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Anne of Avonlea (1975)
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Anne of Avonlea (1975)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: UK
Duration: 350 min.
TV show
Story: Anne of Avonlea is a film made for television 4-part mini-series, developed in United Kingdom. It is based on Anne of Avonlea, the sequel to Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery.
Audience: family friendly
Plot: anne of green gables, poor, literary, family relations, girl, heroine
Time: victorian era
Place: canada

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out period drama, touching, realistic and captivating films and TV series with plots about family relations, girl, friendship, orphan, youth, costume and brother sister relationship mostly in Drama, Family and Adventure genres. Some movies like Anne of Avonlea: Anne with an E (2017), Hetty Feather (2015), By Way of the Stars (1992), Little Lord Fauntleroy (1995), A Little Princess (1986). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Anne of Green Gables (1972)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: UK
Duration: 280 min.
TV show
Story: Anne of Green Gables is a made-for-television British mini-series directed by Joan Craft based upon the novel, Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery.
Plot: anne of green gables, family relations, girl, children, death of child, childhood
Place: canada
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Anne with an E (2017)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: Canada
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: A coming-of-age story about an outsider who, against all odds and numerous challenges, fights for love and acceptance and for her place in the world. The series centers on a young orphaned girl in the late 1890’s, who, after an abusive childhood ...
Style: compassionate, sincere, touching, realistic, emotional ...
Audience: teens, family friendly, teen drama
Plot: orphan, friendship, coming of age, small town, teenage life, child's point of view, family relations, school, feminism, children's home, imaginary, society ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, 1800s, 1890s
Place: canada
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Hetty Feather (2015)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: In Victorian London, feisty heroine Hetty Feather is trapped in the Foundling Hospital, the strict institution ruled over by the formidable Matron Bottomley. Aided by friends and thwarted by enemies, Hetty battles to win her freedom and finally find ...
Style: psychological, captivating, entertaining, disturbing, period drama
Audience: family outing, kids
Plot: orphan, bully, nursing, teenage gang, youth gang, child care, teenager, treatment, friendship, brother sister relationship, hospital, life ...
Time: victorian era, 1880s, 19th century
Place: london
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By Way of the Stars (1992)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family
Country: Canada, Germany
TV show
Story: By Way of the Stars is an action/adventure television mini-series co-produced in 1992 by Sullivan Entertainment and German Beta-Taurus Kirch Group, that begins in 19th century Prussia, then travels through post-U.S. Civil War Charleston to the ...
Plot: colonialism, youth, escape, immigration, death of mother
Time: victorian era, year 1865, 19th century, 1860s
Place: canada, prussia
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34%
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Little Lord Fauntleroy (1995)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: UK
Duration: 360 min.
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Story: An American boy turns out to be the long-lost heir of a British fortune. He is sent to live with the cold and unsentimental lord who oversees the trust.
Style: costume drama, uplifting, realistic, serious, touching ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: estate, youth, rich and poor, family relations, nobility, social differences, fish out of water, family life, culture clash, adolescence vs adulthood, power relations, misfit ...
Time: victorian era, 19th century
Place: england
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A Little Princess (1986)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: UK
Duration: 163 min.
TV show
Story: Sara Crewe is the pampered darling of her father, an army colonel, and the Victorian London girls' school where he places her. But when her father dies, penniless, Sara becomes a skivvy in Miss Michin's school, befriended only by the ...
Style: crying, period drama
Audience: kids
Plot: princess, boarding school, children, christmas, girl, balloon, father daughter relationship, birthday, death of father, loss of father, soldier, teacher ...
Time: victorian era
Place: india, england, london
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31%
The Secret Garden (1975)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: UK
Duration: 210 min.
TV show
Story: TV miniseries adaptation of Frances Hodgson Burnett's novel.
Style: realistic, serious, uplifting, touching, feel good
Audience: kids, family outing
Plot: youth, estate, friendship, children, spoiled brat, family relations, orphan, gardener, mysterious stranger, winter, neglected child, garden ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era
Place: england, europe, yorkshire
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Anne of Green Gables (1985)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: Canada, West Germany, USA
Duration: 199 min.
TV show
Story: At the turn of the century on Prince Edward Island, Matthew Cuthbert and his sister Marilla decide to take on an orphan boy as help for their farm. But they get an unexpected jolt when they're mistakenly sent a girl instead: Anne Shirley. ...
Style: touching, sentimental, period piece, emotional, humorous ...
Audience: family outing, kids, teens, chick flick, family friendly ...
Plot: adoption, orphan, imagination, teaching the ways of the world, teenage love, coming of age, countryside, best friend, young heroes, love and romance, foster home, little girl ...
Time: 1900s, edwardian era, victorian era, 1800s, year 1985 ...
Place: canada, america
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30%
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The Spoils of Poynton (1970)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 168 min.
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Story: Adele Gereth has taken young Fleda Vetch under her wing. Adele is intensely houseproud, and sees a potential future mistress of the house in Freda, and an inheritor of her life's work.
Plot: art collector, country estate, collector, materialism
Time: victorian era, 1870s
Place: britain, england
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The Barchester Chronicles (1982)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 385 min.
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Story: When a crusade against the Church of England's practice of self-enrichment misfires, scandal taints the cosy community of Barchester when their local church becomes the object of a scathing, investigative report.
Style: costume drama, historical drama, period drama
Plot: chubby, literary, church of england, henpecked husband, cathedral, cello, bishop, costume, slapping
Time: 19th century, victorian era
Place: britain
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An Avonlea Christmas Movie (1998)
Genre: Drama, Family, Romance, War
Country: Canada
Duration: 120 min.
Story: An Avonlea Christmas pays tribute to the indomitable and sometimes intolerable matriarch of the King family, Hetty King. When she suddenly collapses during the holidays, Hetty is hospitalized. Feeling homesick and alone, she begins to re-evaluate ...
Audience: family friendly
Plot: christmas, female protagonist, poor, anne of green gables, family relations, male female relationship, world war one, aunt, brother sister relationship, father son relationship, father daughter relationship, teacher
Place: canada
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Midnight Is a Place (1977)
Genre: Drama, Adventure, Family
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: This series is about two children who are the wards of a cantankerously un-loving uncle. That uncle owns a rug factory that has the typically brutal working conditions of the time that both poor adult and child labourers have to survive. Life is ...
Plot: working conditions, industry, sewer, fire, uncle, children, child labor, poverty
Time: 19th century, victorian era
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The Adventures of Pollyanna (1982)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
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Story: Pollyanna comes to stay with her aunt, Polly Harrington, the most powerful woman in the town of Harrington. Aunt Polly wants her to concentrate on her studies but Pollyanna would rather make friends with the orphan kids. One day, a woman named Widow ...
Style: anthology
Plot: aunt niece relationship, family relations
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Anne of Avonlea (1987)
Genre: Drama, Family, Romance
Country: Canada, USA, UK
Duration: 230 min.
TV show
Story: Anne Shirley, now a schoolteacher, has begun writing stories and collecting rejection slips. She makes the acquaintance of a handsome, rich, bachelor, chases a cow, and wins (to her chagrin) a baking soda company's writing contest. She acts as ...
Style: touching, period piece, feel good, humorous, sentimental ...
Audience: kids, family friendly, adult
Plot: friendship, coming of age, school, mentor, corporal punishment, teachers and students, love, heartwarming, anne of green gables, bittersweet, orphan, family relations ...
Time: 1800s, 1900s
Place: canada, chicago, usa, boston
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Anne of Green Gables (2016)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A retelling of L.M. Montgomery's story of Anne Shirley, an orphan who is accidentally sent to a couple looking to adopt a boy instead
Style: sincere, touching, captivating, uplifting, compassionate ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: adoption, orphan, friendship, foster parent, foster child, family drama, anne of green gables, parent child relationship, family relations, parents and children, girl, happy ending ...
Time: 19th century, edwardian era
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Doctor Thorne (2016)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 48 min.
TV show
Story: The story of the penniless Mary Thorne, who grows up with her rich aunt/cousins at Greshamsbury Park estate.
Style: costume drama, historical drama, captivating, cynical, thought provoking ...
Plot: aristocrat, english countryside, family drama, ward, physician, village, family relations, society, intrigue, social differences, couples, love and romance ...
Time: victorian era, 19th century, 1840s, 1850s
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A Piggy Tale (1991)
Genre: Family, Drama
Country: Taiwan
Story: Dolly, a lovely, adorable little girl from the mountain region. Due to the death of her parents, she was sent to her parents' friend, Mrs. Chu's care. When Dolly and her mini pig playmate, Guava, first came to Taipei, they brought a great ...
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Teresa Raquin (1980)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 173 min.
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Story: In order to be together, lovers Therese and Laurent plot to kill Therese's husband, Camille, but find themselves haunted by their deeds and Madame Raquin's silent judgment.
Style: period piece, period drama
Plot: female nudity, destiny, adultery, murder, female full frontal nudity
Time: victorian era
Place: paris france, france
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25%
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The Greatest Store In The World (1999)
Genre: Family, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 74 min.
Story: Geraldine and her two daughters, Livvie and Angeline, are living rough on the streets on London. When their van blows up, they must find an alternitive place to stay. At first, they live in temporary housing, but the conditions are unbearable. ...
Plot: christmas, holiday, single mother, van, girl, sister sister relationship, mother daughter relationship, teenage girl, homelessness, burglar, doorman, store ...
Place: london
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Emily of New Moon (1998)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 60 min.
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Story: Emily of New Moon is a Canadian television series, which aired on CBC Television from 1998 to 2000. The series originally aired in the United States on the Cookie Jar Toons block on This TV and it is currently seen in Canada on the Viva, Bravo! and ...
Style: serious, realistic, period drama
Audience: kids, family outing
Plot: orphan, adoption, family relations, child's point of view, starting over, uncover truth, youth, coming of age, young heroes, family problems, island, family life ...
Time: victorian era, edwardian era, 19th century, 1900s, turn of the century
Place: canada
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Follyfoot (1971)
Genre: Family, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min.
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Story: Follyfoot is a children's television series co-produced by the majority-partner British television company Yorkshire Television and the independent West German company TV Munich. It aired in the United Kingdom between 1971 and 1973, repeated ...
Audience: kids
Plot: girl horse relationship, rural area, farm, uncle niece relationship, family relations, rural setting, horse
Place: yorkshire, england
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Little Women (1970)
Genre: Drama, Family, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 225 min.
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Story: Adaptation of Louisa May Alcott's novel.
Style: costume drama, period piece
Plot: civil war, christmas, sister sister relationship, coming of age, american civil war, family relations
Time: 19th century, 1860s
Place: new england, massachusetts
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Tom Brown's Schooldays (1971)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: UK
Duration: 225 min.
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Story: Tom Brown's Schooldays is a 1971 television serial adaptation of the Thomas Hughes novel of the same name. It was originally shown on the BBC1 Sunday tea time slot, which often showed adaptations of classic novels aimed at a family audience. ...
Plot: coming of age, youth, education, bully comeuppance, bully, corporal punishment, bullying, boys' school, schoolyard fight
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The Kids of Degrassi Street (1979)
Genre: Family, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 30 min.
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Story: The Kids of Degrassi Street is a Canadian children's TV show that aired from 1979 to 1986, and is the first in the Degrassi series, about the lives of a group of children living on Degrassi Street in Toronto, Canada. It grew out of four short ...
Style: serious, realistic, sincere, sentimental, touching
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Place: toronto ontario canada, canada
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Remedy (2014)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: Canada
Duration: 42 min.
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Story: Griffin Conner, a med-school dropout having left in a haze of disgrace, is forced to return to Bethune General Hospital as its newest orderly and work alongside his family.
Style: emotional, sentimental, captivating, light, medical drama ...
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Place: canada, toronto ontario canada
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23%
A Kind of Spark (2023)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: UK
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Story: Addie tries to get her village to make a memorial to the women who were put on trial for witch craft there. Can she challenge the way her community see her and her family?
Style: captivating, exciting, light, feel good, sincere ...
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If My Wife Becomes an Elementary School Student (2022)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: Japan
Duration: 54 min.
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Story: A story that begins when a husband, who lost his beloved wife ten years ago and lost the meaning of life, and his daughter are unexpectedly reunited with their wife/mother. As his wife is reborn as a ten-year-old elementary school student, the ...
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Worzel Gummidge (1979)
Genre: Family, Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Worzel Gummidge is a children's comedy series, produced by Southern Television for ITV, based on the books by Barbara Euphan Todd. Starting in 1979, the programme starred Jon Pertwee in the title role and ran for four series in the UK until ...
Audience: kids
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Heidi (1993)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA, Italy
Duration: 193 min.
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Story: After charming her reclusive grandfather and falling in love with the beautiful mountain he calls home, Heidi is uprooted and sent to Frankfurt where she befriends Klara, a young girl confined to a wheelchair.
Style: costume drama, juvenile, sad, semi serious, emotional ...
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Place: swiss alps, alps, switzerland, europe, germany
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22%
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Bootleg (2002)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: UK, Australia
Duration: 135 min.
TV show
Story: When the "Good For You" party bans chocolate, two boys resolve to bring down the government.
Style: psychological, thrilling, captivating
Plot: chocolate, politics, government, fighting the system, resistance, bootlegging, store, police station, police brutality, corrupt politician, chocolate bar
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22%
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