Movies and TV shows like The Mill

If you like "The Mill" you are looking for realistic, serious and captivating movies or TV shows about / with working class, workplace, life is a bitch, society, factory, rich and poor and family relations themes of Drama genre shot in UK.
Find your next favorite and similar movies in two steps: 1. Identify all themes of interest from this film (block below). 2. Look for them in the presented list.
The Mill (2013)
 7.5
 1K
The Mill (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Powerful historical drama series, based on the lives of real people, telling the story of young 19th-century apprentices taking their lives into their own hands for the first time.
Style: realistic, serious, captivating, stylized, psychological, rough, period piece, costume drama, grim, historical drama ...
Plot: working class, workplace, life is a bitch, society, factory, rich and poor, family relations, parents and children, mechanic, social differences, realism, workplace situations, power relations, ancient, revolution, woman, economist, social change, biopic, siblings relations, factory worker
Time: 19th century, victorian era, victorian
Place: england, britain

Movie in categories

Most similar movies to The Mill

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out period drama, realistic, serious and costume drama films and TV series with plots about society, family relations, power relations, love and romance, social differences, costume and rich and poor mostly in Drama, Romance and Mystery genres. Some movies like The Mill: Lilies (2007), The Paradise (2012), The Village (2013), Land Girls (2009), The Way We Live Now (2001). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Watch Trailers From This List to Choose a Movie
 8.1
 802
Lilies (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Lilies is a British period-drama television series, written by Heidi Thomas, which ran for one eight-episode series in early 2007 on BBC One. The show's tagline was "Liverpool, 1920. Three girls on the edge of womanhood, a world on the ...
Style: touching, realistic, serious, sincere, historical drama ...
Plot: post war, family relations, family problems, life is a bitch, society, youth, working class, parents and children, bittersweet, poverty, slum, world war one ...
Time: 1920s, 20th century, post world war one
Place: england, liverpool
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.7
 13K
The Paradise (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: An intoxicating love story set in England's first department store in the 1870s. The Paradise revolves around the lives of the people who live and work in the store, each bound in their own way by the power of the world they live in, and the ...
Style: captivating, costume drama, stylized, realistic, period piece ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: fashion, workplace situations, rise to the top, high society, ambition, workplace, nouveau riche, love affair, love and romance, department store, success, workplace problem ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, 1900s, 1870s, 20th century ...
Place: england, britain
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.7
 3K
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, serious, captivating, rough, costume drama ...
Plot: village life, village, parents and children, social relations, society, villager, countryside, village people, family relations, world war one, small village, landscape ...
Time: 20th century, 1920s, 1910s
Place: england
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.0
 4K
Land Girls (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 225 min.
TV show
Story: The lives, loves and highs and lows of four members of the Women's Land Army working at the Hoxley Estate during World War II.
Style: realistic, captivating, historical drama, costume drama, psychological ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: world war two, wartime life, strong female presence, life is a bitch, family relations, military, soldier, friendship, rise and fall, love, resistance, women ...
Time: 20th century, 1940s
Place: england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Movie in collections
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 ⇓
100%
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 ⇓
100%
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, historical drama, stylized, costume drama, period piece ...
Plot: high society, butler, master and servant, family values, marriage, rich and poor, family life, millionaire, lifestyle, class differences, housewife, couples ...
Time: 1930s, edwardian era, 20th century
Place: england, wales, london, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Lark Rise to Candleford (2008)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 53 min.
TV show
Story: Set in the small hamlet of Lark Rise and the wealthier neighbouring market town, Candleford, the series chronicles the daily lives of farm-workers, craftsmen and gentry at the end of the 19th Century. Lark Rise to Candleford is a love letter to a ...
Style: costume drama, sincere, sentimental, period piece, realistic ...
Audience: girls' night, kids
Plot: english countryside, friendship, village life, society, social relations, small town, new job, hopes, father son relationship, neighbor neighbor relationship, employer employee relationship, mother daughter relationship ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, 1800s
Place: england, britain, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Movie in collections
The Duchess of Duke Street (1976)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story: The Duchess Of Duke Street is a BBC television drama series set in London between 1900 and 1925. It was created by John Hawkesworth, the former producer of the highly successful ITV period drama Upstairs, Downstairs. It starred Gemma Jones as Louisa ...
Style: costume drama, historical drama, realistic, semi serious, sincere ...
Plot: hotel, jazz, food, professional, great war, world war one, couples, power relations, social differences, rich and poor, master and servant, love and romance ...
Time: edwardian era, victorian era, 1910s, 1950s, 1920s ...
Place: britain, london, england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 8.2
 10K
Little Dorrit (2008)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 480 min.
TV show
Story: The series tells the story of Amy Dorrit, who spends her days earning money for the family and looking after her proud father, who is a long term inmate of Marshalsea debtors' prison in London. Amy and her family's world is transformed ...
Style: captivating, costume drama, sincere, period piece, historical drama ...
Audience: girls' night, kids
Plot: poverty, young woman, life is a bitch, uncover truth, society, secret, rich and poor, family problems, financial problem, money problems, co worker co worker relationship, employer employee relationship ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, regency period, 1800s, georgian era ...
Place: england, britain, europe, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Berkeley Square (1998)
Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story: Three young women from very different backgrounds meet, become friends and share experiences when they all gain positions as nannies in the wealthy households of London's exclusive Berkeley Square.
Style: period piece, costume drama, historical drama, realistic, serious ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: nanny, family relations, civil rights, feminist, spanish civil war, human rights, colleague, abbey, butler, child abuse, bittersweet, master and servant ...
Time: 1900s, edwardian era, middle ages, 19th century, victorian era ...
Place: london, england, britain, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The House of Eliott (1991)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story: The House of Eliott is a British television series produced and broadcast by the BBC in three series between 1991 and 1994. The series starred Stella Gonet and Louise Lombard as two sisters in 1920s London who establish a dressmaking business and ...
Style: serious, realistic, costume drama, captivating, sincere ...
Plot: fashion, society, workplace, lifestyle, family relations, workplace situations, fashion designer, dressmaker, rise to the top, notoriety, sister sister relationship, siblings relations ...
Time: 1920s, 20th century
Place: england, london, britain
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.2
 2K
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 ⇓
100%
 8.6
 35K
North & South (2004)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 235 min.
TV show
Story: North & South is a British television drama serial, produced by the BBC and originally broadcast in four episodes on BBC One in November and December 2004. It follows the story of Margaret Hale, a young woman from southern England who has to ...
Style: touching, serious, sincere, captivating, costume drama ...
Audience: girls' night, chick flick
Plot: prejudice, initially antagonists, social differences, love and romance, pride and honor, society, rich and poor, young woman, fall in love, couple relations, love affair, unlikely couple ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, 50s, 1850s, 1800s
Place: england, britain, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.8
 5K
Bomb Girls (2012)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Canada
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Focusing on a group of women working in a munitions plant during World War II, this ensemble drama depicts the dangers and new experiences they face.
Style: captivating, realistic, serious, stylized, historical drama ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: world war two, wartime life, working woman, factory, life is a bitch, sexism, workplace, society, gender, accident, strong female presence, lesbian love ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century
Place: canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Life and Adventures of Nick Nickleby (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story: A modern interpretation of the classic Dickens novel.
Style: captivating, emotional, touching, serious, tense ...
Plot: life is a bitch, family relations, parents and children, rich and poor, escapades, injustice, society, family problems, social problems, relationships, family life, financial problem ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: england, london, united kingdom
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Movie in collections
Our Mutual Friend (1998)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 350 min.
TV show
Story: Intertwining tales of love, greed, and secret identities in Charles Dickens's 1860s London.
Style: costume drama, period piece, historical drama, realistic, serious ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: victorian england, charles dickens, inheritance, love, makeover, betrayal, unrequited love, lifestyle, dishonesty, life is a bitch, love and romance, society ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, 1800s
Place: britain, england, london, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
David Copperfield (1999)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 185 min.
TV show
Story: Charles Dickens' haunting semi-autobiographical tale of a boy who is sent away by his stepfather after his mother dies but manages to triumph over incredible adversities.
Style: costume drama, captivating, uplifting, realistic, serious ...
Audience: family friendly
Plot: charles dickens, coming of age, step parent, orphan, youth, child abuse, stepfather stepson relationship, literary, power relations, family relations, life is a bitch, society ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, edwardian era
Place: england, europe, london, dover england
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.4
 69
Vanity Fair (1967)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story: Adaptation of William Makepeace Thackeray's novel. The first colour production from the BBC.
Style: costume drama, serious, realistic, captivating, stylized ...
Plot: manipulation, napoleonic era, satire, deception, treachery, couples, power relations, society, dishonesty, love and romance, rise to the top, ambition ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era
Place: england
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Doctor Thorne (2016)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 48 min.
TV show
Story: The story of the penniless Mary Thorne, who grows up with her rich aunt/cousins at Greshamsbury Park estate.
Style: costume drama, historical drama, captivating, cynical, thought provoking ...
Plot: aristocrat, english countryside, family drama, ward, physician, village, family relations, society, intrigue, social differences, couples, love and romance ...
Time: victorian era, 19th century, 1840s, 1850s
Place: england, britain
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Wingless Bird (1997)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 180 min.
TV show
Story: On the eve of World War I, Agnes Conway manages both the business and the problems of her troubled family. She finds the strength to break class barriers and help her sister Jessie marry a good boy from a family of dockside toughs. Is she strong ...
Style: touching, sentimental, realistic, serious, costume drama ...
Plot: rich and poor, great war, couples, family relations, power relations, betrayal, love and romance, dishonesty, society, ambition, master and servant, working class ...
Time: 1910s, 20th century, year 1914, edwardian era
Place: northern england, england
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Movie in collections
ancient movies
1293
britain movies
856
revolution movies
1567
woman movies
5644
 7.9
 1K
Bramwell (1995)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 54 min.
TV show
Story: Bramwell is a British television series starring Jemma Redgrave as Dr. Eleanor Bramwell, a woman challenging the domination of men in the medical establishment, who runs a free hospital for the poor in the East End of London, during the late ...
Style: medical drama, historical drama, realistic, serious, sincere ...
Plot: medical, medicine, civil rights, feminist, human rights, charity, strong female presence, sexism, power relations, surgery, doctors and patients, feminism ...
Time: victorian era, 19th century, 1890s
Place: britain, london, europe, england, east end london
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.5
 114
Truckers (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 300 min.
TV show
Story: Funny, moving and at times painful - Truckers tells stories of real life, ordinary people pushed to extremes. In each episode, one character undertakes a journey and we are along for the ride. In an age when technology would make us seem ever more ...
Style: sincere, humorous, touching, semi serious, realistic
Plot: workplace situations, family relations, workplace, introspection, society, hopes, parents and children, redemption, working class, bittersweet, journey
Time: 21st century
Place: england
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Martin Chuzzlewit (1994)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 385 min.
TV show
Story: Martin Chuzzlewit is an old man with a large fortune and an even larger set of family and friends. A portrait of greed and selfishness, this magnificent adaptation of Dickens' comic masterpiece features an all-star cast.
Style: costume drama, realistic, serious, captivating, stylized ...
Plot: charles dickens, blackmail, inheritance, tribe, family relations, self involved, social climbing, social relations, innocence lost, society, intrigue, ambition ...
Time: 19th century, 1830s, victorian era
Place: britain, usa, england
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.5
 1K
The Royal (2003)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Follows the staff and patients of a Yorkshire cottage hospital in the 60s, embroiled in tangled love lives and bitter power struggles.
Style: medical drama, realistic, captivating, emotional, psychological ...
Plot: hospital, doctor, doctors and patients, moral dilemma, workplace, nursing, workplace situations, nurse, society, love, working class, medical ...
Time: 60s, 20th century
Place: england, northern england, yorkshire, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Love in a Cold Climate (2001)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 150 min.
TV show
Story: Adaptation of Nancy Mitford's novel.
Style: realistic, serious, stylized, historical drama, costume drama ...
Audience: girls' night, date night
Plot: fall in love, love triangle, social differences, looking for love, eccentric family, master and servant, unlikely couple, society, wooing, infidelity, unfulfilled love, rich and poor ...
Time: 1930s, 20th century
Place: england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Wives and Daughters (1999)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 301 min.
TV show
Story: Elizabeth Gaskell's enchanting tale of romance, scandal, and intrigue in a gossipy English town comes to Masterpiece Theatre in a lavish four-part production of Wives and Daughters, adapted by celebrated screenwriter Andrew Davies.Davies, who ...
Style: uplifting, period piece, costume drama, serious, historical drama ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: prejudice, aristocrat, family relations, love and romance, estate, aristocracy, secret marriage, marriage, gossip, sibling relationship, parent child relationship, parents and children ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, 1800s, 18th century, 1820s ...
Place: england, europe, london, britain, africa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 8.3
 148K
Taboo (2017)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 59 min.
TV show
Story: Adventurer James Keziah Delaney returns to London from Africa in 1814 along with fourteen stolen diamonds to seek vengeance after the death of his father.
Style: serious, suspenseful, disturbing, stylized, rough ...
Plot: murder, british empire, family business, dark secret, incest overtones, brother sister incest, witchcraft, greed, investigation, conspiracy, homecoming, obsession ...
Time: 19th century, 1810s, georgian era, victorian era, regency period
Place: england, britain, syria, united kingdom, london ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Watch Trailers From This List to Choose a Movie