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Our Zoo (2014)
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Our Zoo (2014)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: UK
Duration: 312 min.
TV show
Story: “Our Zoo” follows the story of George, who being frustrated by memories of fighting in the great war and living with his extended family, wants to bring more beauty into the world. When he comes across a camel and monkey that are about to be abandoned, he embarks on a plan to set up a zoo.
Style: sincere, captivating, realistic, semi serious, costume drama, period drama
Plot: zoo, follow your dream, family business, eccentric family, life turned upside down, family relations, parents and children, couple relations, interwar period, world war one, monkey, marriage, war veteran, ex soldier, siblings relations, british history, post traumatic stress disorder, animal, costume, animals
Time: 1930s, 20th century, 30s
Place: england

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, period drama and costume drama films and TV series with plots about family relations, couples, society, love and romance, parents and children, couple relations and costume mostly in Drama, History and Romance genres. Some movies like Our Zoo: All Creatures Great and Small (1978), The Village (2013), We Bought a Zoo (2011), The Great Fire (2014), 32 Brinkburn Street (2011). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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All Creatures Great and Small (1978)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story: All Creatures Great and Small is a British television series, based on the books of the British veterinary surgeon Alf Wight, who wrote under the pseudonym James Herriot. Ninety episodes were aired over two three-year runs. The first run was based ...
Style: touching, realistic, humorous, sentimental, semi serious ...
Plot: veterinarian, pets, village life, workplace, doctors and patients, family relations, family business, medical, doctor, hospital, skirt, world war two ...
Time: 20th century, 1940s, 1930s, 1950s
Place: yorkshire, england, europe
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100%
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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, 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
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100%
 7.0
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We Bought a Zoo (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story: Benjamin has lost his wife and, in a bid to start his life over, purchases a large house that has a zoo – welcome news for his daughter, but his son is not happy about it. The zoo is in need of renovation and Benjamin sets about the work with the ...
Style: feel good, inspirational, touching, sincere, romantic ...
Audience: kids, family outing, teens, date night, chick flick ...
Plot: single father, zoo, happy ending, animal, children, father son relationship, tiger, little girl, starting over, family life, countryside, beautiful scenery ...
Time: 2010s, year 2011, 21st century
Place: california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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The Great Fire (2014)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: UK
TV show
Story: An insight into what happened on the night of 2 September 1666, the Great fire of London.
Style: realistic, serious, captivating, costume drama, period piece ...
Plot: fire, save the day, danger, escapades, chaos and mayhem, working class, poverty, destruction, disaster, royalty, monarchy, real life ...
Time: 17th century
Place: england, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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32 Brinkburn Street (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story: Drama moving between the lives, loves and lies of two generations of the same family who live at 32 Brinkburn Street in 1931 and 2011.
Style: realistic, captivating, serious, suspense, sentimental ...
Plot: attic, society, family relations, couples, haunted by the past, family life, parents and children, couple relations, interracial relations, family problems, step siblings, secret ...
Time: 1930s, 20th century
Place: england, europe
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43%
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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: captivating, realistic, serious, emotional, period drama
Audience: girls' night
Plot: makeover, world war one, couple relations, love and romance, society, fall in love, estate, uneducated, couples, family relations, countryside, manners ...
Time: edwardian era, 1900s, 20th century, 1910s
Place: england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
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Casualty 1900s (2008)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: UK
Duration: 180 min.
TV show
Story: Featuring true cases, characters and events taken from the London Hospital records, nurse's ward diaries and intimate memoirs, these gritty medical series show the lives – and forbidden romances – of pioneering doctors and nurses a hundred ...
Style: emotional, touching, sentimental, sincere, period piece ...
Plot: hospital, doctors and patients, workplace, workplace romance, couple relations, public health, cure, workplace intrigue, workplace situations, medicine, doctor, multiverse ...
Time: victorian era, 1900s
Place: europe, london, england
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
Edward & Mrs. Simpson (1978)
Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 350 min.
TV show
Story: While still the Prince of Wales, the future Edward VIII meets the married American socialite, Wallis Simpson. Their relationship causes furor in the palace and in parliament, especially when King George V dies, Mrs. Simpson gets divorced, and King ...
Style: costume drama, historical drama, emotional, serious, realistic ...
Plot: royalty, royal family, monarch, wedding, true love, social differences, relationship vs career, couples, family relations, power relations, head of state, love and romance ...
Time: 1930s
Place: england
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
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From There to Here (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Created by Peter Bowker, From There To Here is set in the aftermath of the 1996 Arndale bombing and follows Daniel Cotton, a Manchester family man who is torn between the life he wants and the life he could have. The story spans the four years that ...
Style: sincere, serious, touching, realistic, captivating
Plot: streetwise, family relations, parents and children, bombing, bittersweet, society, siblings relations, soccer, city life, ira, urban, bet ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, year 1996
Place: england, manchester
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
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Mrs Biggs (2012)
Genre: Crime, Drama, History
Country: UK
Duration: 258 min.
TV show
Story: The true story of Charmian Biggs (née Powell), the rebellious product of a strict 1950s upbringing, and her whirlwind romance with Ronald Biggs leading to a descent into crime, most infamously 1963's Great Train Robbery.
Style: emotional, stylized, serious, touching, realistic ...
Plot: couple relations, criminal heroes, love and romance, family relations, love affair, wanted, couples, crime and punishment, fugitive, train robbery, true crime, british history ...
Time: 20th century, 60s, 1950s
Place: england, rio de janeiro, australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
 7.7
 17K
Mr Selfridge (2013)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: UK
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story: Mr. Selfridge recounts the real life story of the flamboyant and visionary American founder of Selfridge's, London's lavish department store. Set in 1909 London, when women were reveling in a new sense of freedom and modernity, it follows ...
Style: stylized, captivating, costume drama, serious, realistic ...
Plot: businessman, rise to the top, high society, visionary, department store, materialism, lifestyle, ambitious, success, career, boss, manager ...
Time: 1900s, edwardian era, 1910s, 20th century, victorian era
Place: england, london, britain
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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, costume drama, period piece ...
Plot: butler, domestic servant, maid, working class, master servant relationship, high society, wealth, master and servant, lifestyle, couples, rich and poor, couple relations ...
Time: 1900s, edwardian era, year 1971, 1920s, 1930s ...
Place: england, london, britain, hawaii, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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: period piece, family saga, realistic, costume drama, serious ...
Plot: high society, love affair, society, love and romance, forbidden love, family relations, couple relations, parents and children, unfulfilled love, rich and poor, power relations, victorian england ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, 1920s, 20th century, 1880s ...
Place: england, britain, europe, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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Aristocrats (1999)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: UK, Ireland, USA
Duration: 300 min.
TV show
Story: Based on a true story, Aristocrats draws back the curtain on an 18th century English family near the summit of society, revealing a tapestry of romance, prejudice, infidelity, and revolution.
Style: period piece, captivating, serious, historical drama, realistic ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: master and servant, rich and poor, high society, aristocracy, royal family, family relations, royalty, society, intrigue, politics, siblings relations, state affairs ...
Time: 18th century, georgian era, 1780s
Place: england, ireland, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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In the Club (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: In The Club follows six pregnant women and their partners as they get ready for the arrival of their babies at the local parenting class. Housewife Diane, schoolgirl Rosie, newlywed Jasmin, businesswoman Roanna, midwife Vicky and writer and teaching ...
Style: sincere, touching, serious, realistic
Plot: couples, lifestyle, couple relations, family relations, love and romance, baby, parents and children, pregnancy, pregnant woman
Time: 21st century
Place: england
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
The English Game (2020)
Genre: Drama, History, Sport
Country: UK
Duration: 281 min.
TV show
Story: Two 19th-century footballers on opposite sides of a class divide navigate professional and personal turmoil to change the game — and England — forever.
Style: period piece, uplifting, stylized, realistic, inspirational ...
Plot: soccer, british history, football, tournament, football player, sports history, sport team, society, against the rules, social problems, traditional versus modern, family relations ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, 1870s
Place: england
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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 680
The Grand (1997)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: The Grand is a British television drama series first broadcast on ITV in 1997–1998. It was written by Russell T Davies and set in a hotel in Manchester in the 1920s. There are two series: eight episodes in the first series were broadcast from 4 ...
Style: costume drama, sexual, serious, realistic, period drama
Plot: hotel, great war, family relations, maid, prostitute, couples, siblings relations, infidelity, lifestyle, vengeance, betrayal, love and romance ...
Time: 1920s, 1910s, 20th century, post world war one
Place: england, europe, manchester
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
Edward the King (1975)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: UK
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story: Edward the Seventh is a 1975 television drama series, made by ATV in 13 episodes. Based on the biography of Edward VII by Philip Magnus, it starred Timothy West as the elder Edward VII and Simon Gipps-Kent and Charles Sturridge as Edward in his ...
Style: costume drama, historical drama, saga, captivating, realistic ...
Plot: royalty, royal family, british monarchy, monarch, biopic, family relations, state affairs, head of state, parents and children, royal court, queen victoria, troubled youth ...
Time: 19th century, edwardian era, 20th century, victorian era
Place: britain, england
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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Jerusalem Brew (2003)
Genre: Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story: The series opens as widow Shimon Sadeh, a successful general contractor, is finishing the year of mourning for his deceased wife. He marries Leah, his daughter's piano teacher. Shimon's eldest son, Ephraim, has become ultra-Orthodox, ...
Style: emotional, touching, sincere, serious, realistic ...
Plot: family life, couples, family relations, couple relations, society, parents and children, family problems, siblings relations, religions or cults, family business, rabbi
Time: 21st century
Place: israel
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
A Very British Scandal (2021)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: UK
Duration: 177 min.
TV show
Story: Sex, secrets and suspicion - the true story of a duchess publicly shamed in a high society divorce that gripped the nation.
Style: disturbing, captivating, psychological, costume drama, period drama
Plot: duchess, divorce, marriage, high society, aristocracy, adultery, scandal, relationship problems, political scandal, crumbling marriage, marital problem, british royal family ...
Time: 20th century
Place: london, britain
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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Poldark (1975)
Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Period drama series about the brooding rivalry between former soldier Ross Poldark and local industrialist George Warleggan, and the two women in their lives. Based on the books by Winston Graham.
Style: costume drama, historical drama, spiritual, realistic, serious ...
Plot: time machine, spirituality, abbey, estate, unrequited love, unfulfillment, love and romance, society, master and servant, couple relations, love affair, unfulfilled love ...
Time: 18th century, georgian era, 1780s
Place: england, europe, britain, cornwall
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
 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 ⇓
37%
Heimat 3: A Chronicle of Endings and Beginnings (2004)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Germany, UK
Duration: 689 min.
TV show
Story: Heimat 3 is the third cycle of Edgar Reitz's monumental Heimat series, which premiered at the 2004 Venice Film Festival. The third Heimat completes the trilogy and brings together particularly the settings of Heimat 1. It follows the new ...
Style: serious, realistic, sentimental, atmospheric, sincere ...
Plot: family relations, lovers reunited, idealism, culture clash, couples, revolution, aging, society, unlikely couple, elderly, couple relations, rebelliousness ...
Time: year 2004, 80s, 20th century, 90s
Place: germany, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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 ⇓
37%
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, costume drama ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: midwife, childbirth, pregnancy, convent, nurse, doctor, nursing, friends, medical, family life, hospital, friendship ...
Time: 50s, 60s, 1950s, year 1961, 2020s ...
Place: england, london, europe, britain
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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 ⇓
37%
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 ⇓
37%
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The Duchess (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 150 min.
TV show
Story: The life of the Duchess of Alba La vida de la Duquesa de Alba
Style: captivating, serious, realistic, romantic
Plot: duchess, royal family, aristocracy, love and romance, political unrest, society, family relations, state affairs, fall in love, parents and children, couple relations, biopic ...
Time: 60s, 1930s, 1920s, 1940s, 50s ...
Place: europe, spain
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
A Dance to the Music of Time (1997)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 416 min.
TV show
Story: Anthony Powell's 12 volume novel sequence "A Dance to the Music of Time" has been dramatised for television.
Style: stylized, serious, realistic, captivating, period drama
Plot: world war two, world war one, post war, love, high society, social relations, power relations, couples, lifestyle, society, couple relations, dishonesty ...
Time: 1930s, 20th century
Place: england, london, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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Britannia High (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 630 min.
TV show
Story: Britannia High is a British musical drama television series co-produced by Granada Television and Globe Productions for the ITV network. The series focused on the lives of a group of teenagers and their mentors at a fictional London theatre school. ...
Style: sentimental, touching, semi serious, captivating, realistic
Audience: teens
Plot: follow your dream, desire for fame, teenage love, teenage life, ambition, parents and children, love and romance, teachers and students, family relations, lifestyle, high school life, youth ...
Place: london, europe, england
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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