Edwardian era movies and TV shows

The list contains the best, new and most relevant edwardian era movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out period drama, serious, realistic, costume drama, period piece and touching films and TV shows about / with society, love and romance, costume, family relations, couples, mentor, couple relations, runaway, love and catastrophe plots mostly in Drama, Romance and Fantasy genres shot in UK, USA, France and other countries.
edwardian era movies
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TOP 10 movies tagged as edwardian era: A Promise (2013), Suffragette (2015), Murdoch Mysteries (2008), The Lost Prince (2003), A Room with a View (1985), The Woman in Black (2012), Anne of Green Gables (1985), Howards End (1992), The Color Purple (1985), Sarah, Plain and Tall (1991).

List of edwardian era movies

 5.8
 5K
A Promise (2013)
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
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 6.9
 46K
Suffragette (2015)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: UK, France
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Based on true events about the foot soldiers of the early feminist movement who were forced underground to evade the State.
Style: political, factual, costume drama, period piece, bleak ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night
Plot: feminism, feminist, women, girl power, sexism, rebelliousness, activism, politics, gender, women's suffrage, women's rights, sexual harassment ...
Time: 1900s, year 1912, 1910s, edwardian era, victorian era ...
Place: england, london, britain, europe, united kingdom ...
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Murdoch Mysteries (2008)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Canada, UK
Duration: 48 min.
TV show
Story: A Victorian-era Toronto detective uses then-cutting edge forensic techniques to solve crimes, with the assistance of a female coroner who is also struggling for recognition in the face of tradition, based on the books by Maureen Jennings.
Style: atmospheric, clever, stylized, detective, costume drama ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: police detective, uncover truth, partners against crime, riddles and clues, twists and turns, victorian england, police investigation, murder investigation, forensics, who done it, police station, unconventional method ...
Time: edwardian era, victorian era, 19th century, future, 1890s
Place: toronto ontario canada, canada, america
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The Lost Prince (2003)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 90 min.
TV show
Story: The Lost Prince is an acclaimed British television drama about the life of Prince John – youngest child of Britain's King George V and Queen Mary – who died at the age of 13 in 1919. John suffered from epileptic seizures and an autism-like ...
Style: serious, captivating, touching, sincere, depressing ...
Audience: kids
Plot: royal family, epilepsy, disability, british royal family, monarchy, monarch, intrigue, state affairs, separation from family, family in crisis, world war one, countryside ...
Time: 1910s, 1900s, edwardian era, pre world war one, 20th century
Place: england, europe
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A Room with a View (1985)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story: When Lucy Honeychurch and chaperon Charlotte Bartlett find themselves in Florence with rooms without views, fellow guests Mr Emerson and son George step in to remedy the situation. Meeting the Emersons could change Lucy's life forever but, once ...
Style: touching, scenic, period piece, sexy, costume drama ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, date night
Plot: couples, hotel, travel, self discovery, female protagonist, country estate, piano, passion, male nudity, nude bathing, happy ending, comedy of manners ...
Time: 1900s, edwardian era, victorian era, 19th century, year 1985 ...
Place: italy, england, europe, florence, britain ...
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The Woman in Black (2012)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: UK, USA, Sweden
Duration: 95 min.
Story: The story follows a young lawyer, Arthur Kipps, who is ordered to travel to a remote village and sort out a recently deceased client’s papers. As he works alone in the client’s isolated house, Kipps begins to uncover tragic secrets, his unease ...
Style: gothic, gothic horror, atmospheric, dark, scary ...
Audience: girls' night, teens
Plot: haunted house, ghost, estate, isolation, afterlife, revenge, old dark house, curses spells and rituals, supernatural horror, supernatural, folk horror, ghost child ...
Time: victorian era, 1910s, 1900s, year 2012, edwardian era ...
Place: england, britain, europe, london, seattle
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Anne of Green Gables (1985)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: Canada, West Germany, USA
Duration: 100 min.
TV show
Story: At the turn of the century on Prince Edward Island, Matthew Cuthbert and his sister Marilla decide to take on an orphan boy as help for their farm. But they get an unexpected jolt when they're mistakenly sent a girl instead: Anne Shirley. ...
Style: touching, sentimental, period piece, emotional, humorous ...
Audience: family outing, kids, teens, family friendly, chick flick ...
Plot: adoption, orphan, imagination, teaching the ways of the world, teenage love, coming of age, countryside, anne of green gables, love and romance, foster home, young heroes, best friend ...
Time: 1900s, edwardian era, victorian era, 1800s, year 1985 ...
Place: canada, america
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 7.3
 38K
Howards End (1992)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, Japan, USA
Duration: 142 min.
Story: A saga of class relations and changing times in an Edwardian England on the brink of modernity, the film centers on liberal Margaret Schlegel, who, along with her sister Helen, becomes involved with two couples: wealthy, conservative industrialist ...
Style: romantic, costume drama, emotional, period piece, cerebral ...
Audience: date night
Plot: estate, inheritance, sister sister relationship, wealthy family, country house, aristocrat, rich snob, family drama, passion, sword, arrest, terminal illness ...
Time: 1910s, turn of the century, edwardian era, year 1992, 19th century ...
Place: england, oxford university, britain, london
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The Color Purple (1985)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 154 min.
Story: An epic tale spanning forty years in the life of Celie, an African-American woman living in the South who survives incredible abuse and bigotry. After Celie's abusive father marries her off to the equally debasing "Mister" Albert ...
Style: sentimental, inspirational, touching, sincere, emotional ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night
Plot: african american, sexual abuse, incest, lgbtq, domestic violence, life is a bitch, rape, racial discrimination, feminism, incest rape, wife abuse, abusive relationship ...
Time: edwardian era, 20th century, 1930s, year 1985, 1920s ...
Place: africa, southern usa, usa, tennessee, georgia
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Sarah, Plain and Tall (1991)
Genre: Drama, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: The story is set in Kansas in the year 1910. Jacob Witting, a widowed farmer who is still saddened by the death of his wife during childbirth several years earlier, finds that the task of taking care of his farm and two children, Anna and Caleb, is ...
Style: sentimental, touching, captivating, realistic, sincere ...
Audience: family friendly, family outing, kids
Plot: prairie, farm, bereavement, family life, parents and children, woman in labor, single parent, self discovery, love affair, small town life, human nature, countryside ...
Time: 20th century, edwardian era, 90s, 1910s
Place: kansas, maine, america, new england, usa ...
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The Golden Bowl (2000)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, France, UK
Duration: 130 min.
Story: An intricately plotted tale of thwarted love and betrayal, "The Golden Bowl" tells the story of an extravagantly rich American widower and his sheltered daughter, both of whom marry only to discover that their respective mates, a beautiful ...
Style: period piece, costume drama, serious, stylized, realistic ...
Plot: adultery, love affair, deception, greed, couples, family problems, fall in love, dishonesty, society, crumbling marriage, parents and children, affair ...
Time: edwardian era, victorian era, 1900s, 20th century, 19th century
Place: italy, england, britain, europe, london ...
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Another Period (2013)
Genre: Comedy, History
Country: USA
Duration: 21 min.
TV show
Story: Set at the turn of the century, “Another Period” follows the misadventures of the Bellacourts, Newport, RI’s first family, who have absolutely nothing to offer to the world, but who have so much money it doesn’t matter. The series focuses on ...
Style: parody, period piece, humorous, not serious, sitcom ...
Plot: satire, high society, racism, youth, family life, sisters, family problems, rich and poor, social satire, social differences, rich woman, lifestyle ...
Time: 1900s, edwardian era, 20th century
Place: usa
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 8.3
 12K
Grand Hotel (2011)
Genre: Crime, Drama, History, Mystery, Romance
Country: Spain
Duration: 3098 min.
TV show
Story: Grand Hotel is a Spanish drama television series directed by Carlos Sedes and starring Yon Gonzalez and Amaia Salamanca. It first aired on Antena 3 in Spain on 11 October 2011 and on Sky Arts 1 in the UK on 18 November 2012. The series, filmed at ...
Style: stylized, captivating, serious, realistic, historical drama ...
Plot: hotel, intrigue, love and romance, high society, investigation, master and servant, murder mystery, homicide detective, maid, love affair, social differences, guest ...
Time: 1900s, edwardian era, 20th century, 90s
Place: spain, new mexico
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Titanic: Blood and Steel (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: Ireland, Italy, France, Canada, UK, Spain, Germany
Duration: 55 min.
TV show
Story: Belfast, 1909. The Harland and Wolff shipyard has been handed the greatest project in its history. It will build a great, unsinkable ship. And it will be called the RMS Titanic.
Style: stylized, realistic, serious, costume drama, captivating ...
Plot: titanic, iceberg, ship, workplace situations, social differences, danger, passenger, sea disaster, society, working class, political unrest, political intrigue ...
Time: edwardian era, 1910s, 1900s, 19th century, year 1912 ...
Place: ireland, belfast, new york, europe
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Berkeley Square (1998)
Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story: Three young women from very different backgrounds meet, become friends and share experiences when they all gain positions as nannies in the wealthy households of London's exclusive Berkeley Square.
Style: period piece, costume drama, historical drama, serious, realistic ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: nanny, abbey, family relations, child abuse, spanish civil war, civil rights, human rights, colleague, feminist, butler, bittersweet, lifestyle ...
Time: 1900s, middle ages, edwardian era, 19th century, victorian era ...
Place: london, england, britain, europe
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 8.7
 244K
Downton Abbey (2010)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: A chronicle of the lives of the aristocratic Crawley family and their servants in the post-Edwardian era—with great events in history having an effect on their lives and on the British social hierarchy.
Style: costume drama, captivating, historical drama, realistic, serious ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, teen drama
Plot: aristocracy, estate, traditional versus modern, relatives, manners, countryside, high society, servant, country estate, butler, family life, aristocrat ...
Time: 20th century, 1910s, edwardian era, 1920s, 50s ...
Place: england, britain, hawaii, europe, yorkshire ...
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 7.4
 11K
Parade's End (2012)
Genre: Action, Drama, Romance, War
Country: UK, Belgium, USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: In the years before the First World War, three Britons are drawn into fraught and ultimately tragic relations: Anglican Christopher Tietjens, second son of the lord of the manor of Groby, Yorkshire, who is a disconsolate, Tory statistician in ...
Style: clever, serious, period piece, costume drama, romantic drama ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: high society, crumbling marriage, world war one, lovers, love triangle, adultery, couple relations, couples, estate, love and romance, countryside, conservative ...
Time: 1910s, edwardian era, 20th century
Place: europe, england
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Upstairs, Downstairs (1971)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Upstairs, Downstairs is a British television drama series originally produced by London Weekend Television and revived by the BBC. It ran on ITV in 68 episodes divided into five series from 1971 to 1975. Set in a large townhouse in Edwardian, First ...
Style: costume drama, period piece, realistic, stylized, serious ...
Plot: butler, domestic servant, maid, working class, wealth, master servant relationship, high society, master and servant, lifestyle, couples, rich and poor, couple relations ...
Time: 1900s, edwardian era, year 1971, 1920s, 1930s ...
Place: england, london, hawaii, britain, europe
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 19K
Wilde (1997)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, Germany, Japan
Duration: 118 min.
Story: The story of Oscar Wilde, genius, poet, playwright and the First Modern Man. The self-realisation of his homosexuality caused Wilde enormous torment as he juggled marriage, fatherhood and responsibility with his obsessive love for Lord Alfred ...
Style: homoerotic, costume drama, period piece, touching, historical drama ...
Plot: homosexuality, gay, lgbt, glbt, writers, lgbtq, hypocrisy, male homosexuality, biopic, gay sex, scandal, gay lead character ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, edwardian era, 1880s, year 1997 ...
Place: ireland, britain, england, europe, london ...
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 6.2
 71K
Dorian Gray (2009)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 112 min.
Story: A vain London playboy offers his soul in exchange for eternal beauty in this adaptation of the chilling tale by author Oscar Wilde. Seduced into the decadent world of Lord Henry Wotton (Colin Firth), handsome young aristocrat Dorian Gray (Ben ...
Style: gothic, atmospheric, sexy, gothic horror, dark fantasy ...
Audience: teens, girls' night
Plot: supernatural, eternal youth, aristocracy, painting, deal with the devil, destiny, beefcake, male nudity, fall in love, society, immortality, artist ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, edwardian era, year 2009, turn of the century ...
Place: england, europe, london, britain, ireland
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The Tide of Life (1996)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 180 min.
TV show
Story: Tide of Life follows the fortunes of young housekeeper, Emily Kennedy, as she learns about relationships with three very different men. Forced from home of her first employer, Sep McGilby after his plans to marry her come to tragic end, Emily finds ...
Style: costume drama, realistic, serious, touching, emotional ...
Plot: immigration, life turned upside down, society, boss and employee, love and romance, tragic hero, innocence lost, gender, couple relations, life is a bitch, power relations, estate ...
Time: edwardian era, 19th century, 1900s, victorian era, 20th century
Place: northern england, england
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Paris Police 1905 (2022)
Genre: Crime
Country: France
Duration: 52 min.
TV show
Story: When the Paris police's vice squad - on the orders of Police Chief Lépine - begin to clean prostitutes off the city's streets, a man's body is found in the Bois de Boulogne. Inspector Antoine Jouin is entrusted with the investigation.
Style: suspenseful, detective, crime drama, exciting, captivating ...
Plot: murder mystery, investigation, police inspector, police procedural, murder investigation, police, police protagonist, true crime, police investigation, police detective, crime investigation, police officer ...
Time: edwardian era, turn of the century, 1900s
Place: paris france
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Finding Neverland (2004)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Family
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Finding Neverland is an amusing drama about how the story of Peter Pan and Neverland came to be. During a writing slump play writer J.M. Barrie meets the widowed Sylvia and her three children who soon become an important part of Barrie’s life and ...
Style: touching, sentimental, period piece, heartbreaking, sweet ...
Audience: kids, family outing, teens, family friendly, date night ...
Plot: single parent, writers, friendship, writer's life, parents and children, death, biopic, peter pan, stage play, country house, passion, artists and showbiz ...
Time: edwardian era, 1900s, year 2004, turn of the century, future ...
Place: london, england, britain, europe, canada
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 7.7
 107K
My Fair Lady (1964)
Genre: Drama, Family, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 170 min.
Story: A snobbish phonetics professor agrees to a wager that he can take a flower girl and make her presentable in high society.
Style: feel good, romantic, period piece, sweet, costume drama ...
Audience: date night, chick flick, family outing, teens, kids ...
Plot: class differences, high society, fall in love, cinderella story, love and romance, makeover, love story, opposites attract, rise to the top, aristocracy, dancing, culture clash ...
Time: 1910s, 20th century, victorian era, edwardian era, 1930s
Place: london, england, britain, persia, europe ...
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Where Angels Fear to Tread (1991)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 116 min.
Story: An English widow goes to Italy, falls in love with a dentist's son and marries him, against her straitlaced family's wishes.
Style: costume drama, period piece, historical drama, cult classic, independent film ...
Plot: sister in law, unrequited love, mother in law, class differences, brother in law, catholicism, marriage for money, railway, defiant, family disapproval, marriage, widow ...
Time: edwardian era, 1900s, victorian era, year 1991, 90s ...
Place: italy, england, britain, europe, tuscany
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 5.9
 2K
Nora (2000)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Ireland, UK, Italy, Germany
Duration: 106 min.
Story: In 1904, in Dublin, James Joyce chats up Nora Barnacle, a hotel maid recently come from Galway. She enchants him with her frank, direct and uninhibited manner, and before long, he's convinced her to come with him to Trieste, where he has a job ...
Style: realistic, touching, sincere, sentimental, sexual ...
Plot: love affair, novelist, sex scene, muse, love, poverty, jealousy, male female relationship, writers, lifestyle, writer's life, literary ...
Time: edwardian era, victorian era, 1900s, 1910s, 20th century
Place: ireland, dublin ireland, italy, europe
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The House of Mirth (2000)
Genre: Romance, Drama
Country: UK, France, Germany, USA
Duration: 135 min.
Story: A woman risks losing her chance of happiness with the only man she has ever loved.
Style: costume drama, period piece, atmospheric, emotional, talky ...
Audience: date night
Plot: love affair, infidelity, happy ending, destiny, temptation, tragedy, debt, gambling, fall in love, dishonesty, love and romance, couple relations ...
Time: 20th century, edwardian era, 19th century, 2000s, turn of the century ...
Place: new york, america, britain, usa, mediterranean sea ...
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The Secret Garden (1993)
Genre: Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 101 min.
Story: A young British girl born and reared in India loses her neglectful parents in an earthquake. She is returned to England to live at her uncle's castle. Her uncle is very distant due to the loss of his wife ten years before. Neglected once again, ...
Style: costume drama, touching, feel good, atmospheric, sentimental ...
Audience: kids, family outing, family friendly, chick flick, pre-teens ...
Plot: childhood, countryside, orphan, girl, garden, friendship, beautiful scenery, mansion, little girl, sick child, children, old mansion ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, edwardian era, 90s, year 1993 ...
Place: india, england, liverpool, eastern europe, africa ...
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The Age of Adaline (2015)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 112 min.
Story: After 29-year-old Adaline recovers from a nearly lethal accident, she inexplicably stops growing older. As the years stretch on and on, Adaline keeps her secret to herself until she meets a man who changes her life.
Style: romantic, touching, emotional, dramatic, romantic drama ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, date night, teens
Plot: love, immortality, love story, immortal, loneliness, supernatural, life & death, love and romance, destiny, impossible love, beautiful scenery, supernatural romance ...
Time: future, edwardian era, 2010s, year 2015, 20th century ...
Place: san francisco, peru, california, oregon, arizona ...
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An American Pickle (2020)
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 88 min.
Story: An immigrant worker at a pickle factory is accidentally preserved for 100 years and wakes up in modern day Brooklyn. He learns his only surviving relative is his great grandson, a computer coder who he can’t connect with.
Style: captivating, unusual plot structure, funny, surreal, inspirational ...
Audience: adult
Plot: time traveler, immigrant, time travel, fish out of water, jewish culture, family relations, twists and turns, inventions and discoveries, disorder, loss of wife, twitter, cemetery ...
Time: edwardian era, 2020s, year 1919, year 2019, 2010s ...
Place: brooklyn new york city, canada, new york
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