Movies and TV shows like Small Island

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Small Island (2009)
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Small Island (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 180 min.
TV show
Story: In 1939 Hortense, illegitimate but intelligent and ambitious, is brought up on Jamaica with the family of charismatic, free-thinking Michael, who joins the Air Force when war breaks out and goes to England. After the war, Hortense, now a qualified teacher, makes a marriage of convenience to Gilbert Joseph, paying for his passage to England on condition he sends for her.
Style: touching, serious, captivating, realistic, family saga, saga, period drama
Plot: racism, post war, interracial sex, couples, starting over, culture clash, couple relations, misfit, self discovery, bittersweet, hopes, husband wife relationship, racial violence, love, racial slur, biracial, bigotry, world war two, world war one, summer, black, world war, interracial relations, social differences, society ...
Time: 20th century, 1940s, 40s
Place: england, jamaica, london, europe
Keyword: american

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, captivating and period drama films and TV series with plots about society, family relations, couples, couple relations, world war one, social differences and parents and children mostly in Drama, Biography and History genres. Some movies like Small Island: White Teeth (2002), Kin (2000), Mrs Wilson (2018), Love in a Cold Climate (2001), Dancing on the Edge (2013). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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White Teeth (2002)
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 240 min.
TV show
Story: An adaptation of Zadie Smith's bestseller concerning the lives of two families from as far back as the 1800s and India to late 1990s Willesden.
Style: touching, realistic, semi serious, humorous, multicultural
Plot: family relations, interracial relations, generation gap, social differences, parents and children, family life, social decay, culture clash, couples, family problems, society, couple relations ...
Time: 1920s, 90s, 70s, 80s, 20th century
Place: africa, england, london, europe, bangladesh
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100%
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Kin (2000)
Genre: Drama
Country: South Africa, UK
Duration: 89 min.
Story: While on a hunt for elephant poachers in Namibia, a white female conservationist and a black lawyer fall for each other despite the condemnation by the local community.
Style: sentimental, captivating, emotional, erotic, independent film ...
Plot: interracial relations, interracial sex, fall in love, love, society, danger, isolation, bigotry, poaching, environmentalism, misfit, siblings relations ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: africa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Mrs Wilson (2018)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 56 min.
TV show
Story: Alison Wilson thinks she is happily married until her husband Alec dies and a woman turns up on her doorstep claiming that she is the real Mrs. Wilson. Alison is determined to prove the validity of her own marriage - and her husband's love for ...
Style: realistic, captivating, psychological, tense, atmospheric ...
Plot: british intelligence, secret past, secret life, death of husband, widow, cold war, world war two, uncover truth, writers, couples, investigation, family relations ...
Time: 1940s, 1930s, 20th century, 60s, future
Place: britain, india, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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 ⇓
100%
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Dancing on the Edge (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 449 min.
TV show
Story: A black jazz band becomes entangled in the aristocratic world of 1930s London as they seek fame and fortune.
Style: realistic, atmospheric, captivating, tense, erotic ...
Plot: jazz, rising to stardom, music, ambition, musician's life, artists and showbiz, music band, high society, aristocracy, lifestyle, mogul, backstage ...
Time: 1930s, 20th century, year 1933
Place: london, england
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Mama Flora's Family (1998)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 175 min.
TV show
Story: Based on Alex Haley's novel about a black matriarch in the early 20th century, this dramatic miniseries spotlights the struggle for social change. Cicely Tyson stars as Mama Flora, a woman determined to free her children from the bonds of ...
Style: realistic, serious, sincere, epic, captivating ...
Plot: black, family relations, racism, post war, legal, blaxploitation, life changing, false accusation, interracial relations, prejudice, couples, religions or cults ...
Time: edwardian era
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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The Halcyon (2017)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: The story of a bustling and glamorous five star hotel at the centre of London society and a world at war.
Style: costume drama, realistic, disturbing, captivating, psychological ...
Plot: hotel, world war two, aristocracy, manager, wartime, society, bellhop, chef, maid, gay lead character, world war one, lgbt ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century
Place: england, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Call the Midwife (2012)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Drama following the lives of a group of midwives working in the poverty-stricken East End of London during the 1950s, based on the best-selling memoirs of Jennifer Worth.
Style: sincere, touching, realistic, stylized, costume drama ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: midwife, childbirth, pregnancy, convent, nurse, doctor, nursing, friends, medical, family life, hospital, friendship ...
Time: 50s, 60s, 1950s, year 1961, 2020s ...
Place: england, london, europe, britain
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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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
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30%
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Land Girls (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 225 min.
TV show
Story: The lives, loves and highs and lows of four members of the Women's Land Army working at the Hoxley Estate during World War II.
Style: realistic, captivating, historical drama, costume drama, psychological ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: world war two, wartime life, strong female presence, life is a bitch, family relations, military, soldier, friendship, rise and fall, love, resistance, women ...
Time: 20th century, 1940s
Place: england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
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The Outcast (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 179 min.
TV show
Story: Set in post-war Britain, ten year-old Lewis Aldridge is grief-stricken as he struggles to cope with the death of his beloved mother. Left under the care of his emotionally distant father Gilbert, whom he barely knows and who quickly remarries, Lewis ...
Style: touching, captivating, atmospheric, psychological, gloomy ...
Plot: friendship, teenage life, family problems, youth, death of mother, life is a bitch, estrangement, love, father son relationship, parent child relationship, death in the family, dysfunctional family ...
Time: 20th century, 50s, post world war two
Place: england
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26%
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Skin (2008)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: UK, South Africa
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Based on the true story of a black girl who was born to two white Afrikaner parents in South Africa during the apartheid era.
Style: sincere, touching, captivating, emotional, contemplative ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: racism, interracial relations, self discovery, human spirit, forbidden love, eccentric family, family problems, couples, society, love and romance, social misfits, hopes ...
Time: year 2008, 70s, 60s, 50s, 20th century ...
Place: africa, south africa, johannesburg south africa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
32 Brinkburn Street (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story: Drama moving between the lives, loves and lies of two generations of the same family who live at 32 Brinkburn Street in 1931 and 2011.
Style: realistic, captivating, serious, suspense, sentimental ...
Plot: attic, society, family relations, couples, haunted by the past, family life, parents and children, couple relations, interracial relations, family problems, step siblings, secret ...
Time: 1930s, 20th century
Place: england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
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Flambards (1979)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 780 min.
TV show
Story: In the early 1900s in England, young Christina is orphaned and goes to live with her Uncle Russell, who owns the country estate of Flambards, and has two sons. Mark, the elder, is a wastrel, a roue and, like his father, loves to hunt. The younger ...
Style: captivating, realistic, serious, emotional, period drama
Audience: girls' night
Plot: makeover, world war one, couple relations, love and romance, society, fall in love, estate, uneducated, couples, family relations, countryside, manners ...
Time: edwardian era, 1900s, 20th century, 1910s
Place: england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
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Breathless (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
TV show
Story: Hospital drama set in London during the early 1960s, following the staff of a busy gynecology ward at a time when abortion is illegal and the contraceptive pill is only just becoming available to married women.
Style: serious, realistic, stylized, captivating, period piece ...
Plot: hospital, doctors and patients, treatment, workplace, society, patient, workplace romance, workplace situations, intrigue, post war, medicine, motherhood ...
Time: 20th century, 60s
Place: london, england
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
Upstairs Downstairs (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: 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, stylized, costume drama, period piece ...
Plot: high society, butler, master and servant, family values, marriage, rich and poor, family life, millionaire, lifestyle, class differences, housewife, couples ...
Time: 1930s, edwardian era, 20th century
Place: england, wales, london, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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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 ⇓
24%
From There to Here (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Created by Peter Bowker, From There To Here is set in the aftermath of the 1996 Arndale bombing and follows Daniel Cotton, a Manchester family man who is torn between the life he wants and the life he could have. The story spans the four years that ...
Style: sincere, serious, touching, realistic, captivating
Plot: streetwise, family relations, parents and children, bombing, bittersweet, society, siblings relations, soccer, city life, ira, urban, bet ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, year 1996
Place: england, manchester
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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Lilies (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Lilies is a British period-drama television series, written by Heidi Thomas, which ran for one eight-episode series in early 2007 on BBC One. The show's tagline was "Liverpool, 1920. Three girls on the edge of womanhood, a world on the ...
Style: touching, realistic, serious, sincere, historical drama ...
Plot: post war, family relations, family problems, life is a bitch, society, youth, working class, parents and children, bittersweet, poverty, slum, world war one ...
Time: 1920s, 20th century, post world war one
Place: england, liverpool
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
The Indian Doctor (2010)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: UK
TV show
Story: The Indian Doctor is a British television drama set in the summer of 1963. Produced by Rondo Media and Avatar Productions, it was first broadcast on BBC One in 2010. The most recent series began on 27 February 2012 and concluded on 2 March. It is a ...
Style: sentimental, realistic, captivating, psychological, period piece ...
Plot: small town, culture clash, immigrant, society, couples, social relations, couple relations, power relations, post war, british history, marriage, grief ...
Time: 20th century, 60s
Place: england, wales, europe
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23%
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Anna Karenina (2000)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 360 min.
TV show
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, betrayal, tragic hero, infidelity, tragic love, breakup, extramarital affair, couples, family problems, love and romance, destructive relationship, couple relations ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, 1870s
Place: russia, moscow russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
To Serve Them All My Days (1980)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 673 min.
TV show
Story: David Powlett-Jones has just returned to England from the trenches of WWI. He was injured and shell-shocked and, after a spell in hospital he gets a job teaching in a boys boarding school in S.W. England. He is not at all sure he can do the job, but ...
Style: historical drama, talky, realistic, serious, touching ...
Plot: boys' school, world war two, writers, grief, boarding school, private school, preparatory school, shell shock, public school, teacher, battles, power relations ...
Time: 1910s, 1930s, 1920s, 20th century
Place: britain, england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
The Wingless Bird (1997)
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, costume drama ...
Plot: rich and poor, great war, couples, family relations, power relations, betrayal, love and romance, dishonesty, society, ambition, master and servant, working class ...
Time: 1910s, 20th century, year 1914, edwardian era
Place: northern england, england
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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Behaving Badly (1989)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Behaving Badly is a 1989 British television serial directed by David Tucker. The teleplay by Catherine Heath and Moira Williams is based on Heath's novel of the same name. It was initially broadcast by Channel 4. The series was released on DVD ...
Style: realistic, semi serious, dark comedy
Audience: girls' night, date night
Plot: dysfunctional family, housewife, power relations, family problems, couples, family relations, hopes, unlikely couple, human nature, couple relations, society, love and romance ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: england, europe
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23%
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The Royal (2003)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Follows the staff and patients of a Yorkshire cottage hospital in the 60s, embroiled in tangled love lives and bitter power struggles.
Style: medical drama, realistic, captivating, emotional, psychological ...
Plot: hospital, doctor, doctors and patients, moral dilemma, workplace, nursing, workplace situations, nurse, society, love, working class, medical ...
Time: 60s, 20th century
Place: england, northern england, yorkshire, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
 7.7
 3K
The Village (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: The Village is a BBC TV series written by Peter Moffat. The drama is set in a Derbyshire village in the 20th century. The first series of what Moffat hopes will become a 42-hour TV drama was broadcast in spring 2013 and covered the years 1914 to ...
Style: realistic, serious, captivating, rough, costume drama ...
Plot: village life, village, parents and children, social relations, society, villager, countryside, village people, family relations, world war one, small village, landscape ...
Time: 20th century, 1920s, 1910s
Place: england
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
 7.4
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In the Club (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: In The Club follows six pregnant women and their partners as they get ready for the arrival of their babies at the local parenting class. Housewife Diane, schoolgirl Rosie, newlywed Jasmin, businesswoman Roanna, midwife Vicky and writer and teaching ...
Style: sincere, touching, serious, realistic
Plot: couples, lifestyle, couple relations, family relations, love and romance, baby, parents and children, pregnancy, pregnant woman
Time: 21st century
Place: england
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
Prisoners Wives (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Behind every prisoner, there's a wife, girlfriend or mother doing time on the outside. For some it's a nightmare, for others a liberation. Prisoners' Wives - it's time to tell their stories.
Style: emotional, realistic, serious, touching, captivating ...
Plot: prison, couples, family relations, social relations, parents and children, housewife, female protagonist, imprisonment, aspiration, strong female presence, couple relations, coping
Time: 21st century
Place: england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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Holby City (1999)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Drama series about life on the wards of Holby City Hospital, following the highs and lows of the staff and patients.
Style: realistic, captivating, sincere, touching, serious ...
Audience: chick flick, boys' night
Plot: hospital, doctor, doctors and patients, workplace situations, workplace intrigue, cure, intern, medical, rivalry, workplace romance, surgery, nurse ...
Time: 20th century, 21st century
Place: england, europe, britain, united kingdom
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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The Royals (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 42 min.
TV show
Story: Drama about a fictional British Royal family set in modern day London, who inhabit a world of opulence and regal tradition that caters to any and every desire, but one that also comes with a price tag of duty, destiny and intense public scrutiny.
Style: captivating, sentimental, serious, realistic, soap opera
Audience: teens
Plot: royal family, forbidden love, couple relations, prince, state affairs, queen, love and romance, scandal, crown prince, paparazzi, monarchy, society ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england, united kingdom, europe, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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