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The Dovekeepers (2015)
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The Dovekeepers (2015)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
TV show
Story: This four-hour miniseries is based on Alice Hoffman’s acclaimed historical novel about four extraordinary women whose lives intersect in a fight for survival at the siege of Masada.
Style: serious, emotional, realistic, biblical, touching, period piece, historical drama, captivating, stylized, soap opera ...
Plot: strong female presence, survival, religion, society, political unrest, rebellion, rebelliousness, siege, love and romance, ancient, ancient rome, ancient world, antiquity, peplum, religious, battles, hopes, state affairs, curses spells and rituals, roman empire, ancient history, roman, jewish history
Time: 1st century
Place: holy land, israel, jerusalem, middle east
Keyword: jewish

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, captivating and period drama films and TV series with plots about society, love and romance, couples, family relations, love affair, state affairs and couple relations mostly in Drama, Romance and History genres. Some movies like The Dovekeepers: The Red Tent (2014), The Antagonists (1981), The Magnificent Century: Kosem (2015), Doctor Zhivago (2002), The Nativity (2010). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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The Red Tent (2014)
Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
TV show
Story: The Red Tent is a sweeping tale that takes place during the times of the Old Testament, told through the eyes of Dinah (Rebecca Ferguson), the daughter of Leah (Minnie Driver) and Jacob (Iain Glen). Dinah happily grows up inside the red tent where ...
Style: captivating, stylized, emotional, political, spiritual ...
Plot: siblings relations, old testament, bible, strong female character, female protagonist, destiny, ancient history, female bonding, women in society, massacre, wisdom of life, love ...
Time: biblical epic
Place: middle east, holy land, israel
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100%
The Antagonists (1981)
Genre: Action, Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 394 min.
TV show
Story: After the destruction of the Second Temple, 900 Jewish zealots hold out against a 5000 man Roman legion on the mountaintop fortress of Masada.
Style: captivating, serious, tense, exciting, mythical ...
Plot: ancient history, desert, battles, roman empire, ancient rome, tragic hero, siege, ancient world, military, ancient, politics, war ...
Time: 1st century
Place: israel, holy land, rome italy, middle east, palestine
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Magnificent Century: Kosem (2015)
Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Country: Turkey
Duration: 120 min.
TV show
Story: Anastasia a young Greek woman in Ahmed I's harem takes on the name 'Kosem' (leader, pioneer). In a world of men, she rules of the Ottoman Empire through her sons and grandson.
Style: emotional, captivating, stylized, historical drama, realistic ...
Plot: palace intrigue, sultan, strong female lead, power struggle, strongman, strong female character, royal family, bossy woman, rise to the top, conspiracy, political intrigue, destiny ...
Time: 17th century
Place: ottoman empire, istanbul turkey, constantinople, turkey
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Doctor Zhivago (2002)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, Germany, USA
Duration: 226 min.
TV show
Story: Young and beautiful Lara is loved by three men: a revolutionary, a mogul, and a doctor. Their lives become intertwined with the drama of Russian revolution. Doctor Zhivago is still married when he meets Lara. Their love story is unfolding against ...
Style: emotional, captivating, realistic, serious, period piece ...
Plot: forbidden love, tragic love, infidelity, rape, love triangle, missing person, betrayal, love affair, rebelliousness, couple relations, rebellion, dishonesty ...
Time: 1910s, edwardian era, year 1917, 20th century, 1900s
Place: russia, moscow russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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The Nativity (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, Canada
Duration: 120 min.
TV show
Story: Four-part drama revealing the human story beneath the classic biblical tale, from the courtship of Mary and Joseph in Nazareth to the birth of Jesus in a Bethlehem stable.
Style: biblical, captivating, serious, psychological, stylized ...
Plot: bible, miraculous event, prophecy, religions or cults, childbirth, pregnancy, jesus christ, love and romance, hopes, couples, society, christianity ...
Time: 1st century b.c.
Place: holy land
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
The Last Days of Pompeii (1984)
Genre: Action, Drama, History, Romance
Country: Italy, UK, USA
Duration: 310 min.
TV show
Story: This costume series portrays aspects of life in Pompeii, a coastal luxury resort near Naples catering for the very rich of imperial Rome, mainly before but culminating in the eruption of the Vesuvian volcano, which wipes it from the face of the ...
Style: serious, realistic, captivating
Plot: volcano, ancient rome, ancient, peplum, true love, bible, ancient world, religious, chivalry, antiquity, natural disaster, sorcery ...
Time: 1st century
Place: pompeii
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
The Brown Girls (2002)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Israel
Duration: 480 min.
TV show
Style: serious, captivating, stylized, saga, realistic
Plot: love affair, couple relations, culture clash, family life, strong female presence, society, parents and children, bittersweet, social relations, couples, family relations, village ...
Time: 80s, 90s, 20th century
Place: israel, middle east
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
The Power of Destiny (2011)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Mexico
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story: La Fuerza del Destino is a Mexican telenovela produced by Rosy Ocampo for Televisa. Sandra Echeverria and David Zepeda star as the main protagonists, while Laisha Wilkins, Gabriel Soto, Rosa Maria Bianchi, and Juan Ferrara star as the main ...
Style: captivating, emotional, serious, realistic, soap opera ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: family relations, rich and poor, love and romance, hopes, dishonesty, society, intrigue, destiny, dignity, novel
Time: 21st century
Place: latin america, mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
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Scarlett (1994)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, USA, Germany, Italy, UK, Spain, Austria
Duration: 360 min.
TV show
Story: The greatest love story ever told began with Gone with the Wind and continues in this sweeping epic sequel, as Scarlett, Rhett and a host of unforgettable characters go from tragedy to triumph in an action-packed saga of international scope
Style: serious, captivating, stylized, romantic, sentimental ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: love and romance, parents and children, couples, family relations, society, infidelity, fall in love, star crossed lovers, reconciliation, civil war, dysfunctional family, 007 ...
Time: victorian era, 19th century, 1870s
Place: europe, london, ireland, georgia, atlanta georgia ...
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24%
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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: captivating, touching, emotional, realistic, historical drama ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: love affair, world war one, parents and children, society, human spirit, hopes, family relations, love and romance, small town, social relations, strong female presence, social history ...
Time: 1930s, 20th century
Place: yorkshire, northern england, england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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, serious ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: forbidden love, older man younger woman relationship, clergy, catholic priest, tragic love, love affair, couple relations, love and romance, priest, family life, friendship, society ...
Time: 50s, 1920s, 20th century, 1930s, 1940s ...
Place: australia
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23%
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Lorna Doone (2000)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 180 min.
Story: The year is 1675. England is threatened by religious and political rivalries. King Charles II's Catholic brother, James, is next in line for the throne, but many Protestants put their faith in Charles' illegitimate son, The Duke of ...
Style: realistic, emotional, captivating, serious, stylized ...
Audience: girls' night, date night
Plot: revenge, love, political unrest, forbidden love, state affairs, vengeance, love and romance, uninhibited rivalry, countryside, politics, rivalry, historical event ...
Time: 17th century
Place: england, scotland, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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St. Peter (2005)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 197 min.
Story: Saint Peter, a reluctant but passionate leader, from the crucifixion of Jesus to his own. The film's first half dramatizes the New Testament's "Acts": early fear, the renewal of Pentecost, Saul's conversion, the decision to ...
Style: captivating, emotional, serious, epic, biblical ...
Plot: bible, chosen one, human spirit, martyr, apostle, miraculous event, religions or cults, state affairs, hopes, cause and meaning, society, discrimination ...
Time: 1st century
Place: holy land
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
The Book of Ruth: Journey of Faith (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: The Book of Ruth, is a triumphant love story in the face of adversity. This selfless journey of love and devotion is seen through the eyes of a young widow. Choosing to leave her homeland of Moab, she follows her mother-in-law Naomi to Israel after ...
Style: touching, sentimental, serious, biblical, realistic ...
Plot: bible, family relations, love affair, true love, hopes, love and romance, life turned upside down, rise to the top, interracial relations, society, starting over, state affairs ...
Place: holy land
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22%
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Vanity Fair (1998)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story: This faithful BBC adaptation once again brings William Makepeace Thackeray's classic satirical novel to the screen. Becky Sharp (Natasha Little) is a beautiful, clever and poor girl determined to earn a higher place in society at any cost. The ...
Style: costume drama, historical drama, captivating, realistic, serious ...
Plot: manipulation, realism, napoleonic era, napoleon bonaparte, time machine, satire, orphan, unrequited love, strong female presence, couples, social climbing, power relations ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, regency period
Place: england, london, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
Moses the Lawgiver (1974)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, Italy
Duration: 360 min.
TV show
Story: Story of Moses. Originally a TV Miniseries recut for theaters
Style: biblical, epic, serious, realistic, atmospheric ...
Plot: moses, bible, ancient history, desert, faith, old testament, christian, ancient, ancient egypt, myth, religious, antiquity ...
Place: holy land, egypt, africa, middle east
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
The Tide of Life (1996)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 180 min.
TV show
Story: Tide of Life follows the fortunes of young housekeeper, Emily Kennedy, as she learns about relationships with three very different men. Forced from home of her first employer, Sep McGilby after his plans to marry her come to tragic end, Emily finds ...
Style: costume drama, realistic, serious, touching, emotional ...
Plot: immigration, life turned upside down, tragic hero, love and romance, couple relations, life is a bitch, boss and employee, innocence lost, gender, society, farm, family relations ...
Time: edwardian era, 19th century, 1900s, victorian era
Place: northern england, england
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22%
The Way We Live Now (2001)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 300 min.
TV show
Story: The Way We Live Now is a 2001 four-part television adaptation of the Anthony Trollope novel The Way We Live Now. The serial was first broadcast on the BBC and was directed by David Yates, written by Andrew Davies and produced by Nigel ...
Style: period piece, serious, costume drama, realistic, historical drama ...
Plot: lifestyle, intrigue, society, rise to the top, fall in love, power relations, life is a bitch, rich and poor, couple relations, greed, couples, love and romance ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, 1800s
Place: britain, europe, england
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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Salt of This Sea (2008)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Belgium, France, Spain, Switzerland
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Born in Brooklyn to Palestinian refugee parents, Soraya (Suheir Hammad) decides to journey to the country of her ancestry when she discovers that her grandfather's savings have been frozen in a Jaffa bank account since his 1948 exile. She soon ...
Style: serious, captivating, realistic, sincere, emotional ...
Plot: politics, state affairs, love affair, social differences, heist, israeli palestinian conflict, love and romance, life is a bitch, injustice, political unrest, discrimination, arab ...
Time: 21st century
Place: israel, middle east, jerusalem, persia, palestinian authority ...
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21%
Falling for a Dancer (1998)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 200 min.
TV show
Story: Romantic drama set in rural Ireland of the 1930s. The story begins when 19-year-old Elizabeth has a brief fling with an actor and falls pregnant. Community pressure forces her to marry a dull middle-aged man, but maybe there is hope on the horizon.
Style: contemplative, serious, realistic, captivating, thought provoking ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: family relations, pregnancy, couples, society, unfulfillment, love and romance, artists and showbiz, love affair, tragic love, unfulfilled love, countryside, haunted by the past ...
Time: 1930s
Place: ireland, europe
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21%
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Ben Hur (2010)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, History
Country: UK, Germany, Spain, Canada, USA
Duration: 180 min.
TV show
Story: About the struggle between the Roman Empire and its rebellious conquest Judaea, and two best friends caught in a terrible moment in history.
Style: captivating, rough, exciting, epic, historical drama ...
Plot: ancient history, roman empire, betrayal, rebellion, vengeance, military, rivalry, danger, slavery, state affairs, political unrest, society ...
Time: 1st century
Place: jerusalem, holy land
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21%
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The Painting (2001)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Heath Freeman (Tru Calling, ER) heads an all-star cast including Clifton Davis (Any Given Sunday) Ben Vereen (Roots), Stacey Dash (Renaissance Man) and Debbie Allen (Fame) in the period drama Soldier of Change, which resurrects the turmoil and ...
Style: serious, realistic, romantic, touching, independent film
Plot: vietnam war, political unrest, rebelliousness, interracial relations, love affair, fall in love, military, self discovery, hopes, society, love and romance, human spirit ...
Time: 60s
Place: vietnam, asia
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21%
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Jane Eyre (1983)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 239 min.
TV show
Story: After living a miserable life with her aunt, orphaned Jane Eyre is sent to Lowood, a residential school for children of limited means. Jane takes the advice of her friend and over many years takes her studies seriously, eventually advertising for a ...
Style: gothic, costume drama, sentimental, serious, historical drama ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: love and romance, estate, proposal, society, rich and poor, couple relations, governess, fall in love, social differences, orphan, strong female presence, power of love ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era
Place: england, britain, europe
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21%
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The Green Chariot (2005)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Israel
Duration: 47 min.
Story: Emigration to Israel challenges Sasha's Jewish identity. Will love help him to go over this crisis?
Style: touching, serious, realistic, emotional, sentimental
Plot: fall in love, moral dilemma, love and romance, society, family relations, religions or cults, parents and children, immigrant, misfit, emigration, engagement, identity ...
Time: 21st century
Place: middle east, israel
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21%
The Forsyte Saga (1967)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story: Adaptation from John Galsworthy's novels.
Style: family saga, costume drama, stylized, historical drama, spiritual ...
Plot: love affair, rich and poor, love and romance, law, love, spirituality, siblings relations, dysfunctional family, unfulfilled love, parents and children, intrigue, couple relations ...
Time: 20th century, victorian era, 19th century
Place: england, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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Middlemarch (1994)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 375 min.
TV show
Story: A BBC dramatization of George Eliot's classic novel about the lives and loves of a group of people living on the cusp of the Industrial Revolution in a small town named Middlemarch. These include young Doctor Lydgate, who arrives at Middlemarch ...
Style: costume drama, period piece, historical drama, romantic drama, realistic ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: hospital, social differences, intrigue, priest, tragic love, love, doctor, reform, inheritance, politics, journalist, power relations ...
Time: victorian era, 19th century, 1800s, 1870s, regency period
Place: england, britain, europe, rome italy
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20%
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St. Paul (2000)
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: Italy, Germany, France, USA, Czech Republic, Netherlands, UK
Duration: 170 min.
TV show
Story: Director Roger Young (JOSEPH AND JESUS) presents this dramatic television miniseries that recounts the life of Paul (Johannes Brandrup) the Apostle of Jesus Christ. Originally known as Paul of Tarsus, Paul tortured and persecuted Christians until he ...
Style: biblical, realistic, serious, exciting, captivating ...
Plot: christianity, apostle, christian, folk hero, state affairs, legends and myths, heroes, redemption, bible, faith, bible story, father son relationship ...
Time: 1st century
Place: holy land, jerusalem, rome italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
The Crimson Petal and the White (2011)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 274 min.
TV show
Story: Follow Sugar into the underbelly of Victorian London seething with vitality, sexuality, ambition and emotion.
Style: historical drama, costume drama, serious, captivating, realistic ...
Plot: prostitute, victorian england, social climbing, love affair, rich and poor, mistress, social differences, power relations, couples, society, high society, diary ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, 1870s, 1880s
Place: england, britain, london, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
Any Human Heart (2010)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
TV show
Story: A novelist's life ricochets from 1920s Paris to '50s New York and '80s London. Along the way he meets Ernest Hemingway, Ian Fleming and the Duke and Duchess of Windsor - the exiled British king and his mistress Wallis Simpson.
Style: stylized, serious, realistic, sentimental, historical drama ...
Plot: introspection, writer's life, encounter, love and romance, historical character, love affair, writers, relationships, romantic relationship, world war one, chess, biopic ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, 80s, 50s, 1920s ...
Place: england, london, france, usa, new york ...
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20%
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Love Child (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story: Love Child follows the lives of staff at the fictional Kings Cross Hospital and the wild streets of Darlinghurst in the 1960s. Joan Miller is a smart and sophisticated midwife who returns home from London to take a job at the Kings Cross Hospital. ...
Style: serious, touching, captivating, realistic, emotional ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: hospital, workplace, love and romance, gender, workplace situations, supportive coworker, power relations, doctors and patients, single parent, workplace romance, pregnancy, unwanted pregnancy ...
Time: 20th century, 60s, year 1969
Place: australia
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