Movies like Firelight
If Firelight's mix of england, estate and governess stayed with you, start here. Each film below was picked from what Firelight's fans love most, with the reason it belongs on this list.
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Great Expectations
1946 · Directed by David Lean · 118 min7.3
Why you'll like itShares: 19th century · Also drama and romance
In this Dickens adaptation, orphan Pip discovers through lawyer Mr. Jaggers that a mysterious benefactor wishes to ensure that he becomes a gentleman.
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Tess
1979 · Directed by Roman Polanski · 172 min7.1
Why you'll like itShares: 19th century · Also drama and romance
A strong-willed peasant girl is sent by her father to the estate of some local aristocrats to capitalize on a rumour that their families are from the same line.
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Far from the Madding Crowd
2015 · Directed by Thomas Vinterberg · 119 min7.0
Why you'll like itShares: 19th century · Also drama and romance
In Victorian England, the independent and headstrong Bathsheba Everdene attracts three very different suitors: Gabriel Oak, a hardworking young sheep farmer; Frank Troy, a handsome and reckless Sergeant; and William…
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Braveheart
1995 · Directed by Mel Gibson · 178 min7.9
Why you'll like itWith Sophie Marceau · Shares: england · From the same decade (1990s)
Enraged at the slaughter of Murron, his new bride and childhood love, Scottish warrior William Wallace slays a platoon of the local English lord's soldiers.
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A Room with a View
1986 · Directed by James Ivory · 117 min6.9
Why you'll like itShares: england · Also drama and romance
When Lucy Honeychurch and chaperon Charlotte Bartlett find themselves in Florence with rooms without views, fellow guests Mr Emerson and son George step in to remedy the situation.
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Great Expectations
2012 · Directed by Mike Newell · 128 min6.4
Why you'll like itShares: 19th century · Also drama and romance
Orphan Pip discovers through lawyer Mr. Jaggers that a mysterious benefactor wishes to ensure that he becomes a gentleman. Reunited with his childhood patron, Miss Havisham, and his first love, the beautiful but…
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FX's A Christmas Carol
2019 · Directed by Nick Murphy · 173 min7.2
Why you'll like itShares: 19th century
London, 1843. Ebenezer Scrooge, a bitter old man, despises the Christmas holiday. Over the course of Christmas Eve night he is visited by three ghosts to show him his past, present and future.
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Victoria & Abdul
2017 · Directed by Stephen Frears · 112 min6.9
Why you'll like itShares: 19th century
Queen Victoria strikes up an unlikely friendship with a young Indian clerk named Abdul Karim.
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Gosford Park
2001 · Directed by Robert Altman · 137 min6.8
Why you'll like itShares: england
In 1930s England, a group of pretentious rich and famous gather together for a weekend of relaxation at a hunting resort. But when a murder occurs, each one of these interesting characters becomes a suspect.
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Life in a Year
2020 · Directed by Mitja Okorn · 107 min8.2
Why you'll like itAlso drama and romance
A 17 year old finds out that his girlfriend is dying, so he sets out to give her an entire life, in the last year she has left.