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   “Wuthering Heights”

   Film · 2026 · also drama and history

   Tragedy strikes when Heathcliff falls in love with Catherine Earnshaw, a woman from a wealthy family in 18th-century England.

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   Suffragette

   Film · 2015 · also drama and history

   Based on true events about the foot soldiers of the early feminist movement, women who were forced underground to pursue a dangerous game of cat and mouse with an increas...

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   The French Lieutenant's Woman

   Film · 1981 · also drama and history

   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....

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   The Invisible Woman

   Film · 2013 · also drama and history

   In 1857, at the height of his fame and fortune, novelist and social critic Charles Dickens meets and falls in love with teenage stage actress Nelly Ternan. As she becomes...

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   Madame Bovary

   Film · 1949 · also drama and romance

   In 19th-century France, doctor's wife Emma Bovary seeks to escape her dull provincial life through various extramarital affairs and extravagant spending, leading to tragi...

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   Lady Chatterley's Lover

   Film · 2022 · also drama and romance

   After a crippling injury leaves her husband impotent, Lady Chatterly is torn between her love for her husband and her physical desires. With her husband's consent, she se...

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   In Secret

   Film · 2014 · also drama and romance

   In 1860s Paris, a young woman, Therese, is trapped in a loveless marriage to the sickly Camille by her domineering aunt, Madame Raquin. She spends her days behind the cou...

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   Come See the Paradise

   Film · 1990 · also drama and history

   In this drama from director Alan Parker, on-the-lam Jack McGurn flees to Los Angeles and takes a job as a projectionist at a movie theater owned by a Japanese-American ma...

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   Maurice

   Film · 1987 · also drama and romance

   After his lover rejects him, Maurice attempts to come to terms with his sexuality within the restrictiveness of Edwardian society.

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    In Love and War

    Film · 1996 · also drama and history

    After teenage ambulance driver Ernest Hemingway takes shrapnel in the leg during World War I, he falls in love with Agnes von Kurowsky, a beautiful older nurse at the hos...

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