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Desperate Romantics (2009)
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
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Story:
Six-part drama series set in and among the alleys, galleries and flesh-houses of 19th-century industrial London, following the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, a vagabond group of English painters, poets and critics.
Style:
costume drama, period piece, serious, realistic, stylized, sentimental, bleak, disturbing, sitcom, historical drama ...
Plot:
painting, bohemian life, painter, artist, rebellion, lust, lifestyle, love and romance, couples, rebelliousness, art, female artist, artist's model, victorian england, historical event, woman, art history, artists' life, biopic, aristocracy, social relations, artists and showbiz, performer's life, sex scene, love triangle ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, 1800s, 1860s, victorian
Place:
england, london, europe
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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 society, love and romance, costume, victorian england, social differences, power relations and couples mostly in Drama, Romance and History genres. Some movies like Desperate Romantics: He Knew He Was Right (2004), The Paradise (2012), The Making of a Lady (2012), The Impressionists (2006), The Gilded Age (2022). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 60 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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serious, realistic, stylized, period piece, historical drama ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night
Plot:
victorian england, inheritance, marriage, broken engagement, dishonesty, couple relations, newlyweds, gossip and rumors, diplomat, gossip, insecurity, piano ...
Time:
victorian era, 19th century, 1860s
Place:
britain, england, london, alps
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100%
Genre: Drama, History
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
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An intoxicating love story set in England's first department store in the 1870s. The Paradise revolves around the lives of the people who live and work in the store, each bound in their own way by the power of the world they live in, and the ...
Style:
captivating, costume drama, period piece, stylized, realistic ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
fashion, workplace situations, rise to the top, high society, success, workplace, love affair, nouveau riche, love and romance, department store, hot and sexy, workplace problem ...
Time:
19th century, 1900s, victorian era, 1870s, 20th century ...
Place:
england, britain
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
1901:- Poor but intelligent Emily Fox Seton accepts a marriage proposal from the older Lord James Walderhurst,a widower pushed into providing an heir by his haughty aunt Maria,
Style:
sexy, tense, stylized, captivating, period piece ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
love affair, love and romance, malice, abbey, class differences, female protagonist, life is a bitch, relationship problems, deception, high society, rich and poor, social problems ...
Time:
victorian era, 19th century, edwardian era, 1900s
Place:
england, britain, london
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
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Three hour mini-series tells the intimate history of a most illustrious brotherhood of Impressionist artists - Monet, Degas, Renoir, Cézanne and Manet. Entirely based on documentary evidence, special effects transport the viewer inside some of the ...
Style:
captivating, sincere, realistic, serious, historical drama ...
Plot:
bohemian life, painting, painter, artist, historical character, career, art, talented, poverty, lifestyle, rise and fall, biopic ...
Time:
19th century, turn of the century, victorian era, 20th century
Place:
france, britain, paris france
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63%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
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It’s 1882 and the Gilded Age is in full swing when Marian Brook, a young orphaned daughter of a Southern general, moves in with her rigidly conventional aunts in New York City. With the help of Peggy Scott, an African-American woman masquerading ...
Style:
costume drama, captivating, period piece, historical drama, exciting ...
Plot:
high society, wealthy family, rich man, lifestyle, rich woman, sorority, butler, gilded age, female writer, charity, female protagonist, mansion ...
Time:
19th century, 1880s, 20th century, victorian era
Place:
new york
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 48 min.
TV show
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The story of the penniless Mary Thorne, who grows up with her rich aunt/cousins at Greshamsbury Park estate.
Style:
costume drama, period piece, historical drama, captivating, cynical ...
Plot:
aristocrat, english countryside, family drama, ward, physician, family relations, victorian england, social differences, couples, society, intrigue, love and romance ...
Time:
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Place:
england, britain
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 88 min.
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costume drama, period piece, historical drama, realistic, serious ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
victorian england, charles dickens, inheritance, love, unrequited love, makeover, betrayal, dishonesty, lifestyle, life is a bitch, society, love and romance ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, 1800s, 1860s
Place:
britain, london, england, europe
Similarity:
55%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 171 min.
TV show
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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:
55%
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 75 min.
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Elizabeth Gaskell's enchanting tale of romance, scandal, and intrigue in a gossipy English town comes to Masterpiece Theatre in a lavish four-part production of Wives and Daughters, adapted by celebrated screenwriter Andrew Davies.Davies, who ...
Style:
period piece, costume drama, uplifting, serious, historical drama ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
prejudice, aristocrat, family relations, estate, love and romance, aristocracy, parent child relationship, secret marriage, marriage, gossip, sibling relationship, parents and children ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, 1820s, 18th century, 1800s ...
Place:
england, europe, london, britain, africa
Similarity:
51%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
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Powerful historical drama series, based on the lives of real people, telling the story of young 19th-century apprentices taking their lives into their own hands for the first time.
Style:
realistic, captivating, serious, stylized, costume drama ...
Plot:
working class, workplace, society, life is a bitch, factory, parents and children, social differences, family relations, power relations, mechanic, realism, rich and poor ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era
Place:
england, britain
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 75 min.
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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 ...
Style:
period piece, costume drama, serious, realistic, captivating ...
Plot:
intrigue, lifestyle, fall in love, couple relations, rise to the top, power relations, rich and poor, greed, victorian england, couples, warning, love and romance ...
Time:
19th century, 1870s, 1800s, victorian era
Place:
britain, europe, mexico, england, london
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 196 min.
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Adaptation of Thomas Hardy's novel.
At a country fair, young hay-trusser Michael Henchard quarrels with his wife Susan, and in a drunken fit decides to auction off his wife and baby to a sailor for five guineas. The next day, realising his ...
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costume drama, captivating, serious, emotional, realistic ...
Plot:
victorian england, tragic hero, haunted by the past, redemption, social relations, rise and fall, family problems, hidden truth, society, betrayal, dishonesty, mayor ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, 1800s
Place:
britain, england
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50%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 69 min.
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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
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49%
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 ...
Style:
costume drama, period piece, realistic, stylized, serious ...
Plot:
butler, domestic servant, maid, working class, wealth, master servant relationship, high society, master and servant, lifestyle, couples, rich and poor, couple relations ...
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1900s, edwardian era, year 1971, 1920s, 1930s ...
Place:
england, london, hawaii, britain, europe
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 60 min.
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'Great Expectations' opens with Pip as a boy (played as an young man by newcomer Douglas Booth, 'The Pillars of the Earth') on the marshes near his home, where he encounters the desperate escapee Magwitch (Winstone). Pip is ...
Style:
historical drama, gothic, atmospheric, costume drama, period piece ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
victorian england, lovers, charles dickens, generosity, destiny, rags to riches, convict, orphan, stranger, society, obsession, hopes ...
Time:
19th century, 1820s, regency period, victorian era
Place:
england, britain, london
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48%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
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Set in 1936, the show takes viewers, old and new, back to the lavish world of Belgravia, London. A new set of occupants reside at 165 Eaton Place and viewers see how external and internal influences of the tumultuous pre-war period shape and mould ...
Style:
realistic, historical drama, costume drama, period piece, stylized ...
Plot:
butler, high society, master and servant, marriage, family values, housewife, rich and poor, family life, lifestyle, millionaire, abbey, class differences ...
Time:
1930s, edwardian era, 20th century
Place:
england, wales, europe, london
Similarity:
48%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 385 min.
TV show
Story:
Martin Chuzzlewit is an old man with a large fortune and an even larger set of family and friends. A portrait of greed and selfishness, this magnificent adaptation of Dickens' comic masterpiece features an all-star cast.
Style:
costume drama, serious, realistic, captivating, stylized ...
Plot:
charles dickens, victorian england, inheritance, blackmail, literary, tribe, social climbing, social relations, self involved, family relations, dishonesty, intrigue ...
Time:
19th century, 1830s, victorian era
Place:
britain, england, usa
Similarity:
47%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 28 min.
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After living a miserable life with her aunt, orphaned Jane Eyre is sent to Lowood, a residential school for children of limited means. Jane takes the advice of her friend and over many years takes her studies seriously, eventually advertising for a ...
Style:
costume drama, gothic, period piece, sentimental, serious ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
love and romance, estate, proposal, couple relations, power of love, society, rich and poor, governess, fall in love, social differences, orphan, strong female presence ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era
Place:
england, britain, europe
Similarity:
47%
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 50 min.
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Adaptation of William Makepeace Thackeray's novel. The first colour production from the BBC.
Style:
costume drama, realistic, serious, captivating, stylized ...
Plot:
manipulation, napoleonic era, satire, deception, treachery, couples, power relations, ambition, couple relations, blind ambition, rise to the top, dishonesty ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era
Place:
england
Similarity:
47%
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 469 min.
TV show
Story:
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:
atmospheric, sincere, costume drama, period piece, clever ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
small town life, social differences, aristocracy, high society, small town, family relations, love and romance, class differences, proposal, social relations, family life, maid ...
Time:
victorian era, 19th century, 1840s
Place:
england, britain, europe
Similarity:
47%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 54 min.
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Bramwell is a British television series starring Jemma Redgrave as Dr. Eleanor Bramwell, a woman challenging the domination of men in the medical establishment, who runs a free hospital for the poor in the East End of London, during the late ...
Style:
medical drama, historical drama, serious, realistic, touching ...
Plot:
medical, victorian england, medicine, female doctor, feminist, civil rights, human rights, charity, surgery, sexism, power relations, follow your dream ...
Time:
victorian era, 19th century, 1890s
Place:
britain, london, england, europe, east end london
Similarity:
47%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
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 ...
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period piece, costume drama, captivating, touching, realistic ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
love affair, world war one, family relations, hopes, parents and children, love and romance, society, small town, social relations, strong female presence, feminist, mentor ...
Time:
1930s, 20th century
Place:
yorkshire, northern england, europe, england
Similarity:
47%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
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An adaptation of the 1848 novel by William Makepeace Thackeray.
Style:
stylized, atmospheric, costume drama, period piece, historical drama ...
Plot:
social differences, life philosophy, social climbing, british, rise to the top, dysfunctional family, life turned upside down, napoleonic era, female protagonist, unrequited love, heir, time machine ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, georgian era, regency period
Place:
england, britain, london
Similarity:
47%
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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:
period piece, realistic, serious, touching, sentimental ...
Plot:
rich and poor, great war, couples, power relations, family relations, betrayal, dishonesty, master and servant, love and romance, society, ambition, love affair ...
Time:
1910s, 20th century, edwardian era, year 1914
Place:
england, northern england
Similarity:
46%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 53 min.
TV show
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:
46%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
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The Duchess Of Duke Street is a BBC television drama series set in London between 1900 and 1925. It was created by John Hawkesworth, the former producer of the highly successful ITV period drama Upstairs, Downstairs. It starred Gemma Jones as Louisa ...
Style:
costume drama, historical drama, realistic, semi serious, sincere ...
Plot:
hotel, high society, female chef, victorian england, world war one, professional, jazz, rags to riches, food, great war, battle of the sexes, domestic drama ...
Time:
1910s, edwardian era, victorian era, 1920s, 20th century ...
Place:
britain, london, europe, england
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46%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 50 min.
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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: 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 ...
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costume drama, period piece, realistic, serious, captivating ...
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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:
46%
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
A look at the mysterious relationship between Victorian art critic John Ruskin and his teenage bride Effie Gray.
Style:
period piece, costume drama, stylized, emotional, captivating ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
love, biopic, couples, unfulfillment, self discovery, crumbling marriage, love and romance, fall in love, painter, art, writers, love triangle ...
Time:
19th century, ancient times, victorian era
Place:
england, britain, europe, london, scotland
Similarity:
46%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 53 min.
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Set in the small hamlet of Lark Rise and the wealthier neighbouring market town, Candleford, the series chronicles the daily lives of farm-workers, craftsmen and gentry at the end of the 19th Century. Lark Rise to Candleford is a love letter to a ...
Style:
costume drama, sentimental, sincere, period piece, realistic ...
Audience:
girls' night, kids
Plot:
village life, friendship, social relations, hopes, small town, abbey, true love, victorian england, father son relationship, employer employee relationship, neighbor neighbor relationship, father daughter relationship ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, 1800s
Place:
england, britain, europe
Similarity:
45%
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