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A Place to Call Home (2013)
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A Place to Call Home (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: A mysterious woman is perched between the harsh legacy of World War II and the hope of a new life in Australia. A sweeping romantic drama set in 1950s rural Australia following the lives of the Blighs, a wealthy and complicated pastoralist family, who lives in Inverness, NSW.
Style: emotional, captivating, serious, stylized, realistic, saga
Plot: love affair, family life, love and romance, society, starting over, social differences, forbidden love, family secret, mysterious character, country estate, family relations, nurse, male female relationship, relationships, changing lives, getting home, lifestyle, lifestyle change, religious differences, medical profession, parents and children, strong female lead, lgbt, doctor, aging ...
Time: 50s, 20th century, 1950s
Place: australia

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out captivating, serious, realistic and emotional films and TV series with plots about family relations, society, love and romance, family life, parents and children, couple relations and couples mostly in Drama, Romance and History genres. Some movies like A Place to Call Home: The Thorn Birds (1983), Upstairs Downstairs (2010), Velvet (2013), Flambards (1979), The Legacy (2014). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
The Thorn Birds (1983)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 460 min.
TV show
Story: This mini series covers 60 years in the lives of the Cleary family, brought from New Zealand to Australia to run their aunt Mary Carson's ranch. The story centers on their daughter, Meggie, and her love for the family's priest, Father ...
Style: sentimental, touching, family saga, captivating, emotional ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: forbidden love, older man younger woman relationship, catholic church, catholic priest, clergy, couple relations, tragic love, priest in love, love and romance, family life, sex with a priest, destiny ...
Time: 50s, 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 20th century ...
Place: australia, vatican
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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, stylized, serious, touching, retro ...
Plot: high society, master and servant, butler, family values, marriage, servant, family relations, rich and poor, millionaire, lifestyle, family life, class differences ...
Time: 1930s, edwardian era, 20th century
Place: england, london, europe
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Velvet (2013)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Spain
Duration: 43 min.
TV show
Story: In 1950s Spain, the heir to a fashion house romances a beautiful seamstress who works for the company, despite the objections of his family.
Style: romantic, captivating, stylized, sincere, emotional
Audience: chick flick, girls' night
Plot: fashion, dressmaker, impossible love, society, seamstress, male female relationship, haute couture, fashion designer, true love, love, couple relations, relationships ...
Time: 60s, 50s
Place: spain, europe
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Flambards (1979)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 780 min.
TV show
Story: In the early 1900s in England, young Christina is orphaned and goes to live with her Uncle Russell, who owns the country estate of Flambards, and has two sons. Mark, the elder, is a wastrel, a roue and, like his father, loves to hunt. The younger ...
Style: serious, realistic, captivating, emotional
Audience: girls' night
Plot: world war one, love and romance, society, couple relations, family relations, uneducated, estate, manners, couples, social differences, family life, countryside ...
Time: edwardian era, 20th century, 1910s
Place: england, europe
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The Legacy (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark
Duration: 55 min.
TV show
Story: The death of a matriarch brings forgotten secrets out into the open and causes a prolonged battle for the family inheritance.
Style: serious, touching, emotional, realistic, captivating ...
Plot: family relations, family history, siblings relations, family life, parents and children, estate, half sister, family secret, heir, bohemian life, inheritance, family home ...
Time: 60s, 20th century
Place: denmark
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The Village (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: The Village is a BBC TV series written by Peter Moffat. The drama is set in a Derbyshire village in the 20th century. The first series of what Moffat hopes will become a 42-hour TV drama was broadcast in spring 2013 and covered the years 1914 to ...
Style: realistic, stylized, serious, captivating, dark ...
Plot: village life, family relations, village, parents and children, social relations, society, childbirth, countryside, villager, village people, small village, lifestyle ...
Time: 20th century, 1910s
Place: england
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Call the Midwife (2012)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Drama following the lives of a group of midwives working in the poverty-stricken East End of London during the 1950s, based on the best-selling memoirs of Jennifer Worth.
Style: sincere, touching, realistic, stylized, suspenseful ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: midwife, childbirth, convent, doctor, nurse, pregnancy, nursing, friends, family life, nun, hospital, friendship ...
Time: 50s, 60s, year 1961, 20th century, year 1963 ...
Place: england, london, europe, britain
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The Restaurant (2017)
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Monday May 7, 1945 – the Second World War finally comes to an end and a new, brighter future beckons. In the midst of central Stockholm celebrations, two strangers come together with a quick kiss, parting company immediately after. Upper-class ...
Style: family saga, captivating, light, stylized, visually appealing ...
Plot: family business, restaurant, brother brother relationship, male female relationship, mother son relationship, family relations, sexism, anti semitism, mother daughter relationship, emigrant, world war two, love ...
Time: 50s, post world war two, 60s, 70s, 1940s
Place: stockholm sweden, eastern europe
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100%
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South Riding (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
TV show
Story: Andrew Davies sparkling adaption of Winifred Holtby's acclaimed novel. Insightful, warm and full of memorable characters, South Riding tells a fraught love story and paints a panaromic portrait of a Yorkshire community in the long aftermath of ...
Style: touching, emotional, captivating, realistic, serious ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: love affair, world war one, hopes, family relations, love and romance, society, parents and children, human spirit, small town, social relations, strong female presence, social history ...
Time: 1930s, 20th century
Place: yorkshire, northern england, europe, england
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Cloudstreet (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 342 min.
TV show
Story: Cloudstreet is an Australian television drama miniseries for the Showcase subscription television channel, which first screened from 22 May 2011, in three parts. It is an adaptation of Cloudstreet, an award-winning novel by Australian author Tim ...
Style: uplifting, captivating, sentimental, emotional, touching ...
Plot: working class, starting over, change of luck, family life, family relations, society, hopes, destiny, cause and meaning, youth, bbc, working class family ...
Time: 1940s, 50s, 60s, 20th century
Place: australia
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Upstairs, Downstairs (1971)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Upstairs, Downstairs is a British television drama series originally produced by London Weekend Television and revived by the BBC. It ran on ITV in 68 episodes divided into five series from 1971 to 1975. Set in a large townhouse in Edwardian, First ...
Style: realistic, stylized, serious, touching
Plot: domestic servant, butler, maid, master servant relationship, high society, wealth, master and servant, lifestyle, couples, rich and poor, society, couple relations ...
Time: 20th century, edwardian era, 1920s, 1930s, 1910s
Place: england, london, europe
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The Secret River (2015)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, History
Country: Australia
TV show
Story: In 1806, William Thornhill is sentenced to New South Wales for life where he is drawn into a terrifying conflict that will leave a bloody and indelible stain.
Style: stylized, realistic, serious, captivating
Plot: love affair, social differences, human nature, misfit, society, love and romance, australian aboriginal, colony, convict, lgbt, lgbtq, australian history ...
Time: 19th century
Place: australia
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Snowy River: The McGregor Saga (1994)
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: Australia
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: The Man from Snowy River is an Australian television series based on Banjo Paterson's poem "The Man from Snowy River". Released in Australia as Banjo Paterson's The Man from Snowy River, the series was subsequently released in ...
Style: saga, captivating, serious, realistic, sincere ...
Plot: family relations, farm, social relations, underdog, ambition, blind ambition, rivalry, uninhibited rivalry, contests and competitions, dishonesty, intrigue, small town life ...
Time: 19th century
Place: australia, oceania
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The Forsyte Saga (2002)
Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 276 min.
TV show
Story: In 2002, the first two books and the first interlude of John Galsworthy's trilogy The Forsyte Saga were adapted by Granada Television for the ITV network. Additional funding for this production was provided by American PBS station WGBH, the ...
Style: realistic, serious, family saga, touching, stylized ...
Plot: love affair, high society, society, love and romance, forbidden love, family relations, adultery, couple relations, parents and children, unfulfilled love, rich and poor, victorian england ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, 1920s, 20th century, 90s ...
Place: england, europe, london
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Cable Girls (2017)
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story: In 1920s Madrid, four women at the National Telephone Company ring in revolution as they deal with romance, envy and the modern workplace.
Style: stylized, captivating, atmospheric, romantic, erotic ...
Audience: girls' night, chick flick
Plot: female protagonist, love and romance, job, women, workplace, female friendship, workplace romance, class differences, lesbian, woman, spanish civil war, strong female lead ...
Time: 1920s, 20th century, 1930s
Place: spain
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Succession (2018)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: The lives of the Roy family as they contemplate their future once their aging father begins to step back from the media and entertainment conglomerate they control.
Style: emotional, captivating, inspirational, disturbing, stylized ...
Plot: wealth, family business, betrayal, business, patriarchy, ceo, dysfunctional relationship, dysfunctional family, rivalry, businessman, parents and children, family relations ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: new york, usa
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The Slap (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 354 min.
TV show
Story: The Slap is a bold, provocative television drama series that forensically examines the mores and morality of contemporary middleclass life. Based on Christos Tsiolkas’ bestselling novel, this 8–part drama serial traces the shattering ...
Style: realistic, psychological, captivating, emotional, tense ...
Plot: introspection, family relations, couple relations, adulthood, couples, family life, parents and children, friendship, suburbs, society, legal, australian aboriginal ...
Time: 21st century
Place: australia
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Golden Fiddles (1991)
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia, Canada
Duration: 240 min.
TV show
Story: Golden Fiddles is a 1994 Australian mini series based on the novel by Mary Grant Bruce. It was sot from 23 July to 16 September 1991 and was re-edited into a TV movie in 1994.
Style: family saga
Plot: family relations, family feud, family home, rags to riches, depression, poverty, family honor, great depression, wealth, classroom
Place: australia, south australia
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100%
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Rain Shadow (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Rain Shadow is an Australian television drama series which premiered on 7 October 2007 on ABC TV. It aired on Sundays at 8.30 pm. The six-part series was produced by Southern Star. Music from The Audreys features in the soundtrack for the show, ...
Plot: cemetery, korean war veteran, widow, single woman, veterinary clinic, animals, climate, strong female lead, animal rescue, drought, land, farming ...
Place: australia, south australia
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The Lady with the Black Veil (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 55 min.
TV show
Story: Clara is a young and noblewoman with a free and rebellious spirit who was separated from her twin brother and forced into an arranged marriage. Despite this, she falls in love with her husband and fights to win his love. Clara however, falls victim ...
Style: tense, captivating, disturbing
Plot: family secret, inheritance, female protagonist, presumed dead, family relations, dysfunctional family, family problems, secret, unhappy marriage, legacy, family life, dysfunctional marriage ...
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Doctor Doctor (2016)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story: The story of Hugh Knight, a rising heart surgeon who is gifted, charming and infallible. He is a hedonist who, due to his sheer talent, believes he can live outside the rules. His "work hard, play harder" philosophy is about to come back ...
Style: light, semi serious, captivating, ironic, emotional ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night
Plot: doctor, small town, surgeon, physician, medical, medicine, family relations, love and romance, fired from the job, workplace, workplace situations, society ...
Time: 21st century
Place: australia
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Bad Mothers (2019)
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Sarah’s perfect life as a GP, wife and mother is shattered when she discovers her husband is having an affair. Then her best friend is found murdered and Sarah’s husband, Anton, is arrested. She finds unlikely sisterhood and support in a ragtag ...
Style: captivating, entertaining
Plot: mother, woman, relationship vs career, life, family relations, lifestyle change, women, lifestyle, female protagonist, strong female lead, problem solving, bad mother ...
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Strong Medicine (2000)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: The lives of staff in the womens' health clinic of a fictitious hospital in Philadelphia.
Style: realistic, serious, sincere, touching, emotional ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: hospital, medical, clinic, workplace, workplace situations, family relations, boss and employee, lifestyle, lifesaver, doctors and patients, medicine, doctor ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, philadelphia
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30%
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Doctors (2000)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Set in the fictional Midlands town of Letherbridge, defined as being close to the city of Birmingham, this soap opera follows the staff and families of a doctor's surgery.
Style: captivating, touching, serious, sentimental, emotional ...
Plot: doctor, workplace, doctors and patients, clinic, workplace situations, couples, supportive coworker, terminal illness, couple relations, love affair, medical, social relations ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england
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Brothers and Sisters (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Brothers & Sisters is an American television drama series that centers on the Walker family and their lives in Pasadena, California. The series premiered on ABC on September 24, 2006, and aired its final episode on May 8, 2011. It aired, for its ...
Style: touching, serious, sincere, emotional, realistic ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: family relations, family business, brother brother relationship, brother sister relationship, parents and children, siblings relations, parenthood, family problems, love and romance, couple relations, family life, jealousy ...
Time: september 11 2001, 21st century
Place: california, los angeles, usa, pasadena california
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Land of Honor (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Set on horse ranches around Houston, Texas, this Spanish-language telenovela covers the three Gallardo brothers' search for vengeance against the wealthy del Junco family, following the mysterious death of their rodeo-riding sister. The ...
Style: emotional, serious, captivating, realistic
Plot: vengeance, fall in love, uncover truth, rivalry, wooing, intrigue, family relations, love and romance, love affair, forbidden love, relationships, moral dilemma ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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Spring Has Come (2018)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Naoko Kishikawa is a 31 year-old single who works for the undergarment section at a departmental store. She lives with her parents and a younger sister. One day, she meets a Korean photographer, Lee Ji-won. Ji-won's presence gradually changes ...
Style: romantic, captivating, psychological, disturbing, shoujo
Plot: romantic relationship, couple relations, love affair, relationships, self discovery, changing lives, lifestyle, male female relationship, love and romance, introspection, love story, love interest ...
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Rich Man, Poor Man (1976)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 566 min.
TV show
Story: An examination of the trials and tribulations of the Jordache family, from the period following World War II to the late 1960s.
Style: serious, realistic, emotional, saga
Plot: family relations, immigrant family, sibling relationship, power relations, society, ambition, blind ambition, gangsters, hopes, immigrants, rise to the top, against the odds ...
Time: 1940s, 50s, 60s, 20th century
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Valiant Love (2012)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Mexico
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Camila Monterde is a beautiful veterinarian whose life has been torn apart by a tragic accident in which her fiancé, Luis, was killed. Hoping to ease her depression, her uncle, Daniel Monterde, invites her to live at his ranch, where she can rest ...
Style: emotional, realistic, serious, captivating, disturbing ...
Plot: wedding, love and romance, parents and children, couples, family relations, love story, romantic relationship, revenge, hidden identity, couple relations, tragic love, secret identity ...
Time: 21st century
Place: chile, mexico, latin america
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The Shiralee (1987)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: Australia
Duration: 180 min.
TV show
Story: Macauley is a swagman on the road in the 1940s looking for work. He's a laid back, laconic sort of bloke but when he gets landed with his daughter after his drunken play-girl wife in Adelaide makes him face up to what she believes are his ...
Style: uplifting, serious, realistic, touching, emotional ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: youth, father daughter relationship, single parent, family relations, family feud, society, on the road, parents and children, job seeking, unemployment, country, thief ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, 50s, 1930s
Place: australia, south australia
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