Movies like Atonement
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Atonement (2007)
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance, War
Country: UK, France, USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
As a 13-year-old, fledgling writer Briony Tallis irrevocably changes the course of several lives when she accuses her older sister's lover of a crime he did not commit.
Style:
touching, emotional, sad, heartbreaking, dramatic, sexy, romantic, visually appealing, erotic, surprise ending ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, teens, adult
Plot:
world war two, wartime, redemption, injustice, love story, tragic love, unfulfilled love, war, love and romance, forbidden love, love, false accusation, innocence, life is a bitch, rape, innocence lost, youth, society, prejudice, couples, childhood, death, couple relations, wrongful conviction, family relations ...
Time:
1940s, 1930s, victorian era, 50s, post world war two, 20th century, year 1939 ...
Place:
england, dunkirk, london, europe
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, emotional and romantic films with plots about love, beautiful scenery, destiny, death, love story, relationships and mentor mostly in Drama, Romance and War genres. Some movies like Atonement: The Edge of Love (2008), The English Patient (1996), Testament of Youth (2014), The Painted Veil (2006), The Sleeping Dictionary (2003). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance, War
Country: UK
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
The Edge of love is a love story of two feisty women and a brilliant, charismatic poet who love both women. One woman Vera Phillips who is his first love and whom he lost for ten year, while other one is his present wife Caitlin who is adventurous ...
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1940s, post world war two, 18th century
Place:
wales, europe, england, london
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100%
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 162 min.
Story:
In the 1930s, Count Almásy is a Hungarian map maker employed by the Royal Geographical Society to chart the vast expanses of the Sahara Desert along with several other prominent explorers. As World War II unfolds, Almásy enters into a world of ...
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world war two, adultery, love story, tragic love, desert, beautiful scenery, betrayal, war, nurse, love, life & death, life philosophy ...
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1940s, 1930s, year 1944, year 1942, 50s ...
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italy, sahara, africa, cairo egypt, egypt ...
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92%
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: UK, Denmark
Duration: 129 min.
Story:
Testament of Youth is a powerful story of love, war and remembrance, based on the First World War memoir by Vera Brittain, which has become the classic testimony of that war from a woman’s point of view. A searing journey from youthful hopes and ...
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touching, captivating, serious, romantic, stylized ...
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girls' night, chick flick, teens
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world war one, war, wartime, aspiring writer, women, life is a bitch, wartime life, love and romance, love affair, death, destiny, adaptation ...
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1910s, 20th century, 1920s, year 1918, 19th century ...
Place:
england, oxford university, london, flanders, europe ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
93%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: China, USA, Canada
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
A British medical doctor fights a cholera outbreak in a small Chinese village, while also being trapped at home in a loveless marriage to an unfaithful wife.
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touching, emotional, scenic, captivating, melancholic ...
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chick flick
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infidelity, loveless marriage, marriage, love and romance, cheating wife, couple relations, love story, extramarital affair, adultery, couples, cholera, love ...
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1920s, 20th century, 50s, 19th century
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china, shanghai, london, england, africa ...
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86%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA, Germany
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
A young Englishman is dispatched to Sarawak to become part of the British colonial government. He encounters some unorthodox local traditions, and finds himself faced with tough decisions of the heart involving the beautiful Selima, the unwitting ...
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romantic, sexy, fairy tale, erotic, scenic ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, teens
Plot:
forbidden love, love story, interracial romance, jungle, stereotypes, culture clash, opposites attract, husband wife relationship, love and romance, love, mentor, love affair ...
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1930s, 20th century
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england, ireland, borneo, malaysia, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 129 min.
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Trapped in a loveless marriage, aristocrat Anna Karenina enters into a life-changing affair with the affluent Count Vronsky.
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sentimental, stylized, emotional, colourful, romantic ...
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russia, st. petersburg russia, moscow russia, europe
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89%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, Italy, Morocco, USA
Duration: 133 min.
Story:
Based on Evelyn Waugh's 1945 classic British novel, Brideshead Revisited is a poignant story of forbidden love and the loss of innocence set in England prior to the Second World War.
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sentimental, emotional, serious, sincere, touching ...
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gay, world war two, friendship, religion, oxford, couples, love and romance, friends, siblings relations, society, nobility, lgbt ...
Time:
1920s, 20th century, 50s, 1930s, 80s ...
Place:
england, oxford university, venice, london, morocco ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller, War
Country: UK, France, Canada, Belgium, USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
France, 1940. In the first days of occupation, beautiful Lucile Angellier is trapped in a stifled existence with her controlling mother-in-law as they both await news of her husband: a prisoner of war. Parisian refugees start to pour into their ...
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emotional, realistic, romantic, captivating, serious ...
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girls' night, chick flick
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world war two, forbidden love, nazi occupation, german soldier, german officer, war, fall in love, wartime life, love and romance, nazi officer, adultery, nazi occupied france ...
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1940s, year 1940, 20th century, 18th century
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france, europe, paris france, england, germany ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
90%
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, Romance, War
Country: USA, Italy, Romania, UK
Duration: 154 min.
Story:
In this classic story of love and devotion set against the backdrop of the American Civil War, a wounded Confederate soldier named W.P. Inman deserts his unit and travels across the South, aiming to return to his young wife, Ada, who he left behind ...
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romantic, epic, sincere, serious, touching ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
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Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: Italy, USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
On the day in 1940 that Italy enters the war, two things happen to the 12-year-old Renato: he gets his first bike, and he gets his first look at Malèna. She is a beautiful, silent outsider who's moved to this Sicilian town to be with her ...
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women, hot and sexy, older woman younger man relationship, coming of age, wartime, world war two, older woman younger man, longing, small town, prostitution, jealousy, life is a bitch ...
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1940s, 20th century
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italy, canada, europe, southern italy, sicily ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, UK, USA
Duration: 129 min.
Story:
Pride & Prejudice is a humorous story of love and life among English gentility during the Georgian era. Mr. Bennet is an English gentleman living in Hertfordshire with his overbearing wife and five daughters. If Mr. Bennet dies their house will ...
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romantic, dramatic, captivating, sweet, witty ...
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prejudice, love, happy ending, fall in love, love and romance, opposites attract, aristocracy, initially antagonists, unlikely couple, wooing, gentleman, social differences ...
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Story:
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, Ireland
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
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Style:
romantic, touching, sweet, emotional, intellectual ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night, girls' night, teens
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, France
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Story:
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visually appealing, scenic, erotic, atmospheric, sexy ...
Plot:
tragic love, rape, relationships, breast feeding, beautiful scenery, loneliness, love, destiny, peasant, tragedy, social injustice, marriage ...
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england, europe, brazil
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: Germany, UK, USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
In the aftermath of World War II, a British colonel and his wife are assigned to live in Hamburg during the post-war reconstruction, but tensions arise with the German widower who lives with them.
Style:
melancholic, realistic, philosophical, serious, disturbing ...
Audience:
boys' night, chick flick
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cheating wife, adultery, love hate relationship, horny wife, post war germany, love triangle, infidelity, husband wife relationship, world war two, city in ruins, sex scene, extramarital affair ...
Time:
post world war two, 1940s, year 1945, year 1942, year 1943 ...
Place:
hamburg germany, london, alps, northern germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
86%
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance, War
Country: France, USA
Duration: 133 min.
Story:
In 1919, Mathilde was 19 years old. Two years earlier, her fiancé Manech left for the front at the Somme. Like millions of others he was "killed on the field of battle." It's written in black and white on the official notice. But ...
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romantic, touching, atmospheric, epic, sexy ...
Audience:
date night
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world war one, war, love, love and romance, love story, wartime, private detective, investigation, obsession, tragedy, sacrifice, life & death ...
Time:
1920s, 1910s, 20th century, year 1917, year 1919
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france, paris france, europe, brittany, marseille ...
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67%
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: UK, France
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
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touching, sentimental, realistic, sexy, witty ...
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girls' night, chick flick
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⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller, War
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Sergeant John Tyree is home on a 2 week leave from Germany. He meets Savannah after he dives into the ocean to retrieve Savannah's purse that had fallen off the pier. John falls in love with Savannah who is a student on spring break helping ...
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romantic, sentimental, emotional, touching, sweet ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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intense, emotional, captivating, epic, dramatic ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi, Thriller, War
Country: UK, Canada
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
An American girl on holiday in the English countryside with her family finds herself in hiding and fighting for her survival as war breaks out.
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suspenseful, romantic, sweet, realistic, light ...
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teens, girls' night, chick flick, teen drama
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post apocalypse, survival, teenage life, youth, teenager, coming of age, fall in love, cousin cousin relationship, getting home, longing, love, countryside ...
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england, london, scotland, northern england
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100%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Ireland
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
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touching, realistic, compassionate, psychological, twisted ...
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chick flick, girls' night
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mental institution, diary, tragic love, female protagonist, destiny, mental illness, irish, life is a bitch, injustice, false accusation, obsession, priest ...
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1940s, 20th century, 1920s, 1930s
Place:
ireland
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Drama, Romance, War, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 133 min.
Story:
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emotional, captivating, sincere, scenic, serious ...
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world war one, love triangle, beautiful scenery, love, father son relationship, love story, death, vengeance, relationships, twists and turns, suicide, war ...
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usa, montana
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50%
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Country: Canada, France
Duration: 131 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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100%
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: UK, Canada
Duration: 132 min.
Story:
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100%
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Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: Czech Republic, Slovakia, Austria
Duration: 150 min.
Story:
A nurse and her surgeon-lover are part of a resistance movement in 1940s Czechoslovakia. When they are discovered, her lover flees and she must find a place to hide. A patient whose life she saved, a man from a remote mountain village where time ...
Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
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Country: USA, UK
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
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romantic, sentimental, emotional, touching, sweet ...
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Plot:
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Place:
london, england, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
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Audience:
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Plot:
world war two, obsession, infidelity, obsessive love, jealousy, love, love affair, private detective, betrayal, sex scene, adultery, extramarital affair ...
Time:
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Place:
london, england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, France
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
The story follows a married couple, apart for a night while the husband takes a business trip with a colleague to whom he's attracted. While he's resisting temptation, his wife encounters her past love.
Style:
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Audience:
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Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance, War
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
U.S. Marine Sergeant Logan Thibault returns from his third tour of duty in Iraq, with the one thing he credits with keeping him alive-a photograph he found of a woman he doesn't even know. Learning her name is Beth and where she lives, he shows ...
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teens, girls' night, chick flick, date night
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⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
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