Movies and TV shows like Little Women 1970
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Little Women (1970)
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Genre: Drama, Family, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 225 min.
TV show
Story:
Adaptation of Louisa May Alcott's novel.
Style:
family saga, heartfelt, sentimental, melancholic, romantic drama, period piece, costume drama, period drama, nostalgic
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
coming of age, civil war, sisters, sisterhood, literary, domestic drama, independent woman, gender roles, mother and daughter, autobiography, bittersweet, intimate, dialogue, class differences, small town life, christmas, american civil war, sibling relationship, family relations, sister sister relationship
Time:
19th century, victorian era, 20th century, 1860s
Place:
new england, massachusetts
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Most similar movies to Little Women
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out period drama, sentimental, period piece and costume drama films and TV series with plots about literary, family relations, coming of age, love and romance, friendship, costume and bittersweet mostly in Drama, Romance and Family genres. Some movies like Little Women: Anne of Avonlea (1975), The Brontes of Haworth (1973), Romance in the Alley (2024), Echoes (1988), The Forsyte Saga (1967). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: UK
Duration: 350 min.
TV show
Story:
Anne of Avonlea is a film made for television 4-part mini-series, developed in United Kingdom. It is based on Anne of Avonlea, the sequel to Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery.
Style:
heartfelt, pastoral, sentimental, period drama
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
anne of green gables, literary, friendship, personal growth, coming of age, small town life, family drama, young adult, school teacher, children, dialogue, getting home ...
Time:
victorian era, 19th century
Place:
canada
Similarity:
95%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, USA, Ireland
Duration: 59 min.
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Story:
Set against the backdrop of the American Civil War, the story follows sisters Jo, Meg, Beth and Amy March on their journey from childhood to adulthood. With the help of their mother, Marmee, and while their father is away at war, the girls navigate ...
Style:
costume drama, period piece, touching, sentimental, romantic ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
family bonds, civil war, sibling relationship, first love, coming of age, christmas, sister, friendship, sister sister relationship, women, everyday life, parent child relationship ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, 1860s
Place:
usa, new england, massachusetts
Similarity:
84%
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
Dramatized biography of the Brontë sisters Charlotte, Anne and Emily.
Style:
costume drama, atmospheric, melancholic, educational, period drama ...
Plot:
writers, biopic, character study, sisterhood, isolation, sisters, creative process, literary, adaptation, romanticism, inheritance, sibling rivalry ...
Time:
victorian era, 19th century
Similarity:
79%
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: China
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story:
The Zhuang, Lin, and Wu families live in a small alley in Suzhou during the late 1970s. As societal changes unfold, the parents and children in each household experience dramatic shifts in their fates, forever altering their lives and relationships.
Style:
family saga, reflective, melancholic, period piece, earnest ...
Plot:
social change, intimate, social realism, bittersweet, coming of age, small town life, urbanization, family secret
Time:
70s
Similarity:
73%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
Echoes is an American si-fi drama miniseries based on the novel of the same name by Maeve Binchy. It was produced for Channel 4 by Working Title Films in association with RTÉ.
Style:
melancholic, reflective, sentimental, mysterious
Plot:
coming of age, class differences, bittersweet, literary, love triangle, manhunt, time travel, obsession, university, pregnancy, school
Time:
1950s, 50s
Place:
ireland
Similarity:
68%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story:
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:
61%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 57 min.
TV show
Story:
This is the acclaimed 2008 BBC adaptation of the famous Jane Austen novel. While it originally aired as a 3-part miniseries, this home video release includes a single uninterrupted version of the entire film.
Style:
costume drama, period piece, romantic drama, historical drama, sincere ...
Audience:
girls' night, date night
Plot:
countryside, romanticism, love and romance, society, sister sister relationship, love triangle, wooing, manners, rich and poor, rich man poor woman, love story, unrequited love ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, georgian era, regency period
Place:
london, europe, britain, england
Similarity:
60%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 180 min.
TV show
Story:
Set in 1870s England, the story tells of Annabella Lagrange and the terrible secret her wealthy parents have kept from her. When she finally learns the truth, she runs away and eventually finds solace in the company of her family's former ...
Style:
costume drama, romantic drama, realistic, sexual, serious ...
Plot:
victorian england, young love, age difference, wedding, friendship, society, family relations, self discovery, working class, youth, love and romance, coming of age ...
Time:
victorian era, 19th century, 1870s
Place:
england, britain
Similarity:
59%
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Genre: Drama, Family
Country: UK
Duration: 280 min.
TV show
Story:
Anne of Green Gables is a made-for-television British mini-series directed by Joan Craft based upon the novel, Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery.
Style:
pastoral, sentimental, period piece, period drama
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
anne of green gables, literary, imagination, dreaming, coming of age, family drama, friendship, innocence, adoption, small town, resilience, identity ...
Place:
canada
Similarity:
57%
Genre: Drama, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
With their father away as a chaplain in the Civil War, Jo, Meg, Beth and Amy grow up with their mother in somewhat reduced circumstances. They are a close family who inevitably have their squabbles and tragedies. But the bond holds even when, later, ...
Style:
sentimental, costume drama, uplifting, period piece, tear jerker ...
Audience:
girls' night, kids, family outing, teens, date night ...
Plot:
sisters, family values, coming of age, friendship, women, christmas, family bonds, first love, life changing experience, love and romance, everyday life, civil war ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, 1800s, 90s, ancient times ...
Place:
new york, massachusetts, usa, new england, paris france ...
Similarity:
56%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 60 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, period piece, captivating, sentimental, psychological ...
Audience:
girls' night, chick flick
Plot:
class differences, social class, wealthy family, class system, house, sister, society, love affair, love and romance, couples, couple relations, middle class ...
Time:
20th century, edwardian era, victorian era, 1910s, 1900s
Place:
england, britain
Similarity:
54%
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: UK
Duration: 225 min.
TV show
Story:
Tom Brown's Schooldays is a 1971 television serial adaptation of the Thomas Hughes novel of the same name.
It was originally shown on the BBC1 Sunday tea time slot, which often showed adaptations of classic novels aimed at a family audience. ...
Style:
period piece, dramatic, period drama, earnest
Plot:
coming of age, bullying, corporal punishment, boarding school, high school life, public school, friendship, literary, class system, boarding house, peer pressure, english countryside ...
Time:
victorian era, 19th century
Similarity:
54%
Genre: Drama, Family, Romance
Country: Thailand
Duration: 90 min.
TV show
Story:
Khunchai Puttipat...a young doctor with his love without any distinction. His mother was the daughter of a rich Chinese merchant. The handsome doctor must forget all the rules that he had followed his entire life when he met a commoner woman who ...
Style:
historical romance, thrilling, captivating, psychological, period piece ...
Plot:
arranged marriage, forbidden love, class differences, fake marriage, life is a bitch, couple relations, marriage of convenience, marriage, love affair, relationship problems, social problems, family problems ...
Time:
20th century
Similarity:
54%
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.
Style:
melancholic, art house, period drama
Plot:
victorian england, country house, domestic drama, materialism, intimate, inheritance, legacy, adaptation, relic, literary, obsession, class differences ...
Time:
victorian era, 1870s
Place:
britain, england
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 53 min.
TV show
Story:
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:
50%
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:
50%
280K
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 135 min.
Story:
Four sisters come of age in America in the aftermath of the Civil War.
Style:
romantic, sentimental, inspirational, sweet, melancholic ...
Audience:
chick flick, family outing, kids, date night, teens ...
Plot:
love, sisters, coming of age, writers, female protagonist, generosity, friendship, sister sister relationship, publisher, women's rights, sister, aspiring writer ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, 1860s, 2010s, year 2019
Place:
new york, france, paris france, massachusetts, usa
Similarity:
47%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Portugal
Duration: 262 min.
TV show
Story:
A story about doomed love between two people from different worlds and the impact in their lives.
Style:
tragic ending, romantic, family saga, dramatic, poignant ...
Plot:
literary, forbidden love, tragic romance, star crossed lovers, heartbreak, fate, class conflict, family honor, fatalism, obsessive love, betrayal, social realism ...
Time:
19th century, year 1979
Place:
portugal
Similarity:
47%
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 55 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:
contemplative, reflective, poignant, melancholic, wistful ...
Plot:
literary, intimate, elderly man, character study, bittersweet, domestic drama, cottage, gender roles, old woman, elderly woman, jewelry, loss of husband ...
Time:
20th century, edwardian era, 1930s
Place:
england, london
Similarity:
47%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, Germany
Duration: 360 min.
TV show
Story:
Patriach Alex reigns over the magnificent country estate Endellion with a mildness that infuriates his eldest son Stephen, a high-powered financier, but perfectly suits his younger, more relaxed son Charles. After many years of unruffled ...
Style:
family saga, tense, psychological, disturbing, captivating ...
Plot:
jealousy, english countryside, family drama, family problems, family secret, mansion, eccentric family, life is a bitch, family relations, scandal, revenge, summer ...
Similarity:
46%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story:
This sprawling BBC saga follows an aristocratic family through three generations of power, wealth, intrigue, and scandal in Victorian England. Based on Anthony Trollope’s “political” novels .
Style:
historical drama, spiritual, costume drama, soap opera, period drama ...
Plot:
marriage of convenience, victorian england, spirituality, aristocrat, greed, government, cousin cousin relationship, politics, prime minister, member of parliament, aristocracy, scandal ...
Time:
victorian era, 19th century
Place:
england
Similarity:
44%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: China
TV show
Story:
The Story of a Noble Family (Chinese: 金粉世家) is a 2003 Chinese television series based on Zhang Henshui's novel Jinfen Shijia, directed by Li Dawei. The series was first broadcast in 2003 on China Central Television in mainland China.
Style:
historical romance, romantic drama, family saga, disturbing, captivating ...
Plot:
class differences, love and romance, love story, relationship problems, in love, love affair, rich and poor, relationships, male female relationship, romantic relationship, couple relations, social differences ...
Time:
1920s
Place:
china, shanghai
Similarity:
42%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 780 min.
TV show
Story:
This thirteen-part series explores just how painful love can be for young people. Would-be writer Edward Richardson is in love with heiress Lydia Aspen and wants her all to himself. Lydia professes to be in love with him, but her first love is ...
Style:
poignant, romantic, melancholic, reflective, costume drama ...
Plot:
heiress, young love, coming of age, heartbreak, jealousy, love triangle, bittersweet, literary, unrequited love, social class, romantic rivalry, flapper ...
Time:
1920s
Place:
england
Similarity:
42%
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 300 min.
TV show
Story:
Adaptation of the Dickens novel.
Style:
sentimental, lyrical, historical drama, period drama, wistful
Audience:
adult
Plot:
charles dickens, coming of age, literary, family conflict, social class, character study, friendship, english countryside, bittersweet, resilience, empathy, dialogue ...
Time:
victorian era, 19th century
Similarity:
40%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story:
Jane Austen's classic novel about the prejudice that occurred between the 19th century classes and the pride which would keep lovers apart.
Style:
romantic, costume drama, atmospheric, stylized, period piece ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, date night, kids
Plot:
prejudice, love and romance, fall in love, aristocracy, wooing, initially antagonists, social differences, looking for love, opposites attract, love story, unlikely couple, countryside ...
Time:
18th century, 19th century, victorian era, 1810s, 1800s ...
Place:
england, britain, europe, london
Similarity:
40%
Genre: Drama, Family, Romance, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
Little House on the Prairie is an American Western drama television series, starring Michael Landon, Melissa Gilbert, and Karen Grassle, about a family living on a farm in Walnut Grove, Minnesota, in the 1870s and 1880s.
Style:
sentimental, sincere, touching, feel good, serious ...
Audience:
kids, family friendly, toddlers, pre-teens, family outing ...
Plot:
farm, parents and children, family life, pioneer, small town, love and romance, small town life, social relations, siblings relations, teachers and students, rural setting, optimism ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, 1890s, 1870s, 1880s ...
Place:
minnesota, kansas
Similarity:
40%
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: Sweden
Duration: 262 min.
TV show
Story:
Two siblings, Ebba and Didrik, live in small society by the sea. An ordinary family with usual struggles. They're looking for love in different ways, but it's easier said than done.
Style:
emotional, melancholic, realistic, heartbreaking, masterpiece
Audience:
kids
Plot:
family drama, siblings, seaside town, domestic drama, coming of age, small town life, adolescence, family secret, everyday life, intimate, youth, loss of innocence ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 28 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:
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:
38%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, History, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 78 min.
TV show
Story:
A heartbreaking first love story of a man who was destined to be the fate of two women who were bus guides in the 1980s, and a melodrama-comedy of shining youths who were destined to be brilliant.
Style:
romantic drama, sentimental, comedy drama, melancholic, period drama
Audience:
adult
Plot:
female friendship, coming of age, sacrifice, first love, love triangle, nostalgia, sisterhood, self discovery, working class, romantic rivalry, longing, bittersweet ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
korea
Similarity:
36%
Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story:
Three young women from very different backgrounds meet, become friends and share experiences when they all gain positions as nannies in the wealthy households of London's exclusive Berkeley Square.
Style:
period piece, costume drama, historical drama, serious, realistic ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
nanny, abbey, family relations, child abuse, spanish civil war, civil rights, human rights, colleague, feminist, butler, bittersweet, lifestyle ...
Time:
1900s, middle ages, edwardian era, 19th century, victorian era ...
Place:
london, england, britain, europe
Similarity:
36%
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