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Dickens of London (1976)
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Dickens of London (1976)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Dickens of London is a 1976 television miniseries from Yorkshire Television based on the life of English novelist Charles Dickens. Both Dickens and his father John were played by British actor Roy Dotrice. The series was written by Wolf Mankowitz and Marc Miller. In the United States, the series was shown in 1977. The series of 13 episodes of 60 minutes was directed by Michael Ferguson and Marc Miller, who was also the series' producer, with David Cunliffe as executive producer. Mankowitz's book, Dickens of London, published by Weidenfeld and Nicolson in 1976, was based on the detailed research he made while writing the screenplay.
Style: costume drama, period drama
Plot: writers, youth, poet, costume
Time: 19th century, 1800s
Place: england, london

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out period drama, costume drama, realistic and serious films and TV series with plots about costume, love and romance, society, family relations, couples, couple relations and power relations mostly in Drama, Romance and Biography genres. Some movies like Dickens of London: The Brontes of Haworth (1973), The Glass Virgin (1995), The Forsyte Saga (1967), The Onedin Line (1971), Fleming (2014). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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The Brontes of Haworth (1973)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Dramatized biography of the Brontë sisters Charlotte, Anne and Emily.
Style: costume drama, period drama
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Time: victorian era
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95%
The Glass Virgin (1995)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 180 min.
TV show
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Place: england, britain
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Country: UK
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
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Time: 20th century, victorian era, 19th century
Place: england, london
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The Onedin Line (1971)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story: The Onedin Line is a BBC television drama series which ran from 1971 to 1980. The series was created by Cyril Abraham. The series is set in Liverpool from 1860 to 1886 and deals with the rise of a shipping line, the Onedin Line, named after its ...
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Place: england, britain, liverpool
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
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Fleming (2014)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 44 min.
TV show
Story: A look at the 007 creator, Ian Fleming, and his early life set against the permissive society of war-torn WWII London.
Style: serious, stylized, period piece, dramatic, exciting ...
Plot: spy, british secret service, world war two, writers, espionage, hotshot hero, post war, james bond, biopic, womanizer, love and romance, nazi occupation ...
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 780 min.
TV show
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Style: costume drama, period piece, period drama
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Time: 1920s
Place: england
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 53 min.
TV show
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Country: UK
Duration: 216 min.
TV show
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Country: UK, USA
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
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Duration: 385 min.
TV show
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Place: britain
⇓ similarity ⇓
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TV show
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Country: UK
Duration: 350 min.
TV show
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Style: costume drama, period piece, historical drama, realistic, serious ...
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Country: UK, New Zealand
Duration: 219 min.
TV show
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Duration: 1335 min.
TV show
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Duration: 60 min.
TV show
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⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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Country: UK, USA
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TV show
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Country: UK, USA
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TV show
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 300 min.
TV show
Story: The Way We Live Now is a 2001 four-part television adaptation of the Anthony Trollope novel The Way We Live Now. The serial was first broadcast on the BBC and was directed by David Yates, written by Andrew Davies and produced by Nigel ...
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Time: 19th century, victorian era, 1800s
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 180 min.
TV show
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Country: UK
Duration: 104 min.
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Style: emotional, captivating, stylized, realistic, serious ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
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Country: UK, USA
Duration: 240 min.
TV show
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Audience: girls' night
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Time: 19th century, victorian era, 1800s, 50s
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⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 210 min.
TV show
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Style: costume drama, period piece, serious, realistic, captivating ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
Any Human Heart (2010)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
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, sentimental, historical drama ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
Berkeley Square (1998)
Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
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Style: period piece, costume drama, historical drama, realistic, serious ...
Audience: girls' night
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⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
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Number 10 (1983)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: UK, Canada
Duration: 52 min.
TV show
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Place: england, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
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Lillie (1978)
Genre: Adventure, Biography, Drama, History, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 52 min.
TV show
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Style: costume drama, historical drama, captivating, stylized, serious ...
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Time: victorian era, 19th century, edwardian era, 1920s, 1900s ...
Place: britain, london, england, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
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Oscar (1985)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: UK
Duration: 120 min.
TV show
Story: In the summer of 1891, Oscar Wilde first met Lord Alfred Douglas — an encounter that will dramatically and tragically change both of their lives.
Plot: male prostitution, writers, poet, historical event, hustler, male prostitute, prison, sodomy, older man younger man relationship, gay interest
Time: 19th century
Place: ireland
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
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