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The Beggar Bride (1997)
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The Beggar Bride (1997)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 150 min.
TV show
Story: How far will she go for money? "Don't you see, Billy, people like them owe people like us." Young, beautiful and living on the breadline with a feckless husband and a sickly child, Angela Harper decides to take matters into her own hands in order to save her family from the poverty trap. She hits on the perfect plan after noticing a newspaper feature on the once divorced and once widowed lord, Sir Fabian Ormoerod. She will marry the man and then hit him for a massive divorce settlement. And so the stunning Ms Angela Harper, successful lingerie buyer with an alluring independent streak is born...
Plot: jealousy, greed, bigamy, money problems, scam, marriage for money, greedy woman, wife pregnant by another man, nylons, cuckolded husband, stockings

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out period drama, captivating, realistic and serious films and TV series with plots about greed, female nudity, jealousy, society, family relations, costume and social differences mostly in Drama genres. Some movies like The Beggar Bride: The Peasants (1972), Our Mutual Friend (1998), A Dance to the Music of Time (1997), Sweet Home, Sweet Honey (2015), Upstairs Downstairs (2010). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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The Peasants (1972)
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 653 min.
TV show
Story: In a bucolic Polish hamlet, the tense relationship between a father and son reaches a boiling point when the men lose their hearts to the same woman and vie for her affections. Based on Wladyslaw Reymont's Nobel Prize-winning book and helmed by ...
Plot: peasant, greed, religion, country, church, poverty, easter, tradition, christmas, revenge, jealousy, agriculture ...
Time: 19th century
Place: poland
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95%
Our Mutual Friend (1998)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 350 min.
TV show
Story: Intertwining tales of love, greed, and secret identities in Charles Dickens's 1860s London.
Style: costume drama, period piece, historical drama, realistic, serious ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: victorian england, charles dickens, inheritance, love, makeover, betrayal, unrequited love, lifestyle, dishonesty, life is a bitch, love and romance, society ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, 1800s
Place: britain, england, london, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
93%
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 ⇓
73%
Sweet Home, Sweet Honey (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 35 min.
TV show
Story: Even though Oh Bom is in a difficult financial situation, she is still bright and positive. She works part-time work at a factory. Kang Ma-Roo is a kind and simple young man. He is naive about the world. An Tae-Ho is the section chief of a company. ...
Style: captivating
Plot: male female relationship, relationship vs career, rich and poor, couple relations, marriage for money, financial problem, marriage of convenience, money problems
Place: korea
⇓ similarity ⇓
73%
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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 ⇓
68%
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The Love Cult (1966)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 65 min.
Story: A magician/hypnotist gets the idea that he can make more money (and have a better time) by starting a sex cult than by continuing his magic act, so he becomes Brother Eros whose motto is "Love is all that counts."
Style: independent film
Plot: money, exploitation, scam, greed, group sex, jealousy, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, sex, cheating, female nudity, rape, cautionary tale ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
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To Be the Best (1991)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, Canada, France
Duration: 192 min.
TV show
Story: The Barbara Taylor Bradford trilogy that began with A Woman of Substance ends with this epic tale! Paula O' Neill feuds with her cousins as she fights to save her grandmother's business-and struggles to salvage her marriage.
Plot: heiress, jealousy, security, female protagonist, assault, kickass, cousin cousin relationship, cynicism, control, department store, business, competition ...
Place: hong kong, yorkshire, macau
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
Summer of Rockets (2019)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Samuel, a Russian-born Jewish inventor who specialises in the development of hearing aids, is tasked with a secret mission by MI5 to use his technological expertise to contribute to western Cold War efforts. Following the tensions of the space race ...
Style: disturbing, captivating, tense, period drama
Plot: inventor, jewish family, cold war, scientist, inventions and discoveries, spy, secret mission, family relations, husband wife relationship, mission, invention, father son relationship ...
Time: 1950s
Place: russia, britain
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
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My Night with Reg (1997)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 105 min.
TV show
Story: A group of English gay men get together to reminisce. They are all coming from a wake for one of their circle who's died of AIDS. It's that terrifying time between the outbreak of AIDS and the development of an AIDS test and as the ...
Style: independent film
Plot: aids, gay, hiv, gay subtext, gay interest, infidelity, love triangle, dinner party, handyman, loss of lover
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
The Life and Adventures of Nick Nickleby (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story: A modern interpretation of the classic Dickens novel.
Style: captivating, emotional, touching, serious, tense ...
Plot: life is a bitch, family relations, parents and children, rich and poor, escapades, injustice, society, family problems, social problems, relationships, family life, financial problem ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: england, london, united kingdom
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
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Money Wars (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 54 min.
TV show
Story: The story begins with an inventor and entrepreneur's suicide. Despite his company being on the brink of a breakthrough he is out of money and out of time. All is lost. His son vows to put things right, but he first has to pick himself up and ...
Style: captivating
Plot: revenge, banker, inventions and discoveries, romancing partners, social problems, relationships, money problems, inventor, bank, coping, business, father and son ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
He Knew He Was Right (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 240 min.
TV show
Story: 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 ...
Style: serious, realistic, stylized, historical drama, romantic drama ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: victorian england, marriage, inheritance, broken engagement, dishonesty, newlyweds, couple relations, gossip and rumors, diplomat, insecurity, gossip, piano ...
Time: victorian era, 19th century, 1860s
Place: britain, england, london, alps
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
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Oliver Twist (1985)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 360 min.
TV show
Story: Adaptation of the novel by Charles Dickens.
Style: period drama
Plot: charles dickens, child, children
Time: 1830s
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
 6.5
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Cold Call (2019)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 210 min.
TV show
Story: A single mother gets caught up in a cold call scam that turns her world upside down.
Style: captivating, tense, suspense, detective
Plot: fraud, scam, single mother, mother and daughter, anonymous telephone call, trap, caper, single parent, family problems, trapped, threatening telephone call, social problems ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
Great Expectations (1981)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Mini-series based on the novel by Charles Dickens.
Style: period drama
Plot: charles dickens, victorian england, rags to riches, orphan, benefactor
Time: 19th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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The Endz (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Portrayal of life on the streets of Manchester, giving an insight into the young unsettling lives of city kids.
Style: suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, tense, unusual plot structure
Plot: revenge, father son relationship, racism, muslim, murder of father, drug dealer, police, kidnapping, murder, jealousy, male female relationship, car bomb ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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RubĂ­ (2020)
Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Young journalist Carla Rangel is tasked with interviewing a wealthy, mysterious woman named RubĂ­ about her storied past involving passion, seduction, betrayal and greed.
Style: emotional, serious, realistic, captivating, telenovela
Plot: femme fatale, female protagonist, jealousy, unfulfillment, up and down relationship, social differences, betrayal, journalism, ambition, manipulation, love and romance, society ...
Place: latin america
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
The Spoils of Poynton (1970)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 168 min.
TV show
Story: Adele Gereth has taken young Fleda Vetch under her wing. Adele is intensely houseproud, and sees a potential future mistress of the house in Freda, and an inheritor of her life's work.
Plot: art collector, country estate, collector, materialism
Time: victorian era, 1870s
Place: britain, england
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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Body & Soul (1993)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 300 min.
TV show
Story: A nun, played by Kristin Scott Thomas, leaves the convent temporarily to help save her family knitting mill from bankruptcy following the death of her brother. Outside the convent she becomes a fairly shrewd businesswoman and feels attracted to one ...
Style: period drama
Plot: nun, monk, nudity, female nudity, mirror, convent, female full frontal nudity
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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Bonobo (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 103 min.
Story: A happily married young couple must carefully evaluate their relationship and trust in one another, plus own moral standing when a potentially seedy yet highly financial offer is presented to them in a time of recession.
Plot: faust, sex, paranoia, prostitution, infidelity, greed, jealousy, love, female nudity, adulteress, money, marriage ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
Anglo Saxon Attitudes (1992)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 229 min.
TV show
Story: Three part miniseries about Gerald Middleton, an aging historian, who reflects on his youth, relationships (especially the one with his best friend's girl), career (shadowed by a scandal), and current issues, like his marriage and kids.
Plot: 007, infidelity, excavation, introspection, husband wife relationship, historian, scandal, professor, female nudity, topless
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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 228
Teresa Raquin (1980)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 173 min.
TV show
Story: In order to be together, lovers Therese and Laurent plot to kill Therese's husband, Camille, but find themselves haunted by their deeds and Madame Raquin's silent judgment.
Style: period piece, period drama
Plot: female nudity, destiny, adultery, murder, female full frontal nudity
Time: victorian era
Place: paris france, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
The Rotters' Club (2005)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 172 min.
TV show
Story: Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais' adaptation of Jonathon Coe's novel follow a group of Birmingham teenagers, and their families, through the 1970s.
Style: captivating, psychological, disturbing
Plot: teenage boy, teenage life, friendship, group of friends, best friend, lifestyle, grownups, friends, adolescence vs adulthood
Time: 70s
Place: britain, birmingham alabama
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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The Barchester Chronicles (1982)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 385 min.
TV show
Story: When a crusade against the Church of England's practice of self-enrichment misfires, scandal taints the cosy community of Barchester when their local church becomes the object of a scathing, investigative report.
Style: costume drama, historical drama, period drama
Plot: chubby, literary, church of england, henpecked husband, cathedral, cello, bishop, costume, slapping
Time: 19th century, victorian era
Place: britain
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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The Charmer (1987)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 312 min.
TV show
Story: The Charmer was a 1987 British television serial set in the 1930s, and starring Nigel Havers as Ralph Ernest Gorse, a seducing conman and murderer, Rosemary Leach as Joan Plumleigh-Bruce, the smitten victim widow and Bernard Hepton as Donald ...
Plot: fraud, con man, interwar period, criminal as protagonist, male protagonist, murderer, execution, murder, womanizer, army, murder trial
Time: 1930s, 20th century
Place: england
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
All Passion Spent (1986)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 158 min.
TV show
Story: his three-part miniseries begins with elderly Lady Slane (Wendy Hiller) sitting watchfully by the deathbed of her husband. Tended by her equally aged French maid Genoux (Eileen Way), who has served her faithfully for a lifetime, Lady Slane deals ...
Style: period drama
Plot: old woman, mother daughter relationship, moving, jewelry, elderly woman, loss of husband, pearl, wallpaper
Time: edwardian era, 1930s
Place: london, england
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
The Ginger Tree (1989)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 240 min.
TV show
Story: In 1903, a young Scotswoman goes to join her diplomat fiancé in Manchuria. She marries him, and finds herself in a war zone. Disenchanted with her husband, she falls in love with a married Japanese nobleman, Count Kentaro Kurihama, and bears him a ...
Style: epic
Plot: world war two, army, mother child separation, costume
Place: japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
Nicholas Nickleby (1977)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 330 min.
TV show
Story: Adaptation of the Dickens novel.
Style: period drama
Plot: charles dickens, injustice, obese woman, embezzlement, director, teacher, simpleton, male female relationship, eye patch, one eyed man, caning
Time: victorian era, 19th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
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Vanity Fair (2018)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: An adaptation of the 1848 novel by William Makepeace Thackeray.
Style: stylized, atmospheric, costume drama, period piece, historical drama ...
Plot: social differences, social climbing, british, rise to the top, society, dysfunctional family, life turned upside down, napoleonic era, female protagonist, life philosophy, unrequited love, time machine ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, georgian era, regency period
Place: england, britain, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
Arthur Hailey's The Moneychangers (1976)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 320 min.
TV show
Story: This is the story of the happenings at a major bank.
Plot: money, conspiracy, entrepreneurship, bank, greed, banking, slum, limousine, prison, mental illness, suicide, adultery ...
Time: 70s, year 1976
Place: bahamas
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
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