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The Fifteen Streets (1989)
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Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
In northern England around 1900, the worker John O'Brien lives near poverty in a small house in the worker's district. He falls in love with Mary, the teacher of his highly intelligent younger sister Kathy and daughter of a rich family. Their love is doomed by the social difference, but the vigorous Mary refuses to allow outer circumstances destroying their love.
Style:
sentimental, touching, serious, emotional, realistic
Audience:
date night
Plot:
christmas, teacher, poverty, sibling rivalry, working class, rich and poor, family relations, love and romance, couples, love affair, impossible love, social differences, society, factory, opposites attract, culture clash, siblings relations, bittersweet, unfulfillment, power relations, ship, pregnancy, female teacher, dysfunctional family, brother sister relationship ...
Time:
victorian era, 1910s, 90s
Place:
england
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, emotional and touching films with plots about love and romance, family relations, couples, society, social differences, unfulfillment and love affair mostly in Drama, Romance and History genres. Some movies like The Fifteen Streets: The Forsyte Saga (2002), Lady Chatterley's Lover (2015), Poldark (1975), Falling for a Dancer (1998), Jane Eyre (1997). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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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:
realistic, serious, family saga, touching, stylized ...
Plot:
love affair, high society, society, love and romance, forbidden love, family relations, adultery, couple relations, parents and children, unfulfilled love, rich and poor, victorian england ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, 1920s, 20th century, 90s ...
Place:
england, europe, london
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95%
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.
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serious, realistic, erotic, disturbing, sentimental ...
Plot:
cheating on husband, social differences, infidelity, love affair, master and servant, society, obsession, couples, unfulfillment, power relations, love and romance, countryside ...
Time:
20th century, 1910s, 1920s
Place:
england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
88%
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:
realistic, serious, captivating, saga
Plot:
countryside, estate, unfulfilled love, homecoming, working class, social differences, rich and poor, siblings relations, love triangle, love affair, unfulfillment, society ...
Time:
18th century, georgian era, 1780s
Place:
england, europe, cornwall, britain
⇓ similarity ⇓
84%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 50 min.
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:
serious, realistic, captivating, thought provoking, gloomy ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
family relations, countryside, pregnancy, couples, unfulfillment, artists and showbiz, love and romance, society, haunted by the past, love affair, tragic love, unfulfilled love ...
Time:
1930s
Place:
ireland, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
82%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Charlotte Bronte's classic novel is filmed yet again. The story of the Yorkshire orphan who becomes a governess to a young French girl and finds love with the brooding lord of the manor is given a standard romantic flare, but sparks do not seem ...
Style:
emotional, atmospheric, gothic, serious, realistic ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
age difference, couples, youth, society, fall in love, haunted house, love, french, victorian england, letter, family relations, power relations ...
Time:
19th century, georgian era, victorian era
Place:
england, europe, britain
⇓ similarity ⇓
80%
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
At the turn of the century, a widow decides to set her dead husbands business back in the black column. Her efforts to get the mill going again, however, are somewhat submarined by problems with an employee who is accused of murder and her sister ...
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serious, realistic, captivating, touching, stylized ...
Plot:
murder, factory, sculptor, sibling rivalry, mistress, false accusation, intrigue, life is a bitch, ambition, dishonesty, hopes, legal ...
Time:
victorian era, 19th century, 1880s
Place:
england, yorkshire
⇓ similarity ⇓
77%
Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Country: France, UK, Ireland
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
In 1920s Ireland, an elderly couple reside over a tired country estate. Living with them are their high-spirited niece, their Oxford student nephew, and married house guests, who are trying to cover up that they are presently homeless. The niece ...
Style:
emotional, gloomy, serious, psychological, realistic
Plot:
world war one, ira, war, murder, attempted rape, couples, power relations, fall in love, infidelity, tragic love, unfulfilled love, love triangle ...
Time:
1920s
Place:
ireland, england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
74%
Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Country: UK, France
Duration: 140 min.
Story:
Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria (Omar Sharif) clashes with his father, Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria (James Mason), over implementing progressive policies for their country. Ava Gardner plays his mother Empress Elisabeth. Rudolf soon feels he is ...
Style:
realistic, serious, touching, sentimental, emotional ...
Plot:
forbidden love, royal family, tragic love, infidelity, politics, revolution, hopes, rebelliousness, society, state affairs, fall in love, master and servant ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, 1880s
Place:
austria, england, italy, europe, venice ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
71%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story:
Adaptation from John Galsworthy's novels.
Style:
family saga, stylized, saga, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
love affair, rich and poor, love and romance, love, dysfunctional family, parents and children, siblings relations, unfulfilled love, couple relations, unfulfillment, intrigue, power relations ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, 20th century
Place:
england, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
62%
Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Young orphan Heathcliff is adopted by the wealthy Earnshaw family and moves into their estate, Wuthering Heights. Soon, the new resident falls for his compassionate foster sister, Cathy. The two share a remarkable bond that seems unbreakable until ...
Style:
romantic, atmospheric, gothic, emotional, melancholic ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
obsession, tragic love, forbidden love, social differences, revenge, master and servant, betrayal, haunted by the past, love, love story, love and romance, class differences ...
Time:
18th century, 19th century, regency period, georgian era, 70s
Place:
england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
61%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Film adaptation from the novel by D.H. Lawrence, discovered after the celebrated author's death in 1930, a romantic love story tells of a prim young English girl who is sexually attracted to a seductively virile gypsy. The climatic dam burst is ...
Style:
erotic, sexy, touching, sentimental, sexual ...
Plot:
virgin, gypsy, sensuality, forces of nature, tragic love, forbidden love, village life, looking for love, social differences, adolescence vs adulthood, unfulfilled love, small town ...
Time:
1920s
Place:
europe, england, northern england
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 180 min.
TV show
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 ⇓
59%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
An English widow goes to Italy, falls in love with a dentist's son and marries him, against her straitlaced family's wishes.
Style:
serious, realistic, touching, emotional, stylized
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
italy, england, europe, tuscany
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 180 min.
TV show
Story:
The relationship between childhood sweethearts, a farmer's daughter and boy from a rich family, turns tumultuous in this modern interpretation of Wuthering Heights.
Style:
emotional, serious, touching, melancholic, realistic ...
Audience:
girls' night, date night
Plot:
love affair, family relations, parents and children, unfulfilled love, society, human nature, life is a bitch, farm, love, strong female lead, dysfunctional relationship, social differences ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
In the later years of the nineteenth century Latin master Mr. Chipping is the mainstay of Brookfields boys boarding school, a good teacher and a kindly person but he is considered to be married to the job so that it is a surprise when, on a walking ...
Style:
serious, emotional, touching, sentimental, realistic
Plot:
boarding school, dedicated educator, tragic hero, society, idealism, friendship, social differences, youth, family relations, teachers and students, teacher, husband wife relationship ...
Time:
19th century, 90s, year 1914, edwardian era
Place:
england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 200 min.
Story:
Adaptation of the Dickens novel.
Style:
serious, uplifting, sentimental, atmospheric, touching ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
rich and poor, charles dickens, social differences, dysfunctional family, family relations, power relations, injustice, life is a bitch, society, youth, rivalry, social decay ...
Time:
victorian era, 19th century
Place:
england, europe, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 150 min.
Story:
The spoiled rotten and utterly unlikable rich kid George Amberson becomes horrified when his recently widowed mother rekindles her relationship with the wealthy Eugene Morgan, who she left decades earlier in order to marry George's father. As ...
Style:
atmospheric, touching, emotional, captivating, realistic ...
Audience:
girls' night, date night
Plot:
family relations, mischievous children, downfall, family life, couples, family problems, society, human nature, love and romance, dysfunctional family, parents and children, social differences ...
Time:
19th century, edwardian era, 20th century, 1890s
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 357 min.
Story:
A drama based on the novel by Charles Dickens which tells the story of Arthur Clennam who is thrown into a debtor's prison. There he meets a young seamstress whose father has been imprisoned for twenty-five years. A film in originally released ...
Style:
captivating, sentimental, emotional, serious, realistic ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
charles dickens, coming of age, love and romance, age difference, age-gap relationship, family relations, couples, master and servant, society, couple relations, life is a bitch, rise to the top ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era
Place:
england, europe, london, venice, rome italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
In 1936, Edward VIII abdicated in order to marry the woman he loved, Wallis Simpson, a twice divorced American. These events caused a scandal around the world and Wallis has since been demonised as the woman who stole the King of England. Wallis and ...
Style:
touching, sentimental, emotional, serious, romantic ...
Plot:
love affair, british royal family, royal family, true love, relationship vs career, against the rules, social differences, politics, starting over, follow your dream, moral dilemma, political intrigue ...
Time:
1930s, 20th century, year 1936
Place:
england, france, budapest
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Russia, UK
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Anna (Marceau) is a wife and mother who has an affair with the handsome Count Vronsky (Bean). Based on the novel by Tolstoy.
Style:
sexy, romantic, psychological, atmospheric, emotional ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night
Plot:
imperial russia, relationships, infidelity, betrayal, beautiful scenery, cheating wife, age difference, love, death, loneliness, love story, life philosophy ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, 1880s
Place:
russia, st. petersburg russia, moscow russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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Genre: Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A musical version of the classic story set in the modern day.
Style:
sentimental, serious, realistic, stylized
Audience:
date night, girls' night
Plot:
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Place:
england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
Genre: History, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 225 min.
TV show
Story:
Adaptation of the Jane Austen novel.
Style:
serious, realistic, emotional, touching
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
empire fashion, class differences, family relations, aristocrat, unrequited love, bittersweet, unfulfillment, hopes, love and romance, master and servant, couples, wooing ...
Time:
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Place:
england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
At the lush Evenswood estate in Concord, Massachusetts, Edith Adelon, a beautiful orphan, lives as the paid companion to the daughter of the wealthy Hamilton family, although they regard her as one of their own. Years ago, Henry Hamilton saved Edith ...
Style:
realistic, serious, touching
Audience:
date night, girls' night
Plot:
rich and poor, looking for love, social differences, opposites attract, happy ending, strong female presence, infidelity, fall in love, wooing, love affair, teenage life, love triangle ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era
Place:
massachusetts, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 180 min.
Story:
Thomas Hardy's classic epic remains one of the most popular novels, this TV adaptation vividly depicts the powerful tale of a peasant girl whose life is torn apart by the love and jealousy of two men. Justine Waddell stars as the hapless Child ...
Style:
romantic, realistic, serious, gloomy, atmospheric ...
Plot:
victorian england, farming, age difference, innocence lost, power relations, couples, injustice, fall in love, social differences, tragic love, infidelity, village ...
Time:
middle ages, 19th century, victorian era
Place:
europe, england
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Chile
Duration: 140 min.
Story:
The elderly heir of a formerly wealthy and respected Chilean family, Andres, suffers from decadence and solitude. He hires young Estela in order to look after his tiranic and almost crazy grandmother. The differences in class and age don't stop ...
Style:
realistic, serious, emotional, touching, contemplative
Plot:
obsession, self discovery, social decay, love affair, love triangle, elderly, aging, life is a bitch, society, rich and poor, power relations, family relations ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
chile, santiago chile
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
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Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 148 min.
Story:
The story of the romance between the King of Siam (now Thailand) and the widowed British school teacher Anna Leonowens during the 1860s. Anna teaches the children and becomes romanced by the King. She convinces him that a man can be loved by just ...
Style:
romantic, serious, epic, emotional, captivating ...
Audience:
girls' night, chick flick
Plot:
royal family, love story, culture clash, social differences, interracial relations, unlikely friendships, forbidden love, teacher, fall in love, opposites attract, love and romance, palace ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, 1860s
Place:
asia, southeast asia, thailand, england, burma
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Set in Northern England, this powerful tale of suppressed sexuality offers poignant and sharply observant social commentary, interlaced with a tender romance. Vetern actress Barbara Marten tugs at the heart as Ellen Hardy, a working-class mother ...
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serious, sentimental, touching, emotional, realistic ...
Plot:
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Place:
britain, england, europe, northern england
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
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Plot:
love affair, love triangle, obsession, infidelity, fall in love, unfulfillment, social differences, small town, family problems, family relations, teacher, love ...
Place:
france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 315 min.
TV show
Story:
Story of forbidden love in 1800's India set against the revolution for India's freedom from England.
Style:
atmospheric, realistic, serious
Plot:
interracial relations, military, forbidden love, society, state affairs, love and romance, intrigue, heroes, rise to the top, dishonesty, politics, opposites attract ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era
Place:
india, europe, england, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
After losing her husband and baby daughter to a fire, Daphne Fields raises her deaf son while beginning a writing career. Hollywood loves her scripts, but her heart remains with her son Andrew, under the care of Headmaster Matthew Dane at an eastern ...
Style:
serious, realistic, touching, emotional, sentimental
Plot:
coming of age, deaf, love, boarding school, starting over, couples, family relations, family problems, pregnancy, death in the family, parents and children, boarding school life ...
Time:
90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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