Movies like Atonement
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Atonement (2007)
325K
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, period piece, heartbreaking, sad, visually appealing, sexy, dramatic, historical drama, romantic ...
Audience:
girls' night, chick flick, teens, adult
Plot:
world war two, wartime, redemption, tragic love, injustice, love story, unfulfilled love, sex scene, forbidden love, love and romance, false accusation, innocence, couples, innocence lost, rape, youth, society, lovers apart, loss of virginity, storytelling, guilt, couple relations, sex, prejudice, bombing ...
Time:
1930s, victorian era, 1940s, year 2007, 2000s, 50s, 20th century ...
Place:
england, london, dunkirk, britain, europe, dover england
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Most similar movies to Atonement
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, romantic and emotional films with plots about love, destiny, beautiful scenery, love and romance, death, love story and relationships mostly in Drama, Romance and War genres. Some movies like Atonement: The English Patient (1996), Testament of Youth (2014), The Sleeping Dictionary (2003), Anna Karenina (2012), Brideshead Revisited (2008). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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 ...
Style:
romantic, sentimental, touching, emotional, scenic ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night
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world war two, love story, desert, beautiful scenery, tragic love, power of love, love and romance, passion, adultery, sex scene, doomed love, life philosophy ...
Time:
1940s, 1930s, year 1944, year 1942, 90s ...
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sahara, italy, ottoman empire, cairo egypt, africa ...
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94%
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Romance, War
Country: UK, Denmark, USA
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, period piece, captivating, costume drama, sad ...
Audience:
girls' night, chick flick, teens
Plot:
world war one, wartime, death, aspiring writer, women, war, nurse, poetry, wartime life, love and romance, love affair, adaptation ...
Time:
1910s, 20th century, edwardian era, year 1918, 1920s ...
Place:
england, london, oxford university, france, yorkshire ...
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, Germany, USA
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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sexy, romantic, erotic, scenic, period piece ...
Audience:
chick flick, teens, girls' night
Plot:
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Time:
1930s, 20th century
Place:
borneo, malaysia, england, ireland, paris france
Similarity:
100%
112K
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA, Russia
Duration: 129 min.
Story:
Trapped in a loveless marriage, aristocrat Anna Karenina enters into a life-changing affair with the affluent Count Vronsky.
Style:
costume drama, period piece, sentimental, historical drama, colorful ...
Audience:
chick flick, teens, girls' night, adult
Plot:
high society, forbidden love, imperial russia, infidelity, tragic love, aristocracy, marriage, suicide, adultery, cuckolded husband, love, depression ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, ancient times, year 2012, 1800s ...
Place:
moscow russia, russia, st. petersburg russia, europe
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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.
Style:
sentimental, emotional, sincere, period piece, serious ...
Plot:
friendship, world war two, male nudity, nobility, couples, gay, longing, catholic, religion, menage a trois, oxford, brutality ...
Time:
1920s, 20th century, 50s, 1930s, year 2008 ...
Place:
england, oxford university, britain, venice, morocco ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: China, Canada, USA, Hong Kong
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.
Style:
touching, emotional, scenic, captivating, costume drama ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
infidelity, loveless marriage, love story, love and romance, cheating wife, couple relations, extramarital affair, couples, marriage, cholera, adultery, unfaithful wife ...
Time:
1920s, 20th century, year 2006, 19th century, 50s
Place:
china, shanghai, africa, london, asia ...
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88%
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance, War
Country: UK
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
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Style:
romantic, period piece, melancholic, sweet, captivating ...
Audience:
girls' night, chick flick
Plot:
marriage, love triangle, pregnancy, couple relations, jealousy, writers, husband wife relationship, love, infidelity, making love, unfulfillment, dishonesty ...
Time:
1940s, year 2008, post world war two, 18th century
Place:
wales, europe, england, london
Similarity:
86%
246K
Genre: Drama, Mystery, War
Country: Canada, France
Duration: 131 min.
Story:
A mother's last wishes send twins Jeanne and Simon on a journey to Middle East in search of their tangled roots. Adapted from Wajdi Mouawad's acclaimed play, Incendies tells the powerful and moving tale of two young adults' voyage to ...
Style:
unusual plot structure, disturbing, psychological, inspirational, heartbreaking ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
prison, rape, last will and testament, unwanted pregnancy, incest, twists and turns, civil war, pregnant from rape, incest rape, torture, lebanese civil war, family problems ...
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middle east, lebanon, quebec, nebraska, montreal ...
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100%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Canada, Italy, UK, Japan
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
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romantic, period piece, visually stunning, stylized, erotic ...
Audience:
chick flick, adult
Plot:
love story, interracial love relationship, betrayal, passion, travel, unrequited love, life philosophy, smuggling, couple relations, love and romance, adultery, obsession ...
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19th century, 1860s, victorian era, ancient times, edwardian era ...
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japan, france, europe, asia, africa ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, History, 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 ...
Style:
realistic, emotional, romantic, period piece, costume drama ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night
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world war two, forbidden love, nazi occupied france, nazi occupation, german officer, german soldier, wartime, fall in love, wartime life, war, occupied france, nazi officer ...
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1940s, ancient times, year 1940, 20th century, 18th century
Place:
france, europe, paris france, germany, england ...
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77%
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Country: Italy, UK, USA
Duration: 197 min.
Story:
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Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
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1910s, 20th century, 1920s, 1940s, ancient times ...
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Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Country: USA, Italy, Romania
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romantic, sincere, epic, sexy, period piece ...
Audience:
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Country: UK, Ireland, USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
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Style:
romantic, sweet, touching, costume drama, period piece ...
Audience:
chick flick, teens, date night, girls' night, adult
Plot:
unfulfilled love, love story, couples, writer's life, love and romance, love, prejudice, fall in love, biopic, women, passion, destiny ...
Time:
18th century, 19th century, victorian era, ancient times, 50s ...
Place:
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, France, USA
Duration: 129 min.
Story:
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Style:
romantic, costume drama, sweet, sexy, captivating ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, date night, teens, family friendly ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
england, britain, united kingdom, europe, london ...
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Country: USA
Duration: 133 min.
Story:
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Style:
emotional, touching, serious, sentimental, sincere ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night, adult
Plot:
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Time:
1910s, 1900s, 19th century, 1920s, year 1994 ...
Place:
america, usa, montana
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: Germany, USA, Poland
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
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sexy, melancholic, touching, sexual, inspirational ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, adult
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Time:
post world war two, year 1966, year 1958, year 2008, 20th century ...
Place:
germany, israel, west berlin west germany, hamburg germany, europe ...
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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, teen, romantic, sweet, apocalyptic ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, chick flick, teen drama
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survival, longing, danger, teenage life, young adult, post apocalypse, love and romance, coming of age, cousin cousin relationship, youth, countryside, teenager ...
Time:
year 2013, future, 21st century
Place:
england, northern england, scotland, london
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100%
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 166 min.
Story:
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Style:
touching, philosophical, sentimental, dramatic, melancholic ...
Audience:
date night, chick flick, teens, girls' night, adult
Plot:
destiny, true love, life philosophy, life & death, aging, existentialism, love and romance, life changing, melancholy, magic realism, love, life lesson ...
Time:
50s, 1940s, 20th century, 1930s, year 2008 ...
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Country: UK, France
Duration: 186 min.
Story:
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period piece, costume drama, scenic, visually appealing, erotic ...
Plot:
love, breast feeding, rape, tragic love, relationships, literary, mansion, beautiful scenery, nobility, loneliness, peasant, autumn ...
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19th century, year 1979, 1800s, turn of the century, victorian era ...
Place:
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100%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 150 min.
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Style:
depressing, sad, serious, heartbreaking, crying ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
holocaust, world war two, against humanity, nazi, concentration camp, relationships, writers, wartime life, passion, melancholy, obsession, tragedy ...
Time:
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Place:
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100%
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: UK, Canada, USA
Duration: 132 min.
Story:
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romantic, sexy, sentimental, captivating, erotic ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
world war two, lesbian, love triangle, bisexual woman, spanish civil war, sexual relations, orgy, sex scene, nazi, love story, nazi occupation, fascism ...
Time:
1940s, year 1944, 1920s, 1930s, year 1938 ...
Place:
paris france, spain, france, england, germany ...
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100%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance, War
Country: France, USA
Duration: 133 min.
Story:
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romantic, touching, sexy, period piece, visually stunning ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night
Plot:
world war one, private detective, war, love and romance, missing person, wartime, life & death, prostitute, soldier, relationships, brutality, young lovers ...
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Place:
france, brittany, paris france, europe, marseille ...
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
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romantic, touching, gothic, atmospheric, visually appealing ...
Audience:
girls' night, date night, chick flick
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: Italy, USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
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Style:
sexy, erotic, sexual, touching, melancholic ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
sexuality, world war two, hot and sexy, coming of age, longing, older woman younger man relationship, unrequited love, fascism, wartime, older woman younger man, dream girl, women ...
Time:
1940s, ancient times, year 2000, 20th century, year 1943 ...
Place:
italy, sicily, europe, mediterranean sea, southern italy ...
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 194 min.
Story:
84 years later, a 101-year-old woman named Rose DeWitt Bukater tells the story to her granddaughter Lizzy Calvert, Brock Lovett, Lewis Bodine, Bobby Buell and Anatoly Mikailavich on the Keldysh about her life set in April 10th 1912, on a ship called ...
Style:
romantic, emotional, touching, sentimental, dramatic ...
Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
20th century, 1910s, year 1997, edwardian era, 90s ...
Place:
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Similarity:
100%
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Country: UK, USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
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Style:
romantic, costume drama, sexy, period piece, emotional ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, date night, teens
Plot:
victorian england, couples, relationships, love story, looking for love, countryside, couple relations, love and romance, love affair, love, unrequited love, wooing ...
Time:
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Place:
england, britain, europe, london
Similarity:
100%
163K
Genre: Drama, Romance, 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, sweet, emotional, teen ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, date night, teens, adult
Plot:
love, love story, true love, love and romance, fall in love, couples, love affair, young love, young lovers, relationships, couple relations, soldier ...
Time:
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Place:
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133K
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Romance, War, Western
Country: UK, Australia, USA
Duration: 165 min.
Story:
Set in northern Australia before World War II, an English aristocrat who inherits a sprawling ranch reluctantly pacts with a stock-man in order to protect her new property from a takeover plot. As the pair drive 2,000 head of cattle over unforgiving ...
Style:
emotional, scenic, epic, period piece, romantic ...
Audience:
girls' night, date night, chick flick, teens, adult
Plot:
unlikely couple, social differences, opposites attract, desert, fall in love, wilderness, culture clash, couples, love story, prejudice, journey, world war two ...
Time:
1940s, 1930s, year 2008, year 1939, year 1942 ...
Place:
australia, japan, england, oceania, asia ...
Similarity:
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Country: Ireland
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
mental institution, diary, destiny, female protagonist, tragic love, false accusation, world war two, obsession, priest, psychotherapist, life is a bitch, motorcycle ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century, 1920s, 1930s
Place:
ireland
Similarity:
100%
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