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Plot Summary:
Orphaned after a shipwreck off the Victorian coast of Australia, the beautiful and spirited Philadelphia Gordon finds both love and adventure aboard a paddle-steamer on the Murray River.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 702
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 400 min
Plot tags: period drama
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Which Way Home (1991)
Plot Summary:
An American nurse is determined to smuggle a group of orphans out of Cambodia in the late 1970s, assisted by an Australian boat operator.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 88
Genere: Drama
Country: Australia, New Zealand, USA
Duration: 180 min
Plot tags:
Similar in 84%
The River Kings (1991)
Plot Summary:
Filmed on South Australia's glorious River Murray, this television mini-series is set during the 1920s and tells of the story of a runaway who escapes to the river to work on a paddle-boat steamer and his friendship with an old salt captain played by Bill Kerr. Based on an original novel by Max Fatchen.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 46
Genere: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 200 min
Plot tags:
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Camille (1984)
Plot Summary:
Camille is a courtesan in Paris. She falls deeply in love with a young man of promise, Armand Duval. When Armand's father begs her not to ruin his hope of a career and position by marrying Armand, she acquiesces and leaves her lover. However, when poverty and terminal illness overwhelm her, Camille discovers that Armand has not lost his love for her.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 580
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: period drama, beautiful
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Tilly Trotter (1999)
Plot Summary:
In 1930s rural England, Tilly Trotter is the story of a young girl envied by women for her beauty, lusted after by men, accused of witchcraft and forced to rise above the prejudice of many people in her community.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 506
Genere: Romance, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 216 min
Plot tags: period drama
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Scarlet and Black (1993)
Plot Summary:
The story of an ambitious but impoverished young man who seduces women of social class in order to improve his own prospects in 19th century France.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 508
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 238 min
Plot tags: psychological thriller, romantic, costume drama, period drama, hot
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1915 (1982)
Plot Summary:
1915 is a 1982 Australian mini series about two friends who wind up serving in World War One.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 128
Genere: Drama, War
Country: Australia
Duration: 360 min
Plot tags: period drama
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The Tide of Life (1996)
Plot Summary:
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 work as housekeeper for farmer, Larry Birch. Another tragedy occurs, and when Nick Stuart inherits the farm owned by Birch's wife, Nick gives Emily a new future.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 440
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 180 min
Plot tags: costume drama, touching, serious, emotional, realistic, period drama
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A Town Like Alice (1981)
Plot Summary:
Set against the brutal chaos of World War II, a love story begins that will take two lovers through a living nightmare of captivity, across three continents and two decades. From the steamy jungles of Malaya to the dusty and desolate outback of Australia Based on Nevil Shute' international bestselling novel A TOWN LIKE ALICE follows the lives of Jean Paget and Joe Harman. Meeting in Malaya--she an attractive young English captive and he a cheerful Australian POW tortured for a simple act of kindness. Separated first by their captors then by the distance of passing years, the two are finally reunited in the rugged outback of Australia-to face a challenge every bit as demanding as their wartime trials.
IMDB Rating: 8.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Romance, War
Country: Australia
Duration: 301 min
Plot tags: vintage, period drama
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The Onedin Line (1971)
Plot Summary:
The Onedin Line is a BBC television drama series which ran from 1971 to 1980. The series was created by Cyril Abraham. The series is set in Liverpool from 1860 to 1886 and deals with the rise of a shipping line, the Onedin Line, named after its owner James Onedin. Around this central theme are the lives of his family, most notably his brother and partner, shop owner Robert, and his sister Elizabeth, giving insight into the lifestyle and customs at the time, not only at sea, but also ashore. The series also illustrates some of the changes in business and shipping, such as from wooden to steel ships and from sailing ships to steam ships. It shows the role that ships played in affairs like international politics, uprisings and the slave trade.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 50 min
Plot tags: costume drama, retro, period piece, period drama
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The Secret River (2015)
Plot Summary:
In 1806, William Thornhill is sentenced to New South Wales for life where he is drawn into a terrifying conflict that will leave a bloody and indelible stain.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 662
Genere: Adventure, Drama, History
Country: Australia
Duration:
Plot tags: serious, captivating, realistic, stylized, historical drama, period drama
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For the Term of His Natural Life (1983)
Plot Summary:
In 1830's England, a young man from a good but troubled family is unjustly convicted of stealing a watch. He's transported to Van Dieman's Land (Tasmania) where he suffers under the enmity of Lt. Frere while falling in love with Sylvia, the Warden's daughter. Meanwhile, back in England, an imposter lays claim to the young man's inheritance.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 227
Genere: Adventure, Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 520 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic
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David Copperfield (1974)
Plot Summary:
Adaptation of the Dickens novel.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 105
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 300 min
Plot tags: historical drama, period drama
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The Crimson Petal and the White (2011)
Plot Summary:
Follow Sugar into the underbelly of Victorian London seething with vitality, sexuality, ambition and emotion.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 274 min
Plot tags: costume drama, historical drama, serious, captivating, realistic, stylized, sexual, psychological thriller, rough, grim
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The Barchester Chronicles (1982)
Plot Summary:
When a crusade against the Church of England's practice of self-enrichment misfires, scandal taints the cosy community of Barchester when their local church becomes the object of a scathing, investigative report.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 385 min
Plot tags: costume drama, historical drama, period drama
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Oscar and Lucinda (1997)
Plot Summary:
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 acquired glass factory back home. Deciding to travel to Australia as a missionary, Oscar meets Lucinda aboard ship, and a mutual obsession blossoms. They make a wager that will alter each of their destinies.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Australia, UK
Duration: 132 min
Plot tags: romantic, melancholic, surreal, captivating, touching, costume drama, christian film, art film, historical drama, atmospheric
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The Forsyte Saga (1967)
Plot Summary:
Adaptation from John Galsworthy's novels.
IMDB Rating: 8.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 50 min
Plot tags: family saga, costume drama, stylized, spiritual, historical drama, touching, epic, serious, captivating, realistic
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The Glass Virgin (1995)
Plot Summary:
Set in 1870s England, the story tells of Annabella Lagrange and the terrible secret her wealthy parents have kept from her. When she finally learns the truth, she runs away and eventually finds solace in the company of her family's former groom, a young Irishman with the very Spanish name of Manuel Mendoza. Together they travel the Northumbria countryside from job to job in his horse and caravan, Annabella trapped in limbo between her upper class upbringing which has rejected her, and the working class who are sometimes suspicious of her, only Manuel understanding her situation.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 756
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 180 min
Plot tags: costume drama, romantic drama, serious, realistic, sexual, sexy, period drama
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Return to Snowy River (1988)
Plot Summary:
After a few years trying to earn money to marry Jessica Harrison (Sigrid Thornton), Jim Craig (Tom Burlinson) returns to Snowy River. But he finds that a lot of things have changed.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Western
Country: Australia
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: cult classic, semi serious, independent film, inspirational, romantic, sexy, clever, touching, feel good, breathtaking
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Our Mutual Friend (1998)
Plot Summary:
Intertwining tales of love, greed, and secret identities in Charles Dickens's 1860s London.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 350 min
Plot tags: costume drama, period piece, historical drama, serious, captivating, realistic, period drama
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Picnic at Hanging Rock (2018)
Plot Summary:
Valentine's Day, 1900. Three schoolgirls and their governess mysteriously disappear in Hanging Rock, Australia, without a trace.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 51 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, psychological, suspense, melancholic, suspenseful, mysterious, period piece, art film, costume drama, historical drama
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Moby Dick (2011)
Plot Summary:
The sole survivor of a lost whaling ship relates the tale of his captain's self-destructive obsession to hunt the white whale, Moby Dick.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Adventure, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 184 min
Plot tags: exciting, realistic, psychological, serious, captivating, nautical, fairy tale, stylized, period drama
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Tess of the D'Urbervilles (2008)
Plot Summary:
Forced by poverty to seek support, the innocent Tess Durbeyfield seeks the help of the D'Urbervilles.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 240 min
Plot tags: sincere, costume drama, clever, period piece, realistic, historical drama, historical romance, talky, fairy tale, period drama
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Jane Eyre (1983)
Plot Summary:
After living a miserable life with her aunt, orphaned Jane Eyre is sent to Lowood, a residential school for children of limited means. Jane takes the advice of her friend and over many years takes her studies seriously, eventually advertising for a position as a governess. She obtains a position in the home of Edward Rochester, where his ward, Adele, has recently come to live. She soon realizes that there is something odd in the house and she regularly sees shadowy figures in windows or hears voices. No one will admit to their being anyone else in the house, however. As she and her new employers develop a deep affection for one another, the secret of the Rochester household threatens to keep them apart.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 239 min
Plot tags: gothic, costume drama, sentimental, serious, period piece, historical drama, realistic, stylized, period drama
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Vanity Fair (1998)
Plot Summary:
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 Napoleonic Wars provide a dramatic backdrop as Becky sets out to manipulate various characters -- from London ballrooms to the battlefields of Waterloo.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 50 min
Plot tags: costume drama, historical drama, sincere, serious, captivating, realistic, witty, stylized, period piece, period drama
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The Buccaneers (1995)
Plot Summary:
Four American girls go to England to find husbands.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 212 min
Plot tags: period piece, costume drama, romantic drama, historical drama, spooky, clever, realistic, stylized, semi serious, witty
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Oliver Twist (1997)
Plot Summary:
Charles Dickens' classical story about the young orphan boy in 1837 England is again re-filmed in grand fashion. Richard Dreyfuss portrays Fagin, the unscrupulous leader of the young pick-pockets Oliver (Alex Trench) initially falls in with after escaping from a sweat shop and going to London to find his relatives. Written by John Sacksteder.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, serious, realistic, gloomy, period drama
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The Octopus (1984)
Plot Summary:
Corrado Cattani is a police inspector whose life is devoted to fighting the Italian mafia (known here as "La Piovra" or "The Octopus").
IMDB Rating: 8.4
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: Italy, Austria, France, UK, Germany, Spain, Sweden
Duration: 402 min
Plot tags: serious, tense, bleak, suspenseful, realistic, bad ending, rough, detective, bloody, poliziottesco
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Great Expectations (1989)
Plot Summary:
Phillip Pirrip, known as Pip, meets a convict or two in a graveyard and sets into motion a series of events that lead him from a comfortable life in his brother-in-law's forge to a mysterious inheritance and his acquaintance with the eerie Miss Havisham, her beautiful ward Estella, and the unusual lawyer Jaggers.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 456
Genere: Drama
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 303 min
Plot tags: historical drama, period drama
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The Man from Snowy River (1982)
Plot Summary:
Jim Craig has lived his first 18 years in the mountains of Australia on his father's farm. The death of his father forces him to go to the low lands to earn enough money to get the farm back on its feet. Kirk Douglas plays two roles as twin brothers who haven't spoken for years, one of whom was Jim's father's best friend and the other of whom is the father of the girl he wants to marry.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Romance, Western
Country: Australia
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: sentimental, cult classic, surprise ending, feel good, serious, captivating, realistic, independent film, exciting, light
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Jane Eyre (2006)
Plot Summary:
In this version of Charlotte Brontë's novel, Jane Eyre (Georgie Henley), a poor relation in the household of her aunt, Mrs. Reed (Tara FitzGerald) is despatched into the care of the callous Mr Brocklehurst at his school at Lowood. As a young woman (Ruth Wilson), Jane is hired by the housekeeper of Thornfield Hall, Mrs. Fairfax, to be a governess for young Adele (Cosima Littlewood), ward of the mysteriously absent Mr. Rochester (Toby Stephens). His arrival triggers one of the most famous love stories in the English Language.
IMDB Rating: 8.3
IMDB Votes: 22000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 230 min
Plot tags: romantic, costume drama, gothic, atmospheric, touching, gloomy, serious, period piece, sexy, talky