Movies like Barry Lyndon
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Barry Lyndon (1975)
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, War
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 185 min.
Story:
In the Eighteenth Century, in a small village in Ireland, Redmond Barry is a young farm boy in love with his cousin Nora Brady. When Nora engages to the British Captain John Quin, Barry challenges him for a duel of pistols. He wins and escapes to Dublin, but is robbed on the road. Without any other alternative, Barry joins the British Army to fight in the Seven Years War.
Style:
epic, stylized, cynical, breathtaking, realistic, visually appealing, atmospheric, colourful, scenic, bleak ...
Plot:
rise and fall, aristocracy, nobility, card playing, battles, jealousy, social climbing, escapades, glory, wedding, social climber, gambler, corporal punishment, cheating at cards, dishonesty, art, beautiful scenery, melancholy, photographer, irony, gambling, british army, soldier, loss of son, cult ...
Time:
18th century, victorian era, 19th century, georgian era, 1780s, 1770s, 1700s
Place:
ireland, prussia, england, europe, berlin germany, belgium
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Most similar movies to Barry Lyndon
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, talky and melancholic films with plots about culture clash, storytelling, runaway, catastrophe, dialogue, mentor and adaptation mostly in Drama, War and Adventure genres. Some movies like Barry Lyndon: The Duellists (1977), The Leopard (1963), The Man Who Would Be King (1975), Lawrence of Arabia (1962), The Bounty (1984). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: UK
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
In 1800, as Napoleon Bonaparte rises to power in France, a rivalry erupts between Armand and Gabriel, two lieutenants in the French Army, over a perceived insult. For over a decade, they engage in a series of duels amidst larger conflicts, including ...
Style:
visually appealing, realistic, stylized, colourful, enigmatic ...
Plot:
napoleonic wars, sword duel, fencing, swordsman, sword fight, military, nude, napoleonic era, medieval, cossack, adaptation, existentialism ...
Time:
19th century, regency period, 1810s, 18th century
Place:
france, canada, europe
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Genre: Drama, History
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 186 min.
Story:
As Garibaldi's troops begin the unification of Italy in the 1860s, an aristocratic Sicilian family grudgingly adapts to the sweeping social changes undermining their way of life. Proud but pragmatic Prince Don Fabrizio Salina allows his war ...
Style:
epic, cerebral, political, visually appealing, gloomy ...
Plot:
decadence, revolution, politics, melancholy, catholic, ambition, death, italian history, battles, character study, culture clash, childhood ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, 1860s
Place:
italy, sicily, vatican, rome italy, palermo italy ...
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88%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 138 min.
Story:
After an abrupt and violent encounter with a French warship inflicts severe damage upon his ship, a captain of the British Royal Navy begins a chase over two oceans to capture or destroy the enemy, though he must weigh his commitment to duty and ...
Style:
exciting, tense, epic, serious, suspenseful ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
ship, napoleonic wars, navy, battles, sea battle, heroic mission, leadership, naval battle, sailboat, friendship, military, royal navy ...
Time:
19th century, 18th century, regency period, edwardian era, georgian era
Place:
england, france, brazil, europe, pacific ocean ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
80%
Genre: Adventure, War
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 129 min.
Story:
A robust adventure about two British adventurers who take over primitive Kafiristan as "godlike" rulers, meeting a tragic end through their desire for a native girl. Based on a short story by Rudyard Kipling.
Style:
epic, breathtaking, humorous, witty, cerebral ...
Plot:
british empire, adventurer, freemason, imperialism, mercenary, soldier, execution, war, friendship, greed, con artists, gold ...
Time:
19th century, 1880s
Place:
india, england, ancient greece, afghanistan, himalaya ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
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Genre: Adventure, Biography, Drama, War
Country: UK
Duration: 218 min.
Story:
The story of British officer T.E. Lawrence's mission to aid the Arab tribes in their revolt against the Ottoman Empire during the First World War. Lawrence becomes a flamboyant, messianic figure in the cause of Arab unity but his psychological ...
Style:
epic, captivating, breathtaking, visually appealing, factual ...
Audience:
teens, family outing
Plot:
desert, world war one, war, military, british empire, imperialism, historical character, battles, politics, camel, train, islam ...
Time:
1910s, 20th century, 1920s, 1930s
Place:
middle east, saudi arabia, ottoman empire, arabia, africa ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, History, Romance
Country: UK, USA, New Zealand
Duration: 132 min.
Story:
The familiar story of Lieutenant Bligh, whose cruelty leads to a mutiny on his ship. This version follows both the efforts of Fletcher Christian to get his men beyond the reach of British retribution, and the epic voyage of Lieutenant Bligh to get ...
Style:
epic, captivating, suspenseful, sexy, breathtaking ...
Plot:
ship, island, mutiny, betrayal, sea, storm at sea, sailboat, survival, boat, lost at sea, murder, suspense ...
Time:
18th century, 1930s, georgian era, year 1984, 1780s
Place:
england, tahiti, pacific ocean, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: UK
Duration: 69 min.
Story:
Culloden is a 1964 docudrama written and directed by Peter Watkins for BBC TV. It portrays the 1746 Battle of Culloden that resulted in the British Army's destruction of the Scottish Jacobite uprising and, in the words of the narrator, ...
Style:
cerebral, political, philosophical, thought provoking, captivating ...
Plot:
battles, war, socialist, british army, soldier, power relations, militant, rebelliousness, society, rebellion, military, state affairs ...
Time:
18th century
Place:
scotland, scottish highlands, europe, england
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Genre: Adventure, Comedy, History, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 129 min.
Story:
Tom loves Sophie and Sophie loves Tom. But Tom and Sophie are of differering classes. Can they find a way through the mayhem to be true to love?
Style:
witty, sexy, stylized, erotic, reflective ...
Plot:
rags to riches, womanizer, arranged marriage, illegitimate son, class conflict, farce, food, tutor, squire, true love, hunting, fashion ...
Time:
18th century, 60s, 1930s
Place:
england, london, new york, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: West Germany, Peru
Duration: 158 min.
Story:
Fitzcarraldo, a dreamer who plans to bring opera and Enrico Caruso to the South American jungles. With limited funding, he must figure out how to finance the opera house, and ultimately decides to capitalize on South America's rubber ...
Style:
cerebral, surreal, visually appealing, thought provoking, tense ...
Plot:
boat, steamship, jungle, opera, insanity, art, beautiful scenery, surrealism, obsession, river, forest, dreams ...
Time:
20th century, 19th century
Place:
south america, peru, germany, latin america, brazil
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
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Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Japan, USA
Duration: 180 min.
Story:
When a warlord dies, a peasant thief is called upon to impersonate him, in order to protect his clan from appearing weak and vulnerable. But he finds himself haunted by the warlord’s spirit as well as his own ambitions.
Style:
captivating, bleak, enigmatic, epic, tense ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
samurai, martial arts, battles, war, warlord, japanese history, heroes, doppelganger, medieval, emperor, death, feudal japan ...
Time:
16th century, 18th century
Place:
japan, tokyo, india, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: UK, Italy
Duration: 138 min.
Story:
An American couple (John Malkovich, Debra Winger) drift toward emptiness in postwar North Africa.
Style:
sexy, road movie, visually appealing, surreal, scenic ...
Plot:
desert, travel, traveler, husband wife relationship, beautiful scenery, existentialism, sex scene, on the road, infidelity, summer, painter, sensuality ...
Time:
1940s, 80s
Place:
africa, morocco, sahara, north africa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden, France, UK
Duration: 149 min.
Story:
Alexander, a journalist, philosopher and retired actor, celebrates a birthday with friends and family when it is announced that nuclear war has begun.
Style:
atmospheric, art house, philosophical, cerebral, psychological ...
Plot:
insanity, existentialism, art, god, distopia, spirituality, religion, post apocalypse, catastrophe, hopes, human nature, save the world ...
Time:
80s
Place:
russia, vatican, ussr, sweden, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: France
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Foreign Legion officer, Galoup, recalls his once glorious life, leading troops in the Gulf of Djibouti. His existence there was happy, strict and regimented, but the arrival of a promising young recruit, Sentain, plants the seeds of jealousy in ...
Style:
surreal, meditative, harsh, realistic, touching ...
Plot:
foreign legion, military, gay, french foreign legion, soldier, desert, military training, obsession, transformation, lgbt, battles, discipline ...
Time:
90s
Place:
africa, france, paris france, tokyo, japan ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, Soviet Union
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
The Russian poet Andrei Gorchakov, accompanied by guide and translator Eugenia, is traveling through Italy researching the life of an 18th-century Russian composer. In an ancient spa town, he meets the lunatic Domenico, who years earlier had ...
Style:
atmospheric, reflective, philosophical, art house, cerebral ...
Plot:
philosophy, art, existentialism, dream, obsession, insanity, memory, writer's life, redemption, culture clash, poetry, runaway ...
Time:
80s, 18th century
Place:
russia, rome italy, ussr, europe, italy ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: UK
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
A tale of power, passion and obsession set in a politically torn Eastern European country.
Style:
sexy, touching, surreal, psychological, visually appealing ...
Plot:
vengeance, obsession, musician, first contact, lone hero, fighting the system, guilt, redemption, hospital, solitude, judaism, writers ...
Time:
90s
Place:
rio de janeiro, new york, romania, europe, eastern europe ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK, Ireland
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
An all-Irish cast (including Donal McCann, Rachael Dowling and Colm Meaney) lends authenticity and gravitas to director John Huston's final film, an elegiac take on a short story by James Joyce (from The Dubliners). After a convivial holiday ...
Style:
sexy, surreal, stylized, cerebral, enigmatic ...
Plot:
dinner party, artist, art, irish, christmas, haunted by the past, memory, death, adaptation, secrets, transformation, writers ...
Time:
edwardian era, 20th century, 90s
Place:
ireland, dublin ireland, london, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 242 min.
Story:
Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, returns home to find his father murdered and his mother remarrying the murderer, his uncle. Meanwhile, war is brewing.
Style:
stylized, atmospheric, captivating, serious, sexy ...
Plot:
shakespeare, revenge, betrayal, tragedy, vengeance, medieval, royal family, ghost, funeral, intrigue, love and romance, rivalry ...
Time:
19th century, middle ages, 18th century
Place:
europe, denmark, england
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
Genre: Adventure, Drama, War
Country: Canada, Australia
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
In the 17th century a Jesuit priest and a young companion are escorted through the wilderness of Quebec by Algonquin Indians to find a distant mission in the dead of winter. The Jesuit experiences a spiritual journey while his young companion falls ...
Style:
thought provoking, realistic, bleak, sexy, visually appealing ...
Plot:
native american, christian, indians, religion, wilderness, shaman, colonialism, jesuit, nature, church, culture clash, native americans ...
Time:
17th century
Place:
canada, quebec, france, india
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: West Germany, France, Poland
Duration: 142 min.
Story:
Oskar is born in Germany in 1924 with an advanced intellect. Repulsed by the hypocrisy of adults and the irresponsibility of society, he refuses to grow older after his third birthday.
Style:
surreal, disturbing, controversial, art house, thought provoking ...
Plot:
fascism, world war two, coming of age, nazi, war, wartime life, circus, magic realism, boy, life is a bitch, political unrest, dishonesty ...
Time:
20th century, 1930s, 1940s, year 1939, 19th century ...
Place:
germany, latin america, japan, europe, central europe ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, War
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Shakespeare's Play transplanted into a 1930s setting.
Style:
talky, atmospheric, stylized, witty, political ...
Plot:
politics, royal family, shakespeare, murder, betrayal, manipulation, assassination, greed, ambition, battles, corrupted ruler, intrigue ...
Time:
20th century, 1930s, 18th century
Place:
england, london, new york, germany, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
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Films like Lawrence of Arabia
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: USA
Duration: 170 min.
Story:
Based on the graphic novel by James Jones, The Thin Red Line tells the story of a group of men, an Army Rifle company called C-for-Charlie, who change, suffer, and ultimately make essential discoveries about themselves during the fierce World War II ...
Style:
epic, visually appealing, thought provoking, philosophical, atmospheric ...
Plot:
war, soldier, world war two, sergeant, anti war, jungle, infantry, existentialism, survival, invasion, pacific island, military life ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century
Place:
asia, canada, japan, pacific ocean
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
Genre: Drama, History, Romance, War
Country: France
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Colonel Chabert has been severely wounded in the French-Russian Napoleonic war to the point that the medical examiner has signed his death certificate. When he regains his health and memory, he goes back to Paris, where his "widow", Anne ...
Style:
harsh, talky, disturbing, stylized, serious ...
Plot:
betrayal, napoleonic wars, battles, military, war, haunted by the past, homecoming, aristocracy, life is a bitch, dishonesty, infidelity, wartime life ...
Time:
19th century, 1810s, 18th century
Place:
france, paris france, tokyo, europe, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 139 min.
Story:
Tale of 19th century New York high society in which a young lawyer falls in love with a woman separated from her husband, while he is engaged to the woman's cousin.
Style:
touching, sexy, stylized, atmospheric, thought provoking ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
high society, love triangle, countess, marriage, infidelity, forbidden love, aristocracy, lawyer, love, destiny, love and romance, lovers ...
Time:
19th century, 18th century, victorian era, 1870s, 1890s
Place:
new york, philadelphia, usa, paris france, washington d.c. ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
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Genre: Drama, Thriller, War
Country: UK
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
Caius Martius, aka Coriolanus, is an arrogant and fearsome general who has built a career on protecting Rome from its enemies. Pushed by his ambitious mother to seek the position of consul, Coriolanus is at odds with the masses and unpopular with ...
Style:
tense, stylized, political, intense, psychological ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
politics, vengeance, shakespeare, betrayal, tragedy, rivalry, manipulation, suspense, brutality, twists and turns, state affairs, leadership ...
Place:
rome italy, england
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, France
Duration: 186 min.
Story:
This multiple-Oscar-winning film by Roman Polanski is an exquisite, richly layered adaptation of Thomas Hardy’s Tess of the d’Urbervilles. A strong-willed peasant girl (Nastassja Kinski, in a gorgeous breakthrough) is sent by her father to the ...
Style:
visually appealing, scenic, erotic, atmospheric, sexy ...
Plot:
tragic love, rape, relationships, breast feeding, beautiful scenery, loneliness, love, destiny, peasant, tragedy, social injustice, marriage ...
Time:
19th century, 18th century, victorian era, 1880s
Place:
england, europe, brazil
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
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Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 175 min.
Story:
A Bridge Too Far tells the story of Operation Market Garden, the failed attempt by the allies to end the war quickly by securing three bridges in Holland and allowing access over the Rhine into Germany. A combination of poor allied intelligence and ...
Style:
epic, realistic, intense, serious, rough ...
Audience:
manly
Plot:
war, world war two, behind enemy lines, tank, military, army, courage, allies, nazi, soldier, paratrooper, u.s. army ...
Time:
1940s, year 1944, 70s, 20th century
Place:
germany, poland, england, berlin germany, netherlands ...
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25%
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
A thinly fictionalized account of a legendary movie director, whose desire to hunt down an animal turns into a grim situation with his movie crew in Africa
Style:
talky, enigmatic, melancholic, exciting, serious ...
Plot:
obsession, wilderness, hunting, movie business, filmmaking, character study, elephant, obsessive quest, friends, friendship, racial slur, actor ...
Time:
50s, 20th century, 70s
Place:
africa, california, texas, uganda, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
He had everything and wanted nothing. He learned that he had nothing and wanted everything. He saved the world and then it shattered. The path to enlightenment is as sharp and narrow as a razor's edge.
Style:
philosophical, touching, thought provoking, epic, spiritual ...
Plot:
world war one, destiny, existentialism, philosophy, friendship, redemption, buddhist, female nudity, hospital, writers, culture clash, dark hero ...
Time:
1930s
Place:
paris france, india, france, asia, himalaya ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, UK, India
Duration: 141 min.
Story:
Beautiful, funny, passionate, and calculating, Becky is the orphaned daughter of a starving English artist and a French chorus girl. She yearns for a more glamorous life than her birthright promises and resolves to conquer English society by any ...
Style:
melancholic, emotional, stylized, serious, realistic ...
Audience:
girls' night, chick flick
Plot:
high society, social climbing, aristocrat, ambition, rise to the top, female protagonist, rich and poor, blind ambition, couple relations, lovers, life turned upside down, power relations ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, regency period, 50s, middle ages ...
Place:
england, london, europe, britain, germany ...
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25%
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 219 min.
Story:
Harvard graduate James Averill (Kris Kristofferson) is the sheriff of prosperous Jackson County, Wyo., when a battle erupts between the area's poverty-stricken immigrants and its wealthy cattle farmers. The politically connected ranch owners ...
Style:
epic, captivating, talky, atmospheric, realistic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
violence, immigrants, love triangle, culture clash, prostitute, brothel, cattle ranch, ranch, female nudity, gunfight, justice, civil war ...
Time:
19th century, 1890s, 1870s, 18th century
Place:
montana, wyoming, usa, harvard university, asia ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
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