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Any Human Heart (2010)
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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, romantic, touching, captivating, costume drama, period drama ...
Plot: introspection, writer's life, encounter, love and romance, love affair, historical character, writers, relationships, romantic relationship, world war one, chess, lovers, mistress, aristocracy, flirting, middle aged, elderly, marriage, oldtimer, artists and showbiz, biopic, female nudity, journalist, male protagonist, king ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, 80s, 50s, 1920s, 1930s, 20s
Place: england, new york, paris france, france, london, usa, europe
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out period drama, realistic, serious and costume drama films and TV series with plots about love and romance, couples, society, love affair, costume, couple relations and family relations mostly in Drama, Romance and Mystery genres. Some movies like Any Human Heart: Brideshead Revisited (1981), London Spy (2015), Howards End (2017), The Forsyte Saga (1967), The Way We Live Now (2001). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Brideshead Revisited (1981)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 659 min.
TV show
Story: In this eleven parts British television serial, Charles Ryder's involvement with members of the aristocratic Marchmain/Flyte family is followed throughout the years between the two World Wars.
Style: costume drama, sitcom, spiritual, avant garde, historical drama ...
Plot: homosexual subtext, world war two, friendship, catholicism, alcoholism, gay, lgbt, atheist, religion, catholic, gay interest, mistress ...
Time: 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 20th century, year 1981
Place: england, venice, oxford university, paris france
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100%
 7.4
 10K
London Spy (2015)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: A romance between an MI6 code genius and an ordinary man promises happiness. But tragedy strikes when the spy dies in suspicious circumstances, forcing his lover to pursue the truth behind his death.
Style: captivating, tense, realistic, serious, emotional ...
Plot: gay, espionage, gay interest, conspiracy, gay lead character, gays and lesbians, lgbt, murder, love affair, lgbtq, undercover, gender ...
Time: 21st century
Place: london, england, indiana
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.2
 7K
Howards End (2017)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 240 min.
TV show
Story: The social and class divisions in early 20th century England through the intersection of three families - the wealthy Wilcoxes, the gentle and idealistic Schlegels and the lower-middle class Basts.
Style: costume drama, romantic, captivating, sentimental, psychological ...
Audience: girls' night, chick flick
Plot: class differences, social class, wealthy family, class system, sister, house, couples, love affair, society, love, couple relations, love and romance ...
Time: 20th century, edwardian era, 1900s, victorian era, 1910s
Place: england, britain
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
The Forsyte Saga (1967)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story: Adaptation from John Galsworthy's novels.
Style: family saga, costume drama, stylized, historical drama, spiritual ...
Plot: love affair, rich and poor, love and romance, law, love, spirituality, siblings relations, dysfunctional family, unfulfilled love, parents and children, intrigue, couple relations ...
Time: 20th century, victorian era, 19th century
Place: england, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
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The Way We Live Now (2001)
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 ...
Style: period piece, serious, costume drama, realistic, historical drama ...
Plot: lifestyle, intrigue, society, rise to the top, fall in love, power relations, life is a bitch, rich and poor, couple relations, greed, couples, love and romance ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, 1800s
Place: britain, europe, england
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
 8.6
 35K
North & South (2004)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 235 min.
TV show
Story: North & South is a British television drama serial, produced by the BBC and originally broadcast in four episodes on BBC One in November and December 2004. It follows the story of Margaret Hale, a young woman from southern England who has to ...
Style: touching, serious, sincere, captivating, costume drama ...
Audience: girls' night, chick flick
Plot: prejudice, initially antagonists, social differences, love and romance, pride and honor, society, rich and poor, young woman, fall in love, couple relations, love affair, unlikely couple ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, 50s, 1850s, 1800s
Place: england, britain, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
The Crimson Petal and the White (2011)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 274 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, captivating, realistic ...
Plot: prostitute, victorian england, social climbing, love affair, rich and poor, mistress, social differences, power relations, couples, society, high society, diary ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, 1870s, 1880s
Place: england, britain, london, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
 7.3
 6K
Birdsong (2012)
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: UK
Duration: 165 min.
TV show
Story: As an English soldier fights in the horrific trenches of northern France, he is haunted by the memories of his forbidden love affair with a French woman.
Style: realistic, emotional, serious, stylized, epic ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: world war one, soldier, trench warfare, love affair, military, lovers, lovers apart, great war, war, battles, election, underground ...
Time: 1910s, 20th century
Place: france, united kingdom, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
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Falling for a Dancer (1998)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 200 min.
TV show
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: contemplative, serious, realistic, captivating, thought provoking ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: family relations, pregnancy, couples, society, unfulfillment, love and romance, artists and showbiz, love affair, tragic love, unfulfilled love, countryside, haunted by the past ...
Time: 1930s
Place: ireland, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
 7.2
 2K
South Riding (2011)
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: captivating, touching, emotional, realistic, historical drama ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: love affair, world war one, parents and children, society, human spirit, hopes, family relations, love and romance, small town, social relations, strong female presence, social history ...
Time: 1930s, 20th century
Place: yorkshire, northern england, england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
Daniel Deronda (2002)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 210 min.
TV show
Story: 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, serious, realistic, captivating ...
Plot: aristocracy, drowning, love affair, social differences, love triangle, jewess, couples, rise to the top, unlikely couple, betrayal, fall in love, society ...
Time: 19th century, middle ages, 1870s, victorian era
Place: britain, england, europe, london, italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
 8.0
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Jane Eyre (1983)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 239 min.
TV show
Story: 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: gothic, costume drama, sentimental, serious, historical drama ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: love and romance, estate, proposal, society, rich and poor, couple relations, governess, fall in love, social differences, orphan, strong female presence, power of love ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era
Place: england, britain, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
 7.2
 5K
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 ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, 1930s, 50s
Place: london, england, britain
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
A Woman of Substance (1984)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 300 min.
TV show
Story: A Woman of Substance charts the life of Emma Harte, from kitchen maid at the beginning of the 20th Century, to respected business woman and Grandmother in the 1980's. From humble beginnings Emma Harte starts her business with a small shop, but ...
Style: costume drama, romantic drama, historical drama, stylized, emotional ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: female protagonist, master and servant, inheritance, professional, control, family relations, world war one, ambition, working class, pregnancy, career woman, heiress ...
Time: victorian era, 1920s, 1930s, 1900s, 1910s ...
Place: england, britain, yorkshire
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
 6.4
 3K
Scarlett (1994)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, USA, Germany, Italy, UK, Spain, Austria
Duration: 360 min.
TV show
Story: The greatest love story ever told began with Gone with the Wind and continues in this sweeping epic sequel, as Scarlett, Rhett and a host of unforgettable characters go from tragedy to triumph in an action-packed saga of international scope
Style: serious, captivating, stylized, romantic, sentimental ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: love and romance, parents and children, couples, family relations, society, infidelity, fall in love, star crossed lovers, reconciliation, civil war, dysfunctional family, 007 ...
Time: victorian era, 19th century, 1870s
Place: europe, london, ireland, georgia, atlanta georgia ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
 8.3
 36K
Poldark (2015)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Britain is in the grip of a chilling recession... falling wages, rising prices, civil unrest - only the bankers are smiling. It's 1783 and Ross Poldark returns from the American War of Independence to his beloved Cornwall to find his world in ...
Style: captivating, family saga, realistic, saga, costume drama ...
Audience: family friendly
Plot: countryside, love affair, poverty, estate, society, rich and poor, love and romance, couple relations, master and servant, social differences, family relations, village life ...
Time: 18th century, victorian era, 1790s, georgian era, 1800s ...
Place: england, cornwall, britain
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
 8.2
 10K
Little Dorrit (2008)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 480 min.
TV show
Story: The series tells the story of Amy Dorrit, who spends her days earning money for the family and looking after her proud father, who is a long term inmate of Marshalsea debtors' prison in London. Amy and her family's world is transformed ...
Style: captivating, costume drama, sincere, period piece, historical drama ...
Audience: girls' night, kids
Plot: poverty, young woman, life is a bitch, uncover truth, society, secret, rich and poor, family problems, financial problem, money problems, co worker co worker relationship, employer employee relationship ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, regency period, 1800s, georgian era ...
Place: england, britain, europe, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
 8.3
 22K
Jane Eyre (2006)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 230 min.
TV show
Story: In this version of Charlotte Brontë's novel, Jane Eyre (Georgie Henley), a poor relation in the household of her aunt, Mrs. Reed (Tara FitzGerald) is despatched into the care of the callous Mr Brocklehurst at his school at Lowood. As a young ...
Style: costume drama, romantic, gothic, touching, atmospheric ...
Audience: chick flick, date night, girls' night
Plot: love affair, love story, couple relations, rich and poor, fall in love, unlikely couple, estate, social differences, love and romance, relationships, governess, looking for love ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, ancient times, 1800s, regency period
Place: england, britain, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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Lady Chatterley's Lover (2015)
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: serious, realistic, erotic, costume drama, disturbing ...
Plot: social differences, infidelity, cheating on husband, master and servant, love affair, obsession, society, couples, love and romance, couple relations, power relations, fall in love ...
Time: 20th century, 1910s, 1920s, edwardian era
Place: england, europe, britain
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
The Pursuit of Love (2021)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: The Pursuit of Love is an upcoming romance drama miniseries based on the novel of the same name by Nancy Mitford.
Style: psychological, captivating, period drama
Plot: friendship, friends, unfulfilled love, looking for love, social relations, couple relations, love interest, relationship problems, girlfriend girlfriend relationship, romantic relationship, love and romance, society ...
Time: 20th century, 1930s
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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Vanity Fair (1998)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story: This faithful BBC adaptation once again brings William Makepeace Thackeray's classic satirical novel to the screen. Becky Sharp (Natasha Little) is a beautiful, clever and poor girl determined to earn a higher place in society at any cost. The ...
Style: costume drama, historical drama, captivating, realistic, serious ...
Plot: manipulation, realism, napoleonic era, napoleon bonaparte, time machine, satire, orphan, unrequited love, strong female presence, couples, social climbing, power relations ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, regency period
Place: england, london, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
Wuthering Heights (2009)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 142 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, gothic, period piece ...
Audience: girls' night, date night
Plot: obsession, unfulfilled love, love affair, forbidden love, estate, love triangle, social differences, revenge, society, punishment, fall in love, corporal punishment ...
Time: 19th century, 18th century, victorian era, georgian era, regency period
Place: england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
The Cinder Path (1994)
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: UK
Duration: 145 min.
TV show
Story: Tale of a farmer's son who gets involved with two sisters, then goes to fight in the trenches in WW1.
Style: costume drama, realistic, serious, period piece, period drama
Plot: world war one, romantic relationship, sibling relationship, battles, couples, farm, hopes, war, military, redemption, witnessing a crime, dishonesty ...
Time: 1910s, 20th century, year 1914, edwardian era
Place: england
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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Desperate Romantics (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
TV show
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, serious, realistic, stylized, sentimental ...
Plot: painting, bohemian life, lust, lifestyle, rebellion, couples, rebelliousness, love and romance, painter, artist, art, historical event ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, 1860s, 1800s
Place: england, london, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
 7.4
 165K
Bridgerton (2020)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Wealth, lust, and betrayal set in the backdrop of Regency era England, seen through the eyes of the powerful Bridgerton family.
Style: romantic, costume drama, sexy, light, captivating ...
Audience: girls' night, chick flick, teens
Plot: love, aristocracy, love and romance, society, love story, marriage, eligible bachelor, sex scene, couple relations, intrigue, relationships, class differences ...
Time: 19th century, 1810s, georgian era, victorian era, ancient times ...
Place: england, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
Love in a Cold Climate (2001)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 150 min.
TV show
Story: Adaptation of Nancy Mitford's novel.
Style: realistic, serious, stylized, historical drama, costume drama ...
Audience: girls' night, date night
Plot: fall in love, love triangle, social differences, looking for love, eccentric family, master and servant, unlikely couple, society, wooing, infidelity, unfulfilled love, rich and poor ...
Time: 1930s, 20th century
Place: england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
A Passionate Woman (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
TV show
Story: 1950's, Leeds: Betty (Billie Piper) is a wife and mother, whose life is changed forever after falling hopelessly and dangerously in love with her charismatic Polish neighbour, Alex Crazenovski, better known as Craze . Against her principles, ...
Style: thought provoking, atmospheric, emotional, serious, bleak ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: introspection, love and romance, life turned upside down, fall in love, infidelity, couples, dishonesty, love affair, adultery, cheating wife, unhappy marriage, unfaithful husband ...
Time: 20th century, 80s, 50s, 1950s
Place: england, europe, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
The Tide of Life (1996)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 180 min.
TV show
Story: Tide of Life follows the fortunes of young housekeeper, Emily Kennedy, as she learns about relationships with three very different men. Forced from home of her first employer, Sep McGilby after his plans to marry her come to tragic end, Emily finds ...
Style: costume drama, realistic, serious, touching, emotional ...
Plot: immigration, life turned upside down, tragic hero, love and romance, couple relations, life is a bitch, boss and employee, innocence lost, gender, society, farm, family relations ...
Time: edwardian era, 19th century, 1900s, victorian era
Place: northern england, england
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
A Dance to the Music of Time (1997)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 416 min.
TV show
Story: Anthony Powell's 12 volume novel sequence "A Dance to the Music of Time" has been dramatised for television.
Style: stylized, serious, realistic, captivating, period drama
Plot: world war two, world war one, post war, love, high society, social relations, power relations, couples, lifestyle, society, couple relations, dishonesty ...
Time: 1930s, 20th century
Place: england, london, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
 6.8
 963
True Love (2012)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: A five-part series of intertwining, semi-improvised love stories exploring the reality of love in the modern world.
Style: realistic, sentimental, touching, serious
Audience: girls' night
Plot: love affair, crumbling marriage, unfulfillment, couples, looking for love, dishonesty, lesbian, feminist, teen angst, bittersweet, right and wrong, love and romance ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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