18th century, 19th century, victorian era, 1800s, regency period ...
Place:
england, europe, britain
Similarity:
35%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
Miss Havisham, a wealthy spinster who wears an old wedding dress and lives in the dilapidated Satis House, asks Pip's "Uncle Pumblechook" (who is actually Joe's uncle) to find a boy to play with her adopted daughter Estella. Pip ...
Style:
costume drama, period piece, captivating, emotional, realistic ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
generosity, orphan, charles dickens, unfulfilled love, benefactor, love and romance, redemption, social differences, rise to the top, hopes, haunted by the past, youth ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, regency period
Place:
england, london
Similarity:
35%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
An early-20th-century tale of love across class boundaries which tells the legendary and romantic story of Lady Chatterley’s affair with her gamekeeper. Jed Mercurio’s adaptation of DH Lawrence’s classic.
Style:
erotic, realistic, serious, period piece, romantic drama ...
Plot:
social differences, infidelity, cheating on husband, love affair, master and servant, obsession, sexual relations, couples, fall in love, power relations, countryside, couple relations ...
Time:
20th century, edwardian era, 1910s, 1920s
Place:
england, europe, britain
Similarity:
35%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Charlotte Bronte's classic novel is filmed yet again. The story of the Yorkshire orphan who becomes a governess to a young French girl and finds love with the brooding lord of the manor is given a standard romantic flare, but sparks do not seem ...
Style:
costume drama, atmospheric, emotional, gothic, spiritual ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
literary, victorian england, age difference, couples, society, fall in love, youth, desire, haunted house, love, spirituality, young love ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, georgian era
Place:
england, europe, britain
Similarity:
35%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, France, Italy, 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, costume drama, period piece, melancholic, intense ...
Audience:
girls' night, chick flick
Plot:
happy ending, nobility, orphan, love triangle, fall in love, power relations, family relations, love and romance, haunted by the past, rich and poor, parents and children, love affair ...
Time:
19th century, ancient times, year 1996, victorian era, 18th century
Place:
england, europe, britain
Similarity:
34%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, France, USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Anne Elliot, the daughter of a financially troubled aristocratic family, is persuaded to break her engagement to Frederick Wentworth, a young sea captain of meager means. Years later, money troubles force Anne's father to rent out the family ...
Style:
period piece, costume drama, romantic, historical drama, heartbreaking ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
passion, love, passionate love, napoleonic wars, literary, admiral, abbey, strong female lead, happy ending, betrayal, prejudice, fall in love ...
Time:
victorian era, regency period, 19th century, 1800s, year 1995 ...
Place:
england, europe, britain
Similarity:
34%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
At the lush Evenswood estate in Concord, Massachusetts, Edith Adelon, a beautiful orphan, lives as the paid companion to the daughter of the wealthy Hamilton family, although they regard her as one of their own. Years ago, Henry Hamilton saved Edith ...
Style:
period piece, touching, serious, realistic, period drama
Audience:
date night, girls' night
Plot:
abbey, passionate love, social differences, looking for love, rich and poor, gilded age, rich man, happy ending, opposites attract, forbidden love, love triangle, progress ...
Time:
victorian era, 19th century, 1870s, 1800s
Place:
america, massachusetts, usa
Similarity:
34%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Set in a rustic English village in the mid 19th century, Under The Greenwood Tree tells the story of a poor young man who falls for a middle-class schoolteacher and attempts to win her over.
Style:
costume drama, period piece, semi serious, realistic, touching ...
Audience:
girls' night, date night
Plot:
forbidden love, village life, social differences, fall in love, love and romance, unfulfilled love, looking for love, society, couples, social relations, curses spells and rituals, victorian england ...
Time:
19th century, middle ages, victorian era, 50s
Place:
britain, england
Similarity:
34%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 53 min.
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Story:
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:
34%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 136 min.
Story:
Rich Mr. Dashwood dies, leaving his second wife and her daughters poor by the rules of inheritance. Two daughters are the titular opposites.
Style:
romantic, costume drama, feel good, sincere, sentimental ...
Audience:
girls' night, date night, chick flick, kids, adult
Plot:
love story, love, happy ending, love triangle, love and romance, sisters, fall in love, love affair, social differences, rich and poor, true love, village life ...
Time:
19th century, 18th century, 90s, regency period, 1810s ...
Place:
england, britain, europe, london, seattle
Similarity:
34%
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:
34%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Italy, Germany
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A seemingly ideal marriage is thrown into embarrassing turmoil in Patrice Chéreau's period drama, based on the short story The Return by Joseph Conrad.
Style:
psychological, serious, emotional, realistic, gloomy ...
Plot:
infidelity, marriage, couples, letter, adultery, family problems, power relations, dishonesty, love and romance, high society, suffering, betrayal ...
Time:
1910s, year 2005
Place:
france, paris france, europe
Similarity:
34%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
This fun and sexy comedy tells a timelessly entertaining story where wealthy, secret passions and mischievous women put love to the test.. When a spirited young woman, Fanny Price, is sent away to live on the great country estate of her rich ...
Style:
period piece, costume drama, sexy, witty, romantic ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
fall in love, country estate, couple relations, literary, women, love, love and romance, feminist, love story, estate, abbey, society ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, middle ages, ancient times, year 1999 ...
Place:
england, britain, europe, london
Similarity:
34%
15K
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, UK, USA
Duration: 137 min.
Story:
Set in Baroque France, a scheming widow and her lover make a bet regarding the corruption of a recently married woman. The lover, Valmont, bets that he can seduce her, even though she is an honorable woman. If he wins, he can have his lover to do as ...
Style:
sexy, period piece, costume drama, independent film, realistic ...
Audience:
girls' night, adult
Plot:
infidelity, betrayal, virgin, couple relations, manipulation, seduction, hypocrisy, virginity, tragedy, manipulative woman, love triangle, marriage ...
Time:
18th century, year 1989, georgian era, 20th century, 80s ...
Place:
france, paris france, eastern europe, europe
Similarity:
33%
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:
33%
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:
33%
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