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Lillie (1978)
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Lillie (1978)
Genre: Adventure, Biography, Drama, History, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 52 min.
TV show
Story: The story of Lillie Langtry
Style: costume drama, historical drama, serious, captivating, realistic, stylized, historical romance, period drama
Plot: jazz, socialite, great war, forbidden love, scandal, love triangle, love and romance, royal family, couples, tragic love, love affair, showbiz, society, opposites attract, ambition, rise and fall, strong female presence, cinderella story, actor's life, tragic hero, unfulfillment, blind ambition, couple relations, destructive relationship, media sensation ...
Time: victorian era, 19th century, edwardian era, 1920s, 1910s, 1900s, 20th century ...
Place: britain, london, england, usa

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out costume drama, period drama, realistic and historical drama films and TV series with plots about costume, love and romance, society, couples, couple relations, family relations and power relations mostly in Drama, Romance and History genres. Some movies like Lillie: The Forsyte Saga (2002), The Forsyte Saga (1967), Victoria & Albert (2001), The Invisible Woman (2013), The Crown Prince (2006). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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The Forsyte Saga (2002)
Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 276 min.
TV show
Story: In 2002, the first two books and the first interlude of John Galsworthy's trilogy The Forsyte Saga were adapted by Granada Television for the ITV network. Additional funding for this production was provided by American PBS station WGBH, the ...
Style: period piece, family saga, realistic, costume drama, serious ...
Plot: high society, love affair, society, love and romance, forbidden love, family relations, couple relations, parents and children, unfulfilled love, rich and poor, power relations, victorian england ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, 1920s, 20th century, 1880s ...
Place: england, britain, europe, london
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The Crimson Petal and the White (2011)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 274 min.
TV show
Story: Follow Sugar into the underbelly of Victorian London seething with vitality, sexuality, ambition and emotion.
Style: historical drama, costume drama, serious, captivating, realistic ...
Plot: prostitute, victorian england, social climbing, love affair, rich and poor, mistress, social differences, power relations, couples, society, high society, diary ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, 1870s, 1880s
Place: england, britain, london, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
The Forsyte Saga (1967)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story: Adaptation from John Galsworthy's novels.
Style: family saga, costume drama, stylized, historical drama, spiritual ...
Plot: love affair, rich and poor, love and romance, law, love, spirituality, siblings relations, dysfunctional family, unfulfilled love, parents and children, intrigue, couple relations ...
Time: 20th century, victorian era, 19th century
Place: england, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
Victoria & Albert (2001)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 200 min.
TV show
Story: The passionate love story that was Queen Victoria and Prince Albert's lengthy marriage. Beginning in 1837, the year of King William IV's death and 18-year-old Victoria's ascension to the throne, the series charts the tumultuous period ...
Style: captivating, costume drama, sentimental, serious, realistic ...
Plot: queen victoria, husband wife relationship, royal family, monarch, royalty, monarchy, state affairs, british monarchy, royal court, head of state, couple relations, political unrest ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era
Place: england, europe, united kingdom
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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The Invisible Woman (2013)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: In 1857, at the height of his fame and fortune, novelist and social critic Charles Dickens meets and falls in love with teenage stage actress Nelly Ternan. As she becomes the focus of his heart and mind, as well as his muse, painful secrecy is the ...
Style: costume drama, sentimental, captivating, serious, realistic ...
Plot: love affair, writer's life, biopic, older man younger woman relationship, charles dickens, writers, forbidden love, marital discord, celebrity, scandal, secret, introspection ...
Time: victorian era, 19th century, 1870s, 1860s, ancient times ...
Place: england, britain, london, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
The Crown Prince (2006)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Romance
Country: Austria, France, Germany, Italy
Duration: 105 min.
TV show
Story: A great Empire, once famous for its enlightened traditions, is taken over by a ruthless political establishment. Religious fundamentalists and national separatists are tearing at the fabric of its liberal society. Under the influence of his ...
Style: serious, atmospheric, realistic, suspenseful, exciting ...
Plot: royal family, family relations, betrayal, couples, parents and children, forbidden love, state affairs, politics, emperor, infidelity, political unrest, social differences ...
Time: victorian era, 19th century, 1890s
Place: austria, europe, vienna
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
The Buccaneers (1995)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 212 min.
TV show
Story: Four American girls go to England to find husbands.
Style: period piece, costume drama, romantic drama, historical drama, spooky ...
Audience: kids, girls' night
Plot: love and romance, looking for love, high society, gilded age, love story, abortion, card playing, duchess, cottage, society, verbal byplay, manners ...
Time: victorian era, 19th century, 1870s
Place: england, rhode island, britain, london, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
A Woman of Substance (1984)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 300 min.
TV show
Story: A Woman of Substance charts the life of Emma Harte, from kitchen maid at the beginning of the 20th Century, to respected business woman and Grandmother in the 1980's. From humble beginnings Emma Harte starts her business with a small shop, but ...
Style: costume drama, romantic drama, historical drama, stylized, emotional ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: female protagonist, master and servant, inheritance, professional, control, family relations, world war one, ambition, working class, pregnancy, career woman, heiress ...
Time: victorian era, 1920s, 1930s, 1900s, 1910s ...
Place: england, britain, yorkshire
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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Berkeley Square (1998)
Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story: Three young women from very different backgrounds meet, become friends and share experiences when they all gain positions as nannies in the wealthy households of London's exclusive Berkeley Square.
Style: period piece, costume drama, historical drama, realistic, serious ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: nanny, family relations, civil rights, feminist, spanish civil war, human rights, colleague, abbey, butler, child abuse, bittersweet, master and servant ...
Time: 1900s, edwardian era, middle ages, 19th century, victorian era ...
Place: london, england, britain, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
Edward the King (1975)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: UK
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story: Edward the Seventh is a 1975 television drama series, made by ATV in 13 episodes. Based on the biography of Edward VII by Philip Magnus, it starred Timothy West as the elder Edward VII and Simon Gipps-Kent and Charles Sturridge as Edward in his ...
Style: costume drama, historical drama, saga, captivating, realistic ...
Plot: royalty, royal family, british monarchy, monarch, biopic, family relations, state affairs, head of state, parents and children, royal court, queen victoria, troubled youth ...
Time: 19th century, edwardian era, 20th century, victorian era
Place: britain, england
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
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 ⇓
49%
The Virgin Queen (2005)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 237 min.
TV show
Story: The Virgin Queen explores the full sweep of Elizabeth's life: from her days of fear as a potential victim of her sister's terror; through her great love affair with Robert Dudley; into her years of triumph over the Armada; and finally her ...
Style: serious, historical drama, factual, touching, period piece ...
Plot: tudors, queen elizabeth i, royal family, throne, forbidden love, royalty, queen of england, british monarchy, monarch, state affairs, head of state, treason ...
Time: 16th century
Place: england, britain, rome italy, london, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
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Poldark (1975)
Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
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Story: Period drama series about the brooding rivalry between former soldier Ross Poldark and local industrialist George Warleggan, and the two women in their lives. Based on the books by Winston Graham.
Style: costume drama, historical drama, spiritual, realistic, serious ...
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Time: 18th century, georgian era, 1780s
Place: england, europe, britain, cornwall
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 50 min.
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Story: This faithful BBC adaptation once again brings William Makepeace Thackeray's classic satirical novel to the screen. Becky Sharp (Natasha Little) is a beautiful, clever and poor girl determined to earn a higher place in society at any cost. The ...
Style: costume drama, historical drama, captivating, realistic, serious ...
Plot: manipulation, realism, napoleonic era, napoleon bonaparte, time machine, satire, orphan, unrequited love, strong female presence, couples, social climbing, power relations ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, regency period
Place: england, london, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
Wives and Daughters (1999)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 301 min.
TV show
Story: Elizabeth Gaskell's enchanting tale of romance, scandal, and intrigue in a gossipy English town comes to Masterpiece Theatre in a lavish four-part production of Wives and Daughters, adapted by celebrated screenwriter Andrew Davies.Davies, who ...
Style: uplifting, period piece, costume drama, serious, historical drama ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: prejudice, aristocrat, family relations, love and romance, estate, aristocracy, secret marriage, marriage, gossip, sibling relationship, parent child relationship, parents and children ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, 1800s, 18th century, 1820s ...
Place: england, europe, london, britain, africa
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
Edward & Mrs. Simpson (1978)
Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 350 min.
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Story: While still the Prince of Wales, the future Edward VIII meets the married American socialite, Wallis Simpson. Their relationship causes furor in the palace and in parliament, especially when King George V dies, Mrs. Simpson gets divorced, and King ...
Style: costume drama, historical drama, emotional, serious, realistic ...
Plot: royalty, royal family, monarch, wedding, true love, social differences, relationship vs career, couples, family relations, power relations, head of state, love and romance ...
Time: 1930s
Place: england
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
Daniel Deronda (2002)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 210 min.
TV show
Story: Daniel Deronda is a British television serial drama adapted by Andrew Davies from the George Eliot novel of the same name. The serial was directed by Tom Hooper, produced by Louis Marks, and was first broadcast in three parts on BBC One from 23 ...
Style: costume drama, period piece, serious, realistic, captivating ...
Plot: aristocracy, drowning, love affair, social differences, love triangle, jewess, couples, rise to the top, unlikely couple, betrayal, fall in love, society ...
Time: 19th century, middle ages, 1870s, victorian era
Place: britain, england, europe, london, italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
The Way We Live Now (2001)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 300 min.
TV show
Story: The Way We Live Now is a 2001 four-part television adaptation of the Anthony Trollope novel The Way We Live Now. The serial was first broadcast on the BBC and was directed by David Yates, written by Andrew Davies and produced by Nigel ...
Style: period piece, serious, costume drama, realistic, historical drama ...
Plot: lifestyle, intrigue, society, rise to the top, fall in love, power relations, life is a bitch, rich and poor, couple relations, greed, couples, love and romance ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, 1800s
Place: britain, europe, england
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Victoria (2016)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
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Story: The story of Queen Victoria, who came to the throne at a time of great economic turbulence and resurgent republicanism – and died 64 years later the head of the largest empire the world had ever seen, having revitalised the throne’s public image ...
Style: costume drama, historical drama, romantic, realistic, touching ...
Plot: royal family, british history, royalty, monarchy, queen victoria, british monarchy, european history, queen of england, female protagonist, queen, british politics, british royal family ...
Time: victorian era, 19th century, 1800s, future, 1830s
Place: britain, england, london, united kingdom, buckingham palace
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
The Glass Virgin (1995)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 180 min.
TV show
Story: Set in 1870s England, the story tells of Annabella Lagrange and the terrible secret her wealthy parents have kept from her. When she finally learns the truth, she runs away and eventually finds solace in the company of her family's former ...
Style: costume drama, romantic drama, realistic, serious, sexual ...
Plot: young love, age difference, wedding, youth, prostitute, love and romance, family relations, working class, coming of age, family life, friendship, couples ...
Time: victorian era, 19th century, 1870s
Place: england, britain
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
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Poldark (2015)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Britain is in the grip of a chilling recession... falling wages, rising prices, civil unrest - only the bankers are smiling. It's 1783 and Ross Poldark returns from the American War of Independence to his beloved Cornwall to find his world in ...
Style: captivating, family saga, realistic, saga, costume drama ...
Audience: family friendly
Plot: countryside, love affair, poverty, estate, society, rich and poor, love and romance, couple relations, master and servant, social differences, family relations, village life ...
Time: 18th century, victorian era, 1790s, georgian era, 1800s ...
Place: england, cornwall, britain
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
The Tide of Life (1996)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 180 min.
TV show
Story: Tide of Life follows the fortunes of young housekeeper, Emily Kennedy, as she learns about relationships with three very different men. Forced from home of her first employer, Sep McGilby after his plans to marry her come to tragic end, Emily finds ...
Style: costume drama, realistic, serious, touching, emotional ...
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Time: edwardian era, 19th century, 1900s, victorian era
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⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
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Howards End (2017)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 240 min.
TV show
Story: The social and class divisions in early 20th century England through the intersection of three families - the wealthy Wilcoxes, the gentle and idealistic Schlegels and the lower-middle class Basts.
Style: costume drama, romantic, captivating, sentimental, psychological ...
Audience: girls' night, chick flick
Plot: class differences, social class, wealthy family, class system, sister, house, couples, love affair, society, love, couple relations, love and romance ...
Time: 20th century, edwardian era, 1900s, victorian era, 1910s
Place: england, britain
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
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The Paradise (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: An intoxicating love story set in England's first department store in the 1870s. The Paradise revolves around the lives of the people who live and work in the store, each bound in their own way by the power of the world they live in, and the ...
Style: captivating, costume drama, stylized, realistic, period piece ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: fashion, workplace situations, rise to the top, high society, ambition, workplace, nouveau riche, love affair, love and romance, department store, success, workplace problem ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, 1900s, 1870s, 20th century ...
Place: england, britain
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
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Wolf Hall (2015)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: UK
Duration: 360 min.
TV show
Story: England in the 1520s is a heartbeat from disaster. If the King dies without a male heir, the country could be destroyed by civil war. Henry VIII wants to annul his marriage of twenty years and marry Anne Boleyn. The Pope and most of Europe oppose ...
Style: serious, captivating, period piece, costume drama, stylized ...
Plot: royal family, tudors, rise to the top, political intrigue, royalty, british monarchy, monarch, manipulation, ambition, state affairs, medieval, society ...
Time: 16th century, medieval times
Place: england, europe, britain, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
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Jane Eyre (1983)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 239 min.
TV show
Story: After living a miserable life with her aunt, orphaned Jane Eyre is sent to Lowood, a residential school for children of limited means. Jane takes the advice of her friend and over many years takes her studies seriously, eventually advertising for a ...
Style: gothic, costume drama, sentimental, serious, historical drama ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: love and romance, estate, proposal, society, rich and poor, couple relations, governess, fall in love, social differences, orphan, strong female presence, power of love ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era
Place: england, britain, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
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The Six Wives of Henry VIII (1970)
Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 540 min.
TV show
Story: On his deathbed, King Henry VIII recalls how he wooed and wed his six wives - and disposed of five of them - in a bid to secure the succession to the throne with a male heir. Despite his many marriages and the crowded court, Henry remains ...
Style: historical drama, spiritual, costume drama, fairy tale, serious ...
Plot: tudors, royalty, monarch, biopic, royal family, monarchy, intrigue, queen, ancient, broadway, british monarchy, peplum ...
Time: 16th century
Place: england, europe, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
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Elizabeth I (2005)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 223 min.
TV show
Story: HBO miniseries about the the public and private lives of the later years of Queen Elizabeth I.
Style: historical drama, costume drama, realistic, sincere, captivating ...
Plot: queen elizabeth i, royal family, queen, monarchy, british history, couple relations, politics, royal court, monarch, tudors, older woman younger man relationship, family relations ...
Time: 16th century
Place: england, britain, europe, spain, ireland ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1996)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 159 min.
TV show
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, serious ...
Plot: english countryside, mathematics, troubled marriage, domestic abuse, literary, happy ending, new beginning, novelist, mansion, love and romance, society, crumbling marriage ...
Time: victorian era, 19th century
Place: yorkshire, britain
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
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Elizabeth R (1971)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: UK
Duration: 85 min.
TV show
Story: When Elizabeth Tudor comes to the throne, her (male) advisors know she has to marry. Doesn't she?
Style: historical drama, costume drama, serious, realistic, stylized ...
Plot: queen elizabeth i, royal family, monarchy, queen, palace intrigue, queen of england, throne, political conspiracy, monarch, betrayal, state affairs, couple relations ...
Time: 16th century
Place: england, europe, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
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