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Anne with an E (2017)
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Genre: Drama, Family
Country: Canada
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
A coming-of-age story about an outsider who, against all odds and numerous challenges, fights for love and acceptance and for her place in the world. The series centers on a young orphaned girl in the late 1890’s, who, after an abusive childhood spent in orphanages and the homes of strangers, is mistakenly sent to live with an elderly woman and her aging brother. Over time, 13-year-old Anne will transform their lives and eventually the small town in which they live with her unique spirit, fierce intellect and brilliant imagination.
Style:
compassionate, touching, sincere, realistic, emotional, period piece, sad, historical drama, heartfelt, costume drama ...
Audience:
teens, family friendly, teen drama
Plot:
friendship, orphan, teenage life, small town, coming of age, feminism, child's point of view, family relations, children's home, society, school, parents and children, imaginary, mischievous children, rural setting, redhead girl, teenager, unrequited love, anne of green gables, women, woman, lgbt, pandemic, prodigy, child prodigy ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, 1800s, 1890s
Place:
canada
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out touching, period drama, realistic and sentimental films and TV series with plots about family relations, friendship, family, youth, orphan, friends and coming of age mostly in Drama, Family and Romance genres. Some movies like Anne with an E: The Secret Garden (1987), Little Women (2017), Anne of Green Gables (1985), Anne of Green Gables (1972), Pollyanna (2003). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Family, Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
england, europe, yorkshire
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Genre: Drama, Family, Romance
Country: Canada, USA, UK
Duration: 58 min.
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Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama
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Style:
costume drama, period piece, touching, sentimental, romantic ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
usa, new england, massachusetts
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: Canada, West Germany, USA
Duration: 100 min.
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Story:
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Style:
touching, sentimental, period piece, emotional, humorous ...
Audience:
family outing, kids, teens, family friendly, chick flick ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
canada, america
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70%
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Genre: Drama, Family
Country: UK
Duration: 280 min.
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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.
Style:
pastoral, sentimental, period piece, period drama
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
anne of green gables, literary, imagination, dreaming, coming of age, family drama, friendship, innocence, adoption, small town, resilience, identity ...
Place:
canada
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: UK
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
kids, family outing, pre-teens
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
england, europe
Similarity:
80%
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Style:
sincere, touching, captivating, compassionate, uplifting ...
Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Duration: 60 min.
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Style:
sentimental, sincere, touching, feel good, serious ...
Audience:
kids, family friendly, toddlers, pre-teens, family outing ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Duration: 60 min.
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Style:
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Audience:
family friendly, family outing
Plot:
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Similarity:
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Genre: Drama, Family, Fantasy
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Duration: 101 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA, Italy
Duration: 97 min.
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Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Place:
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kids, family outing
Plot:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Audience:
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737
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Duration: 105 min.
Story:
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Style:
uplifting, realistic, serious, feel good, touching ...
Audience:
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Country: USA
Duration: 45 min.
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Style:
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Audience:
teens, kids, family outing, teen drama
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
100%
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Country: UK
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Country: UK
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Plot:
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Genre: Drama, Family
Country: UK
Duration: 360 min.
TV show
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Country: Canada
Duration: 45 min.
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Audience:
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Place:
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100%
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Country: UK, USA
Duration: 60 min.
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Style:
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Time:
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Place:
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Country: UK, USA
Duration: 168 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Time:
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Place:
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67%
Genre: Family, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
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The Kids of Degrassi Street is a Canadian children's TV show that aired from 1979 to 1986, and is the first in the Degrassi series, about the lives of a group of children living on Degrassi Street in Toronto, Canada. It grew out of four short ...
Style:
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Audience:
kids, teens, family outing
Plot:
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Place:
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TV show
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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