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Indian Summers (2015)
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Indian Summers (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 52 min.
TV show
Story: Epic drama set in the summer of 1932 where India dreams of independence, but the British are clinging to power. Set against the sweeping grandeur of the Himalayas and tea plantations of Northern India, the drama tells the rich and explosive story of the decline of the British Empire and the birth of modern India, from both sides of the experience. At the heart of the story lie the implications and ramifications of the tangled web of passions, rivalries and clashes that define the lives of those brought together in this summer which will change everything.
Style: realistic, epic, serious, captivating, period piece, costume drama, atmospheric, historical drama, saga, stylized ...
Plot: class differences, racism, revolution, political unrest, society, culture clash, state affairs, rebellion, british, independence, world war one, interwar period, orphan, adoption, marriage, siblings, british empire, murder, adultery, interracial romance, illicit affair, british colonialism, politics, colonialism, civil servant ...
Time: 1930s, 20th century, 30s
Place: india, asia, himalaya

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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, family relations, social differences, couples, love and romance, world war one and interwar period mostly in Drama, History and Romance genres. Some movies like Indian Summers: The Village (2013), Dancing on the Edge (2013), The Jewel in the Crown (1984), A Passage to India (1984), Hotel Portofino (2022). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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The Village (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: The Village is a BBC TV series written by Peter Moffat. The drama is set in a Derbyshire village in the 20th century. The first series of what Moffat hopes will become a 42-hour TV drama was broadcast in spring 2013 and covered the years 1914 to ...
Style: realistic, serious, captivating, rough, costume drama ...
Plot: village life, village, parents and children, social relations, society, villager, countryside, village people, family relations, world war one, small village, landscape ...
Time: 20th century, 1920s, 1910s
Place: england
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Dancing on the Edge (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 449 min.
TV show
Story: A black jazz band becomes entangled in the aristocratic world of 1930s London as they seek fame and fortune.
Style: realistic, atmospheric, captivating, tense, erotic ...
Plot: jazz, rising to stardom, music, ambition, musician's life, artists and showbiz, music band, high society, aristocracy, lifestyle, mogul, backstage ...
Time: 1930s, 20th century, year 1933
Place: london, england
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The Jewel in the Crown (1984)
Genre: Drama, History, Romance, War
Country: UK
Duration: 778 min.
TV show
Story: The British Raj: though their position seems secure, thoughtful English men and women know that "their" time in India is coming to an end. The story begins with an unjust arrest for rape, and the consequences of this echo through the ...
Style: captivating, sincere, emotional, realistic, serious ...
Plot: forbidden love, british raj, world war two, rape, politics, racism, life is a bitch, culture clash, tragic love, dishonesty, state affairs, false accusation ...
Time: 1940s, 50s
Place: india, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
A Passage to India (1984)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, History
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 164 min.
Story: The film is set during the period of growing influence of the Indian independence movement in the British Raj. It begins with the arrival in India of a British woman, Miss Adela Quested (Judy Davis), who is joining her fiancé, a city magistrate ...
Style: epic, scenic, talky, suspense, captivating ...
Plot: british empire, politics, british raj, lawyer, small town, racism, tourist, colonialism, culture clash, investigation, false accusation, legal ...
Time: 1920s, 20th century, year 1984
Place: india, asia, bombay india, himalaya, kashmir ...
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100%
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Hotel Portofino (2022)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 54 min.
TV show
Story: A classic whodunit mystery, as the characters go about their lives in 1920s Italy, when Benito Mussolini's brand of fascism was on the rise.
Style: captivating, disturbing, tense, period drama
Plot: hotel, seaside town, high society, british, rich, hotel receptionist, political intrigue, female protagonist, society, workplace, lifestyle, intrigue ...
Time: 1920s, 2020s, 20th century
Place: italy
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100%
Lord Mountbatten: The Last Viceroy (1986)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 306 min.
TV show
Story: The film depicts Lord Mountbatten's time as Viceroy of India shortly after the Second World War in the days leading up to Indian independence.
Style: historical drama, period drama
Time: edwardian era, post world war two
Place: india, pakistan
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100%
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South Riding (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
TV show
Story: Andrew Davies sparkling adaption of Winifred Holtby's acclaimed novel. Insightful, warm and full of memorable characters, South Riding tells a fraught love story and paints a panaromic portrait of a Yorkshire community in the long aftermath of ...
Style: captivating, touching, emotional, realistic, historical drama ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: love affair, world war one, parents and children, society, human spirit, hopes, family relations, love and romance, small town, social relations, strong female presence, social history ...
Time: 1930s, 20th century
Place: yorkshire, northern england, england, europe
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Upstairs Downstairs (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Set in 1936, the show takes viewers, old and new, back to the lavish world of Belgravia, London. A new set of occupants reside at 165 Eaton Place and viewers see how external and internal influences of the tumultuous pre-war period shape and mould ...
Style: realistic, historical drama, stylized, costume drama, period piece ...
Plot: high society, butler, master and servant, family values, marriage, rich and poor, family life, millionaire, lifestyle, class differences, housewife, couples ...
Time: 1930s, edwardian era, 20th century
Place: england, wales, london, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
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Love in a Cold Climate (2001)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 150 min.
TV show
Story: Adaptation of Nancy Mitford's novel.
Style: realistic, serious, stylized, historical drama, costume drama ...
Audience: girls' night, date night
Plot: fall in love, love triangle, social differences, looking for love, eccentric family, master and servant, unlikely couple, society, wooing, infidelity, unfulfilled love, rich and poor ...
Time: 1930s, 20th century
Place: england, europe
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24%
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Human Cargo (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
TV show
Story: Human Cargo is a 2004 Canadian television miniseries. The series won seven Gemini Awards and two Directors Guild of Canada Awards. It premiered on CBC Television on January 4, 2004 and starred Kate Nelligan, Cara Pifko, and Nicholas Campbell. The ...
Style: realistic, serious, thought provoking, captivating, disturbing ...
Plot: immigrant, rebellion, racism, state affairs, society, legal, life is a bitch, politics, family relations, human trafficking, refugee, political unrest ...
Time: 21st century
Place: canada
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23%
Upstairs, Downstairs (1971)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Upstairs, Downstairs is a British television drama series originally produced by London Weekend Television and revived by the BBC. It ran on ITV in 68 episodes divided into five series from 1971 to 1975. Set in a large townhouse in Edwardian, First ...
Style: realistic, stylized, serious, costume drama, period piece ...
Plot: butler, domestic servant, maid, working class, master servant relationship, high society, wealth, master and servant, lifestyle, couples, rich and poor, couple relations ...
Time: 1900s, edwardian era, year 1971, 1920s, 1930s ...
Place: england, london, britain, hawaii, europe
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23%
A Dance to the Music of Time (1997)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 416 min.
TV show
Story: Anthony Powell's 12 volume novel sequence "A Dance to the Music of Time" has been dramatised for television.
Style: stylized, serious, realistic, captivating, period drama
Plot: world war two, world war one, post war, love, high society, social relations, power relations, couples, lifestyle, society, couple relations, dishonesty ...
Time: 1930s, 20th century
Place: england, london, europe
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The House of Eliott (1991)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story: The House of Eliott is a British television series produced and broadcast by the BBC in three series between 1991 and 1994. The series starred Stella Gonet and Louise Lombard as two sisters in 1920s London who establish a dressmaking business and ...
Style: serious, realistic, costume drama, captivating, sincere ...
Plot: fashion, society, workplace, lifestyle, family relations, workplace situations, fashion designer, dressmaker, rise to the top, notoriety, sister sister relationship, siblings relations ...
Time: 1920s, 20th century
Place: england, london, britain
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Beecham House (2019)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story: On the cusp of 19th century in Delhi, we following the fortunes of the residents of the titular mansion. The story begins as handsome and soulful former English soldier, John Beecham, has acquired the house to start a new life for his family and a ...
Style: serious, realistic, period piece, costume drama, historical drama ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night
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The Mill (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
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Country: UK, USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
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Plot: social differences, social climbing, british, rise to the top, society, dysfunctional family, life turned upside down, napoleonic era, female protagonist, life philosophy, unrequited love, time machine ...
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The Far Pavilions (1984)
Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 315 min.
TV show
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Style: atmospheric, historical drama, serious, realistic, romantic drama ...
Plot: interracial relations, military, forbidden love, racism, culture clash, heroes, intrigue, betrayal, society, rise to the top, dishonesty, love and romance ...
Time: 19th century, 1880s, 1870s, victorian era
Place: india, europe, england, asia, afghanistan ...
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20%
Great Expectations (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: 'Great Expectations' opens with Pip as a boy (played as an young man by newcomer Douglas Booth, 'The Pillars of the Earth') on the marshes near his home, where he encounters the desperate escapee Magwitch (Winstone). Pip is ...
Style: atmospheric, historical drama, serious, realistic, emotional ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: generosity, victorian england, charles dickens, lovers, rags to riches, orphan, convict, stranger, society, redemption, obsession, hopes ...
Time: 19th century, 1820s, victorian era, regency period
Place: britain, london, england
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20%
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32 Brinkburn Street (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story: Drama moving between the lives, loves and lies of two generations of the same family who live at 32 Brinkburn Street in 1931 and 2011.
Style: realistic, captivating, serious, suspense, sentimental ...
Plot: attic, society, family relations, couples, haunted by the past, family life, parents and children, couple relations, interracial relations, family problems, step siblings, secret ...
Time: 1930s, 20th century
Place: england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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Small Island (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 180 min.
TV show
Story: In 1939 Hortense, illegitimate but intelligent and ambitious, is brought up on Jamaica with the family of charismatic, free-thinking Michael, who joins the Air Force when war breaks out and goes to England. After the war, Hortense, now a qualified ...
Style: serious, touching, captivating, realistic, saga ...
Plot: racism, post war, interracial sex, couples, couple relations, starting over, culture clash, self discovery, hopes, misfit, bittersweet, racial violence ...
Time: 20th century, 1940s
Place: england, jamaica, london, europe
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20%
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1992 (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
TV show
Story: Set in Rome, Milan and different Italian cities, the TV series offers a thrilling story following six people whose lives are intertwined with the rapidly changing political landscape in the early 1990s, during which Italy was gripped by the Clean ...
Style: realistic, serious, atmospheric, psychological, erotic ...
Plot: politics, corruption, investigation, italian history, politician, revolution, law enforcement, state affairs, rebellion, crisis, cosa nostra, government corruption ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, year 1992
Place: italy, milan italy, rome italy
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20%
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The Duchess (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 150 min.
TV show
Story: The life of the Duchess of Alba La vida de la Duquesa de Alba
Style: captivating, serious, realistic, romantic
Plot: duchess, royal family, aristocracy, love and romance, political unrest, society, family relations, state affairs, fall in love, parents and children, couple relations, biopic ...
Time: 60s, 1930s, 1920s, 1940s, 50s ...
Place: europe, spain
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20%
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Cranford (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 469 min.
TV show
Story: In the 1840s, Cranford is ruled by the ladies. They adore good gossip; and romance and change is in the air, as the unwelcome grasp of the Industrial Revolution rapidly approaches their beloved rural market-town.
Style: sincere, atmospheric, costume drama, clever, period piece ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: small town life, social differences, family relations, aristocracy, high society, class differences, small town, love and romance, social relations, family life, maid, proposal ...
Time: victorian era, 19th century, 1840s
Place: england, britain, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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Land Girls (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 225 min.
TV show
Story: The lives, loves and highs and lows of four members of the Women's Land Army working at the Hoxley Estate during World War II.
Style: realistic, captivating, historical drama, costume drama, psychological ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: world war two, wartime life, strong female presence, life is a bitch, family relations, military, soldier, friendship, rise and fall, love, resistance, women ...
Time: 20th century, 1940s
Place: england, europe
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20%
The Wingless Bird (1997)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 180 min.
TV show
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 ...
Style: touching, sentimental, realistic, serious, costume drama ...
Plot: rich and poor, great war, couples, family relations, power relations, betrayal, love and romance, dishonesty, society, ambition, master and servant, working class ...
Time: 1910s, 20th century, year 1914, edwardian era
Place: northern england, england
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19%
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Breathless (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
TV show
Story: Hospital drama set in London during the early 1960s, following the staff of a busy gynecology ward at a time when abortion is illegal and the contraceptive pill is only just becoming available to married women.
Style: serious, realistic, stylized, captivating, period piece ...
Plot: hospital, doctors and patients, treatment, workplace, society, patient, workplace romance, workplace situations, intrigue, post war, medicine, motherhood ...
Time: 20th century, 60s
Place: london, england
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19%
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Lilies (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: 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: touching, realistic, serious, sincere, historical drama ...
Plot: post war, family relations, family problems, life is a bitch, society, youth, working class, parents and children, bittersweet, poverty, slum, world war one ...
Time: 1920s, 20th century, post world war one
Place: england, liverpool
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
The Duchess of Duke Street (1976)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story: The Duchess Of Duke Street is a BBC television drama series set in London between 1900 and 1925. It was created by John Hawkesworth, the former producer of the highly successful ITV period drama Upstairs, Downstairs. It starred Gemma Jones as Louisa ...
Style: costume drama, historical drama, realistic, semi serious, sincere ...
Plot: hotel, jazz, food, professional, great war, world war one, couples, power relations, social differences, rich and poor, master and servant, love and romance ...
Time: edwardian era, victorian era, 1910s, 1950s, 1920s ...
Place: britain, london, england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
The Last Tycoon (2016)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: From F. Scott Fitzgerald's last work, The Last Tycoon follows Monroe Stahr, Hollywood's Golden Boy as he battles father figure and boss Pat Brady for the soul of their studio. In a world darkened by the Depression and the growing influence ...
Style: costume drama, period piece, captivating, tense, historical drama ...
Plot: hollywood, business, great depression, mogul, film industry, movie business, showdown, businessman, film producer, ambitious man, ambition, fight for supremacy ...
Time: 1930s, 20th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
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Vanity Fair (1967)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story: Adaptation of William Makepeace Thackeray's novel. The first colour production from the BBC.
Style: costume drama, serious, realistic, captivating, stylized ...
Plot: manipulation, napoleonic era, satire, deception, treachery, couples, power relations, society, dishonesty, love and romance, rise to the top, ambition ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era
Place: england
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
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