Films like Washington Square
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 inh...
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The Age of Innocence
Film · 1993 · also drama and romanceIn 19th century New York high society, a young lawyer falls in love with a woman separated from her husband, while he is engaged to the woman's cousin.
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The Heiress
Film · 1949 · also drama and romanceIn 1840s New York, the uneventful and boring days of the daughter of a wealthy doctor come to an end when she meets a dashing poorer man — who may or may not be after her...
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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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The Portrait of a Lady
Film · 1996 · also drama and romanceMs. Isabel Archer isn't afraid to challenge societal norms. Impressed by her free spirit, her kindhearted cousin writes her into his fatally ill father's will. Suddenly r...
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Anna Karenina
Film · 1997 · also drama and romanceIn Imperial Russia, Anna, wife of the officer Karenin, goes to Moscow to visit her brother. On the way, she meets charming cavalry officer Vronsky, to whom she's immediat...
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Hester Street
Film · 1975 · also drama and romanceA Russian emigre prides himself on the way he's molded himself into a real Yankee in the USA, though the world he lives in, New York's Lower East Side in the late 19th ce...
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Jane Eyre
Film · 1996 · 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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Wuthering Heights
Film · 1970 · also drama and romanceYoung orphan Heathcliff is adopted by the wealthy Earnshaw family and moves into their estate, Wuthering Heights. Soon, the new resident falls for his compassionate foste...
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The Great Gatsby
Film · 2013 · also drama and romanceNick Carraway arrives in New York in 1922, an era of loose morals, glittering jazz and bootleg kings. Chasing his own American Dream, Nick encounters the mysterious milli...
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Little Women
Film · 2019 · also drama and romanceFour sisters come of age in America in the aftermath of the Civil War.
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