Movies and TV shows like Brideshead Revisited
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Brideshead Revisited (1981)
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 659 min.
TV show
Story:
In this eleven parts British television serial, Charles Ryder's involvement with members of the aristocratic Marchmain/Flyte family is followed throughout the years between the two World Wars.
Style:
costume drama, spiritual, avant garde, sitcom, historical drama, psychological, tense, sincere, clever, touching ...
Plot:
homosexual subtext, world war two, friendship, catholicism, alcoholism, gay, lgbt, religion, atheist, catholic, mistress, university, gay interest, aristocracy, summer, teen angst, forbidden love, spirituality, education, christian, garden, sibling relationship, lgbtq, eccentricity, young adult ...
Time:
1920s, 1940s, 1930s, 20th century, year 1981, 40s, 30s ...
Place:
england, venice, oxford university, paris france
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, Italy, Morocco, USA
Duration: 134 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, period piece ...
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
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Britain is in the grip of a chilling recession... falling wages, rising prices, civil unrest - only the bankers are smiling. It's 1783 and Ross Poldark returns from the American War of Independence to his beloved Cornwall to find his world in ...
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captivating, family saga, realistic, saga, costume drama ...
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family friendly
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 140 min.
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In 1909, Maurice Hall (James Wilby) enters Cambridge, where he befriends wealthy Clive Durham (Hugh Grant). Clive confesses he is sexually attracted to Maurice, who realizes he is a homosexual when he begins to return Clive's feelings. The two ...
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homoerotic, sexy, scenic, melancholic, costume drama ...
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 261 min.
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Drama series based on the novel by Jane Austen. Mansfield Park is the magnificient country residence of Sir Thomas Bertram and his family. It is here that their poor relation Fanny Price is brought up. Never allowed to forget her good fortune, Fanny ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 246 min.
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Emma Woodhouse seems to be perfectly content, a loving father whom she cares for, friends, and a home. But Emma has a terrible habit - matchmaking. She cannot resist finding suitors for her friends, most of all Harriet Smith. Emma is desperate for ...
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Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 276 min.
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In 2002, the first two books and the first interlude of John Galsworthy's trilogy The Forsyte Saga were adapted by Granada Television for the ITV network. Additional funding for this production was provided by American PBS station WGBH, the ...
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Genre: Drama, Romance
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The social and class divisions in early 20th century England through the intersection of three families - the wealthy Wilcoxes, the gentle and idealistic Schlegels and the lower-middle class Basts.
Style:
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Audience:
girls' night, chick flick
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Place:
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 120 min.
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Two love stories, sixty years apart, charting the challenges and huge change to gay lives with Michael and Thomas from WW2 to Adam and Steve to the present day.
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
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Country: UK
Duration: 180 min.
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Country: UK
Duration: 3110 min.
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Duration: 60 min.
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Dawson's Creek is an American teen drama television series created by Kevin Williamson which debuted on January 20, 1998, on The WB and was produced by Sony Pictures Television. Filmed in Wilmington, North Carolina, at EUE/Screen Gems studios ...
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Country: UK, Australia
Duration: 258 min.
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Duration: 300 min.
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A Woman of Substance charts the life of Emma Harte, from kitchen maid at the beginning of the 20th Century, to respected business woman and Grandmother in the 1980's. From humble beginnings Emma Harte starts her business with a small shop, but ...
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
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A novelist's life ricochets from 1920s Paris to '50s New York and '80s London. Along the way he meets Ernest Hemingway, Ian Fleming and the Duke and Duchess of Windsor - the exiled British king and his mistress Wallis Simpson.
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, Germany
Duration: 96 min.
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 200 min.
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Romantic drama set in rural Ireland of the 1930s. The story begins when 19-year-old Elizabeth has a brief fling with an actor and falls pregnant. Community pressure forces her to marry a dull middle-aged man, but maybe there is hope on the horizon.
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Country: UK, USA
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Country: UK
Duration: 205 min.
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Lady Constance Chatterley is married to the handicapped Sir Clifford Chatterley, who was wounded in the First World War. When they move to his family's estate, Constance meets their tough-yet-quiet groundskeeper, Oliver Mellors. Soon, she ...
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 131 min.
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Genre: Drama, Romance
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
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Genre: Drama, Romance, War
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Genre: Drama, Romance
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