Films like Brooklyn
In 1950s Ireland and New York, young Eilis Lacey has to choose between two men and two countries.
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The Secret Scripture
Film · 2017 · also drama and romanceThe 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...
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The Sun Is Also a Star
Film · 2019 · also drama and romanceTwo young New Yorkers begin to fall in love over the course of a single day, as a series of potentially life-altering meetings loom over their heads - hers concerning her...
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Never Let Me Go
Film · 2010 · also drama and romanceAs children, Kathy, Ruth, and Tommy spend their childhood at an idyllic and secluded English boarding school. As they grow into adults, they must come to terms with the c...
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Persuasion
Film · 1995 · also drama and romanceIn early 19th-century England, dire financial straits reacquaint the aristocratic Anne Elliot with her wealthy ex-fiance Frederick Wentworth. The two must choose between...
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Persuasion
Film · 2007 · also drama and romanceAnne Elliot was once in love with Frederick Wentworth, a commander in the Royal Navy who was rejected by her snobby parents eight years ago. When the family hits hard tim...
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Jane Eyre
Film · 1943 · also drama and romanceAfter 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, a...
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The House of Mirth
Film · 2000 · also drama and romanceIn early 20th century New York City, an impoverished socialite desperately seeks a suitable husband as she gradually finds herself betrayed by her friends and exiled from...
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Dot the I
Film · 2003 · also drama and romanceA fiery Spanish woman is about to marry a kind British man when she meets a Brazilian actor who ignites in her a flame of lust she can't ignore.
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Past Lives
Film · 2023 · also drama and romanceAfter decades apart, childhood friends Nora and Hae Sung are reunited in New York for one fateful weekend as they confront notions of destiny, love, and the choices that...
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The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Film · 2008 · also drama and romanceBorn under unusual circumstances, Benjamin Button springs into being as an elderly man in a New Orleans nursing home and ages in reverse. Twelve years after his birth, he...
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