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The Politician's Wife (1995)
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 185 min.
TV show
Story:
A woman's life is turned upside down when it is revealed that her husband, a member of the British Parliament, has been having an affair with a former prostitute.
Style:
political, psychological, tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful, surprise ending
Plot:
politics, cheating, president, adultery, betrayal, infidelity, manipulation, motivation, british politics, prostitute, love and romance, sexual relations, housewife, couples, love affair, vengeance, rivalry, society, family problems, lifestyle, punishment, allies, crumbling marriage, conservative, journal ...
Time:
90s
Place:
london, big ben london
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, captivating and tense films and TV series with plots about dishonesty, love and romance, couples, family relations, couple relations, infidelity and husband wife relationship mostly in Drama and Sport genres. Some movies like The Politician's Wife: House of Cards (1990), Satisfaction (2014), To Play the King (1993), Footballers' Wives (2002), Betrayal (2013). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 180 min.
TV show
Story:
Aiden Hoynes is a senior cabinet minister who has always put his career before family, with the support of Freya, his devoted wife and mother to their two young children. But when Freya's own political career takes off and threatens to ...
Style:
realistic, captivating, tense, serious, political ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
politics, betrayal, political intrigue, relationship vs career, ambition, blind ambition, state affairs, couples, husband wife relationship, career woman, british politics, mental disorder ...
Time:
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Place:
england, london
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 226 min.
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Francis Urquhart is the chief whip of the Conservative party. When Margaret Thatcher resigns as leader, he remains neutral and after a general election where the conservatives are returned with a reduced majority, he fully expects the new Prime ...
Style:
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Plot:
politics, political intrigue, state affairs, journalist, reporter, manipulation, deception, power struggle, dishonesty, intrigue, political corruption, conservative ...
Time:
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Place:
england, london, europe
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 44 min.
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A provocative drama that explores modern marriage at its midpoint. Through the lens of one couple, Neil Truman and his wife, Grace, this series answers the question, “What do you do when having it all is not enough?” by delving into their ...
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crumbling marriage, couple relations, marriage, husband wife relationship, dysfunctional marriage, dishonesty, under the surface, male escort, adultery, infidelity, family problems, marital problem ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 218 min.
TV show
Story:
Francis Urquhart, unscrupulous but cunning Conservative politician, managed to become the British prime minister and crush all significant opposition. But his survival on the top is threatened by a liberal monarch and some skeletons in the closet.
Style:
political, serious, realistic, cynical, captivating ...
Plot:
politics, royal family, cons and scams, british monarchy, british prime minister, british politics, dishonesty, society, ambition, rise to the top, state affairs, survival ...
Time:
90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: UK
Duration: 49 min.
TV show
Story:
Footballers' Wives is a British television drama surrounding the fictional Premier League Association football club Earls Park F.C., its players, and their wives. It was broadcast on the ITV network from 8 January 2002 to 14 April 2006. The ...
Style:
sexy, stylized, captivating, erotic, controversial ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
love affair, relationship vs career, rise to the top, lifestyle, ambition, sport team, couples, infidelity, womanizer, against the rules, dishonesty, obsession ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
england, europe
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
Centers on Sara, a beautiful but unhappily married female photographer who begins a torrid affair with Jack, a lawyer for a powerful family.
Style:
tense, serious, suspenseful, realistic
Plot:
cheating wife, love affair, infidelity, betrayal, murder, family problems, dishonesty, family in crisis, couples, crumbling marriage, unfulfillment, courtroom drama ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 360 min.
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To help her brother mend his failing marriage, young Russian beauty Anna Karenina - who's married to eminent nobleman Alexei Karenin - leaves St. Petersburg for Moscow, where she meets the dashing Count Vronsky. They soon fall madly in love, ...
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Plot:
betrayal, dishonesty, tragic hero, tragic love, breakup, infidelity, extramarital affair, family problems, couples, couple relations, love and romance, love triangle ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, 1870s
Place:
russia, moscow russia
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50%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
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Story:
The Affair explores the emotional effects of an extramarital relationship between Noah Solloway and Alison Lockhart after the two meet in the resort town of Montauk in Long Island. Noah is a New York City schoolteacher with one novel published (book ...
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psychological, serious, emotional, captivating, realistic ...
Plot:
crumbling marriage, infidelity, sex scene, adultery, husband wife relationship, sexual relations, writers, family problems, parents and children, life turned upside down, dishonesty, strong sexual content ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
The Grand is a British television drama series first broadcast on ITV in 1997–1998. It was written by Russell T Davies and set in a hotel in Manchester in the 1920s.
There are two series: eight episodes in the first series were broadcast from 4 ...
Style:
sexual, realistic, serious, sexy
Plot:
hotel, maid, family relations, prostitute, siblings relations, infidelity, couples, love and romance, lifestyle, betrayal, vengeance, couple relations ...
Time:
1920s, post world war one
Place:
europe, england, manchester
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico
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Story:
Raquel and Damián are happily married with two children. Destiny leads Damián to meet Carolina and feels an undeniable attraction towards her. Damián did not know that Carolina was already married to Santiago Álvarado, a construction architect ...
Style:
captivating, tense
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⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 47 min.
TV show
Story:
The Little House is a drama series based on the novel by Philippa Gregory. The drama follows the story of Ruth, who is married to career minded Patrick and is pushed towards the limits of her own sanity when she becomes entangled in the lives of ...
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realistic, tense, serious, psychological, suspenseful
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family in crisis, parents and children, family problems, family relations, in-laws, parent child relationship, countryside, dishonesty, mentally unstable, babies and infants, british, mother in law ...
Time:
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Place:
england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
Genre: Drama
Country: Colombia
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Rosario is a teenage schoolgirl who lives in a tough Latin neighborhood filled with challenges. Having poverty all around, she faces difficult situations from family, school, rich friends vs. poor friends, and the element of drug cartel activity ...
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90s, 20th century, 21st century
Place:
colombia, latin america
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, France, Spain, Lithuania
Duration: 354 min.
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Anna and Kitty. Two lives. One of desperate passion that ends in tragedy, the other, an existence made real through love. Two destinies that interweave, giving rise to two, so very different stories, yet lived in pursuit of the same desire- to find ...
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sentimental, captivating, emotional, stylized, fairy tale ...
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girls' night
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Place:
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 159 min.
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Plot:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
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Lone Star is an American drama television series which originally ran on Fox from September 20, 2010 to September 27, 2010, airing Monday nights at 9 pm ET/PT. Fox announced Lone Star's cancellation on September 28, 2010 after two low-rated ...
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realistic, serious, captivating, disturbing
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love triangle, hidden identity, betrayal, family business, couple relations, love and romance, society, dishonesty, thief, one last job, success, couples ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: Bulgaria
Duration: 42 min.
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Love, treachery, sin, redemption, difficult decisions and surprising twists are the basis of dramatic story in the series "Stolen Life", which being played out against the backdrop of extreme life of the medical profession.
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suspenseful, touching, captivating, tense, exciting ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
Follows the lives of four female friends and their involvement in an array of marital and extramarital relationships.
Style:
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girls' night
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Place:
england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
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Acacias 38, the address of a stately apartment building where our stories unfold, is set in 1899 and tells the story of a group of maids and the bourgeois families they serve, in a single block in a distinguished neighborhood of a large Spanish ...
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tense, family saga, exciting, disturbing, suspenseful
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
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Time:
19th century
Place:
spain, madrid
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
Young journalist Carla Rangel is tasked with interviewing a wealthy, mysterious woman named Rubí about her storied past involving passion, seduction, betrayal and greed.
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realistic, serious, emotional, captivating
Plot:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 206 min.
TV show
Story:
Approaching his 65th birthday, Prime Minister Frances Urquhart begins to see the end of his career. Not that he has the intention of resigning anytime soon. He does however hope to establish a legacy, one for the history books and one to provide his ...
Style:
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Plot:
politics, prime minister, political corruption, haunted by the past, cons and scams, ambition, dishonesty, state affairs, society, head of state, golden years, suspense ...
Time:
90s
Place:
england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
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Story:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
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betrayal, art, infidelity, couple relations, haunted by the past, crumbling marriage, vengeance, love and romance, dishonesty, family problems, couples, unfulfillment ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 240 min.
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He Knew He Was Right was a 2004 BBC TV adaptation of the Anthony Trollope novel He Knew He Was Right. The mini-series portrays the failure of a marriage caused by the unreasonable jealousy of a husband exacerbated by the stubbornness of a wilful ...
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44%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 375 min.
TV show
Story:
Maxi Amberville tries to save the magazine empire her father built, but her treacherous uncle stands in her way.
Style:
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Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 185 min.
TV show
Story:
Charles Dickens' haunting semi-autobiographical tale of a boy who is sent away by his stepfather after his mother dies but manages to triumph over incredible adversities.
Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
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44%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
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Style:
stylized, realistic, captivating, serious
Plot:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Via the New York Times: "To all outward appearances, Edna Cormick (Martha Henry) is the perfect housewife.... She's married to a man who'll stand up in public and say, "This is my wife," so that there'll be no confusion ...
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realistic, serious, psychological, gloomy, suspenseful ...
Plot:
feminist, infidelity, mental illness, murder, hospital, dishonesty, crumbling marriage, love and romance, unfulfillment, feminism, family relations, couples ...
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Place:
canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 51 min.
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Story:
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serious, clever, political, cynical, captivating ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens, adult
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
After dedicating a lifetime to her husband and family, Alicia's world changes completely when she discovers a betrayal. Determined to rebuild her life, Alicia begins to fall in love with a much younger man.
Style:
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Plot:
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