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Coming Home (1998)
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Coming Home (1998)
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: UK, Germany
Duration: 199 min.
TV show
Story: Drama about the Dunar and Carey-Lewis families, before during and after WW2.
Style: independent film, serious, captivating, realistic, contemplative, hot, period drama
Audience: girls' night, date night
Plot: world war two, boarding school, girl power, pow, coming of age, female nudity, unrequited love, nudity, wealth, unhappiness, school, friendship, youth, love triangle, friends, captivity, family relations, love and romance, adoption, couples, love affair, social differences, society, infidelity, siblings relations ...
Time: 1930s, 1940s, 40s
Place: england, europe, cornwall
Keyword: movie theatre

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, period drama and captivating films and TV series with plots about love and romance, society, couples, family relations, world war two, love affair and couple relations mostly in Drama, Romance and War genres. Some movies like Coming Home: Brideshead Revisited (1981), The Halcyon (2017), Crossings (1986), The Camomile Lawn (1992), Home Fires (2015). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Brideshead Revisited (1981)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 659 min.
TV show
Story: In this eleven parts British television serial, Charles Ryder's involvement with members of the aristocratic Marchmain/Flyte family is followed throughout the years between the two World Wars.
Style: costume drama, sitcom, spiritual, avant garde, historical drama ...
Plot: homosexual subtext, world war two, friendship, catholicism, alcoholism, gay, lgbt, atheist, religion, catholic, gay interest, mistress ...
Time: 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 20th century, year 1981
Place: england, venice, oxford university, paris france
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The Halcyon (2017)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: The story of a bustling and glamorous five star hotel at the centre of London society and a world at war.
Style: costume drama, realistic, disturbing, captivating, psychological ...
Plot: hotel, world war two, aristocracy, manager, wartime, society, bellhop, chef, maid, gay lead character, world war one, lgbt ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century
Place: england, london
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100%
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Crossings (1986)
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: USA
Duration: 269 min.
TV show
Story: Despite rumors of impending war, the majestic ship Normandie makes its transatlantic voyage from Washington D.C., to France. Aboard is beautiful, American-born Liane De Villiers, devoted to her much-older husband, the French ambassador to the United ...
Plot: world war two, love, world war, wartime, nazi occupation, journey, husband wife relationship, infidelity, adultery, politics, nazi, diplomat ...
Place: paris france, san francisco
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Camomile Lawn (1992)
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: UK, Australia
Duration: 258 min.
TV show
Story: Presents the lives and loves of a family of cousins from 1939 to the present. Follows very closely the Mary Wesley novel. Begins with a funeral and uses the reminiscences of those gathered to fill in details in the lives of Richard and Helena and ...
Style: controversial, serious, realistic, touching, emotional ...
Plot: world war two, spanish civil war, family relations, family gatherings, unrequited love, cousin, couples, family problems, couple relations, life is a bitch, love and romance, society ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, year 1939, 80s, 1930s ...
Place: england, hawaii, europe, london, cornwall
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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Home Fires (2015)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: UK
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story: The story of a group of inspirational women in a rural Cheshire community with the shadow of World War II casting a dark cloud over their lives. As the conflict takes hold and separates the women from their husbands, fathers, sons and brothers, the ...
Style: captivating, realistic, serious, psychological, historical drama ...
Plot: world war two, village, female protagonist, friends, strong female presence, social relations, life is a bitch, society, husband wife relationship, family relations, british, father son relationship ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, 1930s
Place: england, europe
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33%
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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
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
The Cinder Path (1994)
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: UK
Duration: 145 min.
TV show
Story: Tale of a farmer's son who gets involved with two sisters, then goes to fight in the trenches in WW1.
Style: costume drama, realistic, serious, period piece, period drama
Plot: world war one, romantic relationship, sibling relationship, battles, couples, farm, hopes, war, military, redemption, witnessing a crime, dishonesty ...
Time: 1910s, 20th century, year 1914, edwardian era
Place: england
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
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
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
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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 ⇓
25%
The Pursuit of Love (2021)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: The Pursuit of Love is an upcoming romance drama miniseries based on the novel of the same name by Nancy Mitford.
Style: psychological, captivating, period drama
Plot: friendship, friends, unfulfilled love, looking for love, social relations, couple relations, love interest, relationship problems, girlfriend girlfriend relationship, romantic relationship, love and romance, society ...
Time: 20th century, 1930s
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
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Scarlett (1994)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, USA, Germany, Italy, UK, Spain, Austria
Duration: 360 min.
TV show
Story: The greatest love story ever told began with Gone with the Wind and continues in this sweeping epic sequel, as Scarlett, Rhett and a host of unforgettable characters go from tragedy to triumph in an action-packed saga of international scope
Style: serious, captivating, stylized, romantic, sentimental ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: love and romance, parents and children, couples, family relations, society, infidelity, fall in love, star crossed lovers, reconciliation, civil war, dysfunctional family, 007 ...
Time: victorian era, 19th century, 1870s
Place: europe, london, ireland, georgia, atlanta georgia ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
Sense and Sensibility (1971)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 178 min.
TV show
Story: Adaptation of the Jane Austen novel.
Style: historical drama, realistic, semi serious, sincere, feel good ...
Audience: girls' night, date night
Plot: love triangle, power relations, family relations, social relations, love and romance, fall in love, society, rich and poor, social differences, village, village life, siblings relations ...
Time: 1800s
Place: england, europe, london, britain
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
Falling for a Dancer (1998)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 200 min.
TV show
Story: Romantic drama set in rural Ireland of the 1930s. The story begins when 19-year-old Elizabeth has a brief fling with an actor and falls pregnant. Community pressure forces her to marry a dull middle-aged man, but maybe there is hope on the horizon.
Style: contemplative, serious, realistic, captivating, thought provoking ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: family relations, pregnancy, couples, society, unfulfillment, love and romance, artists and showbiz, love affair, tragic love, unfulfilled love, countryside, haunted by the past ...
Time: 1930s
Place: ireland, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
The Winds of War (1983)
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: USA
Duration: 883 min.
TV show
Story: In the late 1930s, world politics begin to head in a dangerous direction. In Europe, Germany expands and rearms and proceeds to annex several border countries into the Reich. Meanwhile, Italy attempts to establish a Facist Colonial Empire under ...
Style: epic, sentimental, contemplative, serious, realistic ...
Plot: world war two, holocaust, luftwaffe, military, world war, cheating wife, wartime, cavalry, navy, politics, refugee, behind enemy lines ...
Time: 1940s, 1930s, 20th century
Place: germany, italy, japan, berlin germany, china ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
Every Time We Say Goodbye (1986)
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: Israel, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: An American flyer who joined the RAF before his country was in the war is recovering from a leg injury in Jerusalem. Through an English friend he meets a quiet Jewish girl whose close-knit family originally came from Spain. The two are attracted to ...
Style: sentimental, touching, serious, realistic, entertaining ...
Plot: world war two, friends, friendship, fall in love, father daughter relationship, couples, social differences, love affair, couple relations, opposites attract, interfaith relationship, wartime life ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, year 1986
Place: jerusalem, middle east, israel, palestine
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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Twin Sisters (2002)
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: Netherlands, Luxembourg
Duration: 137 min.
Story: Twin Sisters is an epic love story based on the Dutch bestseller by Tessa de Loo that has been read by more than 3.5 million readers in Holland and Germany.
Style: captivating, thought provoking, serious, realistic, touching ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: world war two, twins, wartime life, family reunited, family relations, ss officer, life is a bitch, culture clash, orphan, society, human nature, reconciliation ...
Time: 1940s, 1930s, 20th century, 1920s
Place: germany, europe, holland, netherlands
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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 1K
Poldark (1975)
Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
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 ...
Plot: time machine, spirituality, abbey, estate, unrequited love, unfulfillment, love and romance, society, master and servant, couple relations, love affair, unfulfilled love ...
Time: 18th century, georgian era, 1780s
Place: england, europe, britain, cornwall
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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 ⇓
23%
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The Land Girls (1998)
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: UK, France
Duration: 111 min.
Story: During World War II, the organisation "The Women's Land Army" recruited women to work on British farms while the men were off to war. Three such "land girls" of different social backgrounds - quiet Stella, young hairdresser ...
Style: period piece, touching, sentimental, realistic, historical drama ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: world war two, friendship, love, wartime life, working class, war, countryside, farm, woman, women, wine, world war ...
Time: 1940s, year 1998, 20th century
Place: england, united kingdom, english channel, europe, britain ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
Till We Meet Again (1989)
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 240 min.
TV show
Story: Judith Krantz's Till We Meet Again was a 1989 TV mini-series based on the Judith Krantz novel, Till We Meet Again. Its stars included Mia Sara, Bruce Boxleitner, Hugh Grant and Courteney Cox.
Style: emotional, clever, talky, serious, realistic ...
Plot: world war two, wine, wartime, great war, world war, world war one, couples, battle zone, celebrity culture, lovers reunited, parents and children, showbiz ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
Sense and Sensibility (1981)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 174 min.
TV show
Story: Two sisters of opposing temperaments find love and some heartbreak in Jane Austen's 18th century classic.
Style: realistic, semi serious, emotional, witty, sincere ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: love, heartbreak, control, love triangle, family relations, power relations, social relations, couples, unlikely couple, fall in love, master and servant, society ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, 18th century, 1800s, regency period
Place: england, europe, britain
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
Fortunes of War (1987)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: UK
Duration: 407 min.
TV show
Story: Fortunes of War is a 1987 BBC television adaptation of Olivia Manning's cycle of novels Fortunes of War. It stars Kenneth Branagh as Guy Pringle, lecturer in English Literature in Bucharest during the early part of the Second World War, and ...
Style: contemplative, realistic, serious, captivating, tense ...
Plot: world war two, world war, diplomacy, spy, resistance, activist, infidelity, lecturer, intrigue, opposites attract, life is a bitch, crumbling marriage ...
Time: 1940s
Place: greece, europe, africa, romania, middle east ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
A Soldier's Tale (1989)
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: New Zealand
Duration: 96 min.
Story: In the days following the D-Day invasion in Normandy, France, a British platoon leader named Saul (Gabriel Byrne) and his corporal (Paul Wyett) reach an isolated farmhouse and encounter a beautiful French girl named Belle (Marianne Basler). Love ...
Style: realistic, serious, tense, emotional
Audience: girls' night
Plot: world war two, soldier, love affair, war, love and romance, couples, impossible love, unfulfilled love, woman in danger, wartime life, love, love triangle ...
Time: 20th century, 1940s
Place: france, europe, normandy
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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The Singapore Grip (2020)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance, War
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: In colonial Singapore during World War Two, this epic drama follows the schemes – both commercial and amorous – of a wealthy British family as they struggle to preserve their prosperous business amid cataclysmic world events.
Style: humorous, melancholic, touching, talky, semi serious ...
Plot: world war two, colonialism, mistress, deadpan, british empire, satire, love, lovers, love interest, society, couples, love affair ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century
Place: singapore
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
Forbidden Apple (2018)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Turkey
Duration: 120 min.
TV show
Story: Three things in life can not be hidden "love, smoke and lack of money". The social society and the events behind the business world are told.
Style: touching, captivating, sincere, realistic, psychological ...
Audience: girls' night, chick flick
Plot: parents and children, mansion, wealthy family, love, love and romance, couple relations, family relations, ambition, family life, friendship, love affair, family problems ...
Place: turkey, istanbul turkey
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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Birdsong (2012)
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: UK
Duration: 165 min.
TV show
Story: As an English soldier fights in the horrific trenches of northern France, he is haunted by the memories of his forbidden love affair with a French woman.
Style: realistic, emotional, serious, stylized, epic ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: world war one, soldier, trench warfare, love affair, military, lovers, lovers apart, great war, war, battles, election, underground ...
Time: 1910s, 20th century
Place: france, united kingdom, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
Mistral's Daughter (1984)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 390 min.
TV show
Story: Beautiful and naïve Maggy Lunel arrives in Paris completely broke. She becomes an artist's model and the toast of Paris, attracting the attention of Picasso-like painter Julien Mistral, an arrogant and selfish man who places his work above ...
Style: serious, realistic, emotional, sincere
Audience: date night
Plot: painter, world war two, artist, nazi occupation, art, age difference, art history, model, artist's model, love affair, social differences, infidelity ...
Time: 1920s, 1950s, 1940s, 1930s, 60s ...
Place: paris france, europe, france, provence, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
Wuthering Heights (2009)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 142 min.
TV show
Story: Foundling Heathcliff is raised by the wealthy Earnshaws in Yorkshire but in later life launches a vendetta against the family.
Style: emotional, touching, serious, gothic, period piece ...
Audience: girls' night, date night
Plot: obsession, unfulfilled love, love affair, forbidden love, estate, love triangle, social differences, revenge, society, punishment, fall in love, corporal punishment ...
Time: 19th century, 18th century, victorian era, georgian era, regency period
Place: england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
Brideshead Revisited (2008)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, Italy, Morocco, USA
Duration: 134 min.
Story: Based on Evelyn Waugh's 1945 classic British novel, Brideshead Revisited is a poignant story of forbidden love and the loss of innocence set in England prior to the Second World War.
Style: sentimental, emotional, serious, sincere, period piece ...
Plot: gay, world war two, couples, friendship, religion, catholic, nobility, oxford, love and romance, friends, siblings relations, society ...
Time: 20th century, 1920s, 50s, 1930s, year 2008 ...
Place: england, oxford university, britain, venice, morocco ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
My Mother and Other Strangers (2016)
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Drama series set in 1943 following the Coyne family and their neighbours as they struggle to maintain a normal life after a US Army Air Force base is set up in the middle of their rural parish.
Style: captivating, romantic, historical drama
Plot: world war two, love triangle, american soldier, troubled marriage, military life, wartime, parents and children, love and romance, military, life, relationships, male female relationship ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century
Place: ireland, northern ireland
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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