Movies like Eagle in a Cage

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Eagle in a Cage (1972)
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Eagle in a Cage (1972)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 98 min.
Story: 1815. A soldier becomes the governor of St. Helena and jailer of Napoleon
Style: independent film, serious, realistic, period drama
Plot: napoleon bonaparte, napoleonic wars, combat, french revolution, exile, fortress, island, battles, soldier, unfulfilled love, wartime life, escape, warship, carriage, british soldier, empire fashion, horse, clock, falling off horse, uniform, pool table, candelabra
Time: 19th century, year 1972, 1810s, 1800s
Keyword: napoleon

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, period drama and captivating films with plots about napoleonic wars, society, soldier, napoleon bonaparte, love and romance, dishonesty and family relations mostly in Drama, War and History genres. Some movies like Eagle in a Cage: St. Ives (1998), War and Peace: Part II (1965), A Doll's House (1973), Monsieur N. (2003), Hearts & Minds (2009). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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St. Ives (1998)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Germany, Ireland, UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story: In 1813, Capitaine Jacques St. Ives, a Hussar in the Napoleonic wars, is captured and sent to a Scottish prison camp. He's a swashbuckler, so the prison's commander, Major Farquar Bolingbroke Chevening, asks for lessons in communicating ...
Style: exciting, serious, captivating, stylized, costume drama ...
Plot: prison, adventurer, fall in love, haunted by the past, soldier, escapades, captivity, battles, military, napoleonic wars, napoleon bonaparte, escape ...
Time: 19th century, 18th century, 1800s, 1810s, regency period
Place: scotland, europe, britain, france
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95%
War and Peace: Part II (1965)
Genre: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 98 min.
Story: In the end of 1809, Natasha attends her first ball. Andrei falls in love with her and intends to marry her, but her father demands they wait. The prince travels abroad, and Natasha desperately longs for him. But she then meets Anatol Kuragin and ...
Style: historical drama, period drama
Plot: napoleonic wars, russian empire, napoleon bonaparte, love, soldier, engagement, aristocrat, coming of age, soviet, young, ball
Time: 19th century
Place: ussr, soviet union, russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
92%
A Doll's House (1973)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Nora Helmer has years earlier committed a forgery in order to save the life of her authoritarian husband Torvald. Now she is being blackmailed lives in fear of her husband's finding out and of the shame such a revelation would bring to his ...
Style: talky, serious, psychological, realistic, clever ...
Plot: couples, working class, social differences, introspection, family problems, gender, society, human nature, unfulfillment, loneliness, stage play, women ...
Time: 19th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
82%
 6.5
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Monsieur N. (2003)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Mystery
Country: France, UK
Duration: 120 min.
Story: This film covers the last years of the Emperor's life, imprisoned by the British on St Helena, a remote island off the west coast of Africa. Napoleon retains a loyal entourage of officers who help him plot his escape and evade the attentions of ...
Style: realistic, serious, captivating, epic, costume drama ...
Plot: napoleon bonaparte, napoleonic wars, conspiracy, prison, heroes, dishonesty, state affairs, downfall, island, love, prisoner, exile ...
Time: 19th century, ancient times, year 2003, 18th century
Place: europe, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
72%
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Hearts & Minds (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Conscription has been introduced in Britain. Across the country, young people are being called upon to serve the nation in another reactionary Middle-Eastern conflict. They face war on a scale not seen in any of their lifetimes. hearts & minds ...
Style: thought provoking, serious, realistic, sincere, captivating ...
Plot: introspection, life is a bitch, wartime life, soldier, military, conscription, war on terror, protest, youth, fictional war, character change, lifestyle change ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england
⇓ similarity ⇓
71%
The Mayor of Casterbridge (2003)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 196 min.
Story: Adaptation of Thomas Hardy's novel. At a country fair, young hay-trusser Michael Henchard quarrels with his wife Susan, and in a drunken fit decides to auction off his wife and baby to a sailor for five guineas. The next day, realising his ...
Style: captivating, emotional, serious, realistic, costume drama ...
Plot: haunted by the past, tragic hero, redemption, hidden truth, social relations, rise and fall, betrayal, society, family problems, victorian england, dishonesty, mayor ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, 1800s
Place: britain, england
⇓ similarity ⇓
70%
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Point of Honor (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 56 min.
Story: At the start of the Civil War, a prominent Virginia family makes the controversial decision to defend the South while freeing all of their slaves, pitting the family against one another and testing their strength, courage and love.
Style: captivating, stylized, tense, serious, historical drama ...
Plot: american civil war, civil war, family relations, parents and children, family problems, soldier, siblings relations, military
Time: 19th century
Place: usa, virginia
⇓ similarity ⇓
66%
 7.4
 26K
The Duellists (1977)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: UK
Duration: 100 min.
Story: In 1800, as Napoleon Bonaparte rises to power in France, a rivalry erupts between Armand and Gabriel, two lieutenants in the French Army, over a perceived insult. For over a decade, they engage in a series of duels amidst larger conflicts, including ...
Style: costume drama, visually appealing, cult classic, period piece, stylized ...
Plot: napoleonic wars, fencing, sword duel, swordsman, sword fight, napoleonic era, medieval, military, swashbuckler, duel, adaptation, time machine ...
Time: 19th century, 1800s, 1810s, 18th century, year 1977 ...
Place: france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
65%
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Vanity Fair (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, UK, India
Duration: 141 min.
Story: Beautiful, funny, passionate, and calculating, Becky is the orphaned daughter of a starving English artist and a French chorus girl. She yearns for a more glamorous life than her birthright promises and resolves to conquer English society by any ...
Style: period piece, costume drama, melancholic, emotional, stylized ...
Audience: girls' night, chick flick
Plot: high society, social climbing, aristocrat, rise to the top, female protagonist, rich and poor, blind ambition, couple relations, lovers, life turned upside down, power relations, society ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, 1820s, 1800s, regency period ...
Place: england, london, britain, europe, bombay india ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
61%
Sharpe: The Legend (1997)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Several years after the battle of Waterloo, a former soldier from Shoreditch sits in a London inn reminiscing about the brave and determined officer who took him to hell and back. The narrator is Rifleman Cooper, and the officer whose fame he ...
Plot: napoleonic wars, french revolution, revolutionary war, medieval, freedom, revolution, revolutionary, struggle, cannon, soldier, combat, british military ...
Time: 19th century, 1800s
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
Witness for the Prosecution (1982)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Sir Wilfred Robarts, a famed barrister is released from the hospital, where he stayed for two months following his heart attack. Returning to the practise of his lawyer skills, he takes the case of Leonard Vole, an unemployed man who is accused of ...
Style: contemplative, tense, mind bending, talky, realistic ...
Plot: courtroom drama, courtroom, murder, legal investigation, lawyer, court, murder mystery, legal, couple relations, dishonesty, femme fatale, legal action ...
Time: 80s
Place: england, london
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53%
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Copperhead (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: A family is torn apart during the American Civil War.
Style: realistic, tense, touching, serious, captivating
Plot: american civil war, anti war, family life, society, life is a bitch, farm, civil war, danger, relationships, intrigue, family relations, wartime life
Time: 19th century
Place: usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
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 635
The Supper (1992)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
Story: France, 1815. After his defeat at Waterloo, Napoleon heads for exile. Royalists occupy Paris and attempt to restore the monarchy. However, the battle doesn't seem to be over. On July 6, Talleyrand, a shrewd politician of flexible convictions, ...
Style: political, contemplative, talky, biting, cynical ...
Plot: french history, napoleon bonaparte, napoleonic wars, politics, gastronomy, secret police, french revolution, police, vice, revolution, battles, wartime life ...
Time: 19th century, 1810s, 18th century
Place: paris france, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
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 392
Hedda Gabler (1962)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 75 min.
Story: Hedda Gabler has just come back from her honeymoon, married to boring but reliable academic George Tesman. Refusing to tie herself down in life and name, Hedda is banking on George being appointed a professorship to secure a better life for the ...
Plot: selfishness, rivalry, class differences, aunt, loveless marriage, pistol, suicide, frustration, female protagonist, rivals, photo album, hat
Time: 19th century, 1890s, victorian era
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
War and Peace: Part IV (1967)
Genre: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 100 min.
Story: As Moscow is set ablaze by the retreating Russians, the Rostovs flee their estate, taking wounded soldiers with them, and unbeknownst to them, also Andrei. Pierre, dressed as a peasant, tries to assassinate Napoleon but is taken prisoner. As the ...
Style: period drama
Plot: napoleonic wars, russian empire, soviet, novel
Time: 19th century
Place: ussr, soviet union
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
Sea Without Shore (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A rhythmically captivating exploration of love and loss at the fin-de-siècle. An amorous relationship between two women abruptly cut short. Dissolving under the impact of the loss of her soul mate, the surviving lover is drawn into the depths of ...
Style: atmospheric, serious, psychological, realistic, gloomy
Plot: lesbian, tragic love, dealing with death, gays and lesbians, gender, poetry, dancing, lgbtq, lesbianism, dance, psychological drama
Time: 19th century
Place: eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
Sharpe's Revenge (1997)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, War
Country: UK
Duration: 101 min.
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Story: Sharpe is framed as the thief who stole Napolean's gold, and he must clear his name to avoid execution. Meanwhile his wife Jane - urged on by a friend - makes some questionable choices.
Style: period drama
Plot: napoleonic wars, napoleonic era, french revolution, british soldier, framed for a crime, napoleon bonaparte, sword fight
Time: 19th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
Hornblower: Loyalty (2003)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, War
Country: UK
Duration: 125 min.
Story: Hornblower is given a dangerous mission to deliver an emigre French nobleman to a secret rendezvous near Brest while coping with enemy agents in his own ranks.
Style: captivating, realistic, serious, rough, suspenseful ...
Plot: napoleonic wars, british navy, military, sea battle, chivalry, espionage, war hero, rebellion, sword fight, ship, escapades, heroes ...
Time: 19th century, georgian era, 1800s
Place: europe, france, english channel
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
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The Black Velvet Gown (1991)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 103 min.
Story: In the 1830's in northern England, Riah Millican, a widow with three children, takes a job as housekeeper to a reclusive former teacher, Percival Miller. Miller makes Riah the gift of a black velvet gown, and even educates her children. But ...
Style: serious, costume drama, historical drama, realistic, period drama
Plot: servant, housekeeper, family life, working class, social differences, eviction, family relations, power relations, society, love and romance, idealism, single parent ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, 1830s, 1840s
Place: england, britain, europe, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
Captive Heart: The James Mink Story (1996)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 91 min.
Story: James Mink is a black man in Canada who has built a very successful livery business, and enjoys a white wife and a beautiful daughter, Mary. An excellent match is arranged with an American businessman, but when he takes his new wife Mary across the ...
Style: realistic, serious, uplifting, captivating, emotional ...
Plot: slavery, interracial relations, black, interracial, racism, human spirit, society, hidden identity, rescue, dishonesty, chases and races, family relations ...
Time: victorian era, 19th century, 1800s, 1850s
Place: usa, virginia, canada
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40%
Pascali's Island (1988)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 104 min.
Story: 1908: Pascali, a spy for the Sultan, sends reports to Istanbul that nobody reads. His suspicions are roused when a British archaeologist appears, who may not be quite what he seems.
Style: realistic, serious, tense, independent film, period drama
Plot: unrequited love, spy, cold war, secret mission, mediterranean, love triangle, island, female nudity, male nudity, turkish bath, state affairs, love and romance ...
Time: 1900s, pre world war one
Place: greece, ottoman empire, turkey
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39%
The Holy Land of Tyrol (2010)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Germany, Italy
Duration: 123 min.
Story: Set in the 1800s when Napoleon’s French ruled Europe, the film follows young Austrian carpenter Franz and his Bavarian wife, Katharina as an unforeseen event forces them to flee from Augsburg, Bavaria for Franz’s family home in Tyrol, Austria. ...
Style: epic, realistic, captivating, serious, psychological ...
Plot: revolution, rebellion, tragic love, society, political unrest, injustice, soldier, couple relations, wartime life, rivalry, german history, napoleonic wars ...
Time: 19th century
Place: germany, europe
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39%
Long Day's Journey Into Night (1962)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 174 min.
Story: The film follows one day in the lives of the Tyrone family, each member is troubled and has been damaged by alcohol and/or drugs. In addition, they have issues with each other that lead to fights and an inability to reconcile completely with one ...
Style: tense, talky, depressing, realistic, serious ...
Plot: addiction, dysfunctional family, alcoholism, drug addiction, redemption, family life, actor, alcohol abuse, actor's life, lifestyle, human nature, morphine ...
Time: 20th century, year 1962, 60s, 1910s, year 1912
Place: connecticut
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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Hedda (1975)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Henrik Ibsen's enduring drama about a Nordic femme fatale - a neurotic, controlling, strong-willed woman who is nonetheless alluring to the males in her town. She is a solitary woman in a society held together by kinship and class. If she had ...
Style: independent film, psychological, realistic, serious, clever ...
Plot: girl, manipulation, femme fatale, family problems, couples, unfulfillment, feminism, crumbling marriage, love and romance, human nature, introspection, dishonesty ...
Time: 19th century, year 1975
Place: europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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1918 (1985)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: It's 1918, the height of United States involvement in World War I - Liberty Bonds are sold, German immigrants are suspected as traitors or saboteurs, young men everywhere succumb to the patriotism and propaganda and enlist. In a small Texas ...
Style: independent film, realistic, serious, sentimental, emotional ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: world war one, great war, epidemic, influenza, deadly virus, pandemic, virus, small town, bittersweet, social relations, battles, family relations ...
Time: 1910s, year 1985
Place: texas, usa
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36%
The Dance of Death (1969)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 149 min.
Story: An egocentric artillery captain and his venomous wife engage in savage unremitting battles in their isolated island fortress of the coast of Sweden at the turn of the century. Alice, a former actress who sacrificed her career for secluded military ...
Style: independent film, serious, realistic
Plot: island, curses spells and rituals, quarantine, couples, rivalry, love and romance, fall in love, battle of wits, sea captain, marriage as hell, marriage, husband wife relationship
Time: 60s
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
Great Expectations (1999)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 168 min.
Story: A young boy called Pip stumbles upon a hunted criminal who threatens him and demands food. A few years later, Pip finds that he has a benefactor. Imagining that Miss Havisham, a rich lady whose adopted daughter Estella he loves, is the benefactor, ...
Style: serious, emotional, costume drama, period piece, sincere ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: couple relations, charles dickens, social differences, society, rise to the top, power relations, hopes, generosity, rags to riches, makeover, napoleonic era, orphan ...
Time: victorian era, 19th century
Place: england, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
Treasure Island (1999)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: This film has nothing to do with Robert Louis Stevenson's classic story, but rather a naval base of the same name located in San Francisco Bay. Set amid WWII, TREASURE ISLAND follows two American code specialists that are hard at work trying to ...
Style: independent film, serious, realistic, experimental
Plot: treasure, world war two, gay subtext, against the rules, gays and lesbians, sexual relations, infidelity, wartime life, code breaking, island, ocean, nudity ...
Time: 1940s
Place: san francisco, usa, california, japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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Waterloo (1970)
Genre: Action, Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: Italy, Soviet Union
Duration: 134 min.
Story: After defeating France and imprisoning Napoleon on Elba, ending two decades of war, Europe is shocked to find Napoleon has escaped and has caused the French Army to defect from the King back to him. The best of the British generals, the Duke of ...
Style: epic, serious, exciting, emotional, stylized ...
Plot: napoleonic wars, napoleon bonaparte, battles, british army, military, war, state affairs, politics, military life, medieval, betrayal, tragic hero ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, 1800s, regency period, 18th century ...
Place: europe, belgium, britain, soviet union, france ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
The Making of a Lady (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 95 min.
Story: 1901:- Poor but intelligent Emily Fox Seton accepts a marriage proposal from the older Lord James Walderhurst,a widower pushed into providing an heir by his haughty aunt Maria,
Style: stylized, suspense, captivating, tense, romantic drama ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: love and romance, love affair, malice, class differences, female protagonist, high society, social problems, life is a bitch, rich and poor, relationship problems, deception, rich man ...
Time: victorian era, 19th century, edwardian era, 1900s
Place: england, britain, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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