Victorian movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant victorian movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out period drama, costume drama, period piece, serious, realistic and historical drama films and TV shows about / with costume, society, love and romance, victorian england, couples, social differences, love, fall in love, couple relations and family relations plots mostly in Drama, Romance and Mystery genres shot in UK, USA, France and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as victorian: Far from the Madding Crowd (2015), North & South (2004), Wives and Daughters (1999), Great Expectations (1999), The Making of a Lady (2012), Dorian Gray (2009), The Invisible Woman (2013), Pride & Prejudice (2005), Lark Rise to Candleford (2008), Vanity Fair (1998).
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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
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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
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 75 min.
TV show
Story:
Elizabeth Gaskell's enchanting tale of romance, scandal, and intrigue in a gossipy English town comes to Masterpiece Theatre in a lavish four-part production of Wives and Daughters, adapted by celebrated screenwriter Andrew Davies.Davies, who ...
Style:
period piece, costume drama, uplifting, serious, historical drama ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
prejudice, aristocrat, family relations, estate, love and romance, aristocracy, parent child relationship, secret marriage, marriage, gossip, sibling relationship, parents and children ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, 1820s, 18th century, 1800s ...
Place:
england, europe, london, britain, africa
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 168 min.
Story:
A young boy called Pip stumbles upon a hunted criminal who threatens him and demands food. A few years later, Pip finds that he has a benefactor. Imagining that Miss Havisham, a rich lady whose adopted daughter Estella he loves, is the benefactor, ...
Style:
period piece, costume drama, serious, emotional, captivating ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
couple relations, charles dickens, social differences, society, rise to the top, hopes, power relations, generosity, passionate love, rags to riches, victorian england, napoleonic era ...
Time:
victorian era, 19th century
Place:
england, london
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
1901:- Poor but intelligent Emily Fox Seton accepts a marriage proposal from the older Lord James Walderhurst,a widower pushed into providing an heir by his haughty aunt Maria,
Style:
sexy, tense, stylized, captivating, period piece ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
love affair, love and romance, malice, abbey, class differences, female protagonist, life is a bitch, relationship problems, deception, high society, rich and poor, social problems ...
Time:
victorian era, 19th century, edwardian era, 1900s
Place:
england, britain, london
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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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Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
In 1857, at the height of his fame and fortune, novelist and social critic Charles Dickens meets and falls in love with teenage stage actress Nelly Ternan. As she becomes the focus of his heart and mind, as well as his muse, painful secrecy is the ...
Style:
costume drama, period piece, sentimental, captivating, serious ...
Plot:
love affair, actress, writers, writer's life, forbidden love, biopic, older man younger woman relationship, secret relationship, affair, scandal, secret, marital discord ...
Time:
victorian era, 19th century, ancient times, 1860s, 1850s ...
Place:
london, england, britain, europe, manchester
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, France, USA
Duration: 129 min.
Story:
Pride & Prejudice is a humorous story of love and life among English gentility during the Georgian era. Mr. Bennet is an English gentleman living in Hertfordshire with his overbearing wife and five daughters. If Mr. Bennet dies their house will ...
Style:
romantic, costume drama, sweet, sexy, captivating ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, date night, teens, family friendly ...
Plot:
prejudice, love, fall in love, happy ending, women, strong female character, love and romance, opposites attract, aristocracy, initially antagonists, wooing, social differences ...
Time:
19th century, 18th century, victorian era, 1790s, georgian era ...
Place:
england, britain, united kingdom, europe, london ...
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 53 min.
TV show
Story:
Set in the small hamlet of Lark Rise and the wealthier neighbouring market town, Candleford, the series chronicles the daily lives of farm-workers, craftsmen and gentry at the end of the 19th Century. Lark Rise to Candleford is a love letter to a ...
Style:
costume drama, sentimental, sincere, period piece, realistic ...
Audience:
girls' night, kids
Plot:
village life, friendship, social relations, hopes, small town, abbey, true love, victorian england, father son relationship, employer employee relationship, neighbor neighbor relationship, father daughter relationship ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, 1800s
Place:
england, britain, europe
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 53 min.
TV show
Story:
This faithful BBC adaptation once again brings William Makepeace Thackeray's classic satirical novel to the screen. Becky Sharp (Natasha Little) is a beautiful, clever and poor girl determined to earn a higher place in society at any cost. The ...
Style:
costume drama, period piece, historical drama, captivating, serious ...
Plot:
manipulation, passionate love, high society, unrequited love, realism, napoleonic era, time machine, napoleon bonaparte, satire, orphan, strong female presence, couples ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, regency period
Place:
england, europe, london
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Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Adventure
Country: UK, Canada
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
The Secret Adventures of Jules Verne is a 22-episode science fiction television series in the steampunk genre that first aired in June 2000 on CBC Television in Canada and in syndication in the United States.
The plot concept is predicated on a ...
Style:
serious, exciting, stylized, metafiction, vintage
Plot:
steampunk, escapades, adventurer, society, parallel world, rescue, writers, spy, time travel, chases and races, imaginary, man versus machine ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, future, 1860s
Place:
europe, england
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story:
Jane Austen's classic novel about the prejudice that occurred between the 19th century classes and the pride which would keep lovers apart.
Style:
romantic, costume drama, atmospheric, stylized, period piece ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, date night, kids
Plot:
prejudice, love and romance, fall in love, aristocracy, wooing, initially antagonists, social differences, looking for love, opposites attract, love story, unlikely couple, countryside ...
Time:
18th century, 19th century, victorian era, 1810s, 1800s ...
Place:
england, britain, europe, london
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
'Great Expectations' opens with Pip as a boy (played as an young man by newcomer Douglas Booth, 'The Pillars of the Earth') on the marshes near his home, where he encounters the desperate escapee Magwitch (Winstone). Pip is ...
Style:
historical drama, gothic, atmospheric, costume drama, period piece ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
victorian england, lovers, charles dickens, generosity, destiny, rags to riches, convict, orphan, stranger, society, obsession, hopes ...
Time:
19th century, 1820s, regency period, victorian era
Place:
england, britain, london
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 136 min.
Story:
Rich Mr. Dashwood dies, leaving his second wife and her daughters poor by the rules of inheritance. Two daughters are the titular opposites.
Style:
romantic, costume drama, feel good, sincere, sentimental ...
Audience:
girls' night, date night, chick flick, kids, adult
Plot:
love story, love, happy ending, love triangle, love and romance, sisters, fall in love, love affair, social differences, rich and poor, true love, village life ...
Time:
19th century, 18th century, 90s, regency period, 1810s ...
Place:
england, britain, europe, london, seattle
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
This fun and sexy comedy tells a timelessly entertaining story where wealthy, secret passions and mischievous women put love to the test.. When a spirited young woman, Fanny Price, is sent away to live on the great country estate of her rich ...
Style:
period piece, costume drama, sexy, witty, romantic ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
fall in love, country estate, couple relations, literary, women, love, love and romance, feminist, love story, estate, abbey, society ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, middle ages, ancient times, year 1999 ...
Place:
england, britain, europe, london
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
A look at the mysterious relationship between Victorian art critic John Ruskin and his teenage bride Effie Gray.
Style:
period piece, costume drama, stylized, emotional, captivating ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
love, biopic, couples, unfulfillment, self discovery, crumbling marriage, love and romance, fall in love, painter, art, writers, love triangle ...
Time:
19th century, ancient times, victorian era
Place:
england, britain, europe, london, scotland
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 53 min.
TV show
Story:
Daniel Deronda is a British television serial drama adapted by Andrew Davies from the George Eliot novel of the same name. The serial was directed by Tom Hooper, produced by Louis Marks, and was first broadcast in three parts on BBC One from 23 ...
Style:
costume drama, period piece, realistic, serious, captivating ...
Plot:
aristocracy, marriage of convenience, jewess, love triangle, society, drowning, social differences, love affair, rise to the top, fall in love, betrayal, unlikely couple ...
Time:
19th century, middle ages, victorian era, 1870s
Place:
britain, england, europe, london, italy
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 57 min.
TV show
Story:
This is the acclaimed 2008 BBC adaptation of the famous Jane Austen novel. While it originally aired as a 3-part miniseries, this home video release includes a single uninterrupted version of the entire film.
Style:
costume drama, period piece, romantic drama, historical drama, sincere ...
Audience:
girls' night, date night
Plot:
countryside, romanticism, love and romance, society, sister sister relationship, love triangle, wooing, manners, rich and poor, rich man poor woman, love story, unrequited love ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, georgian era, regency period
Place:
london, europe, britain, england
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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:
period piece, costume drama, scenic, visually appealing, erotic ...
Plot:
love, breast feeding, rape, tragic love, relationships, literary, mansion, beautiful scenery, nobility, loneliness, peasant, autumn ...
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
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, 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:
love, love and romance, couples, forbidden love, social differences, power of love, young woman, unlikely couple, fall in love, orphan, older man younger woman relationship, estate ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, 1840s, ancient times, 1800s ...
Place:
england, britain, europe, yorkshire
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 69 min.
TV show
Story:
Follow Sugar into the underbelly of Victorian London seething with vitality, sexuality, ambition and emotion.
Style:
historical drama, costume drama, serious, realistic, captivating ...
Plot:
victorian england, prostitute, social climbing, love affair, rich and poor, mistress, social differences, power relations, couples, society, high society, diary ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, 1880s, 1870s
Place:
england, london, britain, europe
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
In the 1830's in northern England, Riah Millican, a widow with three children, takes a job as housekeeper to a reclusive former teacher, Percival Miller. Miller makes Riah the gift of a black velvet gown, and even educates her children. But ...
Style:
serious, costume drama, historical drama, realistic, period drama
Plot:
servant, victorian england, housekeeper, family life, eviction, working class, social differences, family relations, power relations, single parent, starting over, society ...
Time:
1830s, 19th century, victorian era, 1840s, georgian era
Place:
england, britain, europe, france
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story:
A suspenseful tale about the injustices of the 19th Century English legal system.
Style:
costume drama, period piece, serious, bleak, historical drama ...
Plot:
charles dickens, estate, inheritance, aristocracy, orphan, secret, investigation, uncover truth, abbey, social differences, injustice, society ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, turn of the century
Place:
england, britain, london, europe
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: Mexico, USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
In the aftermath of a family tragedy, an aspiring author is torn between love for her childhood friend and the temptation of a mysterious outsider. Trying to escape the ghosts of her past, she is swept away to a house that breathes, bleeds… and ...
Style:
gothic, dark fantasy, atmospheric, gothic horror, suspenseful ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
ghost, haunted house, supernatural, incest, murder, female protagonist, betrayal, macabre, brother sister incest, old mansion, estate, ghost story ...
Time:
victorian era, 19th century, 1900s, year 2015, 1800s ...
Place:
england, america, europe, usa
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 56 min.
TV show
Story:
In a mystical and dark city filled with humans, fairies and other creatures, a police detective investigates a series of gruesome murders leveled against the fairy population. During his investigation, the detective becomes the prime suspect and ...
Style:
dark fantasy, sensual, gothic, erotic, costume drama ...
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
mythical creature, steampunk, interspecies romance, fairy, fantasy world, social injustice, monster, politician, alternate reality, class differences, sorceress, female friendship ...
Time:
victorian era, 19th century
Place:
england
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Genre: Drama, Musical, Romance, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 143 min.
Story:
Deformed since birth, a bitter man known only as the Phantom lives in the sewers underneath the Paris Opera House. He falls in love with the obscure chorus singer Christine, and privately tutors her while terrorizing the rest of the opera house and ...
Style:
gothic, stylized, gothic horror, sentimental, period piece ...
Audience:
chick flick, teens, kids, girls' night, date night ...
Plot:
opera, obsession, disfigurement, musician's life, theater, destructive relationship, loneliness, disguise, dangerous attraction, prodigy, love and romance, fall in love ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, 1910s, year 2004, 2000s ...
Place:
paris france, france, europe, london
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A couple living in Victorian London endure an unusual series of psychological and supernatural effects following the birth of their child.
Style:
psychological, serious, suspenseful, psychosexual thriller, gothic ...
Plot:
victorian england, killed during sex, couples, supernatural, sex, family relations, couple relations, danger, ghost, disorder, family problems, parents and children ...
Time:
victorian era, 1880s, 19th century
Place:
london, england
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
Elizabeth and Darcy, now six years married and with two young sons, are preparing for the lavish annual ball at their magnificent Pemberley home. The unannounced arrival of Elizabeths wayward sister Lydia, however, brings an abrupt and shocking halt ...
Style:
costume drama, period piece, tense, serious, realistic ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
murder mystery, high society, murder, couples, empire fashion, family relations, who done it, investigation, duty, passionate love, passion, female protagonist ...
Time:
victorian era, 19th century, 1800s, 18th century, regency period ...
Place:
england
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, Ireland
Duration: 59 min.
TV show
Story:
A drama set in the East End of London in 1889, during the aftermath of the "Ripper" murders. The action centres around the notorious H Division – the police precinct from hell – which is charged with keeping order in the chaotic ...
Style:
atmospheric, tense, serious, suspenseful, gothic ...
Plot:
serial killer, victorian england, danger, murder, victim, jack the ripper, police detective, multiple suspects, investigator, urban, detective inspector, murder investigation ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, future, 1890s, 1880s
Place:
england, london, ireland, britain, europe ...
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