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Basil (1998)
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
A lonely young aristocrat in turn-of the century England struggles to meet the approval of his over-bearing, class-conscious father while trying to please the selfish woman he loves.
Style:
sentimental, serious, realistic, period piece, light, sincere, gothic, crying, independent film, period drama
Plot:
unfulfilled love, betrayal, fall in love, friendship, victorian england, couples, love affair, society, adultery, father daughter relationship, secret, unrequited love, revenge, passion, family secret, dark secret, rich snob, vigilante, coming of age, friends, love and romance, vengeance, social differences, dishonesty, couple relations ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, year 1998, 90s, victorian
Place:
england, britain, europe, ireland, london, cornwall, yorkshire
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, period drama, serious and costume drama films with plots about love and romance, couples, love, couple relations, fall in love, society and costume mostly in Drama, Romance and Biography genres. Some movies like Basil: Mansfield Park (2007), The Governess (1998), Brideshead Revisited (2008), Wuthering Heights (1970), Far from the Madding Crowd (2015). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
In Mansfield Park, poverty-stricken Fanny Price is sent away to live with her wealthy uncle and aunt at Mansfield Park. As she struggles to adapt to her new lifestyle she begins to attract the attentions of suitors, learning about the sexual ...
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period piece, costume drama, realistic, stylized, witty ...
Plot:
love triangle, couples, couple relations, love and romance, fall in love, class differences, unrequited love, social differences, society, unfulfilled love, estate, infidelity ...
Time:
18th century, 19th century, victorian era, 1800s, regency period ...
Place:
england, europe, britain
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
When the father of privileged Rosina da Silva violently dies, she decides to pass herself off as a gentile and finds employment with a family in faraway Scotland. Soon she and the family father, Charles, start a passionate secret affair.
Style:
enigmatic, period piece, costume drama, emotional, colorful ...
Plot:
fall in love, couples, love affair, jewess, nanny, society, loss of virginity, male nudity, photograph, couple relations, master and servant, love triangle ...
Time:
victorian era, 19th century, 1830s, year 1998, 1800s
Place:
england, london, oxford university, middle east, britain ...
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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: Adventure, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
The Earnshaws are Yorkshire farmers during the early 19th Century. One day, Mr. Earnshaw returns from a trip to the city, bringing with him a ragged little boy called Heathcliff. Earnshaw's son, Hindley, resents the child, but Heathcliff ...
Style:
costume drama, gothic, romantic drama, atmospheric, period piece ...
Audience:
girls' night, date night, chick flick
Plot:
forbidden love, true love, vengeance, doomed romance, wuthering heights, murder, jealousy, passion, brother sister relationship, star crossed lovers, unrequited love, haunted house ...
Time:
19th century, 18th century, victorian era, 1800s, 1920s ...
Place:
yorkshire, england, europe
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100%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
Based on the literary classic by Thomas Hardy, Far from the Madding Crowd is the story of independent, beautiful and headstrong Bathsheba Everdene, who attracts three very different suitors: Gabriel Oak, a sheep farmer, captivated by her fetching ...
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:
19th century, victorian era, 1800s, year 2015, 18th century
Place:
england, britain, europe, london
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 54 min.
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Story:
This powerful adaptation of Thomas Hardy's classic novel spins a story of passion and destruction set in the nineteenth century. The proud, flighty and bewitching Bathsheba Everdene finds herself entangled into the passions of three men and her ...
Style:
historical drama, costume drama, realistic, serious, period drama
Plot:
victorian england, farm, beach, canceled wedding, unrequited love, age difference, seaside, rich and poor, love affair, wooing, social differences, infidelity ...
Time:
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Place:
britain, europe, england
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
In the opulent St. Petersburg of the Empire period, Eugene Onegin is a jaded but dashing aristocrat - a man often lacking in empathy, who suffers from restlessness, melancholy and, finally, regret. Through his best friend Lensky, Onegin is ...
Style:
atmospheric, period piece, costume drama, romantic, romantic drama ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
unfulfilled love, forbidden love, marriage, poetry, unfulfillment, love and romance, obsession, unrequited love, inheritance, fall in love, victorian england, poet ...
Time:
19th century, 1820s, 1830s, year 1999, 1800s ...
Place:
st. petersburg russia, russia, london, tokyo
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Kate is secretly betrothed to a struggling journalist, Merton Densher. But she knows her Aunt Maude will never approve of the match, since Kate's deceased mother has lost all her money in a marriage to a degenerate opium addict. When Kate meets ...
Style:
sexy, atmospheric, period piece, costume drama, serious ...
Plot:
love, nobility, love triangle, literary, death, greed, betrayal, relationships, nudity, forbidden love, fall in love, power relations ...
Time:
1910s, year 1997, victorian era, 20th century, edwardian era ...
Place:
england, london, venice, britain, europe ...
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Stock broker Nick Carraway consents to play Cupid for his rich married first cousin Daisy Buchanen and her former love, successful bootlegger and forger Jay Gatsby.
Style:
captivating, stylized, sentimental, serious, realistic ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
tragic love, obsession, infidelity, lifestyle, love triangle, love affair, society, social differences, unfulfilled love, haunted by the past, dishonesty, love ...
Time:
1920s, 20th century
Place:
new york, usa, oxford university, yale university, chicago
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100%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Set in a rustic English village in the mid 19th century, Under The Greenwood Tree tells the story of a poor young man who falls for a middle-class schoolteacher and attempts to win her over.
Style:
costume drama, period piece, semi serious, realistic, touching ...
Audience:
girls' night, date night
Plot:
forbidden love, village life, social differences, fall in love, love and romance, unfulfilled love, looking for love, society, couples, social relations, curses spells and rituals, victorian england ...
Time:
19th century, middle ages, victorian era, 50s
Place:
britain, england
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
The Newlyn School of artists flourished at the beginning of the 20th Century and the film focuses on the wild and bohemian Lamorna Group, which included Alfred Munnings and Laura and Harold Knight. The incendiary anti-Modernist Munnings, now ...
Style:
sincere, touching, emotional, serious, retro ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
painter, biopic, couples, love triangle, nudity, infidelity, love affair, lifestyle, family relations, unfulfilled love, fall in love, dishonesty ...
Time:
1910s, 1900s, year 1915, 20th century, year 1914 ...
Place:
cornwall, england, london
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
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Style:
period piece, costume drama, sexy, witty, romantic ...
Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
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Style:
serious, realistic, psychological, touching, gloomy ...
Plot:
boarding house, spinster, hotel, female nudity, desperation, piano, loneliness, psychopath, aging, mental disorder, nude girl, betrayal ...
Time:
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Place:
ireland, dublin ireland, europe, new york, usa ...
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 134 min.
Story:
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Style:
period piece, costume drama, breathtaking, romantic drama, romantic ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
melancholy, nazi, love, nazism, butler, aristocracy, manor, british, class differences, master servant relationship, domestic servant, master and servant ...
Time:
1930s, 1940s, ancient times, 20th century, year 1993 ...
Place:
england, britain, europe, germany
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
The story of Beatrix Potter, the author of the beloved and best-selling children's book, "The Tale of Peter Rabbit", and her struggle for love, happiness and success.
Style:
touching, sentimental, period piece, costume drama, serious ...
Audience:
family outing, kids, chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
writers, writer's life, biopic, female artist, book, family relations, snobbism, painting, fall in love, art, happy ending, artist ...
Time:
1900s, victorian era, edwardian era, 19th century, 1910s ...
Place:
england, london, britain, europe, san francisco
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
North & South is a British television drama serial, produced by the BBC and originally broadcast in four episodes on BBC One in November and December 2004. It follows the story of Margaret Hale, a young woman from southern England who has to ...
Style:
touching, period piece, serious, sincere, captivating ...
Audience:
girls' night, chick flick
Plot:
prejudice, initially antagonists, social differences, love and romance, pride and honor, society, young woman, rich and poor, fall in love, couple relations, love affair, owner ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, 50s, turn of the century, 1850s ...
Place:
england, britain, london
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A romantic drama set in Germany just before WWI and centered on a married woman who falls in love with her husband's teacher. Separated by the war, they pledge their devotion to one another.
Style:
romantic, period piece, romantic drama, touching, emotional ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
extramarital affair, married woman, world war one, fall in love, life is a bitch, love triangle, adultery, intergenerational friendship, desire, world war two, forbidden love, sexual attraction ...
Time:
year 1912, edwardian era, victorian era, 1910s, 20th century ...
Place:
germany, france, europe, mexico
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
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Style:
costume drama, emotional, intense, captivating, sentimental ...
Plot:
true love, forbidden love, infidelity, family problems, dull life, family relations, fall in love, love triangle, destiny, family drama, adultery, love ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, turn of the century, year 1993, 1800s ...
Place:
usa, massachusetts, america, new england, england
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
After a bleak childhood, Jane Eyre goes out into the world to become a governess. As she lives happily in her new position at Thornfield Hall, she meet the dark, cold, and abrupt master of the house, Mr. Rochester. Jane and her employer grow close ...
Style:
romantic, touching, gothic, atmospheric, visually appealing ...
Audience:
girls' night, date night, chick flick
Plot:
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Time:
19th century, victorian era, 1840s, ancient times, 1800s ...
Place:
england, britain, europe, yorkshire
Similarity:
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Belgium, UK
Duration: 134 min.
Story:
Edwardian England. A precocious girl from a poor background with aspirations to being a novelist finds herself swept to fame and fortune when her tasteless romances hit the best seller lists. Her life changes in unexpected ways when she encounters ...
Style:
period piece, talky, witty, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
love, adultery, writers, estate, infidelity, world war one, unrequited love, lesbian subtext, marriage proposal, reception, writer's life, family relations ...
Time:
1900s, edwardian era, victorian era, 20th century, year 1914
Place:
england, britain, europe, london
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
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Style:
sexy, period piece, costume drama, sensual, touching ...
Audience:
date night, chick flick
Plot:
painter, love affair, doctor, sex scene, portrait, artist, nude painting, female nudity, adultery, extramarital affair, cheating wife, art history ...
Time:
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Place:
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100%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
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Style:
costume drama, realistic, serious, independent film, period piece ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
britain, england, europe, italy
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
forbidden love, coming of age, class differences, summer, love, literary, countryside, first love, curse, magician, country estate, man boy relationship ...
Time:
1900s, 19th century, 20th century, 1950s, year 1900 ...
Place:
england, america, europe
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100%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 144 min.
Story:
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Style:
period piece, costume drama, psychological, talky, atmospheric ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
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Time:
victorian era, 19th century, year 1996, turn of the century, 1870s ...
Place:
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100%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
england, london
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Country: USA, France, UK
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Story:
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Time:
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Place:
italy, england, britain, europe, london ...
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Genre: Drama, Romance, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
A western love story revolving around the forbidden love between a young widow from a Quaker-like religious group and a cold-blooded gunslinger whom she takes into her home after he is wounded.
Style:
sincere, realistic, serious, rough, spiritual ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
ohio, montana
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Firelight is a period romance/drama film written and directed by William Nicholson. It was Nicholson's first, and to date only, film as director.
Style:
erotic, feel good, touching, sexy, uplifting ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
england, britain, europe, london, san francisco
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20K
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:
period piece, costume drama, scenic, visually appealing, erotic ...
Plot:
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Time:
19th century, year 1979, 1800s, turn of the century, victorian era ...
Place:
eastern europe, britain, england, europe, brazil
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, Germany
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Drama set in 1930s London with two sisters, Madeleine married to Rickie, and Dinah, who falls in love with him. Rickie and Dinah begin an affair which is to have repercussions throughout all their lives.
Style:
sentimental, serious, emotional, touching, erotic ...
Plot:
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Time:
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