Movies and TV shows like Peyton Place

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Peyton Place (1964)
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Peyton Place (1964)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Peyton Place is an American prime-time soap opera which aired on ABC in half-hour episodes from September 15, 1964 to June 2, 1969. Based upon the 1956 novel of the same name by Grace Metalious, the series was preceded by a 1957 film adaptation. A total of 514 episodes were broadcast, in black-and-white from 1964 to 1966 and in color from 1966 to 1969. At the show's peak ABC ran three new episodes a week. Produced by 20th Century Fox Television. A number of guest stars appeared in the series for extended periods, among them Dan Duryea, Susan Oliver, Leslie Nielsen, Gena Rowlands, and Lee Grant, who won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Drama for her role of tough-as-nails Stella Chernak. The series served as the springboard for such performers as Mia Farrow, Ryan O'Neal, Chris Connelly, David Canary, Mariette Hartley, and Lana Wood.
Style: soap opera
Plot: women, small town, town, sex, teenager, murder, desire, family relations, repression, corruption, grownups, interracial relations, lie, amnesia, drug addiction, virginity, dysfunctional family, morality, adolescence, abusive parent, young love, secret, coming of age, scandal, hypocrisy ...
Place: new hampshire, new england
Keyword: americana

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Most similar movies to Peyton Place

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out soap opera, serious, realistic and captivating films and TV series with plots about family relations, love, couples, women, marriage, parents and children and love and romance mostly in Drama, Romance and Fantasy genres. Some movies like Peyton Place: Knots Landing (1979), Days of Our Lives (1965), The Bay (2010), Dallas (1978), Home and Away (1988). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Knots Landing (1979)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: The domestic adventures, misdeeds and everyday interactions of five families living on a cul-de-sac in a small California community.
Style: soap opera, realistic, serious, telenovela
Plot: women, poor, family relations, small town, couple relations, intrigue, love and romance, couples, family life, love affair, power, best friend ...
Time: 80s, 70s, 90s, 20th century
Place: california, los angeles, usa
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Knots Landing: Back to the Cul-de-Sac (1997)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 240 min.
TV show
Story: Knots Landing: Back to the Cul-de-Sac is a 1997 television miniseries that served as a reunion show for the primetime soap opera Knots Landing. It aired on CBS in two two-hour parts on May 7 and May 9, 1997. The miniseries takes place four years ...
Style: soap opera
Plot: family relations, love, power, small town, marriage, reunion
Place: california
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Days of Our Lives (1965)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: The Horton and Brady broods endure the romantic trials of life in Salem, a Midwestern hamlet filled with evil geniuses, star-crossed lovers and a rich family history.
Style: soap opera, realistic, serious, emotional, sentimental
Plot: family relations, infidelity, family problems, betrayal, love triangle, loss of daughter, power relations, intrigue, couple relations, siblings relations, gay, couples ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, 90s, 70s, 60s ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
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The Bay (2010)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
TV show
Story: The Bay follows the affluent, yet dysfunctional Bay City residents living in a town cursed by the spirit of Senator Red Garrett, the grandfather of socialite Sara Garrett. Their lives are riddled with sex, lies, & never-ending scandals.
Style: soap opera, dramatic, captivating, psychological, suspenseful ...
Plot: seaside town, scandal, problem, society, life is a bitch, relationships, small town, female protagonist, intrigue, sex scandal, family relations, wealthy family
Time: 2010s
Place: bay area
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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Dallas (1978)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: The world's first mega-soap, and one of the most popular ever produced, Dallas had it all. Beautiful women, expensive cars, and men playing Monopoly with real buildings. Famous for one of the best cliffhangers in TV history, as the world asked ...
Style: soap opera, serious, realistic, melancholic, uplifting ...
Plot: family feud, mogul, oil industry, family relations, family business, hypocrisy, uninhibited rivalry, ambition, couple relations, rich and poor, parents and children, husband wife relationship ...
Time: 70s, 20th century, 80s, 90s
Place: texas, usa, dallas texas, southern usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
Home and Away (1988)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 22 min.
TV show
Story: Home and Away is set in the fictional town of Summer Bay, a coastal town in New South Wales, and follows the personal and professional lives of the people living in the area. The show initially focused on the Fletcher family, Pippa and Tom Fletcher ...
Style: soap opera, serious, realistic, emotional, sentimental ...
Audience: teens
Plot: coastal town, sex, beach, small town, lesbian, family relations, bare chested male, love, husband wife relationship, seaside town, youth, fall in love ...
Time: 80s, 90s, 20th century, 2010s, 2000s ...
Place: australia, new south wales
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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Dynasty (1981)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: The saga of a wealthy Denver family in the oil business: Blake Carrington, the patriarch; Krystle, his former secretary and wife; his children: Adam, lost in childhood after a kidnapping; Fallon, pampered and spoiled; Steven, openly gay; and Amanda, ...
Style: soap opera, captivating, realistic, serious, retro ...
Plot: family business, intrigue, wealthy family, rivalry, family feud, love triangle, family problems, hypocrisy, love and romance, ambition, blind ambition, snobbism ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: usa, colorado, denver colorado
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
Peyton Place: The Next Generation (1985)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Another attempt to bring the 1960s primetime serial back to network television
Style: soap opera
Plot: small town, scandal, generation, town, male female relationship, dark secret, husband wife relationship, mother daughter relationship, village, family secret, respect, secret ...
Place: new england
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
Movie in collections
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Sunset Beach (1997)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Sunset Beach is an American television soap opera that aired on NBC from January 6, 1997 to December 31, 1999. The show follows the loves and lives of the people living in the Orange County coastal area named Sunset Beach, on the coast of ...
Style: soap opera, semi serious, humorous, melancholic, light ...
Plot: lifestyle, desire for fame, blind ambition, friends, estrangement, actor's life, sexual relations, suburbs, manipulation, rivalry, love triangle, femme fatale ...
Time: 90s
Place: california, usa, los angeles, south central los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
One Life to Live (1968)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: One Life to Live is an American soap opera broadcast on television for more than 43 years on the ABC network, from July 15, 1968, to January 13, 2012, and on the internet as a web series on Hulu and iTunes via The Online Network since April 29, ...
Style: soap opera, emotional, sentimental, serious, sincere ...
Plot: couple relations, love and romance, family life, parents and children, friendship, family problems, infidelity, family feud, family relations, borderline personality disorder, lesbian, women ...
Time: 20th century, 80s, 90s, 70s, 60s ...
Place: pennsylvania
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
Return to Peyton Place (1961)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story: Residents of the small town of Peyton Place aren't pleased when they realize they're the characters in local writer Allison MacKenzie's controversial first novel. A sequel to the hit 1957 film.
Style: retro, captivating, realistic, serious, emotional ...
Plot: small town, scandal, family relations, dysfunctional family, infidelity, mother in law, family problems, couples, estrangement, social relations, society, youth ...
Time: year 1961, 50s
Place: new york, usa, new hampshire, massachusetts, new england
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
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Empire Falls (2005)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 197 min.
TV show
Story: A decaying New England town is the backdrop for its unique citizens, lead by unassuming restaurant manager Miles Roby.
Style: psychological, sentimental, touching, serious, captivating ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: small town, restaurant, family secret, family life, family problems, love and romance, haunted by the past, dysfunctional family, parents and children, working class, breakup, husband wife relationship ...
Place: maine, new england, usa, boston, key west florida ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
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Asi (2007)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Turkey
Duration: 90 min.
TV show
Story: Asi is a Turkish television drama serial. The series originally aired from Jule 21, 2007 to June 15, 2009. It ran for two seasons on Kanal D.
Style: psychological, sentimental, realistic, captivating, soap opera
Plot: prejudice, secret, pride, love, family relations, haunted by the past, farm, marriage, marriage proposal, husband wife relationship, homecoming, revenge ...
Time: 21st century
Place: turkey
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
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Port Charles (1997)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Port Charles is an American television soap opera which aired on ABC from June 1, 1997 to October 3, 2003. It is a spin-off of the serial General Hospital, which has been running since 1963 and takes place in the fictional city of Port Charles, New ...
Style: soap opera, medical drama
Plot: vampire, hospital, time travel, love, women, true love, female vampire, tarot card, deception, good versus evil, obsession, lost love ...
Time: 20th century
Place: new york, new york state
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Dawson's Creek (1998)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Dawson's Creek is an American teen drama television series created by Kevin Williamson which debuted on January 20, 1998, on The WB and was produced by Sony Pictures Television. Filmed in Wilmington, North Carolina, at EUE/Screen Gems studios ...
Style: emotional, touching, realistic, teen, soap opera ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, kids, date night, teen drama
Plot: couples, coming of age, teenage life, friendship, high school life, small town, love triangle, couple relations, self discovery, teenager, true love, high school ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, 2000s, 21st century
Place: boston, massachusetts, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story: Jackie Howard (Rodriguez), is a 15-year old Manhattanite who, following the loss of her family in an accident, has to learn to adapt to a new life in rural Colorado with her guardian — and 10 very rowdy boys.
Style: thrilling, captivating, psychological
Audience: teen drama
Plot: young boy, teenage boy, boy, teenager, guardian, small town, teenage girl, young girl, relationships, family relations, social problems, lifestyle change ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
Anything for Love (1997)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Brazil
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Helena is an independendent woman with strong emotions. More than a dedicated mother, she is also a friend to her daughter. Her daughter is experiencing difficulties in her marriage with Marcelo because of his renewed interest in a formoe ...
Style: soap opera, novela, reflective, serious, heartbreaking ...
Plot: mother daughter relationship, secret, love, family relations, love affair, destiny, relationships, twists and turns, parents and children, life is a bitch, lie, protective mother ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
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Gossip Girl (2007)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 42 min.
TV show
Story: Gossip Girl is an American teen drama television series based on the book series of the same name written by Cecily von Ziegesar. The series, created by Josh Schwartz and Stephanie Savage, originally ran on The CW for six seasons from September 19, ...
Style: romantic, soap opera, stylized, talky, serious ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, chick flick, date night, teen drama
Plot: high school, popularity, gossip and rumors, friends, teenage love, youth, high school life, love triangle, lifestyle, adolescence, couples, coming of age ...
Time: 2000s, 2010s, 21st century
Place: new york, manhattan new york city, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
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Dallas (2012)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 42 min.
TV show
Story: J.R., Bobby and Sue Ellen Ewing are all back at Southfork, with plenty of secrets, schemes and betrayals in mind. This time, they're joined by the next generation of Ewings, who take ambition and deception to a new level.
Style: soap opera, realistic, serious, captivating, stylized ...
Plot: family business, betrayal, family relations, parents and children, family feud, family secret, oil industry, family problems, uninhibited rivalry, intrigue, rivalry, dishonesty ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: texas, southern usa, usa, dallas texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
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Family Ties (2000)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Brazil
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story: A mature and successful woman, Helena becomes involved with Edu, who is twenty years her junior. She battles prejudice in order to live her love, but their romance fizzles out when she realizes that her daughter Camila has also fallen in love with ...
Style: novela, soap opera, romantic, captivating, sincere ...
Plot: love triangle, star crossed lovers, forbidden love, marriage, jealousy, family relations, secret, infidelity, mother daughter relationship, death, leukemia, horse ...
Place: rio de janeiro
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
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Bare Essence (1983)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Bare Essence is an American television soap opera which aired on the NBC network during the 1982-1983 season. Bare Essence starred popular daytime soap actress Genie Francis and dealt with the intrigues of the perfume industry. Initially, the show ...
Style: soap opera
Plot: business ethics, murder, aunt nephew relationship, glamour, perfume, car accident, business, marriage, businesswoman, ambition, family business
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
Beverly Hills, 90210 (1990)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 44 min.
TV show
Story: Beverly Hills, 90210 followed the lives of a group of teenagers living in the upscale, star-studded community of Beverly Hills, California and attending the fictitious West Beverly Hills High School and, subsequently, the fictitious California ...
Style: romantic, sentimental, soap opera, realistic, teen ...
Audience: teens, kids, teen drama
Plot: high school, teenager, teenage love, friendship, teenage life, first sex, social issues, youth, lifestyle, love and romance, social relations, up and down relationship ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, 2000s, 21st century
Place: beverly hills, usa, california, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
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These Women (2005)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Brazil
TV show
Story: The plot takes place in 1880, in the city of Rio de Janeiro, following the lives of three strong and determined women. Aurélia, Maria da Glória and Mila are great friends who attend etiquette classes together, but life doesn't take long to ...
Style: soap opera, novela, thrilling, suspenseful, captivating ...
Plot: love triangle, class differences, tragic love, love affair, love interest, women, changing lives, lifestyle change, lifestyle, love story, female protagonist, unrequited love ...
Time: 19th century, 1870s, 1800s
Place: rio de janeiro, brazil
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
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Melrose Place (2009)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: In an elegant Spanish-style apartment building in the trendy Melrose neighborhood of Los Angeles, a diverse group of 20-somethings have formed a close-knit surrogate family. However, when a bloody body is found floating in the courtyard pool, the ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, stylized, captivating, sexy ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: lifestyle, murder, neighbor, dishonesty, betrayal, medical school, manipulation, young adult, secret, deception, prostitution, teenager ...
Time: 2010s, 2000s
Place: california, beverly hills, los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
Ackley Bridge (2017)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: A new academy school in a Yorkshire mill town merges the lives and cultures of the largely divided white and Asian community
Style: emotional, psychological, talky, multicultural, comedy drama
Plot: high school, teenage boy, teenage girl, teenager, dysfunctional family, coming of age, racial tension, gay, unrequited love, lgbt, teenage love, family relations ...
Time: 21st century
Place: northern england, england, yorkshire
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
 5.6
 6K
Neighbours (1985)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 22 min.
TV show
Story: Neighbours is an Australian television soap opera. It was first broadcast on the Seven Network on 18 March 1985. It was created by TV executive Reg Watson, who proposed the idea of making a show that focused on realistic stories and portrayed adults ...
Style: soap opera, serious, realistic, emotional, sincere ...
Plot: girl, gay, lesbian, women, lgbtq, sapphic, family relations, infidelity, friendship, cafe, suburbs, wedding ...
Time: 80s, 90s, 20th century, 2000s, 2010s ...
Place: australia, melbourne
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
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Providence (1999)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Providence is an American television drama series that aired on NBC starring Melina Kanakaredes. The show ran for five seasons from January 8, 1999 until December 20, 2002.
Style: serious, realistic, touching, sentimental, medical drama ...
Plot: family relations, hometown, living with parents, family problems, love and romance, family life, siblings relations, parents and children, looking for love, homecoming, small town life, medical ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, 2000s, 21st century
Place: usa, rhode island
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
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Virgin River (2019)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 44 min.
TV show
Story: After seeing an ad for a midwife, a recently divorced big-city nurse moves to the redwood forests of California, where she meets an intriguing man.
Style: captivating, sincere, entertaining, exciting, erotic ...
Plot: small town, flirting, friendship, new life, small town life, comeback, escape attempt, medical, hopes, new job, destiny, love story ...
Time: 2020s, 2010s, 21st century
Place: california
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
Looking for Alaska (2019)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 426 min.
TV show
Story: A new arrival at a boarding school falls in love with a beguiling female student.
Style: touching, suspenseful, sweet, sentimental, romantic ...
Audience: teen drama
Plot: friendship, teenager, youth, boarding school, fall in love, car accident, love, love affair, hopes, couple relations, riddles and clues, destiny ...
Time: 90s, 2000s, 21st century
Place: usa, alabama
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
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Ryan's Hope (1975)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Ryan's Hope is an American soap opera created by Claire Labine and Paul Avila Mayer, originally airing for 13 years on ABC from July 7, 1975 to January 13, 1989. It revolved around the trials and tribulations within a large Irish-American ...
Style: soap opera, realistic, serious, sentimental, touching
Plot: hopes, society, family relations, friends, family business, family life, working class, liberal, sergeant, bar, irish american
Time: 70s, 20th century, 80s
Place: ireland, new york, usa, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
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