Most Similar Movies to The Governess (1998)
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Firelight (1997)
In 1838, lovely governess Elisabeth agrees to bear a child of anonymous English landowner, and he will in return pay her father's debt. At birth she, as agreed, gives up the child. Seven years later she is hired as governess to a girl on a remote Sussex estate. The father of the girl, Charles Godwin, turns out to be that anonymous landowner. So Elisabeth has to be her...Read all
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The Invisible Woman (2013)
At the height of his career, Charles Dickens meets a younger woman who becomes his secret lover until his death.
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Madeleine (1950)
Upper-class Madeleine Smith (Ann Todd) stands trial for killing her French lover (Ivan Desny) in Victorian Scotland.
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Heat and Dust (1983)
An Englishwoman's (Julie Christie) affair in India parallels her great-aunt's (Greta Scacchi) 1920s scandal.
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All This and Heaven Too (1940)
A duchess' irrational behavior toward the governess of her children triggers tragic events that will change her family's lives forever.
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An Impossible Love (2018)
A chronicle of the unconditional love between a mother and her daughter, from 1958 to the present day, which is endangered by an unsteady and manipulative father.
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Loss of Innocence (1961)
Sensitive story of a British girl's awakening from childhood into life and love on vacation in France.
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When Night Is Falling (1995)
An uptight and conservative woman, working on tenure as a literacy professor at a large urban university, finds herself strangely attracted to a free-spirited, liberal woman who works at a local carnival that comes to town.
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Loving Annabelle (2006)
Annabelle is the wise-beyond-her-years newcomer to an exclusive Catholic girls school. Having been expelled from her first two schools she's bound to stir some trouble. Sparks fly between ...
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The Loss of a Teardrop Diamond (2008)
A rebellious socialite defies social conventions for a once-in-a-lifetime shot at true love, only to see her hopes shattered after a priceless diamond vanishes into thin air. Adapted from a long-lost Tennessee Williams screenplay.
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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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The Age of Innocence (1993)
A tale of nineteenth-century New York high society in which 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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Angels and Insects (1995)
An 1800s naturalist (Mark Rylance) marries into a family of British aristocrats who reflect Darwin's theories.
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The House of Mirth (2000)
A woman risks losing her chance of happiness with the only man she has ever loved.
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True Heart Susie (1919)
Susie, a plain young country girl, secretly loves a neighbor boy, William. She believes in him and sacrifices much of her own happiness to promote his own ambitions, all without his knowledge. Eventually he rises to a position of success and sophistication, and Susie realizes that she has through her own efforts raised him to a level where he is inaccessible to her.
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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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Wedding in White (1972)
A father will do anything to protect his family's reputation when his unmarried teenage daughter becomes pregnant because she was raped by her brother's friend.
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Forever Amber (1947)
In seventeenth-century England, Amber St. Clair aims to raise herself from country girl to nobility, and succeeds, but loses her true love in the process.
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