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Portrait of a Marriage (1990)
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, New Zealand
Duration: 219 min.
TV show
Story:
The story of the real-life love affair between Vita Sackville-West and Violet Keppel.
Style:
steamy, serious, realistic, sexual, sexy, period drama
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
lesbian, lgbt, writers, lesbian love, lgbtq, love affair, gay, poet, literary, love triangle, feminism, love and romance, midlife crisis, sexual relations, couples, tragic love, gays and lesbians, society, infidelity, strong female presence, lifestyle, writer's life, unfulfilled love, gender, dishonesty ...
Time:
19th century, 1910s, 20th century
Place:
england, usa, europe, new zealand, virginia, london
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Most similar movies to Portrait of a Marriage
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, period drama and historical drama films and TV series with plots about love and romance, couples, love, female nudity, love affair, lgbt and society mostly in Drama, Romance and Biography genres. Some movies like Portrait of a Marriage: Vita & Virginia (2018), Fingersmith (2005), Tipping the Velvet (2002), Gentleman Jack (2019), Any Human Heart (2010). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
In nineteenth century Yorkshire wealthy orphan Anne Lister lives with an aunt and uncle, anxious for her to marry well and blissfully unaware that she is a lesbian,recording her thoughts and exploits in a coded diary. When her lover Mariana Belcombe ...
Style:
captivating, emotional, stylized, period piece, costume drama ...
Plot:
lesbian relationship, lesbian, lgbt, lesbian romance, lgbtq, lesbianism, lesbian sex, lesbian couple, feminism, lesbian love, forbidden love, gay relationship ...
Time:
19th century, regency period, ancient times, 1830s, 1800s ...
Place:
england, britain, europe, yorkshire
Similarity:
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: Ireland, UK
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Socialite Vita Sackville-West and literary icon Virginia Woolf run in different circles in 1920s London. Despite the odds, the magnetic Vita and the beguiling Virginia forge an unconventional affair, set against the backdrop of their own strikingly ...
Style:
historical romance, period piece, factual, sentimental, captivating ...
Plot:
lesbian, lgbt, lesbian romance, lesbian love, lesbian relationship, sapphic, sex scene, polyamory, female protagonist, doomed love, anxiety, lesbian couple ...
Time:
1920s
Place:
england
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
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Story:
The lives of two young women collide in Victorian England when a trio of 'fingersmiths' (pick-pockets) concoct an elaborate scam to defraud a young heiress of her inheritance. The story alternates between the twisting back alleyways of ...
Style:
costume drama, serious, realistic, eros, erotic ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
lesbian, lesbian love, lgbt, lesbian relationship, sapphic, gays and lesbians, deception, manipulation, mistaken identity, voice over narration, lesbian teen, thief ...
Time:
victorian era, 19th century, ancient times, 1860s, turn of the century
Place:
london, britain, england, europe
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 59 min.
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Set in the 1890s, Tipping the Velvet tells the lesbian love affair between male impersonator music hall star Kitty Butler and Nan Astley.
Style:
sexy, costume drama, erotic, touching, realistic ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
lesbian, lesbian love, lesbian relationship, lesbian romance, performer's life, sexual relations, sex scene, cross dressing, gays and lesbians, sex, lgbt, hot and sexy ...
Time:
19th century, turn of the century, 1890s, 1880s, victorian era
Place:
england, britain, europe, london
Similarity:
50%
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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:
50%
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
Halifax, West Yorkshire, England, 1832. Anne Lister attempts to revitalize her inherited home, Shibden Hall. Most notably for the time period, a part of her plan is to help the fate of her own family - by taking a wife.
Style:
psychological, thought provoking, costume drama, period piece, dramatic ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
lgbt, lesbian, lgbtq, strongman, lesbian love, female protagonist, discrimination, private vs public, lesbian relationship, love and romance, rivalry, closeted homosexual ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, 1830s, regency period, georgian era
Place:
england, yorkshire
Similarity:
49%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Mexico, Colombia, USA
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story:
Decisiones is a Telemundo-produced Spanish-language television anthology of steamy melodramas about passion and sex in the modern world. The 30-minute-long series features impassioned people thrust into amorous adventures and pushed to their ...
Style:
sexy, serious, realistic, emotional, sexual ...
Plot:
love and romance, sexual relations, infidelity, couples, love affair, love triangle, couple relations, lifestyle, looking for love, dishonesty, cheating wife, sex scene ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
usa, latin america, miami
Similarity:
49%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 69 min.
TV show
Story:
A novelist's life ricochets from 1920s Paris to '50s New York and '80s London. Along the way he meets Ernest Hemingway, Ian Fleming and the Duke and Duchess of Windsor - the exiled British king and his mistress Wallis Simpson.
Style:
stylized, serious, realistic, costume drama, historical drama ...
Plot:
chess, introspection, writer's life, encounter, love and romance, love affair, historical character, writers, romantic relationship, relationships, world war one, biopic ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century, 1920s, 50s, 80s ...
Place:
england, paris france, france, europe, london ...
Similarity:
48%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 53 min.
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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:
48%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Germany
Duration: 45 min.
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Story:
Verbotene Liebe is a German television soap opera created by Reg Watson for Das Erste. The show is set primarily in the German city of Düsseldorf although, at times, the city of Cologne and the Spanish island of Majorca have figured prominently in ...
Style:
soap opera, art house, realistic, serious, sentimental ...
Plot:
forbidden sex, lesbian, young lovers, forbidden love, boys and girls, lgbt, lgbtq, female masturbation, gay couple, infidelity, family problems, family relations ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, 21st century
Place:
europe, germany
Similarity:
48%
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:
47%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 71 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, period piece, gothic ...
Audience:
girls' night, date night
Plot:
obsession, unfulfilled love, love affair, forbidden love, estate, social differences, love triangle, brother sister incest, revenge, corporal punishment, fall in love, true love ...
Time:
19th century, georgian era, victorian era, 18th century, regency period
Place:
england, europe, yorkshire
Similarity:
47%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 65 min.
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Venice: The Series is a web series co-produced by and starring American actress Crystal Chappell, and is inspired in part by the "Otalia" storyline on the daytime drama Guiding Light. The series has been broadcast since 2009, and is ...
Style:
emotional, sentimental, realistic, serious, sincere ...
Plot:
lesbian, gender, family relations, love and romance, gays and lesbians, family life, strong female presence, lesbianism, lgbt, lifestyle, parents and children, gay ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, california
Similarity:
47%
2K
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Ireland, UK, Italy, Germany
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
In 1904, in Dublin, James Joyce chats up Nora Barnacle, a hotel maid recently come from Galway. She enchants him with her frank, direct and uninhibited manner, and before long, he's convinced her to come with him to Trieste, where he has a job ...
Style:
realistic, touching, sincere, sentimental, sexual ...
Plot:
love affair, novelist, sex scene, muse, love, poverty, jealousy, male female relationship, writers, lifestyle, writer's life, literary ...
Time:
edwardian era, victorian era, 1900s, 1910s, 20th century
Place:
ireland, dublin ireland, italy, europe
Similarity:
47%
22K
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
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Story:
Emily Dickinson. Poet. Daughter. Total rebel. In this coming-of-age story, Emily’s determined to become the world’s greatest poet.
Style:
scenic, captivating, atmospheric, costume drama, period piece ...
Audience:
girls' night, chick flick, teen drama
Plot:
lesbian, lgbt, women, lesbian interest, sapphic, lesbian love, poetry, female protagonist, longing, poet, rebellious daughter, sexual orientation ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, 1800s
Similarity:
47%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
Jessie and Susan, and Chloe and Beth, who spend the weekend together and realize they are with the wrong partner. Susan and Beth were college roommates who are having a reunion at their former school. Susan travels up to Oregon with her current ...
Style:
serious, sexy, erotic, realistic, sexual ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
lesbian, couples, love affair, lesbian relationship, infidelity, dishonesty, lgbt, lgbtq, strong sexual content, lesbian love, female nudity, homosexuality ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
oregon
Similarity:
47%
19K
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, Germany, Japan
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
The story of Oscar Wilde, genius, poet, playwright and the First Modern Man. The self-realisation of his homosexuality caused Wilde enormous torment as he juggled marriage, fatherhood and responsibility with his obsessive love for Lord Alfred ...
Style:
homoerotic, costume drama, period piece, touching, historical drama ...
Plot:
homosexuality, gay, lgbt, glbt, writers, lgbtq, hypocrisy, male homosexuality, biopic, gay sex, scandal, gay lead character ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, edwardian era, 1880s, year 1997 ...
Place:
ireland, britain, england, europe, london ...
Similarity:
47%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 171 min.
TV show
Story:
A story of the close and often fraught relationship between sisters Vanessa Bell and Virginia Woolf.
Style:
realistic, serious, captivating, emotional, costume drama ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
artist, couples, rebelliousness, love triangle, self discovery, love and romance, friendship, family relations, bohemian, poet, sister sister relationship, sisters ...
Time:
victorian era, 20th century
Place:
london, england, europe
Similarity:
47%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 57 min.
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This is the acclaimed 2008 BBC adaptation of the famous Jane Austen novel. While it originally aired as a 3-part miniseries, this home video release includes a single uninterrupted version of the entire film.
Style:
costume drama, period piece, romantic drama, historical drama, sincere ...
Audience:
girls' night, date night
Plot:
countryside, romanticism, love and romance, society, sister sister relationship, love triangle, wooing, manners, rich and poor, rich man poor woman, love story, unrequited love ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, georgian era, regency period
Place:
london, europe, britain, england
Similarity:
47%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Ukraine
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
On honeymoon on the island of Lesbos, a woman falls for the daughter of a Russian archaeologist.
Style:
erotic, sexy, realistic, suspenseful, melancholic ...
Plot:
lesbian relationship, love triangle, lesbian, impossible love, making love, tragic love, lesbian sex, dishonesty, topless woman, lgbt, sex scene, sex ...
Time:
20th century, 1920s
Place:
greece, europe, ukraine
Similarity:
47%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 54 min.
TV show
Story:
This powerful adaptation of Thomas Hardy's classic novel spins a story of passion and destruction set in the nineteenth century. The proud, flighty and bewitching Bathsheba Everdene finds herself entangled into the passions of three men and her ...
Style:
historical drama, costume drama, realistic, serious, period drama
Plot:
victorian england, farm, beach, canceled wedding, unrequited love, age difference, seaside, rich and poor, love affair, wooing, social differences, infidelity ...
Time:
19th century, 1800s, victorian era
Place:
britain, europe, england
Similarity:
47%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
An early-20th-century tale of love across class boundaries which tells the legendary and romantic story of Lady Chatterley’s affair with her gamekeeper. Jed Mercurio’s adaptation of DH Lawrence’s classic.
Style:
erotic, realistic, serious, period piece, romantic drama ...
Plot:
social differences, infidelity, cheating on husband, love affair, master and servant, obsession, sexual relations, couples, fall in love, power relations, countryside, couple relations ...
Time:
20th century, edwardian era, 1910s, 1920s
Place:
england, europe, britain
Similarity:
47%
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, France
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
The story of the relationship between painter Dora Carrington and author Lytton Strachey in a World War One England of cottages and countryside. Although platonic due to Strachey's homosexuality, the relationship was nevertheless a deep and ...
Style:
costume drama, sexual, talky, emotional, touching ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
artist, writers, painter, polyamory, art, glbt, biopic, male nudity, world war one, passion, art history, lgbt ...
Time:
1930s, year 1915, victorian era, 1910s, 1920s ...
Place:
england, wales, europe, italy, venice ...
Similarity:
47%
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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
Similarity:
46%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A prudish woman, working on tenure as a literacy professor at a large urban university, finds herself strangely attracted to a free-spirited, liberal woman whom works at a local carnival which comes to town.
Style:
erotic, sexy, sexual, romantic, art house ...
Audience:
girls' night, chick flick
Plot:
lgbt, lesbian, lesbian love, lesbian relationship, lesbian romance, sapphic, lgbtq, black lesbian, bisexual woman, secret relationship, lesbian erotica, lesbian sex ...
Time:
90s
Place:
indiana, california
Similarity:
46%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: South Africa, UK
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A drama centered on two women who engage in a dangerous relationship during South Africa's apartheid era.
Style:
touching, realistic, serious, erotic, historical drama ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
lesbian, lesbian relationship, lgbt, gender, lesbian love, sapphic, forbidden love, lesbianism, lesbian teen, love and romance, lesbian interest, lgbtq ...
Time:
ancient times, 20th century, year 1952
Place:
south africa, africa
Similarity:
46%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 360 min.
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Story:
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, ...
Style:
captivating, realistic, touching, emotional, serious ...
Plot:
dishonesty, tragic hero, betrayal, tragic love, infidelity, breakup, extramarital affair, couples, family problems, couple relations, love and romance, destructive relationship ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, 1870s
Place:
russia, moscow russia
Similarity:
46%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, Germany, USA
Duration: 113 min.
TV show
Story:
Young and beautiful Lara is loved by three men: a revolutionary, a mogul, and a doctor. Their lives become intertwined with the drama of Russian revolution. Doctor Zhivago is still married when he meets Lara. Their love story is unfolding against ...
Style:
costume drama, period piece, emotional, captivating, realistic ...
Plot:
forbidden love, tragic love, infidelity, rape, missing person, love triangle, betrayal, love affair, rebelliousness, rebellion, couple relations, state affairs ...
Time:
1910s, edwardian era, 20th century, 1900s, year 1917
Place:
russia, moscow russia
Similarity:
46%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 45 min.
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Story:
Brash humor and genuine emotion make up this original series revolving around the lives, loves, ambitions, careers and friendships of a group of gay men and women living on Liberty Avenue in contemporary Pittsburgh, PA. The show offers an ...
Style:
emotional, sexy, touching, sexual, realistic ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
lgbt, gay, gay love, gay relationship, friendship, homosexuality, gays and lesbians, lgbtq, homosexual, lesbian, lifestyle, gender ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, pittsburgh, idaho, pennsylvania
Similarity:
46%
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
Similarity:
46%
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