Movies like Edward II 1970

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Edward II (1970)
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Edward II (1970)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: UK
Duration: 125 min.
Story: The reign of Edward II, King of England, is troubled from the start when he brings his male lover, hated by the nobles, out of exile.
Plot: medieval, royalty, shakespeare, lgbtq, gay, queen, homosexual, king, murder, royal family, british royal family, monarch, infidelity, monarchy, archbishop, mourning, male homosexuality, killer, prince, death, torture, villain, homosexuality, blood, homosexual love ...
Time: medieval times
Place: britain

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out captivating, period drama, serious and realistic films with plots about medieval, royalty, royal family, king, queen, monarch and shakespeare mostly in Drama, History and Biography genres. Some movies like Edward II: Gunpowder, Treason & Plot (2004), The Lion in Winter (1968), Henry VI Part 2 (1983), Macbeth (1971), The Hollow Crown (2012). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Edward II (1991)
Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Country: UK, Japan
Duration: 87 min.
Story: In this Derek Jarman version of Christopher Marlowe's Elizabethan drama, in modern costumes and settings, Plantagenet king Edward II hands the power-craving nobility the perfect excuse by taking as lover besides his diplomatic wife, the French ...
Style: realistic, serious, stylized, factual, homoerotic ...
Plot: gay, gay interest, homosexual, royal family, conspiracy, royalty, lgbt, uncle nephew relationship, brother brother relationship, betrayal, love and romance, state affairs ...
Time: middle ages, year 1991, 90s, 14th century
Place: london
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95%
Gunpowder, Treason & Plot (2004)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: UK
Duration: 205 min.
Story: A BBC miniseries based loosely on the lives of Mary, Queen of Scots, and her son James I of England.
Style: historical drama, realistic, captivating, serious, political ...
Plot: royal family, king, queen, intrigue, execution, tudors, coronation, royalty, monarchy, monarch, power, betrayal ...
Time: 17th century, 16th century, middle ages, ancient times
Place: england, scotland, britain, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
86%
The Third Part of King Henry VI (1983)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 211 min.
Story: The life of King Henry the Sixth, in three parts.
Plot: shakespeare, british history, medieval, royalty, king of england, shakespeare play
⇓ similarity ⇓
77%
The Lion in Winter (1968)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 134 min.
Story: 1183 AD: King Henry II's three sons all want to inherit the throne, but he won't commit to a choice. They and his wife variously plot to force him.
Style: suspense, political, factual, atmospheric, realistic ...
Plot: christmas, king, power struggle, political intrigue, british history, dysfunctional family, infidelity, medieval, royalty, royal family, manipulation, british royal family ...
Time: middle ages, medieval times, 12th century, 20th century, year 1968
Place: england, france, britain
⇓ similarity ⇓
73%
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Henry VI Part 2 (1983)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 203 min.
Story: The life of King Henry the Sixth, in three parts.
Plot: shakespeare, british history, royalty, chivalry, medieval, sorcery, king of england, shakespeare play
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71%
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Macbeth (1971)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 140 min.
Story: A ruthlessly ambitious Scottish lord siezes the throne with the help of his scheming wife and a trio of witches.
Style: disturbing, visual, bleak, atmospheric, spiritual ...
Plot: shakespeare, medieval, murder, guilt, witch, prophecy, macbeth, royalty, betrayal, witchcraft, knight, ambition ...
Time: 11th century, middle ages, medieval times, year 1971, 20th century
Place: scotland, eastern europe, england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
66%
The Hollow Crown (2012)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: UK
Duration: 150 min.
TV show
Story: The Hollow Crown is a series of British television films featuring William Shakespeare's History Plays. The first Season is an adaptation of Shakespeare's second historical tetralogy, the Henriad: Richard II, Henry IV, Part I and Henry ...
Style: serious, captivating, historical drama, epic, stylized ...
Audience: date night
Plot: king, royal family, queen, medieval, betrayal, royalty, shakespeare, heir to the throne, battles, power struggle, political intrigue, historical character ...
Time: 15th century, middle ages, medieval times, 14th century
Place: england, britain, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
Alfred the Great (1969)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: UK
Duration: 122 min.
Story: While Old England is being ransacked by roving Danes in the 9th century, Alfred is planning to join the priesthood. But observing the rape of his land, he puts away his religious vows to take up arms against the invaders, leading the English ...
Style: epic, exciting, captivating, realistic, serious ...
Plot: viking, medieval, royalty, monarch, renaissance, antiquity, historical event, british royal family, royal family, barbarian, monarchy, conservative ...
Time: middle ages, medieval times, 9th century, year 1969
Place: britain, england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
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Monarch (2000)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 109 min.
Story: From double BAFTA nominated Writer and Director John Walsh. Monarch is part fact, part fiction and unfolds around one night when the injured ruler arrives at a manor house closed for the season.
Style: period drama
Plot: royalty, monarch, monarchy, assassination, renaissance, queen, british royal family, royal family, tudors, biopic, king, inheritance ...
Place: england
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
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Becket (1964)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 148 min.
Story: King Henry II of England has trouble with the Church. When the Archbishop of Canterbury dies, he has a brilliant idea. Rather than appoint another pious cleric loyal to Rome and the Church, he will appoint his old drinking and wenching buddy, Thomas ...
Style: epic, period piece, realistic, clever, talky ...
Plot: religion, friendship, british history, medieval, royalty, biopic, politics, catholic, saint, martyr, monarch, betrayal ...
Time: middle ages, 12th century, medieval times, 20th century
Place: england, britain, europe, london, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
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King Lear (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 156 min.
Story: Sir Ian McKellen gives a tour-de-force performance as Shakespeare's tragic monarch, in this special television adaptation of the Royal Shakespeare Company production of one of the playwright's most enduring and haunting works.
Plot: shakespeare, medieval, mythology, royalty, bible, ancient history, myth, theater, dancing, death of king, betrayal, tragedy ...
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57%
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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56%
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The King (2019)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Romance, War
Country: UK, Hungary, USA, Australia
Duration: 140 min.
Story: In 15th-century England, Prince Hal transforms from wayward wastrel to powerful king after he reluctantly inherits the throne and its many conflicts.
Style: period piece, costume drama, bleak, disturbing, captivating ...
Audience: date night, adult
Plot: medieval, british history, king, father son relationship, king of england, kingdom, boy, crown, knight, death of father, lie, royal court ...
Time: 15th century, middle ages, medieval times, 2010s, year 2019
Place: england, britain, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
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The Queen (2009)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: UK
TV show
Story: The Queen was a 2009 British drama-documentary showing Queen Elizabeth II at different points during her life. Broadcast on Channel 4 over five consecutive nights from 29 November 2009, the Queen was portrayed by a different actress in each episode. ...
Style: disturbing, psychological, thought provoking, captivating
Plot: monarch, queen, royal family, british monarchy, queen elizabeth ii, british royal family, female protagonist, queen of england, historical figure, british history, ruler, historical character ...
Place: england, britain
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
The Black Prince (2017)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: UK, India, USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story: The Black Prince follows the story of the last Sikh Maharaja — the son of the powerful ruler Ranjit Singh — who was placed on the throne at the age of five, after the death of his father. In 1849, the young prince was removed from the throne and ...
Style: disturbing, captivating, psychological
Plot: punjabi, royalty, queen victoria, king, cross cultural relations, queen, journey, monarch, culture clash, historical figure, cultural difference, british monarchy ...
Time: victorian era, 19th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
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Henry V (1989)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: UK
Duration: 137 min.
Story: Gritty adaption of William Shakespeare's play about the English King's bloody conquest of France.
Style: epic, realistic, exciting, costume drama, atmospheric ...
Audience: date night
Plot: medieval, battles, shakespeare, king, politics, royal family, war, tragedy, king of england, royalty, love and romance, military ...
Time: 15th century, middle ages, medieval times, year 1989, ancient times
Place: england, france, europe, britain
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
Anne of the Thousand Days (1969)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: UK
Duration: 145 min.
Story: Henry VIII of England discards one wife, Katharine of Aragon, who has failed to produce a male heir, in favor of the young and beautiful Anne Boleyn.
Style: period piece, historical drama, talky, epic, fairy tale ...
Plot: tudors, king, british history, royalty, british monarchy, medieval, royal family, monarch, renaissance, adultery, biopic, british royal family ...
Time: 16th century, year 1969, ancient times, medieval times, middle ages
Place: england, europe, britain
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
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Elizabeth (1998)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: UK
Duration: 124 min.
Story: The story of the ascension to the throne and the early reign of Queen Elizabeth the First, the endless attempts by her council to marry her off, the Catholic hatred of her and her romance with Lord Robert Dudley.
Style: factual, costume drama, period piece, realistic, historical drama ...
Audience: girls' night, chick flick
Plot: queen, british history, royalty, tudors, queen elizabeth i, historical character, politics, british royal family, head of state, royal court, royal family, political intrigue ...
Time: 16th century, middle ages, victorian era, year 1998, ancient times ...
Place: england, london, britain, scotland, europe ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
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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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47%
A Performance of Macbeth (1979)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 145 min.
Story: Shakespeare's classic tragedy of ambition, witches and murder.
Plot: shakespeare, macbeth, medieval, able to see the dead, live action
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46%
Mary Queen of Scots (2018)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: UK, USA, China
Duration: 124 min.
Story: Mary Stuart attempts to overthrow her cousin Elizabeth I, Queen of England, only to find herself condemned to years of imprisonment before facing execution.
Style: serious, realistic, costume drama, stylized, period piece ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: royal family, queen, protestant, royal court, throne, queen elizabeth i, tudors, murder, intrigue, british history, betrayal, british monarchy ...
Time: 16th century, middle ages, ancient times
Place: scotland, england, scottish highlands, britain, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
Antony and Cleopatra (1972)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: UK, Spain, Switzerland
Duration: 138 min.
Story: Adaptation of Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra, a historical drama that attempts to bring an epic visual style to the Bard's original stage play. The story concerns Marc Antony's attempts to rule Rome while maintaining a ...
Style: epic, captivating, emotional, gloomy, serious ...
Plot: ancient rome, shakespeare, cleopatra, ancient history, ancient, peplum, couples, royal family, medieval, mythology, bible, ancient egypt ...
Time: 1st century, ancient times, year 1972
Place: italy, egypt
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
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The Bruce (1996)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: UK
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Robert the Bruce unites the Scots in a rebellion against the hated English, led by Edward I. He is supported by various loyal followers, notably the bishop who agrees to recognize his claim and crown him as King of the Scots.
Style: independent film
Plot: medieval, royalty, knight, kingdom, revolution, freedom, struggle, revolutionary, royal family, historical event, revolutionary war, ancient ...
Time: middle ages, medieval times, 14th century
Place: scotland, britain, england, holy land
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
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National Theatre Live: Hamlet (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 217 min.
Story: Benedict Cumberbatch (BBC’s Sherlock, Doctor Strange) plays the title role of Shakespeare’s great tragedy. Now seen by over 900,000 people worldwide, the original broadcast returns to international cinemas to mark National Theatre Live’s 10th ...
Style: entertaining, melancholic, intense, captivating, emotional ...
Plot: shakespeare, medieval, theater, live performance, theatre play, royal court, life & death, obsession, runaway, mother son relationship, sword fight, queen ...
Time: middle ages
Place: europe, denmark
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42%
A Vote for the King of the Romans (2016)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Czech Republic
Story: Czech Television's epic historical film draws on the breathtaking dramatic life of the great of Czech history, King Charles IV.
Style: captivating, thought provoking, tense, disturbing
Plot: king, knight, father son relationship, czech history, european history, aristocrat, royal family, historical character, family relations, power struggle, kingdom, historical figure ...
Time: 14th century, middle ages
Place: central europe
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41%
The Accursed Kings (1972)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: France
Duration: 616 min.
TV show
Story: Set during the reigns of the last five kings of the Capetian dynasty and the first two kings of the House of Valois, the series begins as the French King Philip the Fair, already surrounded by scandal and intrigue, brings a curse upon his family ...
Style: historical drama
Plot: french history, royalty, medieval, royal family, king, peplum, time machine, french royalty, ancient, historical figure, power struggle, manipulation ...
Time: middle ages, medieval times, 14th century
Place: paris france, france
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41%
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Henry VIII (2003)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 193 min.
Story: Henry VIII is a two-part British television movie produced principally by Granada Television for ITV. It chronicles the life of Henry VIII of England from the disintegration of his first marriage to an aging Spanish princess until his death ...
Style: realistic, captivating, serious, cult classic, period piece ...
Plot: tudors, king of england, royal family, ambition, renaissance, dishonesty, head of state, infidelity, historical event, medieval, royalty, uninhibited rivalry ...
Time: 16th century, middle ages
Place: britain, europe, england
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
The King and the Clown (2005)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: South Korea
Duration: 119 min.
Story: Set in the late 15th century during the reign of King Yeonsan, two male street clowns and tightrope walkers, Jangsaeng (Gam Wu-seong) and Gong-gil (Lee Joon-gi), are part of an entertainer troupe. Their manager prostitutes the beautiful Gong-gil to ...
Style: serious, atmospheric, touching, sincere, sageuk ...
Plot: jester, gay, rich and poor, gay asian, gays and lesbians, fighting the system, king, joseon dynasty, state affairs, lifestyle, royal court, society ...
Time: middle ages, 16th century
Place: asia, south korea, korea, bolivia, seoul
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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Hamlet (1964)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 191 min.
Story: A stage production of Hamlet filmed at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre in New York.
Plot: shakespeare, murder, incest, fratricide, dysfunctional family, duel, skull, insanity, haunted by the past, castle, brother sister relationship, tragedy ...
Place: denmark
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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Macbeth (1983)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 148 min.
Story: Macbeth and his wife murder Duncan in order to gain his crown, but the bloodbath doesn't stop there, and things supernatural combine to bring the Macbeths down.
Style: artsy
Plot: shakespeare, medieval, peplum, witch, ambition, macbeth, scottish history, able to see the dead, filicide, murder, prophecy, king ...
Time: medieval times, 11th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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