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Come Back, Lucy (1978)
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Come Back, Lucy (1978)
Country: UK
Duration: 25 min.
TV show
Story: Young Lucy is bereaved and sent to live with her cousins. She makes a friend in Alice. But Alice has been dead for over a hundred years and wishes to drag Lucy back in time, to play with her for eternity.
Plot: time travel, orphan, girl, child protagonist, uncle niece relationship, flashback, aunt niece relationship, ghost child
Time: victorian era

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out period drama, serious, captivating and realistic films and TV series with plots about orphan, family relations, time travel, girl, children, coming of age and friendship mostly in Drama, Family and Sci-Fi genres. Some movies like Come Back, Lucy: Anne of Avonlea (1975), Moondial (1988), Hetty Feather (2015), The Spoils of Poynton (1970), Echoes (1988). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Anne of Avonlea (1975)
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.
Audience: family friendly
Plot: anne of green gables, literary, poor, heroine, girl, family relations
Time: victorian era
Place: canada
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Moondial (1988)
Genre: Drama, Family, Fantasy, History, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 158 min.
TV show
Story: Moondial is a British television serial made for children by the BBC and transmitted in 1988, with a repeat in 1990. It was written by Helen Cresswell, who also wrote the novel on which the series was based. The story deals with a young girl, ...
Style: psychological thriller, weird
Plot: children, supernatural, coming of age, male female relationship, victorian england, girl, garden, apparition, cemetery, manor, surrealism, boy ...
Time: 80s, 1870s, 18th century, 19th century, victorian era ...
Place: britain
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89%
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Hetty Feather (2015)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: In Victorian London, feisty heroine Hetty Feather is trapped in the Foundling Hospital, the strict institution ruled over by the formidable Matron Bottomley. Aided by friends and thwarted by enemies, Hetty battles to win her freedom and finally find ...
Style: psychological, captivating, entertaining, disturbing, period drama
Audience: family outing, kids
Plot: orphan, bully, nursing, teenage gang, youth gang, child care, teenager, treatment, friendship, brother sister relationship, hospital, life ...
Time: victorian era, 1880s, 19th century
Place: london
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88%
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
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Echoes (1988)
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: mysterious
Plot: time travel, manhunt, school, obsession, university, pregnancy
Time: 1950s
Place: ireland
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64%
Emily of New Moon (1998)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Emily of New Moon is a Canadian television series, which aired on CBC Television from 1998 to 2000. The series originally aired in the United States on the Cookie Jar Toons block on This TV and it is currently seen in Canada on the Viva, Bravo! and ...
Style: serious, realistic, period drama
Audience: kids, family outing
Plot: orphan, adoption, family relations, child's point of view, starting over, uncover truth, youth, coming of age, young heroes, family problems, island, family life ...
Time: victorian era, edwardian era, 19th century, 1900s, turn of the century
Place: canada
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61%
David Copperfield (1974)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 300 min.
TV show
Story: Adaptation of the Dickens novel.
Style: historical drama, period drama
Plot: charles dickens, david copperfield, youth, compassion, childhood memory, oppression, orphan, coming of age, survivor, affection, writing
Time: 19th century, victorian era
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59%
The Adventures of Pollyanna (1982)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
TV show
Story: Pollyanna comes to stay with her aunt, Polly Harrington, the most powerful woman in the town of Harrington. Aunt Polly wants her to concentrate on her studies but Pollyanna would rather make friends with the orphan kids. One day, a woman named Widow ...
Style: anthology
Plot: aunt niece relationship, family relations
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
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Bernard's Watch (1997)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 20 min.
TV show
Story: Bernard's Watch is a British children's drama series about a young boy who can stop time with a magical pocket watch. The show was created by Andrew Norriss and was produced for seven series that aired on CITV from 14 November 1997 to 31 ...
Audience: kids
Plot: school, time travel, birthday party, british, schoolboy, time freeze, rainbow, child protagonist, boy, family relations, narration, pocket watch
Place: england
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54%
Great Expectations (1989)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 303 min.
TV show
Story: Phillip Pirrip, known as Pip, meets a convict or two in a graveyard and sets into motion a series of events that lead him from a comfortable life in his brother-in-law's forge to a mysterious inheritance and his acquaintance with the eerie Miss ...
Style: historical drama, period drama
Plot: charles dickens, victorian england, rags to riches, adoption, literature, inheritance, orphan, costume
Time: 19th century, victorian era
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52%
A Dinner of Herbs (2000)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 286 min.
TV show
Story: Filmed on location in the North of England, A Dinner of Herbs is a film based on Catherine Cookson's novel about hardship, betrayal and family life in a 19th century working class town. Roddy and Hal have been friends since childhood, but their ...
Style: realistic, emotional, serious, touching, period drama
Plot: orphan, mining, murder, love, unfulfillment, society, love affair, family relations, half brother half sister relationship, star crossed lovers, unfulfilled love, jealousy ...
Time: victorian era, 19th century, 1860s
Place: britain
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52%
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Oliver Twist (1999)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 386 min.
TV show
Story: Based on Charles Dickens' novel, this adaptation traces the childhood of an orphan whose mother dies giving birth to him in an English work-house in the 1820s.
Style: costume drama, period piece, serious, realistic, emotional ...
Audience: kids, family outing
Plot: orphan, charles dickens, child abuse, youth, confined, life is a bitch, society, danger, young heroes, coming of age, injustice, apprentice ...
Time: victorian era, 19th century, 1830s
Place: london, europe, england
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
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
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51%
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El Soffara (2023)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Egypt
TV show
Story: Shafeeq, a tour guide, steals Tutankhamun's time travel whistle. A golden opportunity to get a do-over for his life and achieve his dreams.
Plot: time travel
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51%
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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
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50%
Anne of Green Gables (1972)
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.
Plot: anne of green gables, family relations, girl, children, death of child, childhood
Place: canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
A Dark Adapted Eye (1994)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 168 min.
TV show
Story: This psychological mystery/thriller, adapted from Barbara Vine aka Ruth Rendell's novel of the same name, depicts a family on the edge. Two sisters, the elder, obsessive Vera, and the younger, manipulative Eden, cut a path of secrecy and ...
Style: detective, psychological thriller
Plot: true crime, crimes of passion, family relations, psychopath, flashback, sister sister relationship, murder, world war two, memory, nightmare, dysfunctional family, family secret ...
Time: 1940s, 1950s
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
A Little Princess (1986)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: UK
Duration: 163 min.
TV show
Story: Sara Crewe is the pampered darling of her father, an army colonel, and the Victorian London girls' school where he places her. But when her father dies, penniless, Sara becomes a skivvy in Miss Michin's school, befriended only by the ...
Style: crying, period drama
Audience: kids
Plot: princess, boarding school, children, christmas, girl, balloon, father daughter relationship, birthday, death of father, loss of father, soldier, teacher ...
Time: victorian era
Place: india, england, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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The Woman in White (2018)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: The lives of two half-sisters and their drawing master get caught up in a deadly conspiracy revolving around a mentally ill woman dressed all in white.
Style: gothic, psychological, disturbing, historical drama, psychological thriller ...
Plot: heiress, inheritance, unhappy marriage, secret, family relations, forbidden love, star crossed lovers, fake marriage, love triangle, male female relationship, love affair, relationships ...
Time: victorian era, 19th century
Place: britain
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
Midnight Is a Place (1977)
Genre: Drama, Adventure, Family
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: This series is about two children who are the wards of a cantankerously un-loving uncle. That uncle owns a rug factory that has the typically brutal working conditions of the time that both poor adult and child labourers have to survive. Life is ...
Plot: working conditions, industry, sewer, fire, uncle, children, child labor, poverty
Time: 19th century, victorian era
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
The Secret Garden (1975)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: UK
Duration: 210 min.
TV show
Story: TV miniseries adaptation of Frances Hodgson Burnett's novel.
Style: realistic, serious, uplifting, touching, feel good
Audience: kids, family outing
Plot: youth, estate, friendship, children, spoiled brat, family relations, orphan, gardener, mysterious stranger, winter, neglected child, garden ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era
Place: england, europe, yorkshire
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46%
The Mill on the Floss (1978)
Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 240 min.
TV show
Story: Adaptation of the George Eliot novel.
Style: historical drama, period piece, period drama
Plot: brother sister kiss, ancient, father daughter relationship, boarding school, cousin cousin relationship, uncle nephew relationship, drowning, elopement, sister sister relationship, father son relationship, painter, mother daughter relationship ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era
Place: england, britain
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45%
Time After Time (2017)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: The adventures of young H.G. Wells and his time machine.
Style: captivating, serious, exciting, suspense, intense ...
Plot: time travel, serial killer, murder, time machine, love, danger, paradox, writers, buddy, damsel in distress, jack the ripper, fish out of water ...
Time: victorian era
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
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The Magician's House (1999)
Genre: Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: UK, Canada
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: The Magician's House is a quartet of children's fantasy books by William Corlett. Two mini-series were produced in 1999 for British television, which were directed by Paul Lynch. The series featured Jennifer Saunders and Stephen Fry ...
Audience: kids
Plot: time travel, magic, badger, fox, owl, magician, dog, house, rat, good versus evil, talking animal, curse ...
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41%
The Nightmare Worlds of H.G. Wells (2016)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 23 min.
TV show
Story: Ray Winstone heads a cast of acclaimed actors in four H. G. Wells stories
Style: anthology, disturbing, captivating, suspense, dark fairy tale
Plot: multiple storylines, fantasy world, crazy, writers, time travel, plot twist, victorian england, bullet
Time: 19th century
Place: england
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40%
The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby (1982)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 540 min.
TV show
Story: Young Nicholas Nickleby sets out to make his fortune in order to prevent his mother and sister from depending upon his uncle, Ralph Nicklby. But he finds his first job as master at a Yorkshire school to be cruel, and runs away with one of the ...
Style: serious, realistic, touching, sentimental, emotional ...
Plot: charles dickens, adoption, single parent, family relations, boarding school, boarding school life, siblings relations, dysfunctional family, family in danger, rich and poor, social differences, down on your luck ...
Time: victorian era, 19th century, 1830s
Place: england, europe, yorkshire
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39%
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Sky (1975)
Genre: Family, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Sky is a mystically-oriented children's science fantasy television serial made for ITV by HTV and broadcast in seven parts from April 7 to May 14, 1975. A mysterious alien boy with strange solid blue eyes, the eponymous Sky, finds himself on ...
Plot: time travel, folklore, coming of age, teenager, black hole, stonehenge, alternate dimension, mysticism, children, live action
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39%
Great Expectations (2023)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: UK, USA
TV show
Story: The coming-of-age story of Pip, an orphan who yearns for a greater lot in life, until a twist of fate and the evil machinations of the mysterious and eccentric Miss Havisham shows him a dark world of possibilities. Under the great expectations ...
Style: period piece, captivating, exciting, serious, dramatic ...
Plot: coming of age, life, orphan, traumatic childhood, high society, grownups, childhood, male nudity, boy, girl
Time: 1810s, 19th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
Johnny And The Bomb (2006)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 120 min.
TV show
Story: Johnny Maxwell stumbles upon a time machine when he helps an old woman, but little does he know that his journeys back to 1941 cause a chain of events which alter history. Johnny and his friends must go back in time to reverse the changes and save ...
Style: comedy drama
Audience: kids
Plot: world war two, anti nazi, time travel, children in wartime, friend, spy, bomb, newspaper, joke, chaos, skinhead, nazi ...
Time: future
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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Dirk Gently (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 58 min.
TV show
Story: Dirk Gently is a British comedy detective drama TV series based on characters from the Dirk Gently novels by Douglas Adams. The series was created by Howard Overman and stars Stephen Mangan as holistic detective Dirk Gently and Darren Boyd as his ...
Style: detective, semi serious, humorous, captivating, exciting ...
Plot: private detective, time travel, investigation, investigator, imaginary, danger, murder mystery, occult, friendship, superhero, sherlock holmes, whodunit ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe, england
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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