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Plot Summary:
Echoes is an American si-fi drama miniseries based on the novel of the same name by Maeve Binchy. It was produced for Channel 4 by Working Title Films in association with RTÉ.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 49
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: mysterious
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Women on the Breadfruit Tree (2015)
Plot Summary:
The story of three childhood friends as they navigate through early adulthood together in the city of Shanghai. Three different women, three different love stories – together they grow as individuals through their experiences in love and in sorrow.
IMDB Rating: 1.8
IMDB Votes: 29
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: China
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags:
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En komikers uppväxt (1992)
Plot Summary:
Juha Lindström grows up in the 1970s in a peaceful suburb to Stockholm called Sävbyholm. Sävbyholm seems peaceful enough on the surface but underneath a lot of problems exist. The grown-up Juha is a famous comedian who cannot forget his childhood. He remembers being a kid and trying to please the cool kids by being funny. He didn't always succeed. Now he is taping letters to his childhood friend Thomas about how bad he feels and how much his childhood has affected him. We follow Juha and the other kids in 6th grade in flashbacks.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 296
Genere: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 135 min
Plot tags:
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The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart (2023)
Plot Summary:
After losing her parents to a mysterious fire, nine-year-old Alice Hart is raised by her grandmother June on a flower farm where she learns there are secrets within secrets. But years on, an unearthed betrayal sees Alice forced to face her past.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: dark
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Conversations with Friends (2022)
Plot Summary:
Two college students, Frances and Bobbi, forge a strange and unexpected relationship with a married couple.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Ireland, UK, USA
Duration: 335 min
Plot tags: light, saga, heartfelt, captivating, entertaining, queer cinema
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The Pallisers (1974)
Plot Summary:
This sprawling BBC saga follows an aristocratic family through three generations of power, wealth, intrigue, and scandal in Victorian England. Based on Anthony Trollope’s “political” novels.
IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 527
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 1335 min
Plot tags: spiritual, costume drama, historical drama, soap opera, 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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The Pursuit of Love (2021)
Plot Summary:
The Pursuit of Love is an upcoming romance drama miniseries based on the novel of the same name by Nancy Mitford.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, 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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Any Human Heart (2010)
Plot Summary:
A novelist's life ricochets from 1920s Paris to '50s New York and '80s London. Along the way he meets Ernest Hemingway, Ian Fleming and the Duke and Duchess of Windsor - the exiled British king and his mistress Wallis Simpson.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration:
Plot tags: stylized, serious, realistic, sentimental, historical drama, romantic, touching, captivating, costume drama, period drama
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Twisted Fate of Love (2020)
Plot Summary:
Pang Yu and Feng Xi were old friends who cared deeply for each other - one is refined and gentlemanly while the other is exceptionally talented but doesn't let it show. Because of Dong Yue's appearance, Pang Yu and Feng Xi eventually have a falling out and turn into enemies. Dong Yue encourages the two men to make peace as they face greater enemies in their efforts to assist Pang Yu to the throne.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 27
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: China
Duration:
Plot tags:
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My Life with the Walter Boys (2023)
Plot Summary:
Jackie Howard (Rodriguez), is a 15-year old Manhattanite who, following the loss of her family in an accident, has to learn to adapt to a new life in rural Colorado with her guardian — and 10 very rowdy boys.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 50 min
Plot tags:
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Oliver Twist (1985)
Plot Summary:
Adaptation of the novel by Charles Dickens.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 354
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 360 min
Plot tags: period drama
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Meteor Garden (2018)
Plot Summary:
An ordinary girl is admitted to the most prestigious school in the country where she encounters F4, an exclusive group comprised of the four wealthiest and handsomest boys in the school - Dao Ming Si, Hua Ze Lei, Xi Men and Mei Zuo.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: China
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: sweet, dorama, romantic, light, sincere, lyrical, romantic drama, affectionate, student film
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Confess (2017)
Plot Summary:
Auburn Reed is determined to put her challenging past behind her and get her future on track. Now in her mid-twenties and struggling to fund her custody battle for her only son, she stumbles upon the art studio of the talented and charming artist, Owen Gentry. The two wrestle with their developing romance and the secrets they're both keeping until they realize they may risk their future if they don't reveal their pasts to each other.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 23 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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A Woman of Substance (1984)
Plot Summary:
A Woman of Substance charts the life of Emma Harte, from kitchen maid at the beginning of the 20th Century, to respected business woman and Grandmother in the 1980's. From humble beginnings Emma Harte starts her business with a small shop, but over the next twenty years she expands her stores and invests in the growing textile industry in Leeds. By the time of World War 2, Emma is the head of a major retail and manufacturing empire, but she has struggled all her life to find love. After an illegitimate daughter and two marriages, she finally meets the love of her life, Paul McGill, but their affair is cut short by a tragic accident, leaving Emma with his daughter. In the 1980's Emma faces one of her biggest tests - her children's attempt to remove her as head of her company, but Emma is far from the senile old woman they think she is - she is determined to stop them at all costs. Written by Stacey Mitchell.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 300 min
Plot tags: costume drama, romantic drama, historical drama, serious, captivating, emotional, realistic, stylized, period drama
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Howards End (2017)
Plot Summary:
The social and class divisions in early 20th century England through the intersection of three families - the wealthy Wilcoxes, the gentle and idealistic Schlegels and the lower-middle class Basts.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 240 min
Plot tags: costume drama, psychological, sentimental, romantic, captivating, period piece, historical drama, sincere, touching, disturbing
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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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Falling for a Dancer (1998)
Plot Summary:
Romantic drama set in rural Ireland of the 1930s. The story begins when 19-year-old Elizabeth has a brief fling with an actor and falls pregnant. Community pressure forces her to marry a dull middle-aged man, but maybe there is hope on the horizon.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 716
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 200 min
Plot tags: sentimental, thought provoking, touching, serious, captivating, emotional, realistic, contemplative, gloomy, period drama
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Normal People (2020)
Plot Summary:
Marianne and Connell weave in and out of each other’s lives in this exploration of sex, power and the desire to love and be loved. Adaptation of Sally Rooney’s best-selling novel.
IMDB Rating: 8.4
IMDB Votes: 84000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Ireland, UK, USA
Duration: 339 min
Plot tags: affectionate, romantic, touching, psychological, thought provoking, social, romantic drama, erotic, inspirational, heartbreaking
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Dangerous Liaisons (2003)
Plot Summary:
Updated adaptation of Choderlos de Laclos' classic 18th Century tale of seduction, betrayal and revenge set in the modern 1960s world of Parisian high society. The beautiful Madame de Merteuil seeks vengeance against her ex-lover Gercourt when he becomes engaged to her young goddaughter, Cécile. Merteuil turns to her ex-lover/partner-in-crime, Valmont, famous for his reputation as a Don Juan, to seduce Cécile and emotionally destroy her. While on his mission, Valmont gets sidetracked when he goes to visit his aunt and falls for Madame Tourvel, a virtuous, married woman who knows of his womanizing ways, but that only makes the challenge more exciting to Valmont. Together, Madame de Merteuil and Valmont make a dangerous team and they will stop at nothing when it comes to matters of the heart.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 659
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, France, Canada
Duration: 252 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, sexy, stylized, captivating, serious, realistic, sexual, modern day adaptation
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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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Watermelon (2003)
Plot Summary:
A tangled web of deciet pitches three lovers together with the added proposition of a baby.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 391
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, Ireland
Duration: 74 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, touching, realistic
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Sparkhouse (2002)
Plot Summary:
The relationship between childhood sweethearts, a farmer's daughter and boy from a rich family, turns tumultuous in this modern interpretation of Wuthering Heights.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 696
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 180 min
Plot tags: emotional, touching, serious, melancholic, realistic, gloomy
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The Way We Live Now (2001)
Plot Summary:
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 Stafford-Clark. David Suchet starred as Auguste Melmotte, with Shirley Henderson as his daughter Marie, Matthew Macfadyen as Sir Felix Carbury, Cillian Murphy as Paul Montague and Miranda Otto as Mrs Hurtle.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 300 min
Plot tags: period piece, serious, costume drama, realistic, captivating, historical drama, witty, biting, romantic drama, suspense
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Pride and Prejudice (1967)
Plot Summary:
Pride and Prejudice is a 1967 BBC television serial, based on Jane Austen's novel of the same name, originally published in 1813. This production marked the 150th anniversary of the death of Jane Austen. It was directed by Joan Craft and starred Celia Bannerman and Lewis Fiander as the protagonists Elizabeth Bennet and Mr. Darcy.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 69
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 25 min
Plot tags: costume drama, clever, realistic, witty, semi serious, period piece
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Scarlett (1994)
Plot Summary:
The greatest love story ever told began with Gone with the Wind and continues in this sweeping epic sequel, as Scarlett, Rhett and a host of unforgettable characters go from tragedy to triumph in an action-packed saga of international scope.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: France, USA, Germany, Italy, UK, Spain, Austria
Duration: 360 min
Plot tags: serious, captivating, stylized, romantic, sentimental, emotional, realistic, epic, sexy, 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 Secret Scripture (2016)
Plot Summary:
The hidden memoir of an elderly woman confined to a mental hospital reveals the history of her passionate yet tortured life, and of the religious and political upheavals in Ireland during the 1920s and 30s.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Ireland
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: touching, realistic, compassionate, psychological, novela, twisted, emotional
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Wuthering Heights (2009)
Plot Summary:
Foundling Heathcliff is raised by the wealthy Earnshaws in Yorkshire but in later life launches a vendetta against the family.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 142 min
Plot tags: emotional, touching, serious, gothic, period piece, romantic, costume drama, historical drama, sentimental, melancholic
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Circle of Friends (1995)
Plot Summary:
'Circle Of Friends' is set in 1950's Ireland. The movie focuses on Benny Hogan and her best friend, Eve Malone. The story centers around Benny and Eve as they enter student life at University College, Dublin. Here Benny and Eve reunite with their childhood friend, the ice-cool Nan Mahon, the 'college belle'. They also encounter the handsome and charming Jack Foley, whom Benny quickly falls for.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Ireland, USA, UK
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: emotional, period piece, sentimental, realistic, sweet, captivating, sincere, feel good, humorous, semi serious