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Plot Summary:
Tom loves Sophie and Sophie loves Tom. But Tom and Sophie are of differering classes. Can they find a way through the mayhem to be true to love?.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 14000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, History, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 129 min
Plot tags: costume drama, witty, road movie, depressing, picaresque, historical drama, independent film, exciting, feel good, humorous
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Far from the Madding Crowd (1967)
Plot Summary:
Bathsheba Everdine, a willful, flirtatious, young woman, unexpectedly inherits a large farm and becomes romantically involved with three widely divergent men.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Drama, History, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 168 min
Plot tags: scenic, romantic, historical drama, atmospheric, serious, emotional, realistic, epic, period drama
Similar in 77%
Georgy Girl (1966)
Plot Summary:
Georgy has resigned herself to being one of life's accidents. She disapproves somewhat of her father's butlering James Leamington. She's tall, plump, sloppy and wistfully envious of what she conceives to be the life led by her beautiful, but icy roommate. Where her roommate, Meredith, is cool and calculating, Georgy gets so involved with the people around her she behaves like an affectionate puppy. Most of all she burns to be a mother. But it is Meredith that is in the hospital having an unwanted child.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: retro, romantic comedy, sentimental, touching, humorous, realistic, semi serious, romantic, road movie, atmospheric
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The Triumph of Love (2001)
Plot Summary:
A princess is determined to restore her homeland's throne to its rightful heir, a young prince with whom she falls in love.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: UK, Italy, Germany
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: humorous, witty, light, romantic, intense, clever, entertaining, feel good, realistic, semi serious
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The Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders (1965)
Plot Summary:
A bawdy story of how a poor damsel surrenders her virtue again and again to get to the top of society.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 685
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 126 min
Plot tags: retro, sex comedy, humorous, captivating, realistic, semi serious
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Joseph Andrews (1977)
Plot Summary:
Lady Booby alias 'Belle', the lively wife of the fat landed squire Sir Thomas Booby, has a lusty eye on the attractive, intelligent villager Joseph Andrews, a Latin pupil and protégé of parson Adams, and makes him their footman. Joseph's heart belongs to a country girl, foundling Fanny Goodwill, but his masters take him on a fashionable trip to Bath, where the spoiled society comes mainly to see and be seen, but drowns in the famous Roman baths. When the all but grieving lady finds Joseph's Christian virtue and true love resist her lusting passes just as well as the many ladies who fancy her footman, she fires the boy. He's found and nursed by an innkeeper's maid, which stirs lusts there, again besides his honorable conduct, but is found by the good parson.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 669
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: historical drama, independent film, clever, humorous, realistic, witty, stylized, semi serious, sexual, sexy
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The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling (1997)
Plot Summary:
A new adaptation of the classic novel by Henry Fielding of the life, loves and adventures of the charming rascal Tom Jones. A foundling child born of a serving wench but allowed to grow up in the privileged surroundings of Squire Allworthy's household. This position allows him to grow up with, make the acquaintance of and eventually fall in love with the beautiful daughter of his wealthy neighbour, Sophia Western. However, the path to true love rarely runs smooth and family pressure, the difference in their parentage and 18th century social custom prevent the young lovers from being together. Eventually both are forced out of their gentile, protected surroundings and into the great wide world to see what adventures real life might bring.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 869
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 314 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, realistic, witty, period piece, costume drama, period drama
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The Prisoner of Zenda (1979)
Plot Summary:
Anthony Hope's classic tale gets a decidedly 'un-classic' treatment at the hands of Peter Sellers. Following the story somewhat, friends of the new King Rudolph of Ruritania fear for his life, and switch him with a look-a-like London cabby. Throw in two(!) lovely blondes, treachery, and a battle for life and honour, and enjoy life at its zaniest.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: exciting, feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious, parody, spoof, slapstick comedy, slapstick
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The Lady and the Highwayman (1988)
Plot Summary:
Set in old England, Hugh Grant ("Four Weddings & a Funeral", "Notting Hill") plays a highwayman who steals from the rich and gives to the poor. But during one of his robberies, he falls in love with an aristocratic lady, Emma Samms ("Star Quest", "Delirious"). Now, he is forced to choose between his true love or his true cause. This swash-buckling romantic adventure will have you on the edge of your seat with every swing of Hugh's savage sword.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Adventure, Drama, History, Romance
Country: UK, Italy
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: stylized, exciting, tense, captivating, light, entertaining, gothic, sex comedy, serious, period drama
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Carry on Pimpernel (1967)
Plot Summary:
The time of the French revolution, and Citizen Robespierre is beheading the French aristocracy. When word gets to England, two noblemen, Sir Rodney Ffing and Lord Darcy take it upon themselves to aid their French counterparts. Sir Rodney is a master of disguise, and becomes "the black fingernail", scourge of Camembert and Bidet, leaders of the French secret police.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: spoof, parody, sex comedy, exciting, offbeat, humorous, realistic, witty, semi serious, independent film
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Royal Flash (1975)
Plot Summary:
Cowardly rogue Harry Flashman's (Malcolm McDowell) schemes to gain entry to the royal circles of 19th-century Europe go nowhere until he meets a pair of devious nobles with their own agenda. At their urging, Flashman agrees to re-create himself as a bogus Prussian nobleman to woo a beautiful duchess. But the half-baked plan quickly comes unraveled, and he's soon on the run from several new enemies who are all calling for the rapscallion's head.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, History, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: mind blowing, offbeat, humorous, realistic, stylized, semi serious, period drama
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Plunkett & Macleane (1999)
Plot Summary:
Will Plunkett and Captain James Macleane, two men from different ends of the social spectrum in 18th-century England, enter a gentlemen's agreement: They decide to rid the aristocrats of their belongings. With Plunkett's criminal know-how and Macleane's social connections, they team up to be soon known as "The Gentlemen Highwaymen". But when one day these gentlemen hold up Lord Chief Justice Gibson's coach, Macleane instantly falls in love with his beautiful and cunning niece, Lady Rebecca Gibson. Unfortunately, Thief Taker General Chance, who also is quite fond of Rebecca, is getting closer and closer to getting both.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: period piece, exciting, entertaining, witty, colorful, humorous, realistic, semi serious, costume drama, stylized
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Virgin Territory (2007)
Plot Summary:
The film is set in Tuscany during the Black Death. As in the Decameron, ten young Florentines take refuge from the plague. But instead of telling stories, they have lusty adventures, bawdy exchanges, romance and swordplay. There are randy nuns, Saracen pirates, and a sexy cow.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Romance
Country: Italy, UK, France, Luxembourg
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: sexy, humorous, semi serious, psychological, captivating, sex comedy, perverse, costume drama, realistic, period drama
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Two for the Road (1967)
Plot Summary:
The ten-year marriage of Mark and Joanna Wallace is on the rocks. In flashback they recall their first meeting, memorable moments in their courtship and early wedded life, their travels through Europe, their broken vow never to have children, and their increasing tensions that led to both of them having extra-marital affairs.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 14000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: road movie, witty, stylized, esoteric, clever, touching, humorous, realistic, non-linear, semi serious
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Cold Comfort Farm (1995)
Plot Summary:
In this adaptation of the satirical British novel, Flora Poste, a plucky London society girl orphaned at age 19, finds a new home with some rough relatives, the Starkadders of Cold Comfort Farm. With a take-charge attitude and some encouragement from her mischievous friend, Mary, Flora changes the Starkadders' lives forever when she settles into their rustic estate, bringing the backward clan up to date and finding inspiration for her novel in the process.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: period piece, offbeat, humorous, talky, avant garde, cult classic, historical drama, sentimental, touching, feel good
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An Ideal Husband (1999)
Plot Summary:
Sir Robert Chiltern is a successful Government minister, well-off and with a loving wife. All this is threatened when Mrs Cheveley appears in London with damning evidence of a past misdeed. Sir Robert turns for help to his friend Lord Goring, an apparently idle philanderer and the despair of his father. Goring knows the lady of old, and, for him, takes the whole thing pretty seriously.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 17000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: entertaining, period piece, humorous, talky, realistic, semi serious, costume drama, romantic comedy, spiritual, clever
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Piccadilly Jim (2004)
Plot Summary:
Set in the 1930s, an American with a scandalous reputation on both sides of the Atlantic must do an about-face in order to win back the woman of his dreams.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: romantic, captivating, tragicomedy, social, ironic, offbeat, humorous, realistic, witty, semi serious
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A Business Affair (1994)
Plot Summary:
This is the story of the lovely Kate Swallow and the loves of her life. At the start she is with Alec Bolton, a noted author, who discourages her when she wants to write a novel. Later she is swept off her feet by Alecs publisher, Vanni Corso, and leaves Alec for Vanni. She writes another novel and Vanni tells her he doesn't think the book will sell. Both of their actions are an indication of their vanity and fear of losing her.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 488
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: UK, France, Germany, Spain, USA, Romania
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: humorous, sentimental, thought provoking, captivating, entertaining, realistic, witty, semi serious, independent film
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Worth Winning (1989)
Plot Summary:
Taylor is a man who has no problems with women. So confident is he that he accepts a challenge from his friends: he has to secure proposals of marriage from three women of their choice.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: light, melancholic, talky, feel good, semi serious, humorous, witty, romantic comedy, realistic, sex comedy
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Casanova (2005)
Plot Summary:
With a reputation for seducing members of the opposite sex, regardless of their marital status, a notorious womanizer discovers a beauty who seems impervious to his charms. However, as he continues to pursue the indifferent lady, he finds himself falling in love.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 56000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: romantic, period piece, light, costume drama, factual, cute, historical drama, feel good, psychological, emotional
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Easy Virtue (2008)
Plot Summary:
A young Englishman marries a glamorous American. When he brings her home to meet the parents, she arrives like a blast from the future - blowing their entrenched British stuffiness out the window.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 22000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: UK, Canada
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: witty, sexy, stylized, light, melancholic, period piece, realistic, humorous, semi serious, funny
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Shakespeare in Love (1998)
Plot Summary:
Young Shakespeare is forced to stage his latest comedy, "Romeo and Ethel, the Pirate's Daughter," before it's even written. When a lovely noblewoman auditions for a role, they fall into forbidden love -- and his play finds a new life (and title). As their relationship progresses, Shakespeare's comedy soon transforms into tragedy.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 232000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, History, Romance
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 123 min
Plot tags: romantic, inspirational, sweet, sexy, period piece, costume drama, feel good, funny, romantic comedy, sentimental
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Beaumarchais the Scoundrel (1996)
Plot Summary:
Beaumarchais the Scoundrel is a biopic film based on the life of the French playwright, financier and spy Pierre Beaumarchais depicting his activities during the American War of Independence and his authorship of the Figaro trilogy of plays.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, History, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, stylized
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Wuthering Heights (1970)
Plot Summary:
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 becomes companion and soulmate to Hindley's sister, Catherine. After her parents die, Cathy and Heathcliff grow up wild and free on the Moors and despite the continued enmity between Hindley and Heathcliff they're happy-- until Cathy meets Edgar Linton, the son of a wealthy neighbor. Written by Marg Baskin.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: gothic, costume drama, atmospheric, entertaining, romantic drama, sentimental, touching, serious, emotional, realistic
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Wuthering Heights (1992)
Plot Summary:
Young orphan Heathcliff is adopted by the wealthy Earnshaw family and moves into their estate, Wuthering Heights. Soon, the new resident falls for his compassionate foster sister, Cathy. The two share a remarkable bond that seems unbreakable until Cathy, feeling the pressure of social convention, suppresses her feelings and marries Edgar Linton, a man of means who befits her stature. Heathcliff vows to win her back.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 14000
Genere: Drama, History, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: romantic, gothic, atmospheric, emotional, period piece, heartbreaking, touching, melancholic, costume drama, romantic drama
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Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day (2008)
Plot Summary:
Guinevere Pettigrew, a middle-aged London governess, finds herself unfairly dismissed from her job. An attempt to gain new employment catapults her into the glamorous world and dizzying social whirl of an American actress and singer, Delysia Lafosse.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 30000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: touching, light, romantic, humorous, emotional, period piece, semi serious, sweet, witty, sexy
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The Four Musketeers: Milady's Revenge (1974)
Plot Summary:
The Four Musketeers defend the queen and her dressmaker from Cardinal Richelieu and Milady de Winter.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Romance
Country: Spain, UK, USA
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: humorous, funny, cult classic, exciting, realistic, semi serious, fast, psychotronic, tense, light
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Mansfield Park (1999)
Plot Summary:
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 cousins, she's meant to learn the ways of proper society. But while Fanny learns "their" ways, she also enlightens them with a wit and sparkle all her own!.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 25000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: period piece, witty, costume drama, romantic, sexy, atmospheric, breathtaking, educational, happy, romantic drama
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Emma (1996)
Plot Summary:
Emma Woodhouse has a rigid sense of propriety as regards matrimonial alliances. Unfortunately she insists on matchmaking for her less forceful friend, Harriet, and so causes her to come to grief. Through the sharp words of Mr. Knightley, and the example of the opinionated Mrs. Elton, someone not unlike herself, Emma's attitudes begin to soften.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: costume drama, period piece, historical drama, clever, touching, feel good, humorous, realistic, witty, talky
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Barry Lyndon (1975)
Plot Summary:
In the Eighteenth Century, in a small village in Ireland, Redmond Barry is a young farm boy in love with his cousin Nora Brady. When Nora engages to the British Captain John Quin, Barry challenges him for a duel of pistols. He wins and escapes to Dublin, but is robbed on the road. Without any other alternative, Barry joins the British Army to fight in the Seven Years War.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 179000
Genere: Adventure, Drama, War
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 185 min
Plot tags: visually stunning, period piece, breathtaking, epic, realistic, visual, stylized, costume drama, visually appealing, atmospheric
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The Importance of Being Earnest (2002)
Plot Summary:
Two young gentlemen living in 1890s England use the same pseudonym ("Ernest") on the sly, which is fine until they both fall in love with women using that name, which leads to a comedy of mistaken identities.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 24000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: entertaining, period piece, feel good, witty, costume drama, melancholic, romantic, stylized, humorous, realistic