Movies like King Charles III

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King Charles III (2017)
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King Charles III (2017)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Prince Charles' accession to the throne following the Queen's death. When he refuses to sign a controversial bill into law, political chaos ensues: a constitutional crisis, rioting on the streets and a tank in front of Buckingham Palace.
Style: exciting, tense, suspenseful, costume drama, controversial
Plot: king of england, palace, monarchy, british monarchy, interracial relations, father son relationship, scandal, scheming, treason, breaking the fourth wall, royalty, twists and turns, world war one, ghost, chaos, unhappy ending, riot, republican, based on real people, royal family, royal court, costume, woman slaps man
Time: near future
Place: buckingham palace, england

Most similar movies to King Charles III

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out captivating, serious, suspenseful and tense films with plots about royalty, royal family, society, british royal family, monarch, costume and shakespeare mostly in Drama, Sci-Fi and Romance genres. Some movies like King Charles III: Richard III (1983), Henry IV Part II (1979), Henry IV Part I (1979), The Woman He Loved (1988), Gunpowder (2017). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Richard III (1983)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 239 min.
Story: Richard Duke of Gloucester, youngest brother of King Edward IV, will stop at nothing to get the crown. He first convinces the ailing King that the Duke of Clarence, his elder brother, is a threat to the lives of Edward's two young sons. Edward ...
Plot: royalty, shakespeare, royal family, medieval, king of england, shakespeare play
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95%
Henry IV Part II (1979)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 150 min.
Story: The death of King Henry the Fourth and the coronation of King Henry the Fifth.
Plot: shakespeare, british history, royalty, medieval, king of england, shakespeare play
Place: england
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95%
Henry IV Part I (1979)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 148 min.
Story: Henry Bolingbroke has now been crowned King of England, but faces a rebellion headed by the embittered Earl of Northumberland and his son (nicknamed 'Hotspur'). Henry's son Hal, the Prince of Wales, has thrown over life at court in ...
Plot: british history, king of england, shakespeare, medieval, royalty, shakespeare play
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91%
The Woman He Loved (1988)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 100 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.
Style: costume drama, period piece, period drama
Plot: royalty, royal family, monarch, interwar period, diamond, horse, diamonds, wedding, yacht, funeral, divorce, king of england ...
Time: 70s, 1930s, 1920s
Place: england
⇓ similarity ⇓
86%
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Gunpowder (2017)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: UK
Duration: 59 min.
TV show
Story: England, 1603. Elizabeth I is dead and King James of Scotland has taken the throne. With the country at war with catholic Spain, English catholics are persecuted and priests caught saying mass are punished with death. Several attempts have already ...
Style: historical drama, costume drama, factual, captivating, suspense ...
Audience: adult
Plot: king of england, religion, planned murder, activist, british monarchy, parliament, catholic, execution, treason, medieval, royalty, british history ...
Time: 17th century
Place: england, britain, scotland
⇓ similarity ⇓
86%
Wallis & Edward (2005)
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: serious, sentimental, touching, emotional, romantic ...
Plot: love affair, british royal family, royal family, true love, royalty, relationship vs career, politics, follow your dream, moral dilemma, starting over, social differences, couples ...
Time: 1930s, 20th century, year 1936
Place: england, budapest, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
84%
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High Moon (2014)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Set in the future where the countries of Earth have established colonies to mine the Moon's resources. When a new life form is discovered, chaos erupts as various factions race to uncover and exploit its powerful secrets.
Style: futuristic, suspenseful, stylized, exciting, serious ...
Plot: space and aliens, imaginary, moon, chaos and mayhem, inventions and discoveries, chaos, space, danger, investigation, oxygen, space wars, outer space
Time: future
⇓ similarity ⇓
84%
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Othello (2001)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, USA, Canada
Duration: 100 min.
Story: With freshly rechristened characters and brand-new dialogue, this British TV production of Othello is a "rethinking" of Shakespeare's play, albeit still retaining the original's power and potency. The story is set in the London ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, rough, realistic, tense ...
Plot: interracial relations, shakespeare, tragic love, power relations, vengeance, downfall, murder, betrayal, life is a bitch, couple relations, infidelity, dirty cop ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe, england, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
84%
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Princes in the Tower (2005)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Drama - The mystery surrounding the disappearance 12 year-old King Edward V and his brother Richard, Duke of York, has been the cause of speculation and fascination for over five centuries. In 1491, eight years after the Princes in the Tower were ...
Style: period drama, baroque
Plot: royalty, monarch, tudors, royal family, monarchy, viking, renaissance, interrogation, skeleton, raven, death sentence, impostor ...
Time: 15th century
Place: england
⇓ similarity ⇓
83%
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Woundings (1998)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 102 min.
Story: A government program is trying to entice women to go to a remote island and become companions to war-scarred soldiers.
Style: independent film, serious, realistic, thought provoking, bleak ...
Plot: island, dystopian future, life is a bitch, war, military, soldier, anti war, wartime life, battles, women, lesbian sex, hypocrisy ...
Time: future, near future
Place: england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
82%
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Richard III (1995)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, War
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Shakespeare's Play transplanted into a 1930s setting.
Style: talky, stylized, atmospheric, witty, political ...
Plot: politics, shakespeare, royal family, murder, betrayal, manipulation, medieval, assassination, greed, battles, royalty, corrupted ruler ...
Time: 20th century, 1930s
Place: england, london, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
82%
Stratford Festival: King John (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 152 min.
Story: When the King of France (Peter Hutt) demands that John (Tom McCamus) relinquish his crown in favor of his nephew, the young Prince Arthur, war is the inevitable result. Excommunication, attempted atrocity, rebellion and assassination all contribute ...
Style: serious, exciting, captivating, stylized
Plot: shakespeare, royal family, bastard, stage play, king, baron, british royal family, king of england, royal palace, kingdom, royal court, filmed play ...
Place: england
⇓ similarity ⇓
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The Women of Windsor (1992)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, USA, Canada
Duration: 182 min.
Story: The film offers a dramatized look at the lives of two women who married into the Windsor family in the late 20th century: Princess Diana and Sarah Ferguson, the Duchess of York.
Plot: royalty, royal family, chess, queen of england, prince, aristocracy, marriage, duchess, scandal, princess, princess diana, queen elizabeth ii ...
Place: britain
⇓ similarity ⇓
80%
Journey to the Far Side of the Sun (1969)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 101 min.
Story: A planet is discovered in the same orbit as Earth's but is located on the exact opposite side of the sun, making it not visible from Earth. The European Space Exploration Council decide to send American astronaut Glenn Ross and British ...
Style: exciting, serious, suspenseful, offbeat, futuristic ...
Audience: kids
Plot: space travel, space, space exploration, outer space, parallel universe, planet, spaceship, european, space opera, giant monster, dystopia, unhappy ending ...
Time: year 1969, future, 20th century, 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
79%
A Royal Night Out (2015)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 97 min.
Story: The re-imagining of VE Day in 1945, when Princess Elizabeth and her sister, Margaret were allowed out from Buckingham Palace for the night to join in the celebrations, and encounter romance and danger.
Style: humorous, semi serious, feel good, costume drama, exciting ...
Audience: girls' night, date night, teens
Plot: palace, royal family, royalty, queen elizabeth ii, disorder, youth, fish out of water, escapades, family relations, british royal family, celebration, monarchy ...
Time: 20th century, 1940s, 1900s, year 1945
Place: england, london, peru
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79%
The First Men in the Moon (2010)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Mark Gatiss's adaptation of HG Wells's science fiction classic. July 1969, and as the world waits with bated breath for the Apollo astronauts to land on the Moon, a young boy meets 90-year-old Julius Bedford. He's a man with an ...
Style: exciting, serious, captivating, enigmatic, gothic horror
Plot: moon, space travel, alien encounter, partner, alien contact, obsessive quest, danger, escapades, inventions and discoveries, heroes, moon landing, old man ...
Time: 1900s, 60s, year 1969, 20th century
Place: england
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79%
No Blade of Grass (1970)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: A strange new virus has appeared, which only attacks strains of grasses such as wheat and rice, and the world is descending into famine and chaos. Architect John, along with his family and friends, is making his way from London to his brother's ...
Style: apocalyptic, controversial, disturbing, depressing, offbeat ...
Plot: dystopia, post apocalypse, virus, survival, distopia, post apocalyptic, disaster, wasteland, epidemic, railway, quarantine, natural disaster ...
Time: future
Place: england, northern england, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
79%
The Lost Prince (2003)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 180 min.
Story: The Lost Prince is an acclaimed British television drama about the life of Prince John – youngest child of Britain's King George V and Queen Mary – who died at the age of 13 in 1919. John suffered from epileptic seizures and an autism-like ...
Style: serious, captivating, sincere, touching, depressing ...
Audience: kids
Plot: royal family, epilepsy, disability, british royal family, intrigue, state affairs, separation from family, family in crisis, world war one, countryside, monarchy, great war ...
Time: 1910s, 1900s, edwardian era, pre world war one
Place: england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
78%
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Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, Germany, Sweden, Hungary
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Djata is a care-free 12-year-old growing up in a brutal dictatorship shut off from the outside world. When the government imprisons his father, Peter, and Djata and his mother Hannah are labeled traitors, the boy will not rest until he sees his ...
Style: disturbing, suspense, captivating, suspenseful, tense ...
Plot: distopia, social problems, life is a bitch, social misfits, family relations, mother son relationship, dysfunctional family, rebel, society, children in wartime, coming of age, youth ...
Time: distant future
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After We Leave (2019)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: A sci-fi drama about a man struggling to find his wife, who he abandoned six years ago, before their visa to emmigrate to an off-world colony expires.
Style: stylized, serious, philosophical, suspenseful, exciting ...
Plot: dystopic future, space travel, colony, post apocalypse, fate of humanity, outer space, twists and turns, danger, demolished city, apocalypse, life & death, imaginary ...
Time: future
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Royal Shakespeare Company - Richard II (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 180 min.
Story: A monarch ordained by God to lead his people. But he is also a man of very human weakness. A man whose vanity threatens to divide the great houses of England and drag his people into a dynastic civil war that will last 100 years.
Style: captivating, disturbing
Audience: date night
Plot: medieval, ruler, royalty, king, palace intrigue, power struggle, kingdom, power, political intrigue, monarchy, intrigue, civil war ...
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Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 78 min.
Story: A robot messenger (Tilda Swinton) is sent to earth to appeal to humans to live in peace. Originally designed to go to MIT, by mistake she ends up in Amman, Jordan during the Black September riots of 1970. Sullivan, a British journalist, (Bill ...
Style: captivating, thought provoking, exciting, suspense, cult classic ...
Plot: human android relationship, politics, alien, reporter, journalist, robot, extraterrestrial, androids, female robot, cyborgs, partisan, hotel room ...
Time: 70s
Place: middle east, jordan, palestine
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77%
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Imitation Girl (2017)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: A mysterious young woman materializes in the middle of the southwestern desert, where each step teaches her about her new world and her new body. As she assumes her new life, she discovers she has a twin with whom she shares more than just an ...
Style: psychological, tense, suspenseful, captivating
Plot: body double, imitation, twins, female protagonist, space, self discovery, secret, introspection, twin sister, desert, outer space, alien ...
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Fahrenheit 451 (1966)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 112 min.
Story: In the future, the government maintains control of public opinion by outlawing literature and maintaining a group of enforcers, known as "firemen", to perform the necessary book burnings. Fireman Montag begins to question the morality of ...
Style: futuristic, atmospheric, thought provoking, tense, stylized ...
Plot: distopia, totalitarianism, dystopian future, dystopia, book, resistance, fighting the system, rebellion, oppression, social decay, justice, dystopic future ...
Time: future, year 1966, distant future, near future, 60s
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Beyond the Stars (1989)
Genre: Sci-Fi, Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 88 min.
Story: This Sci-Fi Drama centers around the teen-age Eric, son of a computer scientist who worked for the Apollo mission which sent the first human to the moon. Eric, determined to become an astronaut himself one day, befriends Paul Andrews, the first man ...
Style: disturbing, exciting, captivating, suspense, enigmatic ...
Plot: astronaut, secret, outer space, waking up, male protagonist, tragedy, promise, father son relationship, space exploration, mother son relationship, space, disease ...
Time: year 1989
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La principessa triste (1996)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: The relationship that blossomed between Diana, Princess of Wales, and Captain James Hewitt. Based on Hewitt's book.
Plot: royal romance, royalty, royal family, heir to the throne, queen elizabeth ii, princess diana, prince, extramarital affair, marriage, love, queen of england, scandal ...
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Testament (1983)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Nuclear war in the United States is portrayed in a realistic and believable manner. The story is told through the eyes of a woman who is struggling to take care of her family. The entire movie takes place in a small suburban town outside San ...
Style: depressing, disturbing, bleak, emotional, tense ...
Plot: nuclear war, cold war, nuclear holocaust, dystopian future, apocalypse, post apocalypse, tragedy, small town, death, visceral, danger, life is a bitch ...
Time: 20th century, future, year 1983, 80s, near future
Place: california, usa, bay area
⇓ similarity ⇓
76%
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Hamlet (1969)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 117 min.
Story: Tony Richardson's Hamlet is based on his own stage production. Filmed entirely within the Roundhouse in London (a disused train shed), it is shot almost entirely in close up, focusing the attention on faces and language rather than action.
Style: fairy tale, tense, serious, psychological, atmospheric ...
Plot: shakespeare, hamlet, tragedy, medieval, european, murder, tragic love, ghost, haunted by the past, royal family, parents and children, couples ...
Time: year 1969, middle ages
Place: denmark, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
76%
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Project-M (2014)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Four astronauts have to stay 1000 days in a space station around Earth in order to prove that a trip to Europa, one of Jupiter's moon, is possible. The experience goes well until something happens on earth.
Style: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
Plot: astronaut, space station, space mission, space exploration, spacecraft, cosmonaut, human in outer space, mission, space program, trapped in space, outer space
Time: near future, future
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76%
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The Deal (2022)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A mother fights to save her ailing daughter after a global pandemic worse than any seen before ravaged the planet, leaving resources so scarce you must pay for them with your life.
Style: captivating, suspenseful, harsh, dramatic, tense
Plot: distopia, daughter, mother daughter relationship, mother, female protagonist, fight, illness, adaptation, fighting illness, survival, parents and children, mother and daughter ...
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76%
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