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Mark | imdb: 7.5 |
Genre | melodrama, drama, family |
Country | United Kingdom, USA |
Duration | 02:00 |
Plot | Love, Love triangle |
Place | England |
Style | To cry, Jane Austen Novels, Touching, Serious |
Persuasion is the newest adaptation of the classic Jane Austen novel of the same name published in 1818. Anne falls deeply in love with handsome young naval officer Frederick Wentworth at the age of nineteen.
Mark | imdb: 7.3 |
Genre | melodrama, drama, biography, history |
Country | United Kingdom, USA |
Duration | 01:40 |
Characters | Kings |
Plot | Love, On real events, Political, Fate |
Place | England, London |
Time | 19th century |
Style | Interesting, Soulful, Atmospheric, Touching, For single girls |
From Academy Award® winners Graham King and Martin Scorsese, along with the makers of Gosford Park and The Departed, comes the story of Queen Victoria’s early rise to power. From an object of a royal power-struggle to her romantic courtship and legendary marriage to Prince Albert, Emily Blunt (The Devil Wears Prada) gives a stunning performance as the young Victoria. Packed with drama, romance, breath-taking cinematography, lavish costumes and featuring an outstanding British cast including Jim Broadbent, Harriet Walter, Mark Strong, Paul Bettany, Miranda Richardson, and Rupert Friend, The Young Victoria has captivated British audiences, and is the film that Company magazine called “an epic British film, which will sweep you up in her remarkable story.”
Mark | imdb: 6.7 |
Genre | melodrama, drama |
Country | USA |
Duration | 01:57 |
Characters | Teens, Lesbians, Gay, Journalists, Photographers |
Plot | Love, Dancing, Soccer, Chess, Friendship |
Place | Party, Kitchen, Beach |
Style | Romantic, Soulful, Fascinating, Touching |
High school athlete Cyd Loughlin lives alone with her depressive father in South Carolina, perpetually longing to get away from it all. When her aunt, famous novelist Miranda Ruth, agrees to host her for a few weeks during the summer, Cyd jumps at the opportunity. While there, she falls for a girl in the neighborhood, even as she and her aunt gently challenge each other in the realms of sex and spirit.
Mark | imdb: 7.7 |
Genre | melodrama, drama, biography |
Country | United Kingdom, Japan, USA |
Duration | 02:03 |
Characters | Geniuses, Scientists, Disabled people, Terminally ill |
Plot | Love, On real events, Overcoming difficulties |
Place | England |
Style | Soulful, By books, Touching, Serious |
The Theory of Everything is the extraordinary story of one of the world’s greatest living minds, the renowned astrophysicist Stephen Hawking, who falls deeply in love with fellow Cambridge student Jane Wilde.
Mark | imdb: 6.2 |
Genre | melodrama, drama |
Country | United Kingdom, Australia |
Duration | 01:38 |
Characters | Judge |
Plot | Love, Obsession |
Place | England, London |
Style | Romantic, Twisted plot, Atmospheric, Gloomy, Serious |
The wife of a British Judge is caught in a self-destructive love affair with a Royal Air Force pilot.
Mark | imdb: 7.3 |
Genre | melodrama, drama |
Country | United Kingdom, USA |
Duration | 02:00 |
Characters | Orphans |
Plot | Love, Relationship, Love triangle, Mystery |
Place | England, Estate |
Style | Romantic, By books, Jane Austen Novels, Atmospheric, Fascinating |
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 in friendship and she soon finds herself falling in love with him. Happiness seems to have found Jane at last, but could Mr. Rochester's terrible secret be about to destroy it forever?
Mark | imdb: 7.4 |
Genre | melodrama, drama |
Country | United Kingdom, Japan, USA |
Duration | 02:20 |
Characters | Businessmen, Sisters |
Plot | Love triangle, Inheritance, Seduction |
Place | England, Estate |
Style | Light, Soulful, Fascinating, Smart, Makes me think |
A saga of class relations and changing times in an Edwardian England on the brink of modernity, the film centers on liberal Margaret Schlegel, who, along with her sister Helen, becomes involved with two couples: wealthy, conservative industrialist Henry Wilcox and his wife Ruth, and the downwardly mobile working-class Leonard Bast and his mistress Jackie.
Mark | imdb: 7.8 |
Genre | melodrama, drama |
Country | United Kingdom, France, USA |
Duration | 02:09 |
Characters | Rich guys and poor girls, Sisters, Friends |
Plot | Love, Passion, True love, Hatred |
Place | England |
Style | By books, Jane Austen Novels, Fascinating, Womens in main roles |
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 be inherited by a distant cousin whom they have never met, so the family's future happiness and security is dependent on the daughters making good marriages.
Mark | imdb: 7.1 |
Genre | melodrama, drama |
Country | United Kingdom, USA |
Duration | 02:33 |
Characters | Dogs, Horses, Soldier |
Plot | Love, Dancing, Boxing, Passion, Relationship |
Place | Forest, England |
Time | New Year, 19th century |
Style | Romantic, By books, Jane Austen Novels, Serious |
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 willfulness; Frank Troy, a handsome and reckless Sergeant; and William Boldwood, a prosperous and mature bachelor. This timeless story of Bathsheba's choices and passions explores the nature of relationships and love – as well as the human ability to overcome hardships through resilience and perseverance.
Mark | imdb: 5.6 |
Genre | melodrama, drama, biography |
Country | United Kingdom |
Duration | 01:40 |
Characters | Horses, Artists, Gypsies, Artists |
Plot | On real events, Love triangle |
Place | England |
Style | Romantic, Soulful, By books, Touching, Serious |
The Newlyn School of artists flourished at the beginning of the 20th Century and the film focuses on the wild and bohemian Lamorna Group, which included Alfred Munnings and Laura and Harold Knight. The incendiary anti-Modernist Munnings, now regarded as one of Britain's most sought-after artists, is at the centre of the complex love triangle, involving aspiring artist Florence Carter-Wood and Gilbert Evans, the land agent in charge of the Lamorna Valley estate. True - and deeply moving - the story is played out against the timeless beauty of the Cornish coast, in the approaching shadow of The Great War.
Mark | imdb: 6.7 |
Genre | melodrama, drama |
Country | United Kingdom, USA, Netherlands |
Duration | 01:37 |
Characters | Dogs, Lesbians |
Plot | Love, Dancing, Friendship, Love triangle, Flowers |
Place | Aircraft, England, India, London, Asia |
Time | Graduation, 18th century |
Style | By books, Atmospheric, Gloomy, Touching, Serious |
Clarissa Dalloway looks back on her youth as she readies for a gathering at her house. The wife of a legislator and a doyenne of London's upper-crust party scene, Clarissa finds that the plight of ailing war veteran Septimus Warren Smith reminds her of a past romance with Peter Walsh. In flashbacks, young Clarissa explores her possibilities with Peter.
Mark | imdb: 5.8 |
Genre | horror, action, fantasy, comedy, melodrama |
Country | USA, United Kingdom |
Duration | 02:30 |
Characters | Zombie, Sisters |
Plot | Apocalypse, Travel, Supernatural, Viruses |
Place | England |
Time | 19th century |
Style | Romantic, Exciting, Action, Soulful, Jane Austen Novels |
A zombie outbreak has fallen upon the land in this reimagining of Jane Austen’s classic tale of the tangled relationships between lovers from different social classes in 19th century England. Feisty heroine Elizabeth Bennet (Lily James) is a master of martial arts and weaponry and the handsome Mr. Darcy (Sam Riley) is a fierce zombie killer, yet the epitome of upper class prejudice. As the zombie outbreak intensifies, they must swallow their pride and join forces on the blood-soaked battlefield in order to conquer the undead once and for all.
Mark | imdb: 6.6 |
Genre | comedy, melodrama, drama, music |
Country | USA, United Kingdom |
Duration | 02:34 |
Characters | Lesbians, Teachers, Musicians, Sisters, Girlfriends |
Plot | Love, Dancing, Music, Obsession, Breakup |
Place | Aircraft, Trains, England, Beach, Hospitals |
Style | Romantic, Light, To cry, Fascinating, Makes me think |
Annie is stuck in a long-term relationship with Duncan – an obsessive fan of obscure rocker Tucker Crowe. When the acoustic demo of Tucker's hit record from 25 years ago surfaces, its discovery leads to a life-changing encounter with the elusive rocker himself.
Mark | imdb: 7.8 |
Genre | fantastic, fantasy, comedy, melodrama, drama |
Country | United Kingdom, USA |
Duration | 02:03 |
Characters | Lawyers |
Plot | Love, Time travel, Magic, Superpowers, Loneliness |
Place | England, Party, London, USA |
Style | Romantic, Unexpected ending, Kind, Sad ones, To cry |
The night after another unsatisfactory New Year party, Tim's father tells his son that the men in his family have always had the ability to travel through time. Tim can't change history, but he can change what happens and has happened in his own life – so he decides to make his world a better place... by getting a girlfriend. Sadly, that turns out not to be as easy as he thinks.
Mark | imdb: 6 |
Genre | melodrama, drama |
Country | United Kingdom |
Duration | 01:53 |
Characters | Dogs, Horses, Teachers, Writers, Friends |
Plot | Revenge, Friendship, Mystery |
Place | England |
Style | Romantic, Light, To cry, Soulful, Serious |
A lonely young aristocrat in turn-of the century England struggles to meet the approval of his over-bearing, class-conscious father while trying to please the selfish woman he loves.
Mark | imdb: 6.7 |
Genre | melodrama, drama |
Country | United Kingdom, Italy, Morocco, USA |
Duration | 02:13 |
Characters | Gay, Friends |
Plot | Passion, Obsession, Friendship, Love triangle |
Place | England |
Time | World War II |
Style | To cry, Soulful, Smart, Epic, Touching |
Based on Evelyn Waugh's 1945 classic British novel, Brideshead Revisited is a poignant story of forbidden love and the loss of innocence set in England prior to the Second World War.
Mark | imdb: 6.6 |
Genre | melodrama, drama |
Country | United Kingdom, USA |
Plot | Dancing, Travel, Death, Political |
Place | England, London |
Time | New Year |
Style | Romantic, Soulful, Smart, Serious |
She is a scientist. He is a Lebanese doctor. They meet at a banquet and fall into a carefree, passionate relationship. But difficulties abound because of his heritage and her loveless marriage. She flies to Havana to sort things out on the beach and in the cabarets. She sends him a ticket, but harbors no illusions that He will join her in this Caribbean melting pot.
Mark | imdb: 7 |
Genre | melodrama, drama |
Country | United Kingdom |
Duration | 02:04 |
Plot | Love, Love triangle |
Place | England |
Time | 19th century |
Style | Romantic, Action, Atmospheric, Fascinating, Smart |
In this story-within-a-story, Anna is an actress starring opposite Mike in a period piece about the forbidden love between their respective characters, Sarah and Charles. Both actors are involved in serious relationships, but the passionate nature of the script leads to an off-camera love affair as well. While attempting to maintain their composure and professionalism, Anna and Mike struggle to come to terms with their infidelity.
Mark | imdb: 6.1 |
Genre | comedy, melodrama, drama |
Country | USA |
Duration | 02:29 |
Characters | Family, Friends, Lovers, Pianists, Singers |
Plot | Love, Dancing, Ballet, Love triangle, Computers |
Place | Trains, Kitchen, USA |
Style | Romantic, Soulful, Fascinating, Touching |
The separation of a long married couple goes awry when they fall for each other again.
Mark | imdb: 6.2 |
Genre | melodrama, drama, history |
Country | United Kingdom, USA |
Duration | 02:04 |
Characters | Horses, Thieves, Artists, Artists |
Plot | Love, Dancing, Treason, Money, Friendship |
Place | Ships |
Style | Soulful, Heavy, Tense, Touching, Disturbing |
An artist falls for a married young woman while he's commissioned to paint her portrait. The two invest in the risky tulip market in hopes to build a future together.
Mark | imdb: 6.9 |
Genre | melodrama, drama, biography, history |
Country | Czech Republic, United Kingdom, France, USA |
Duration | 02:31 |
Characters | Kings, Horses, Photographers, Sisters, Reporters |
Plot | Love, On real events, Dancing, Boxing, Passion |
Place | Aircraft, Trains, Africa, England, Party |
Style | Soulful, Fascinating, Makes me think |
The inspiring true story of Seretse Khama, the King of Bechuanaland (modern Botswana), and Ruth Williams, the London office worker he married in 1948 in the face of fierce opposition from their families and the British and South African governments. Seretse and Ruth defied family, Apartheid and empire - their love triumphed over every obstacle flung in their path and in so doing they transformed their nation and inspired the world.
Mark | imdb: 6.5 |
Genre | melodrama, drama |
Country | USA |
Duration | 01:53 |
Characters | Gangsters, Terminally ill |
Plot | Travel, Love triangle, Cancer, Family life |
Style | Romantic, Action, Soulful, By books, Gloomy |
When an itinerant reluctantly returns home to help his sickly mother run her shop, they're both tempted to turn to crime to help make ends meet.
Mark | imdb: 6.1 |
Genre | comedy, melodrama, drama |
Country | USA |
Characters | Gay, Lawyers, Judge |
Plot | Love, Passion, Jealousy, Lost memory |
Place | Mountains |
Style | Romantic, Soulful, Jane Austen Novels, Fascinating |
It's a classic case of opposite attraction: Handsome Ben Bennet (Ethan Sharrett) is a gay, affluent, stylish attorney at the top of the genteel social set in southern Virginia, while Lee Darcy (Chase Conner) is a rough-hewn welder with a secret that he nightly tries to blot out with an excess of liquor.
Mark | imdb: 6.4 |
Genre | melodrama, drama, detective |
Country | Germany |
Characters | Gay, Farmers |
Plot | Love, Passion, Love triangle |
Place | Germany |
Style | Romantic, Soulful, Fascinating, Touching |
A young man struggles with the pressure of caring for his terminally ill father while trying to unlock a secret that his father seems determined to keep from him. The story takes another dramatic turn when Ron, Burghardt’s long-lost friend from his youth, re-appears — and a well-kept family secret is uncovered.
Mark | imdb: 7.4 |
Genre | melodrama, drama |
Country | United Kingdom, USA |
Duration | 02:25 |
Characters | Disabled people, Nurses |
Plot | Love, Relationship, Loneliness, Depression |
Place | Sea, Small cities |
Style | Romantic, Sad ones, To cry, Cute, Soulful |
A small town girl is caught between dead-end jobs. A high-profile, successful man becomes wheelchair bound following an accident. The man decides his life is not worth living until the girl is hired for six months to be his new caretaker. Worlds apart and trapped together by circumstance, the two get off to a rocky start. But the girl becomes determined to prove to the man that life is worth living and as they embark on a series of adventures together, each finds their world changing in ways neither of them could begin to imagine.
Mark | imdb: 6.5 |
Genre | fantasy, comedy, melodrama, drama |
Country | United Kingdom, USA |
Characters | Elves, Sisters |
Plot | Holidays |
Place | London |
Time | New Year |
Style | Romantic, Unexpected ending, Cute, Soulful, Fascinating |
Kate is a young woman subscribed to bad decisions. Her last date with disaster? That of having accepted to work as Santa's elf for a department store. However, she meets Tom there. Her life takes a new turn. For Kate, it seems too good to be true.
Mark | imdb: 7.1 |
Genre | melodrama, drama |
Country | USA |
Duration | 01:23 |
Characters | Disabled people, Losers, Babies |
Plot | Obsession, Mental disorders, Love triangle, Inheritance |
Place | School, Paris, England, France, London |
Style | Romantic, By books, Gloomy, Touching, Serious |
Club-footed medical school student Philip Carey falls in love with cynical waitress Mildred Rogers. She rejects him and runs off with a salesman, later returning pregnant and unmarried. Philip takes her in, though "happily ever after" is not to be.
Mark | imdb: 6.5 |
Genre | comedy, melodrama, drama, adventure |
Country | USA |
Duration | 01:45 |
Characters | Blonde girls |
Plot | Love, Travel, Love triangle, Vacation, Fate |
Place | Italy |
Style | Romantic, To cry, Cute, Touching, Beautiful landscapes |
An American girl on vacation in Italy finds an unanswered "letter to Juliet" -- one of thousands of missives left at the fictional lover's Verona courtyard, which are typically answered by a the "secretaries of Juliet" -- and she goes on a quest to find the lovers referenced in the letter.
Mark | imdb: 8.1 |
Genre | comedy, melodrama, drama |
Country | India |
Duration | 02:31 |
Characters | Autistic, Disabled people |
Plot | Love, Wedding, Loneliness, Love triangle, True love |
Place | India, Asia |
Style | Romantic, Light, To cry, Cute, Touching |
He is cute. He's shrewd. The girls love him. The cops hate him. He can't speak but is always talked about. His naughty antics will make you scream, but he will never listen. Cos he can't! Next summer ride a rollercoaster of emotions with Barfii - the Chalu Chaplin!
Mark | imdb: 5.4 |
Genre | comedy, melodrama, drama |
Country | USA |
Duration | 02:01 |
Plot | Love, Mental disorders, Love triangle, Baseball, Fate |
Style | Romantic, Light, Touching |
After being cut from the USA softball team and feeling a bit past her prime, Lisa finds herself evaluating her life and in the middle of a love triangle, as a corporate guy in crisis competes with her current, baseball-playing beau.