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Lillie (1978)
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Genre: Adventure, Biography, Drama, History, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 52 min.
TV show
Story:
The story of Lillie Langtry
Style:
costume drama, historical drama, historical romance, serious, captivating, realistic, stylized, period drama
Plot:
victorian england, jazz, loveless marriage, great war, forbidden love, biopic, 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 ...
Time:
victorian era, 19th century, 1920s, 1910s, 20th century, edwardian era, 1870s ...
Place:
britain, london, england, usa
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Most similar movies to Lillie
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out period drama, costume drama, realistic and serious 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), Edward & Mrs. Simpson (1978), Victoria & Albert (2001), The Duchess of Duke Street (1976), The Forsyte Saga (1967). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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, costume drama, realistic, family saga, serious ...
Plot:
love affair, high society, forbidden love, love and romance, victorian england, couple relations, parents and children, society, unfulfilled love, rich and poor, family relations, power relations ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, 20th century, 1920s, 1800s ...
Place:
england, britain, europe, london
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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, realistic, serious, emotional ...
Plot:
royalty, royal family, monarch, true love, wedding, relationship vs career, social differences, love and romance, head of state, society, unfulfillment, moral dilemma ...
Time:
1930s
Place:
england, britain
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 69 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, realistic, captivating ...
Plot:
victorian england, prostitute, social climbing, love affair, rich and poor, mistress, social differences, power relations, couples, society, high society, diary ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, 1880s, 1870s
Place:
england, london, britain, europe
Similarity:
57%
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 200 min.
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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:
costume drama, captivating, sentimental, realistic, serious ...
Plot:
queen victoria, husband wife relationship, royal family, monarch, royalty, monarchy, victorian england, royal court, state affairs, british monarchy, couple relations, political unrest ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era
Place:
england, europe, united kingdom
Similarity:
51%
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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, high society, female chef, victorian england, world war one, professional, jazz, rags to riches, food, great war, battle of the sexes, domestic drama ...
Time:
1910s, edwardian era, victorian era, 1920s, 20th century ...
Place:
britain, london, europe, england
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story:
Adaptation from John Galsworthy's novels.
Style:
family saga, costume drama, stylized, period piece, historical drama ...
Plot:
love affair, rich and poor, love and romance, law, love, spirituality, power relations, family problems, couples, family relations, unfulfilled love, dysfunctional family ...
Time:
20th century, 19th century, victorian era
Place:
england, london
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50%
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, period piece, costume drama ...
Plot:
royal family, forbidden love, family relations, betrayal, couples, state affairs, politics, parents and children, emperor, intrigue, fall in love, love and romance ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, turn of the century, 1890s
Place:
austria, europe, vienna
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 53 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, 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:
50%
Genre: Drama, History
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
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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, period piece, stylized, realistic ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
fashion, workplace situations, rise to the top, high society, success, workplace, love affair, nouveau riche, love and romance, department store, hot and sexy, workplace problem ...
Time:
19th century, 1900s, victorian era, 1870s, 20th century ...
Place:
england, britain
Similarity:
49%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 300 min.
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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, realistic, serious ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
female protagonist, passionate love, master and servant, forbidden love, marriage of convenience, marriage proposal, inheritance, professional, control, world war one, ambition, family relations ...
Time:
1900s, victorian era, 1930s, 1920s, 1910s ...
Place:
england, britain, yorkshire
Similarity:
49%
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, period piece, sentimental, captivating, serious ...
Plot:
love affair, actress, writers, writer's life, forbidden love, biopic, older man younger woman relationship, secret relationship, affair, scandal, secret, marital discord ...
Time:
victorian era, 19th century, ancient times, 1860s, 1850s ...
Place:
london, england, britain, europe, manchester
Similarity:
49%
Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 50 min.
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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, serious, realistic ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
nanny, abbey, family relations, child abuse, spanish civil war, civil rights, human rights, colleague, feminist, butler, bittersweet, lifestyle ...
Time:
1900s, middle ages, edwardian era, 19th century, victorian era ...
Place:
london, england, britain, europe
Similarity:
49%
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 48 min.
TV show
Story:
Four American girls go to England to find husbands.
Style:
period piece, costume drama, historical drama, romantic drama, spooky ...
Audience:
kids, girls' night
Plot:
high society, victorian england, love and romance, looking for love, duchess, cottage, gilded age, love story, abortion, card playing, society, culture clash ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, 1870s
Place:
england, rhode island, britain, london, europe
Similarity:
49%
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 59 min.
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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:
costume drama, serious, historical drama, period piece, factual ...
Plot:
queen elizabeth i, tudors, royal family, throne, forbidden love, queen of england, royalty, monarch, renaissance, monarchy, british monarchy, head of state ...
Time:
16th century
Place:
england, britain, rome italy, london, europe
Similarity:
49%
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, spiritual, historical drama, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
spirituality, abbey, unrequited love, time machine, estate, master and servant, unfulfillment, love and romance, couple relations, society, manners, rich and poor ...
Time:
georgian era, 1780s, 18th century
Place:
england, europe, britain, cornwall
Similarity:
49%
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: UK
Duration: 50 min.
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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, serious ...
Plot:
royalty, royal family, british monarchy, monarch, biopic, head of state, state affairs, family relations, royal court, parents and children, queen victoria, troubled youth ...
Time:
19th century, 20th century, edwardian era, victorian era
Place:
britain, england
Similarity:
49%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 75 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, costume drama, serious, realistic, captivating ...
Plot:
intrigue, lifestyle, fall in love, couple relations, rise to the top, power relations, rich and poor, greed, victorian england, couples, warning, love and romance ...
Time:
19th century, 1870s, 1800s, victorian era
Place:
britain, europe, mexico, england, london
Similarity:
48%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 53 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, period piece, historical drama, captivating, serious ...
Plot:
manipulation, passionate love, high society, unrequited love, realism, napoleonic era, time machine, napoleon bonaparte, satire, orphan, strong female presence, couples ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, regency period
Place:
england, europe, london
Similarity:
48%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 53 min.
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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, realistic, serious, captivating ...
Plot:
aristocracy, marriage of convenience, jewess, love triangle, society, drowning, social differences, love affair, rise to the top, fall in love, betrayal, unlikely couple ...
Time:
19th century, middle ages, victorian era, 1870s
Place:
britain, england, europe, london, italy
Similarity:
48%
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, sexual, serious ...
Plot:
victorian england, young love, age difference, wedding, friendship, society, family relations, self discovery, working class, youth, love and romance, coming of age ...
Time:
victorian era, 19th century, 1870s
Place:
england, britain
Similarity:
47%
Genre: Biography, 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, fairy tale, costume drama, spiritual, realistic ...
Plot:
tudors, monarch, royalty, queen, king, biopic, royal family, monarchy, intrigue, serial killer, maniac, brutality ...
Time:
16th century, medieval times
Place:
england, europe, london
Similarity:
47%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 28 min.
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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:
costume drama, gothic, period piece, sentimental, serious ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
love and romance, estate, proposal, couple relations, power of love, society, rich and poor, governess, fall in love, social differences, orphan, strong female presence ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era
Place:
england, britain, europe
Similarity:
47%
34K
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
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:
historical drama, romantic, costume drama, period piece, realistic ...
Plot:
royal family, british history, royalty, monarchy, queen victoria, queen of england, british monarchy, european history, queen, british politics, female protagonist, british empire ...
Time:
victorian era, 19th century, future, 1800s, 1830s
Place:
britain, england, london, united kingdom, buckingham palace
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47%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 60 min.
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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, period piece, captivating, sentimental, psychological ...
Audience:
girls' night, chick flick
Plot:
class differences, social class, wealthy family, class system, house, sister, society, love affair, love and romance, couples, couple relations, middle class ...
Time:
20th century, edwardian era, victorian era, 1910s, 1900s
Place:
england, britain
Similarity:
46%
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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, costume drama, period piece, realistic ...
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
countryside, estate, love affair, rich and poor, couple relations, love and romance, society, master and servant, poverty, social differences, family relations, english countryside ...
Time:
18th century, victorian era, 1790s, 19th century, 1800s ...
Place:
england, cornwall, britain
Similarity:
46%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 180 min.
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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 ...
Plot:
immigration, life turned upside down, society, boss and employee, love and romance, tragic hero, innocence lost, gender, couple relations, life is a bitch, power relations, estate ...
Time:
edwardian era, 19th century, 1900s, victorian era, 20th century
Place:
northern england, england
Similarity:
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
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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:
costume drama, period piece, realistic, stylized, serious ...
Plot:
butler, domestic servant, maid, working class, wealth, master servant relationship, high society, master and servant, lifestyle, couples, rich and poor, couple relations ...
Time:
1900s, edwardian era, year 1971, 1920s, 1930s ...
Place:
england, london, hawaii, britain, europe
Similarity:
46%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 196 min.
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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:
costume drama, captivating, serious, emotional, realistic ...
Plot:
victorian england, tragic hero, haunted by the past, redemption, social relations, rise and fall, family problems, hidden truth, society, betrayal, dishonesty, mayor ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, 1800s
Place:
britain, england
Similarity:
45%
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 112 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, queen, monarchy, royal family, couple relations, british history, medieval, politics, monarch, tudors, renaissance, queen of england ...
Time:
16th century, medieval times
Place:
england, britain, europe, london, portugal ...
Similarity:
45%
18K
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 60 min.
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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:
costume drama, captivating, period piece, serious, stylized ...
Plot:
royal family, tudors, medieval, rise to the top, monarchy, cardinal the priest, british monarchy, queen, manipulation, state affairs, ambition, dishonesty ...
Time:
16th century, medieval times
Place:
england, britain, europe, london
Similarity:
45%
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