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The Flame Trees of Thika (1981)
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story:
Elspeth and her unconventional parents decide to settle down in Kenya and begin a coffee plantation. This is a time of discovery for Elspeth, as she encounters the incredible beauty and cruelty of nature, and new friendships with both Africans and British expatriates. A side plot involves the beautiful and bored British Lettice Palmer who enters into an affair with a handsome safari guide. Eventually, however, the excitement of Elspeth's life is disrupted by the onset of WW I, and the changes it brings
Style:
serious, realistic, inter cultural
Plot:
world war one, safari, plantation, youth, racism, orphan, couples, escapades, society, opposites attract, starting over, animal life, introspection, small town, wilderness, coming of age, imperialism, small town life, hopes, dealing with death, hunter, railway, wildlife, lion, family relations ...
Time:
1910s, edwardian era
Place:
africa, kenya
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, touching and sincere films and TV series with plots about society, family relations, couples, love and romance, youth, world war one and hopes mostly in Drama, Biography and Romance genres. Some movies like The Flame Trees of Thika: Wild at Heart (2006), My Way Home (1978), Out of Africa (1985), Flambards (1979), The Wingless Bird (1997). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 47 min.
TV show
Story:
The Trevanion family decide to make a fresh start and emigrate to South Africa to set up an animal reserve.
Style:
sincere, sentimental, serious, realistic
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
starting over, family business, veterinarian, workplace, parents and children, couples, workplace situations, family problems, family life, fish out of water, wilderness, owner ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
africa, south africa
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 71 min.
Story:
Jamie leaves the children's home to live with his paternal grandmother. After working in a mine and in a tailor's shop, he is conscripted into the RAF, and goes to Egypt, where he is befriended by Robert, whose undemanding companionship ...
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bleak, art house, sincere, gloomy, serious ...
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youth, child neglect, lgbt, autobiography, neglect, friends, hopes, juvenile delinquency, military, redemption, society, coming of age ...
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Place:
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 161 min.
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Out of Africa tells the story of the life of Danish author Karen Blixen, who at the beginning of the 20th century moved to Africa to build a new life for herself. The film is based on the autobiographical novel by Karen Blixen from 1937.
Style:
touching, emotional, realistic, romantic, sexy ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night
Plot:
colonialism, love story, infidelity, writers, love and romance, love, lion, adaptation, unlikely friendships, mentor, love affair, destructive relationship ...
Time:
1910s, 1920s, 19th century, victorian era, 1930s ...
Place:
africa, kenya, denmark
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100%
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 780 min.
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In the early 1900s in England, young Christina is orphaned and goes to live with her Uncle Russell, who owns the country estate of Flambards, and has two sons. Mark, the elder, is a wastrel, a roue and, like his father, loves to hunt. The younger ...
Style:
serious, realistic, captivating, emotional
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
world war one, love and romance, society, couple relations, family relations, uneducated, estate, manners, couples, social differences, family life, countryside ...
Time:
edwardian era, 20th century, 1910s
Place:
england, europe
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40%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 180 min.
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Story:
On the eve of World War I, Agnes Conway manages both the business and the problems of her troubled family. She finds the strength to break class barriers and help her sister Jessie marry a good boy from a family of dockside toughs. Is she strong ...
Style:
touching, sentimental, realistic, serious
Plot:
rich and poor, family relations, power relations, couples, dishonesty, ambition, love and romance, master and servant, society, betrayal, love triangle, love affair ...
Time:
1910s, 20th century, year 1914, edwardian era
Place:
northern england, england
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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TV shows similar to Anne with an E
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 152 min.
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This 1940s drama presents a story of class conflict and its influence on romance. Robert Bradley leaves the shipyards to work in his uncle's furniture business but soon finds himself at odds with the old man. So he becomes a servant for the ...
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sexy, realistic, serious
Plot:
world war one, shipyard, fatherhood, master and servant, love and romance, society, couples, family relations, estate, power relations, tragic love, fall in love ...
Time:
1910s, 20th century, edwardian era
Place:
england
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
466
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story:
Moving On is a British television series set in contemporary Britain consisting of standalone dramas all sharing the theme of someone going through some kind of change in their life and moving on.
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sincere, emotional, realistic, serious, gloomy ...
Plot:
introspection, starting over, parents and children, hopes, couple relations, couples, family relations, family problems, redemption, life turned upside down, optimism, change
Time:
21st century
Place:
england
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
TV show
Story:
Andrew Davies sparkling adaption of Winifred Holtby's acclaimed novel. Insightful, warm and full of memorable characters, South Riding tells a fraught love story and paints a panaromic portrait of a Yorkshire community in the long aftermath of ...
Style:
touching, emotional, captivating, realistic, serious ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
love affair, world war one, hopes, family relations, love and romance, society, parents and children, human spirit, small town, social relations, strong female presence, social history ...
Time:
1930s, 20th century
Place:
yorkshire, northern england, europe, england
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 180 min.
TV show
Story:
In 1939 Hortense, illegitimate but intelligent and ambitious, is brought up on Jamaica with the family of charismatic, free-thinking Michael, who joins the Air Force when war breaks out and goes to England. After the war, Hortense, now a qualified ...
Style:
serious, touching, captivating, realistic
Plot:
racism, post war, interracial sex, couples, couple relations, starting over, culture clash, self discovery, hopes, misfit, bittersweet, husband wife relationship ...
Time:
20th century, 1940s
Place:
england, jamaica, london, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 60 min.
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Emily of New Moon is a Canadian television series, which aired on CBC Television from 1998 to 2000. The series originally aired in the United States on the Cookie Jar Toons block on This TV and it is currently seen in Canada on the Viva, Bravo! and ...
Style:
realistic, serious
Audience:
kids, family outing
Plot:
orphan, canadian, family relations, child's point of view, young heroes, coming of age, uncover truth, starting over, youth, family problems, island, family life ...
Time:
victorian era, 19th century, turn of the century
Place:
canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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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 ...
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realistic, stylized, serious, touching
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domestic servant, butler, maid, master servant relationship, high society, wealth, master and servant, lifestyle, couples, rich and poor, society, couple relations ...
Time:
20th century, edwardian era, 1920s, 1930s, 1910s
Place:
england, london, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
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Story:
After the death of his wife, world-class neurosurgeon Dr. Andrew Brown leaves Manhattan and moves his family to the small town of Everwood, Colorado. There he becomes a small-town doctor and learns parenting on the fly as he raises his talented but ...
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realistic, sentimental, touching, serious, rough ...
Audience:
teens, kids, teen drama
Plot:
doctor, small town, first love, family relations, small town life, dysfunctional family, parents and children, family problems, father son estrangement, friends in love, widower, love and romance ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
colorado, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A television movie about the friendship that develops between a young white girl and an older black man in a racist, rural Georgia town during the 1940s.
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serious, realistic, sentimental, sincere, touching ...
Plot:
youth, friendship, racism, interracial relations, small town, false accusation, hopes, opposites attract, life is a bitch, society, human nature, coming of age ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
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36%
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
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Lilies is a British period-drama television series, written by Heidi Thomas, which ran for one eight-episode series in early 2007 on BBC One. The show's tagline was "Liverpool, 1920. Three girls on the edge of womanhood, a world on the ...
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touching, serious, realistic, sincere, sexy ...
Plot:
post war, family relations, family problems, society, youth, life is a bitch, working class, parents and children, bittersweet, poverty, slum, interwar period ...
Time:
1920s, 20th century, post world war one
Place:
england, liverpool
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 185 min.
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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.
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realistic, serious, touching, emotional, atmospheric ...
Plot:
charles dickens, coming of age, step parent, orphan, youth, stepfather stepson relationship, rise to the top, life is a bitch, dishonesty, society, power relations, family relations ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, edwardian era
Place:
england, europe, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 469 min.
TV show
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In the 1840s, Cranford is ruled by the ladies. They adore good gossip; and romance and change is in the air, as the unwelcome grasp of the Industrial Revolution rapidly approaches their beloved rural market-town.
Style:
sincere, atmospheric, clever, sitcom, realistic ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
small town life, social differences, family relations, aristocracy, high society, class differences, small town, love and romance, social relations, family life, maid, proposal ...
Time:
victorian era, 19th century, 1840s
Place:
england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
James Herriot is a vet in Yorkshire, England, during the 1940's. He is assigned to the practice of Siegfried Farnon, who (together with his mischievous brother Tristan) already have a successful business. James undergoes a variety of adventures ...
Style:
touching, emotional, sentimental, realistic, serious ...
Plot:
world war two, medical, doctor, veterinarian, small town, countryside, bittersweet, social differences, small town life, culture clash, animal life, love and romance ...
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1930s, 1940s
Place:
yorkshire, england, europe, britain
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35%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
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Behaving Badly is a 1989 British television serial directed by David Tucker. The teleplay by Catherine Heath and Moira Williams is based on Heath's novel of the same name. It was initially broadcast by Channel 4. The series was released on DVD ...
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realistic, semi serious
Audience:
girls' night, date night
Plot:
dysfunctional family, middle aged, housewife, power relations, family problems, family relations, couples, hopes, society, unlikely couple, starting over, love and romance ...
Time:
20th century, 80s
Place:
england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
A sex scandal that shook Massachusetts prep school, Milton Academy in 2004-05 school year.
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serious, realistic, disturbing, sincere, suspenseful ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
high school, preparatory school, scandal, youth, social relations, teenage life, high school life, friendship, love and romance, escapades, family relations, couples ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, new england
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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:
sexy, realistic, serious, sexual
Plot:
age difference, wedding, coming of age, society, couples, self discovery, prostitute, working class, friendship, family relations, youth, family life ...
Time:
victorian era, 19th century, 1870s
Place:
england
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
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The Village is a BBC TV series written by Peter Moffat. The drama is set in a Derbyshire village in the 20th century. The first series of what Moffat hopes will become a 42-hour TV drama was broadcast in spring 2013 and covered the years 1914 to ...
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realistic, stylized, serious, captivating, dark ...
Plot:
village life, family relations, village, parents and children, social relations, society, childbirth, countryside, villager, village people, small village, lifestyle ...
Time:
20th century, 1910s
Place:
england
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 178 min.
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A multigenerational story of the lives of several black women who call an inner-city tenement home.
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serious, realistic, sincere, touching, retro
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rape, lgbtq, women of color, black cast, lgbt, lesbian, strong female lead, anti racism, blaxploitation, sexual abuse, racism, friendship ...
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 25 min.
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The life journey of Karenjit Kaur, showcasing her beginnings as an innocent, how she became India’s most googled celebrity, and everything which followed in between.
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captivating, tense, touching, mind bending, erotic
Plot:
ambition, life is a bitch, father daughter relationship, parents and children, family relations, mother daughter relationship, suspense, loneliness, society, friendship, heroes, culture clash ...
Place:
canada, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 673 min.
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Story:
David Powlett-Jones has just returned to England from the trenches of WWI. He was injured and shell-shocked and, after a spell in hospital he gets a job teaching in a boys boarding school in S.W. England. He is not at all sure he can do the job, but ...
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talky, realistic, serious, clever, touching
Plot:
boys' school, world war two, writers, boarding school, private school, preparatory school, shell shock, teacher, public school, working class, fish out of water, social differences ...
Time:
1910s, 1920s, 1930s, 20th century
Place:
england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
Genre: Adventure, Biography, Drama
Country: Canada, UK, Kenya
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Drama based loosely on the final years of Kenya game warden and lion-raiser George Adamson's life. An unofficial sequel to 'Born Free' (1966) and 'Living Free' (1972), which also dramatised the life of Adamson, this film ...
Style:
realistic, serious, sincere
Plot:
animals, lion cub, poacher, lion, animal life, environmentalism, adoption, captivity, crumbling marriage, politics, misfit, escapades ...
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Place:
africa, east africa, kenya
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 175 min.
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Story:
Based on Alex Haley's novel about a black matriarch in the early 20th century, this dramatic miniseries spotlights the struggle for social change. Cicely Tyson stars as Mama Flora, a woman determined to free her children from the bonds of ...
Style:
realistic, serious, captivating, uplifting, sincere ...
Plot:
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 220 min.
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Plot:
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35%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 150 min.
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Adaptation of Nancy Mitford's novel.
Style:
serious, realistic, stylized, witty
Audience:
date night, girls' night
Plot:
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 179 min.
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touching, captivating, atmospheric, psychological, serious ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
england
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 354 min.
TV show
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The Slap is a bold, provocative television drama series that forensically examines the mores and morality of contemporary middleclass life. Based on Christos Tsiolkas’ bestselling novel, this 8–part drama serial traces the shattering ...
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realistic, psychological, captivating, emotional, tense ...
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Time:
21st century
Place:
australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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