Movies like The Sea Gull

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The Sea Gull (1968)
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The Sea Gull (1968)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 141 min.
Story: Film adaptation of Anton Chekhov's story of life in rural Russia during the latter part of the 19th century.
Style: sentimental, rough, touching, disturbing, freeze frame, no music
Plot: novelist, love, actress, unrequited love, mistress, brother sister relationship, marriage, vanity, tragic love, love triangle, school teacher, anton chekhov, fishing, jealousy, suicide, anarchist, lake, fame, country estate, suicide attempt, symbolism, dog, horse, loneliness, family relations ...
Time: 19th century
Place: russia

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, period drama, serious and sentimental films with plots about love and romance, love triangle, love, couples, love affair, family relations and fall in love mostly in Romance, Drama and Comedy genres. Some movies like The Sea Gull: The Seagull (2018), Three Sisters (1970), Dreaming of Joseph Lees (1999), Onegin (1999), We'll Live Till Monday (1968). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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The Seagull (2018)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: At a picturesque lakeside estate, a love triangle unfolds between the legendary diva Irina, her lover Boris, and the ingénue Nina.
Style: sentimental, touching, sincere, melancholic, sweet ...
Plot: unrequited love, love triangle, suicide, mother daughter relationship, vanity, novelist, romantic rivalry, young woman, male female relationship, anton chekhov, infidelity, actress ...
Time: victorian era, 19th century
Place: moscow russia, russia
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95%
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Three Sisters (1970)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 165 min.
Story: Laurence Olivier's film of Chekhov's play.
Style: realistic, serious, captivating, rough, touching ...
Plot: family problems, family life, love and romance, life is a bitch, society, infidelity, small town, human nature, unfulfillment, sister sister relationship, husband wife relationship, death of father ...
Time: 1900s
Place: russia, moscow russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
Dreaming of Joseph Lees (1999)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Set in rural England in the 1950s Eva (Samantha Morton) fantasises about her handsome, worldly cousin Joseph Lees (Rupert Graves), with whom she fell in love as a girl. However, stuck in a closed community she becomes the object of someone ...
Style: emotional, serious, realistic, touching, gloomy ...
Plot: unrequited love, obsession, bittersweet, love, post war, love triangle, sister sister relationship, father daughter relationship, farm, male female relationship, love affair, tragic love ...
Time: year 1999, 20th century, 50s
Place: england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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Onegin (1999)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: In the opulent St. Petersburg of the Empire period, Eugene Onegin is a jaded but dashing aristocrat - a man often lacking in empathy, who suffers from restlessness, melancholy and, finally, regret. Through his best friend Lensky, Onegin is ...
Style: atmospheric, period piece, romantic, costume drama, romantic drama ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: unfulfilled love, forbidden love, tragic love, marriage, unrequited love, book, obsession, unfulfillment, love and romance, couple relations, poetry, inheritance ...
Time: 19th century, 1820s, 1800s, year 1999, victorian era
Place: russia, st. petersburg russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
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We'll Live Till Monday (1968)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Ilya Semenovich Melnikov is a history teacher in an ordinary Soviet high school. He is a very good teacher and his students and colleagues treat him with a great deal of respect. However, Melnikov faces a lot of difficulties in his work. In ...
Style: captivating, touching, sentimental, intellectual
Plot: teacher, school teacher, unrequited love, teachers and students, school, fall in love, teaching the ways of the world, responsibility, coming of age, teacher student relationship, older man younger woman relationship, husband wife relationship ...
Time: 20th century
Place: russia, soviet union
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
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Evening (2007)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 117 min.
Story: As Constance (Natasha Richardson) and Nina (Toni Collette) gather at the deathbed of their mother, Ann (Vanessa Redgrave), they learn for the first time that their mother lived an entire other lifetime during one evening 50 years ago. In vivid ...
Style: touching, sentimental, romantic, intense, realistic ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: beautiful scenery, wedding, secrets, mother, haunted by the past, power of love, writers, dying, summer, death of mother, bittersweet, death ...
Time: year 2007, 20th century, 50s, 1950s, 21st century
Place: rhode island, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
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August (1996)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Set in 1890s North Wales over a long, hot August weekend, the Victorian calm of a household is suddenly upset with the arrival of a London couple who impose their city ways and thoughts on the more rurally based family. An adaptation of Anton ...
Style: melancholic, light, realistic, semi serious, humorous ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: dysfunctional family, depression, self discovery, friendship, love triangle, family problems, siblings relations, fall in love, love and romance, midlife crisis, anton chekhov, family relations ...
Time: 19th century, year 1996, edwardian era, victorian era, 1890s
Place: wales, europe, england
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
Sense and Sensibility (1995)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 136 min.
Story: Rich Mr. Dashwood dies, leaving his second wife and her daughters poor by the rules of inheritance. Two daughters are the titular opposites.
Style: romantic, feel good, sincere, costume drama, dramatic ...
Audience: date night, girls' night, chick flick, kids, adult
Plot: love, love story, happy ending, love triangle, love and romance, love affair, fall in love, sisters, social differences, rich and poor, village life, eligible bachelor ...
Time: 19th century, 18th century, 90s, year 1995, 1800s ...
Place: england, britain, europe, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
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Déjà Vu (1997)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story: L.A. shop owner Dana and Englishman Sean meet and fall in love at first sight, but Sean is married and Dana is to marry her business partner Alex.
Style: romantic, romantic drama, independent film, serious, realistic ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: destiny, love, true love, storytelling, death, memory, adultery, stranger, ruby, infidelity, couples, unfulfillment ...
Time: year 1997
Place: paris france, middle east, london, israel, montmartre paris ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
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Firelight (1997)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Firelight is a period romance/drama film written and directed by William Nicholson. It was Nicholson's first, and to date only, film as director.
Style: uplifting, serious, touching, feel good, sexy ...
Plot: fall in love, governess, love affair, couples, victorian england, estate, nanny, love and romance, parents and children, hopes, british, love ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, year 1997, 1840s, 1830s ...
Place: england, britain, europe, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
Anna Karenina (1967)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 145 min.
Story: The film is based on the novel of the same name by the Russian writer Leo Tolstoy. “All happy families resemble each other, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way, ” goes the novel’s opening sentence. The melodrama centers around a ...
Style: spiritual
Plot: cheating wife, unfaithful wife, love triangle, high society, adultery, jealousy, suicide attempt, russian woman, spirituality, loveless marriage, love affair, aristocracy ...
Time: 19th century
Place: soviet union, russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
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Anna Karenina (1985)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 150 min.
Story: Tragic Anna leaves her cold husband for dashing Count Vronsky in 19th-century Russia.
Style: serious, emotional, psychological, realistic, epic ...
Plot: infidelity, betrayal, tragic love, love triangle, family relations, tragic hero, tragedy, destructive relationship, fall in love, unsupportive spouse, forbidden love, love affair ...
Time: 19th century
Place: russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
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Anna Karenina (2012)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 129 min.
Story: Trapped in a loveless marriage, aristocrat Anna Karenina enters into a life-changing affair with the affluent Count Vronsky.
Style: costume drama, period piece, emotional, sentimental, stylized ...
Audience: chick flick, teens, girls' night, adult
Plot: high society, forbidden love, imperial russia, tragic love, infidelity, aristocracy, suicide, cuckolded husband, depression, love, adultery, marriage ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, year 2012, 1870s, ancient times ...
Place: russia, moscow russia, st. petersburg russia, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
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Mrs Dalloway (1997)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA, Netherlands
Duration: 97 min.
Story: As society hostess Clarissa Dalloway prepares for another of her legendary parties, she finds herself haunted by figures and scenes from her passionate adolescence.
Style: talky, historical drama, contemplative, gloomy, touching ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: lesbian, mental illness, gender, friendship, british, world war one, jazz, mental health, past, lesbian love, lgbt, women ...
Time: victorian era, 20th century, year 1997, edwardian era, 1920s ...
Place: england, london, britain, europe, india ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
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Mayerling (1968)
Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Country: UK, France
Duration: 140 min.
Story: Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria (Omar Sharif) clashes with his father, Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria (James Mason), over implementing progressive policies for their country. Ava Gardner plays his mother Empress Elisabeth. Rudolf soon feels he is ...
Style: serious, realistic, emotional, sentimental, touching ...
Plot: forbidden love, royal family, tragic love, infidelity, politics, revolution, royalty, hopes, rebelliousness, state affairs, fall in love, society ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, 1880s
Place: austria, england, italy, europe, venice ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
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 760
One More Kiss (1999)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 97 min.
Story: When Sarah Hopson realizes her successful high-rise New York lifestyle is devoid of meaning, she packs her bags and heads for her home town in the Scottish Borders to look for Sam, her childhood sweetheart and the only man she ever loved. Sam Murray ...
Style: serious, realistic, sentimental, touching, emotional ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: cancer, chef, cancer patient, girl, terminal illness, love triangle, ex-lover, love, couples, family relations, family problems, last wish ...
Time: 90s
Place: scotland, europe, edinburgh scotland, new york, manhattan new york city ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
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 856
Lover's Prayer (2001)
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 106 min.
Story: A younger boy falls in love with a tragic girl who flirts with, and manipulates, her older suitors in 1800s Russia.
Style: captivating, serious, realistic, sentimental, period piece ...
Plot: love triangle, unrequited love, fall in love, youth, social differences, teenage life, society, father son relationship, inheritance, imperial russia, coming of age, family relations ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, regency period, 1800s, 1850s
Place: russia, moscow russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
The Shooting Party (1984)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 98 min.
Story: 1913, shortly before the outbreak of WWI. A group of aristocrats gathers at the estate of Sir Randolph Nettleby for a weekend shoot. As the terminal decrepitude of a dying class is reflected in the social interactions and hypocrisy of its members, ...
Style: realistic, serious, stylized, atmospheric, biting ...
Plot: countryside, society, rivalry, fall in love, contests and competitions, couple relations, love and romance, dishonesty, intrigue, master and servant, destructive relationship, animal life ...
Time: year 1985, 1910s, edwardian era
Place: england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
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Far from the Madding Crowd (2015)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story: Based on the literary classic by Thomas Hardy, Far from the Madding Crowd is the story of independent, beautiful and headstrong Bathsheba Everdene, who attracts three very different suitors: Gabriel Oak, a sheep farmer, captivated by her fetching ...
Style: romantic, period piece, emotional, costume drama, sexy ...
Audience: chick flick, teens, date night, girls' night
Plot: couples, couple relations, looking for love, love story, victorian england, english countryside, love and romance, relationships, love affair, dishonesty, countryside, unrequited love ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, year 2015, 1800s
Place: england, britain, europe
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26%
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Howards End (1992)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, Japan, USA
Duration: 142 min.
Story: A saga of class relations and changing times in an Edwardian England on the brink of modernity, the film centers on liberal Margaret Schlegel, who, along with her sister Helen, becomes involved with two couples: wealthy, conservative industrialist ...
Style: romantic, costume drama, emotional, period piece, stylized ...
Audience: date night
Plot: english countryside, estate, wealthy family, sister sister relationship, family drama, infidelity, inheritance, dysfunctional family, greed, character study, country house, rich snob ...
Time: 1910s, turn of the century, edwardian era, 19th century, year 1992 ...
Place: england, britain, oxford university, london
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25%
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Little Lili (2003)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Canada
Duration: 104 min.
Story: This film, loosely inspired by Anton Chekov's The Seagull, weaves a story about sex, family and the business of making films. When the young and overly sensitive filmmaker Julien screens his new DV art-film starring his girlfriend Lili ...
Style: realistic, serious, clever, touching, erotic ...
Plot: filmmaking, older man younger woman relationship, actor's life, love triangle, couples, lifestyle, love and romance, couple relations, fall in love, obsession, unfulfilled love, infidelity ...
Time: year 2003
Place: france, brittany
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
Anna Karenina (1997)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Russia, UK
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Anna (Marceau) is a wife and mother who has an affair with the handsome Count Vronsky (Bean). Based on the novel by Tolstoy.
Style: costume drama, romantic, psychological, atmospheric, emotional ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: imperial russia, relationships, infidelity, betrayal, cheating wife, age difference, death, love, true love, american civil war, russian woman, women ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, year 1997, 1880s
Place: russia, st. petersburg russia, moscow russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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Persuasion (2022)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Living with her snobby family on the brink of bankruptcy, Anne Elliot is an unconforming woman with modern sensibilities. When Frederick Wentworth - the dashing one she once sent away - crashes back into her life, Anne must choose between putting ...
Style: costume drama, period piece, psychological, disturbing, romantic ...
Plot: love and romance, marriage, female protagonist, ex boyfriend, life, ex couple relations, in love, male female relationship, love story, relationships, romantic relationship, ex boyfriend ex girlfriend relationship ...
Time: 19th century, 2020s
Place: england
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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Bless the Woman (2003)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Russia
Duration: 114 min.
Story: Tiny Soviet village by the sea, in the years before the Second World War... A very young girl, Vera, falls madly in love with an older military officer who is visiting from out of town. She leaves her home and family to live with him in various ...
Style: captivating, touching, sentimental, disturbing, crying
Plot: love, widow, world war two, actress, military officer, male female relationship, forbidden love, relationships, romantic relationship, love triangle, love affair, teenage love ...
Place: russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
Torrents of Spring (1989)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, France, Italy
Duration: 101 min.
Story: In 1840, a young Russian aristocrat, Dimitri Sanin, is returning home after a long tour of Europe. In Germany, he falls in love with a beautiful pastry shop girl, Gemma Rosselli, who soon starts sharing his feelings. They decide to get married and, ...
Style: serious, realistic, sexual, clever, emotional ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: true love, love, erotica, renaissance, estate, betrayal, love triangle, power relations, couples, love and romance, dishonesty, femme fatale ...
Time: 19th century, year 1989
Place: eastern europe, europe, germany, russia, venice
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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First Love (1970)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: West Germany, Switzerland, Hungary
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Based on Ivan Turgenev's novella, Erste Liebe is about two young lovers in czarist Russia. One is a 21-year-old woman, the other a young man of sixteen. Things take a tragic turn as the girl (Dominique Sanda as Sanaida) falls in love with the ...
Style: contemplative, serious, realistic, sentimental, stylized ...
Plot: age-gap relationship, love triangle, older man younger woman relationship, family relations, obsession, innocence lost, coming of age, dishonesty, fall in love, love and romance, unfulfillment, youth ...
Time: 20th century, 1910s, 19th century
Place: russia, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
 5.3
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Young Hearts (2020)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story: Two young neighbors embark on a first love relationship in which they struggle to remain kids amid the complexities of modern adolescence.
Style: suspense, suspenseful, touching, sentimental, romantic comedy
Audience: teens
Plot: new love, love, high school, teen romance, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, teenage life, love and romance, friendship between teens, friendship, teenage boy, teenage love, teenage girl ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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Little Women (2019)
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, melancholic, sweet ...
Audience: chick flick, teens, kids, date night, family outing ...
Plot: love, sisters, writers, coming of age, generosity, female protagonist, sister sister relationship, friendship, intrigue, publisher, sister, jealousy ...
Time: 19th century, 1860s, victorian era, 2010s, year 2019
Place: france, new york, paris france, massachusetts
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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Ethan Frome (1992)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Based on the novel of the same name by Edith Wharton, it is about a husband and wife (Ethan and Zeena), who need an extra hand around the house due to Zeena's debilitated body and constant illness. The young woman who joins them is a beautiful, ...
Style: emotional, intense, costume drama, sentimental, captivating ...
Plot: family problems, forbidden love, family relations, dull life, fall in love, love triangle, infidelity, destiny, family drama, true love, love, adultery ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, year 1993, 1800s
Place: usa, massachusetts, america, new england
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
Rome Adventure (1962)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story: A beautiful American schoolteacher vacationing in Rome is courted by two men. Released in 1962, starring Suzanne Pleshette, Troy Donahue, Rossano Brazzi and Angie Dickinson.
Style: serious, realistic, humorous, touching, feel good
Plot: love, vacation, fall in love, school teacher, love and romance, starting over, couples, looking for love, on the road, true love, teaching the ways of the world, love affair ...
Time: 20th century, 60s
Place: rome italy, italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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