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Love Takes Wing (2009)
Genre: Family, Romance, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Belinda Simpson is now a doctor in a small Missouri town where an unknown plague is spreading fear and resentment amoung the townspeople. One local resident thinks the illness was spread from the town orphanage and wants to see it shut down. Belinda ...
Style: uplifting, sentimental, serious, touching, realistic ...
Audience: family friendly
Plot: small town, plague, love and romance, love affair, christian, fall in love, small town life, child illness, friendship, love, prairie, medical ...
Time: 19th century
Place: usa, missouri
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 7.2
 5K
Firelight (1997)
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: uplifting, serious, touching, feel good, sexy ...
Plot: fall in love, governess, love affair, couples, victorian england, estate, nanny, love and romance, parents and children, hopes, british, love ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, year 1997, 1840s, 1830s ...
Place: england, britain, europe, london
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Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes (1984)
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 143 min.
Story: A shipping disaster in the 19th Century has stranded a man and woman in the wilds of Africa. The lady is pregnant, and gives birth to a son in their tree house. Soon after, a family of apes stumble across the house and in the ensuing panic, both ...
Style: touching, harsh, serious, stylized, costume drama ...
Plot: tarzan, jungle, culture clash, adventurer, stranded, monkey, orphan, feral man, adoption, justice, ape, rescue ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, 20th century, 1880s, 1910s
Place: africa, england, scotland, london, united kingdom ...
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 6.5
 4K
Hawaii (1966)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 189 min.
Story: Abner Hale, a rigid and humorless New England missionary, marries the beautiful Jerusha Bromley and takes her to the exotic island kingdom of Hawaii, intent on converting the natives. But the clash between the two cultures is too great and instead ...
Style: serious, captivating, sincere, realistic, epic ...
Plot: missionary, infidelity, state affairs, culture clash, fish out of water, religion, redemption, family relations, religions or cults, interracial relations, christian, royalty ...
Time: 19th century, year 1966, regency period, 1820s, 1830s ...
Place: hawaii, usa, oceania, boston, yale university ...
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 7.5
 95K
The Piano (1993)
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: Australia, France, New Zealand
Duration: 121 min.
Story: After a long voyage from Scotland, pianist Ada McGrath and her young daughter, Flora, are left with all their belongings, including a piano, on a New Zealand beach. Ada, who has been mute since childhood, has been sold into marriage to a local man ...
Style: period piece, psychological, sexual, scenic, serious ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night
Plot: piano, desire, sexual relations, adultery, infidelity, couple relations, love affair, love triangle, human nature, mother daughter relationship, couples, love and romance ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, 1850s, 90s, 1800s ...
Place: new zealand, oceania
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Lost Illusions (2021)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 149 min.
Story: Taking place between the years 1837 and 1843, Balzac’s classic novel focuses on the young poet Lucien de Rubempré, who leaves Angouleme for Paris in the pursuit of becoming an author.
Style: art house
Plot: male nudity, theater, female nudity, hashish, media manipulation, ambition, journalist, dandy, nudity, prostitute, literature, art ...
Time: 19th century, 1820s, 1840s, 1830s
Place: paris france, france
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David Copperfield (1999)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 185 min.
TV show
Story: Charles Dickens' haunting semi-autobiographical tale of a boy who is sent away by his stepfather after his mother dies but manages to triumph over incredible adversities.
Style: costume drama, captivating, uplifting, realistic, serious ...
Audience: family friendly
Plot: charles dickens, coming of age, step parent, orphan, youth, child abuse, stepfather stepson relationship, literary, power relations, family relations, life is a bitch, society ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, edwardian era
Place: england, europe, london, dover england
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The Way We Live Now (2001)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 300 min.
TV show
Story: The Way We Live Now is a 2001 four-part television adaptation of the Anthony Trollope novel The Way We Live Now. The serial was first broadcast on the BBC and was directed by David Yates, written by Andrew Davies and produced by Nigel ...
Style: period piece, serious, costume drama, realistic, historical drama ...
Plot: lifestyle, intrigue, society, rise to the top, fall in love, power relations, life is a bitch, rich and poor, couple relations, greed, couples, love and romance ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, 1800s
Place: britain, europe, england
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Doctor Thorne (2016)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 48 min.
TV show
Story: The story of the penniless Mary Thorne, who grows up with her rich aunt/cousins at Greshamsbury Park estate.
Style: costume drama, historical drama, captivating, cynical, thought provoking ...
Plot: aristocrat, english countryside, family drama, ward, physician, village, family relations, society, intrigue, social differences, couples, love and romance ...
Time: victorian era, 19th century, 1840s, 1850s
Place: england, britain
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Death Comes to Pemberley (2013)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 180 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, serious, realistic, tense ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: murder mystery, high society, estate, murder, couples, empire fashion, family relations, who done it, investigation, duty, female protagonist, passion ...
Time: victorian era, 19th century, 1800s, georgian era, 18th century ...
Place: england
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Our Mutual Friend (1998)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 350 min.
TV show
Story: Intertwining tales of love, greed, and secret identities in Charles Dickens's 1860s London.
Style: costume drama, period piece, historical drama, realistic, serious ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: victorian england, charles dickens, inheritance, love, makeover, betrayal, unrequited love, lifestyle, dishonesty, life is a bitch, love and romance, society ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, 1800s
Place: britain, england, london, europe
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The Conspirator (2010)
Genre: Crime, Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story: Mary Surratt is the lone female charged as a co-conspirator in the assassination trial of Abraham Lincoln. As the whole nation turns against her, she is forced to rely on her reluctant lawyer to uncover the truth and save her life.
Style: political, period piece, factual, suspense, emotional ...
Plot: courtroom drama, lawyer, civil war, president, assassination, legal, historical character, politics, conspiracy, american civil war, courtroom, trial ...
Time: 19th century, 1800s, ancient times, 1860s, year 1865
Place: usa, washington d.c.
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Oscar and Lucinda (1997)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, Australia, USA
Duration: 132 min.
Story: After a childhood of abuse by his evangelistic father, misfit Oscar Hopkins becomes an Anglican minister and develops a divine obsession with gambling. Lucinda Leplastrier is a rich Australian heiress shopping in London for materials for her newly ...
Style: romantic, surreal, melancholic, captivating, touching ...
Plot: gambling, obsession, religion, friendship, wager, inheritance, fall in love, introspection, obsessive quest, love and romance, love, destiny ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, ancient times, year 1997, 1800s
Place: australia, england, britain, europe, sydney australia
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 8.2
 16K
Gentleman Jack (2019)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Halifax, West Yorkshire, England, 1832. Anne Lister attempts to revitalize her inherited home, Shibden Hall. Most notably for the time period, a part of her plan is to help the fate of her own family - by taking a wife.
Style: psychological, thought provoking, captivating, period piece, costume drama ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: lgbt, lesbian, lgbtq, strongman, lesbian love, discrimination, social relations, society, private vs public, sapphic, rivalry, female protagonist ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, 1830s, regency period
Place: england, yorkshire
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 7.3
 6K
Vanity Fair (2018)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: An adaptation of the 1848 novel by William Makepeace Thackeray.
Style: stylized, atmospheric, costume drama, period piece, historical drama ...
Plot: social differences, social climbing, british, rise to the top, society, dysfunctional family, life turned upside down, napoleonic era, female protagonist, life philosophy, unrequited love, time machine ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, georgian era, regency period
Place: england, britain, london
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 7.2
 16K
Mrs Brown (1997)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Romance
Country: UK, Ireland, USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Queen Victoria is deeply depressed after the death of her husband, disappearing from public. Her servant Brown, who adores her, through caress and admiration brings her back to life, but that relationship creates scandalous situation and is likely ...
Style: costume drama, touching, sentimental, period piece, intense ...
Plot: queen, british history, friendship, politics, victorian england, monarchy, british monarchy, monarch, relationships, widow, love story, biopic ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, 20th century, 1800s, ancient times ...
Place: scotland, england, britain, europe
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Immortal Beloved (1994)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music, Mystery, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story: The life and death of the legendary Ludwig van Beethoven. Beside all the work he is known for, the composer once wrote a famous love letter to a nameless beloved and the movie tries to find out who this beloved was. Not easy as Beethoven has had ...
Style: emotional, visual, costume drama, informative, dramatic ...
Plot: composer, classical music, biopic, music, classical composer, musician, artist, art, deafness, piano, life, dialogue ...
Time: 19th century, 18th century, regency period, 1820s, 1800s ...
Place: austria, europe, hungary
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 7.5
 3K
Middlemarch (1994)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 375 min.
TV show
Story: A BBC dramatization of George Eliot's classic novel about the lives and loves of a group of people living on the cusp of the Industrial Revolution in a small town named Middlemarch. These include young Doctor Lydgate, who arrives at Middlemarch ...
Style: costume drama, period piece, historical drama, romantic drama, realistic ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: hospital, social differences, intrigue, priest, tragic love, love, doctor, reform, inheritance, politics, journalist, power relations ...
Time: victorian era, 19th century, 1800s, 1870s, regency period
Place: england, britain, europe, rome italy
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The Secret Diaries of Miss Anne Lister (2010)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 92 min.
Story: In nineteenth century Yorkshire wealthy orphan Anne Lister lives with an aunt and uncle, anxious for her to marry well and blissfully unaware that she is a lesbian,recording her thoughts and exploits in a coded diary. When her lover Mariana Belcombe ...
Style: captivating, emotional, stylized, historical drama, period piece ...
Plot: lesbian relationship, lesbian, lesbian romance, lesbianism, lgbt, lesbian sex, lesbian love, feminism, lesbian couple, lgbtq, forbidden love, love and romance ...
Time: 19th century, regency period, victorian era, ancient times, 1800s
Place: england, britain, europe, yorkshire
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Wuthering Heights (2009)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 142 min.
TV show
Story: Foundling Heathcliff is raised by the wealthy Earnshaws in Yorkshire but in later life launches a vendetta against the family.
Style: emotional, touching, serious, gothic, period piece ...
Audience: girls' night, date night
Plot: obsession, unfulfilled love, love affair, forbidden love, estate, love triangle, social differences, revenge, society, punishment, fall in love, corporal punishment ...
Time: 19th century, 18th century, victorian era, georgian era, regency period
Place: england, europe
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 6.4
 28K
Ned Kelly (2003)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Biography, Crime, Drama, History, Romance, Western
Country: Australia, UK, USA, France
Duration: 110 min.
Story: After getting threatened by Kelly's friends and family, Constable Fitzpatrick places the blame on Ned Kelly and exaggerates what happened. With the biggest ever award available, Kelly and his gang set into the wild, to remain hidden from ...
Style: romantic, captivating, factual, sincere, rough ...
Audience: teens
Plot: folk hero, biopic, injustice, gang, bank robbery, wilderness, resistance, lawlessness, revenge, false accusation, life is a bitch, ambition ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, 20th century, year 2003, ancient times ...
Place: australia, oceania, new south wales
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The Story of Adele H (1975)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: France
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Adèle Hugo, daughter of renowned French writer Victor Hugo, falls in love with British soldier Albert Pinson while living in exile off the coast of England. Though he spurns her affections, she follows him to Nova Scotia and takes on the alias of ...
Style: sentimental, realistic, serious, art house, disturbing ...
Plot: unfulfilled love, love, lieutenant, destructive relationship, unfulfillment, downfall, unrequited love, women, stalking, bookstore, mental disorder, biopic ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, year 1975, 1860s, ancient times ...
Place: france, nova scotia, canada, canada, nova scotia, europe ...
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 8.6
 117K
Deadwood (2004)
Genre: Crime, Drama, History, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 55 min.
TV show
Story: The story of the early days of Deadwood, South Dakota; woven around actual historic events with most of the main characters based on real people. Deadwood starts as a gold mining camp and gradually turns from a lawless wild-west community into an ...
Style: tense, serious, atmospheric, clever, dramatic ...
Plot: sheriff, old west, power struggle, shooting, gold rush, prostitute, gunfight, profanity, dishonesty, lifestyle, violence, society ...
Time: 19th century, 1870s, victorian era, y2k, year 2004 ...
Place: south dakota, usa, hawaii
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The Great Train Robbery (1978)
Genre: Adventure, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 110 min.
Story: In Victorian England, a master criminal makes elaborate plans to steal a shipment of gold from a moving train.
Style: suspense, intense, tense, talky, exciting ...
Plot: train robbery, heist, robbery, british, betrayal, train travel, master criminal, partner, dishonesty, unlikely criminals, cons and scams, husband wife relationship ...
Time: 19th century, 1800s, year 1979, 1850s, victorian era
Place: england, britain, europe, united kingdom, london
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The Glass-blower's Children (1998)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: Sweden, Norway, Denmark
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Based on the novel by Maria Gripe, this is the story of two children, Klas and Klara, growing up in the poor Swedish countryside of the mid-19th century. Their father Albert is a glass-blower, famous for his beautiful vases, but still unable to earn ...
Style: serious, offbeat, stylized
Audience: kids, family outing
Plot: folk horror, family relations, kidnapping, swedish, rural setting, child kidnapping, child in peril, hostage, memory loss, royal family, pregnancy, countryside ...
Time: 19th century
Place: eastern europe
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 6.3
 23K
Sommersby (1993)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: France, USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story: Set in the south of the United States just after the Civil War, Laurel Sommersby is just managing to work the farm without her husband Jack, believed killed in the Civil War. By all accounts, Jack Sommersby was not a pleasant man, thus when he ...
Style: romantic, touching, psychological, sentimental, suspenseful ...
Plot: mistaken identity, husband wife relationship, village life, love, american civil war, civil war, courtroom drama, war, war veteran, suspicion of murder, haunted by the past, civil war veteran ...
Time: 19th century, 1860s, 50s, year 1993, victorian era
Place: tennessee, southern usa, usa
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 5.5
 6K
Miss Julie (2014)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Norway, UK, France, Ireland
Duration: 129 min.
Story: Over the course of a midsummer night in Fermanagh in 1890, an unsettled daughter of the Anglo-Irish aristocracy encourages her father's valet to seduce her.
Style: serious, tense, realistic, emotional, romantic drama ...
Audience: family friendly
Plot: seduction, love triangle, valet, destructive relationship, couples, power relations, love and romance, society, father daughter relationship, suffering, countryside, woman ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, 1890s
Place: ireland, britain, europe
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 7.7
 42K
Zulu (1964)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: UK
Duration: 138 min.
Story: In 1879, during the Zulu wars, man of the people Lt. John Chard (Stanley Baker) and snooty Lt Gonville Bromhead (Michael Caine) were in charge of defending the isolated Natal outpost of Rorke's Drift from tribal hordes, holding out during an ...
Style: realistic, epic, factual, suspense, psychological ...
Plot: military, war, british empire, siege, british colonialism, british army, colonialism, human spirit, battles, zulu, soldier, historical event ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, 1800s, ancient times, 1870s
Place: africa, south africa, britain, united kingdom
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 7.3
 12K
Waterloo (1970)
Genre: Action, Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: Italy, Soviet Union
Duration: 134 min.
Story: After defeating France and imprisoning Napoleon on Elba, ending two decades of war, Europe is shocked to find Napoleon has escaped and has caused the French Army to defect from the King back to him. The best of the British generals, the Duke of ...
Style: epic, serious, exciting, emotional, stylized ...
Plot: napoleonic wars, napoleon bonaparte, battles, british army, military, war, state affairs, politics, military life, medieval, betrayal, tragic hero ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, 1800s, regency period, 18th century ...
Place: europe, belgium, britain, soviet union, france ...
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Mountains of the Moon (1990)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, History, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 136 min.
Story: The story of Captain Richard Francis Burton's and Lt. John Hanning Speke's expedition to find the source of the Nile river in the name of Queen Victoria's British Empire. The film tells the story of their meeting, their friendship ...
Style: captivating, atmospheric, serious, realistic, costume drama ...
Plot: wilderness, expedition, survival, british empire, betrayal, friendship, heroic mission, escapades, danger, gay, colonialism, exploration ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, ancient times, 1850s
Place: africa, south africa, london, cairo egypt, brazil ...
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