Most Similar Movies to The Portrait of a Lady (1996)
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Where Angels Fear to Tread (1991), The Golden Bowl (2000), Effi Briest (2009), Girl With Green Eyes (1964), Howards End (1992), The Private Lives of Pippa Lee (2009), The Europeans (1979) ... Let's take a look at the following list...
Where Angels Fear to Tread (1991)
After a rich Edwardian widow impulsively marries a handsome but poor Tuscan dentist and dies in childbirth, her English in-laws try to gain custody of the baby.
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The Golden Bowl (2000)
A man marries an heiress for her money even though he is actually in love with her friend.
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Effi Briest (2009)
Ambitious German imperial hussars veteran baron Geert von Instetten takes office as coastal district administrator, hoping to e promoted to the colonies. His childhood love, Luise, married local estate owner von Briest and now arranges for their daughter, Effie, to wed the baron, rather then her beloved cousin Dagobert. In his creepy home, built and filled with exotic...Read all
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Girl With Green Eyes (1964)
An innocent Irish farm girl (Rita Tushingham) moves to Dublin and meets a divorced, middle-aged writer (Peter Finch).
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Howards End (1992)
A businessman thwarts his wife's bequest of an estate to another woman.
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The Private Lives of Pippa Lee (2009)
After her much older husband forces a move to a suburban retirement community, Pippa Lee engages in a period of reflection and finds herself heading toward a quiet nervous breakdown.
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The Europeans (1979)
It's the mid-nineteenth century. Adult siblings Felix Young and Eugenia Munster were born and raised in Europe and have a somewhat bohemian lifestyle reflective of their travels throughout Europe. Felix, who has little money, is interested in painting and the arts. Eugenia is a baroness by marriage. They decide to travel to New England to meet their maternal uncle and...Read all
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Thérèse (1986)
In this true story of a 19th-century nun who achieved sainthood, Thérèse Martin (Catherine Mouchet) hopes to follow in the footsteps of her two older sisters, who became members of the Carmelite order of nuns. Although the church resists initially because of her age, Thérèse stubbornly continues her quest to serve God, and even lobbies Pope Leo XIII (Armand Meppiel). Her wish is granted at age 15, when she joins the order and performs extraordinary works in a life abbreviated by illness.
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Great Expectations (1998)
In a modern adaptation of Dickens' classic, an artist (Ethan Hawke) deals with rejection from his childhood sweetheart (Gwyneth Paltrow).
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The Sisters (1938)
Three daughters of a small town pharmacist undergo trials and tribulations in their problematic marriages between 1904 and 1908.
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Great Expectations (1998)
Modernization of Charles Dickens classic story finds the hapless Finn as a painter in New York City pursuing his unrequited and haughty childhood love.
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Adam Had Four Sons (1941)
A governess becomes the center of a wealthy family after her employer's wife dies.
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Inventing the Abbotts (1997)
Two working class brothers court three wealthy and beautiful sisters in a small Illinois town.
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Great Expectations (2012)
A series of events change the orphaned Pip's life forever as he eagerly abandons his humble origins to begin a new life as a gentleman.
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Nobody Walks (2012)
A Silver Lake family's relaxed dynamic is tested after they take in a young artist so she can complete her art film.
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Barry Lyndon (1975)
An Irish rogue wins the heart of a rich widow and assumes her dead husband's aristocratic position in 18th-century England.
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Little Children (2006)
The lives of two lovelorn spouses from separate marriages, a registered sex offender, and a disgraced ex-police officer intersect as they struggle to resist their vulnerabilities and temptations in suburban Massachusetts.
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Home From the Hill (1960)
Dramatic story of the influential Hunnicutt family set in Texas during the late 1950s.
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