Movies like Great Expectations

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   Jude

   Strong story similarity

   1996 · 123 min · Drama · Romance

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   In late 19th-century England, Jude aspires to be an academic, but is hobbled by his blue-collar background. Instead, he works as a stonemason and is trapped in an unloving marriage to a farmer's daughter named Arabella. But when his wife leaves him, Jude sees an opportunity to improve himself. He moves to the city and begins an affair with his married cousin, Sue, courting tragedy every step of the way.

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   • strong story and style similarity
   • strong genre and movie-style overlap
   • shared theme: 19th century

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   Becoming Jane

   Same director

   2007 · 120 min · Drama · Romance

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   Though young Jane Austen's financially strapped parents expect her to marry the nephew of wealthy Lady Gresham, Jane herself knows that such a union will destroy her creativity and sense of self-worth. Instead, she becomes involved with Tom Lefroy, a charming but penniless apprentice lawyer who gives her the knowledge of the heart she needs for her future career as a novelist.

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   • strong story and style similarity
   • the same director
   • strong genre and movie-style overlap

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   Onegin

   Strong story similarity

   1999 · 104 min · Drama · Romance

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   A virtuous and passionate girl falls in love with a cynical but a dashing aristocrat.

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   • strong story and style similarity
   • strong genre and movie-style overlap
   • shared theme: 19th century

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   Jane Eyre

   Similar atmosphere

   1996 · 113 min · Drama · Romance

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   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 meets the dark, cold, and abrupt master of the house, Edward 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 Rochester's terrible secret be about to destroy it forever?

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   • strong genre and movie-style overlap
   • a closely matched era

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   Washington Square

   Strong story similarity

   1997 · 115 min · Drama · Romance

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   In 1870s New York, spinster heiress Catherine Sloper is courted by the much younger, penniless Morris Townsend, much to the chagrin of her overprotective father. Catherine must decide whether to spend the rest of her life alone, or marry a man interested in her solely for her inheritence.

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   • strong story and style similarity
   • strong genre and movie-style overlap
   • a closely matched era

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   Brideshead Revisited

   Same director

   2008 · 133 min · Drama · Romance

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   Befriended by aristocrat Sebastian Flyte, Oxford student Charles Ryder finds that the power and privilege experienced by the family is seductive. On a visit to the ancestral home, Brideshead, he falls in love with his friend's sister, Julia. However, as his ties to the Flytes deepen, Ryder finds himself at odds with their strong Roman Catholicism.

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   • strong story and style similarity
   • the same director
   • strong genre and movie-style overlap

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   Where Angels Fear to Tread

   Strong story similarity

   1991 · 108 min · Drama · Romance

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   An English widow goes to Italy, falls in love with a dentist's son and marries him, against her straitlaced family's wishes.

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   • strong story and style similarity
   • strong genre and movie-style overlap

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   Howards End

   Similar atmosphere

   1992 · 142 min · Drama · Romance

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   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.

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   • strong genre and movie-style overlap

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   Wuthering Heights

   Similar atmosphere

   1992 · 105 min · Drama · Romance

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   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.

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    The Mother

    Strong story similarity

    2003 · 112 min · Drama · Romance

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    A grandmother has a passionate affair with a man half her age, who is also sleeping with her daughter.

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    • strong story and style similarity
    • strong genre and movie-style overlap
    • a closely matched era

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